The Land at the End of the World
The night—which resembles a notary’s office where resigned third-rank civil servants lie snoring among the sheaves of official papers—transforms the houses and the buildings into sad family vaults inhabited… More
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"Jamestown, Michigan voters opted last Tuesday to defund their library rather than tolerate books by or about #LGBTQ people—not even if the books are in the adult section of the library with a jacket cover 'warning,' not even if the books... have to be requested from a librarian"
“When we write to a prompt—whether it's answering a given question or writing under the constraints of a proposed structure—an alchemy takes place. A prompt bears an invocation to discover the position, flavor, and desire of our response.” Anjali Emsellem. https://www.poetryproject.org/publications/newsletter/269-summer-2022/poems-from-i-am-climbing-the-stairs-that-i-create-with-these-words-all-the-way-to-the-top
Today, Pen America has joined @POMED & 18 other rights orgs to send an open letter to @SecBlinken & @JakeSullivan46 urging them not to provide $300 million in FY2021 military aid to #Egypt in light of the country’s failure to meet human rights conditions. https://pomed.org/joint-letter-biden-administration-should-not-provide-military-aid-to-egypt-in-light-of-egregious-human-rights-violations/
