#marvin bell

[havingapoemwithyou]

“White Clover” by Marvin Bell

[majestativa]

Drawn by stones, by earth, by things that have been in the fire.

— Marvin Bell, Wednesday: Selected Poems, 1966-1997, (1998)

[llovelymoonn]

favourite november poems

marilyn chin little girl études

muriel rukeyser the speed of darkness: “poem (i lived in the first century of world wars)”

sanna wani lately i am trying

tory dent collected poems: “the moon and the yew tree”

maya mior re: your listing

marvin bell nightworks: poems 1962-2000: “obsessive”

lauren k. alleyene how could i have known i would need to remember your laughter

charles bernstein with strings: “a test of poetry”

carl phillips this far in

laura wetherington (& hannah ensor) feel piece 4

dean young dear friend

robyn schiff a woman of property: “gate”

margaret de laughter a pantoun

rick barot the flea

elsa gidlow oversoul

carl phillips stop shaking

warsan shire the unbearable weight of staying

manuel arturo abreu klangfarbenmelodie

marianne boruch keats is coughing

evan knoll blood makes the blade holy

risk (@mechanicrisk) my son, the two headed calf

francine sterle nude in winter: “self-portrait as an allegory of painting”

luci tapahonso a radiant curve: “elegy for my younger sister”

matthew sweeney alone

david harsent from “a dream book”

sanna wani tomorrow is a place

rachel blau duplessis: from eurydics: snake

hannah brooks-motl family dollar

matthew olzmann letter beginning with two lines from czesław miłosz

janice lobo sapigao silhouette

kofi

[ireae]

Found this in the reflection section of my prayer book during Yom Kippur

[music-despite-everything]

Bagram, Afghanistan, 2002 by Marvin Bell

Marvin Bell, August 1937-December 2020, first Poet Laureate of Iowa

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The interrogation celebrated spikes and cuffs,

the inky blue that invades a blackened eye,

the eyeball that bulges like a radish,

that incarnadine only blood can create.

They asked the young taxi driver questions

he could not answer, and they beat his legs

until he could no longer kneel on their command.

They chained him by the wrists to the ceiling.

They may have admired the human form then,

stretched out, for the soldiers were also athletes

trained to shout in unison and be buddies.

By the time his legs had stiffened, a blood clot

was already tracing a vein into his heart.

They said he was dead when they cut him down,

but he was dead the day they arrested him.

Are they feeding the prisoners gravel now?

To make them skillful orators as they confess?

Here stands Demosthenes in the military court,

unable to form the words “my country.” What

shall we do, we who are at war but are asked

to pretend we are not? Do we need another

naive apologist to crown us with clichés

that would turn the grass brown above a grave?

They called the carcass Mr. Dilawar. They 

believed he was innocent. Their orders were

to step on the necks of the prisoners, to

break their will, to make them say something

in a sleep-deprived delirium of fractures,

rising to the occasion, or, like Mr. Dilawar,

leaving his few possessions and his body.

From Mars Being Red by Marvin Bell. Copyright © 2007 by Marvin Bell. Reprinted by permission of Copper Canyon Press.

[buhbuhbenz]

<3 Happy birthday Petscop <3

[bepinasworld]

PLEEEASE PLEASE PLEASE ARE THERE ANYONES WHO LOVE PETSCOP AND TALKING ABOUT PETSCOP

im love petscop but have no enough friends who like petscop : (

[themanismanflavored]

My most recent Petscop reference, I felt like I needed to post something

Old version under cut

[windmillgirl]

been a while since i drew them all together

[goobstr]

Petscop fake tweets made by yours truly!1!!1!

[atomic-chronoscaph]

David Learner as Marvin the Paranoid Android and Simon Jones as Arthur Dent - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)

[havingapoemwithyou]

mars being red by Marvin Bell

[majestativa]

To the dead man, a spider's web is also a mask, and he wears it.

— Marvin Bell, Wednesday: Selected Poems, 1966-1997, (1998)

[sodafizzin]

new fixation

[fiendishartist2]

its been so long since i first shared my designs for them, so i thought i would try again with my new art skills :3

[blinkinbrothershark]

Being a newsies fan while watching musicals is realising that almost every musical protaganist has their 'Santa Fe'

Legally Blonde - Elle Woods: Warner Huntington III

The Book of Mormon - Kevin Price: Orlando

Falsettos - Marvin: A tight-knit family

The list can continue further, but these were the three that I noticed originally. Also feel free to add onto the list ofc