this by Ilya Kaminsky seems apropos to last week
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91413/we-lived-happily-during-the-war
And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a…
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Thanks for adding to my teetering TBR towers!
Seriously, the older I get, the more I need poetry. I used to kid about retiring and reading SFF all day, but now I have to reconsider that reading plan.
I like your Blogspot #111Words format posts. Been trying to figure out how to turn my #TBR pillars of paper and etrunks-full of book bytes into a TBR list and reading diary—-this format encourages me.
@econoprof I didn’t start posting my daily texts until I had written the first 100, so the first post is 100 texts of #111Words each. But the first text here explains the project, which started out with a class I taught (and have since taught three more times).
https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2020/04/100-days-of-111-words-day.html
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