#terrence hayes

[autisisko]

kate clanchy, love / 3x20 / elizabeth lindsey rogers, questions about the father / 2x22 / 3x20 / li-young lee, descended from dreamers / 3x20 / terrence hayes, american sonnet for my past and future assassin / 5x14 / phoebe bridgers, motion sickness / 5x14 / amatullah bourdon, and my father’s love is nothing next to god’s will / 5x14 / a text from my friend / 5x14 / warsan shire, teaching my mother how to give birth / 5x14 / margaret atwood, we are hard / tag on a sharon olds poem / frank o’hara, lisztiana

#star trek: deep space nine #elim garak #enabran tain #2x22 #3x20 #5x14 #i wanted to make something happy #after being away for so long #then i spent some time with my father

[pondsphuwin]

bangseon: lover or executioner (agustin gomez-arcos // fyodor dostoevsky // terrence hayes)

[@asiandramanet event 02 - not so secret santa: merry christmas to my beloved @seamayweed ♡]

[@asiandramanet creator bingo — black & white]

#my country: the new age #mctna #bangseon #asiandramanet #kdrama #kdramagifs #yi bang won #nam seon ho #bingo tag #event tag #seamayweed #lextag #woo do hwan #jang hyuk #gif 3 #web weaving #flickering tw #mctnagifs

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

what is the Robin timeline in ur headverse? Like what’s the order and where do they end up later in the timeline? (also love ur art its amazing)

okay, stick with me, this is a journey:

Bruce wasn't the first Batman in the headverse, that was an OC named Dr. Aloysius Flying Fox (later just Aloysius Fox). His Robin was John Blake, who's thus first by technicality. Al and John are the headverse's Golden Age Batman and Robin, with a weakened Zod as the Golden Age Superman and Diana back in her role as Golden Age WW since she was born in 1900 as a Century Baby.

Once Bruce becomes Batman, the order of Robins is:

Dick Grayson (adopted as preteen, trains for a year or so and debuts as Robin) who becomes Nightwing around the time he's 18, using a name of Kryptonian animal and a Kandorian bodysuit gifted to him by Clark, giving him a little extra protection even against superhuman foes.

Jason Todd comes on after Dick's moved to San Francisco/Jump City full time with the Titans but before he's Nightwing. He's older than Dick was when he started (so 14-15) and only gets a year or two before Joker kills him. He's revived shortly after by the League of Assassins and trained in the ways of the All-Caste. He returns to Gotham as the Red Hood before completing his training, which causes problems for his Outlaws down the line.

After the incident with Jason, there's a gap where Bruce is mostly operating solo (barring team-ups with other established heroes). Tim, Steph, and Cass all come crashing into his life around the same time after Dick's become Nightwing but before Jason return. Tim is Robin, Steph is Spoiler and Cass is Orphan, but Steph and Cass become a second Robin and Batgirl shortly after coming up the Batman's aegis.

After Jason's return, Tim is Red Robin, Steph and Cass are both Batgirl (barring Cass's time undercover as Kasumi), at which point Damian enters the picture and the whole dynamic blows up. Once everything's kind of settled, Damian is Robin.

Then Crisis Era begins and there's another big shake-up, the functional result of which is the disappearance of the Trinity. This Era is defined by reality breaking apart as a result of various Meta-Cosmic beings (The Hands and The Eyes, Monitors and Looker, Pariah, Old and New Gods, etc) all fighting to survive Perpetua and The King of Tears attempting to resurrect Ultra the Hunter.

Dick and Damian continue on as Batman and Robin for some time. Carrie Kelley is active as Robin as well, but she's from a timeline create and destroyed during the Crisis, so she mostly operates independent of the larger Bat-Family. Jace Fox discovers Aloysius's history as the Lost Batman of Gotham's Golden Age and simultaneously operates as Batman of the Cinderella City (New York).

Dick eventually leaves the mantle, Damian becomes the Outsider, and Jace and his sister Tam operate as Batman and Robin. Cass is the new Batwoman, with Vivian Vale (oc) as Batgirl and Cheyenne Fremont as Nightwing. Steph is Oracle with assists from Barbara. Tim survives being captured by Joker and then splits his costumed adventures between the Black Ace Joker and the Batman Who Laughs.

From there is a jump to the Beyond Era and the emergence of Terrence McGinnis, unknowingly a result of Waller's work to create a reliable Batman of her own, who then bonds with an abandoned picotech symbio-suit being maintained by an older Jace.

Duke's present through the timeline, but as a Monitor-level metahuman, he's sort of on his own trajectory. Harper is concurrent with Steph, Cass, and Tim, all of whom are involved with a Talon using the pseudonym "Turner Hayes" before being revealed as an undead Dexter Dent. Dex is briefly Robin under James Gordon Jr, Waller's first attempt at having a Batman of her own.

Maps Mizoguchi is in here somewhere, probably concurrent with Damian and Carrie during the Crisis. She eventually becomes Meridian (uh, current BoP spoilers I guess).

