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
Every American ought to have a pitchfork right now.
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Every American ought to have a pitchfork right now.
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"Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!'"
Sidney Lumet’s multi Academy Award winning 🇺🇸 American satirical black comedy-drama “NETWORK” starring Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, William Holden and Robert Duvall premiered #OnThisDay in 1976 in New York City
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!'"
Sometimes the caption writes itself.
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Sometimes the caption writes itself.
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So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?
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They gotta change the name of the "Po Boy" if they gonna change $20 for the mufucka
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
They gotta change the name of the "Po Boy" if they gonna change $20 for the mufucka
Honored to be on this Gold List. Gracias🥲
Round out your reading list with the final nine selections from our Revel No. 3 Gold List of 43 Books to Bear in Mind!
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Honored to be on this Gold List. Gracias🥲
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Join Robert Pinsky, Kevin Young, Paul Muldoon, and Ruth Negga at 92NY for a reading and celebration of Seamus Heaney’s poetry. Hear a group of Heaney’s friends and admirers - including surprise guests - as they pay tribute to his seismic influence.
October 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Join Robert Pinsky, Kevin Young, Paul Muldoon, and Ruth Negga at 92NY for a reading and celebration of Seamus Heaney’s poetry. Hear a group of Heaney’s friends and admirers - including surprise guests - as they pay tribute to his seismic influence.
This time last year: Perugia
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This time last year: Perugia
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Goon a movie.
"All the President's Goons"
"All the President's Goons"
Goon a movie.
"Goon In 60 Seconds"
"Goon In 60 Seconds"
Goon a movie
"Goon With the Wind"
"Goon With the Wind"
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Goon a movie.
"All the President's Goons"
"All the President's Goons"
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Mark Ruffalo has been announced as the lead actor in an upcoming film thriller about the path to sainthood of Polish Pope John Paul II.
He will play the role of a priest assigned to be "devil's advocate" in assessing the former pontiff's life.
He will play the role of a priest assigned to be "devil's advocate" in assessing the former pontiff's life.
Mark Ruffalo to star in thriller about Polish Pope John Paul II’s road to sainthood
notesfrompoland.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Mark Ruffalo has been announced as the lead actor in an upcoming film thriller about the path to sainthood of Polish Pope John Paul II.
He will play the role of a priest assigned to be "devil's advocate" in assessing the former pontiff's life.
He will play the role of a priest assigned to be "devil's advocate" in assessing the former pontiff's life.
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
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@repdangoldman.bsky.social is the best. We need more members of Congress like him.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
@repdangoldman.bsky.social is the best. We need more members of Congress like him.
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The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
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We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
The absolute devastation of these last lines:
"If you can hear me there,
if this reaches you,
forgive us,
we did not know who we were."
-- @joriegraham.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk
"If you can hear me there,
if this reaches you,
forgive us,
we did not know who we were."
-- @joriegraham.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The absolute devastation of these last lines:
"If you can hear me there,
if this reaches you,
forgive us,
we did not know who we were."
-- @joriegraham.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk
"If you can hear me there,
if this reaches you,
forgive us,
we did not know who we were."
-- @joriegraham.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk
A friend just said he went to an hour-long talk on the aphorism. I said wouldn't you rather just hear an aphorism on the hour-long talk.
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A friend just said he went to an hour-long talk on the aphorism. I said wouldn't you rather just hear an aphorism on the hour-long talk.
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No, that’s raucous. Caucus is the large bone in the ankle that articulates with the tibia of the leg and the calcaneum and navicular bone of the foot.
No that's Porthos. Caucus is disagreeably harsh or strident, hoarse.
No that's Baucus. Caucus is one of the Three Musketeers.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
No, that’s raucous. Caucus is the large bone in the ankle that articulates with the tibia of the leg and the calcaneum and navicular bone of the foot.
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Pet Shop Boys today announce the forthcoming publication of “Volume”, a 592-page hardback book published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the release of their 1986 debut album, “Please”.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Pet Shop Boys today announce the forthcoming publication of “Volume”, a 592-page hardback book published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the release of their 1986 debut album, “Please”.
lnkfi.re/ObscurePSBVo...
lnkfi.re/ObscurePSBVo...
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In September, federal agents swarmed a Hyundai manufacturing site, detaining more than 500 workers, including more than 300 from South Korea.
Now, nearly 200 detainees are preparing to sue ICE, alleging human rights violations and unlawful arrest.
Now, nearly 200 detainees are preparing to sue ICE, alleging human rights violations and unlawful arrest.
These South Korean workers came to the US to build an EV battery plant. They left in shackles. They still want to know why
ICE agents raided, arrested workers at a Georgia battery factory in September.
abcnews.link
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
In September, federal agents swarmed a Hyundai manufacturing site, detaining more than 500 workers, including more than 300 from South Korea.
Now, nearly 200 detainees are preparing to sue ICE, alleging human rights violations and unlawful arrest.
Now, nearly 200 detainees are preparing to sue ICE, alleging human rights violations and unlawful arrest.
This week I am doing final edits of my chapbook Tricks coming out in the New Year from Cutbank in Montana.
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This week I am doing final edits of my chapbook Tricks coming out in the New Year from Cutbank in Montana.
Waiting for Trump to lift the lid off the ark.
a man wearing glasses and a hat is laughing with his tongue out
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a hat is laughing with his tongue out
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Waiting for Trump to lift the lid off the ark.
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To all those who bravely served our country, thank you to you and your family for your extraordinary service. The sacrifices that all of you have made to protect our country will be honored, today and every day.
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
To all those who bravely served our country, thank you to you and your family for your extraordinary service. The sacrifices that all of you have made to protect our country will be honored, today and every day.