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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But John what about Dolly Parton? She was quotation marks singing, always in on the joke

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Butterwort (photo by B.K. Fischer)

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Of course it is! Thank you

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@Victor what country? Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Germany?

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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 · 22/09/2026

I think the Edgar Bottle piece is from Tests. I bought that yesterday so we’ll see

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If the reward for unremitting attention to detail is beatification you are incandescent gold in my books!

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

“rooted, they / grip down and begin to awaken”

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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 · 14/09/2026

“presumptuously obtuse”!!!

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

He was only nasty to me once and that was pretty mild. But I watched him attack a now-famous woman strictly on the basis of appearance—called her ugly, which she wasn’t—and I thought that was cowardly if not unforgivable.

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Also, unfortunately, his occasional (almost casual) cruelty

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And every crabby old woman! After all, an authority (Kent Johnson lol) accused me of such

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

John, if you want to say, how old were you when you hatched your passion for birds? And what was the context? Were you the first in your family or was it a hand-me-down?

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“flushing the hen”! Who knew

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Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Is this obnoxious shall I take this down

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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 · 19/08/2026

But what is “a poetic temper”? Is a thermometer involved?

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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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Scariest thing? Dealing with insurance! @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 · 31/07/2026

However the words “the night we met” are always followed by “I knew I needed you so” (“Be My Baby” Phil Spector / the Ronettes)

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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

Wish I could double-love this

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

Wait, John, I must be seriously older than you because everybody cathexed in the sixties

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

John and Greg my eye too immediately went to that wry wised-up guy. Clearly my people

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

@John, this is the man i immediately cathexed on too

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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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