#refusal

[thegroaningbook]

Black Blizzard

Wesley Kimler, 2021

Cover image for Between Here and the Sound of a Groaning Interstate & The Groaning Book by KC Clarke

Two connected works: Between Here and the Sound of a Groaning Interstate, a poetry collection written between 1993 and 2024, and The Groaning Book, a poetics.

“Very good, complex poem.” — Mark Strand, on the poem “Orion”

available here

Wesley Kimler (b. 1953), Black Blizzard, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 37 × 37 in., private collection.

[thetendertongue]

right to opacity — from Glissant: the right to not be fully known, decoded, or made transparent; to resist being flattened into one meaning or one identity; a refusal or surveillance, overexposure, total explanation; a poetics of protection

[3eanuts]

February 27, 1957 — see The Complete Peanuts 1955-1958

[newstech24]

Hilton finishes connections with Minneapolis resort after video clip reveals DHS, ICE rejection

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., states that comprehensive criminal examinations require to occur in Minnesota on ‘All-time Low Line.’ Hilton Hotels revealed on Tuesday that it was finishing its partnership with an individually had Minneapolis-area resort after a recently launched video clip showed up to verify that the home was still declining to fit Division of Homeland Safety And Security (DHS) and…

Hilton finishes connections with Minneapolis resort after video clip reveals DHS, ICE rejection

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth.

Be critical and evaluate what you believe in."

- Aristotle

[ourladyofomega]

[stop-war-ukraine]

Was the wrong country disarmed 30 years ago?

This December 5th marks the 30th anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum—an agreement meant to provide security assurances to Ukraine in exchange for its decision to give up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.

The Day the Budapest Memorandum Was Signed, in Photos

The 1994 Budapest Memorandum signed by Ukraine, US, UK, and Russia promised Ukraine’s sovereignty and security, but Russia’s violations have