Tim Singleton
@timsingleton122.bsky.social
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This, that, and the other. Also HoCoPoLitSo.
Good lord, they had cats back when!
1 day ago
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The desk has almost thawed. That’s exciting.
3 days ago
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Key West treasures from Books & Books. Not languoring at the moment. That warm spell was before the freeze and steadfast snow.
3 days ago
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Spent the day in Annapolis talking to politicians (who happen to get it) about arts funding. Not a bad day. The Walking Monks were in proximity. I believe we were chorus by presence for each other.
3 days ago
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It astounds me how ‘everyone’ thinks they are normal and wriggles questions at the behavior of others.
4 days ago
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A new entertainment: watching water clear and shimmy in various ways instead of its cautionary white and blue motionlessness. And then there is the going from dullness to sparkle as it takes on what to do with light.
5 days ago
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Looking out the window to see the deer, also fed up with the frozen water ground cover, taking the plowed bike path through the woods. Nine of them. Looks ridiculous, but smart. Maybe they are evolving.
5 days ago
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Living under snow-covered skylights has been like being in a spider’s silk cocoon, prey captured and unable to look out. Does one escape such? Today, there’s a half circle of thawed hope most of a penny wide. I can almost make out something, the memory of being alive.
5 days ago
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Two friends chat a bit. The artist
@christopherquirk.bsky.social
and the novelist Zachary Lazar. Have a look:
www.tusslemagazine.com/christopher-...
Would the link share one of the paintings instead of a logo, sigh. More reason to click. You are so close to so much. Click and look and read.
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Christopher Quirk | TUSSLE
https://www.tusslemagazine.com/christopher-quirk
6 days ago
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Scream FIRE and warn Icarus, here comes the sun! And —say it/be it— forty degrees! Was afraid the day was only to be heat-infused, covered in clouds and, yes, warmer, but lacking the sparkle of ’round-the-corner Spring. Watch for falling feathers as the day wears on.
6 days ago
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I love the Etch A Sketch dreams, the ones that come with a half hour extra to sleep, short bursts of trying-to-organize confusion, then the quick dissolving into another and again another. They are not refreshing, but they are interesting. Confusions abandoning themselves.
6 days ago
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Two weeks solid, this snow, blue and heavy by the light of later day shadows, but bright, now, with the morning, bright and all that facet sparkle. It's almost light itself, and, yes, lightness.
7 days ago
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reposted by
Tim Singleton
HoCoPoLitSo
18 days ago
We’re delighted to welcome Caoilinn Hughes, acclaimed author of The Wild Laughter and The Alternatives, as our featured guest for the Annual Celebration of Irish Writing & Music. 🗓️ Saturday, February 7th, 7:30 p.m. 📍 Smith Theater-HCC Campus-Columbia, Maryland 🎟️
hocopolitso.org/irish-evening/
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Warrior.
19 days ago
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These shiteaters are playing video games with the people of the Americas. That’s all the training they have had at being ‘human’.
22 days ago
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The sky (God’s, you choose yours and I’ll go with it) shrouds America with snow.
22 days ago
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Wondering there was a TikTok on French Onion Soup ‘cause the pile of a thousand onions at the store was down to none.
23 days ago
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Wow. When?
add a skeleton here at some point
29 days ago
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Tim Singleton
Jen Benka
about 1 month ago
"If you’re still looking for a New Year’s resolution, 'read more books' could well be good for national morale." —Brittany Allen,
@literaryhub.bsky.social
lithub.com/in-2025-most...
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In 2025, most Americans read fewer than four books.
According to a YouGov poll released at year’s end, American reading habits stay in the toilet. Four in ten Americans didn’t read a single book during our last spin around the sun. And o…
https://lithub.com/in-2025-most-americans-read-fewer-than-four-books/
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Let’s spill all the ink and let the Rorschachs rage protest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman
Memo from Marco Rubio reportedly said cutting Calibri from official communication would ‘abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/trump-times-new-roman-font-return-state-department
2 months ago
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Does the tinnitus of leaf blowing ever end?
3 months ago
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Tim Singleton
HoCoPoLitSo
4 months ago
You kept telling us. We kept looking in the wrong place. Thanks for your persistence. The ghost of last year's contest that has been haunting our website has now been exercised. Sincere apologies for that inconvenience. You can now visit
HoCoPoLitSo.org
for a no-ghosts go at entering the contest.
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Tim Singleton
HoCoPoLitSo
4 months ago
Are you the next Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize winner? We are looking forward to seeing your work! For all you need to know and to enter, visit:
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
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Ross Gay comes to Columbia on November 7th.
