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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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MattyDrawsMore @mattydrawsmore.bsky.social · 36m

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 · 29m

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 · 2d

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5h

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

D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 53m

Portland Pepper Frog for Pres

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 57m

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

D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 15h

relatable 😷

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Little Free Library @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social · 1d

"I’m promoting banned/challenged books for the whole month of October. I have a post it note inside each book explaining why it has come under scrutiny. I think it deserves more than a week to be recognized." -Pam S.

Join us in celebrating the freedom of expression: https://lflib.org/bbw

Bookshelves wrapped in yellow caution tape with signs labeling sections as challenged or banned adult, children's, graphic novels, picture, and YA books.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 16h

Is that the underside of the elephant 🐘

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect for Banned Books Week -- John Waters reads from Lady Chatterly's Lover at City Lights, 2013.

John Waters reads from Lady Chatterley's Lover at City Lights Books

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 17h

This is Penguin-level corruption.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 17h

They should serve them with wax beans.

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

📚 It’s Banned Books Week. Book bans don’t protect kids — they censor them. Stand with libraries, stand with readers, stand for the #FreedomToRead. ✊ #BannedBooksWeek #StopBookBans Sign the pledge today! via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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Pledge to Protect the Freedom to Read

This Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025), join EveryLibrary and We Believe in standing up for every reader’s right to read and access every story.

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

I love the heat 🌶️

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Gin and grapefruit juice with a shot of Tabasco.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote

The U.S.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 2d

"Make that ship you're thinking of a ship already"⛵💫

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

Diana's Trees by Elizabeth Willis.

DIANA'S TREES

Silvery measures are being cut down, tricked by sun to slaughter.

My elm won't even let me break a sweat, something to believe by or just forget the dream, a fiery underlife, my score. My part becomes a piece of glass, a hand outside, against the one inside it. Make that ship you're thinking of a ship already, so I'll find it, in the water, in the sun.

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Diana's Trees by Elizabeth Willis.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · Jan 26

Mrs. Gloria Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, pushes a National Guardsman's bayonet aside, 1963

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

ICE agents are intentionally breaking the law, shooting protestors who are citizens and lying in court.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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