Jenny Wren claims to be the First Robin but she's just one of Aloysius and John's rogues who became a Talon but got her memory scrambled.

I think I originally had a young Helena Bertinelli as Robin concurrent with Dick to retroactively justify Helena Wayne being named after her, but idk if I'm keeping that or it really makes sense. Otherwise she's Kate Kate's Robin before becoming Huntress. Helena Wayne follows a similar trajectory, but becomes Batman between Cass and Jace but before Terri and Elaina (Dick's daughter with [redacted] and briefly one of the Red X's).

Jarro...exists.

I...think that's everyone?

#dc #headverse #au #lore dump #text post #long post #anon #robin #i'm not tagging everyone #batman

[gender-snatched]

Doctor Who / Wilson (Expensive Mistakes) - Fall Out Boy / Doctor Who / De Profundis - Oscar Wilde / @ssaalexblake / The Hours - Michael Cunningham / Doctor Who / Extracting the Stone of Madness — lejandra Pizarnik trans. Yvette Siegert / Doctor Who / Evelyn Evelyn - Evelyn Evelyn / @taardisblue / Doctor Who / Arsonist's Lullaby - Hozier / American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin - Terrence Hayes / Doctor Who / Frankenstein - Mary Shelley / Doctor Who / Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë / Doctor Who / @alleycatboy

#Doctor Who #The Master #The doctor #thoschei #Web weaving

[ghostofashina]

LOVE AS DESTRUCTION — LOVERS TO ENEMIES.

in the cut, susanna moore

sekiro shadows die twice

Terrence Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (via @/araekni)

Yves Olade, Slaughterhouse

End of Emma (ONGBAL).

Yves Olade, When Rome Falls

@achillics, vulnerability

Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives

#sekiro shadows die twice #web weaving #theme: violence #theme: love #theme: destruction #quotes #poetry #lovers to enemies #emma sekiro #emma/sekiro #lady emma #fromsoftware #fromsoftedit #gamingdaily #gamingedit #videogameedit #<3

[bow-chicka-wow-wow-wow]

South Park Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

1. The pilot episode, “Cartman Gets An Anal Probe,” was the only episode that creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone animated entire on their own, using cardboard paper cutouts and stop-motion. All subsequent episodes were animated digitally.

2. Ever since streaming moved to Max, five episodes are missing from the streaming service: “Super Best Friends,” “Cartoon Wars, pts I & II,” “200,” and “201.” All episodes were pulled due to the depiction of Muhammad.

3. PC Principal, who replaced Principal Victoria as the principal of South Park Elementary as of season 19, is actually named Peter Charles.

4. Terrence and Phillip were made to be a parody of South Park itself. When the show first aired, people have criticized it for being a crudely animated TV show that consisted of nothing but fart jokes. Terrance & Phillip, the show within a show, is a crudely animated TV show that consisted of nothing but fart jokes!

5. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut has a total of 399 curse words, as any film at the time that had at least 400 curse words would be given the NC-17 rating, and Paramount couldn’t distribute films with that rating. Just one curse word away from losing that R rating.

6. In the earlier seasons, upon Kenny’s inevitable gruesome death in every episode, Stan and Kyle would shout “Oh my God! They killed Kenny!,” and “You bastards!,” respectively. The “bastards” they refer to are Stone and Parker themselves. Stan and Kyle are calling the creators out for killing Kenny, those bastards!

7. Before the season 5 episode “Kenny Dies,” Parker and Stone originally intended to kill off Kyle, but eventually settled for Kenny since they were running out of ways to kill him every episode. This death was originally going to be “permanent,” as he was absent for the majority of season 6, before finally reappearing in the season 6 finale, “Red Sleigh Down,” for the last scene.

8. Singer/songwriter Isaac Hayes, the voice behind Jerome “Chef” McElroy was originally rumored to have left the show due to the episode “Trapped In The Closet” poking fun at Scientology, as Hates was a Scientologist himself. Hayes’s Scientology entourage has written to the creators, supposedly on Hayes’s behalf, asking for Chef’s voice being released from the show. It was later revealed his son Isaac III that Hayes had actually left due to suffering a stroke. Chef’s final appearance before the characters death was voiced using past recordings, making the character sound like a deviant brainwashed by a cult.

9. Trey Parker even admitted that the “ectoplasm” scene in “Over Logging” was “the most offensive shot he’s ever done in the whole show.” When even the creators have said their jokes have crossed the line, that’s really saying something.

10. The “Cartoon Wars” two-parter is a roast against Family Guy. Upon the airing of those two episodes, South Park was given praise from the creators of The Simpsons and King of the Hill, with Simpsons creators sending Stone and Parker flowers, and King of the Hill creators stating that South Park was “doing God’s work.” Even though those two episodes showed how much Stone and Parker hated Family Guy, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane actually praised the two-parter and actually agreed with their statement on what the show actually was, minus the writing staff being manatees. To this day, MacFarlane remains a good sport about this, despite Stone and Parker’s blatant disrespect for him.

