A. E. Stallings

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Orlando enters the Brontë discourse: "'I have found my mate,' she murmured. 'It is the moor. I am nature's bride,' she whispered, giving herself in rapture to the cold embraces of the grass as she lay folded in her claok in the hollow by the pool."

An old poem of mine for Clean Monday: fivepoints.gsu.edu/excerpt/clea...

Well, I have a LOT of thoughts about Gross Pointe Blank. Besides the amazing soundtrack. It is also an Odyssey? (Homecoming/Remarriage plot/killings). And a profound essay on ethics/America/empire?

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Doing this next week in London:

It's very beautiful here, but a little concerning that it is so far forward. (Poppies in February.)

Island flower report: anemonies, poppies (!), daisies, dandelions, primroses, asphodel, chamomile...

So tickled!

Ha!

Remember that you are dust, and that to dust you shall return.

Wow.

OK, will turn in article edits today, and then admin and translation. Coffee!

Strong Southern winds (always a bad wind in the Aegean) brining clouds of Sahara dust to town. Not a great day to be out and about in Athens.

Strong Southern winds (always a bad wind in the Aegean) brining clouds of Sahara dust to town. Not a great day to be out and about in Athens.

Happy Aroma of Smoky Meat Thursday!

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

11 Feb, the feast of St Gobnait of Baile Bhuirne #Cork 6th century #abbess associated with bees, who obeyed her.

(Bodleian)

11 Feb: feast #otd of St Gobnait of Baile Bhuirne #Cork #abbess from the 6th century who is associated with bees. In 1601 Clement VIII gave a plenary indulgence to those visiting her site (John Saaats)

Oops.

Why We’re Still Fighting Over Elgin’s Marbles In A.E. Stallings’s Frieze Frame, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ransacked portion of the Parthenon has inspired.

The Nation calls FRIEZE FRAME by A. E. Stallings "a brilliant riot of characters, personalities, and voices that jostle together across continents and centuries."
@aestallings.bsky.social @thenation.com @consortiumbooks.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Hope Sometimes when I'm lonely, Don't know why, Keep thinkin' I won't be lonely By and by.

Langston Hughes

Awww!

More galleys coming in today (am always surprised to have written something--somehow it feels I never am, and then proofs come in?), plus work on article, translation. Coffee!

My Childhood Friend, Renee Good Long before a federal agent shot her and she became a headline and a symbol, Renee was the best singer – and listener – in my church youth group.

From poet Jane Clark Scharl: www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

A black rabbit next to a white rabbit

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"I require a tug"

Bravo.

Sad news today. XJ "Joe" Kennedy—a giant of poetry and great friend to Light—has died at 96. We’ll share more about him and his work soon. For now, here’s one of our favorites of his:

#XJKennedy @aestallings.bsky.social @colemanglenn.bsky.social @juliekanepoet.bsky.social @allisonpoet.bsky.social

EPITAPH FOR A POSTAL CLERK Here lies wrapped up tight in sod Henry Harkins c/o God. On the day of Resurrection May be opened for inspection.

X.J. Kennedy, RIP

The wonderful poet X.J. Kennedy has died. Here is his perfect "Little Elegy": www.poemtree.com/poems/Little...