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student of poetry. hater of prisons.

[T. Christian Miller @txtianmiller]

This story will be taught in journalism classes. https://t.co/fLhP9OWDBz

[𝖠llie @allietull]

Is it too obvious to note how Johnson’s poetic process — collecting unplanned information and ideas untethered by reason only to synthesize them back into a narrative order — resembles the mind creating a dream? @wyatt_williams on dj: https://t.co/X10Zrop2x9

[𝖠llie @allietull]

It was the worst flight of his life. Then he met his future wife: https://t.co/AzTXjGO8l7 h/t @legalnomads & her brilliant newsletter, Curious About Everything.

[𝖠llie @allietull]

happy halloween my loves.

[Parul Sehgal @parul_sehgal]

Spent some time with Guillermo del Toro this summer, as he finished making 'Frankenstein,' which thinks alongside Mary Shelley's manuscript in such deep ways, it felt only right to write a joint profile of sorts --

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'

[UW-Madison CIMSS @UWCIMSS]

1-minute #GOES19/#GOESEast Visible and Infrared images with plots of GLM Flash Points showed prolific lightning activity within the inner eyewall of Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa as it approaches the SW coast of Jamaica. Low-altitude mesovortices persist within the eye.

[National Hurricane Center @NHC_Atlantic]

10AM #Melissa Update: @53rdWRS and @NOAA_HurrHunter Hurricane Hunter aircraft find that Melissa continues to strengthen. Catastrophic winds are moving onshore southern Jamaica. THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE! For more updates visit https://t.co/tW4KeGe9uJ

[The Eyewall @TheEyewallWx]

Melissa is the worst Atlantic storm you could imagine, and it’s making landfall in Jamaica as I write this. Very few places on Earth have experienced conditions like some of Jamaica will in the coming hours. Our thoughts are with the Caribbean today.

https://t.co/48pVhbFdjW

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

Melissa is absolutely perfect — in the worst possible way.

Achieving a storm of this magnitude using only air, water and heat requires absolute meteorological perfection.

Tragically, that perfection is deadly.

Update on Melissa:

[Tropical Cowboy of Danger @FlynonymousWX]

A thread of videos from today’s flight into Hurricane Melissa

In this first one we are entering from the southeast just after sunrise and the bright arc on the far northwest eye wall is the light just beginning to make it over the top from behind us.

[Chelsea Dingman @ChelsDingman]

Ellen Bryant Voigt, whose work I love.

[𝖠llie @allietull]

“I write this to say: I remember you. I write this to say: until everyone we love / is safe. I write this to say: it’s been dark for so long today.”

[𝖠llie @allietull]

a coma looks good to me
—Ellen Bryant Voigt

[𝖠llie @allietull]

Based on Denis Johnson’s beloved novella, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger & railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth & beauty. via ⁦@austinfilmfest⁩ ⁦@ParamountAustin⁩ https://t.co/f6NhDrGRTh

[𝖠llie @allietull]

Funerary vessels. My opened palm filled with bone pins, bone needles. Your spear tipped with magic—Protectress. My cape is woven with the small slender bodies of hundreds of baby-blue snakes, its fringe composed of all their minuscule heads—undulating and hissing.

[The Yale Review @yalereview]

"I am red. Eros pulls me by the hand. More birds. Who is the sacrifice, my body or my mind?"

— Robin Coste Lewis, “'She Held A Dove Whose Tail Survives’: Self-Portrait as the Acropolis" https://t.co/JGydxinGYx

[𝖠llie @allietull]

you are not alone,
the poem said,
in the dark tunnel.
—Louise Glück from her poem “October”

[𝖠llie @allietull]

OCTOBER. Welcome to Ray Bradbury’s phantasmagoric milieu.

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

We have the sins of silence here. Also the sins of loquacity and glibness. We have the sins of moderation, and also of excess. We have our sinner gluttons, and our sinner anorectics.

- Renata Adler, PITCH DARK

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

- Henry James