Noah Powers

POEM 309: "Breaking" by Grant Clauser (@grantclauser.bsky.social)

"Pipes leaking. Cold
creeping in where the insulation’s old,
and more things waiting
broken in the garage and shed,
bedrock cracking under the foundation
and the kidnapping "

stonecirclereview.com/breaking/

#Poem #PoetryCommunity

the world’s tiniest whale by noah powers — scaffold literary magazine prose poetry

So grateful to Steve Gergley for publishing one of my favorite things I’ve written over at scaffold! Catch it here: www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

The Bulb Region opens its doors today with four brilliant writers. We feel privileged to publish their work. Make sure to show them the love they deserve and celebrate your fellow writers.

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@aaronburch.bsky.social
@tracyfuad.bsky.social
@neonpajamas.bsky.social

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This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

I’m baffled at one of the announcers tearing Tel apart for a dramatic reaction while Sunderland are having a wrestling match today

I think what people miss is that life come out the box hard… but i don’t welcome hardness in the portico of my heart

He’s claiming to return them all, if he gets any!

A friend’s sibling is currently abstaining from all Christmas events because he watches a YouTuber who says Christmas is solely a pagan holiday. Same person also now thinks Jesus was a Roman psy-op lmao

So thankful to have this new poem out today in the terrific Stone Circle Review!

Ryan Grubb call a good game challenge level: impossible

Ode to Staying Ricky looks good in white.

Banger up from Joseph House
jakethemag.com/ode-to-stayi...

This kid goes to Auburn. Yeah I wouldn't wanna watch football anymore either pal

Great taste in music and podcasts! (It’s almost identical to mine)

Our EIC, @kristenmiller.bsky.social, in today’s Kentucky Lantern 🔥🔥🔥

Pure dopamine watching DJ Durkin-coached Auburn kick rocks, roll tide baby

Listing of the Day Today's listing of the day is: JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine @publishedbyjake.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Today's listing of the day is: JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine @publishedbyjake.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

The United States Is Southern Now From booming metros to culture-defining exports, the South has quietly become a demographic powerhouse and a battleground for the country’s identity.

Got a story out today about something I’ve been fascinated by for years: From Atlanta hip hop to Bama RushTok, here’s how and why the South has taken such a firm grip on modern American culture. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Baby’s first skull 💀 check out my weird little Kentucky poem ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🐎🐎🐎

Despite bond being set, Ernesto Manuel-Andres to remain detained - Bowling Green Daily News The Department of Homeland Security has blocked the release of Ernesto Manuel-Andres, despite a federal immigration judge ordering that he be released on bond, according to the nonprofit working with ...

Update on Ernesto, an 18-year-old in Bowling Green, KY who was taken by ICE: “The Department of Homeland Security has blocked the release of Ernesto Manuel-Andres, despite a federal immigration judge ordering that he be released on bond, according to the nonprofit working with him.”

my newest poem in JAKE is an absolute favorite of mine, read it here!!!

Get in loser we’re creating honest sentimental art without a trace of irony and putting a piece of ourselves out into the world

Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

King Jeremy the Wicked: How “Jeremy” Helped Jeremy to Love Being Jeremy And then, when I was in middle school, my parents introduced me to Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy,” a badass rock song that offered a small sliver of feeling witnessed. A badass rock song that followed another y...

good morning. today at IHTOV we have @jeremymauser.bsky.social writing about pearl jam. specifically "jeremy" and how having a song with his name, about this subject, affected him. great read ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/king-...

Trump admin terminates ‘illegal DEI’ settlement over raw sewage in poor, majority-Black Alabama communities The agreement, reached under the Biden Administration, required the state’s Department of Public Health to improve sanitation efforts in Alabama’s Black Belt.

The Trump admin is terminating a settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Black Alabama communities harmed by raw sewage, calling the agreement an “illegal DEI and environmental justice policy”

Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that ...

"The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union (IUE-CWA Local 83761) and the local labor movement."

labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...

Two Prose Poems by Benjamin Niespodziany About the Author after Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi Benjamin Niespodziany's body of work is a lobby of dirt. A hallway for cloud gazing. A raisin telling the sand it's a plum. His hum has been classifie...

two weird prose poems out today with @havehashad.com

one inspired by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi & one inspired by Amelia Gray

www.havehashad.com/94wk0

I am in Tuscaloosa and go to UA—afaik, there was a small protest on campus this week, but I have not heard anything about the jail

UA student reportedly detained by ICE This is a breaking news story and will continue to be updated.  A UA student was reportedly detained by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement early Tuesday morning.  Alireza Doroudi, a doctora...

The Crimson White, the UA university newspaper, confirmed yesterday that he’s at the Pickens County Jail in Alabama (for now). (See their excellent reporting here: thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/...)