So thrilled to have my poem "Longing Humming Between" published in the latest @Image_Journal alongside the poetry of @jasonpmyers, @karywayson, and many others. Many thanks to Shane McCrae and the editors.

I think of memory as the shadow of one mind on another - Cole Swenson

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“What does it matter if half the time a poet fails in his effort at expression? The failure makes it real...Failure is part of the living chaos.” -- D.H. Lawrence

Much as Adania Shibli was censored by the Frankfurt Book Fair, @RandaAFattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced

Archaeologists have found one of the oldest settlements in North America. A remarkable archaeological discovery near Sturgeon Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada, has revealed an approximately 11,000-year-old pre-contact Indigenous settlement—one of the oldest known on the

'Tall shadows'' by Sarah Ross Thompson, contemporary UK printmaker #womensart

Robert Duncan

“If we've thought or felt it and it continues to nag, hang around, or especially if we fear it, it's perhaps the impulse with which we should begin our next poem.” -- Stephen Dunn

WOW!!! 🤩 “An ‘extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet that may have links to the Celtic tribe led by Boudicca in the period they were battling the invading Roman army has been discovered by archaeologists in Norfolk’”. https://t.co/owKMUfg9qu #Archaeology

Clay model of pomegranate (750-690 BC), New Epidavros (Piada) - Archaeological Museum of Nafplio, Peloponnese 🇬🇷 The pomegranate symbol was highly significant in ancient cultures like Greek and Assyrian traditions, often representing fertility, abundance, prosperity, and eternal

A saharan petroglyph depicting a possibly sleeping antelope, located at Tin Taghirt on the Tassili n’Ajjer in southern Algeria, ca. 9000 BC.

Twenty years ago, I lost my faith. There were probably many reasons, but among them was that I wanted to be "smart" and it seemed that most of the smart people I read online seemed to believe that religion was a silly, immature, and often dangerous set of beliefs and practices.

Wolf Moon rising into the twilight sky over Edinburgh last night embedded in “Belt of Venus” pink & blue as the sun sets on the opposite horizon - blue shadow of Earth w the sun still lighting the pink portion, the blue slowly rises and subsumes the pink. #WolfMoon

Today is Twelfth Night, the eve of the Epiphany. It's a time for festivities marking the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas, and the transition from midwinter into the new year: parties, king-cakes, fire rituals, and wassailing to waken the trees from their winter sleep.

Scotland is aiming to be the world's first rewilded country. It's looking to rewild 30% of the country by 2030. We have the solutions. Replenishing and protecting nature is one of them. #ActOnClimate #climate #biodiversity #GreenNewDeal

Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — https://t.co/kB1ybBP8pE #newyearseve #fireworks

By digging such pits, people in Arusha, Tanzania, have managed to transform a desert area into a grassland

Claude Venard (French, 1913-1999) - Paysage

A beautiful #Roman glass dish, in marbled cobalt blue & amber glass with irregular yellow-gold swirls - a beautiful piece of ancient glass, made more than 1700 years ago

Emily Dickinson