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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti)

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Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Columnist. Gaymer. Ex-chef. Occasional pebble. Feelings Laminated. MFA in Poetry (Randolph). words -> adriandallas.com

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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 4h
post grad degree
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 12h
Poem damp like that one bath towel that never quite dries.
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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 15h
So excited about my first PM Deal report! Also proud and grateful to have two poetry books forthcoming: Field of Want, Etruscan Press, Spring 2028 Definition of Elegy: New & Collected Prose Poems, Cornerstone Press, fall 2027
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Deal Report
FIELD OF WANT
By Amorak Huey
Imprint: Etruscan Press
Cofounder of River River Books and professor at Bowling Green State University Amorak Huey's FIELD OF WANT, which explores distance, desire, and geography-in particular the fields of Ohio and the American Midwest-featuring the syntax of place, the light of the moon, the isolation of being alive, to Etruscan Press, for publication in April 2028.
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September 28, 2026Screenshot of the first page of a book contract between Cornerstone Press and Amorak Huey for Definition of Elegy: New and Collected Prose Poems
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 12h
ds2 looks & plays like doody & that is my hill to die & re-die on.
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 12h
Poem damp like that one bath towel that never quite dries.
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HAD @havehashad.com · 12h
kicking off acceptances from Cletus Crow's haiku call today with three from @ezhang77.bsky.social ! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/thr...
September 30, 2026
Three Haiku
Elena Zhang

Opulent
Opulent
hunger for missing 
teeth, tonight.After

After many years,
aliens contort the long
memories of fish

 

 
 

Family Attitude

Our fun shadows confess to crimes
I have yet to commit
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13h
New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social · 13h
Delighted to have my translation of Yiannis Doukas's sonnet "Ekphrasis" featured as the Poem of the Day at the Academy of American Poets--with thanks to this month's editor, Maya Popa: poets.org/index%2Ephp/...
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Ekphrasis: Her Expression
The poor, maimed thing. And yet look closer, see—
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 13h
Infinities of House Flies
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 13h
Jamesonmaxxing by double fisting “Valences of the Dialectic” & “After Year Zero”
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 13h
my bona fides
A certificate from the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Annapolis MD 21401 that shows an ink drawing of horseshoe crab with the following text 

Certificate of Participation From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's
Cooperative Horseshoe Crab Tagging Program
TAG NUMBER: 573695
TAGGING AGENCY:
Sacred Heart University
RELEASE
Summer 2026*
Various Long Island Beaches, Long Island Sound, CT
*indicates preliminary data
RECAPTURE
9/23/2026
Stratford Point, Bennet's Cove, Long Island Sound, CT
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 16h
"He rambles on about moving my body, but I wish this forest Would just eat me. Envelope me in the moss, the ragged Earth. Compost my body." —Sadee Bee :: “On his mental health walk, I find” alocasia.org/2026/08/11/s...
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Sadee Bee :: “On his mental health walk, I find” – ALOCASIA
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Last Sunday’s poem was 421 words. Today’s poem is 15. Courtesy of @ezhang77.bsky.social neonpajamas.substack.com/p/091-poem-p...
neonpajamas.substack.com
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The chickens are circling and blotting out the day. Kay Ryan
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Home to Roost
The chickens
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Elena Zhang for #smallpoemsunday @ezhang77.bsky.social cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Weather Forecast