[mariacallous]

Veterans Affairs leaders aren’t planning any changes in their abortion access rules in the wake of warnings from 15 Republican attorneys general that they plan to fight those policies in court.

Last week, the coalition of state officials sent a letter to VA Secretary Denis McDonough blasting the administration’s “lawless and hasty executive actions taken at the behest of its political base” concerning abortion.

“We will not allow you to use this rule to erect a regime of elective abortions that defy state laws,” the group wrote. “And we will enforce our duly enacted state laws and hold you accountable for violations of federal law. Those who perform abortions based on the [new] rule — and in defiance of state or federal laws — do so at their own risk.”

The letter was sent from the office of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch but also includes signers from Texas and Florida, two states with the largest veteran populations in America. Officials from Arizona, Ohio, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia also signed on.

In September, VA officials announced that department physicians would offer abortion access to veterans and eligible dependents in cases of rape, incest and pregnancies that endanger the life or health of an individual.

That move came in response to the June Supreme Court ruling overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide. Since then, multiple states have banned or limited the procedure.

VA officials said the new rule means that staff can help veterans get an abortion at an outside health care facility or perform abortions on federal property, even in states where the procedure has been outlawed.

The department has conducted several abortions since the decision, although officials did not provide specific numbers or locations.

In a statement in response to the attorneys general letter, VA Press Secretary Terrence Hayes said the department remains “committed to providing veterans the full range of reproductive health services to ensure their health and well-being.”

Those services include not only abortion procedures but also fertility services, contraceptives and menopause care, he said.

“VA provides access to abortion counseling and abortions when the life or health of the pregnant veteran would be endangered if the pregnancy were carried to term or when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest,” he said.

“As VA Secretary Denis McDonough has said, ‘pregnant veterans and VA beneficiaries deserve to have access to world-class reproductive care when they need it most..’”

VA officials have said the new rule will not allow “elective” abortions, but the language allows abortion procedures to be considered when a veteran’s health is endangered.

Multiple Republican lawmakers have threatened to impose financial sanctions against the department when they take control of the House majority next year. Democratic leaders meanwhile have vowed to fight any such attacks.

VA officials have said about 300,000 women veterans currently enrolled in department health care services are of child-bearing age.

[rockislandadultreads]

Black History Month: Poetry Recommendations

Golden Ax by Rio Cortez

From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a poetry collection exploring personal, political, and artistic frontiers, journeying from her family's history as Afropioneers in the American West to shimmering glimpses of transcendent, liberated futures.

In poems that range from wry, tongue-in-cheek observations about contemporary life to more nuanced meditations on her ancestors - some of the earliest Black pioneers to settle in the western United States after Reconstruction - Golden Ax invites readers to re-imagine the West, Black womanhood, and the legacies that shape and sustain the pursuit of freedom.

I Am The Rage by Dr. Martina McGowan

I Am The Rage is a poetry collection that explores racial injustice from the raw, unfiltered viewpoint of a Black woman in America. Dr. Martina McGowan is a retired MD, a mother, grandmother, and a poet. Her poetry provides insights that no think piece on racism can; putting readers in the uncomfortable position of feeling, reflecting, and facing what it means to be a Black American.

This entire collection was created during 2020, many shortly after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, to name but a few.

Best Barbarian by Roger Reeves

The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf’s Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border to thinking through the fraught beauty of the moon on a summer night after the police have killed a Black man.

Daring and formally elegant, Best Barbarian asks the reader: “Who has not been an entryway shuddering in the wind / Of another’s want, a rose nailed to some dark longing and bled?” Reeves extends his inquiry into the work of writers who have come before, conversing with - and sometimes contradicting - Walt Whitman, James Baldwin, Sappho, Dante, and Aimé Césaire, among others. Expanding the tradition of poetry to reach from Gilgamesh and the Aeneid to Drake and Beyoncé, Reeves adds his voice to a long song that seeks to address itself “only to freedom.”

And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longing, partings; of Saturday night partying, and the smells and sounds of Southern cities; of freedom and shattered dreams. 'The caged bird sings/ with a fearful trill/ of things unknown/ but longed for still/ and his tune is heard/ on the distant hill/ for the caged bird/ sings of freedom.'

Angles of Ascent edited by Charles Henry Rowell

This is not just another poetry anthology. It is a gathering of poems that demonstrate what happens when writers in a marginalized community collectively turn from dedicating their writing to political, social, and economic struggles, and instead devote themselves to the art of their poems and to the ideas they embody. These poets bear witness to the interior landscapes of their own individual selves or examine the private or personal worlds of invented personae and, therefore, of human beings living in our modern and postmodern worlds.

The anthology focuses on post-1960s poetry and includes such poets as Rita Dove, Ai, Nathaniel Mackey, Natasha Trethewey, Kevin Young, Terrence Hayes, Elizabeth Alexander, Major Jackson, Carl Phillips, Harryette Mullen, and Yusef Komunyakaa - artists who, using a wide range of styles and forms, are cultivating a poetry of personal voice and interiority that speaks against the backdrop of community and ancestry.

