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Tuesday Poem

TUESDAY, FEB 6, 2024  

BY JIM CULLENY

The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings

I am taken with the hot animal of my skin, grateful to swing my limbs

and have them move as I intend, though my knee, though my shoulder, though something is torn or tearing. Today, a dozen squid, dead

on the harbor beach: one mostly buried, one with skin empty as a shell and hollow

feeling, and, though the tentacles look soft, I do not touch them. I imagine they were startled to find themselves in the sun.

I imagine the tide simply went out without them. I imagine they cannot

feel the black flies charting the raised hills of their eyes. I write my name in the sand: Donika Kelly. I watch eighteen seagulls

skim the sandbar and lift low in the sky. I pick up a pebble that looks like a green egg.

To the ditch lily I say I am in love. To the Jeep parked haphazardly on the narrow street I am in love. To the roses, white

petals rimmed brown, to the yellow lined pavement, to the house trimmed in gold I am

in love. I shout with the rough calculus of walking. Just let me find my way back, let me move like a tide come in.

by Donika Kelly from Academy of American Poets, 11/20/17

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I have a poem (about my cast iron pan!) that is live on Poem-a-Day! Gratitude to the great Sarah Gambito for selecting it. ♥️

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(via Lyz Soto: "Today I Am Full of Birds")

Lyz Soto

1. If you run for too long, you forget everything. Even your limbs become invention. A fallacy of skin you tell yourself you once had when you knew how to be more, so birds are the stories you now tell your flesh. You remind her of the Swift who flies for years, as if land is an impossible trick. You tell her about the Sea Eagle from China lost in America for years. Flying and flying and never finding home. You remember her the ʻAlauahio, the ʻŌʻō, the Olomaʻo the Kākāwahie, the ʻĀkepa, the Nukupuʻu the ʻŌʻū, the Mamo, the ʻUla-ʻai-hawane, the Poʻo-uli, the Kāmaʻo, the ʻAmaui, the birds, the birds, the birds. You remember her all the birds who had to be more to be.

2. This morning I am unsure how a bird exists when she has been seen only under glass for more than fifty years. Her feathers a feeble reminder of what she could be. Diminished to a hush of keratin and collagen. This bird once shook the forest with her color.

3. This morning I am not sure how I am still here. Daybreak—               just another process of shedding of peeling back to meat with no     new      skin to shelter.

Every breath, a surprise. The heart beats still. But how—how do we quiet these too loud bones when our seams are worn by so much running?

4. When you finally stop you still feel your insides running. Those involuntary tissues scrambling to burst through your surfaces. What would you do to let them free? When all of you is full of run, you imagine yourself feathers. There is a bird inside you pushing at all your cracks. The punctures of vanes are just more places for you to breathe. This bird inside you would know how to draw breath. This bird inside you would know the song struggling in your throat. What will you do to let this bird free? What will you do to find all the songs you should sing?

5. Today we remember the Kākāwahie. we remember the ʻAlauahio, the ʻŌʻō, the Olomaʻo, the ʻĀkepa, the Nukupuʻu the ʻŌʻū, the Mamo, the ʻUla-ʻai-hawane, the Poʻo-uli, the Kāmaʻo, the ʻAmaui.

Today we remember our body before we severed our own wings just so we could hide from the man in the story who would pin all our wings to the ground.

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Today’s poem-a-day from the Academy of American Poets should be shared widely:

“When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation” by Kyle Tran Myhre

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Let the National Poetry Month Games Begin!

Let the National Poetry Month Games Begin! #AcademyofAmericanPoets #PoetryCommunity #LiteraryCelebration

Image Credit: Academy of American Poets (The 2024 poster features artwork by award-winning children’s author and illustrator Jack Wong and lines from “Blessing the Boats” by beloved poet Lucille Clifton) Celebrated annually in April, National Poetry Month begins today. We take our coalition of poetry enthusiasts to a new level of awareness during our commemoration. The Academy of American Poets…

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Academy of American Poets First Book Award

The Academy of American Poets First Book Award is a $5,000 first-book publication prize. The winning manuscript, chosen by an acclaimed poet, is published by Graywolf Press, an award-winning independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. The winner also receives an all-expenses-paid, six-week residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center, a 15th-century castle in the Umbrian region of Italy, where they will become part of a cohort of accomplished international artists, writers, and composers; distribution of their winning book to thousands of Academy of American Poets members, making it one of the most widely-distributed poetry books that year; inclusion and promotion in American Poets magazine, the Academy’s newsletter, and Poets.org, among other opportunities. 

This award was established in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet’s first book. It is currently made possible by financial support from the members of the Academy of American Poets. From 1975–2020, the award was titled in tribute to Walt Whitman.

Submissions for the 2024 Academy of American Poets First Book Award will be accepted from July 1, 2023 to September 1, 2023 (11:59 p.m. Eastern). The judge is Victoria Chang.

Submission guidelines here.

@writernotwaiting - You have a week!

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Celebrating 106 Years of Gwendolyn Brooks

Tomorrow's Authortunities mail out will feature American poet, author, and teacher Gwendolyn Brooks.

