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  1. look at the vagabond

    look at the vagabond
    see that his ears are cropped

    ask was it yesterday his feet
    were locked in the stocks

    ask was it last week he couldn’t
    pull his head nor his hands from the pillory

    say tell me stranger
    was it a month ago the good people
    of wittenburg threw offal at you

    smell that he’s putrid

    ask if under the wool of his doublet
    the once white linen of his smock is slashed
    with dried blood ask if he was whipped

    ask if for the hours of the night
    or if for years of a long dark he was
    fettered in the dungeon under job’s castle1

    look that his eyes blink against daylight
    or that it’s his terrors that blink his eyes say

    to the man who walks the world alone
    return with me to the town
    i’ll give you a company to walk with
    and a regiment to walk with the company


    1. Kloden Castle, about 30 miles from Wittenberg: In the late 16th century it was owned and the home of Jobst Kanne of the noble family of Kanne.
    #DramaticPoetry #earlyModernEurope #HistoricalFiction #Imagery #literary #literature #outcast #Poetry #SerialPoetry #SpokenWord #transient #writing
  2. look at the vagabond

    look at the vagabond
    see that his ears are cropped

    ask was it yesterday his feet
    were locked in the stocks

    ask was it last week he couldn’t
    pull his head nor his hands from the pillory

    say tell me stranger
    was it a month ago the good people
    of wittenburg threw offal at you

    smell that he’s putrid

    ask if under the wool of his doublet
    the once white linen of his smock is slashed
    with dried blood ask if he was whipped

    ask if for the hours of the night
    or if for years of a long dark he was
    fettered in the dungeon under job’s castle1

    look that his eyes blink against daylight
    or that it’s his terrors that blink his eyes say

    to the man who walks the world alone
    return with me to the town
    i’ll give you a company to walk with
    and a regiment to walk with the company


    1. Kloden Castle, about 30 miles from Wittenberg: In the late 16th century it was owned and the home of Jobst Kanne of the noble family of Kanne.
    #DramaticPoetry #earlyModernEurope #HistoricalFiction #Imagery #literary #literature #outcast #Poetry #SerialPoetry #SpokenWord #transient #writing
  3. look at the vagabond

    look at the vagabond
    see that his ears are cropped

    ask was it yesterday his feet
    were locked in the stocks

    ask was it last week he couldn’t
    pull his head nor his hands from the pillory

    say tell me stranger
    was it a month ago the good people
    of wittenburg threw offal at you

    smell that he’s putrid

    ask if under the wool of his doublet
    the once white linen of his smock is slashed
    with dried blood ask if he was whipped

    ask if for the hours of the night
    or if for years of a long dark he was
    fettered in the dungeon under job’s castle1

    look that his eyes blink against daylight
    or that it’s his terrors that blink his eyes say

    to the man who walks the world alone
    return with me to the town
    i’ll give you a company to walk with
    and a regiment to walk with the company


    1. Kloden Castle, about 30 miles from Wittenberg: In the late 16th century it was owned and the home of Jobst Kanne of the noble family of Kanne.
    #DramaticPoetry #earlyModernEurope #HistoricalFiction #Imagery #literary #literature #outcast #Poetry #SerialPoetry #SpokenWord #transient #writing
  4. look at the vagabond

    look at the vagabond
    see that his ears are cropped

    ask was it yesterday his feet
    were locked in the stocks

    ask was it last week he couldn’t
    pull his head nor his hands from the pillory

    say tell me stranger
    was it a month ago the good people
    of wittenburg threw offal at you

    smell that he’s putrid

    ask if under the wool of his doublet
    the once white linen of his smock is slashed
    with dried blood ask if he was whipped

    ask if for the hours of the night
    or if for years of a long dark he was
    fettered in the dungeon under job’s castle1

    look that his eyes blink against daylight
    or that it’s his terrors that blink his eyes say

    to the man who walks the world alone
    return with me to the town
    i’ll give you a company to walk with
    and a regiment to walk with the company


    1. Kloden Castle, about 30 miles from Wittenberg: In the late 16th century it was owned and the home of Jobst Kanne of the noble family of Kanne.
    #DramaticPoetry #earlyModernEurope #HistoricalFiction #Imagery #literary #literature #outcast #Poetry #SerialPoetry #SpokenWord #transient #writing
  5. look at the vagabond

    look at the vagabond
    see that his ears are cropped

    ask was it yesterday his feet
    were locked in the stocks

    ask was it last week he couldn’t
    pull his head nor his hands from the pillory

    say tell me stranger
    was it a month ago the good people
    of wittenburg threw offal at you

    smell that he’s putrid

    ask if under the wool of his doublet
    the once white linen of his smock is slashed
    with dried blood ask if he was whipped

    ask if for the hours of the night
    or if for years of a long dark he was
    fettered in the dungeon under job’s castle1

    look that his eyes blink against daylight
    or that it’s his terrors that blink his eyes say

    to the man who walks the world alone
    return with me to the town
    i’ll give you a company to walk with
    and a regiment to walk with the company


    1. Kloden Castle, about 30 miles from Wittenberg: In the late 16th century it was owned and the home of Jobst Kanne of the noble family of Kanne.
    #DramaticPoetry #earlyModernEurope #HistoricalFiction #Imagery #literary #literature #outcast #Poetry #SerialPoetry #SpokenWord #transient #writing
  6. Julie Buntin: Time Is an Underrated Ingredient in the Making of a Novel

    In this interview, author Julie Buntin discusses how personal questions about identity helped inspire her new novel, Famous Men.
    The post Julie Buntin: Time Is an Underrated Ingredient in the Making of a Novel appeared first on Writer's Digest.
    writersdigest.com/julie-buntin

    #BeInspired #Genre #Interviews #Literary #WriteBetterFiction

  7. Julie Buntin: Time Is an Underrated Ingredient in the Making of a Novel

    In this interview, author Julie Buntin discusses how personal questions about identity helped inspire her new novel, Famous Men.
    The post Julie Buntin: Time Is an Underrated Ingredient in the Making of a Novel appeared first on Writer's Digest.
    writersdigest.com/julie-buntin

    #BeInspired #Genre #Interviews #Literary #WriteBetterFiction

  8. Julie Buntin: Time Is an Underrated Ingredient in the Making of a Novel

    In this interview, author Julie Buntin discusses how personal questions about identity helped inspire her new novel, Famous Men.
    The post Julie Buntin: Time Is an Underrated Ingredient in the Making of a Novel appeared first on Writer's Digest.
    writersdigest.com/julie-buntin

    #BeInspired #Genre #Interviews #Literary #WriteBetterFiction

  9. Julie Buntin: Time Is an Underrated Ingredient in the Making of a Novel

    In this interview, author Julie Buntin discusses how personal questions about identity helped inspire her new novel, Famous Men.
    The post Julie Buntin: Time Is an Underrated Ingredient in the Making of a Novel appeared first on Writer's Digest.
    writersdigest.com/julie-buntin

    #BeInspired #Genre #Interviews #Literary #WriteBetterFiction

  10. Aruni Kashyap: I Was Scared To Write the Ending

    In this interview, author Aruni Kashyap discusses the decade that went into writing his new novel, How to Date a Fanatic.
    The post Aruni Kashyap: I Was Scared To Write the Ending appeared first on Writer's Digest.
    writersdigest.com/aruni-kashya

    #BeInspired #Genre #Interviews #Literary #WriteBetterFiction

  11. Aruni Kashyap: I Was Scared To Write the Ending

    In this interview, author Aruni Kashyap discusses the decade that went into writing his new novel, How to Date a Fanatic.
    The post Aruni Kashyap: I Was Scared To Write the Ending appeared first on Writer's Digest.
    writersdigest.com/aruni-kashya

    #BeInspired #Genre #Interviews #Literary #WriteBetterFiction

  12. Alicia Upano: Restraint Is My Most Useful Tool

    In this interview, author Alicia Upano discusses borrowing characters from a different story for her debut novel, Everything to the Sea.
    The post Alicia Upano: Restraint Is My Most Useful Tool appeared first on Writer's Digest.
    writersdigest.com/alicia-upano

    #BeInspired #Genre #Interviews #Literary #WriteBetterFiction

  13. Alicia Upano: Restraint Is My Most Useful Tool

    In this interview, author Alicia Upano discusses borrowing characters from a different story for her debut novel, Everything to the Sea.
    The post Alicia Upano: Restraint Is My Most Useful Tool appeared first on Writer's Digest.
    writersdigest.com/alicia-upano

    #BeInspired #Genre #Interviews #Literary #WriteBetterFiction

  14. Tell us about a favourite read that led you to visit a new place or go on an adventure – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays break A great novel can transport you to places you’ve never been,… #travel #booktourism #literary

    theguardian.com/travel/2026/ju

    Posted into FLIPBOARD EXCHANGE FEED 🗞️ @flipboard-exchange-feed-Econopass

  15. I am in awe of people who manage to keep their body and soul in balance - not much to say in my case, I’m afraid…
    #poetry #poem #literary #naturepoem #isleofwight #poetrycommunity

  16. the stroll of the gentlewoman becomes a

    the stroll of the gentlewoman becomes a 
    march past the man who
    sags outside the door against the wall

    he with the eyes full of storm on the horizon
    that measure the soil on the clothes and the wear
    the number of teeth in the mouths of those who pass
    the men who enter and the men who go out

    until the sight of one as poor as he causes
    the dark clouds in his eyes to reverse themselves

    until he asks friend can you spare a heller

    that one for that one also leave
    a place in the contract for his name
    #DramaticPoetry #earlyModernEurope #HistoricalFiction #HoratioDialogue #Imagery #literary #literature #panHandling #Poetry #poverty #SerialPoetry #SpokenWord #writing
  17. the stroll of the gentlewoman becomes a

    the stroll of the gentlewoman becomes a 
    march past the man who
    sags outside the door against the wall

    he with the eyes full of storm on the horizon
    that measure the soil on the clothes and the wear
    the number of teeth in the mouths of those who pass
    the men who enter and the men who go out

    until the sight of one as poor as he causes
    the dark clouds in his eyes to reverse themselves

    until he asks friend can you spare a heller

    that one for that one also leave
    a place in the contract for his name
    #DramaticPoetry #earlyModernEurope #HistoricalFiction #HoratioDialogue #Imagery #literary #literature #panHandling #Poetry #poverty #SerialPoetry #SpokenWord #writing
  18. Literary tourism is booming — travelers are now choosing destinations based on bookshops, libraries, and reading spaces, making books a genuine reason to explore. #travel #booktourism #literary

    cntraveller.com/article/the-bo

    Posted into FLIPBOARD EXCHANGE FEED 🗞️ @flipboard-exchange-feed-Econopass

  19. The Astral Library

    "A Fantasy Adventure Where Books Become Doorways to Literary Worlds, Danger, and Escape"

    Sale: $21.11 to $2.99

    by Kate Quinn
    Rating: 4.0/5 (6,276 Reviews)

    #books #fantasy #magic #library #booksky #adventure #fiction #reading #escape #literary #doorways #worlds

    The Astral Library

  20. The Astral Library

    "A Fantasy Adventure Where Books Become Doorways to Literary Worlds, Danger, and Escape"

    Sale: $21.11 to $2.99

    by Kate Quinn
    Rating: 4.0/5 (6,276 Reviews)

    #books #fantasy #magic #library #booksky #adventure #fiction #reading #escape #literary #doorways #worlds

    The Astral Library

  21. "The #Jewish #Literary Foundation has announced the return of its Jewish #Playwrights Programme for 2026/27, with applications opening to playwrights across the #UK for the first time. The programme will support the development of a full-length #play, helping foster the next generation of Jewish playwrights and championing #stories that reflect the richness and diversity of Jewish life in #Britain.

    Building on the success of its inaugural year, the Jewish Literary Foundation returns with its flagship development programme, which will support eight emerging and early-career playwrights from across the UK to develop new work for the #stage."

    broadwayworld.com/uk-regional/

  22. "The #Jewish #Literary Foundation has announced the return of its Jewish #Playwrights Programme for 2026/27, with applications opening to playwrights across the #UK for the first time. The programme will support the development of a full-length #play, helping foster the next generation of Jewish playwrights and championing #stories that reflect the richness and diversity of Jewish life in #Britain.

    Building on the success of its inaugural year, the Jewish Literary Foundation returns with its flagship development programme, which will support eight emerging and early-career playwrights from across the UK to develop new work for the #stage."

    broadwayworld.com/uk-regional/

  23. hay lit folks, please teach me how to write a good query letter and what makes an effective synopsis. i know i can web search it, but i'd rather hear from you what works and what doesn't; striking the right balance is key. thankers #books #novels #literary #fiction #literaryagents #bookpublishing

  24. hay lit folks, please teach me how to write a good query letter and what makes an effective synopsis. i know i can web search it, but i'd rather hear from you what works and what doesn't; striking the right balance is key. thankers #books #novels #literary #fiction #literaryagents #bookpublishing

  25. hay lit folks, please teach me how to write a good query letter and what makes an effective synopsis. i know i can web search it, but i'd rather hear from you what works and what doesn't; striking the right balance is key. thankers #books #novels #literary #fiction #literaryagents #bookpublishing

  26. hay lit folks, please teach me how to write a good query letter and what makes an effective synopsis. i know i can web search it, but i'd rather hear from you what works and what doesn't; striking the right balance is key. thankers #books #novels #literary #fiction #literaryagents #bookpublishing

  27. hay lit folks, please teach me how to write a good query letter and what makes an effective synopsis. i know i can web search it, but i'd rather hear from you what works and what doesn't; striking the right balance is key. thankers #books #novels #literary #fiction #literaryagents #bookpublishing

  28. hay lit folks, please teach me how to write a good query letter and what makes an effective synopsis. i know i can web search it, but i'd rather hear from you what works and what doesn't; striking the right balance is key. thankers #books #novels #literary #fiction #literaryagents #bookpublishing

  29. for these

    for these
    and for all those who have
    no plow
    and no anvil over which to bend
    a plow into being

    no seed
    and no burgage1 over which
    to spread seed

    no meadow
    and no swine to shepherd
    into the meadow

    for all those who wait
    and in their wait make
    the square drunk and quarrelsome
    lewd and a fright

    wait for the roads to thaw
    and for the thawed roads to dry

    wait to watch a plow cross
    a selion2 pulled by an ox

    wait for the winter cloak to be hung
    and for the grass to green

    who wait for the bloom to blow
    off the branch and for the apricot to ripen

    to see a robin wait
    for there to come an end of winter

    for there to come a war to go to

    for all these
    under what you’ve already written
    in your scroll write
    we the undersigned


    1 In a medieval context, a "burgage" refers to a tenure, or holding of land, within a borough or town, typically involving a fixed rent or other services to a lord or the crown. AI


    2 A "selion" is a historical term referring to a narrow strip or ridge of land used for cultivation in the open-field system of medieval Europe. It was typically one furlong long and one chain wide, making it roughly one acre in area, though exact measurements could vary.
    #DramaticPoetry #earlyModernEurope #HistoricalFiction #Imagery #lifestylesOfThePeasantry #literary #literature #Poetry #SerialPoetry #SpokenWord #spring #writing
  30. for these

    for these
    and for all those who have
    no plow
    and no anvil over which to bend
    a plow into being

    no seed
    and no burgage1 over which
    to spread seed

    no meadow
    and no swine to shepherd
    into the meadow

    for all those who wait
    and in their wait make
    the square drunk and quarrelsome
    lewd and a fright

    wait for the roads to thaw
    and for the thawed roads to dry

    wait to watch a plow cross
    a selion2 pulled by an ox

    wait for the winter cloak to be hung
    and for the grass to green

    who wait for the bloom to blow
    off the branch and for the apricot to ripen

    to see a robin wait
    for there to come an end of winter

    for there to come a war to go to

    for all these
    under what you’ve already written
    in your scroll write
    we the undersigned


