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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 2m

Eleven events this week including Irish author Colm Tóibín in the Just Buffalo Literary Center BABEL Series, and a Silver Anniversary Celebration for BlazeVOX [books].
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Buffalo Area Poetry & Literature Calendar (week of Oct. 13 to Oct. 19) -

Eleven events this week including Irish author Colm Tóibín in the Just Buffalo Literary Center BABEL Series, and a Silver Anniversary Celebration for BlazeVOX [books] Wednesday, Oct. 15, 6 p.m.: […]

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 20h

"Journalists have until Tuesday at 5 p.m. to decide whether or not to sign the form. Those who do not must turn in their credentials a day later."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/b...

Why have a credential system at all? Because both institutions got something out of it.

Several News Outlets Reject Pentagon’s Reporting Restrictions

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

Another way to accurately describe the “unprecedented gambit” is “wildly illegal under both domestic law & multiple international treaty commitments”

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

U.S. consumers are already shouldering as much as 55% of costs due to Trump’s unprecedented gambit to impose sizable tariffs on imports, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs analysts.

U.S. consumers bearing more than half the cost of tariffs so far, Goldman Sachs says

The findings suggest U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election.

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Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social · 1d

The book tour continues! Tomorrow night at 7:30 eastern, I'll be in conversation with Jericho Brown at Charis Books. Register for the livestream here: www.crowdcast.io/c/the-natura...

The Natural Order of Things: Donika Kelly in Conversation with Jericho Brown

Register now for The Natural Order of Things: Donika Kelly in Conversation with Jericho Brown on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on October 14, 2025, 07:30 PM EDT.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 4d

Rachelle Toarmino and the 21st Century Lyric: The Buffalo-based poet’s new collection launches tonight at BICA.

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Rachelle Toarmino and the 21st Century Lyric -

The Buffalo-based poet’s new collection launches tonight at BICA Earlier this year Buffalo-based poet Rachelle Toarmino published a chapbook of experimental lyric poetry titled My Science. It was the ...

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 4d

@nicksturm.bsky.social
I happened to be on the board of directors of Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo at that time. We were pulled into the fray, lost our NEA funding for the first time.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking back to the first wave of the culture wars from the late 1980's and 1990's--in particular, the NEA Four (Karen Finley, Tim Miller, John Fleck, and Holly Hughes), Mapplethorpe, Serrano, et al)--I think control of Congress more likely correlates with NEA funding patterns over time.

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 5d

Adjusted for inflation, NEA funding was highest--$1.8 billion--over the four years of the first Reagan administration & has remained stagnate--about $750 million per presidential term--for the last 25 years.

Line graph visualizing the NEA budget by presidential administration from 1966 to 2024 adjusted for inflation

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 5d

Much of Nobel Prize in Literature recipient László Krasznahorkai's work is available in English translation from New Directions Press. George Szirtes won the Best Translated Book Award (2013) for his translation of Satantango (published in 1985, in Hungarian) published by New Directions.

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 5d

“If you have a question about the universe, you always have a few possibilities—in particular through language. The power of the word is, for me, the only way to get closer to this hidden reality.”

We’ve unlocked our Art of Fiction interview with László Krasznahorkai.
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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 5d

“If you have a question about the universe, you always have a few possibilities—in particular through language. The power of the word is, for me, the only way to get closer to this hidden reality.”

We’ve unlocked our Art of Fiction interview with László Krasznahorkai.
buff.ly/5rxtimk

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 6d

5 events this week in the Buffalo literary community including the Barrio Poetry Slam at Shea’s 710 Theatre, & a Book Launch Party & Community Science Fair in celebration of Rachelle Toarmino’s second full-length collection of poems HELL YEAH (Third Man Books).

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Buffalo Area Poetry & Literature Calendar (week of Oct. 6 to Oct. 11) -

Five events this week in the Buffalo literary community, including the Barrio Poetry Slam at Shea’s 710 Theatre, and the Book Launch Party and Community Science Fair in celebration of […]

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 6d

The Richard Condon plot of the novel was significantly reworked by Demme.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 6d

You should to watch the movie at some point. The 1962 original by John Frankenheimer is best . Sinatra and Angela Lansbury were great in it. Never saw the 2004 Jonathan Demme remake with Meryl Streep. Demme reset it from the Cold War/McCarthy era to a sort of a post Gulf War, post 9/11 world...

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 7d

I was thinking about Walter Benjamin while reading this, but to your final point here: When the boundary between creator and creation dissolves, doesn't that put the the creator at risk for becoming a "brand"? I don't think *contemporary* poets are at great risk for this, but visual artists are.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 7d

Laura Kerr: "A growing strand of contemporary practice, both in art and in poetry, has undergone a fundamental transformation in how it exists and persists. The traditional model of creation → completion has, in many cases, given way to something more fluid, recursive, and continuous."

rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 7d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation
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Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation

A growing strand of contemporary practice, both in art and in poetry, has undergone a fundamental transformation in how it exists ...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 7d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/laur...

Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation

A growing strand of contemporary practice, both in art and in poetry, has undergone a fundamental transformation in how it exists ...

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for posting. This is a shorter piece than I expected, but spot on in what it describes.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 7d

www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...

The CDC says people must consult a health professional before COVID shot

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accepted a controversial recommendation from outside vaccine advisers to tighten guidelines for the COVID vaccine.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 7d

The new guidelines were just published by the CDC today, Jessica. On Friday, I got my COVID and flu shots here at Wegmans in less than 5 minutes. RSV shots are only for seniors over 75 in NYS. So you may have gotten yours just under the wire.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 8d

and as you know, I'm from Buffalo, where football is our civic religion and emotional regulator.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 8d

Or their political party...

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 8d

For heaven's sake, Jessica. I'm probably your dad's age or close to it, but i can't imagine someone saying that to their daughter. Also, Alabama won that game by 16 points. I realize it was it was tied at halftime, so I don't think anyone should tie their identity so closely to their football team.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 10d

www.axios.com/2025/10/02/m...

Media trust hits new low across the political spectrum

Only 28% of Americans say they have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in the mass media.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 10d

Journalism as a profession is in crisis, because there no longer is a social contract based on trust between the public and the media.

R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 10d

Public trust in the media in general has hit a new low across the political spectrum, with only 8% of Republicans and 27% of Independents reporting that they placed a"great deal or a fair amount of trust" in the mass media.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 10d

Public trust in the media in general has hit a new low across the political spectrum, with only 8% of Republicans and 27% of Independents reporting that they placed a"great deal or a fair amount of trust" in the mass media.

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