Tomorrow’s Authortunities mail out will feature American poet, author, and teacher Gwendolyn Brooks born 106 years ago today on June 7, 1917. She was known for her work that often celebrated and examined the personal struggles of ordinary people in her community​. Brooks was the first child of David Anderson Brooks and Keziah (Wims) Brooks. Her father wanted to be a doctor but he traded that…

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a list of some autumnal movies/series 🍂

i am nothing if not an organised little goblin who can not stop themself from making a good list. this is just in case you want something with that fall vibe but can't think of any. just close your eyes and point somewhere on this little list, or even put the numbers in a generator and go with whatever the result is ♡

winter | spring | summer

🥧 ‧₊˚ ⋅ movies ⋅˚₊‧

nosferatu (1922) 

sabrina (1954)

the creature from the black lagoon (1954)

psycho (1960)

rosemary’s baby (1968)

the rocky horror picture show (1975)

halloween franchise (1978-)

friday the 13th franchise (1980-)

an american werewolf in london (1981)

dark crystal (1982)

a nightmare on elm street (1984)

ghostbusters (1984-)

ronja rövardotter (1984)

clue (1985)

princess bride (1987)

the witches of eastwick (1987)

elvira mistress of the dark (1988)

dead poets society (1989)

when harry met sally (1989)

ghost (1990)

the witches (1990)

death becomes her (1992)

hocus pocus (1993)

addams family values (1993)

interview with a vampie (1994)

the craft (1996)

the first wifes club (1996)

the scream franchise (1996-)

halloweentown (1998)

practical magic (1998)

you’ve got mail (1998)

the blair witch project (1999)

sleepy hollow (1999)

chocolat (2000)

amelie (2001)

the lord of the rings franchise (2001-2003)

scooby doo (2002)

school of rock (2003)

mona lisa smile (2003)

peter pan (2003)

pirates of the caribbean franchise (2003-2017)

north & south (2004)

pride and prejudice (2005)

the descent (2005)

just like heaven (2005)

the devil wears prada (2006)

the lake house (2006)

penelope (2006)

el orfanato (2007)

juno (2007)

ratatouille (2007)

bridge to terabithia (2007)

the edge of love (2008)

twilight (2008)

the curious case of benjamin button (2008)

julie & julia (2009)

jennifer’s body (2009)

dorian gray (2009)

coraline (2009)

true grit (2010)

the cabin in the woods (2011)

jane eyre (2011)

wuthering heights (2011)

perks of being a wallflower (2012)

the odd life of timothy green (2012)

hotel transylvania (2012-)

the conjuring franchise (2013-)

what we do in the shadows (2014)

the riot club (2014)

as above so below (2014)

john wick (2014-)

the age of adaline (2015)

the witch (2015)

far from the madding crowd (2015)

the edge of seventeen (2016)

paterson (2016)

20th century woman (2016)

the love witch (2016)

mary shelly (2017)

murder on the orient express (2017)

get out (2017)

a quiet place (2018 + 2020)

the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society (2018)

on the basis of sex (2018)

knives out (2019)

ready or not (2019)

the lighthouse (2019)

little women (2019)

the gentlemen (2019)

emma (2020)

ammonite (2020)

the dig (2021)

fear street trilogy (2021)

good luck to you, leo grande (2022)

the batman (2022)

fresh (2022)

bodies bodies bodies (2022)

mr malcom's list (2022)

totally killer (2023)

slay (2024)

🧦 ‧₊˚ ⋅ series ⋅˚₊‧

moomin (1990-1992)

twin peaks (1990-1991)

x files (1993-2018)

buffy the vampire slayer (1997-2003)

gilmore girls (2000-2007)

supernatural (2005-2020)

vampire diaries (2009-2017) / the originals (2013-2018) / legacies (2018-2022)

downton abbey (2010-2015)

the walking dead (2010-2022)

once upon a time (2011-2018)

american horror story (2011-)

teen wolf (2011-2017)

peaky blinders (2013-2022)

outlander (2014-)

how to get away with murder (2014-2020)

the magicians (2015-2020)

izombie (2015-2019)

poldark (2015-2019)

critical role (2015-)

stranger things (2016-)

ghost files / buzzfeed unsolved (2016-)

lucifer (2016-2021)

shadowhunters (2016-2019)

anne with an e (2017-2019)

the good fight (2017-2022)

riverdale (2017-2023)

manifest (2018-2023)

killing eve (2018-2022)

succession (2018-2023)

you (2018-)

a discovery of witches (2018-2022)

the chilling adventures of sabrina (2018-2020)

dickinson (2019-2021)

virgin river (2019-)

carnival row (2019-2023)

the witcher (2019-)

the umbrella academy (2019-2024)

sanditon (2019-2023)

good omens (2019-2025)

the haunting of bly manor (2020)

i’ll be gone in the dark (2020)

queens gambit (2020)

the great (2020-2023)

shadow and bone (2021-2023)

the nevers (2021-2023)

wednesday (2022-)

interview with the vampire (2022-)

vikings valhalla (2022-2024)

lessons in chemistry (2023)

my lady jane (2024-)

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(via Divya Victor: "Make/Do")

(Academy of American Poets)

For Jamal Cyrus and Tomás Morin, and all kith who make do to make work

“Do you also make work that isn’t political?”

I mean, do we make work

about where and when we were

raised: the three-whistle corner store

the empty coke bottle trill

the nickname that doesn’t nick us

as we blow through customs

with a toothpick smile

and hell-no eyes, sweet fools

greasing the bike chains

for this day, always saying

someone better fix this street

light? Do we flicker at night

when the kids are sleeping

dim, bright, dim, bright, do we?

Do we, at times, make work

about who breaks the news

to us at breakfast and how the syrup

she’s holding is now trembling, how

she’s beating, beating, beating

what no one can now eat, the mouth

fumbling for what no one

can now say? Do we make it

work with mirrors held

to the bottom of lakes, with combs

pulled through palms, with thumbs

flipping the bills, with two bags

and three names

at the border?

I mean, do we make work

about the road that crackles

with sirens or about Dad’s hydrangeas

which came up again that summer

violet clouds of bruises and pinker

than the Hubba Bubba we were popping

so loud, no one could stand us

but we grinned and grinned because

any air left in us meant

we could still answer

years later

a question like this?