#black history month #black history #black authors #poetry #nonfiction #library books #book recommendations #reading recommendations #book recs #reading recs #TBR pile #tbr #to read #booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog

[arjun-muralidharan]

June 26th to 28th 2008 Venue: Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard Time clocked: 2:02.57 Olympic Qualifying Target Timing: 2.01.78 Location: Montreal Quebec Canada

The new Neophrene Speedo LZR racing suits were launched about a month prior to this meet and were all the buzz about how they are reducing about half a second for all the swimmers who got their hands on one. Only a selective few coaches were given these suits to help their swimmers make the Olympic cut. I asked my coach Byron Macdonald to get me one if possible. But he said it wasnt available in my size as i was a size 44 at the time. My teammate Terrence Hayes got his hands on a size 40 LZR which was his size. I asked him if i could borrow it for the 100 butterfly and he said yes. The suit took a good 45 mins to put on with the help of my brother but i knew it was too tight and difficult to breathe in but the tradeoff was worth it if it helped me make the Olympic cut. My target was to go 54.50 and qualify in the 100 itself and not leave it all to my main event which was the 200 fly. But unfortunately these suits as amazing as they were had a notorious reputation for having atrocious zips which never held together. On the blocks as the starter buzzed prepping to say "take your marks" my suits zip snapped open and my heart froze as i realised what happened. I swam the race with my entire suit filled with water way off the mark at 57.24. It was extremely disheartening and i decided to give up the idea of experimenting with any new suits and rely on my own Speed FS PRO suit for the 200 fly as that was my last chance.

100 fly results: https://www.swimrankings.net/index.php?page=meetDetail&meetId=530519&gender=1&styleId=16

Next morning woke up at 5:45 AM in my hotel room. Had a couple of bananas with energy drinks & stretched for about 30 mins preparing for the morning prelim swim. I had strategised to win the event and secure an Olympic QT i will need to secure a top 3 position in the prelims. My target was to swim 2:08 in the heats trusting that my conditioning and recovery rate helps me get ready & push through to 2:01 in the finals later in the day. Was about an hour's drive to the pool from our hotel as Montreal traffic jams are quite hectic. All through the journey had my ipod on listening to my usual rap tracks to be in the zone and suppress the butterflies in my stomach. Reached the pool and got in for the warmup. The water felt extremely light and muscles were feeling loose and fluid. This reinforced my confidence by a huge margin.

The race started out i was in the first heat. TIM RUSE of Pointe-Claire Swim Club and KISHIDA Masayuki of Japan took the lead early into the race with me comfortably in the third place. I decided to swim conserving energy i increased my stroke rate and pace around 150 meters pulling ahead of Tim RUSE and qualifying 5th for the finals swimming 2:09. Went back to the hotel had a big breakfast and a quick nap. However our swim coaches wouldnt give us a seperate room like the first two days and asked us to move and adjust with 7 other swimmers in one bed. Unfortunately some of the swimmers were given seperate rooms for their events. I knew i had a lot riding on this race to qualify for Beijing Olympics and i couldnt afford to let lack of rest and comfort come in the way of my performance. So i had to fight with other swimmers who didnt have events and ask them to move so i can get a bed to take a nap on prior to the finals. My older brother Amar who was after the same goal had swam in the morning and qualified third for the finals clocking 2:09. He couldnt get a proper place to sleep thanks to all the money saving going on by the club into clustering up swimmers so they dont have to pay for rooms. I was willing to pay more for my own room but the management and coaches refused to accomodate this request. My brother went out to Harvey's & Tim Horton's and got us both lunch which consisted of a few gatorade drinks and chicken burgers.

At about 3:00 PM we checked out of the hotel and went with all our luggage to the pool for the finals. I warmed up surprisingly feeling good but the water felt slightly cold which didnt matter much to me. I knew i am going to swim fast during the warm up but the question was how fast will it be and will it be enough? I meditated a bit after the warmup in solitude praying to the god of strength, visualizing my race and started suiting up in my FS PRO which was an old / outdated suit at the time but i trusted it'll get the job done.

As me and my brother walked out for the finals we suddenly saw the on deck commentator getting the crowd going on the last day. There were about 15000 people in attendance that broke out into a mexican wave. It was a sight to see and got me pumped up to swim the race fast. 10 mins after we were in the marshalling room getting ready to walk out to the blocks when the commentator announced the names of the swimmers walking out one by one. As our names were called out the announcer asked the crowd to give a big round of applause for us for coming all the way from India and racing in Canada. 5000 large crowd stood up and clapped for us making me feel honored and proud. It was a very unforgettable and special moment for us in our lives.

