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
I got the tail
you got the claws--
lobster ravioli
--the Pasta Shop Boys
you got the claws--
lobster ravioli
--the Pasta Shop Boys
January 10, 2026 at 1:03 PM
I got the tail
you got the claws--
lobster ravioli
--the Pasta Shop Boys
you got the claws--
lobster ravioli
--the Pasta Shop Boys
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“The wrong ICE is melting, the wrong Amazon is burning.”
(Written on the back of a frozen pizza box)
(Written on the back of a frozen pizza box)
January 9, 2026 at 3:03 AM
“The wrong ICE is melting, the wrong Amazon is burning.”
(Written on the back of a frozen pizza box)
(Written on the back of a frozen pizza box)
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Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.
January 6, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.
With a twitching nose
A dog reads a telegram
On a wet tree trunk.
--Richard Wright
A dog reads a telegram
On a wet tree trunk.
--Richard Wright
January 10, 2026 at 3:23 AM
With a twitching nose
A dog reads a telegram
On a wet tree trunk.
--Richard Wright
A dog reads a telegram
On a wet tree trunk.
--Richard Wright
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“Avelo Airlines, the primary commercial air fleet that has carried out the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda, canceled its contract with the federal government on Tuesday.” newrepublic.com/post/205070/...
Airline Cuts Ties With ICE Over Deportation Flights
Avelo Airlines found out the hard way that its partnership with ICE was bad for business.
newrepublic.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:46 PM
“Avelo Airlines, the primary commercial air fleet that has carried out the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda, canceled its contract with the federal government on Tuesday.” newrepublic.com/post/205070/...
What, after all, is the world,
but a tiny dot at the end
of a very long question mark
but a tiny dot at the end
of a very long question mark
January 9, 2026 at 2:33 PM
What, after all, is the world,
but a tiny dot at the end
of a very long question mark
but a tiny dot at the end
of a very long question mark
West Coast literary magazine Alta gathered some writers to go to a basketball game. Here was the poets corner: Rachel Richardson, David Roderick, Brenda Hillman, me and Robert Hass. We brought the noise and watched the Warriors achieve victory.
January 9, 2026 at 12:19 AM
West Coast literary magazine Alta gathered some writers to go to a basketball game. Here was the poets corner: Rachel Richardson, David Roderick, Brenda Hillman, me and Robert Hass. We brought the noise and watched the Warriors achieve victory.
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Today's vote to advance our resolution to block further military action in Venezuela was significant.
We'll now have a full debate on the Senate floor over the President's use of U.S. military forces, and a mission that seems to be far more about oil revenues than drugs.
We'll now have a full debate on the Senate floor over the President's use of U.S. military forces, and a mission that seems to be far more about oil revenues than drugs.
January 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Today's vote to advance our resolution to block further military action in Venezuela was significant.
We'll now have a full debate on the Senate floor over the President's use of U.S. military forces, and a mission that seems to be far more about oil revenues than drugs.
We'll now have a full debate on the Senate floor over the President's use of U.S. military forces, and a mission that seems to be far more about oil revenues than drugs.
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…it should break your heart to kill.
January 8, 2026 at 4:02 AM
…it should break your heart to kill.
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Just want to say thanks to everyone out there filming ICE. Without all these videos, the tyrannical Trump administration could lie to us & we wouldn’t have the evidence to refute their claims or to even know we are being gaslit. These folks are risking their lives to do real service for democracy.
January 8, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Just want to say thanks to everyone out there filming ICE. Without all these videos, the tyrannical Trump administration could lie to us & we wouldn’t have the evidence to refute their claims or to even know we are being gaslit. These folks are risking their lives to do real service for democracy.
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“.. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
January 8, 2026 at 11:39 AM
“.. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
Absolutely everyone should test the powers of their minds to see if, like Carrie White, we can slam someone who's toxic up against the wall or set a ballroom on fire.
January 8, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Absolutely everyone should test the powers of their minds to see if, like Carrie White, we can slam someone who's toxic up against the wall or set a ballroom on fire.
