DJcontraption AKA Dahron J

. . . the hand in question
looks even more like a dead leaf, even more
like the back of someone else’s hand,
but—and this is crucial, the importance
of this next observation cannot
be overstated—the strange old hand
is still here, still enduring

fr—After Escher
George Bilgere
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purple flowers,
short & wild like a sudden storm.
We kneel. I think of Anthony of Padua,
the patron saint of lost things. Both of us
draw closer. The flowers speak to us. They say—
existence & persistence are the same thing

fr—Lupines in a Yard in San Antonio, Texas
Michael Kleber-Diggs
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My dreams tangle into you. I turn corners
into what should be empty rooms
& you are in them. There you are—
in the morning I tell my grandmother
about my dreams. That you are exploring—
in my house in Nashville, where you’ve never been,
you do not speak

fr—Wringer
Holiday Noel Campanella
t.ly/averr

the spring is more like fall,
and in the yard a driving wind lays waste
to the little tree that, seeming not to, stands
steady and firm; it seems among the plants
like a too-green adolescent grown too tall.
You watch it...

fr—The Little Tree
Umberto Saba
tr—Michael Palma
forward.com/schmooze/136...

I have been raising an eyebrow, and wondering WT****, about this since I first read about. In December, I even gave a shoutout in my invocation to the fact the Council was passing a resolution recognizing 80 years of the Adventure Science Center!:

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Always glad to chat w/the good folks of @citycastnash.bsky.social—in this instance about a @tnequality.bsky.social perspective on the TN supermajority's agenda.

We even smile & laugh a bit--because sometimes, that's really the only response to the ludicrousness of our current political moment!

Pádraig Ó Tuama: Poetry, and Making Peace, Bearing Witness and Being Human - Poetry Against the Dark “Legitimate target has 16 letters—and one long abominable space between two dehumanizing words.” In this episode, poet and peacebuilder Pádraig Ó Tuama offers a sobering yet luminous reflection on lan...

wander a strange world for years,
needing to be busy, sleeping in strange beds,
searching through cities for chapels to weep in,
learning the stitches that keep a ripped heart
together for a while, when what I really need
to say is that it rained

fr—Our Lady of the Garden
Pádraig Ó Tuama
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No thank you. 🥳

The Northern Lights can bloom and seethe
And be tearing themselves apart all night,
We walk arm in arm, and we are happy.

You in whose ultimate madness we live,
You flinging yourself out into the emptiness,
You—like us—great for an instant . . .

fr—On the Frozen Field
Galway Kinnell
bit.ly/4cUGRMf

Flight Of The Conchords: Sugar Lumps (HBO) YouTube video by HBO

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Journalist's detention by ICE sparks legal controversy - Nashville Banner Estefany Rodríguez, a Nashville Noticias journalist, alleges that her detention by ICE was retaliation for her critical coverage of the agency

Important article from the @nashvillebanner.bsky.social, detailing the lack of detail (a term of art I'm deploying as shorthand for "the utter disregard of the law & basic rights) in the rendentioing of Estefany Rodriguez:

Detained Journalist Alleges Retaliation
nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/06/i...

Don’t let that be you.

Let’s go to their wedding, & drink their aperitifs,
and nibble a few petits fours. I’ll offer a toast,
then we’ll leave by the service door. Let them keep their beliefs

as long as they can. I no longer think there’s a road
to happiness

fr—Sappho 27
Stephanie Burt
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If houses don't want to be hit by drivers they should be adorned in high-viz and only exist in recreational areas

Poet A.E. Hines on Queer Eros, the Natural World, and his latest collection "Adam in the Garden" [INTERVIEW] - Viewless Wings

not 𝘮𝘺 shower today, but 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴.

“You stay up there & look,” I hear myself say,
& with this a small peace forms between us.
My hands lather & scrub. The brown voyeur
drums one hairy finger just at the edge
of the cascade—that thin wet line
between 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 & 𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥

fr—Peace Treaty
AE Hines
t.ly/WBItY

Great testimony that should have caused the legislators to slow their roll on pushing forward bills that are counter-productive to the supposed goals they have for them. Thanks to Nino for offering personal and specific perspective in an impersonal and imprecise space:

(Good on thee, indeed! Always glad to have more good company down there!)

Unbanned: Evidence of Things Not Seen with Daniel B. Summerhill, PhD. As part of our Unbanned Author Speaker Series: Come listen to local authors share their unique experiences with censorship and how that led them to seek alternative publication options. Daniel B. Summerhill is an exciting and new poetic alchemist. His books are Mausoleum of Flowers and Divine Divine Divine. Inspired by his Oakland experiences and his scholarship and James Baldwin, his muse, Summerhill will lead a craft talk illuminating truth in the Evidence of Things Not Seen and in narratives that challenge age-old power structures. https://www.danielsummerhill.com This program was in part of SJSU King Library's Banned Books Week: https://libguides.sjsu.edu/bannedbooks.

inertia’s at the front door lobbying for a way into the funk
but packed the wrong tools, left
blues back where bebop jumped over the hammer.
sold God’s imagination short

fr—Huey Newton & Everybody Shows Up with Their Instrument Instead
Daniel B. Summerhill
bit.ly/3Nh6fBd

Matt Donovan & Jenny George | Drunk as a Poet on Payday | Episode 19 Something special today everyone! Double poet day! My guests are Matt Donovan and Jenny George, coauthors of the new chapbook, We Are Not Where We Are, published this week by Bull City Press. The book...

