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Rob Roensch

@robroensch

a fiction, OKC. The Wildflowers of Baltimore @saltpublishing; The World and The Zoo @outpost19; In the Morning, the City is the Prairie @bellepointpress (2023)

Oklahoma City Katılım Mayıs 2010
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Rob Roensch@robroensch·
My novel, In the Morning, The City is the Prairie, is a year old. Here's a review in the wonderful The New Territory. I'm heartened by this line: "stylistically minimal, but not without its moments of deep intimacy and reflection." I hope minimalism and intimacy aren't opposites.
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Very cool to have a story about what it feels like to be a dolphin, originally published in @Wigleaf, in this new anthology and craft book. Thanks to @RealBenWarner and Ron Tanner.
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The quote captures Thoreau's spirt well. He's often seen as an entitled isolationist, but he died a weird earnest failure who was deeply loved, deeply committed to caring for others, and who wanted everyone to be able to see how meaningful the woods at the edge of town are.
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"Thoreau kept boxes of his debut title, 'A Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers' (1849) in his cottage and didn't sell many. In his diary, he noted, 'I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes, over 700 of which I wrote myself." —Michael Castleman, "The Untold Story of Books"

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Vinson Cunningham@vcunningham·
this sounds very level-headed until you remember that one of the people is dead and one is not; that one of them is granted license by the state to kill and one was not
Edward Feser@FeserEdward

This seems to me correct. Two terrified people, neither of whom was looking to hurt the other, who in a moment acted impulsively under the influence of fear. It's awful. Those quick to try to mind-read and judge either one of them should in charity and humility shut the hell up.

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Mina Kimes@minakimes·
The ghouls on this app are reacting to this the way you'd expect, but they are not real people. Real people--your neighbors, friends, anyone with a conscience--see this and feel angry and sad. Real people know it's wrong.
philip lewis@Phil_Lewis_

Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot & killed by an ICE agent, had a young son whose father died in 2023, according to the Star Tribune “There’s nobody else in his life,” the boy’s grandfather said. “I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come get my grandchild.” huffpost.com/entry/latest-n…

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Woolf: "If I could catch the feeling, I would; the feeling of the singing of the real world, as one is driven by loneliness and silence from the habitable world."
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The scissors are a part of it
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Just read a great story, Jayne Anne Phillips' "Callie," from Fast Lanes. It starts and you are looking through some old photographs then all at once it's the 20s and you're dying.
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“She fed her own rations to the cat, whom she called ‘my dear, silver child’.”
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I just started Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. An epic novel built of short Chekhov stories. Wonderful.
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Benjamin Myers@BenMyersPoet·
We tend to think that abstraction is the higher-order thinking that is hard for most people to learn, but in teaching poetry for many years I have found that concrete particularity is much harder to get most people to grasp. I say, "What do you see in this poem?" and they say "Sadness." I say, "No, what do you SEE?" and they say "Despair." They write "I love my dog," and I say "Give me an image to show that," and they say "My dog makes me happy." Eventually I just take them outside and make them stare at tree bark until they can say one specific thing about a thing that exists in time and space. They say, "The tree bark looks like sadness."
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Lakshya Jain@lxeagle17·
In many educational regards and by many independent standards, Mississippi's schools are now better than California's. This is insane and even *more* people should be talking about it. Illiteracy is actually a policy choice. theargumentmag.com/p/illiteracy-i…
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Tommy Vietor
Tommy Vietor@TVietor08·
The leaders of 20 major humanitarian aid organizations released this statement calling for someone, anyone, to stop the slaughter in Gaza. This is just part of it:
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