danalevinpoet

Hear, hear!

"Poetry is an endurance technology." 🔥

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

I keep thinking about this poem by Gennady Aygi. I read it today in Brenda Hillman’s Three Talks

Thank you!!

A little sunlight in my day, month, year, life, karma, cosmos, eternity and time—thank you for taking a chance on this #book of #essays @graywolfpress.bsky.social
— on #poetry, daughterhood, psychic travail and art salvation: poetry is an endurance technology…❤️💫🦋Coming into the world 2027 🤞🏻

I’m so sick of this era and it’s only two months old—

A fave

Augusta, Lady Gregory - "Donal Og" It is late last night the dog was speaking of you;

"It is you are the lonely bird through the woods;
and that you may be without a mate until you find me."

"Donal Og" as translated by Augusta, Lady Gregory, born #OnThisDay in 1852.

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Tonight! If you’re in DC environs. Riggs Library, 7pm, Georgetown U events.georgetown.edu/lannan/event...

it’s this poem

Writing in resistance to the State is one kind of activism; writing about anything else is another. You don’t know what might help someone—what might meet a reader’s fear, grief, rage, confusion. It might be a poem about snow or shoes or the confessing mirror. Poetry is an endurance technology.

Winter is Here: On the Chilling Effect of Elon Musk and Donald Trump A functioning democracy needs dissent and debate. Trump won the 2024 election with 49.8 percent of the vote (with 77,302,580 total votes) over Kamala Harris’s 48.3 percent (with 75,017,613 total vo…

Say it: Kindness, empathy, diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental to civil society and democracy. — @robspillman.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social

The invention of social media is going to wind up being like the invention of the printing press in reverse. The Enlightenment collapses. Liberal democracy ends. Everyone becomes sick and stupid.

Excited, nervous, curious, glad! If you’re in DC environs, come say hi! Thanks so much to Carolyn Forché for inviting me.

7:00PM ET - Riggs Library - LANNAN Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University

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Don’t let them colonize your imagination—

A Song on Porcelain Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now feel lost or troubling?

Have you read this yet?

“I ask myself, at this bad political moment, what have we Americans confidently valued in our own cultural past that might now feel broken or lost or troubling?” —looking to Miłosz for encouragement.
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Unbelievable

Including my sister‘s ashes! Now she joins all the other ashes, heading for the sea. Life, I tell you. Or do I mean death. Same same.

As my bro-in-law & nephew were fleeing Pacific Palisades, they saw an Amazon guy delivering packages. They were like, dude! You need to leave! I can’t tell if that guy was heroic or clueless, but it doesn’t matter now! Everything‘s ash.

I thought the sonnet sequence was the publicity campaign for the poet…😈

Sometimes you publish a poem you feel ambivalent about, and as years go on, you feel ambivalent about it always. Why did you publish it? Because it wanted to live, despite your doubt. And you will just have to sit with your ambivalence while the poem goes on and has a life.

Applications for Yetzirah's 2025 Jewish Poetry Conference open this weekend, and will remain open until February 21!

Find details, including a recording of our Conference Q&A - plus more information about recent and upcoming Yetzirah opportunities - through our latest newsletter: bit.ly/3PUJi4z

"At once fresh and timeless, this collection is a mesmerizing exploration of the unsolvable mystery of being alive.”—Kathleen Graber

#PreOrderNow WE ARE NOT WHERE WE ARE an erasing of Walden by Matt Donovan and Jenny George https://buff.ly/4heXjpW

I will talk to you from the body. I will talk to you from the lyric heart. Can’t forget those, though the shocks and worries will come fast and furious. If you are afraid today, one way to activate the vagus nerve and bring calm into the body is to sing or chant. No prescription required.

Meanwhile

adjectives to describe the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization:
homicidal
suicidal
sociopathic
cruel
irresponsible
delusional
geocidal
regressive
self-defeating
embarrassing
catastrophic
irrational
satanic
ugly

“May he be consigned to a circle of hell where for all eternity he has to set flaming type on a white-hot printing press—“ the BF on Rupert Murdoch #journalism #circlesofhell

"Such pleasure, such privilege, working a sentence over and over -- encountering the revelations of syntactical change."

-- Dana Levin