The moon is the mother of pathos and pity. When, at the wearier end of November, Her old light moves along the branches, Feebly, slowly, depending upon them —Wallace Stevens poets.org/poem/lunar-par…

Let’s all get behind Argonaut Books. Independent bookstores matter. #Leith

The best literary critics accept the fact that metaphorical language is as essential to criticism as it is to poetry.

“The imagination is a place where it rains inside.” — Italo Calvino, 1988 alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/11/2…

"One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience... Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want." Ursula K. Le Guin on storytelling themarginalian.org/2018/01/30/urs…

"The proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known not only in formal, logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language." Physicist David Bohm on bridging consciousness and reality:

“When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.” — Quincy Jones

The NUJ calls for transparency over the BBC Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee, opposes political appointments to the BBC board, and continues to defend members’ right to report freely - without fear or interference. nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj-c…

I am a city of bones deep inside my marrow, a song in electric chords, decrescendo to mute, rise to white noise, half silences in a blank harmony as all comes to nothing —Afaa Michael Weaver, born #OTD in 1951 poets.org/poem/flux

“Only those that know how to look will find magic in this world because there is none if you don’t know where to look.” -- Guillermo del Toro

This is wonderful…

Winter is another form of absence, some say a kindness: substituting white after white for all the gutted fields before their softening in spring. Luisa A. Igloria, from "Absence, Presence"

One of my all-time favorite writers — the paleontologist, anthropologist, philosopher of science, and poet Loren Eiseley — on contacting the miraculous in the ordinary world themarginalian.org/2024/02/03/lor…

If you are going through a hard time, this #birddivination is for you. Find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind these strange creations, at almanacofbirds.org

Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So, so chilling.

Tall Pines in Blue Forest Jeff Stanford

Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting reuters.com/investigates/s…

Beyond foolish…

In these days of culturally encouraged glut and consumerism, a lovely antidote from the concept of "Buddhist economics" – a way of prioritizing people over products and creativity over consumption themarginalian.org/2014/07/07/bud…

As a scholar of poetic allusion, Eleanor Cook is equal to John Hollander and Harold Bloom. This is truly an astonishing book.