Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Sunday, June 21, 2026
Friday, April 18, 2025
Shevchenko: 'Oh bury me, then rise ye up'
"A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of repeatedly 'discrediting' the Russian army, including by gluing a quotation on a statue of a Ukrainian poet. ... Kozyreva was arrested on February 24, 2024, after she glued a verse by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko onto his monument in St Petersburg... The verse from Shevchenko’s My Testament read, 'Oh bury me, then rise ye up / And break your heavy chains / And water with the tyrants’ blood / The freedom you have gained'..."
— Russia sentences 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after poetic anti-war protest, Mariya Knight and Caitlin Danaher, CNN, April 18, 2025
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Poems
Aracelis Girmay, "Second Estrangement" (Archive.org)
William Bronk, "Night and Day" (Archive.org)
Anna Swir trans. by Piotr Florczyk, "A Wife Says to Her Husband" (Archive.org)
The reason I have Archive.org links is that I used to use Twitter for poetry, but Elon Musk destroyed Twitter, and the poets left.
"On April 3, [2025,] news broke that DOGE gutted the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), terminating the operating grants of all 56 state and jurisdictional humanities councils across the United States, including ours here at Colorado Humanities. Since then, we have received an outpouring of support from our friends and partners. Your phone calls, emails, social media shares, and donations mean the world to our staff. Although uncertainty looms, we are working tirelessly to preserve the public humanities programming and resources on which the people across all regions of our state depend. Please continue to support our efforts."
Sarah Olivier
Associate Director of Colorado Humanities, in an email sent April 15, 2025
Friday, April 14, 2023
Poems
Mark Strand:
Mark Strand pic.twitter.com/pQ2leqxM7d
— Twila Newey (@motleybookshelf) December 26, 2021
James Wright:
“I held the man for nothing in my arms” - James Wright pic.twitter.com/lHnTwwpikM
— Jack Jung 정새벽 (@daybreakjung) December 26, 2021
Czesław Miłosz:
A Halloween poem from Czesław Miłosz. pic.twitter.com/pXSld2lf1c
— Jim May (@jamesdavismay) October 31, 2021
John Burnside:
the equinox approaches! 🍂 i'd love a thread of fave autumnal poems.
— alina pleskova (@nahhhlina) September 20, 2021
here's an almost unbearably tender one by john burnside: pic.twitter.com/3gXQY0OjnH
Ben Mirov:
I feel like I have never seen anything / and I am seeing things for the first time / and this is the first thing I have ever seen.
— Tom Snarsky (@TomSnarsky) September 15, 2021
Ben Mirov pic.twitter.com/WxurFF3dEe
Louise Gluck:
This poem is from Ararat by Louise Gluck. I’m currently sitting at my desk trying not to totally lose it. In seven years, I haven’t found an articulation that really captures what my mom went through after she lost a child. I found it tonight. That’s why poetry is a gift. pic.twitter.com/NeaBo8C0nh
— Sarah Kersey (@sk__poet) October 16, 2021
Etheridge Knight:
"fuck / the whole muthafucking thing / all i want now is my woman back / so my soul can sing" pic.twitter.com/ES3uvgdHXs
— just Bailey (@BaileyC213) September 21, 2021
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Three poems
Going through my bookmarks. Here are three poems that surfaced at random.
Eric Yip, “不 / NO”
William Dickey, "The Food of Love"
Ada Limón, “Against Nostalgia”
Feels surreal to have 4 new poems out in @adroitjournal, which was one of the very first journals I came across when I started reading/writing poetry… Thank you to the editors for giving these poems a home alongside such fantastic work 💫https://t.co/2dvHjY3TNw pic.twitter.com/C5Whw2CUUb
— Eric Yip (@metapheric) August 18, 2022
William Dickey's "The Food of Love," from The Rainbow Grocery (1978). pic.twitter.com/cw1xOXFcb3
— Forgotten Good Poems (@ForgottenGPoems) November 30, 2020
Another absolute favorite by @adalimon: pic.twitter.com/FkFWoAwL0z
— Dr. Maya C. Popa (@MayaCPopa) August 19, 2022
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Poems
"make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came"
Wendell Berry, "How to Be a Poet"
the silence from which it came"
Wendell Berry, "How to Be a Poet"
Poems I've seen shared on Twittter in the last month or so.
Today's poetry thread: GRATITUDE
— Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_) October 21, 2022
Here's a keeper. ⚡️ Feel free to add poems. pic.twitter.com/0T98TOvlSF
Today's poetry thread: SURVIVAL
— Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_) October 6, 2022
Here's one I keep in my pocket like a 🔥. Feel free to add poems. pic.twitter.com/quZ6qm52Yu
Jon Anderson pic.twitter.com/0p9ceLHQfY
— Tom Snarsky (@TomSnarsky) October 11, 2022
“Carry my heart to some shore that my feet will not shatter do not let me pass away before I have a name for this tree under which I am lying.”
— I.S. Jones 🦌🌑 (@isjonespoetry) October 10, 2022
Audre Lorde, “October” from The Black Unicorn pic.twitter.com/a4gStpzXSG
from Inger Christensen’s “Alphabet.”Translated by Susanna Nied pic.twitter.com/xxsYO2NtO6
— Christopher DeWeese (@_ChrisDeWeese) October 11, 2022
Louise Glück for the beginning (and end) of October pic.twitter.com/6mKGN3z5GK
— Sam DeFlitch (@sdeflitchy) October 3, 2022
the poem in question ~ pic.twitter.com/Ig4i0uv9M0
— dev murphy (@gytrashh) October 12, 2022
Victoria Chang @VChangPoet said this in class tonight and I wrote it down not just in my notebook but in my heart:
— D. A. Powell (@Powell_DA) October 12, 2022
"Every day is an elegy to the poem you never wrote"
Today's poetry thread: BREAKUPS
— Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_) October 5, 2022
Here's *the* breakup poem I wish I had written. Feel free to add poems. pic.twitter.com/sVMMq4yh2U
i keep hearing
— Jason Myers (@jasonpmyers) October 4, 2022
tree talk
water words
and i keep knowing what they mean.
Lucille Clifton pic.twitter.com/Qbz8UzA39b
Oh wow, THIS by @rocketfantastic! pic.twitter.com/6uDFDM54IK
— Nikita Gill (@nktgill) October 4, 2022
Today's poetry thread: YOU
— Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_) October 2, 2022
Here's a little stunner by Franz Wright. Feel free to add poems to the thread. pic.twitter.com/iPdZrGcjVo
Thanks to the editors of @WillowSprings for including this little poem in their new issue. pic.twitter.com/gtCJe1YZJr
— Juliana Gray (@JGray_Writer) September 25, 2022
"Listen. The rug is wet because
— Jason Tandon (@jasontandon_) September 25, 2022
I stood here."
Love this poem by the wonderful Jill Osier and her chapbook, FROM (@BullCityPress). pic.twitter.com/XXLgmEHPih
Today's poetry thread: LONELINESS
— Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_) October 10, 2022
Here's a poem so lonely it turns itself to magic. 🔥 Feel free to add poems. pic.twitter.com/XejxRgws5X
poem I read over the summer, stuck with me since pic.twitter.com/EXQPL6ljbX
— james (@jmcetc) October 7, 2022
I often forget that Leonard Cohen was as good poet as well as a songwriter. pic.twitter.com/3Uw1ZZkLBh
— RobertAllenPoet (@RobertAllenPoet) October 12, 2022
God is its howling.
— Alina Stefanescu (@aliner) October 12, 2022
- Paul Celan, "Nocturne" as translated by John Felstiner pic.twitter.com/odY6VzrXM4
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