    1 In a medieval context, a "burgage" refers to a tenure, or holding of land, within a borough or town, typically involving a fixed rent or other services to a lord or the crown. AI


    2 A "selion" is a historical term referring to a narrow strip or ridge of land used for cultivation in the open-field system of medieval Europe. It was typically one furlong long and one chain wide, making it roughly one acre in area, though exact measurements could vary.
    #DramaticPoetry #earlyModernEurope #HistoricalFiction #Imagery #lifestylesOfThePeasantry #literary #literature #Poetry #SerialPoetry #SpokenWord #spring #writing
  31. "Award-winning #author #DaraLevan is back with her second #novel, Shaken to the Core, and the buzz in the #literary community is palpable. Featured in People, Southern Living, and selected for Zibby Owens’ Summer 2026 Most Anticipated list, Shaken to the Core asks: When life is cut short, what do we do with the time we have left?

    Dara #Levan is the #podcast host of Every Soul Has a Story, and a former pediatric speech-language pathologist who made her mark in #publishing with her 2024 award-winning debut novel, It Could Be Worse. Based in South #Florida, Dara is a community leader, a founding member of Artists Against #Antisemitism, and a contributor to the USA Today bestselling anthology On Being #Jewish Now."

    blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish

  32. "Award-winning #author #DaraLevan is back with her second #novel, Shaken to the Core, and the buzz in the #literary community is palpable. Featured in People, Southern Living, and selected for Zibby Owens’ Summer 2026 Most Anticipated list, Shaken to the Core asks: When life is cut short, what do we do with the time we have left?

    Dara #Levan is the #podcast host of Every Soul Has a Story, and a former pediatric speech-language pathologist who made her mark in #publishing with her 2024 award-winning debut novel, It Could Be Worse. Based in South #Florida, Dara is a community leader, a founding member of Artists Against #Antisemitism, and a contributor to the USA Today bestselling anthology On Being #Jewish Now."

    blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish

  33. #books #readingcommunity #feminist #fiction #autobiography #memoir #nature #scifi #history #literary

    I read a whole lot in June! It has been very good. A distraction that is also deeply invasive and utterly important.
    I loved:
    I Who Have Never Known Men, A Protest History of the United States, and The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Very excellent. And I couldn't get enough of Deborah Levy, particularly her nonfiction.

  34. #books #readingcommunity #feminist #fiction #autobiography #memoir #nature #scifi #history #literary

    I read a whole lot in June! It has been very good. A distraction that is also deeply invasive and utterly important.
    I loved:
    I Who Have Never Known Men, A Protest History of the United States, and The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Very excellent. And I couldn't get enough of Deborah Levy, particularly her nonfiction.

  35. Judeo-Christian :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

    "Among the many #faiths practiced by millions of #Texas #students, a new statewide required #reading list that includes #biblical passages draws from just two traditions: #Protestant #Christianity and #Judaism.

    Yet Texas #rabbis say #Jews had no role in shaping how #Judaism appears in the #curriculum, and they disagree with how the lone #Jewish text is presented. Rather than teaching about Judaism on its own terms, they argue, the lessons filter Jewish texts through a #Christian perspective.

    The #readinglist, which is expected to go into effect in 2030, will have #publicschool students across the state reading passages from the #NewTestament and mostly Christian #translations of the #Hebrew Bible alongside #literary classics. Of the curriculum’s six #HebrewBible readings, just one uses a Jewish #translation."

    forward.com/news/834539/texas-

  36. Judeo-Christian :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

    "Among the many #faiths practiced by millions of #Texas #students, a new statewide required #reading list that includes #biblical passages draws from just two traditions: #Protestant #Christianity and #Judaism.

    Yet Texas #rabbis say #Jews had no role in shaping how #Judaism appears in the #curriculum, and they disagree with how the lone #Jewish text is presented. Rather than teaching about Judaism on its own terms, they argue, the lessons filter Jewish texts through a #Christian perspective.

