Aaron Brand
@TGazABrand
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Arts & features writer @TXKGazette. Published poet/part-time teacher/full-time cat dad. Grab bag of what catches my eye, arts & otherwise: newsy, opinionated.
Texarkana, Arkansas
Joined February 2012
Don't forget to sign up for the "Painting with a Treat" event on October 16th!
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Happy birthday, W.S. Merwin... And here's this poem for someone, and anyone, who needs a reminder of the power of certain bonds:
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“Sing yourself to where the singing comes from.” — Seamus Heaney
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sorry did you say something I was daydreaming about being a cat in a bookstore again
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in the long night writing poetry with the broken edge of the moon Buson
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I have been insufferably tired lately. Weekend nothingness coming up.
You don’t have to earn rest.
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Looks just a bit like my Pai Mei.
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‘Poem’ in Persian is ‘she‘r,’ شعر from an Arabic root that means ‘to feel,’ and ‘to be conscious.’
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Plagiarism doesn't play, kids, in the age of Turnitin. Had to write two sharply worded emails tonight (something I'm very good at). Received mea culpas within minutes. 🍎 🖌🍎 (Side gig teaching job statement.)
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Just did an interview with the Texarkana Gazette highlighting our weekly Tuesday esports events with @esports_soar at Forward Events!
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'I will be too tired. I am going back to bed.' Toad went back into the house.
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LED light sculptures coming to Courthouse Square in downtown Texarkana | Iconic lighted sign atop Grim Hotel to also get artist's attention https://t.co/JEXFwYqTaB via @TxkGazette
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Martian mission gets St. James Day School students growing again https://t.co/6pFyCKx2EH via @TxkGazette Excellent article by @TGazABrand !
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Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. —Robert Hass
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I'm bored, don't want to watch my shows, kinda out of it, sipping ultra iced coffee. Hey, let's grade some papers!
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I never made it to Arlington (I know...), but I did see places like Calder and Hollywood and @SuffolkDowns and the ghost of Hialeah. The loss to the industry as a whole when these places close is immeasurable. Those who actively choose to make it happen should never be forgiven.
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