Here's "Housatonic," a slightly longer poem than usual for your Wednesday by David Moolten, taken from his 1994 collection, Plums & Ashes.

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Amid their own struggles, #Florida's migrant workers ready to rebuild state after #HurricaneIan sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/h… via Shira Moolten

Poetry - Honest Ulsterman humag.co/poetry/white-m…

Don Ferencz recalled how, when they were growing up, his father would go around the dinner table every night and ask them, ‘what have you done for mankind today?’” sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-bea…

“White Man With Ebola” davidmoolten.wordpress.com/2023/04/15/whi…

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Please raise your hand if you are doing literary writing & do not have an advanced degree (MFA, MA, PhD) & are not a part of academia (teaching high school or college)— I just want to know I'm not alone and show you that you aren't either.

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The new issue of VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW is now available. The Spring/Summer 2023 issue (Vol. XXIV, No. 2), the 48th release, contains works by 33 poets, four book reviews, and an interview of Elaine Sexton! valpo.edu/valparaiso-poe…

I LITERALLY stopped working on my memo so I could read this indictment. I am on page 24 and JESUS LUPITA NYONG'O CHRIST. HOW this man still has the capacity to shock me after everything that's happened, i'll never know. but I am sitting here *STUNNED*.

THIS THREAD IS WHY TWITTER MUST CONTINUE TO EXIST.

An AP language student in SC, assigned to read Ta-Nehisi Coates, instead wrote to the school board: "I am pretty sure a teacher talking about systemic racism is illegal in South Carolina." The school board banned the book. My latest for PEN America. pen.org/press-release/…

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Broward County's North Perry Airport is one of the top in the USA for lead emissions. Fantastic investigative piece by Shira Moolten sun-sentinel.com/2023/06/29/out…

"Ode to Orville & Wilbur Wright" tiktok.com/@davidmoolten/… youtu.be/ABL-Pn54L7Q

Poem ("AR-15") on Verse Daily. versedaily.org/2024/ar15.shtml

I’ve published in Chest. This is blatant political intimidation of our medical journals, this is absolutely Orwellian stuff.

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