Reginald Harris
@reggieh.bsky.social
"Don't leave the arena to the fools." - Toni Cade Bambara
Poet, writer, librarian, etc.
Poet, writer, librarian, etc.
I know this feeling. I look around, confused, then realize 'Oh, sh*t - I'm happy 😊 How did *this* happen?'
Thank you Jane Kenyon and @paradiselaust.bsky.social
Thank you Jane Kenyon and @paradiselaust.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I know this feeling. I look around, confused, then realize 'Oh, sh*t - I'm happy 😊 How did *this* happen?'
Thank you Jane Kenyon and @paradiselaust.bsky.social
Thank you Jane Kenyon and @paradiselaust.bsky.social
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If a sitting Congressmember can be physically attacked by ICE simply for observing their work, then no one is safe.
There must be a full investigation into ICE’s attack on Rep. Grijalva.
There must be a full investigation into ICE’s attack on Rep. Grijalva.
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If a sitting Congressmember can be physically attacked by ICE simply for observing their work, then no one is safe.
There must be a full investigation into ICE’s attack on Rep. Grijalva.
There must be a full investigation into ICE’s attack on Rep. Grijalva.
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if you are among the few staff critics reviewing books, films, music, art, &c, it is your professional duty to take a chance on things. Attend a random screening, pick up a self-published book, follow whims and offer full-throated generous praise for anything that makes an impression on a shoestring
December 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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It takes years of working your way through the immigration system to get to this point. The thought of arriving at your naturalization ceremony, thinking that work is over, & having the rug pulled from under you based on where you were born makes me sick to my stomach. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It takes years of working your way through the immigration system to get to this point. The thought of arriving at your naturalization ceremony, thinking that work is over, & having the rug pulled from under you based on where you were born makes me sick to my stomach. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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If you want to see the strategy, I wrote a long read on the once-in-a-century attack on civil rights that were in the midst of. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If you want to see the strategy, I wrote a long read on the once-in-a-century attack on civil rights that were in the midst of. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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Join us for a performance lecture by poet, artist, and CUNY Graduate Center alum Ronaldo V. Wilson embodying form and place through language, dance, song, and video. Introduced by poet and artist @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social
centerforthehumanities.org/event/still-...
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
centerforthehumanities.org/event/still-...
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Join us for a performance lecture by poet, artist, and CUNY Graduate Center alum Ronaldo V. Wilson embodying form and place through language, dance, song, and video. Introduced by poet and artist @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social
centerforthehumanities.org/event/still-...
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
centerforthehumanities.org/event/still-...
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
The annual 'family reunion' poetry reading in Baltimore MD by Cave Canem fellows - featuring performance artist and poet Holly Bass - is this Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 2pm. Hope some of you can join us!
(More information plus registration link below)
citylitproject.salsalabs.org/AHomefortheH...
(More information plus registration link below)
citylitproject.salsalabs.org/AHomefortheH...
A Home for the Heart to Live In 2025
This year CityLit and the Motor House, in partnership welcome featured poet HOLLY BASS to A Home for the Heart to Live In.
citylitproject.salsalabs.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The annual 'family reunion' poetry reading in Baltimore MD by Cave Canem fellows - featuring performance artist and poet Holly Bass - is this Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 2pm. Hope some of you can join us!
(More information plus registration link below)
citylitproject.salsalabs.org/AHomefortheH...
(More information plus registration link below)
citylitproject.salsalabs.org/AHomefortheH...
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MONSTERS DON'T SLEEP UNDER YOUR BED, THEY SLEEP INSIDE YOUR HEAD #Satanisim
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
MONSTERS DON'T SLEEP UNDER YOUR BED, THEY SLEEP INSIDE YOUR HEAD #Satanisim
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There was a long long time when many many powerful people refused to stand up to Joe McCarthy. And then McCarthy got weak, and people found their spines.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
There was a long long time when many many powerful people refused to stand up to Joe McCarthy. And then McCarthy got weak, and people found their spines.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
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why does every new poem i write feel like the best poem i've ever written, then (all too quickly) the worst poem i've ever written
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
why does every new poem i write feel like the best poem i've ever written, then (all too quickly) the worst poem i've ever written
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Black Friday sales that are only 20% off? In this economy?
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Black Friday sales that are only 20% off? In this economy?
