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“Best of 2025” at Salvation South: Andy Fogle and Chuck Reece name their No. 1 poems of the year—Jacqueline Allen Trimble’s blues-soaked elegy and F. Dylan Waguespack’s searing hymn for a homeless father—alongside two deep walks through the Southern verse that moved us most.

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She refreshed the page.

It was a permission slip.

The glowing blue light of a phone screen illuminated Rina’s face as she scrolled through Twitter at 2 a.m. The hashtag was already trending worldwide: . Bts Kelas Bintang On Twitter

The thread unfolded like a diary. According to @BangtanBintang, after BTS’s “final, infinite hiatus” (a phrase that still made ARMYs cry), the seven members had quietly rented the forgotten practice room. Not to produce music—but to learn . “Namjoon teaches philosophy from worn-out books. He draws messy diagrams on the board about stoicism and stars. ‘You forgot how to fail,’ he tells the others. ‘Tonight, we learn to fall.’” “Yoongi brings a small keyboard, but he doesn’t play. He makes them write one honest sentence about their day. Seokjin once wrote: ‘I smiled at a stranger and forgot I was once worldwide handsome.’ Yoongi framed it.” “Hoseok leads movement sessions—not dance, but walking. Just walking across the room without rhythm. ‘Your worth isn’t a beat,’ he whispers. ‘Just step.’” Rina’s eyes burned. She had followed BTS since middle school. She had cried at their final concert livestream, had framed her “Borahae” poster, had defended them against antis who said they’d “fade out.” But this… this was something else. She refreshed the page