kel

this island’s full of noises

[Halle Gilbert @hallegilb]

Babette's Supper Club, Atlantic City, NJ. 1920-1950.

[Enchanted Booklet @dreamerbook]

'Titania and Bottom' by Kinuko Y. Craft

[َ @o_exacoustos]

📸 Liebespaar—Amoureux (Egon Schiele, 1913).

[Heidi @bokumowakaran]

I Can Fix It by Justin Novak

[Trampoline Poetry @TrampolinePoet1]

Natalie Louise Tombasco from Milk for Gall.

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“Every day God asks, Cruelty again?”

— Nora Hikari

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This poem appeared in Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets, 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[brianna @bkoerth]

snail mail Saturday!

[mercurian archives @pearlusconi]

Vanity Fair covers by Franz Leyendecker

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

David Hettinger’s girls

[pengwynn @pengwyndolin]

you can tell when someone is from pennsylvania because they’ll speak with an accent and cadence you’ve never heard before in your entire life

[Lσla Sιlҽɳȥισ @silenziomio]

Emilio Freixas - Midsummer Fairies.

[Mag Gabbert @mag_gabbert]

HOW ABOUT a favorite poem by Taylor Byas??

[Mag Gabbert @mag_gabbert]

And now I’m pleased to present: a favorite poem by Diane Seuss(!!)

[mary @elaine_stritch]

i saw goody proctor using ai

[ангел𓂀𓋹🪽𖤓 @cleomythra]

Salvador Viniegra - The First Kiss, 1891

[love drops @lovedropx]

sandra cisneros

[maneesha @ManeeshaSem]

the feminine urge to be mystically lying beside a natural body of water, draped in a translucent silk dress, moon-drunk