The race started with me opening out in the blistering 56.83 taking the lead. As i made the turn for the third 50 i saw the Toronto Swim Club team standing near my lane and screaming for me to bring it home. In the last lap at the 175 meters mark my hands turned to concrete but i knew it was a do or die situation. I said screw it and went 20 meters head down swim with my lungs nearing explosion but i wouldnt relent till i touched the wall, when i finally hit the last stroke i knew i left whatever i had and gave it my all regardless of the outcome. I turned around and saw that i missed the Olympic qualifying mark by .70 of a second. However i had broken the Canada Cup record and become the first and only Indian swimmer to win a gold at a foreign national championship. It was a mixed emotion of feeling you accomplised something but sad that you lost something at the same time. All my coaches, training partners came and gave me a pat, handshakes and three cheers along with the crowd as well. After coming out of the pool all i could do is take a bow and acknowledge the great people who were showing appreciation.

I had a long and heartfelt call with my dad and mentor who was back home watching the race live. He said "The only thing that matters is that you gave it your best and made your parents and country proud" In the end that is the main thing.

200 fly results: https://www.swimrankings.net/index.php?page=meetDetail&meetId=530519&gender=1&styleId=17

All in all it was a great experience and something i cherish to this day. Winning and Losing is all a part of the sport. What matters is what you take from it and how you grow thereafter. These are the experiences we impart onto our students who will be the champions of tommorrow.

#swim #arjunmuralidharan #toronto #swimmer #competitive swimming #india #canada

[healthstyle101]

Veterans plagued by errors in health benefit system due to computer mishap

Vietnam Veterans Honored with Traveling Memorial A heartfelt salute to our Vietnam veterans as they are honored by the nation. In this article, we'll break down the recognition they deserve, while also delving into a recent issue involving the Veterans Affairs (VA) system. A Helping Hand Turns a Bit Awry The VA, with its best intentions, introduced an automated system in December 2021 to expedite decisions on disability claims. It was a response to what they thought would be a flood of claims from Vietnam-era veterans affected by Agent Orange exposure, a substance linked to high blood pressure. This automated system was designed to collect data on high blood pressure from VA treatment records, compiling it into a summary for VA staff to review before finalizing the claims. However, a recent VA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report revealed a hiccup in this well-intentioned plan. 27% Error Rate Discovered The OIG report found that this automated system contributed to inaccurate ratings in 27% of high blood pressure claims it processed. This means that more than a quarter of the claims were decided wrongly due to incomplete data handled by the system. The IG's office recommended improvements to both the technology and the quality assurance process. According to Larry Reinkemeyer, the VA assistant inspector general for audits and evaluation, this is crucial to ensure that deserving veterans receive their entitled benefits. The Human Touch in Technology This incident highlights the importance of human oversight when using artificial intelligence tools. Christopher Alexander, chief analytics officer of Pioneer Development Group, emphasized that AI systems are not infallible geniuses but tools that need proper guidance. "Human error and poor quality control led to bad data fed into the system that the AI could not identify as faulty," Alexander explained. Data Collection Matters Phil Siegel, founder of the Center for Advanced Preparedness and Threat Response Simulation, stressed the need for cleaning up data collection and entry systems before embracing automated models. "Garbage in, garbage out" remains a reality for software systems, including AI models. VA's Response and Improvements VA officials acknowledged most of the OIG's recommendations and clarified that at no point did the automated system make final claims decisions. They explained that the system was still in the early stages of development during the inspection. VA Press Secretary Terrence Hayes assured that the VA has been working on using automation to speed up claims processing and ensure veterans get their benefits swiftly. Hayes noted that on average, veterans receive initial decisions about 20 days faster with automation. The VA has taken steps to modernize and improve their processes and communication with veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors. In conclusion, honoring our Vietnam veterans and ensuring they receive the support they deserve is paramount, but this incident also underscores the importance of handling technology with care and precision, especially when it involves the well-being of our veterans. Read the full article

[asfearlessasamango]

Your blog is one of the primary methods i see new poetry on tumblr and it’s so nice!! I guess I wanted to ask abt some of your favorite poems or poets if u have any? Do you like writing poetry as well? Louise glück and Terrence hayes are my favorites

this is so sweet I’ve been sitting on this for a while ❣️❣️but oy vey, my favorite poems and poets, what a question...

i'll answer your second question first! i do like writing poetry but it almost never occurs to me. i'm a long-form beast, I love the novel, so poetry is not really my native form, if that makes sense. So I really only wrote poems last fall for my poetry writing class, and now I mostly only work on a piece if the seeds of 1 good line have been bouncing around my brain for a while.

some favorite poets.

gabrielle calvocoressi: "miss you. would like to take a walk with you". she has a few poems written in that above style, almost like a series, and they all get me in my heart by the end. she also wrote "hammond b3 organ cistern" and I think it's extraordinary how one poet can write such different emotional depths so well.

chen chen! does this sweet modern witty wordplay laid over emotional truths. my url + ao3 name, "as fearless as a mango," is actually a line from one of his poems! while i don't like the rest of that poem so much, I recommend "I'm not a religious person but" and "If I should die tomorrow, please note that I will miss the particular" .

edna st vincent millay... she just perfected that heartbreak: "time does not bring relief, you all have lied" and "sonnet xliii"

w.s. merwin: "elegy for a walnut tree" and "living with the news"

one-off poem favs...