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if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street
January 8, 2026 at 3:49 AM
if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street
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and just like that, i became a one-issue voter
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 8, 2026 at 6:20 AM
and just like that, i became a one-issue voter
ICE is full of people who wouldn't pass a background check for either the military or intelligence. It should be formally defunded by Congress.
January 7, 2026 at 11:42 PM
ICE is full of people who wouldn't pass a background check for either the military or intelligence. It should be formally defunded by Congress.
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"We do not need any further help from the federal government. To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you've done enough."
MN Gov. Tim Walz speaks on fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
www.ms.now/news/federal...
MN Gov. Tim Walz speaks on fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
www.ms.now/news/federal...
January 7, 2026 at 8:55 PM
"We do not need any further help from the federal government. To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you've done enough."
MN Gov. Tim Walz speaks on fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
www.ms.now/news/federal...
MN Gov. Tim Walz speaks on fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
www.ms.now/news/federal...
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Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Tim Walz is mobilizing the MN National Guard, and reminds Minnesotans that the guard "is OURS - our teachers and our neighbors." He asks Minnesotans to respect them. "They're there to protect you and your constitutional rights. They don't wear masks."
January 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Tim Walz is mobilizing the MN National Guard, and reminds Minnesotans that the guard "is OURS - our teachers and our neighbors." He asks Minnesotans to respect them. "They're there to protect you and your constitutional rights. They don't wear masks."
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In regards to shooting in Minneapolis:
Witnesses say a doctor was at the scene and tried to help the woman who had been shot, but ICE agents refused to let him through. Around 10–15 minutes later, an ambulance arrived but was blocked by ICE vehicles occupying the street.-FOX 9 Minnesota
Witnesses say a doctor was at the scene and tried to help the woman who had been shot, but ICE agents refused to let him through. Around 10–15 minutes later, an ambulance arrived but was blocked by ICE vehicles occupying the street.-FOX 9 Minnesota
January 7, 2026 at 7:54 PM
In regards to shooting in Minneapolis:
Witnesses say a doctor was at the scene and tried to help the woman who had been shot, but ICE agents refused to let him through. Around 10–15 minutes later, an ambulance arrived but was blocked by ICE vehicles occupying the street.-FOX 9 Minnesota
Witnesses say a doctor was at the scene and tried to help the woman who had been shot, but ICE agents refused to let him through. Around 10–15 minutes later, an ambulance arrived but was blocked by ICE vehicles occupying the street.-FOX 9 Minnesota
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Only now realizing that my love of Heated Rivalry is driven by my childhood wish for Bill and Ted to kiss
January 6, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Only now realizing that my love of Heated Rivalry is driven by my childhood wish for Bill and Ted to kiss
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I always like to get medical advice about my children from doddering assholes that don't understand what blood thinners are.
January 6, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I always like to get medical advice about my children from doddering assholes that don't understand what blood thinners are.
Oh my God, Hel has frozen over.
Temperatures plummeted in Poland today, with the city of Łódź recording -15.8°C at 8 a.m.
Even Hel, on Poland's northern Baltic coast, has frozen over, at -1.5°C.
Even Hel, on Poland's northern Baltic coast, has frozen over, at -1.5°C.
January 6, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Oh my God, Hel has frozen over.
Five years ago Donald Trump and his followers broke the law in an attempt to keep him in power.
He is the same lawless fuck he was then, and his plan is the same: he is bent on destroying our institutions and enriching himself and all those he corrupts.
He is the same lawless fuck he was then, and his plan is the same: he is bent on destroying our institutions and enriching himself and all those he corrupts.
January 6, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Five years ago Donald Trump and his followers broke the law in an attempt to keep him in power.
He is the same lawless fuck he was then, and his plan is the same: he is bent on destroying our institutions and enriching himself and all those he corrupts.
He is the same lawless fuck he was then, and his plan is the same: he is bent on destroying our institutions and enriching himself and all those he corrupts.
The shape of this bare cherry tree
January 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
The shape of this bare cherry tree
Squeaky Fromme is only 77 and apparently in good health.
January 5, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Squeaky Fromme is only 77 and apparently in good health.