Writer, critic, literary journalist, poetry editor. Trained as language philosopher. Follow at POETRY/POETICS/LANGUAGE/COMMUNITY (rdpohl.substack.com/)
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Jun 9
When I fell asleep at the Garden, the Knicks were Winning. Then when I wake up, I see the Spurs have "won." It seems that in the 4th Quarter, the so-called referees kept "finding" Points for the Spurs. Rigged! Fake Game!
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RD Pohl retweeted
Jun 10
“Poets are not to blame for how things are.”
―Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson
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Eco-Gratitude at Silo City and the Grand Opening celebration for Lake Rats Dispatch Headquarters, an art newspaper, publisher, and print arts studio on Elmwood Avenue.
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Just Buffalo Literary Center @justbuffalolit Poem of the Week feature: Two short poems, "Collision" and "Les Autres" by Joshua Thermidor from his forthcoming chapbook I AM, MYSELF, THE SUN.
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56 is way too young for anyone to die. But she was such a transformative figure in world literature for the graphic novel form. Satrapi visited Buffalo in 2009 to appear in the @justbuffalolit BABEL authors series. She was just 39 then.
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Poet-publisher Geoffrey Gatza reads from his work on Wednesday, June 3 at The Center for Inquiry.
Buffalo Area Poetry & Literature Calendar (June 1 to June 7) thebuffalohive.com/buffalo-a…
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RD Pohl retweeted
May 30
robert creeley: “it / moved me, that / life was after all / like that.”
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What are the lessons here? 1.) Journalism matters! The First Amendment matters!; 2.) People hate the undisclosed, unregulated incursion of surveillance capitalism into their everyday lives. This is NOT about Wegmans. It's about the unchecked power of big tech/the oligarch class.
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So on Jan. 3 The Gothamist in NYC broke a story on Wegmans collecting biometric data of their customers, Samantha Christmann of the Buffalo News followed up with an in-depth piece on Jan. 5. The Investigative Post followed on 1/9. Every other media source in the region followed.
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This was the final Creeley poem read by Charles Bernstein for @justbuffalolit on the final evening of the Creeley Centenary Symposium in Buffalo. A person reading this poem could derive an entire poetics from it, and for the past 53 years, that's exactly what some of us have.
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