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Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d)

@diasporter.bsky.social

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“IDEAS OF IMPROVISATION” (2023) from Thread Makes Blanket Press, Poet, autistic mystic atheist & Johnny Black velvet rumbler, HyperQbic colorpuntalist, self-unemployed—Pi is my spirit guide, if it isn’t black—it isn’t liquorice.

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Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social · Nov 14

If Harryette Mullen & Bashō had a baby.

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Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social · 1d

What about—

a trace of the moon
in the midnight sky—
almond blossoms

#haiku

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 2d

The moon drops one or two feathers into the
field.
The dark wheat listens.
Be still.
Now.

James Wright

POETRY FOUNDATION
Beginning

BY JAMES WRIGHT

The moon drops one or two feathers into the
field.
The dark wheat listens.
Be still.
Now.
There they are, the moon's young, trying Their wings.
Between trees, a slender woman lifts up the lovely
shadow
Of her face, and now she steps into the air, now she
is gone
Wholly, into the air.
I stand alone by an elder tree, I do not dare breathe
Or move.
I listen.
The wheat leans back toward its own darkness, And I lean toward mine.

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Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social · 6d

sun shower
we make ramen noodles
with Fiji water

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Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social · 7d

Nuff said.

Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social · 8d

flashing lights
in the cop’s aviators
fireflies

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Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social · 8d

maybe this—

what about this—

after the shooting
the grunt of my son’s voice
on a cell phone

#haiku

Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social · 8d

now I think that—

abandoned church—
the brown shell
of a cicada

might be stronger

#haiku

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Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social · 8d

after the shooting
the sound of my son’s voice
on a cell phone

#haiku

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Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social · 8d

evergreen
even round midnight
the pine

#haiku

Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social · 8d

abandoned church—
the cast off shell
of a cicada

#haiku

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 14d

Rest In Power ✊🏼

"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
-Assata Shakur

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Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social · 14d

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A Song For Assata

YouTube video by Common - Topic

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Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social · 15d

Welp!

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WTOP News @wtopnews.bsky.social · 15d

These exhibits spotlight 600 female artists in DC area

Lenny Campello has spent the last few years curating the art project Women Artists of the DMV, which has grown to 18 exhibits that include 600 artists.

wtop.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15d

THIS IS AN IMMEDIATE PURCHASE FOR ME!!!!!

SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 15d

Next month a new collection of Pat Parker’s crucial work—edited by yours truly—will be published. Essential Poems by Pat Parker features some of her most beloved writing. Available wherever you buy books. Still feeling so chuffed after receiving my copies!!!

Photograph of copies of Essential Poems by Pat Parker on a box. The cover is purple with a photograph of Pat Parker, wearing a deep v neck shirt, glasses, and rocking a small fro.

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taxgirl @taxgirl.bsky.social · 15d

There are very few things that can't be made better—at least temporarily—by a bowl of cheesy grits.

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Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social · 22d

Too much coonery for me. I was a fan of his when he was a reporter because he was very good at providing perspectives we might not otherwise hear. But now he’s just yelling ill founded and bombastic opinions to entertain the mayo masses.