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poems in the pocket

Instead of reaching for my phone in those spare 2 mins here and there when out & about, I have started carrying a paperback of poems in my coat pocket and reading a poem instead of opening some dumb app

@maya_kal_

Jan 29, 2024

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poetry by strangers

I love famous poetry, Siken and Apollinaire being my favorites poets. But poetry made by random people, people that go out of their way on a random day because they felt something so significant they needed to put words on it, make it beautiful, putting it into the world and go back to their normal life. I think i feel it more sometimes, that's why i love reading from random people of the internet ~

@pnk4ll

May 1, 2024

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reading poetry in small chunks each night before bed like a dessert

i have been savoring mary oliver's 'devotions' collection

@nicolefar

Mar 4, 2024

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WIBY.ME

“Google isn't great at finding [old webpages], its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well; but finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens.” -Wiby about page I love Wiby.me! I’ve found some amazing old websites using its random page feature, but I know it also works as a search engine for these older pages. It really brings back that sense of wonder you used to have for the internet as a kid in 2012…

@catkuhn

Mar 6, 2025

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MY MOM’S OLD CASSETTES

My good taste is genetic

@catkuhn

Apr 7, 2025

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in defense of pitt’s brutalism

In my stint as a student of the University of Pittsburgh, one of the most common complaints I heard was of the massive school’s sprawling, depressing, almost-Soviet architecture. From the sharp corners of Posvar to the looming Litchfield Towers, spending grey winter days at the school—surrounded by sallow-faced boys smoking cigarettes on the corners—really could make you feel like you had passed through the iron curtain. Thanks to the eccentric tastes of my father, though, I was more captivated than these buildings than depressed. Also, when you’re 19 and desperately sad, it can feel pretty poetic to have that bleak essentialist mood projected into the landscape around you. Really, my only complaint is that Pitt should be taking better care of its concrete. It looks like it’s melting all the time. My favorite buildings at Pitt: • Posvar • Lawrence Hall • Chevron Science Hall • Litchfield Towers • Frick Fine Arts Building

@catkuhn

Feb 7, 2025