    The #readinglist, which is expected to go into effect in 2030, will have #publicschool students across the state reading passages from the #NewTestament and mostly Christian #translations of the #Hebrew Bible alongside #literary classics. Of the curriculum’s six #HebrewBible readings, just one uses a Jewish #translation."

    forward.com/news/834539/texas-

  37. Judeo-Christian :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

    "Among the many #faiths practiced by millions of #Texas #students, a new statewide required #reading list that includes #biblical passages draws from just two traditions: #Protestant #Christianity and #Judaism.

    Yet Texas #rabbis say #Jews had no role in shaping how #Judaism appears in the #curriculum, and they disagree with how the lone #Jewish text is presented. Rather than teaching about Judaism on its own terms, they argue, the lessons filter Jewish texts through a #Christian perspective.

    The #readinglist, which is expected to go into effect in 2030, will have #publicschool students across the state reading passages from the #NewTestament and mostly Christian #translations of the #Hebrew Bible alongside #literary classics. Of the curriculum’s six #HebrewBible readings, just one uses a Jewish #translation."

    forward.com/news/834539/texas-

  38. Judeo-Christian :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

    "Among the many #faiths practiced by millions of #Texas #students, a new statewide required #reading list that includes #biblical passages draws from just two traditions: #Protestant #Christianity and #Judaism.

    Yet Texas #rabbis say #Jews had no role in shaping how #Judaism appears in the #curriculum, and they disagree with how the lone #Jewish text is presented. Rather than teaching about Judaism on its own terms, they argue, the lessons filter Jewish texts through a #Christian perspective.

    The #readinglist, which is expected to go into effect in 2030, will have #publicschool students across the state reading passages from the #NewTestament and mostly Christian #translations of the #Hebrew Bible alongside #literary classics. Of the curriculum’s six #HebrewBible readings, just one uses a Jewish #translation."

    forward.com/news/834539/texas-

  39. Judeo-Christian :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

    "Among the many #faiths practiced by millions of #Texas #students, a new statewide required #reading list that includes #biblical passages draws from just two traditions: #Protestant #Christianity and #Judaism.

    Yet Texas #rabbis say #Jews had no role in shaping how #Judaism appears in the #curriculum, and they disagree with how the lone #Jewish text is presented. Rather than teaching about Judaism on its own terms, they argue, the lessons filter Jewish texts through a #Christian perspective.

    The #readinglist, which is expected to go into effect in 2030, will have #publicschool students across the state reading passages from the #NewTestament and mostly Christian #translations of the #Hebrew Bible alongside #literary classics. Of the curriculum’s six #HebrewBible readings, just one uses a Jewish #translation."

    forward.com/news/834539/texas-

  40. those west faced

    those west faced
    walls of masonry and brickwork

    that all wednesday were
    damp darkened by rain wash

    through all the hours of sunrise
    today
    those housefronts and market
    stalls were shadow tinted

    but now that sunless hue recedes
    down those walls like a tide

    now those walls are sunlight shaded
    like mortar like mud at midday

    go to that dark monastery where i live
    and i’ll pay for your daily bread

    walk like one who knows
    the time between the shades is short
    #DramaticPoetry #earlyModernEurope #HistoricalFiction #HoratioDialogue #Imagery #literary #literature #morningShadows #Poetry #SerialPoetry #SpokenWord #urgency #writing
  41. those west faced

    those west faced
    walls of masonry and brickwork

    that all wednesday were
    damp darkened by rain wash

    through all the hours of sunrise
    today
    those housefronts and market
    stalls were shadow tinted

    but now that sunless hue recedes
    down those walls like a tide

    now those walls are sunlight shaded
    like mortar like mud at midday

    go to that dark monastery where i live
    and i’ll pay for your daily bread

    walk like one who knows
    the time between the shades is short
    #DramaticPoetry #earlyModernEurope #HistoricalFiction #HoratioDialogue #Imagery #literary #literature #morningShadows #Poetry #SerialPoetry #SpokenWord #urgency #writing