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Forget pirate shanties. The real music of the Georgia coast belonged to Gullah Geechee boatmen. "Go Row the Boat Child" by the Georgia Sea Island Singers - the rhythm that kept oars in time across dark tidal creeks. #WyrdWednesday #GullahGeechee #SouthernFolklore youtu.be/L1qLn2-bq0s?...

One of the most unintentionally funny politicians I have ever seen

Ok so Canada did exactly as well as Brazil in the world cup. I'll take it.

Very sad to hear of the passing of MARJANE SATRAPI. A lot of the 'graphic novels' produced since the format became popular, really are collections, not 'novels' at all. Persepolis was something special. A novel that lived in my mind long, long after I read it. A very sad loss.

Of all the hateful submission portals out there Duosuma is the hatefullest!

Get a head start by having a first name that doesn’t really go with your second name. Your parents were just trying to keep everyone happy… —Palma McKeown, “How To Be Scots-Italian” from TALKING ABOUT LOBSTERS: New Writing Scotland 34 (ASL, 2016) A #poem for #FestadellaRepubblica 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 #poetry

Just let me write one line as good as the first line of this poem with its casual, beautiful nostalgia that says everything without saying it

Lars Gustafsson from The Stillness of the World Before Bach #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

One of my favourite poems about war and political elites is Kipling's 'Mesopotamia'. Blair being in the news has me thinking of it again.

This poem by Jane Hirshfield works powerfully in just 5 lines It begins playfully, becomes a mediation on life and death, and then something more philosophical & ambiguous. Ending may just be the point at which our perception stops #poetry #poemoftheday

Ok Americans I get that you find the Trump 250 funny but why are you posting pictures of banjos as if all that crap pop and new country had anything to do with real trad music? That's dumb guys.

‪A song beloved in the Arabic speaking world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R0N...

If you haven’t heard the gospel of Sierra Ferrell yet, let me be the one to give you the good news.

Russian lullaby about how careless children get eaten by wolves. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f8W...

Dracula (1958) is being re-released by Hammer with additional footage that censors found to be too gruesome. Sounds absolutely delightful. #filmsky #moviesky #horror www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

He was and remains among my favourite musicians. Never a day passes without listening to his genius. RIP the great Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95

Another memorable miniature from Wendy Cope's Collected Poems (2025). This one hits a little different nowadays.

man, university libraries are amazing. you can just ask them to help get some obscure thing and they're like "doing that is actually our job, not only are we good at it but also we are excited to make this happen for you"

There is something powerful in the repetition in the line “There will be dying, there will be dying,” & then stepping away, a deliberate turning of attention What remains is what continues in spite of everything, he's not arguing for hope, he notices it #poetry #poemoftheday #MentalHealthMatters

In the ocean, humpback whales have surprised scientists with one of the strangest and kindest things seen in nature. When orcas, also known as killer whales, go hunting other sea animals like seals, sea lions, small dolphins, or even baby whales, humpback whales often arrive to stop the attack.

I actually find these helpful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMLm...

Today I googled the difference between tuckamore and hackmatack.

My “this is not a golden calf” statement has people asking many questions already answered by my statement.

Carcanet and @pnreview.bsky.social are very saddened to hear of the passing of our friend Carol Rumens, poet and the Guardian’s Poem of the Week columnist. Here is 'Winter Walk' by Lynette Roberts, the last poem of ours that Carol chose to reprint in The Guardian. For Carol - thank you 🩵

Oh dear. This is very sad news. Such a great loss. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Word of the day: cockpit. No, the cock in question is NOT a rooster. The cockpit is the rear station on a ship where the coxwain is posted.

Corsican has something special in the water...musically speaking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMsJ...

These people are amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixdX...

You’re 9. You just saw Star Wars in the theater. It’s the first movie you’re obsessed about. You see the soundtrack album at Sears and beg your parents for it. You get it home and go straight for your favorite song and get this… youtu.be/WVaoeX3ZDMw?...

Jane Austen characters have such a quiet polite way of being completely horrible.

Ok one thing I have is Doctorate in Religious Studies and guess what people? There is no such thing as 'religion'. Religion is not this or that. It does not do anything or assert anything. It is a WORD. A VERY VAGUE word that can be applied to anything from rain dances to being an Arsenal fan.

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Theodore Roethke

Holy shit. You guessed it — the new LEGO video is out, and it is 🔥. It’s damn amazing how quickly they make these!!

Ok for my birthday I got this cask strength Alberta Premium (67 ABV) and holy cow this kicks like a mule! Now the basic AP is pretty meh but this is a killer! Very lie a bourbon which I can't get anymore.

I'm thrilled to announce I found some stray words tucked away inside my sorrow spruced their feathers and let them fly into the dawn eclectic energy crackling on rustling syllables #emoetry thrilled #poetry

Sad and long-expected news: Michael Tilson Thomas died last night at 81, nearly five years after first being diagnosed with brain cancer. This will take some time to process. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Good morning. I mentioned the band Angine de Poitrine to a friend this morning and they didn't know what I was talking about. So, I put on a video and they squealed, "The polka dot people!" A good way to start the day.

From the archive: "Objective Technicality and Analytic Philosophy: A Polemic", by Brandon Garcia #Philosophy #Philsky

I looked up the word quinsy thinking a quinsy was a light delicate sort of complaint. Blech!

A poem from Diane Seuss's most recent collection, Modern Poetry. Against narrativizing. Comma What possible song would you play when you toss my ashes, someone once asked me. There is no song, he said. Don't narrativize, Diane: Don't narrativize Diane. See what a comma can do?

Listening to Holst and John Williams and Williams is wakling a pretty fine line between homage and plagiarism.

Hey America: are you taking the keys from grandpa or what?