RD Pohl

Writer, critic, literary journalist, poetry editor. Trained as language philosopher. Follow at POETRY/POETICS/LANGUAGE/COMMUNITY (

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56 is way too young for anyone to die. But she was such a transformative figure in world literature for the graphic novel form. Satrapi visited Buffalo in 2009 to appear in the @justbuffalolit BABEL authors series. She was just 39 then.

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@vjoshuaadams The trustees are all probably all queuing up for this.

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Poet-publisher Geoffrey Gatza reads from his work on Wednesday, June 3 at The Center for Inquiry.

Buffalo Area Poetry & Literature Calendar (June 1 to June 7) https://t.co/wnRv6j0end

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robert creeley: “it / moved me, that / life was after all / like that.”

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@saintsoftness @shampoobah Pliny's shifting gaze would explain Ashbery's poetics in The Tennis Court Oath! 🙃

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@SocJustice_poet Catholics have a patron saint for auto mechanics: Saint Eligius. But St. Frances of Rome is the official patron saint of motorists and car drivers. Saint Christopher is the patron saint of travelers and drivers generally. If the problem is serious, maybe pray to all three? 🙃

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@aliner The self-flagellation is pharisaical, if that is what you mean.If someone thinks that writing and knowledge work is degraded/degrading in our current world-historical moment, they should find another line of work. No one will miss them.

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What are the lessons here? 1.) Journalism matters! The First Amendment matters!; 2.) People hate the undisclosed, unregulated incursion of surveillance capitalism into their everyday lives. This is NOT about Wegmans. It's about the unchecked power of big tech/the oligarch class.

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Now today, 5/26/2026, four months and 3 weeks later, Erie County has a law greatly restricting the collection of biometric data by retailers and its resale or scraping for third party uses.

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So on Jan. 3 The Gothamist in NYC broke a story on Wegmans collecting biometric data of their customers, Samantha Christmann of the Buffalo News followed up with an in-depth piece on Jan. 5. The Investigative Post followed on 1/9. Every other media source in the region followed.

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Wake up, babe! The Pope is quoting Gandalf...🙃

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This was the final Creeley poem read by Charles Bernstein for @justbuffalolit on the final evening of the Creeley Centenary Symposium in Buffalo. A person reading this poem could derive an entire poetics from it, and for the past 53 years, that's exactly what some of us have.

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@justbuffalolit Poem of the Week is "Canticle" by Zi Daniel.

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One more page from Creeley, this the last three stanzas from "A Calendar" from Memory Gardens (1979). "...Only us then/ remember, discover / still can care for / the human."

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@saintsoftness It has an ideology, A.V. That of the 'sovereign creator.' That is a mythology of 21st Capitalism.

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

happy birthday Robert Creeley 🎈

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The Academy of American Poets honors Robert Creeley on the Centenary of his birth. For those who've never visited Just Buffalo Literary Center (@justbuffalolit), please know that this poem is etched on a window facing east looking out over the city that was his home for 36 yrs.

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Love comes quietly,
finally, drops
about me, on me,
in the old ways.

What did I know
thinking myself
able to go
alone all the way.

Robert Creeley, born #OTD in 1926

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