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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February 5, 2026 | 7-9pm Cameron Awkward-Rich, @sadqueer4life.bsky.social, Chet’la Sebree, and @akwenstrup.bsky.social
February 19, 2026 | 7-9pm Sahar Khraibani, @faridmatuk.bsky.social, Michelle Peñaloza, and @roqueraquel.bsky.social
February 28, 2026 | 2-5pm 30th Showcase Community Reading
February 19, 2026 | 7-9pm Sahar Khraibani, @faridmatuk.bsky.social, Michelle Peñaloza, and @roqueraquel.bsky.social
February 28, 2026 | 2-5pm 30th Showcase Community Reading
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
February 5, 2026 | 7-9pm Cameron Awkward-Rich, @sadqueer4life.bsky.social, Chet’la Sebree, and @akwenstrup.bsky.social
February 19, 2026 | 7-9pm Sahar Khraibani, @faridmatuk.bsky.social, Michelle Peñaloza, and @roqueraquel.bsky.social
February 28, 2026 | 2-5pm 30th Showcase Community Reading
February 19, 2026 | 7-9pm Sahar Khraibani, @faridmatuk.bsky.social, Michelle Peñaloza, and @roqueraquel.bsky.social
February 28, 2026 | 2-5pm 30th Showcase Community Reading
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Announcing our official line-up for the 30th Poets House Showcase Reading Series! Join us in uplifting an array of voices crucial to this moment in poetry publishing on Saturday, December 13th, 6-8pm. Featuring Hala Alyan, Cynthia Cruz, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips.
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Announcing our official line-up for the 30th Poets House Showcase Reading Series! Join us in uplifting an array of voices crucial to this moment in poetry publishing on Saturday, December 13th, 6-8pm. Featuring Hala Alyan, Cynthia Cruz, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips.
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Mark your calendars for the Showcase opening on December 13! With hundreds of collections and publishers represented, you'll find poetry works from new and established authors, small presses and major publishers. RSVP to a 30th Poets House Showcase event today.
Poets House Showcase - Poets House
The Poets House Showcase, a yearly exhibition of over 2,500 poetry books from more than 500 presses, celebrating new poetry publications.
poetshouse.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Mark your calendars for the Showcase opening on December 13! With hundreds of collections and publishers represented, you'll find poetry works from new and established authors, small presses and major publishers. RSVP to a 30th Poets House Showcase event today.
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Those who sentence people to prison should know where they are sending them. JUDGES SHOULD SPEND A DAY IN PRISON!
The proposal, now open for public comment through Nov. 21, would require every New York judge with sentencing or detaining responsibilities to visit a correctional facility once a year.
The proposal, now open for public comment through Nov. 21, would require every New York judge with sentencing or detaining responsibilities to visit a correctional facility once a year.
Proposal would send New York judges to prison — for a day
The idea, advocates say, is to help them feel the gravity of what incarcerated life is like.
gothamist.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Those who sentence people to prison should know where they are sending them. JUDGES SHOULD SPEND A DAY IN PRISON!
The proposal, now open for public comment through Nov. 21, would require every New York judge with sentencing or detaining responsibilities to visit a correctional facility once a year.
The proposal, now open for public comment through Nov. 21, would require every New York judge with sentencing or detaining responsibilities to visit a correctional facility once a year.
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We should NOT be selling weapons to one of the worst human rights abusers in the world.
This should be a no-brainer.
MBS should be held responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — not welcomed at the White House to celebrate a multibillion-dollar arms package deal.
This should be a no-brainer.
MBS should be held responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — not welcomed at the White House to celebrate a multibillion-dollar arms package deal.
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
We should NOT be selling weapons to one of the worst human rights abusers in the world.
This should be a no-brainer.
MBS should be held responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — not welcomed at the White House to celebrate a multibillion-dollar arms package deal.
This should be a no-brainer.
MBS should be held responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — not welcomed at the White House to celebrate a multibillion-dollar arms package deal.
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I invent imaginary dramas, inserting myself as the hero or villain, internalizing all of it personally, and instead of a personality disorder, I call it art
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I invent imaginary dramas, inserting myself as the hero or villain, internalizing all of it personally, and instead of a personality disorder, I call it art
A major loss - RIP Bob!
"He was a poet of the particular." —Bob Holman www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/n...
Hal Sirowitz, Poet Who Mined His Mother’s Worry With Wit, Dies at 76
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A major loss - RIP Bob!
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Oskar Werner, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1922, in Vienna
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Oskar Werner, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1922, in Vienna
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Black thinkers & activists have been saying the same thing for more than 150 yrs: the rights, laws, & programs passed by Congress are meaningless if white Americans remain unwilling to enforce them.
After the police chief in Columbia, SC murdered a Black resident in cold blood, an anonymous Black woman wrote to the govt in May 1866: "Our friends in Congress are wasting time & breath, & all the bills they may pass, will do us no good, unless men are sent here that will see these laws enforced."
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Black thinkers & activists have been saying the same thing for more than 150 yrs: the rights, laws, & programs passed by Congress are meaningless if white Americans remain unwilling to enforce them.
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...