UCity Review Editors

“Birdland” by Weather Report was released as a single 49 years ago today.

Cocteau Twins - Pitch the Baby

Trampoline #31.10 is excited to have poems by Lee Lemond, Laura Sheahen, and @StriderPoet. trampolinepoetry.com Take care.

Bob Dylan, Masters of War “I just want you to know I can see through your masks” youtu.be/JEmI_FT4YHU

I love this @pimpledrose poem so much! No surprise it won the poetry prize. Well done, Chrissy! 📣👏🎉

Duke and Louis didn’t play music. They were music.

POEM 327: "Language Only Heaven Understands" by Donna Vorreyer (@djvorreyer) "drunken wedding guests slur apologies for eating all the frosting roses with their hands the silent syllables of a skull, its unhinged jaw open like a mute and welcoming hand" ⬇️LINK BELOW⬇️ #Poem

A found poem from one of Flaubert's letters to Turgenev . . . because my notes on their correspondence turned into short poems, as poetry is a language of inquiry into language.

@aliner #writeon

The excruciating beauty of this film grabs me in passing whenever I see a screen shot infused with its colors and hues, as if watching it again—

We’re excited to release our debut album COME CLOSER today 📡 It’s everything we ever dreamt of. We hope you love it as much as we do. ENJOY the transmission. 〰️ @TOMORAofficial is Tom Rowlands (of The Chemical Brothers) and AURORA. You can listen, order physical copies, and find our tour tickets, via the link: tomora.lnk.to/bio

Some voices come from the unknown, the unknown that loves us. The new collaboration between @AURORAmusic and Tom Rowlands of @ChemBros, Come Closer @TOMORAofficial, combines such a voice and musical wizardry. Hard to pin down, it is a strange and category busting marvel. #writeon

Tomora – aka dance don Tom Rowlands and Norwegian phenomenon @AURORAmusic – take us on an otherworldly rave on 'Come Closer'. Read the NME review here: nme.com/reviews/album/…

“I do not ‘use’ the language. I interact with it. I do not communicate via language, but with it. Language is not a tool for me, but a medium infinitely larger than my intention. What will find resonance is out of my hands…” — Rosmarie Waldrop, “Thinking of Follows”

We’re excited to release our debut album COME CLOSER today 📡 It’s everything we ever dreamt of. We hope you love it as much as we do. ENJOY the transmission. 〰️ TOMORA is Tom Rowlands (of The Chemical Brothers) and AURORA. tomora.lnk.to/COMECLOSER

Remembering the great Ahmad Jamal, who passed away 3 years ago today.

When two worlds collide. On this day in 1998, Joni joined Björk on stage for a duet of “What Is This Thing Called Love?” at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. Photo by Neal Preston

“Most readings just make me sink farther and farther down in my seat.” —Edward Hirsch buff.ly/FeOlrWP

@SamRasnake #writeon

I Am Not Your Negro / Raoul Peck, dir. (2017) A documentary about the last book James Baldwin was writing. “To look around the United States today is enough to make prophets and angels weep. This is not the land of the free; it is only sporadically the home of the brave.” – JB