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Search for specific delusions of reality leaving truth undefined in the one Answer. #smallpoems

Search for specific delusions of reality leaving truth undefined in the one Answer. #smallpoems

At Newport

A live performance album from 1960. You can not overstate Water's impact on music. Considered a founder of the Chicago Blues sound he created the beginnings of Rock and Roll.

Allegory, allusion, and/or metaphor between two unrelated topics loosely connected is major tool in poet's toolbox..."two seemingly opposite things an

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Allegory, allusion, and/or metaphor between two unrelated topics loosely connected is major tool in poet's toolbox..."two seemingly opposite things and put them together" Coleman Banks...bookmarking this thread to show students

Where does the screenshot of when I got secretly recorded and then relentessly attacked by right wing groups fit in the tenure file?

Funny thing I am so legit proud of the student for his cunning and activisim. I told Fox News when a reporter emailed me that the class was about networking and political activism. I let them know how proud I was of the student for getting me to consent to record "to help him study" and then turn it into fuel for an online harrassment attack (he didn't reall

@dogtrax ohh @Threadreader added micorpub support: https://indieweb.org/ThreadReaderApp means you can quickly publish twitter threads to your personal

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@dogtrax ohh @Threadreader added micorpub support: https://indieweb.org/ThreadReaderApp means you can quickly publish twitter threads to your personal site. I wonder if it works on your write.as blog if they have micropub...its fun

@davecormier Wait to teach with webmentions. Sharing the cheating is soo much fun.

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@davecormier Wait to teach with webmentions. Sharing the cheating is soo much fun.

Got around to reviewing "typewriter rodeo" @jodi_writegood and other poetic field hands do a good job of mending fences..then setting them on fire to

Got around to reviewing "typewriter rodeo" @jodi_writegood and other poetic field hands do a good job of mending fences..then setting them on fire to dance around ashes https://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2020/06/22/typewriter-rodeo #clmooc #writingcommunity #nctevillage

Did @BretBaier show just say "too be clear unanswered questions" in the @bubbawallace noose incident are a part of an "increasing complicated portrait

Did @BretBaier show just say "too be clear unanswered questions" in the @bubbawallace noose incident are a part of an "increasing complicated portrait of a country examining it's past"

Yet your chyron transitions to, "Cancel Culture?"...We are talking about the only Black driver in NASCAR who came our against confederate flags...and

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Yet your chyron transitions to, "Cancel Culture?"...We are talking about the only Black driver in NASCAR who came our against confederate flags...and you throw suspicion on the investigation?.....link it to cancel culture?

All the Best

The jump blues out west and the country swing in the south draw from the same deep well of Bessie Smith. Smith did try a pivot to swing in 1937 but went back to Blues before here life gto cut tragically cut short in two automobile accidents.

Top Mix (curated playlist) CW: Blackface

A minstrel, often performing in blackface, Miller influenced the country swing that would help shape rock and roll. Many country and rock stars have covered his music. Hank Williams 1922 Lovesick Blues, Merl Haggard, and Van Halen. Emmet Miller is probably the most important American musician you never heard of. His blackface and deadication to racist genre

Hanging a noose is fucking racist @BretBaier. Full stop. Nothing complicated about it. Outrage only proper response.

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Hanging a noose is fucking racist @BretBaier. Full stop. Nothing complicated about it. Outrage only proper response.

We have seen the pain in your face @BretBaier. We know you believe in journalistic integrity but now..you allowing yourself to be tool of white suprem

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We have seen the pain in your face @BretBaier. We know you believe in journalistic integrity but now..you allowing yourself to be tool of white supremacy? What I just watched should disgust any one committed to truth and justice

All American Award Concert

The other precursor to Rock and Roll was R&B, first called Race Music, which was influenced by jump blues, what many people today call swing music. Lionel Hampton, especially his 1942 hit Flying Home. The up-tempo had the signature backbeat that lives on in rock today. The jump jazz influence was real popular on the West Coast and you can hear much of the ro

our 30 day collaborative response poem I went back gathered them all and put them in chronological order by date and time published...now I wonder did

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our 30 day collaborative response poem I went back gathered them all and put them in chronological order by date and time published...now I wonder did I get the poem backwards. What happens too poetry if we read it backwards?

We have had a lot of discussion around page numbers and summer classes. Our university added a five week online session to squeeze theree summer sessi

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We have had a lot of discussion around page numbers and summer classes. Our university added a five week online session to squeeze theree summer sessions out of one summer. I do publish a THW for each week and assignment

@dogtrax I like the cadence of the two rhymes feat/beat chords/board in the first two stanzas and the lack of rhyme in the third kinds symbolizes the

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@dogtrax I like the cadence of the two rhymes feat/beat chords/board in the first two stanzas and the lack of rhyme in the third kinds symbolizes the struggle of making music.

@dogtrax I wonder if there are other people doigng threaded poems kinda like we do...be neat to collect other exampels outside of #clmooc if they exis

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@dogtrax I wonder if there are other people doigng threaded poems kinda like we do...be neat to collect other exampels outside of #clmooc if they exist

Just published today's #poembox #poetry podcast. https://jgregorymcverry.com/mypoetry#20200622 Today's work: "One Answer" follow through RSS or on @po

Just published today's #poembox #poetry podcast. https://jgregorymcverry.com/mypoetry#20200622 Today's work: "One Answer" follow through RSS or on @pocketcast #writingcommunity #clmooc #nctechat #nctevillage

@doxtdatorb Welcome to our wild world....I send you a badge but who has time for badges with all those stinking babies

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@doxtdatorb Welcome to our wild world....I send you a badge but who has time for badges with all those stinking babies