1400 by Albert Goldbarth is phenomenal

#Gratitude as ever to Jericho Brown “If I am thinking about God and thinking about everything that’s supposedly wrong with me at the exact same time, then I am not thinking about God.’

Today's Poetry Thread: THE BODY

Feel free to add poems.

(Today's poem is from Rafael Campo's WHAT THE BODY TOLD, Duke University Press, 1996.)

Dreamboats & dearhearts, online tonight at 7pm tonight: join host David Collard, poet Julian Stannard & your oul nana here for an hour of readings & conversation.
Free, all welcome, please do come along from the comfort of your own home. Details here:
davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2024/04/aprils…

Another aerial attack on Odesa, Ukraine—completely ignored by the Western news—multiple wounded and dead, including children:

BREAKING: US House of Representatives approves confiscation of frozen Russian assets in the US and handing them over to Ukraine. I’ve been working on this since the war began with many good people in Ukraine and around the world. This is a huge milestone and paves the way for the

For new followers here is a riddle made by me. What is the answer?

It isn't sunlight
Dawn or the moon
And yet it is
'Sun in an empty room'

The last of the part
The end of the start
The heart of the earth
& the end of my heart

This, by Yuval Noah Harari, is masterful. It gives me no satisfaction - only grief - to add that I’ve been saying all this since 10/10, but he says it much better. Enough. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Tomorrow he will wake
to the tide’s reaffirmation,
to the hiss between its teeth
and the day’s new music,
brogued into being
by these dialects of water.

A brilliant response by Timothy Snyder to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s accusation of Nazis in Ukraine. As a leading scholar on the subject of nationalism, Snyder makes three points:
1/n

As night falls and waking up at 5 AM, flying to New York and 8 hours of street reporting non-stop catches up with me, I am about to leave this party and let these young ppl who welcomed me into their space carry on. But first, some final thoughts…

1. PHEW. I am overwhelmed seeing all the photos in Pulitzer Hall at Columbia Journalism of all the Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza and Lebanon

This, from Anne Carson, is such a beautiful way of articulating what is lost through the increasing speed and frictionlessness of technology. “The on-the-way-to-knowing.” She’s a living treasure.

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Today's Poetry Thread: HOPE

I hope someone, somewhere, is saying this poem aloud today.

Feel free to add poems.

Jeff Landry sued me in 2021 over a public records request about sexual harassment in the AG's criminal division. We won in court & got the records.
Today, a #lalege committee passed a bill with his support that would gut Louisiana's public records law.
nola.com/news/politics/…

Tickets for the London premiere of my documentary The Battle For Kyiv on the 29th April are on sale now, only limited capacity remaining so grab them while you still can if you want to come!

If you want fewer people off sick, try making the world less sickening.

Said it before, I'll say it again - I would never have been published or produced if I hadn't been selected for a couple of competitions for new writers, back in the day. These initiatives could not be more important. Congratulations to all the writers on the longlist.

This fall, I got an e-mail from a guy named JM Simpson who'd read things I'd written about homelessness. He mentioned he was a photojournalist in Olympia and that he'd been photographing the unhoused population there. He wanted to share some work with me . . . (1)