The discourse about age needs to shift . Age is a protected category, like ethnicity, gender, race, when it comes to hiring. Let’s discuss skills, behavior, & record of a candidate. Plenty of people in their 80s can serve in challenging jobs. It’s about the individual.

Congress needs to call on Netanyahu to negotiate an immediate ceasefire and a two state solution. apple.news/AJLrRRtb1TCGw2…

The beauties of memorizing poetry. One of Bob's former students forwarded this to him-- every summer at Community of Writers we recite poetry to each other in the last evening together. One of the great joys to hear everyone's choices! 💜🏔️washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/…

These athletes made me so happy today— especially Stephen m.youtube.com/watch?reload=9…

It is Lammas or Lughnasadh, harvest festival day for all of us Celtic witches. We are supposed to burn a twig, but of course in California the little fire will be inside in my sink. Berkeley fog made the twig so wet that it doesn’t want to celebrate.

Cat ladies, cat people, grandmothers without cats, let’s just sit very, very still and watch him put his foot in it over and over

The first newspaper cited is the one Emily Dickinson read, and Emily’s sister, Lavinia, was well-known for keeping oodles of cats . Like Emily, she never married. Was she in fact the first to earn the name? Part of a matrilineage of Amherst cat ladies? (Emily, btw, hated cats.)

So wonderful to read new poems by someone new to me-- and to be delighted with them! In Conjunctions today seeing some beautiful poems of Jo Wallace-- wanted to share this conjunctions.com/online/article…

Wyatt , by CynieCory open.substack.com/pub/cynie/p/wy…

Reading some wonderful poems by Paul Ebenkamp this morning in Tagvverk tagvverk.info/2024/08/16/pau…

Beauty is momentary in the mind— The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. ––Wallace Stevens, “Peter Quince at the Clavier” #PoemADay megaphone.link/POETS1332481246

someone just reminded me of this amazing version of this amazing song- so much better than so much else!-- youtube.com/watch?v=YdjsXV…

I wonder if any student will ever top this email.

I continue to be thrilled & grateful when the work of old modernist Poets, the ones I love and the ones I am still discovering, appears online! 💕💕Thank you, Academy of American Poets, for featuring this radical shaped poem by Jeanne D’Orge, a writer whose work I do not know—!!

What a beautiful list! I can’t wait for everyone to read these books. AJ White’s BLUE LOOP is a stunner. I am honoured to play a small part in bringing it into the world & to be press-mates UGA Press going forward. Congrats to all!

Sonny Rollins Bridge H 94th BD to Sax Colossus Sonny Rollins, GOAT horn player & 1 of the "Last Men Standing" from Jazz's golden age. The body of work is too exhaustive for 1 post, but in recog of Mr SR's special day, here is his captivating version of "My One And Only Love" youtube.com/watch?v=qceDYP…

I Love this poem!🩷 Carolina Ebeid Academy of American Poets Assume the Role of Cassandra, Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera poets.org/poem/assume-ro…

I FINALLY have published a book of prose after 50 years of publishing poetry! Three Talks (Metaphor/Metonymy, Meaning/Mystery, Magic/Morality) from University of Virginia Press. Please attend my events if you can- listed at brendahillman.net or please order from indie

To any wacko heads who believe this story I invite you to go find a goose in a pond and carry it away. Call me if you live.

Tom Nichols JD Vance is the real deal. A hard core ideologue with an extreme agenda that includes dismantling the existing political system and replacing it with an Elon Musk and Peter Thiel start up with premium benefits for the wealthy. And ads and propaganda for the average user.