Aaron Brand

Arts & features writer @TXKGazette. Published poet/part-time teacher/full-time cat dad. Grab bag of what catches my eye, arts & otherwise: newsy, opinionated.

[DiscoveryTexarkana @DiscoveryTXK]

Don't forget to sign up for the "Painting with a Treat" event on October 16th!

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Happy birthday, W.S. Merwin...

And here's this poem for someone, and anyone, who needs a reminder of the power of certain bonds:

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

“Sing yourself to where the singing comes from.”

— Seamus Heaney

[the moon’s wife @bookishseawitch]

sorry did you say something I was daydreaming about being a cat in a bookstore again

[Basho Society @BashoSociety]

in the long night
writing poetry with the
broken edge of the moon

Buson

[Aaron Brand @TGazABrand]

I have been insufferably tired lately. Weekend nothingness coming up.

[The Nap Ministry @TheNapMinistry]

You don’t have to earn rest.

[Aaron Brand @TGazABrand]

Looks just a bit like my Pai Mei.

[Persian Poetry in English @PersianPoetics]

‘Poem’ in Persian is ‘she‘r,’ شعر from an Arabic root that means ‘to feel,’ and ‘to be conscious.’

[Aaron Brand @TGazABrand]

Plagiarism doesn't play, kids, in the age of Turnitin. Had to write two sharply worded emails tonight (something I'm very good at). Received mea culpas within minutes. 🍎 🖌🍎 (Side gig teaching job statement.)

[HYPECON @hypeconevents]

Just did an interview with the Texarkana Gazette highlighting our weekly Tuesday esports events with @esports_soar at Forward Events!

[Frog and Toad Bot @FrogandToadbot]

'I will be too tired. I am going back to bed.' Toad went back into the house.

[Texarkana Gazette @TXKGazette]

https://t.co/1ridIsvQCW

[400k 😊 Paris Paname 🔄 @ParisAMDParis]

Patrice Molinard.
Montmartre 1970 #Paris

[Aaron Brand @TGazABrand]

LED light sculptures coming to Courthouse Square in downtown Texarkana | Iconic lighted sign atop Grim Hotel to also get artist's attention https://t.co/JEXFwYqTaB via @TxkGazette

[Aaron Brand @TGazABrand]

@bqrubberchicken @TXKGazette I really enjoyed writing it!

[Nicole Ayers 🤓🍎 @bqrubberchicken]

Martian mission gets St. James Day School students growing again https://t.co/6pFyCKx2EH via @TxkGazette

Excellent article by @TGazABrand !

[Dr. Hunter S. Thompson @GonzoVice]

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings,
saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

—Robert Hass

[Aaron Brand @TGazABrand]

I'm bored, don't want to watch my shows, kinda out of it, sipping ultra iced coffee. Hey, let's grade some papers!