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Some poems from my moment in the sun as Poet of the Week at Only Poems.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/poet-of-the-week

Poet of the Week
Really? Yes, really!

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Dvořšk and Richard Strauss
Pablo Ferršndez is the soloist in Dvořšk's Cello Concerto with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra. Two of Richard Strauss's symphonic poems complete the programme.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mx7l

A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent lovely sunflower existence!
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49304/sunflower-sutra

Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/838167/ai-chatbots-can-be-wooed-…

AI chatbots can be wooed into crimes with poetry
New research suggests riddle-like poems are remarkably effective at circumventing AI safety features. 

One of my favourite poems. I'm not much of a poetry fan, but #PamAyers really hits the nail.
I often wonder what it must be like to be so strong,
Infallible, articulate, self-confident and wrong.
They Should Have Asked My Husband

Just finished "Dreams from Many Rivers" by Margarita Engle. It's a Latin-American history of the United States, written in poems that take on the points of view of a number of both fictional and actual people. It starts with the arrival of Spanish colonists in Puerto Rico, which was in fact the first part of the present-day States to experience European colonialism.
Its super informative and a great read to appreciate the complexities of history that ICE and the US white supremacist movement are trying to sweep under the rug. Like how the fuck do you deport a person whose indigenous and then Mexican ancestors lived in Arizona for centuries but now that it's claimed by the US since they speak Spanish they're "foreign."
It's a pretty quick read since it's a lot of short poems, and it's got lovely illustrations by Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Most English poems
I read on the Internet
Are just sentences
That don’t rhyme. How come?
(Not to deride the very cute xmas poem here but serious question. Do I have a bad sample size? Is this rhyming just for song lyrics and rap now? Or was non-rhyming poetry always bigger in English than in other languages?) https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SundayMorning
Frederick Delius, David Lloyd‐Jones & Royal Scottish National Orchestra:
🎵 Three Small Tone Poems (No 2, 'Winter Night / Sleigh Ride')
#FrederickDelius #DavidLloydJones #RoyalScottishNationalOrchestra

Big Toe Joe
Poems for kids. Fun, charming, silly, sometimes even poignant. Perfect for families...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/big-toe-joe/

Poems Invited for DEC 2025 Issue of Taj Mahal Review (48th Issue)
https://ift.tt/qyb5uYm
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Reading one of my favorite poems for you today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXBO5or_g5s

Matsuo Basho (1644–1694) lived his peculiar life on the conviction that
art could create an awareness that allowed one to see into and communicate the essence of experience.
Throughout his life he searched for the state of being one with the object of his poems,
something he believed a poet needed to reach in order to write truthfully.
This life-long search brought Basho to wandering.
He thought that travelling would lead to a state of karumi (lightness), ess…

In Basho’s Footsteps: Hiking the Narrow Road to the Deep North Three Centuries Later
Matsuo Basho (1644–1694) lived his peculiar life on the conviction that art could create an awareness that allowed one to see into and communicate the essence of experience.

OpenAI rolls out Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-like feature, to Free, Plus, and Pro users in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/chatgpt-launches-a-year-end-review…

ChatGPT launches a year-end review like Spotify Wrapped | TechCrunch
The experience includes awards, poems, and pictures referencing your year in chat.

Day 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
Tambores En Benirras:
🎵 Generadora de Rayos [100 Poems Remix]
#TamboresEnBenirras
https://100poems.bandcamp.com/track/tambores-en-benirras-generadora-de-rayos-100-poems-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Q2tdnBY4M1zpDV5pk2TvI

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Alexander Scriabin & Jayson Gillham:
🎵 2 Poems for piano, Op 32
#AlexanderScriabin #JaysonGillham

If you’re still on Substack, you’re in a Nazi bar. You know who visits Nazi bars? Nazis.
#substack #israel #genocide #BigTech

Joy (@joynewacc@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Something happened to me recently, and I don't mean to be dramatic, but it's truly a shameful thing. Two days ago, I joined the writing platform #substack & even though @aral@mastodon.ar.al & @fabio@manganiello.eu told me it wasn't a good platform for me, being Palestinian, I decided to interact on it and post my poems there. I was subjected to awful abuse in all verbal forms by Zionists there. But I preferred to remain silent instead of arguing with any fools. Today, the pla…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
William Alwyn & Tippett Quartet:
🎵 Winter Landscape (Winter Poems)
#WilliamAlwyn #TippettQuartet
https://open.spotify.com/track/1fcGQC64C9rukcvcjBupK8

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
William Alwyn & Tippett Quartet:
🎵 Winter Landscape (Winter Poems)
#WilliamAlwyn #TippettQuartet
https://open.spotify.com/track/1fcGQC64C9rukcvcjBupK8