"Poetry might make nothing happen. Inside of which ANYTHING can happen, maybe most dangerously, our actual frailties, our actual devotions and obligations, which is to say the most rambunctious, mongrel, inconceivable assemblage of each other we could imagine."
~ Ross Gay, INCITING JOY
~ Ross Gay, INCITING JOY
04:54 PM - Mar 26, 2023
I see more & more that poetry is a communal endeavor
04:11 PM - Mar 26, 2023
It is my belief that human beings are not born into this world, rather we are born out of this world. We belong to this world, not the other way around.
04:06 PM - Mar 06, 2023
Last evening's moon. Photographed from my back yard, 834PMest.
12:46 PM - Mar 03, 2023
To connect with poets, artists and thought provokers. To share poems, read poems and learn from other peoples. To connect with and build an online community with my fellow disabled peoples. #WhyImHere
09:15 AM - Mar 01, 2023
"This phenomenon is, of course, a trick of perspective. The two bright planets are in fact millions of miles apart; only from our point of view on Earth do they appear to butt against each other." 🪐🌜🌍🌌 #space #Astronomy #Spoutible
04:54 AM - Mar 01, 2023
06:38 AM - Mar 01, 2023
Just a few more days left to pre-order Fugue & Strike--get yr copy in March before it officially drops in April. Readings are falling into place--more soon. Page 1 of the "Garbage Strike" sequence:
08:40 AM - Mar 01, 2023
"I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child."
~ Jean-Michel Basquiat
~ Jean-Michel Basquiat
07:24 PM - Feb 28, 2023
I see my poems as a sanctuary of sorts, for the heart. In my poems, there is a place for joy, there is a place for anger, a place for fear, a place for longing, a place for ecstasy. In my poems, all emotions are acceptable.
07:16 PM - Feb 28, 2023
I believe in the innate goodness which resides in the human heart
07:04 PM - Feb 28, 2023
It should be against the law to eat tortilla chips without hot sauce #SpoutingNonsense
10:42 AM - Feb 27, 2023
In my experience, many people are motivated by a genuine compassion for one another
05:39 PM - Feb 26, 2023
REMARKABLE LIFE. Thank you @BadassForemothers ! "As a poet, author, and lecturer, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a household name in the nineteenth century. Not only was she the first African American woman to publish a short story..." https://www.womenshistory....
11:40 PM - Feb 22, 2023
Something in the ether, in the dark or in our eyes
warns my mini me that another hymn could be made
in this moment. He remembers he does not share,
wedges his head into our groove, almost reprising
his birth.
—Frank X Walker #PoemADay https://poets.org/poem/neo...
warns my mini me that another hymn could be made
in this moment. He remembers he does not share,
wedges his head into our groove, almost reprising
his birth.
—Frank X Walker #PoemADay https://poets.org/poem/neo...
09:03 AM - Feb 23, 2023
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"Poetry's not just a way of saying something, it's also a way of seeing something." - Louise Bogan
10:25 AM - Feb 23, 2023
"My flesh is papyrus, and these lines are really poetry. A scar says I have loved, I have lived, I have been, and I am trying to become. A scar says there is more than one way to be beautiful, and these are they."
03:26 PM - Feb 23, 2023
Poets have the gift & responsibility of bringing people together
06:28 PM - Feb 22, 2023
My next book Fugue & Strike -- poems and a hybrid essay on waste, labor, and militant action -- is now available for pre-order! Infinite love for the crew at Black Ocean, editors, readers, and friends who made it possible --
https://www.blackocean.org...
https://www.blackocean.org...
01:37 PM - Feb 18, 2023
"...something awful is happening in a civilization when it ceases to produce poets and what is even more crucial, when it ceases anywhere, whenever, to believe in the report that only poets can make..."
~ James Baldwin (NYC, 1962)
~ James Baldwin (NYC, 1962)
03:19 PM - Feb 19, 2023
