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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good morning with Jorge Luis Borges playing Pessoan heteronym exercises. This is fabricated Uruguayan poet Julio Platero Haedo. From Borges' El Hacedor. Limits (or Good-byes) There is a line of Verlaine's that I'm not going to remember again

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For National Poetry Day, Frank O'Hara

Poem [“Lana Turner has collapsed!”]

By Frank O’Hara
Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
lana turner has collapsed!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up

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Stu Hatton @stuhatton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Still can’t get over this R S Thomas poem. (Don’t think I ever will!) #poetry #poetrysky #rsthomas #genealogy #poem

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Chris Frantz @chrisfrantz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends. Much Respect to The Mighty Sparrow. RIP.

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Jean And Dinah

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Bernard Wills @bnwills.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mighty Sparrow is dead. Who you might ask? The king of Caribbean music that's who. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSr1...

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Ten To One

YouTube video by Mighty Sparrow - Topic

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Again and again the leaves / enact their beauty Marianne Boruch

Over the Twilight Street

Fall. And the boys are cold, without jackets the football their milkweed pod
bursting over the twilight street. They jump and release themselves, crying
like birds. Hours from the morning fog
the air is chilled good water
taken from a stream
with a cupped hand. They can barely keep themselves inside their bodies, vivid as light
through leaves, though now the leaves
have their own lifetime to consider
pressing back
into trance: a red brilliance
which listens for no one, an iridescence too complete to translate. I bike by them the football spinning above me,
a blurred planet. Boys who will be men, boys who will be taken by surprise by failure. Again and again the leaves enact their beauty.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

33yrs ago the New York Times published an article criticising Federico Fellini and other foreign language films — calling them "hard work". MARTIN SCORSESE sent this in response.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today's the day.

The cover of Jean Michel Jarre's EQUINOXE, in honour of today's, er, equinox.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AI is the Gyges' ring of student work: it offers perfect concealment of wrongdoing. If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so. If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 23/09/2026

Yestreen I heard a birdie sing Inbye a bonnie beech tree hedge As if it didnae ken nor care Autumn wis hidin in the sedge… —Sheena Blackhall, “Autumn XI” #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/autumn-...

Autumn IX
Sheena Blackhall

Yestreen I heard a birdie sing
Inbye a bonnie beech tree hedge
As if it didnae ken nor care
Autumn wis hidin in the sedge

The daith o leaves is roon the neuk
It peints them yalla, reid an broon
An doon they’ll drap like faain rain
In waesome Autumn’s dowie croon

Sic cheenges cam tae great an sma
First ae grey hair, a nippin knee
The stert o auld age: clawin cleuks
That herald yer mortality

Autumn draws near, like cat wi moose
It winna stop, nor else devaul
A jeelin in a body’s banes
A cheenge, the turn frae warm tae caul

Noo blawin in the win, dry leaves
Like Simmer’s ghaists, ethereal
This is the Sizzen o the scythe
The nichts draw in, a mournin pall

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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (2006 Remaster) youtu.be/uSrKff0w6CU?...

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The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (2006 Remaster)

YouTube video by Roberta Flack - Topic

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is more here By Newfoundland poet Des Walsh lovers have already begun to seek shelter in the shadow of wounds ignoring our tongues that long for the burning pavement

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy birthday to my poetry daddy Leonard Cohen

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A Poem from my 2016 collection Not Even Laughter featuring Leonard Cohen, who was born on this day in 1934.

Music for Airports

Up late drinking Polish lager, pulling records
out of Mylar sleeves, stoned on medical sativa,
cuing tracks by Johnny Cash, The Fall, and Nico

on your second-hand Technics. While the D3s kicked
out Jackson, Pay your Rates, The End, and English
Scheme, you chain-smoked Dunhills -- browsed.

the plywood shelves for doubles, poked through
Sealtest crates. One Sunday two years later,
searching listlessly for Astral Weeks, I find the pile

of ring worn albums that you gave to me to keep--
Hot Buttered Soul, a James Last import, Space Age
percussion suites for hi-fis, Brian Eno's landmark

foray into soundscapes, its water-damaged cover
stained and wrinkled -- the disc inside like Leonard
Cohen's shy one -- unplayed and still pristine.

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All you Odyssey readers who've been arguing about the meaning of polutropos in line 1, don't forget Chapman, the first English translator, puzzled about that in the 17th century -- as we reference in this episode of Instant Classics podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

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How Homer’s Odyssey Conquered the English-speaking World

Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 17 September · 1hr

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Frenemy of the People @frenemyofthepeople.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So an athlete can shit herself during a strenuous competition and gets mocked mercilessly, but the President of the United States can shit himself daily and all he gets is polite applause am I understanding this correctly?

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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Brother Jack McDuff was born 100 years ago today September 17, 1926! After his funky 1969 label debut "Down Home Style" the great organist made one of the most creatively ambitious albums of his career with "Moon Rappin’." Listen or get the Classic Vinyl Edition: bluenote.lnk.to/JackMcDuff-M...

