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Mark J. Mitchell

@mjmitchellwriter.bsky.social

Poet, novelist (historical). Very married for 44 years and counting. I live in San Francisco and have for 46 years. Serious interests in Basenall. Medieval literature and XXth century poetry. Make a living giving tours in San Francisco.

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2 poems just published by Noth of Oxford: northofoxford.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/t...

11.11.2025 23:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We must ve neither victims nor executioner.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALBERT CAMUS.

07.11.2025 13:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Even if you think you might have outgrown them, it might nice to remember Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath on this birthday they share.

27.10.2025 13:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You have to come to the shore
There are no instructions.
Happy Birthday to Denise Levertov

24.10.2025 12:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's Rimbaud's birthday so drink like a boat!

20.10.2025 22:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY TO THE IMMORTAL LENNY BRUCE!

13.10.2025 13:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

70 years ago today HOWL broke the world open just a few blocks away from where I'm sittinhg.

08.10.2025 00:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy Birthday to the and only Groucho Marx!

02.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

HAPPY CERVANTES' BIRTHDAY!

29.09.2025 12:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Visit @paratextos to see a pair of my poems. Enjoy! (And thanks to Paratextos staff and editors)

13.09.2025 01:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

HAPPY H.D.'S BIRTHDAY!

10.09.2025 12:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you like heresy and Troubador poetry, order this from the publisher)Histria Books) or the evil empire.

09.09.2025 20:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes! It IS Molly Bloom's birthday! Yes, she will!

08.09.2025 12:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is it possible that no one in MAGAis aware Col. Kilgore is a clown?

08.09.2025 00:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Be very quiet--it's John Cage's birthday.

05.09.2025 12:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy Antonin Artaud's birthday!

04.09.2025 18:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Che k out my destination and villanelle just flashed on Mudlark: mudlark.domains.unf.edu

27.08.2025 18:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy Guillaume Apollinaire's birthday!

26.08.2025 12:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@dapowell.bsky.social Nice tiger poem this morning on poem a day.

18.08.2025 14:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

HAPPY DIANE DiPRIMA'S BIRTHDAY! RANT ON!

06.08.2025 13:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hail to thee, blithel spirit! And happy birthday to Percy Shelley!

04.08.2025 12:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The poem that madame fall in love with his work.

02.08.2025 01:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@davidwbrown.com HAPPY JERRY DAY!

02.08.2025 01:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

July 28. Disneyland's telling us it 's Halloween Time.

29.07.2025 01:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy birthday to Woody Guthrie, the man who wrote what SHOULD be our national anthem. "This Land Is Your Land".

14.07.2025 13:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Vive la France! Happy Bastille Day!

14.07.2025 13:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He was a nice fella, too.

12.07.2025 03:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

12.07.2025 00:48 — 👍 6770    🔁 2744    💬 61    📌 126

HAPPY KAFKA'S BIRTHDAY!

03.07.2025 12:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AWOL for a bit except I've been pretty tied up on Daniel Mendelsohn's excellent new translation of The Odyssey.

28.06.2025 00:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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