Holly Jahangiri
@jahangiri.us
Award-winning author and poet who draws inspiration from her family, from her own childhood adventures (some of which only happened in her overactive imagination), and from readers of all ages.
President, Poetry Society of Texas
Houston, Texas
she/her
President, Poetry Society of Texas
Houston, Texas
she/her
Have a picture of a pretty thing.
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Have a picture of a pretty thing.
Do artists get paid better for XM Radio?
I like Spotify in the car. I haven't listened to radio in years, and my car (10+ years old) didn't come with a CD player. I like making my own playlists - lots of odd and old songs - and having no ads. I don't like knowing artists aren't paid well.
I like Spotify in the car. I haven't listened to radio in years, and my car (10+ years old) didn't come with a CD player. I like making my own playlists - lots of odd and old songs - and having no ads. I don't like knowing artists aren't paid well.
December 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Do artists get paid better for XM Radio?
I like Spotify in the car. I haven't listened to radio in years, and my car (10+ years old) didn't come with a CD player. I like making my own playlists - lots of odd and old songs - and having no ads. I don't like knowing artists aren't paid well.
I like Spotify in the car. I haven't listened to radio in years, and my car (10+ years old) didn't come with a CD player. I like making my own playlists - lots of odd and old songs - and having no ads. I don't like knowing artists aren't paid well.
I prefer being able to focus, here, on creativity instead of conflict 24/7. I'll admit I'm not always good at it, but that's the idea. I also deleted a 15 year old Twitter account back when the new owner carried a sink through the lobby.
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I prefer being able to focus, here, on creativity instead of conflict 24/7. I'll admit I'm not always good at it, but that's the idea. I also deleted a 15 year old Twitter account back when the new owner carried a sink through the lobby.
I might. 😂
Nope. Love it.
Nope. Love it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I might. 😂
Nope. Love it.
Nope. Love it.
Oh, no, thank YOU for giving me music I can write to. Normally, I prefer silence or the background noise of a diner. I can't write if there are voices or lyrics. This is perfect.
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Oh, no, thank YOU for giving me music I can write to. Normally, I prefer silence or the background noise of a diner. I can't write if there are voices or lyrics. This is perfect.
That would have been great. Maybe I just had a really poorly done example.
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
That would have been great. Maybe I just had a really poorly done example.
Oh, much better than whatever I landed on (on Netflix, I think, and so bad I gave up - it was a foreign language film and to get subtitles I had to also have the audio description on - logical, right? Kind of a mess.)
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Oh, much better than whatever I landed on (on Netflix, I think, and so bad I gave up - it was a foreign language film and to get subtitles I had to also have the audio description on - logical, right? Kind of a mess.)
In theory, but human nature has proven "communism" doesn't work on a large scale. Maybe in a family unit, tribe, or kibbutz. Where there is choice to belong or to leave and protection from corruption and harm from outside.
December 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
In theory, but human nature has proven "communism" doesn't work on a large scale. Maybe in a family unit, tribe, or kibbutz. Where there is choice to belong or to leave and protection from corruption and harm from outside.
My first thought was "high" - but now I want an altgeo account.
December 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My first thought was "high" - but now I want an altgeo account.
Wouldn't it be great, though, if they didn't sound like AI narration? I watched a movie, once, with the audio descriptions on - a badly narrated audible book would have been more enjoyable.
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Wouldn't it be great, though, if they didn't sound like AI narration? I watched a movie, once, with the audio descriptions on - a badly narrated audible book would have been more enjoyable.
Yes, but Senator Kelly will eat then for lunch.
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Yes, but Senator Kelly will eat then for lunch.
That was my point, not that they weren't good at poetry.
I could probably understand Shakespeare better than I could Ginsburg, at that age. I could decipher the language and the themes were fairly universal.
I could probably understand Shakespeare better than I could Ginsburg, at that age. I could decipher the language and the themes were fairly universal.
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
That was my point, not that they weren't good at poetry.
I could probably understand Shakespeare better than I could Ginsburg, at that age. I could decipher the language and the themes were fairly universal.
I could probably understand Shakespeare better than I could Ginsburg, at that age. I could decipher the language and the themes were fairly universal.
Your 3rd point reminds me of how I went from enjoying Patricia Cornwell's novels to hating them, then realized it was because she switched from 1st to 3rd person POV and they sounded like she was just phoning it in. It's any writer's entire body of work universally loved?
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Your 3rd point reminds me of how I went from enjoying Patricia Cornwell's novels to hating them, then realized it was because she switched from 1st to 3rd person POV and they sounded like she was just phoning it in. It's any writer's entire body of work universally loved?
Did I say the young weren't good at poetry? I started college at 12. An only child, just young enough to have no personal connection in family or friends to Vietnam or Watergate, I took a college level political science course. My frame of reference was the textbook, not lived experience.
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Did I say the young weren't good at poetry? I started college at 12. An only child, just young enough to have no personal connection in family or friends to Vietnam or Watergate, I took a college level political science course. My frame of reference was the textbook, not lived experience.
"Dogs" is something most people of all ages can understand and relate to. Ginsburg's and Gil Scott-Heron's poems may not be fully appreciated by younger audiences who'd have to do a historical deep-dive to relate (I mean, I wish they had the curiosity to do that, but I'm not sure most will).
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Dogs" is something most people of all ages can understand and relate to. Ginsburg's and Gil Scott-Heron's poems may not be fully appreciated by younger audiences who'd have to do a historical deep-dive to relate (I mean, I wish they had the curiosity to do that, but I'm not sure most will).
Interesting! I like Billy Collins - particularly like to recommend his poems to people who THINK they hate poetry (usually because the poetry they hate is badly written and hard to understand, so it leaves them feeling stupid).
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Interesting! I like Billy Collins - particularly like to recommend his poems to people who THINK they hate poetry (usually because the poetry they hate is badly written and hard to understand, so it leaves them feeling stupid).
I think maybe all of them do. Some solid, some that have never lived anywhere else.
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I think maybe all of them do. Some solid, some that have never lived anywhere else.
Really? With Musk as your only neighbor? Rethink this...
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Really? With Musk as your only neighbor? Rethink this...