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James Brush

@jamesbrush.bsky.social

Teacher, Writer, Poet, Birder, Greyhound person, ATX. I like Grackles. Books include Birds Nobody Loves, Highway Sky, What Stranger Miracles coyotemercury.com

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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 7 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

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Thank you!

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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 6 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

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Why keep blogging in 2025? Blogs have been declared dead multiple times, mostly "replaced" by Twitter and then newsletters that are really just blogs with email and paywall functionally baked in. And yet, here I still am, blogging again consistently (but not too hard) for the past few years. And I'm not alone. But why? If you've known me for a while, you know a Cluetrain quote is coming!

Why keep blogging in 2025?

If you've known me for a while, you know a #Cluetrain quote is coming!

08.02.2025 20:50 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
AI-Generated Poetry Responses Like a lot of English teachers, I find myself having to contend with AI and its impact on student writing. We've always dealt with plagiarism such as the good ol' copying-passages-from-books and the more recent copying-and-pasting-from-the-web, but what generative AI produces is even harder to come to terms with. I often have my students write a quick 1-paragraph response to what they read.

Some thought about #ai and how it can impact #studentwriting by generating responses to #poetry.

10.02.2025 18:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Street Theater The red light seems like it will last forever. My eyes drift up to the camera mounted above the intersection. I imagine a lonely surveillant glasseyed staring at the city’s intersections on a bank of dim monitors. I perform “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” from Macbeth, wondering if my invisible audience is surprised by this sudden bit of theater, entranced by my flawless and impassioned performance.

Prose poem or flash fiction? I'm never quite sure, but here's "Street Theater"

06.02.2025 22:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Analysis Paralysis Lately, I've found myself wanting to wend my way back into a regular blogging/writing practice. I've been at this off-and-on for 20 years come October; although, it's been mostly off the past few years. A lot has changed too. Much of the interesting open web that existed when I started has largely disappeared behind walled gardens over which we have no control, and so many blogs I once followed are now AI-generated spam sites.

Starting up the old blog again or maybe giving Substack a whirl. Or maybe both?

03.02.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0


starlings twist
along a line of cloud
doubled back & down

unsettled letters
scattered on a page

#poetry #gogyohka #tanka

18.11.2024 18:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0


entertained
the cat watches
an ice cube melt

#haiku #poetry #DailyHaikuPrompt

15.11.2024 13:32 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

hoopin’ after dark
the full moon swishes
through the net

#haiku #poetry #DailyHaikuPrompt

14.11.2024 02:46 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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