
POET. #GraceCollege. @theTLS @ParisReview @Slantbooks @NewRepublic I would prefer not to. https://xitter.cf/t.co/O3z4alpdVm
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JOHN POCH 💎☘️📚 retweeted
really? what a narrow view! Anderson did in fact write sympathetically & convincingly about girls & women; even Hemingway has a story from an adolescent girl's perspective, "Up in Michigan," that is a knockout; not to mention D.H. Lawrence, Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Hardy & (not least) Shakespeare.
if men can't write about women, women presumably can't write about men.
educated people can't write about lesser-educated people, Black writers can't write about brown people, people from Maine can't write about people from Vermont, no one can write about anyone except the sickly face in the mirror.
Replying to @JoyceCarolOates
Yeah and he's a man purporting to write about a woman's inner life. I'll pass.
JOHN POCH 💎☘️📚 retweeted
Hey folks!
Recently I got a note from a friend excited that the church she was attending was using my paintings on the screen from Four Holy Gospels @crossway. She was excited that my works were being used. She even sent a photo of it.
The problem: they did not ask my permission to do so. The artist owns the copyright to their works even if it is used in a book. Even if the presenter gives attribution, the presenter must ask for written permission.
The photo showed that the colors were way off. It made me sad.
Digital images flatten my images. If I am presenting and using images, I spend at least half an hour to color correct the projector color temps (they are often too “hot”). I never use my works as stand-alone images nor as projected images and I never overlay or crop. This is to protect the integrity of the original.
Churches - please respect the copyright of artists. Thank you.
JOHN POCH 💎☘️📚 retweeted
I think my Odyssey review is now up without the paywall: the-tls.com/arts/film/the-od…
JOHN POCH 💎☘️📚 retweeted
Rot in a jar of edam I made for a janitor.
#palindrome
JOHN POCH 💎☘️📚 retweeted
Wendell Berry was often accused of offering no solutions to the problems he pointed out in his work. There was a time I thought this too. The more I read him I understood his solution is to change our way of thinking to value God, people, family, community & land more than money.
JOHN POCH 💎☘️📚 retweeted
From “The Angel on the Lamp” by @jpoch. From Two Men Fighting with a Knife (Story Line, 2008).
JOHN POCH 💎☘️📚 retweeted
“October Ballad” by @jpoch. From Poems ( Orchises, 2004).
JOHN POCH 💎☘️📚 retweeted
Dear College Board,
Consider this a public warning: any further backroom tactics or efforts to use public-records requests as a means of burdening or intimidating us as a competitor will be met with complete transparency.
Our legal team has now had to devote time and resources to responding to the public-records request you submitted in Texas. You are, of course, entitled to make such requests. But understand that the same public-records laws are equally available to us. For everyone of these you throw at us we will throw five back at you. I can’t imagine what we could uncover from the decades College Board has spent wining and dining elected officials. Keep playing dirty and it will all be exposed. All of it.
We are fully prepared to submit corresponding public-records requests regarding College Board’s activities, communications, lobbying efforts, and state contracts across multiple states. We are confident that sunlight and transparency will serve the public interest.
CLT has competed in the marketplace openly and fairly and clearly we are winning. If College Board is concerned about losing market share, the answer is not political maneuvering or attempts to burden your competitor. The answer is to serve families and schools better, improve customer service, and offer a product that earns their trust.
We welcome truly vigorous competition. Because those of us who do not live in comi-land know that competition benefits the students we exist to serve.
Jeremy Tate
JOHN POCH 💎☘️📚 retweeted
Truly I married one of the most beautiful women in the world. She's a great mom and there is no way to express all she's done for me.
JOHN POCH 💎☘️📚 retweeted
Today I’m enjoying this small volume by @jpoch. Pondering this: “The ego is all. The humility is all. Most poets would do well to obsess over both.”
JOHN POCH 💎☘️📚 retweeted
Now the #1 new release @amazon in Renaissance literary criticism:
I’m sinking into the new translation of Petrarch by @amjuster like one sinks into a hot, luxurious bath—this is a remarkable achievement and deserves consideration as the go-to for the Canzoniere in English. Ambitious, educated, musical, moving, and FUN.
Must read, everyone!
JOHN POCH 💎☘️📚 retweeted
The goal of education in each century.
1st century - The cultivation of virtue
5th century - The cultivation of virtue
14th century - The cultivation of virtue
19th century - The cultivation of virtue
21st century - College and Career Readiness 🤦♂️
JOHN POCH 💎☘️📚 retweeted
Was honored to return to @gracecollege for the #WinonaChristianWritersConference. Blown away by the culture @jpoch and Dr. Rich are building! It was special reading from my first book in front of the Briscoes, who invited me into the softball/Paraguay story years ago. Go Lancers!
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Breaking 🚨: My dear friend and former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse announced that his tumors have shrunk by 80% thanks in part to a new cancer drug
Ben Sasse: “I'm down 99%, in five months, of how much cancer is in my blood.”
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