@markleidner

new book of poems Elegy for Pangaea https://xitter.cf/t.co/mbs3Ap2KXI

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iambic tetrameter ass stick
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Cameron Bradford@camerobradford10h
I wonder if the scariest thing ever would even phase my brave ass
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hil@plume__Oct 22
texts that make you freeze in terror
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tomorrow in ic
IowaWritersWorkshop@IowaWritersWkspOct 20
Wednesday, October 21 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, the Iowa City Book Festival presents Mark Leidner, reading from his new book, 'Elegy for Pangaea' events.uiowa.edu/event/39704
Author portrait of Leidner at right with his arm draped over the top of a sink and faucet. His name is written in hand-highlighted, block letters at the bottom of the poster

ALT Author portrait of Leidner at right with his arm draped over the top of a sink and faucet. His name is written in hand-highlighted, block letters at the bottom of the poster

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Let me tell you about another brewer (of God’s love) who (spiritually) swept the dodgers (of social justice) in ancient Palestine. His name was Jesus Christ.
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J.MP4@jd0tmp4Oct 16
At my Digger screening today there were some teenage boys and I heard this great exchange between them “Where’s Tom Cruise?” “That is Tom Cruise you fucking idiot” “Where?” “He’s DIGGER!”
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Joey Garcia@NotJosephGarciaOct 14
Cones are used as reminders. Traffic cones remind you to be cautious. A cone around your neck reminds you not to lick or bite at your stitches. Cones in your eyes remind you what color things are.
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what trochaic pentameter was built for
Souvenir
@souvenir_musicOct 14
“Kelly Clarkson has put us all in danger” is the exact same cadence as the opening line from a text I’d get from a congressional candidate asking me for money
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Brooks Otterlake@i_zzzzzzOct 13
Babe take a look at this. There came into a certain shop a famed chanteuse desirous of purchasing a mechanical Bird, yet the shopkeep, deeming her of graceless bearing and humble station, would not suffer the clockwork creature to pass into her possession
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Carson winning the Nobel after writing 85 beautiful books about antiquity: I suppose that's fine. thank you. people who have read 3 poems in the past decade: I've always despised the prose of her verse. Also our culture has rejected Beauty.
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Özge Lena@lenaozgeOct 8
Anne Carson! 🖤
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I posted this poem in my journal decades ago, and I can't even remember where I found it. It began my love affair with Gerald Stern.
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i have a new short short short story (that’s triple short) up at the lovely soft union
Soft Union@softuniononlineOct 6
New fiction from Sebastian Castillo (@bartlebytaco). softunion.online/library/mid…
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Soft Union@softuniononlineOct 6
New fiction from Sebastian Castillo (@bartlebytaco). softunion.online/library/mid…
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Iñárritu should look into emulators. you should be able to play Digger as a character in 16-bit
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Brooks Otterlake@i_zzzzzzOct 4
Digger should change depending on how the film is doing at the box office. The more it flops the more outrageous he should become
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my brother in law is trying to get “boat” going as a competing acronym to “goat” (“best of all time” vs “greatest of all time”). this began when he said the lasagna my wife made for my kid’s bday was objectively boated
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Rodrigo Nunes @Equatormag provides one the best, broadly applicable descriptions of the rise of far right politics (in Brazil) that you will read. equator.org/articles/brazil-…
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hil@plume__Oct 4
thinking about this always
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Joey Garcia@NotJosephGarciaSep 30
My dog is speaking to me telepathically and telling me to love everybody in the world.
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quasimatt
@quasimattSep 25
I’ve been thinking recently how my communication style often emulates this post: dressed in absurd lingo and verbosity, but revealing a truth so simple that it may even seem trivial at first. It’s sentimentally honest but rhetorically disingenuous. It’s just, well… me.💖
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