Links for 5-22-2023

  • http://www.frostfarmpoetry.org/prize Thanks to Paul Jones for posting a link to it on Mastodon. Just these 3 lines and I knew I had to read the whole thing:

    She raised a shy hand and I called her name.
    Then she said a line I still repeat today:
    a window and a mirror are the same.

  • Which reminds me of the poetry resource https://poets.org. I enjoy getting their free daily poem in my email.

  • I get newsletters – several – for getting news or a deeper insight into the news plus learning new things. A current fave is the daily “Letters From an American” by Heather Cox Richardson. Here’s a particularly good example: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-21-2023

  • My favorite linkblog: Cory Doctorow’s https://pluralistic.net. Something for everybody and always interesting!