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C.T. Salazar one of my favorite poems

POOT. MICHAEL. WEEBAY. SLIM CHARLES. THE. WIRE. BMORE The Wire #DTLR ENUFF SAID

What is all this sh1t?

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Babies dead asleep in loud crowded public spaces >>>>> 🥹🫶🏽

By accident, I got two copies of Mark Haber’s new novel Lesser Ruins from ⁦@Coffee_House_⁩ If you’d like a copy, DM me & I’ll get it to you! 🤠🫶🏽

One of the most frustrating parts of my job is hearing people ask, ‘can we make this an opportunity for students to talk to each other?’ NO! WE CAN’T ALWAYS DO THAT! Sometimes they have to listen to me tell them things and model things so they can then do those things.

L'shana tovah, friends! 🍎🍯

Once again, grateful for the art & the generosity of poets -- poets like Iain Haley Pollock zooming w my Ss GreenhillSchool! Thx, Iain, for your poetry & for your care with my Ss, who loved excerpts from Ghost, Like a Place! 🤠📷 (Book info in alt text for photo)

Saw Half Price Books is treating teachers right this weekend—20% off with your HPB Educator Discount Card! 🤠🫶🏽📚 (I’m in Dallas—not sure if this is a national thing🤞🏽)

Sometimes a city is so ugly that it’s almost pretty

Tfw you photocopy a poem for your Ss & accidentally lop off several lines in the muthafunkin MIDDLE of the dang thing 😱😬

I’m really honored to publish ”Santa Maria,” a long form essay about my teen fascination with Dorothea Lange’s most iconic portrait and it’s connection to the Chumash lands where I have as born and raised. 🍓📷🎞️ placesjournal.org/article/santa-…

RIP Phil Lesh By happy accident, I saw The Dead only once, the summer of 1995 at Soldier Field, their last show before Jerry died They didn’t play this one, but it’s probably one of my favorite Phil moments youtu.be/ZGPeO9jZYvM?fe…

Two poetry collections that are truly breaking my brain & heart this week: Vievee Francis The Shared World & Ellen Bryant Voigt Messenger 🤯😱 [urls to each in alt-text of image]

Drinking ol fashioneds & reading Vonnegut #Election2024 🫔🤞🏽

One of many mind- and heart-breaking moments in ⁦(((David Naimon)))⁩ conversation with Danez Smith 🤔🎧