D. A. Powell
@Powell_DA
Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
When coverups start to fall apart, the participants engage in frenetic activity to keep them going. Thus this morning’s frantic effort by DAG Todd Blanche to get to Ghislaine Maxwell.
Frankie Muniz here! This year has been incredible racing full-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 33 Ford F-150 for Ford’s Reaume Brothers Racing. There’s nothing quite like the thrill and challenge of racing trucks at the highest level. Speaking of…
I wrote an essay on a poem by Essex Hemphill for the UK's @PoetrySociety. They will be editing it shortly and I expect to receive a few notes about how much space I devoted to discussing cockrings.
✨️JUST ANNOUNCED✨️ Mary Jane Girls, @officialMJGlive bring the funk back to Oakland! 🎤💃🏽🔥 Don’t miss this dynamic R&B and funk group live at Yoshi’s Fri, Sep 19 @ 9:30PM 🎟 tinyurl.com/ycshstck
The room was cheap and sordid, hidden above the suspect taverna. From the window you could see the alley, dirty and narrow. From below came the voices of workmen playing cards, enjoying themselves. --C.P. Cavafy
US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, or a veteran, or that I identified who I was. They ignored everything I said, and they just they broke my window and they dragged me out. I let them know that I was a veteran and I wasn't doing anything…
Outrageous abuse of workers who came as migrant workers. Fleeing injustice. Overwhelmingly without criminal records. The basis of US agriculture. Construction. Hospitality. Service. A shameful display of institutional violence.
Once again they are packing 38 people in cages under tents in the Florida swamps. They have one combined toilet/sink/water fountain per cage. It’s over 85° in the shade. Their “crime?” They sought a better life here and worked to pick our crops, roof our homes, cut our grass,…
I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.
I have three poems in the latest issue of the @PressUnbound magazine Revel ; this one might be the least salacious of the three.
It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the loss of @andreagibson, an inspiring poet and Colorado’s current Poet Laureate. Renowned for inspiring poetry, advocacy for arts in education, and a unique ability to connect with the vast and diverse poetry lovers of Colorado, Andrea was…
Confused. How can they be voting to not release something they claim doesn't exist? Everyone should be calling @SpeakerJohnson and asking him wtf is going on. Here's his number: 202-225-4000
Every single Republican member of Congress has turned their back on the values they campaigned on: voting to block the release of the Epstein files.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics adviser, a career attorney who’d spent nearly 20 years at the department, removing the Justice Department’s top official responsible for counseling the most senior political appointees. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bo…
The poem ends, Soft as it began— I loved my friend. (Langston Hughes)
I love this one so much
I think often of the last few lines from this Gwendolyn Brooks poem about singer Paul Robeson: That we are each other's harvest: we are each other's business: we are each other's magnitude and bond.
It's a sad state of affairs when a library has to remind you to leave your guns, knives and drones at home... And to wash your hands.
NOTICE: While planning your visit to the Library of Congress, please check this recently updated list of prohibited items: loc.gov/visit/know-bef…
Palimpsest: a surface where words or images have been written or drawn over.
(whispers during sex) the peregrine falcon can see a full mile into the distance
And there you have it. Under the Trump Administration, ICE and Border Patrol are being empowered to stop and question you based solely on how you look. No probable cause. No real reason. Just your “physical appearance.” That’s not justice—it’s profiling.
Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."