"the quiet world" by jeffrey mcdaniel is.... ugh. I read it out loud in a zoom poetry night and my professor, the host, just had her hands on her head and her mouth open for a second at the end. someone commented "great gatsby vibes" and I was like yes!! I've been considering getting 2 old-timey telephones tattooed, one on the back of each of my arms, facing each other.

"Party" by Kim Addonizio

"What the dead don't need" by Faith Shearin. This one was like a puzzle or a calculus problem in my brain for weeks... and then I got it. excellent case for believing in the afterlife imo.

"Invisible Fish" by Joy Harjo. America you break my heart!!!! (The author is native american, which may impact how you read the poem.)

"Your night is of lilac" by Mahmoud Darwish.

"The Sciences Sing a Lullaby" by Albert Goldbarth. More effective than melatonin imo

"The Conditional" by Ada Limón. If you like glück I feel like you'll like limón!

"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop. I didn't react to this poem at all the first time I read it in high school but one of my classmates came in and said it made her cry. The trick is to read the "--" as a breaking voice and to know that this is a villenelle, originally a French type of poem that has a very specific line repetition pattern throughout the stanzas and a traditional focus on sad / disturbing / horror, gothic, grief themes. "Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath is another villenelle. With that context in mind, also pay attention to the increasing severity of loss throughout each stanza, until the ultimate bigger than losing a continent loss happens.

"the saddest poem I have ever written" by debbie milman is incredible.

finally... "come and be my baby" by maya angelou.

#i was culling the list so much lol #i hope this helps!! xx #mango speaks

[aal35]

Hayden and Hayes: Poetic Debate

Robert Hayden is critiquing his father for being mean and unloving during in his childhood, but he eventually realizes that his father had a lot on his back while enduring pressure. The issue with Hayden’s poem was him having repression of expression in his poem and believing that is acceptable, which is why he contradicts with the black arts era and why Terrence Hayes must respond. Robert Hayden, a more traditional black artist and writing before the black art era, he believed in repressing the black expression due to the model of writing he grew around and grew into. Hayden has a question directed to Terrence Hayes. His poem is also retrospective, he contrasts himself against his father, due to the notion of believing he will have more understanding and forgiveness as well as grace in his heart compared his father returning that, and vice versa. Yet, Terrence Hayes focused on the line “chronic anger “and response to this one line through an entire poem. Terrence uses literary element of rhetorical questions to respond to Hayden, indirectly creating dialogue.

-Tt

[bybelcher]

AT PEGASUS

by Terrence Hayes, 1999

They are like those crazy women   who tore Orpheus      when he refused to sing, these men grinding   in the strobe & black lights      of Pegasus. All shadow & sound. "I'm just here for the music,"   I tell the man who asks me      to the floor. But I have held a boy on my back before.   Curtis & I used to leap      barefoot into the creek; dance among maggots & piss,   beer bottles & tadpoles      slippery as sperm; we used to pull off our shirts,   & slap music into our skin.      He wouldn't know me now   at the edge of these lovers' gyre,   glitter & steam, fire,      bodies blurred sexless by the music's spinning light.   A young man slips his thumb      into the mouth of an old one, & I am not that far away.   The whole scene raw & delicate      as Curtis's foot gashed on a sunken bottle shard.   They press hip to hip,      each breathless as a boy carrying a friend on his back.   The foot swelling green      as the sewage in that creek. We never went back.   But I remember his weight      better than I remember my first kiss.   These men know something      I used to know. How could I not find them   beautiful, the way they dive & spill      into each other, the way the dance floor   takes them,      wet & holy in its mouth.

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Black Veterans Were More Often Denied VA Benefits For PTSD Than White Counterparts, Newly Surfaced Study Shows

A newly surfaced 2017 internal Veterans Affairs report shows Black veterans were more often denied benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder than their white counterparts.

The analysis crunched claims data from fiscal year 2011 through 2016 and showed that Black veterans seeking disability benefits for PTSD were denied 57% of the time, compared to 43% for white veterans. The report emerged as part of an open records lawsuit filed by an advocacy group for Black veterans.

Terrence Hayes, a spokesperson for the Department of Veterans Affairs, said the agency did not immediately have current data on a racial breakdown of PTSD disability benefits awards and said the agency “is gathering the data and will share it once fully compiled.”

Hayes wrote in an email that the agency could not comment on any ongoing litigation but that VA Secretary Denis McDonough is committed to addressing racial disparities as it relates to VA benefits.

Hayes noted that earlier this month McDonough acknowledged disparities and announced the creation of an Equity Team, telling reporters: “That team’s first order of business will be to look into disparities in grant rates to Black veterans — as well as all minority and historically underserved veterans — and eliminate them.”

Conley Monk Jr., 74, (in photo) from Connecticut, served as a Marine in Vietnam and says he remains haunted by a gruesome incident in which a fellow Marine drove over a Vietnamese man right in front of him.

He says he was unaware at the time that this incident and the violence he witnessed in Vietnam had contributed to his PTSD.

