The Auld Triangle, my favourite Dublin folk song. I first learned it from Shane Mac Gowan's incredibly powerful and raw version on The Pogues 1984 album Red Roses. Shane had learned this song from his hero, Irish poet Brendan Behan. Rest in Peace Shane you will be dearly missed

We need this poem tonight:

We celebrate Narges Mohammadi as the #NobelPeacePrize Laureate for her commitments to Freedom, Equality, and Justice for All. We remain steadfast in our call to #FreeNarges from her unjust imprisonment in Iran. ✅ Join us by posting #FreeNarges on #HumanRightsDay!

Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer. Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike. This was the last poem he published.

Auld Lang Syne, the Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1788, was set to a much older Scottish/Irish melody and is now sung all over the world to welcome the new year. Happy New Year from the west of Ireland!

I am once again asking for a TV show where a librarian and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their book collections - discuss their favorites, their histories, their value, then build amazing shelves and book nooks and libraries in their homes to organize them

Mahershala Ali is raising money for Mohammed al-Qudwa, a young Palestinian poet who is trying to get his family out of Gaza. lithub.com/mahershala-ali…

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality… Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” A King classic: themarginalian.org/2015/03/18/mar… #MLKDay

need to teach this Mary Oliver poem more often

Tomorrow Sunday, February 11th at 10:30am (PST) is the next #TWSOchat The subject is: Vision Planning Tools. Join in on the chat with #TWS writers, alumni & mentors to refine your writing practice. Ask questions & share your experience #Writers #Writing Happy Lunar New Year! 🐉

Thanks writing friends for joining in on another interesting discussion. As always, thank you for sharing! Many read our chat later & at TWS we love to hear how your writing is going and what you are finding interesting in the literary world. #TWSOchat #writers #writingcommunity

Writers! Give us a follow too/mark in your calendars, so that you will know about the upcoming #TWSsprints and #TWSOchat sessions. Twitter Sessions: 2nd Sunday of each month -- TWS Twitter Chats #TWSOchat 4th Sunday of each month -- TWS Writing Sprints #TWSsprints

Do it! It is a delightful poetry experience 💫

"The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only poets." World Poetry Day with James Baldwin: themarginalian.org/2016/04/13/jam…

Poets Leanne Dunic and Rob Taylor talk about genre-crossing art, mask wearing, and desire and restraint in the latest interview on our blog! Plus, they discuss Dunic's new poetry collection, Wet from @talonbooks #NationalPoetryMonth buff.ly/44voiIh

Poetry Month may be over, but we're not done celebrating at Read Local BC! In the closing post of our #BCPoetry series, the seven interviewed poets each talk about a poet they love (feat. Selina Boan, Sarah de Leeuw, Susan Musgrave, @sammymarie + more!): readlocalbc.ca/2024/05/01/sev…

Getting ready to start our first in person SFU Creative Writing sprints session this morning Sun. May 26th at 10:30am PDT #TWSsprints. Open to all #writers everywhere, write for 15mins, break 5mins x 3 sprints You can join us in person at Waves or online. #WritingCommunity

Writers! Give SFU Creative Writing a follow & enter into your 2024 calendars the upcoming #TWSsprints and #TWSOchat sessions. Twitter Sessions: 2nd Sunday of each month -- TWS Twitter Chats #TWSOchat 4th Sunday of each month -- TWS Writing Sprints #TWSsprints

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