Rachel Loden

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Holy Toledo Henry. What a gift—-his and yours. Spot on

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

First appeared November 10, 1952 in the crucible of the McCarthy era

If you add an “O” before “GOP” and reverse it, you get POGO. Just saying

And “disaffected, fugacious, internalized—and welcome the way unbelonging can work to wry the eye, queer the ear”!

I love _Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation_ (Jane Donahue Eberwein) for just this reason.

Hi Shanna! 🌺🌺🌺

But the plot thickens and the real twist is in the witch—who is descended from Margaret Atwood

A story in Magnalia Christi Americana (1702) features an ancestor of mine who was dying possessed by demons :)

The Mathers kill me

My image of El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky - Wikipedia

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Brilliant

Lorine Niedecker
to Cid Corman

We live in a country of massacre, shaped by a history of white-supremacist massacre, of police-and-state massacre, that rages on into the present.

Perhaps we are always, and have always been, writing after a massacre.
—Daniel Borzutzky, from _Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018_

Wonderful! Thank you

Carl Little – Shanna Compton’s Closed-Captioned Collages - The Maine Arts Journal: The UMVA Quarterly Poet Shanna Compton’s new book, Deep Whoosh (Black Square Editions), offers fifty cut-and-paste collages created over four months in 2020. As a way of taking her mind off the news, Compton writes in t...

I haven’t been in touch with Shanna for many years, but will try to link to her here

“Sometimes found words are the most pure because they have nothing to do with you.”
—Ed Ruscha, quoted by Shanna Compton in an interview for her new book of collages
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“Sometimes found words are the most pure because they have nothing to do with you.”
—Ed Ruscha, quoted by Shanna Compton in an interview for her new book of collages
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But Henry that’s delightful! Poets as magpies—as ever.

@joegarrity.bsky.social I see you’re a photographer. Do you know how I might go about this?

This week’s new questions Why do we itch in random places? Why do rainbows refract light into several different colours, but cloud inversions don’t?

This was the first question they used: www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg2...

Henry, you’re really good. I don’t understand the thanks to me but I’ll take it :)

Do I have any clever friends who know how to remove one letter from a graphic image I’ve made?

Right?!?

And some mornings I still think I made it up

But I’ll spill it for the one or two who follow me here. Rae Armantrout was tapped by Kevin Prufer to pick a lesser-known poet for Kevin’s series _Unsung Masters_ (Wesleyan University Press) and she chose me! For the first couple of days I was pretty sure I’d dreamed it

Public like a frog

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Half-Jews aren’t used to good news and I’ve had some. Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat!