from Greenland:

The most extreme abortion ban in South Carolina history, SB 323, has a public hearing THIS WEDNESDAY at 9:30 AM in the State House.

Republicans want to criminalize doctors, punish families, and strip away our freedoms. We must stand up now. #SCPol #StopSB323

🚨 South Carolina’s most extreme abortion ban ever, SB 323, is here. It would:

❌ Ban abortion
❌ Criminalize patients, doctors & families
❌ Threaten birth control & IVF

Representative Heather Bauer said it best.

📍Speak out: Wed, Oct 1 @ 9:30 AM, SC State House
#StopSB323 #SCPol

When your phone thinks you're trying to spell "creatine writing"

Moving Through Poetry with Elizabeth Arnold By Liz Countryman

Thrilled to have my essay included in Chicago Review's new dossier on the late wonderful Elizabeth Arnold. She was such a deep influence on me and on so many of us, such a wildly generous mentor, never not moving through the world as an artist.
www.chicagoreview.org/moving-throu...

Samuel Amadon - poetry — Action, Spectacle

I've got some excerpts from my book-length poem MONOLITH up in the new Action, Spectacle here: www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2025-... Issue looks pretty great. Ronaldo Wilson, Josh English, Thea Brown, lots more...

Thrilled that my first book, A Forest Almost, will be back in print soon. Here's a link to the book on Subito Press's new site: www.colorado.edu/journal/subi...

Kent's review of Green Island 5/5: I have many feelings about the quotations that always hover close by while I’m reading poetry. Like what do I feel about the ghost of Wordsworth, and his “emotions recollected in tranquillity”? L...

"The poems are wide open-armed gestures remarking on the gap between the then-time when memories happened and the now-time when they’re being recollected."

from my goodreads review of Liz Countryman's Green Island
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Best last line ever.

George Tice, ‘Bard of New Jersey’ With a Camera, Dies at 86 He found beauty in the prosaic: bars, phone booths, hamburger joints, barber shops — first in a downtrodden Paterson, then throughout the state and beyond.

RIP the amazing George Tice - he got something about Jersey that's hard to express
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/a...

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Stop the Execution of Marion Bowman in South Carolina Marion Bowman, 44, is scheduled for execution in South Carolina for the murder of Kandee Martin. Marion takes responsibility for making immature choices like selling drugs as a teenager, but he has s...

SC friends, please tell Governor McMaster to stop Marion Bowman's execution this evening. 803-734-2100. Also there's a petition you can sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

from Greenland:

Did you know that the most recent Microsoft Word update allowed AI to scrape your personal files? Disable this function by going to Preferences, selecting Privacy, un-clicking "connected experiences," and restarting Word.

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Ongoing notes: mid-January, 2025: Peter Dubé, Eric Folsom + Louise Akers, New year, new round of chapbooks, as well as a mound I should still get through from 2024. Will I ever get through? And don’t forget to catc...

Ongoing notes: mid-January, 2025: Peter Dubé, Eric Folsom + Louise Akers, / @razovsky.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/01/ongo...

I just got a note from an undergrad student telling me that my fall poetry workshop reunited last weekend for a "poetry night." 🥹

OVERSOUND: Monica Fambrough + Alexis Almeida, I recently garnered a handful of gracefully-produced softbound chapbooks produced through American poetry journal OVERSOUND , most of which ...

OVERSOUND: Monica Fambrough + Alexis Almeida,
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2024/09/over...

Pilerineq Tikinneq - Sumé YouTube video by ikinngut

I went on a #Greenland reading / listening streak a couple of years ago. So many of the poems I read that come out of Greenland are on the topic of sharing. I also discovered this amazing band, Sume:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nC9...

I have just finished Binstead's Safari by Rachel Ingalls. It was great. Mystery involving lions.

Liz Countryman, Green Island: Poems Now, to be 40 is to be a comb someone else’s hair moves through. I sense but can’t describe some other, newer kind of openness con...

Liz Countryman, Green Island: Poems
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Today’s Featured Poet:

Liz Countryman is the author of Green Island and A Forest Almost. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina, where she is Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina and co-editor, with her husband Samuel Amadon, of the poetry journal Oversound.

Today’s Featured Poem:

“The End Is Always Sudden” by Liz Countryman, from Green Island, published by @tupelopress.bsky.social.

Read here:
poems.com/poem/the-end...

"The End Is Always Sudden" from Liz Countryman's GREEN ISLAND up on Poetry Daily Today!

poems.com/poem/the-end...

So far I'm seeing lots of AI generated pictures of the moon.