Christopher Poindexter

Poet. Child rain dance forever. Aspiring musician. Lover of Jazz and blues.

[Christopher Poindexter @ChristopherPoin]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/0qloYO0v0A

[Christopher Poindexter @ChristopherPoin]

This one from Lucille Clifton! “That even Death, the most faithful manager” 🙏 @ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania https://t.co/80s7PzkvOA

[Christopher Poindexter @ChristopherPoin]

Just posted a photo @ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania https://t.co/ZNd6jjQftr

[Christopher Poindexter @ChristopherPoin]

Just posted a photo @ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania https://t.co/OnRFhkljL5

[Dust-to-Digital @dusttodigital]

Remembering Jessie Mae Hemphill, born on this day in 1923 near Senatobia, Mississippi. Here she is playing “Train, Train” at the National Downhome Blues Festival in Atlanta in 1984.

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Today is the official release date of “The Harry Smith B-Sides” box set. To mark the occasion, here’s a clip of Mississippi John Hurt, an artist featured twice on the collection, performing “Spike Driver Blues” in 1965.

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Remembering Victoria Spivey, born on this day in 1906 in Houston, Texas. Here she is singing “Black Snake Blues” in Germany in 1966. She’s accompanied by Lonnie Johnson on guitar, Sonny Boy Williamson on harmonica, Willie Dixon on bass, and Bill Stepney on drums.

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Go quietly; a dream
When done, should leave no trace
That it has lived, except a gleam
Across the dreamer’s face.

—Countee Cullen

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[Christopher Poindexter @ChristopherPoin]

Always this poem

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

"Praise the mutilated world / and the gray feather a thrush lost, / and the gentle light that strays and vanishes / and returns."

I dearly needed this poem by Adam Zagajewski.

[McNally Jackson @mcnallyjackson]

Dear New York, Please come back to our stores. Sales remain down over 50% and we need you to keep this bookselling gig going. We have so many wonderful books and booksellers, all we need is you. #BoxedOut #ShopIndie

[Christopher Poindexter @ChristopherPoin]

Lovely, heart wrenching read

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

"This is a cry for help, one that enacts, through its own existence, proof of self-love and a desire to keep living, despite everything.”

—Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
@sadqueer4life
#AboutThisPoem

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[Christopher Poindexter @ChristopherPoin]

I love this city

[Dave DiCello @DaveDiCello]

I don't spend a lot of time capturing #Pittsburgh in the late afternoon, but today I decided to run into town after getting done with my day job (which is not photography), and my goodness...it couldn't have been a more picture perfect fall day.

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Make America Not America Again #LandBack

[Christopher Poindexter @ChristopherPoin]

Just sensational

[Caroline Bird @CarolineBirdUK]

‘Once is enough to say goodbye forever’

- Louise Glück

[Dust-to-Digital @dusttodigital]

Remembering Art Blakey, born on this day in 1919 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Here he is performing "A Night in Tunisia" with the Jazz Messengers in Belgium in 1958.

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

Agnes Pelton was overlooked during her lifetime, but her paintings are eternal. https://t.co/yhcGnn3ycQ

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

or is it only the sound the trees make
when the air passes through them

because what sound would it make,
passing through nothing?

—Louise Glück, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

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[Dust-to-Digital @dusttodigital]

Remembering Lonnie Pitchford, born 65 years ago this week in Lexington, Mississippi. Here he is performing “My Babe” on a diddley bow in the 1991 documentary “Deep Blues.”

[Victoria Chang @VChangPoet]

And it’s even better to listen to.

[Christopher Poindexter @ChristopherPoin]

Will this sadness ever end?