Joseph Harker

Errant linguist-poet in the Northeast US, doing his best to change the world one scribble at a time. Prowler of trains, knave of cafés.

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It's pretty rad to go to an academic conference and then discover @januaryoneil is reading upstairs...!

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Bit by bit, he began to put himself back together in an improvised kind of order, with the help of a few good friends. #itsbeenaminute

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I wrote a thing! It's an essay on writing, but kind of also living, wherein I mix metaphors like it's my mf'ing JOB. https://t.co/5ojSDxAUpa

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1. Question responsible adulthood & consider going to night-long Prince memorial parties until your 8:30 am meeting.
2. Question EVERYTHING.

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Set up for the Rainbow Book Fair in a corner of a distant province of the city. But there's donuts. So that's cool.

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Hanging with @SRP_Bryan in the poets' natural habitat. Disregard the lady in the background shaming our camaraderie.

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All the queer warehouse spring rave bois will rue my LED flower crown, I dare say. A rue for you, and you, and you.

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@WordsMusicLife I am, though this week is a tad crazy. But let's shift this to text? The world can read our goings-on...! #panopticanteven

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@WordsMusicLife likewise! Though I dare say we ought to have NYC adventures in the near future too.

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Travel & celebrating the first thunderstorm yesterday shook me out of my daily social posting plan. I'm already ready to be gone away again.

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I'm about to wrap up my SF trip. #AWP16 is in LA. How is it that every year I keep ending up almost being there without ever actually going?

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Since I doubt I'll be able to poem every day for #NaPoWriMo, I'll try to do a daily tweet or FB post or blog instead. At least it's writing?

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Life is a series of little pilgrimages. You always have one more place to get to. #sf #themhillsthough #ohgodmyknees

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@WordsMusicLife you're very forgiving of the penmanship. :) I have to work on the ductus and consistency, with all that free time I have...

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Messing about with proper pen and ink, because why not? And a cheery blue ink, to boot: the best color for evenings.

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"And they all pretend they're orphans and their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away." #damn #allthefeels

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Tom Waits' "Time" is basically just a string of micro-stories. "Well, she said she'd stick around / until the bandages came off." Et cetera.

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Those moments when FB suggests that you send a friend request to a Nobel laureate have made life much more peculiar.

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About time this arrived in the post. I was starting to fear @SRP_Bryan had forgotten me entirely. I wept; I endured.

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Where the hell did the month go? Who are you thieves of Januaries messing with my life? I need buffer time to start resolutioning, dammit.