Laura Minor, poets<poems 😘 she/her 🤘new here 💪 #writer #poetry

Weirdly cool with language.

IT GOES ON like dreaming of some place after you leave it. You wake up in a daze rain all day in the pines. It goes on like that green, like stained glass between a bedroom and the hall with the light always burning behind it, cantaloupe and peach light on the bed all night

rain all day

Lyn Lifshin

Fu Susan, this is not cool. 🤣🥹🫡

it's cool to have a heart!!!

Two of our giants of poetry--Charles Wright & Mark Strand,conferring in,& toasting,the late light. Masters of the line,masters of the image--(& if Merwin & Simic had been there that Oct 9,2014,you'd basically have the corner on the"deep image"in the mid 20th C).We miss Mark, gone 11 years. Read him.

Let's write postcards to everyone in the US with these facts.

In the hands of poets entirely great, the verse is mightier than the nuke

#WilliamBlake was born #OnThisDay in 1757; one of the greatest poets in the English language; one of my all-time favorite poems is "Tyger, Tyger":

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/willia...

a woman 's back is shown in a black and white photo with the words swifterpics on the bottom Alt: a woman 's back is shown in a black and white photo with the words swifterpics on the bottom

The Tortured Poets Department still hits, some of her best writing 😩😮‍💨

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✨ From Dust We Rise ✨
A powerful new poetry collection written by young Palestinians is being launched in Bristol — with a live link-up to the poets themselves.

There’s plenty of poets. We graduate them from the MFA moneymakers everyday. The comp instructors being fooled. The writers are many🦅, and there is nothing wrong with that unless you care about writing.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
– Federico Fellini

I dig this because it’s cool that some trailblazers crossed your family tree. My uncle tried music. My cousin was in plays. And this goes out to extended & chosen families as well. When you see someone sacrifice to make art for themselves & everyone, it renews your sense of humanity. It must live.

LOL, Trump has a crush.

Harvard Will Open a New Inquiry Into Faculty Ties to Epstein

“The review found that Harvard in 2005 admitted Mr. Epstein as a visiting fellow in the psychology department and readmitted him the following year. And the review concluded “it is likely” that Mr. Epstein visited Harvard more than 40 times after his release from jail, between 2010 and 2018.”

BRO.

Jean Valentine Door in the Mountain Never ran this hard through the valley never ate so many stars I was carrying a dead deer tied on to my neck and shoulders deer legs hanging in front of me heavy on my chest People are not wanting to let me in Door in the mountain let me in

Jean Valentine 💝

(jest, tears.)

Barbara Guest

I feel like it’s 11 on a Friday night. More time off for everyone.

How is it not even 8pm?????????

Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric comedy. He is gesturing thoughtfully at nothing and the word “poems” is next to him.

This is what it’s like scrolling through poetry socials. 🤣

Newsom Steps in to Replace Trump at Major Summit California Gov. Newsom aims to enhance his international profile ahead of a potential 2028 White House bid.

www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom...

I’m not a coward or a weakling. I’m only tired. And quiet. The branch goes silently through my hair. It is afraid. I want to forget but I forget nothing. Clouds hurl themselves at the moon. Poison leaves long scars in the sky. I roll myself a cigarette, slowly, carefully. I live.

Miklós Radnóti, tr. Nicholas Kolumban

Roughin heck, Louise. 🥹🤣

New poems up at Tupelo Quarterly! 😘✍️

www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/laura...

New poems up at Tupelo Quarterly! 😘✍️

www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/laura...

#BlackLivesMatter

Flash Fiction: Not What the Living Think by Beth Hahn A month before she died, she stripped to her bra and underwear on a July day and climbed into a city fountain.

"A month before she died, she stripped to her bra and underwear on a July day and climbed into a city fountain."

Flash Fiction: Not What the Living Think by Beth Hahn

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A smuggled book changed his life. Now he’s built 500 prison libraries. Reginald Dwayne Betts was locked up as a teenager for carjacking. Books were his escape, and he went on to be a poet, lawyer and founder of Freedom Reads.

The Post is in the tank right now, but I’m glad to see they’ve done another feature on Reginald Dwayne Betts.