neap tide—autumn | Pattie McCarthy a poem

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What Are We Living Through? - Boston Review Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration.

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How the Constitution plus 1787 precedents can allow the Resistance to win a Convention The 1787 American Constitution is worn out.

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YouTube video by The Cultural Tutor | Sheehan Quirke How Did The World Get So Ugly?

"And we don't associate decoration with cutting edge technology."
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YouTube video by Scores Unstitched No Seriously, Classical Music Is Dying

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Two Crooked Streets: A Proposed Genealogy of Noir Poetry Lovers of noir are generally aware that the term was initially applied to the works of a set of US authors and filmmakers in retrospect, from afar, when the French were first granted access to films t...

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The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

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Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

"As The Best American Poetry comes to an end, a larger reactionary ideological project is asserting itself. Federal institutions supporting the arts and culture have been gutted in the name of depoliticization."
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YouTube video by Lit Tips American History As Told By Thomas Pynchon

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Adam Thirlwell · Devotion to the Cut: Gertrude Stein makes it plain We’re so used to voice as confession, as a form of radical honesty, that it can be hard to appreciate Gertrude Stein...

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Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

"There’s still time to disenchant AI, provincialize it, make it uncompelling and uncool."
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YouTube video by TIFF Originals How Fashion in Films Like AMERICAN GIGOLO Defined Narratives in the 1980s | On Film

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YouTube video by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire with Patricia Kopatchinskaja (excerpt)

learning the difference between Sprechgesang and Sprechstimme right now:
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Our Golden Age of Reading (Online) - Public Books There is an urgent need for new, more affirmative ways to participate in culture, especially against the ongoing systematic whiteness of publishing and the exclusivity of elite institutions.

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The Articulated Unknown | Los Angeles Review of Books Tiff Dressen interviews Aaron Shurin about “Elixir: New and Selected Poems.”

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YouTube video by Pure Unintentional ASMR Unintentional ASMR | 1 Hour of Tilda Swinton reading Soft Spoken Poetry

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YouTube video by five fifty-two The Ballet - The Red Shoes (1948)

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Scapegoating the Algorithm—Asterisk America’s epistemic challenges run deeper than social media.

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YouTube video by Scordatura Ensemble - Topic For 12 Strings (rising)

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Can Americans Love Poetry Again? How we lost poetry for the people—and how we can get it back.

I do have a problem w/ the insularity of current MFA poetry gatekeepers. But he wants a poetry that is not innovative but is easier to remember. That's its own politics. #SchoolOfQuietude thedispatch.com/article/amer...

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The secret to decarbonizing buildings might be right beneath your feet Networked geothermal systems use the energy in the ground to heat and cool the buildings above. Could they push utilities off natural gas?

The secret to decarbonizing buildings might be right beneath your feet.

It's already happening in Massachusetts.

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#MA #Bospoli #Climate #Massachusetts #Geothermal #Energy

"As Roland Barthes reminds us, Maupassant often ate lunch at the Eiffel Tower, because it was the only place in Paris from which the Eiffel Tower could not be seen. Where is the Eiffel Tower of Poetry, and could we have lunch there?" -- Mary Ruefle

Tom Crewe · My Hands in My Face: Ocean Vuong’s Failure This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm. Vuong...

Have liked much of Vuong's stuff, but perceive too much hype. So far of the threads I've read replying to this review aren't engaged with the actual content of Crewe's review or --I only suspect because I haven't read it yet-- Vuong's novel.
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Joyelle McSweeney on Alice Notley (The Descent of Alette) Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 06/11/2025 · 1h 41m

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No, I was actually thinking of local examples