Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
Spirit animal Charlie Darwin:
Bearing Witness
#monoprint Acrylic on Paper
#art #printmaking
'To all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envys, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle – may they never give me peace.'
A New Year's Toast, written by Patricia Highsmith in her diary on this day in 1947.
Books of 2025 ✨
THE DAYS OF AULD LANG SYNE Gold lettering for title. Pale lime green cover; decorated with thistles and foliage design in gold and white.
Book Cover of the Day:
Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.
It's your birthday, Duane.
Another ekphrastic poem! This time with a Friday Kahlo painting: www.fridakahlo.org/what-the-wat...
Also, I love Jessica Piazza’s ekphrastic poetry book “This Is Not A Sky,” which everyone should check out!
#poetry #ekphrasis #booksky
James Joyce when he wrote *those* letters to his wife
Joint Statement on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix The world's largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.
The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
On the arrival of John Berger’s centenary, the Verso Book Club will be hosting a conversation on his vital contributions to worlds of art history, politics, translation, and more.
An ekphrastic poem! 🎨
Anybody else freaked out about AI and the manufacturing of consent happening on social media?
#ekphrasis #capitalism #ai #technology #manufacturedconsent #art #corporations #environment #booksky #poems #poetry
I’m legit in awe of the concept of poems that are too dangerous to fall into the wrong hands
Sometimes we need to perpetuate our own crisis to move forward in life, the writer-director Noah Baumbach says, in a new interview.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/cxs3Y8
A poem I wrote as an adult processing grief from childhood. I lost my brother when I was 10, and my grandma (who I lived with for most of my life) at 15. I dream of them sometimes.
#poetry #grief #astrology #witchy #poems #death #grieving #cycles
