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D. A. Powell

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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

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you 🎃💖👻

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Still working on holiday cards.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 1d

Full moon above Panhandle Park

The moon lingers behind a cloud, branches of the eucalyptus tree.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 1d

What a sad droopy mutton mouth.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump made a last-ditch attempt to convince the powers that be that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize with a series of late-night Truth Social posts.

Trump's Desperate Last-Minute Attempts to Win Nobel Peace Prize

The president still won’t let it go.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 1d

old pond
young frog
ripple ripple ripple

--Basho

(& me)

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 1d

That one frog spawned an entire movement.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Mood.

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 2d

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for a body of work that, “in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

David Schurman Wallace reviewed his grim and funny “Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming” on our site back in 2019.

Dust to Dust | David Schurman Wallace

Sitting for a while with your earthly meaninglessness in the face of László Krasznahorkai’s fiction is oddly sobering, even calming.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 2d

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for his “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” https://to.pbs.org/473vZah

WATCH: Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature

The 71-year-old Krasznahorkai is the first Hungarian winner since 2002. He has previously received the Man Booker International Prize and the National Book Award for Translated Literature in the U.S.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 2d

Betty Buckley plays the coach who looks out for Carrie and protects her from being bullied.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely. That scene where Carrie and Tommy dance together at the prom caused a little vertigo. Hadn't seen it on a big screen in probably ten years or more.

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 2d

I think of Scatman Crothers in The Shining a lot!

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MattyDrawsMore @mattydrawsmore.bsky.social · 2d

Inktober 2025 Day 9: Heavy

Poor old Atlas, scoring off the centuries as he holds up the heavens for all eternity

#inktober #inktober2025 #inktoberheavy

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 2d

Who's someone whose performance provides the bulk of the humanity in a great horror movie. My pick: Betty Buckley in "Carrie."

Brian DePalma's Carrie, based on the novel by Stephen King

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Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi.bsky.social · 4d

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Me and @randallmann.bsky.social just got out of a showing of Carrie at the @voguetheatersf.bsky.social

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Portland Pepper Frog for Pres

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 2d

This is the perfect time of year to get new jammies.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 2d

Halloween is at hand. San Francisco is putting on its glorious Fall colors. Blood red, puke green, hiway emergency orange, mystic eye purple. And more blood red.

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Losing the touch 😞

D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 3d

relatable 😷