text graphic featuring a portion of Marcus Jackson's poem. it reads: Pardon my heart if you have to kick it out. After youโve muzzled the music and brightened the lights to tidy, my heart will ignore and keep doing its little two-step, aglow in the middle of the room, never happier to have nowhere else to go.
"I canโt imagine feeling less, or caring less. Thatโs not the heart I have," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's episode of The Slowdown, number 1469.
Read "Pardon My Heart" by Marcus Jackson โ from PARDON: POEMS โ and our full episode transcript: https://bit.ly/4lbRRqu
Astonishment by Wisลawa Szymborska
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Love this poem by #LadanOsman that was on Poem-a-Day a few days ago.
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honored to talk about poetry with incarcerated communities thx to aaron hand & this amazing podcast project
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From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458
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A master class in rhyme. Elizabeth Bishop poetryfoundation.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?...
love this poem-a-day selection
by @katrinavanden.bsky.social
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super intrigued by this poem @poetrydaily.bsky.social @circumferencemag.bsky.social @kirajosefsson.bsky.social ๐
luv this issue. thx @ninthletter.bsky.social ๐
lil gem from the paris review archive #lisarussspaar
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2 very new poems. Thx, The Accountโฃ๏ธ
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our so-called christian govt giving more demonic energy every day
Take This Waltz by Federico Garcรญa Lorca
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Really love this lush & surprising lyric on the Academy's Poem-a-Day today.
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Thanks to @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for running these poems from the forthcoming book & a super insightful interview. Thank you, Karan & Shannan!
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Lamis asks for funds for a tent to shelter her three very young children. Before being displaced by bombing, she was in her 3rd year of dental school. Now she's fighting to keep her family alive during a genocide. Please share and support her campaign:
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a truly good life๐๐ฝโฅ๏ธ
Join this supportive poetry workshop 11/22. Zoom only. Register through Hudson Valley Writers Center. Would love to read your work!
Thanks to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social & @slowdownshow.org for featuring my poem today. #BadHobby @milkweededitions.bsky.social
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