Let there be lit.
Columbia, Maryland
Joined April 2009
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40 years of Blue Monday: who inspired it, and who it inspired. #NewOrder theguardian.com/music/2023/m…
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I got to interview a hero of mine, @pswordwoman Patricia Smith, about her new book #Unshuttered and the personal side of her journey through family photos, history, and the salvation of poetry. An astonishing book! Here, a glimpse into the past that moves this poet's pen:
“Because I’m a poet, it’s hard to look at any picture without bringing some poetry to it or without bringing some voice to it.” In our new issue, @pswordwoman discusses the photographic inspiration behind her latest poetry collection with @TyehimbaJess. at.pw.org/MarchApril2023
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#ClipOfTheDay: In this 1998 video from @HoCoPoLitSo’s The Writing Life series, Amiri Baraka reads a selection of his poems and speaks with poet E. Ethelbert Miller about writing influences, the link between poetry and music, and pushing against the norms. at.pw.org/Baraka
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We’re celebrating the life and travels of our founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the month leading up to his birthday with a special display in our Jewel Box window.
This display centers Lawrence’s travels and the books that came from those adventures.
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The grave of Brendan Behan in Glasnevin Cemetery on his 100th birthday today.
#BrendanBehan #GlasnevinCemetery
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A cartoon by David Ostow. #NewYorkerCartoons
ALT Under the headline “Meanwhile, in Florida,” there are two cabinets: one, labelled “Little Free Library,” is empty; the other, labelled “Little Free Firearms,” displays a set of guns.
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@tim_singleton Jah Wobble is touring a dub version of Metal Box and I so wish I still lived in UK.
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The 2023 Golden Haiku contest is now accepting entries! Click 👇 to learn more and submit your haiku.
goldentriangledc.com/event/g…
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Blind, I bought a horse
No not to ride though some would
My wife for instance—
No I bought him because
Of his loneliness
—Stephen Kuusisto
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One of the best conversations I’ve ever had—about the life, about the work, about the glorious mess that results when the two collides. Thanks to consummate interviewer and new bestie @duanalla! #DPF2022 #PoetryUnbound
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Using my Little Free Library to spread the word about Banned Books Week. Offering only books that appear on the ALA’s most challenged books list - for adults and kids.
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Writers on #Writing: “You must be careful not to deprive the #poem of its wild origin.” Stanley Kunitz #WritingCommunity
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"If you want to talk, just say the word, hummingbird."
From "Bodies in the Air" by @aimeenez: kenyonreview.org/journal/may…
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Summer reading starts next week! Join us for a summer of fun! chapterchats.org/2022/05/27/…
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“poetry…not because it is pretty or fancy. But because it helps us to articulate the most impossible moments: It gives us a gasp, a scrap of air in our lungs. When we have nothing else, we can still hold a handful of words in memory, a tune”
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Live. Write your poems. Hold fast to beauty and justice. Remain curious. Listen intently. Be Kind.
Remember when you are crafting a poem, you are crafting, what Lucille Clifton said, is how one heart, "speaks to another heart."