new book of poems Elegy for Pangaea https://nitter.cf/t.co/mbs3Ap2KXI
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Wednesday, October 21 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, the Iowa City Book Festival presents Mark Leidner, reading from his new book, 'Elegy for Pangaea' events.uiowa.edu/event/39704
ALT Author portrait of Leidner at right with his arm draped over the top of a sink and faucet. His name is written in hand-highlighted, block letters at the bottom of the poster
Let me tell you about another brewer (of God’s love) who (spiritually) swept the dodgers (of social justice) in ancient Palestine. His name was Jesus Christ.
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Cones are used as reminders. Traffic cones remind you to be cautious. A cone around your neck reminds you not to lick or bite at your stitches. Cones in your eyes remind you what color things are.
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Babe take a look at this. There came into a certain shop a famed chanteuse desirous of purchasing a mechanical Bird, yet the shopkeep, deeming her of graceless bearing and humble station, would not suffer the clockwork creature to pass into her possession
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Carson winning the Nobel after writing 85 beautiful books about antiquity: I suppose that's fine. thank you.
people who have read 3 poems in the past decade: I've always despised the prose of her verse. Also our culture has rejected Beauty.
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I posted this poem in my journal decades ago, and I can't even remember where I found it. It began my love affair with Gerald Stern.
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i have a new short short short story (that’s triple short) up at the lovely soft union
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New fiction from Sebastian Castillo (@bartlebytaco).
softunion.online/library/mid…
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Digger should change depending on how the film is doing at the box office. The more it flops the more outrageous he should become
my brother in law is trying to get “boat” going as a competing acronym to “goat” (“best of all time” vs “greatest of all time”). this began when he said the lasagna my wife made for my kid’s bday was objectively boated
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Rodrigo Nunes @Equatormag provides one the best, broadly applicable descriptions of the rise of far right politics (in Brazil) that you will read. equator.org/articles/brazil-…
