D. A. Powell
@dapowell.bsky.social
Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
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#Earthquake (#sismo) possibly felt 29 sec ago in #California. Felt it? Tell us via:
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⚠ Automatic crowdsourced detection, not seismically verified yet. More info soon!
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🌐https://m.emsc.eu
🖥https://www.emsc-csem.org
⚠ Automatic crowdsourced detection, not seismically verified yet. More info soon!
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
#Earthquake (#sismo) possibly felt 29 sec ago in #California. Felt it? Tell us via:
📱#appc.eu/#app" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://m.emsc.eu/#app
🌐https://m.emsc.eu
🖥https://www.emsc-csem.org
⚠ Automatic crowdsourced detection, not seismically verified yet. More info soon!
📱#appc.eu/#app" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://m.emsc.eu/#app
🌐https://m.emsc.eu
🖥https://www.emsc-csem.org
⚠ Automatic crowdsourced detection, not seismically verified yet. More info soon!
6:17 am earthquake
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
6:17 am earthquake
Sliced roast chicken stuffed into duck confit which is then stuffed into a sirloin steak and grilled:
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Sirducken
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Sliced roast chicken stuffed into duck confit which is then stuffed into a sirloin steak and grilled:
Sirducken
Sirducken
I’m gonna tack a sign to my door
leave a message by the phone
‘if you called
to say your sorry
call somebody
else!
I don’t use em anymore’
--Ntozake Shange
leave a message by the phone
‘if you called
to say your sorry
call somebody
else!
I don’t use em anymore’
--Ntozake Shange
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I’m gonna tack a sign to my door
leave a message by the phone
‘if you called
to say your sorry
call somebody
else!
I don’t use em anymore’
--Ntozake Shange
leave a message by the phone
‘if you called
to say your sorry
call somebody
else!
I don’t use em anymore’
--Ntozake Shange
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One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today. n.pr/4iiYWUG
At 100 years old, the Grand Ole Opry is the keeper of country music's legacy
One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today. n.pr/4iiYWUG
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Whether you're brand new to dirty talk or already love it, Luna Matatas is here to help you up your game and talk dirty with confidence! Join her for an online masterclass in dirty talk skills tomorrow - event recording included with your ticket www.outsavvy.com/event/29126/...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Whether you're brand new to dirty talk or already love it, Luna Matatas is here to help you up your game and talk dirty with confidence! Join her for an online masterclass in dirty talk skills tomorrow - event recording included with your ticket www.outsavvy.com/event/29126/...
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A female wild wolf living on the central coast of British Columbia was filmed pulling a crab trap out of the ocean to eat the bait — a never-before-seen behavior that could constitute the first documented use of tools by a wolf. https://cnn.it/48jB0Mn
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
A female wild wolf living on the central coast of British Columbia was filmed pulling a crab trap out of the ocean to eat the bait — a never-before-seen behavior that could constitute the first documented use of tools by a wolf. https://cnn.it/48jB0Mn
This poem, Gray, by C. V. Cavafy sure blew the world wide open today.
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This poem, Gray, by C. V. Cavafy sure blew the world wide open today.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Rolling Stone ranked Jimmy Cliff's 'The Harder They Come' original soundtrack as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time: "This album took reggae worldwide."
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Rolling Stone ranked Jimmy Cliff's 'The Harder They Come' original soundtrack as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time: "This album took reggae worldwide."
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Jimmy Cliff, a Jamaican musician who helped popularize reggae around the world, has died at age 81. https://cnn.it/43OcTUN
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Jimmy Cliff, a Jamaican musician who helped popularize reggae around the world, has died at age 81. https://cnn.it/43OcTUN
"The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.”
—Wallace Stevens
—Wallace Stevens
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
"The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.”
—Wallace Stevens
—Wallace Stevens
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Recollection of a Minnesota highway.
November 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Recollection of a Minnesota highway.
Notes for Canto CXX
I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.
--Ezra Pound
I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.
--Ezra Pound
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Notes for Canto CXX
I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.
--Ezra Pound
I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.
--Ezra Pound
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November 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I am generally quite happy with cheese
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I am generally quite happy with cheese
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After the removal of small dams and the addition of fish ladders, salmon have been seen swimming further up a Bay Area creek than at anytime since the 1950s.
‘Epic’: Salmon seen far upstream in Bay Area creek for first time in 70 years
After the removal of small dams and the addition of fish ladders, salmon have been seen swimming further up a Bay Area creek than at anytime since the 1950s.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
After the removal of small dams and the addition of fish ladders, salmon have been seen swimming further up a Bay Area creek than at anytime since the 1950s.
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"Just as I come to know a thing it's gone again."
I can't stop thinking about this new poem by @dapowell.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I can't stop thinking about this new poem by @dapowell.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Senescence”
“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”
www.newyorker.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"Just as I come to know a thing it's gone again."
I can't stop thinking about this new poem by @dapowell.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I can't stop thinking about this new poem by @dapowell.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Who predicted this would be the year of the gooners.
November 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Who predicted this would be the year of the gooners.
It is going to take more than one member of Congress to step down. The game changer would be Johnson stepping down. That opens all the doors.
⚡️ Marjorie Taylor-Greene says she is RESIGNING from Congress in January, citing death threats and constant attacks from Trump:
“I refuse to be a battered wife hoping it all goes away and gets better.”
“I refuse to be a battered wife hoping it all goes away and gets better.”
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
It is going to take more than one member of Congress to step down. The game changer would be Johnson stepping down. That opens all the doors.
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This story is nuts.
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This story is nuts.
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
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I came home this afternoon and was greeted by this. I’m still not completely sure how many of my neighbors were involved.
November 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I came home this afternoon and was greeted by this. I’m still not completely sure how many of my neighbors were involved.
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The nerve of Summers saying he’d keep teaching in spite of the email revelations. Good on Harvard for canning him.
November 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The nerve of Summers saying he’d keep teaching in spite of the email revelations. Good on Harvard for canning him.
Thank you to the Crimson staff who have been covering this story.
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Thank you to the Crimson staff who have been covering this story.