D. A. Powell
@Powell_DA
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Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. https://t.co/5Px1CB83Uw
Funkytown
Joined May 2010
The room was cheap and sordid, .hidden above the suspect taverna. From the window you could see the alley, .dirty and narrow. From below.came the voices of workmen.playing cards, enjoying themselves. --C.P. Cavafy
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RT @factpostnews: US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, or a veteran, or that I identified who I was.….
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RT @mccaffreyr3: Outrageous abuse of workers who came as migrant workers. Fleeing injustice. Overwhelmingly without criminal records. The b….
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I have three poems in the latest issue of the @PressUnbound magazine Revel ; this one might be the least salacious of the three.
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RT @GovofCO: It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the loss of @andreagibson, an inspiring poet and Colorado’s current Poet Laureate. Reno….
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Confused. How can they be voting to not release something they claim doesn't exist? . Everyone should be calling @SpeakerJohnson and asking him wtf is going on. Here's his number: 202-225-4000.
Every single Republican member of Congress has turned their back on the values they campaigned on: voting to block the release of the Epstein files.
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RT @girlsreallyrule: Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics adviser, a career attorney who’d spent nearly 20 years at the….
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It's a sad state of affairs when a library has to remind you to leave your guns, knives and drones at home. And to wash your hands.
NOTICE: While planning your visit to the Library of Congress, please check this recently updated list of prohibited items:
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Palimpsest: a surface where words or images have been written or drawn over.
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RT @melissabroder: (whispers during sex) the peregrine falcon can see a full mile into the distance.
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RT @AlexPadilla4CA: And there you have it. Under the Trump Administration, ICE and Border Patrol are being empowered to stop and question….
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RT @UFWupdates: These violent and cruel federal actions terrorize American communities, disrupt the American food supply chain, threaten li….
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RT @UFWupdates: The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other worker….
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If I worked at a cereal factory I'd always be saying it's crunch time.
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RT @Powell_DA: I think often of the last few lines from this Gwendolyn Brooks poem about singer Paul Robeson:. That we are each other's.har….
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