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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hello, is this Samovar? Yes, this is Samovar. OK. I’ll call you back

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I know this is ridiculous but I would be ridiculously grateful. (3/3)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

digitized but the San Francisco Public Library (to which I have online access—lacking academic privileges) does not have archives going back that far. Can anyone help? (2/3)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m searching for a short comic poem/piece mentioning “Edgar Bottle” that appeared in the TLS in one of three issues devoted to experimental writing: The Changing Guard (August 6, 1964 & September 3, 1964) or "New Ways in History: the 1966 Experimental Spreads” (1966). The TLS has been (1/3)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It was Dolly’s world. How do we live in our shabby world now?

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Remembering how Bob Dylan, on the Theme Time Radio Hour, relayed how Dolly Parton said she wasn’t ever bothered by being called a dumb blonde. Something like: “First of all,” she said, “I know I’m not dumb. And second of all, I know I’m not blonde.”

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oddly prescient? From my book =Hotel Imperium= (1999)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I wrote to correct an error in this story but while the reporter thanked me for the correction and the Times fixed it, they didn’t bother acknowledging the error because of course they didn’t Mary de Rachewiltz, Ezra Pound’s Daughter and Defender, Dies at 101 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

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Mary de Rachewiltz, Ezra Pound’s Daughter and Defender, Dies at 101

Sent away as a baby, she remained loyal to her famous father, translating his poetry while fighting to distinguish his literary legacy from his fascist politics.

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Lucio Fulci’s ROBBI 2 @robbykarol.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

And to be clear, I am talking about still following Odysseus on social media despite his problematic behavior at Troy.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Adolphus Cooke of Westmeath instructed his servants to genuflect to a turkey, which he believed to be his reincarnated father, once entered into hand-to-hand combat with a bull, and ended his life believing he had been transformed into a screech owl.

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Just thought of the best possible name for my press. Unfortunately I don’t have one.

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If Tricky D. can be cheerful, why can’t we?

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Newish work in the latest Denver Quarterly (v.60 no.3), thanks to Jane Huffman, Ian Cappelli, et al. Here’s the opening three entries (of thirty-one) out of “Notes Written in October.” Part of a manuscript called “Notes for General Circulation.”

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Saint Dominic among the flowers, with excellent though skeptical demon behind the chair (knows it cannot bother the saint!), in the Spinola Hours, also by Gerard Horenbout of Ghent. It's his day.

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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Come for the alka-seltzer, stay for the singin’

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The obvious (to me): second from left, back row, Anselm Hollo. Front and center A.G. Who else?

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Today our newsletter readers received three pinpoint sharp poems by Javier Salvago, translated from the Spanish by John R. Sesgo. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/good-in-hi...

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

C.P. Cavafy “Sometimes they speak in our dreams, sometimes the mind hears them.” – C.P. Cavafy, “Voices”, translated by Evan Jones.

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... Albrecht Dürer / Melencolia I

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

and break the furniture and vomit all over the house.’ He added that, in order to protect oneself, ‘a writer needs to be completely unavailable.’”—the Guardian. Peace to your ashes, you mixed up old mummy. (2/2)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

He lit the moon for me when I was 16. “Speaking to Penthouse magazine in 1978, Purdy said being published was like ‘throwing a party for friends and all these coarse wicked people come instead (1/2)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

PM Edward Heath, Queen Elizabeth, Richard and Pat Nixon at Chequers, Pat looking as usual as if she’s about to cry. (3 October 1970)

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Iraq War veteran Hugh Martin ⸻ from the Spring 2013 issue of The Iowa Review

MEMORIAL DAY

Thank you for the yellow magnet on your
vehicle. My lifetime membership to
the Veterans of Foreign Wars put me
back three hundred dollars. Gentlemen's clubs
waive my cover. Shake my hand. I'm a vet-
eran. Support me. Thank me. Please applaud
when I enter the airport. When I told
my mother I had to go, I cried. Hard.
In my heyday I could bench two-fifty.
Yes to bacon on everything. I can
be buried at Arlington whenever.
Applebee's served me for free with tip, tax.
God, that girl can sing. Chew that hot dog. Hold
in that fart. Smile. Put your hand on your heart.

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

John Loudon Gow, one of my great-grandfathers (and a Civil War veteran) with white hair and cane in Chicago. John lived in Springfield IL and old newspapers say that Lincoln danced around a ball with John on his feet. It could have happened. In any case he was obsessed for the rest of his life.

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Pat Nolan @xileinparadise.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

A little bit of Philip Whalen in the late Keith Kumasen Abbott's terrific caligraphy.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Sea Turtle 🐢 Saturday mood

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Join together, Finnish workers! The Worker’s Society of Perälä (my late father-in-law’s home village)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

For some reason I’m obsessed with May Day this year

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

“Village Scene with Dance around the May Pole” by Pieter Brueghel The Younger

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Kenneth Koch from _Thank You and Other Poems_ (Grove Press, 1962)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Blue hepatica, one of the first spring flowers in Finland. Used to be called blue anemone (and I still do)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I know Doctorow isn’t “our crowd,” our aesthetic kith and kin. But this book “about” a version of the Rosenberg children captures the weird ambivalence of the red diaper baby better than anything else I’ve read.

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The coming of socialism would sanctify those who had suffered. You went out and took your stand, did what had to be done—not because you expected anything, but because someday there would be retribution, and you wanted just a little of it to bear your name. (3/3) —E. L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

That was my mother’s communism: something whose promise was so strong you endured much for it. Like a woman suffering pregnancy and childbirth to get the child. The child would make it worthwhile. (2/3)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Grandma lit candles on Friday night, a shawl over her head, her hands covering her face while she prayed. When she lowered her hands, her eyes—her blue eyes—were filled with tears, and devastation was in her face. (1/3)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Not the quote I’m looking for but it does seem apropos (2/2)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If justice cannot be made to operate under the worst possible conditions of social hysteria, what does it matter how it operates at other times? —E.L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel (1/2)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

has yet to even be published. That tome currently lies in the rectum of HarperCollins, ready to be excreted in June –“ (2/2) —Marina Hyde

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“For the next South Park season, I hope the creators give their brilliantly ghastly little vice-president avatar a papal mitre to wear. After all, here we have a man whose pick-me book on his journey to Catholicism 1/2) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Is the pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer | Marina Hyde

When it comes to theology, Donald Trump’s vice-president clearly knows best. Are we about to see an American break with Rome, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I’ve always wondered whether the Ashbery poem (circa 1962) was written as a parody/homage to Wieners (circa 1961).

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