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“The world is not simple. / Anyone will tell you.” Jenny George:

A friend from Odesa, Ukraine: “They are shelling us. Air raid sirens. We are sitting in bomb shelters, in bathrooms, in hallway, and send each other little videos with happy dogs and cats”

love this poem by Jenny George in The Poetry Review

People say, “I don’t read poetry because I don’t understand it,” and I think... [c]hildren don’t skip rope because they understand it... When you finish listening to one of the late Schubert sonatas, you don’t understand it—that’s not why you listen —W. S. Merwin

Angela Bassett inducting Tina Turner into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2021

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door." From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening

The brilliant Victoria Chang:

This saves me

For anyone who has ever been in a long-term relationship, I give my history, um, I mean my poem, "Slang for Long-Term Relationship." Just published in TalkingWriting: talkingwriting.com/slang-long-ter… #PoemADay

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Robert Bly 🖤

Apropos of nothing, here's a list of 74 publications that pay freelancers (to write about books) that Chelsea Leu and I put together last year. adam-stephen-morgan.com/2022/02/16/pub…

When a great artist dies, there is the moment when the world understands it will never again have a new creation from that mind, that heart, that vast soul. It is a loss beyond measure, but what that soul has left us is a gift beyond time. Rest in everything, Cormac McCarthy

Hello from Odesa, Ukraine, friends. Yesterday, I was meeting friends, telling jokes, planning a poetry studio for refugee kids. At night, several huge explosions. Fire. In the morning, we learn: 3 people died & 13 were wounded due to Russian missiles. Thanks for listening.

Odesa—explosions again. School # 107 you went to lost all windows. Many ask: you are a Jew who fled Ukraine as a refugee. So why do you care now? And you stare as they ask. This city you love & lost so many times: you’re made to watch as you’re losing it again. That’s why.

Why do I love what fades? Mark Strand

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