The liquid in my glass trembled. This was the year
the chokecherry in the yard grew tall enough
to find the wind, a thing like itself, shifting
and invisible, feeling all the leaves and turning them,
like once you turned my coat collar . . .

fr—Touching and Being Touched
Jenny George
bit.ly/4rQ89b4

Blog Tennessee Equality Project is a public policy organization that seeks to advance and protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their families in Tennessee.

Want to call, but can't make it tonight? Want to write Committee members about these bills?
@tnequality.bsky.social makes it easy--just head to www.tnep.org/blog to take action now:

To give you some sense of just how many we're talking about, here's a screenshot of just Tuesday and Wednesday:

All voices on deck, all hands to the wheel!! This week sees problematic bills presented on multiple issues in multiple committees. We need your voice--your perspective and presence--now as much as we ever have:

An utterly beautiful conversation with Maggie Smith on the nature of how we write and share Watch now | And the one thing she said that hit me hardest

I do sometimes
imagine a god like a sentient star

out beyond where our instruments
could find it, then I talk myself

out of the image. Out of the concept
entirely. From a distance, I know

I’m an ant tunneling my way
through sand between plastic panels

fr—This human life
Maggie Smith
t.ly/livBU

Two soft purple crocuses bloom in a small patch of new grass, surrounded by the last leaves of the prior fall.

Among remnants of past seasons,
it is still time to:
bloom.

Leonora Speyer: Violin Virtuoso to Pulitzer Poet Discover violinist Leonora von Stosch Speyer's remarkable journey from concert halls to Pulitzer Prize poetry. A fascinating dual career story.

—see, they spread
About your robes, your ermine will be wet,
Your velvet shoes, your dear dear feet! Ah let
Me warn you, sir, the waves will reach your head!

My king, my kingly love, how shall we stay
The bold broad lifting of this lovely sea?

fr—She says, being forbidden:
L. Speyer
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On Horace Gregory's "Interior: The Suburbs" Iain Morrison and Jon Hoel join Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House to discuss "Interior: The Suburbs" by the under-recognized poet Horace Gregory. For more information and to enroll for free in ModPo visit: ModPo.org

with a mysterious eye fixed on the bed,
into a cracked egg at breakfast,
looking for glory in an arm-chair,
or simply noting the facts of life
in a fly asleep on the ceiling.
The mind, sunk in quiet places,
(like old heroes) sleeps no more...

fr—Interior: The Suburbs
Horace Gregory
bit.ly/3Na4aqH

2025 Tamaas Poetry Translation Seminar Closing Reading✨ Virtual reading in celebration of the 2025 Tamaas Poetry Translation Seminar (Sept 8–12, 2025) featuring poets and translators of global South Asia. Featuring Aditya Bahl, Samandar Ghauss, Malvika Jolly, Usama Lali, Rajiv Mohabir, Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, Asna Nusrat, Zeeshan Pathan, Haider Shahbaz, and Sanam Sheriff, sharing experimental and collaborative texts worked on together in Sept 2025, in the twentieth year anniversary of the seminar, between English, Hindi, Urdu, and Caribbean Hindustani. Introduced by Tamaas co-founders Sarah Riggs and Omar Berrada • MC'ed by 2025 Translation Seminar invited curator Malvika Jolly • Sunday, October 19, 2025.

And you—his subject

of rule—have tried to say it true, only to be subjected
to a cruel inheritance in which memory is the subject

of a sentence the mind cannot objectify
long enough to hold, but holds true enough to subject

fr—The Emperor Pats His Lips with a Napkin
Sanam Sheriff
bit.ly/4aDW1E0

Senior Correspondent, Politics WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...

Journalism job alert: @wired.com is hiring an experienced politics writer. I might be biased, but WIRED is doing some of the best political coverage out there. This is your chance to join our amazing newsroom! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

1. Open NACTO book
2. Design a safe, accessible, awesome street that you're proud of
3. Show it to the people
4. Everyone celebrates

I'm wondering if I've ordered this book or if I'm lucky and already have it... I was gunna direct message this question, but since I can't lol: title, please?

Who the Heck Were Percy and Edwin Warner? - City Cast Nashville The Warner Parks are beloved public spaces in Nashville … but who were Percy and Edwin Warner? Author, historian, and Nashville Scene columnist Bet...

Everybody! I'm on @citycastnash.bsky.social talking about the good ole days when Nashville was filthy, rich people were eccentric, and we got parks.

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