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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America likes to be the best at things. These days it’s living up to that stature, being the best at being stupid.
5 months ago
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The morals of corporate America are non existent. Profit over everything. And this isn’t even an important example. Use your imagination and scale up.
5 months ago
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reposted by
Tim Singleton
HoCoPoLitSo
5 months ago
Two opportunities to see Safia Elhillo -- author of the acclaimed Bright Red Fruit -- for
#FREE
tomorrow on the campus of Howard Community College. 12:30 p.m. Monteabaro Hall & streamed via Vimeo (link below). 6:00 p.m. Monteabaro Hall All you need to know:
www.howardcc.edu/discover/art...
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That day we look around and find we are all human.
5 months ago
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reposted by
Tim Singleton
HoCoPoLitSo
5 months ago
There's a book festival in Baltimore tomorrow.
baltimorebookfest.com/full-stage-s...
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reposted by
Tim Singleton
HoCoPoLitSo
5 months ago
New season of Wilde Readings launches Tuesday evening at Columbia's fantastic independent bookstore, Queen Takes Book (6955 Oakland Mills Rd E, Columbia, MD 21045). Featured readers and open mic. Starts at 7. We'd love to see you there.
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Let's just call it by its full name, shall we: The Department of War on America, Peace, and Humanity. Who wants a peace prize only to go renaming things such? Nothing but a madman and his gathering of sycophant crusaders. We are in for it, folks.
5 months ago
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reposted by
Tim Singleton
Poets & Writers
5 months ago
In our latest issue, poet and essayist Molly McCully Brown unpacks the value of a creative writing degree, “Think of it in early readers accumulated: The one you’ll e-mail for the next thirty years with your earliest drafts and subject headings like ‘This may be very bad.’”
at.pw.org/ValueOfADegree
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reposted by
Tim Singleton
HoCoPoLitSo
6 months ago
Held annually in loving memory of HoCoPoLitSo’s co-founder, the 2025 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize submission window is now open.
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
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reposted by
Tim Singleton
Irish Literary Times
6 months ago
“There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.” ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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The pause and preen of a hummingbird, and then the explosion back into its hummingbird self.
6 months ago
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Just saw Paul Revere galloping through the streets of Washington DC screaming out a warning to its citizens, "The Red Coats are coming! The Red Coats are coming...." after King Bozo's morning bloviation.
6 months ago
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Watching America go nuts over the Cold Play & ignore daily atrocities this very country is participant in, well, that’s all anyone needs to know about US right now. We have transformed into a cohort of monsters supporting opportunist & powerhungry madmen. America, get your head out of Trump’s ass.
7 months ago
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humidity and heat— quiet as their shadows, crows rising from a cornfield
7 months ago
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In Hate we trust.
8 months ago
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Wanting the same kind of
@bsky.app
attention as the catbird, a Carolina wren lands under my chair to chirp his case. A mocking bird takes them all on. Cooler air prevails, today, and the birds are on it.
8 months ago
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Summer suet feeder and the catbird meows and meows to keep all away. Or maybe it is just the feral joy of having this other personality inside a cage of feathers. Meow. Meow. It's a noisy boast, but the suet and the morning seem to be his, a slant of sun pointing this out.
8 months ago
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Oh, good grief. "Reading in public – not cool. Or at least “performative reading”, as it’s been dubbed on social media, is worthy of ridicule."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Is it OK to read Infinite Jest in public? Why the internet hates ‘performative reading’
Posts mocking strangers for cracking open classics have become popular. So where are we supposed to read them?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/30/performative-reading-public-tiktok
8 months ago
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Weatherchange and birdsong through the open windows.
8 months ago
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The way an oscillating fan bullies the humidity this way, then that, this way, then that.
8 months ago
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No one wins a holy war. All the gods know this.
8 months ago
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Peace is such harder work than war. Leaders always cave to war, other people’s children and all.
8 months ago
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Words can turn into poems themselves when a within word steps into view: colLABoration.
8 months ago
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The air is full of insect hatches. A cloud of termites, perhaps, visits and moves along (am working at an outside table). How slight they are and yet they take on forests. Such a slow and clumsy energy at the moment. How so very many have set out, how few might survive this burst into the world.
9 months ago
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There’s a pond out back with so many frogs. And they keep the chatter going, it’s like gossip screaming, but no meaning, all excitement and earnestness, but just the dark presence of sound/being. God, I hope the Universe can hear this over the constant sound of humans murdering each other.
9 months ago
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