Jake Sheff

WI-born doc, USAF vet. dad, hubby. poetaster: human, be not human!

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I'm very excited my first play was published today! It's about being brothers, in verse, & written for reading. Also included are 3 short poems: on war dogs, glaciers & the financial sector.

The entire new issue is incredible!! Thank you @ScarletLeafMag
https://t.co/xjpGC4e8ut

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@jarvis_best @svkenney Rage-sobbed

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@BeckyLTuch Reeks of hype.

There are things only humanity can do.

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@charlesmurray He must not be familiar with Aristotle’s “Poetics,” wherein he says that in comedy, the characters are worse than people are in real life. (And in tragedy, the people are better.)

I can’t believe I last read that 19 years ago. Memorable stuff!

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@jerr_rrej You should read Aristotle’s description of comedy.

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Literature is memorable speech that people never remember

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@aimeeterese Comedy is punching up.
Anyone can do it.

Leftists might not like that there is always an up.

Conservatives that there is always a laugh when we punch the sacred (up).

That explains it.

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@AmericanGwyn I would say it’s better than dialogue in real life.

It’s a boring answer.

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@TaraSkurtu You might like this one by me (pediatrician): https://t.co/cdNQg67PDl

It’s an essay. Personal? I don’t know.

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I’m honored to have four poems in the new issue of Rundelania. Thank you, Mr Coyle (editor)! I am happy to be reminded that the long one about Mt Rainier takes place over Mother’s Day weekend ❤️

https://t.co/QGxpebs2O8

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@SketchesbyBoze All of them

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Étienne de Silhouette was France’s finance minister in 1759.

He also made cut-paper shadow profiles.

Due to his frugal policies, he was disliked.

So ‘à la Silhouette’ came to mean "on the cheap."

Shadow profiles were cheaper than paintings, and we now call them 'silhouettes.’

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@amjuster I suspect writing for pleasure dropped before reading did.

“Write what you know.” “Write your truth.”

The pleasure of navel-gazing is a hard one to share and probably a false one to begin with.

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I suspect “writing for pleasure” began dropping shortly before reading did.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

According to a recent study, reading for pleasure has fallen by 40% in the last 20 years, continuing a long-running downward trend. By many measures, reading skills for both students and adults continue to fall. Jeffrey Brown spoke with Elizabeth Alexander of the Mellon Foundation about a new effort to boost the world of words. https://t.co/gFJh5Uid6q

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@NewsHour Does that correlate with “writing for pleasure”?

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Since everyone is talking about him, I thought I would share my elegy for #haroldbloom @JoshPhillipsPhD @JoyceCarolOates Published almost two years to the day!

https://t.co/9tdyYFQA5w

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@PoemsforPOI @PaulDeane3 A beautiful banger; a 🔥 🌺

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[Poems for Persons of Interest @PoemsforPOI]

A poem by our EIC (me!). Thanks to @PaulDeane3 for including it in the latest issue of Forgotten Ground Regained.

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@PaulDeane3 That’s a beautiful banger! 🔥 🌺

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@amjuster @Princeton The powers that be won’t admit error. They laugh in their bubbles when a piece comes out saying something along the lines of “poetry’s dead.”

It’s tragic.

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@truhtnac That’s pretty cool