As you probably know Iʻve spent years carrying Frank OʻHaraʻs Lunch Poems around with me, preferably in a pocket. The other day, I saw a copy on a table in one of my favorite New York spaces, Torn Page, and hereʻs what happened.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/oh-poem-we-lov…
"Reading Poetry Devotionally: How Poems Nurture our Spiritual Lives," taught by David Mahan. One of the enriching courses on offer at YDS Summer Study 2026, running online June 1-5. Open to all!
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"Don't use LLMs for that!"
every #AI agent idea is like
"okay so I made an AI trained on all poetry, it only understands poems, for any event it can tell you the most poetic next event but it doesn't understand ethics only what's poetic"
okay perfect so I added a system prompt that says "pretend you understand the ethics of war"
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Gerald Finzi, Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge & Christopher Robinson:
🎵 I praise the tender flower (Seven Poems of Robert Bridges)
#GeraldFinzi #ChoirofStJohnsCollege #Cambridge #ChristopherRobinson
Radical activist and eventual poet laureate William Wordsworth, once proclaimed:
"Men who do not wear fine clothes can feel deeply."
Read "Michael" and understand what he was going on about: https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/michael-pastoral-poem…
Wave propagation in the frequency regime in one-dimensional quasiperiodic media -Limiting absorption principle
Pierre Amenoagbadji (APAM, POEMS), Sonia Fliss (POEMS), Patrick Joly (POEMS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08442
Joseph P. Sweatpants 😉 writes:
Ok Machineheads! I hope it's ok to call ourselves that!?! Maybe "loose screws" is better??? Haha. Hey all you Loose Screws, the first This Machine was a huge success!! The New Deal Cafe wants us back!! Basically, we're going to roll every two months. The next This Machine open mic for works of political protest will be Sunday, April 12, sign-ups 1230p, music 1-4p. Watch the news, work on your songs, poems, jokes, etc.
Following the links you get to something called Perlisisms which are tiny poems from Alan Perlis. Here are 120 of them:
https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
8. A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
95. Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
(I'm guilty as charged)
110. Editing is a rewording activity.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Michael McMahon, Catherine Robbin & Robert Schumann:
🎵 5 Gedichte der Konigin Maria Stuart (5 Poems of Queen Mary Stuart), Op 135
#MichaelMcMahon #CatherineRobbin #RobertSchumann
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Aaron Copland, Ema Nikolovska, Ulster Orchestra & Jac van Steen:
🎵 Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson
#AaronCopland #EmaNikolovska #UlsterOrchestra #JacvanSteen
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Aaron Copland, Julius Drake & Mark Padmore:
🎵 Nature, the Gentlest Mother, from 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson
#AaronCopland #JuliusDrake #MarkPadmore
https://open.spotify.com/track/6BHp6Ps5YYSRzJ2BgfEC8P
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Francis Poulenc, Katie Carmichael (soprano) & Michael Bawtree (piano):
🎵 C. Deux poems de Louis Aragon - Live on In Tune
#FrancisPoulenc #KatieCarmichaelsoprano #MichaelBawtreepiano