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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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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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.
My best friends were happily living together for 29 years and then, bam, they quietly eloped. So next year will be their 30th anniversary of living together but only their first anniversary of marriage. How will I shop for this? I have only a year to figure it out.
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My best friends were happily living together for 29 years and then, bam, they quietly eloped. So next year will be their 30th anniversary of living together but only their first anniversary of marriage. How will I shop for this? I have only a year to figure it out.
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Each year we will make a hornier Frankenstein adaptation until morale improves
November 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Each year we will make a hornier Frankenstein adaptation until morale improves
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For me it's the way the press pool just quietly went along with it because he's the president
The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office
The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
For me it's the way the press pool just quietly went along with it because he's the president
The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office
The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office
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Court order striking down Texas redistricting map upends plans for candidates across the state.
Texas redistricting ruling upends candidates’ plans for 2026
Republicans who were planning to run for newly gerrymandered districts may have to reassess, while Democrats who were drawn out of their seats could suddenly have a path back to Congress.
www.texastribune.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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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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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."