“Ever since I came back from Vietnam, I knew that I had a problem, but I didn’t know what it was. I knew that every time I would get angry as someone would put their hands on me, that I would react, and it would get me in trouble.”

In early March, Secretary McDonough said the agency was “wrestling with disparities based on race in VA benefits decisions and military discharge status.”-(source: nbc news)

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By Nick Watt, CNN

A group of veterans has filed a lawsuit to force homes to be built for them on land now used for elite sports facilities in Los Angeles.

Fourteen unhoused veterans and the National Veterans Foundation filed a complaint in Central California’s federal district court against the Department of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday night, demanding their needs be put first.

“Get the f**k off our land! Or build us housing,” Joshua Petitt, an unhoused Iraq War veteran, told CNN in an alley a hundred yards or so from the gates of the land, which is known as the West Los Angeles Campus.

Joshua Petitt, an unhoused Iraq War veteran.

There are more homeless veterans in Los Angeles than anyplace else in this country – around 3,500 of them on the streets and in shelters, according to the city’s Homeless Services Authority. There are also 388 acres in the leafy, lovely neighborhood of Brentwood on the city’s West Side that were given to the nation specifically to house veterans. But very few veterans actually live here. The land is used for a large VA health center and, among other things, the UCLA Bruins’ baseball diamond, and the sports fields and swimming pool of the elite Brentwood School. They are neighbors, and the Department of Veterans Affairs leases them chunks of this valuable parcel.

The lawsuit demands that, “Permanent Supportive Housing should be made available within 6 months, both on the WLA Campus and in apartments near the WLA Campus for at least 3,500 eligible homeless veterans.” Obviously to help those veterans with housing, and to give them access to services they need that are offered on the campus. It also seeks an injunction, forcing the VA not to use the land “for purposes that are not primarily related to providing housing and healthcare for veterans with disabilities.” So no more private school playing fields.

Petitt, who lived for a year in a tent outside the fence that surrounds this land, is now one of the 14 unhoused veterans among the plaintiffs. “They don’t want us here, bro. I mean, I get it. But I don’t care,” he said. “People always talk about Beverly Hills. But Beverly Hills ain’t nothing compared to Brentwood. That’s why they don’t want us here, because we might be hard to deal with, we have some problems. But they can send us to war to get those problems? But then not have to deal?”

A spokesperson for UCLA told CNN, “UCLA is in full compliance with the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016, as indicated in the Department of Veteran Affairs Office of the Inspector General’s audit of September 2021.”

Terrence Hayes, the VA’s press secretary, told CNN after the suit was filed, “While we cannot comment on ongoing litigation, we at the VA promise that we will not rest until every Veteran has a good, safe, stable home in this country they fought to defend.”

Hayes pointed out that this year across Los Angeles the VA has, “made available 138 units of housing with nearly 700 more units expected in 2023.” And as for building those new units on the VA campus, he says there will be more than 700 units completed by the end of 2025.

CNN asked the Brentwood School for comment on the lawsuit. They have not yet replied.

Why prime real estate owned by the VA is leased for a private school, a ballpark and an oil well -- and not homes for veterans

Earlier this year, CNN published an investigation into what has happened and is happening here on the land and the promises made previously to veterans.

In 2016, after intense pressure from veterans and their advocates, and after another lawsuit, the VA agreed to house veterans on this land. They published a Master Plan. When we visited in March, more than 700 new housing units should have been completed. But not even one was complete. There were about 180 units under construction and scheduled to open this fall. None of them are open yet. “Now we’re being told next year January, February time frame,” said Rob Reynolds, another Iraq War veteran, a veterans’ advocate, and a driving force behind this new lawsuit.

In the spring, Brentwood School declined an interview, but gave CNN a statement detailing the amount of money they pay the VA in rent, as well as the services they offer veterans, such as the use of the school’s gym. In response to recent protests outside the school gates by veterans and their advocates, the school posted a statement on its website that reads, in part, “We have been a reliable partner since 1972 … Brentwood School will continue to work with Veterans and VA officials to ensure that our facilities, services, and programs remain available to the thousands of Veterans and their families who use and benefit from them.”

UCLA also declined an interview in the spring, but a press officer wrote in a statement to CNN: “UCLA pays market-rate rent for its use of Jackie Robinson Stadium.” But, according to a 2016 appraisal of the land, they’re actually about a half-million dollars short. The college also provides some legal and other services, and veterans can attend Bruins baseball games for free.

Ball games don’t cut it for Petitt.

“UCLA lets us go to baseball games, if there’s seating available. My daughter’s absolutely benefiting from that. Oh great. Cool,” said Petitt sarcastically. “Brentwood School lets us use their gym when their precious students aren’t there.”

‘It’s tragic’

Four thousand veterans did once live on this land, say veteran advocates. Roughly the same number of homeless veterans spread across Los Angeles today.

“It wasn’t given to anybody but veterans. For a home,” Christine Barrie, whose ancestor donated much of the land way back in 1888, said in March.

