in the spirit of poetic inquiry

Minneapolis
Joined July 2009
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AVIARY by Deirdre McNamer is coming out in paperback this April with a *new* look! "This quietly important book offers hope as it tackles grief and isolation and our essential humanity."— @nytimesbooks 🎨 Cover design by @MASpeaker 🎨 Cover art and animation by @alockstadt
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I swear poets have the best book covers. SHEESH.
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Community activist KG Wilson trying to calm the crowd on Nicollet Mall. Many here believe police shot/killed a man when the man actually shot himself. @WCCO – at Minneapolis, MN
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RT if you want to see Congress pass legislation prohibiting the use of tear gas in the U.S.
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Watch. Share.
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updating in this thread abt protests in mpls. add to it pls 🙏🏾 rides @MNWFPC medics @BlackDisability @BlackVisionsMN write visibly on ur body w permanent marker legal support: @MNFreedomFund legal rights ctr: 612-337-0030 ntl lawyers guild: 612-444-2654 5/31/20 - 6/1/20
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Come work with me! March 16 is the deadline to apply for The Milkweed Fellowship, which seeks to provide entry to those historically underrepresented among workers in book publishing. 1-2 years, salary 35K + benefits. milkweed.org/milkweed-fellow… Please retweet!
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Submit to the @puertomag poetry contest! Farid Matuk is judge: puertodelsol.submittable.com…
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"We kept the candle lit, that’s all." "Return" by @Galactic_Rabbit createsend.com/t/y-532015B37…
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From "Blessing The Boats: New and Selected Poems: 1988-2000" by Lucille Clifton. #charlottesvillle #poetry #america #politics #art #protest
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"He’s waiting for you & me" Read Joshua Bennett's "Frederick Douglass Is Dead" in @BostonReview. @SirJoshBennett bostonreview.net/poetry/josh…
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"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..."
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This may be the most brutal number in the CBO report pllqt.it/Ygcmvj
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you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land -Warsan Shire, @warsan_shire
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the @GOP is a minority party of the kleptocracy. Look at the #s. They only win by stealing national elections and gerrymandering local ones
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Check out @MASpeaker on Simone John's Collateral in the new @RainTaxiReview raintaxi.com/rain-taxi-revie…
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TAKE ACTION: Stand against coordinated GOP schemes to disenfranchise voters! dscc.me/JK6m #p2 #EPPFacts
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