Jay Hopler

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Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Jay Hopler

'But you know what they did manage to cut out of the broadcast? Akinola Davies Jr. saying “Free Palestine” during his speech for winning outstanding British debut for “My Father’s Shadow.”'

turned in my thesis and annotated bibliography this morning. yeehaw now I'm going to sleep until I get PhD/fellowship news

You sleep with your head balled up in its dreams. - C. D. Wright, "Hotels"

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

procrastinated my schoolwork so hard I just did my taxes, ugh

[flirting] *you're

Auden

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Issue Six Subs are now open! While you prep your submissions, enjoy @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social's work in Issue Five!

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

“In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.” ― Roberto Bolaño, Distant Star

"The naked human body is the grave in blossom; it is both / sad & instructive." Larry Levis in "Sleeping Lioness"

Simply to be alive here is to be at risk. Amorak Huey / @amorak.bsky.social 🌷

"but hope? / No highway" 👏 @amorak.bsky.social

Made myself sad thinking about Laika and decided to make others sad, too. New flash out with the wonderful @jmwwjournal.bsky.social!

Restriction isn't good enough. Reassigment and retirement isn't good enough. Abolition and trials.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

Preventing ICE from murdering civilians could have a chilling effect on future presidents’ ability to terrify the nation with a secret police force.

The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation..."

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

Rejections need to be less effusive. I can't tell what is tiered and what isn't.

I've either finally broken free from my crippling caffeine withdrawals, or the decaf I had this morning was, in fact, caf.

“The virgin priestesses kept getting raped by the pilgrims / so later the job was filled by noblewomen of a certain age” —Kim Addonizio, “Oracle at Delphi”

ugh i hate AI and applying for these jobs rather be a fish

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

“Chaos is how we know we're in love.” Truly an honor to have two short love poems in the new issue of The American Poetry Review. Here’s one —

Zelensky on Venezuela: “About Venezuela? How should I respond to that? Well, what can I say? If… If it is possible to act with dictators like this, it means the United States knows what to do next. Thank you” Omg I love it.

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

I got my first journal acceptance on Christmas day last year. Since then, I've sent out roughly 110 submissions. ~25 are still pending, 10 have been accepted, and 73 have been rejected. Being an artist is actually wonderful, despite the mania of publishing.

I love a poem that ends perfectly. From Amanda Moore's book, Requeening: bookshop.org/a/862/9780063096288 #poetry #books #writing

Honestly I think often of this highlight from the Mary Ruefle collages and erasures exhibit at Poets House

"Here’s room for us here for now and now is enough let us fit our bodies together let us balance our weight against each other let us hold on even as the wind rises." ❤️

Folk Song Tomaž Šalamun translated by Charles Simic #smallpoemsunday #poetry

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

Alone with our madness and favorite flower We see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things In the same way, repeating the same things over and over For love to continue and be gradually different. John Ashbery #poetry #writer

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

A line of wet black birds on the power wire, coal drops, hunker elbow to elbow. I will gun it for the open drawbridge. There is a casket I need to go dancing on. The new $ feature is by @jlyocum.com! poetrycurrency.com/feature/j-l-...

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

"So a poet, no matter what [their] subject may be, and no mater what the landscape, goes "beyond society." And so this is what happens at the moment of writing: the wave takes the shape of the fire. What is "out there" moves inside. The poet becomes threshold." -Larry Levis

merry christmas to me... almost two hundred dollars spent on only two phd apps :)))