It's too easy to sideline projects categorized as essentially only for "play."
IOW: Just because some folks like to use roads for a leisurely drive (me included), we don't then go putting roads in the Parks budget.
If greenways weren't handled as places for "mere" diversion (!), would we have more?
..train in some archives, teaching methods & learning our shared reverence for research which is reverence for knowledge which is reverence for community which is reverence for being which is reverence for this earth & all universes
frāPosition Paper #53: National Archivist
Andrea Lawlor
t.ly/u0Ajt
No joke: I *LOVE* when I get to just ask folks questions and have conversationāriffing off where answers & the energy takes us.
So when @eastnashtivists.bsky.social asked if I'd help facilitate a convo w/all these great people, I was in šÆ%!
Come join us at East Nashville Beer Works, Wed at 5:30pm!
we were stirred, we learned the shape of our own ears
the soft animism of mortality
we looked at each otherās skin, from a distance,
& felt we could break at anything at all
a piercing thought even
we thought weād lose everything, we thought we already had
frāQuiet
Janani Balasubramanian
t.ly/SZGpf
. . . my grief was
a kind of deranged hope. I wanted a different
country, an old language to burst forth like
a hidden river. āLove is the cause of what
ails you,ā wrote Lauren Berlant. Oof. Most likely,
no man is a refuge. But we can try all the same
frāBildungssonnet
Billy-Ray Belcourt
t.ly/bJuvT
I inventoried the fridge.
The cream had turned.
I was late to the news of myself
I didnāt starve.
I just never came back to the table
Even hunger
has standards
I left later,
quiet enough that air forgot me.
I went the way women go
who survive too long
frāAfterwards
Eva Candelaria Sosa
t.ly/VXQbR
you brought me back
to show me how easy it is
to fall
or at least
that is what I told myself
to keep myself
satisfied amidst the failures
of friction
frāLube, Ars Poetica
Lan Lesmeister
bit.ly/4uuH0Lc
@jesusurbanist.bsky.social w/a well-worth-the-read post!
I keep thinking: While the importance of greenways as places of recreation can't be understated (ribbons of La Grande Jatte-like refuge), their placement in the Parks budget signals an institutional understanding of them as *only* that...(1/2)
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Today we launched the second Civilian Civic Corps cohort, our summer political internship that uses the New Deal and Civil Rights eras to train the next generation of organizers.
Iām so honored to take part in their journey! š
Recorded by Lan Lesmeisterfor Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 11, 2026. ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā www.poets.orgā