“But with Vietnam, the VA decided, no more,” said Mark Rosenbaum, one of the attorneys behind this lawsuit. “And the neighboring community said we don’t want disabled Vietnam vets out here.” Some say an earthquake in the 1970s that damaged many buildings on the land is actually the reason. The VA says changes in the law prevented them from paying to build veteran housing. The National Veterans Foundation is also a plaintiff. And the legal team includes Rosenbaum’s Public Counsel, as well as the Inner City Law Center, Brown, Goldstein & Levy and Robins Kaplan LLP.

“This is a battle that’s been going on for decades,” said Rosenbaum. “And it’s tragic that we have to go to a federal court in order that vets who served this country can be served by this country.”

In 2016, Congress also passed an act mandating that any leaseholders on this land must, “principally benefit veterans and their families.” Since then, the VA has signed a new agreement with a company that drills for oil on the land. “2.5% revenue we do get,” Robert McKenrick, then a senior official at the VA campus, told CNN back in March. The money is used for veteran transportation. The VA also amended, in private, the UCLA lease, allowing a practice field. That Act of Congress allowed UCLA on the land, on the condition that, “the provision of services to veterans is the predominant focus of the activities of The Regents at the Campus during the term of the lease.” And the VA also signed a new 10-year lease with Brentwood School.

“What’s the point of a law if our own federal government is not going to follow it?” said Reynolds. “And then the end result of this is that veterans are dying on the street.”

“The arrangement with the school is non-compliant,” McKenrick told CNN in March. So, he agreed with a key part of this new lawsuit, that Brentwood School should not be on this land. But, he added, “I’m sure if we terminated the lease, they would take us to court over it.”

Now the VA is being taken to court, but by veterans who want housing. Petitt says housing is, “everything.” He is currently being treated for PTSD. “I can look right here right now and still see the alley in Ramadi,” he said. “Iraq is still so raw.” He wants to help build new homes for vets on this land. “Stability, housing and then everything else will fall into place. And veterans deserve that.”

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It includes two state-of-the-art black box theaters. The complex has an industrial decor, with exposed particle board, pipes and metal sheeting. The upper three floors house the theater. The first floor of the building houses the Shirlington Branch of the Arlington County Public Library. In 2007, however, in partnership with Arlington County, Virginia, Signature moved into a new $16 million theater complex built in The Village at Shirlington. They rapidly outgrew this facility and in 1993 acquired a defunct Auto Bumper Plating shop, AKA "The Garage", which they converted into a 136-seat black box. This original home was in the library of a former middle school which had been converted to a black box theater. In 1989 Signature Theatre began production in the Arlington County Gunston Arts Center.

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Signature has won 107 Helen Hayes Awards for excellence in the Washington, DC region's professional theater and has been honored with 431 nominations.Įric Schaeffer resigned on June 23, 2020, amidst multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault. Today, attracting talent from the DC metropolitan region and New York, Signature has grown to reach more than 100,000 people annually from the Washington, DC region and beyond and garners praise from local and national press including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal,, Playbill, Time, Variety, USA Today and American Theatre. On June 7, 2009, Signature received theater's highest artistic honor – the 2009 Regional Theatre Tony Award® – in recognition of artistic excellence. In January 2007, Signature completed a $16 million capital campaign for a dramatic new two-theater facility that tripled its former garage space and now serves as the cultural anchor of Arlington's Village at Shirlington. While in the “garage,” Signature grew into one of the Washington area's leading producers of musical theater. In 1993, Signature Theatre converted a defunct auto garage into a blackbox theater, and remained there for the following thirteen years. Signature first began in Arlington county's Gunston Middle School auditorium, and in 1991 Signature presented their first production of a musical, Sweeney Todd, a stand-out hit, that put Signature on the map, earned four Helen Hayes Awards and solidified Signature's (and Eric Schaeffer's) reputation as an intrepid producer of Stephen Sondheim's work. In 1989, in response to DC's theater scene that was dominated by large venues that presented mostly traditional plays and the desire to create a “signature” brand of provocative works, graphic designer and performer Eric Schaeffer founded Signature Theatre with actor Donna Migliaccio. Recent awardees include Cameron Mackintosh (2017), John Kander (2018), and Audra McDonald (2019). The first award, to Stephen Sondheim, was presented at an Apbenefit with performances by Bernadette Peters, Michael Cerveris, Will Gartshore and Eleasha Gamble. The theatre established a Sondheim Award "as a tribute to America's most influential contemporary musical theatre composer". Since 1991, Signature has had a long relationship with Stephen Sondheim, producing 30 of his musicals, revues and concerts-more than any other professional theater in the country. Signature is home to the single largest musical theater commissioning project in the United States, The American Musical Voices Project.Ĭameron Mackintosh, Terrence McNally, James Lapine, John Kander, and Fred Ebb are among those that have presented works here. Schaeffer and Managing Director Maggie Boland, the company has staged 59 world premiere productions, including 19 new musical commissions. Under the leadership of Co-Founder and former Artistic Director Eric D. Founded in 1989, Signature Theatre is known for its productions of contemporary musicals and plays, reinventions of classic musicals, and development of new work.

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