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Michael Garrigan

@mgarrigan.bsky.social

Teacher. Writer. Pennsylvania. River, Amen (2023 - Winner of the Weatherford Award), Robbing the Pillars (2020) — Wayfarer Books. www.mgarrigan.com

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Yinz have been blessed with quite a few Choice shows

23.09.2025 09:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh man you have inside info don’t you???? I hope Baltimore’s on the list …

23.09.2025 09:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When are we getting some new dates???

23.09.2025 01:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Taper's Choice Live From Kung Fu Necktie, Philly
YouTube video by wook plus Taper's Choice Live From Kung Fu Necktie, Philly

hard to believe this was 2 years ago today!⚡️

best @taperschoice.bsky.social show to date! (as voted on by the fans and also my personally opinion!)🍌

youtu.be/bMVxJ54_Ibk?...

22.09.2025 22:45 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Hell yeah!!! What a show man. So glad I was there

23.09.2025 01:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So good! Seriously considering seeing them in Baltimore this December

23.09.2025 01:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hoping to go see them in Baltimore this December!

12.09.2025 20:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My old alien body is a foreigner struggling to get into another country. The loon call makes me shiver. Back at the cabin I see a book and am not quite sure what that is.

Jim Harrison

11.09.2025 13:17 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Thanks @riverriverbooks.bsky.social . My classroom just got a bit cooler

11.09.2025 13:45 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Todd Davis

Todd Davis

It’s been years since my mother and father
turned to ash. Tonight my lover holds me
in the bed where I was conceived.

___

From: “In the Bed Where I Was Conceived,”

by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Todd Davis

Published in the Missouri Review. #Poetry #Poem

missourireview.com/davis/

10.09.2025 03:44 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Susquehanna River petroglyphs

01.09.2025 20:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That means they fire him, which will be wonder (until they hire someone just like him)

31.08.2025 18:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks!! So many books have already been taken… I have a stack I’m slowly adding to it. Trying to slip in as much poetry as possible :)

31.08.2025 13:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Be sure to stop at our Free Library (curated by two book nerds!) next time you’re walking or riding along the Northwest Lancaster County River Trail!

#freelibrary

31.08.2025 12:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh bless you!!!!

28.08.2025 01:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The blue and pink version, 8.5”x11” poster with the text:

READ 
WRITE
EDIT 
CITE

only you can write your ideas

The blue and pink version, 8.5”x11” poster with the text: READ WRITE EDIT CITE only you can write your ideas

Oh! Okay, y’all! 🙏💙

I made another color version, and will have them in a week or so, if you’d like to order one:

riverriverbooks.org/store/Read-W...

27.08.2025 23:39 — 👍 52    🔁 19    💬 6    📌 3

I’ll be posting these on my classroom once I order them! Thank you!

28.08.2025 01:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bitter End version is incredible. Why hasn’t it been officially released?

28.08.2025 01:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah i was really surprised how much I loved it

28.08.2025 01:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Agreed!!!!

24.08.2025 23:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Start anywhere…

Some personal favorites —

Philly
Troubadour 1/24
Providence
Ivy Room 1/25
Spoke Bicycle Cafe

archive.org/details/Tape...

24.08.2025 23:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nice! Thank you!!

24.08.2025 21:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’ve never heard the Tzadik/Zorn stuff … where should I start?

24.08.2025 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Taper’s Choice is a helluva lot of fun and pretty damn interesting to me. But I’m not a big Phish fan so maybe I just don’t hear the similarities

24.08.2025 21:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Does anyone else love this record?

24.08.2025 01:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Man this was a wonderfully engrossing read. Anyone else read it???

21.08.2025 00:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.”
Wendell Berry

“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.” Wendell Berry

“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.”
Wendell Berry
#writer #poetry

20.08.2025 12:34 — 👍 22    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Should “I”

18.08.2025 01:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Which Gregory Orr book should u buy?

18.08.2025 01:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I saw The Slip in some small
Basement at CMU back in 2001 or 2002. What a wonderful
Band

16.08.2025 23:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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