Born in 1895 to an enslaved woman, his father was murdered by the KKK when he was not even a year old. He decided he wanted to write classical music and he worked, starved, and suffered for his art.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC8e...

Ultimately, this is such a passion project for me. Emily was the first poet I ever set, and poem-for-poem the one I've set the most. I frequently call her "girliepop" in casual conversation. And I know it's mild-to-moderately unhinged, but in many ways, I genuinely think of her as a friend.

And I don't think my friend Emily—who gave away these brilliant little star-fragments of literature to her loved ones alongside bouquets and fruitcakes—would have hoarded them behind a paywall.

I can't fight copyright law. But if it's already free... I can give it a home.

Hard to tell whether this is Trump2 shittiness or more ordinary baseline USA shittiness

bsky.app/profile/saba...

One of the people I talked to that rebuilds homes using volunteers said they outsource things like sheetrock because they are that fast and good at it.

But it's REALLY important to note how exploitive that industry can be of them. Trump is making it easier to stiff these people for their labor