Poetry farming . . .

Monday, February 17, 2025. It's the Moon's day . . . she'll be hiding her waning face from TulseyTown tonight and tomorrow as moderate Southerlies maintain a mix of clouds and sun becoming cloudy this afternoon with mid 30's. Northerlies return tonight bringing a Winter storm tomorrow with bitter cold and up to 5” of snow in the forecasts.

Reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition. – C.S. Lewis

Today in 1913 the Armory Show opened in New York City. It was the first comprehensive exhibition of modern art in this country.

Crime novelist Ruth Rendell was born on this day in 1930 London, England.

Poet Jack Gilbert was born on this date in 1925 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

"It's not a business with me. I'm not a professional of poetry; I'm a farmer of poetry." — Jack Gilbert

The courts aren't the cavalry. We are. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse

Is it time for America’s judges to go on strike? – David Coale, Commentary, Salon, 2.15.25