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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rhonda Parsons supporting Kids Around the World at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the @rplibrary Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Veronica Soria-Martinez supporting the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the @rplibrary Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@klonicki supporting @alignmentrkfd at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the @rplibrary Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mazey Knox supporting Rock River Valley Pantry at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the Rockford Public Library Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@josephellerybruce supporting @rockfordrescuemission at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the @rplibrary Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@jake_gatenby supporting Rockford Sexual Assault Counseling at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the @rplibrary Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@mrdewildeart supporting @alzillinois at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the @rplibrary Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@susangoldbergvoice with Dan Goldberg supporting Friends of Boone County CASA at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the @rplibrary Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Autumn Smith supporting the United Way of Rock Valley at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the @rplibrary Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@rachellayown supporting @the.liam.foundation at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the @rplibrary Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@barbchidley and Ava Potter supporting The Tommy Corral Memorial Foundation at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the @rplibrary Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ollie Kailey Blake supporting @autisticselfadvocacy at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the @rplibrary Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jenna Goldsmith & Lindsay Rossmiller’s wonderfully interactive “PREPOSITION” supporting Senior Connections in Belvidere (formerly Boone County Center on Aging) at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the @rplibrary Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jim Hammack’s “A sniffling nose, proclaiming worried brow” supporting Lutheran Social Services tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the @rplibrary Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Adam al-Sirgany’s “In the Kitchen with the Girls” supporting @rockfordareaartscouncil at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the Rockford Public Library Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ryan Burritt’s “Confessions of an Emotional Hoarder” supporting RAMP at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the Rockford Public Library Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tom Vaultonburg’s “Trickster Magic” Michael Zant’s Dolly Possum supporting @wildrootsnaturecenter at tonight’s Words Off the Wall Auction. Come join us for tonight’s silent auction on the @rplibrary Terrace!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tonight is the final night of Words off the Wall, a poetry and visual art silent auction in support of a number of local nonprofits. Come out! Dig some art! Listen to some music spun by DJ Sage FM. And support some critical resources here in Rockford!

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

cheers to @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social for nominating my story "Canis Ex Machina" for Best of the Net! Check-check it: lastsyllablelit.com/canis-ex-mac...

lastsyllablelit.com

Canis Ex Machina | Last Syllable Literary Journal

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Editorial Note: after judging its use in three separate manuscripts this week and wholly on intuition, it is my firm opinion that ‘handjob’ is one word…

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That moment where you get to do manual editing again, and it feels like a breath of fresh air... until you realize maybe you don't remember all the proofreading marks anymore... 😅😅😅

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My toxic trait is… if I suspect you’d be into some sh*t like phrenology, I’m gonna misuse fewer and less just to see if you’re likely to lecture me on a “rule” you like that is blatantly disconnected from the laws of nature.

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just finished an ARC of R. Kumra’s INHALE, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize and out this November. It leveled me in the best way, and you should absolutely dig it. untpress.unt.edu/catalog/kumr...

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Somewhere in the wings @prettyminotaur.bsky.social is fist pumping at this obvious victory…

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Annual overalls photo with my pals Beth Uznis Johnson and David Scott Hay David’s BUTCHER OF NAZERTH is catching great vibes Beth books COMING CLEAN is a must read… and her new podcast Plot Lab is out now! Dig!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Many things to say about the weekend with @whiskeytit.com and the folks from Bizzaro at Printers Row, first of which is a big thanks to literary wet nurse and artistic adventure buddy Miette Gillette for helping make it amazing!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hey Chicago! Come join me as I join some of my favorite degenerates @pilsencommunitybooks tomorrow night! @whiskeytit.com

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The little stream sings in the crease of the hill. It is the water of life. It knows nothing of death, nothing. And this is the morning of Christ’s resurrection. The tomb is empty. There is no death. Death is our illusion, our wish to belong only to ourselves, which is our freedom…

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Is Origen the origin of ‘origin’—anybody know?

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In honor of my collection MORE HELL’s first birthday, I’m sharing some favorite responses and reviews. If you too do not understand or enjoy short stories, you can get your copy from my amazing publisher @whiskeytit.com: whiskeytit.com/product/more... Beth, whoever you are, I salute you 🫡

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Thank you to everyone for the lovely birthday wishes! I’ve got to say that early, because I’ll be Midwest exiting now to see old tractors that remind me puttering and sputtering can be a sign of life… then hiding in the woods a while. Not sure I’ll remember what day it is on my return… ❤️❤️❤️

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Either the copy editor is also dropping tabs, or Donald is really showing his long strange trip…

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Roadtripping to Chi-Town to get down with some hip folks at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social’ Exhibit B series. If you feel the urge, come dig! @whiskeytit.com

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Charles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I just love Dare's poems so much and this is no exception poets.org/poem/zero-hour

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Zero Hour

I heard celebration sex in the shadows

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

While in a rabbit hole about Margaret Wise Brown, found a Wikipedia fact that speaks for itself…

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Just because you’re an athlete doesn’t mean you don’t enjoy reading. Everyone can get hip to books. Shoutout to @rockfordicehogs.bsky.social’s Hammy for digging my collection MORE HELL!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy 250 America! Happy 4th, when we celebrate that we were born in elegant writing about how the people in power over us can always be told to piss off while we remake the world toward the better! 🇺🇸

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I will not be consulting the OED to confirm because I want to believe some Ancient Greek saw a caterpillar and said, That’s a “wiggly post!” Look at the Parthenon over there. If one of those things wiggled, just like that, dude…

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is your periodic reminder that garbage men and plumbers have probably saved your life more times than your doctor ever has. That isn’t a bag on physicians, man, that’s just a statement that we live in community and you ought to respect everybody in it doing their level best.

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Taught my UCLA class in a hotel tonight. Took a post-class walk in the mall parking lot nextdoor. Found three washers of different sizes and zero nuts to match them.

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Getting pretty freakin excited for the David R. Collins Writers Conference! Come hang in the QC! @mwcqc.bsky.social

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