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Bernard Wills @bnwills.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So just so I understand: how is AI going to kill people on Sentinel Island? It may kill everyone but them I suppose but won't they do fine? In fact, wouldn't they just take over?

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We went a journey far away John Clare, from Northborough MS B9

We went a journey far away The path was often ill to find
The cows from strangers turned away & turned a carless look behind
We passed the stupid staring horse
The farmer eyed us with dislike & where we found no brig to cross We pulled each other oer the dyke
The men where burning shoaf around & thick the ashes seemed to fall The smoke went over half the ground & rolled along & hid us all
We found the columbine so black & dug & took a bundle back

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Finding pathos in dogs and undeveloped handwriting” A poem by Louis MacNeice

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In news that will surprise absolutely no one in HE... ‘It notes that institutions “routinely” hire consultancies for these restructures as well as change management specialists, however, these processes often introduce additional management layers, “adding cost rather than removing it”…’

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Restructuring ‘too often adding cost rather than removing it’

Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns

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Bernard Wills @bnwills.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have a sneaking suspicion that there are people whose entire education is meme sized bites and that memes are the logical, absurd end point of the power-point presentation which fosters the illusion that knowledge can be atomized and quickly shared.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is some incredible racism. AI is out here inventing forms of racism Hollywood never even considered before. This is going to make Citizen Vigilante look like Mary Poppins.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Another round of "brilliant" negotiations is completed. The only difference this time is that Witkoff and Kushner came to deliver Putin's demands personally after kissing his boot in the Kremlin. We are on, what, 9th circle of this cycle? 1,5 years wasted and countless lives.

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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

John Cage was born on September 5, 1912

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Bernard Wills @bnwills.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Omg Americans PLEASE google 'army cadets'. And when you find out what it is don't be extra stupid and dig your heels in. Just admit you didn't know. We all make mistakes. It's fine.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

starting to get more scam emails from fake publishers/book clubs about my books. targeting authors with fake publicity seems like a very niche scam - anybody else gotten these? what's the endgame for them?

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bobo tucci @no-flashlight.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For my birthday today I want everyone to listen to Ys by Joanna Newsom in its entirety and read along to the lyrics. Thank you

Rowing along, among the reeds, among the rushes,
I heard your song, before my heart had time to hush it!
Smell of a stonefruit being cut and being opened.
Smell of a low and of a lazy cinder smoking

And when the fire moves away,
fire moves away, son.
Why would you say
I was the last one?

Scrape your knee: it is only skin.
Makes the sound of violins.

And when I cut your hair, and leave the birds all of the trimmings,
I am the happiest woman among all women.

And the shallow water stretches as far as I can see.
Knee deep, trudging along -
the seagull weeps 'so long' -
humming a threshing song -

Until the night is over, hold on, hold on;
hold your horses back from the fickle dawn.

Last week, our picture window
produced a half-word,
heavy and hollow,
hit by a brown bird.

We stood and watched her gape like a rattlesnake
and pant and labor over every intake.

I said a sort of prayer for some rare grace,
then thought I ought to take her to a higher place.
Said, "dog nor vulture nor cat shall toy with you,
and though you die, bird, you will have a fine view."

Then in my hot hand, she slumped her sick weight.
We tramped through the poison oak, heartbroke and inchoate.
The dogs were snapping, and you cuffed their collars
while I climbed the tree-house. Then how I hollered!

Well she'd lain, as still as a stone, in my palm, for a lifetime or two;
then saw the treetops, cocked her head, and up and flew.
(While back in the world that moves, often, according to the hoarding of these clues,
dogs still run roughly around
little tufts of finch-down.)

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Bernard Wills @bnwills.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Americans seem a bit confused about army cadets in Canada. I was an army cadet. It is not the army. It's a fun thing for teens. You play in the woods and do practice shooting with bb guns.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...

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Chomsky After Epstein - Strange Matters

Noam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better?

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Bernard Wills @bnwills.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Well in Mansfield Park Fanny and Sir Thomas dsicuss the problem of slavery but Austen does not say what position they took. This reticence is interesting for Sir Thomas is looking more and more like Fanny's 'benevolent' master.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ok so, the D major chord Dolly’s playing in is notoriously difficult. And this young lady makes it look easy—in full acrylic nails. This is 1979. #Dolly #DollyParton 🖤✨🙏🏽

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Bernard Wills @bnwills.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today I discovered there are leftists who support Trump because he is saving Palestinian lives. Now I don't think these people are real but in case there is any doubt I post the following. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Do...

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2025 Donald Trump Gaza Strip takeover proposal - Wikipedia

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Bernard Wills @bnwills.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I found the verb 'parp' in a poem and damned if any of the meanings I looked up fit.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The video that made me fall in love with Dolly Parton. I still don't know how she managed a D major chord wearing those long acrylic nails.

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