Eyes will drift down
like a dream in reverse.
The looking back.
The seeing nothing.
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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I call my dead mom, and she is never / too busy to answer.” — Todd Dillard . . . This poem appeared in New Poetry Canada, 2026. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On Grammatology: The Video Game (2027, Studio Différance)
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
...--no police anywhere-- and all that silence rising
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Saturday storm reading
A blurry photo of the book “vice: new and selected poems” by poet Ai. It’s cover shows and old black and white photo of two men in a jail car, covering their faces with hats.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When at the end of 1939 Walter Benjamin was advised to get out of Paris, he instead renewed his library card. He died #OnThisDay in 1940, fleeing from the Nazis. He was one of the great cultural critics of the 20th century
Walter Benjamin's membership card to the Bibliotheque nationale de France
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are now accepting applications for short-term writing residencies in all genres for our summer residency period. Free submissions all of September. www.sundresspublications.com/safta/…
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
one more week to submit! 🎃 send us a poem 💛
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I play the tromboncino
Adrian, in a brown shirt and grey shorts and orange hat, holds a large green trombocino squash like it’s a guitar. They’re standing in front of a brick wall next to a red chair
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
one of the greats by one of the greats: Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s “The Leaving”
The Leaving
My father said I could not do it, but all night I picked the peaches.
The orchard was still, the canals ran steadily.
I was a girl then, my chest its own walled garden.
How many ladders to gather an orchard?
I had only one and a long patience with lit hands and the looking of the stars which moved right through me the way the water moved through the canals with a voice that seemed to speak of this moonless gathering and those who had gathered before me.
I put the peaches in the pond's cold water, all night up the ladder and down, all night my hands twisting fruit as if I were entering a thousand doors, all night my back a straight road to the sky.
And then out of its own goodness, out of the far fields of the stars, the morning came, and inside me was the stillness a bell possesses just after it has been rung, before the metal begins to long again for the clapper's stroke.
The light came over the orchard.
The canals were silver and then were not, and the pond was—I could see as I laid the last peach in the water—full of fish and eyes.
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I also really love this infographic we did. The magazine archive is a collaborative effort. We've scanned thousands of magazines, but we're also relying on years of scanning work by the community and partnerships with the industry. It takes a village!
30% of our magazines were provided by Retromags. 33.4% were scanned by the Video Game History Foundation. Magazine publishers and staff provided another 10.8%. In declining order, other contributor groups are "Various Internet Archive users," CGW Museum, Out-of-Print Archive, and other community groups.
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gotta get my arm in good enough shape for Control Resonant 😖
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Accepting submissions till Oct. 15! Authors & editors of works that have gone out of print may submit full-length or short books, including creative nonfiction, fiction, & poetry. Submit: doublebackbooks.com #bookx #authorx #writerx #smallpressx #openforsubmissions
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Noemi Press @noemipress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In Cahoots with the Rabbit God by @chenchenwrites.bsky.social is now available for preorder on the Noemi website: www.noemipress.org/catalog/infi... Set for publication December 1st, 2026 Cover by Roda Avelar
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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
we'll be reopening for new work on october 1 💜🌀💜🌀💜🌀💜
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're so so thrilled to announce our finalists list for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. We can't thank you all enough for spreading the message, applying, and sharing your words with us.
The 2026 ALOCASIA

Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers Finalists List

Jaq Hack

Fiona Jin

Tara Labovich

Wylde J. Parsley

Mary Beth Becker

Haley Bossé

Chrysanthemum Brook Watkins

Mikhaela Woodward

Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin

Christopher Phelps

Supported by funding from Accelerate Resilience L.A., a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sarah Chin reads "24 Hours on Labor & Delivery" from our 🍂 SEPTEMBER ISSUE 🍂
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He said "Macbeth" in a theatre! COMMUNISM! (seriously, this is terrific!)
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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Louise Bourgeois, Self Portrait (Autoportrait), 2007 © The Easton Foundation, New York www.alaintruong.com/2026/09/loui...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/09/2026
AI tools generated nearly $1 billion in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say reut.rs/3TfIfl3
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AI tools generated nearly $1 billion in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say
AI tools are raising health spending for insurers by nearly $1 billion over two years, as providers bill for more severe patient care, according ​to a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association study released Thursday.
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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
george: i'm doing it, jerry, i'm gonna fight the seether jerry: the seether? george: the seether, jerry! jerry: you can't fight that! george: i'm fighting the seether!
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Two men meet in the middle of a secret, hide behind the bushes. The trees, who see no deviance, offer their trunks for cover." —Grant Chemidlin, “Cruising” alocasia.org/2023/03/20/g...
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Grant Chemidlin :: “Cruising,” “Portrait of a Plant on Fire,” and “Sally (When There’s Nothing Left to Sell)” – ALOCASIA
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds
The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
took the derp to the forest
Mikey, the tawny chihuahua, stands on small wooden footbridge in a purple harness looking at the camera. Woods in the background.Mikey, the tawny chihuahua, walks thru tall grass in a purple harness looking at the camera.
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sometimes I make my voice all nasally and yell at M-- I'M BOBBY FLAY!
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m super excited to have a guest post over at @tnbbc.bsky.social today! I got to talk a bit about Family Night, all the literary and other meanings behind my wildflowers tattoo! thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/indi...
Picture of a white person’s forearm with a sketch-style tattoo of wildflowers. 
This image is focused on the fern and fiddlehead part of the tattoo 
which is done in a thin, black line style, with a couple of leaves that have a dusky green color.
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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
took the derp to the forest
Mikey, the tawny chihuahua, stands on small wooden footbridge in a purple harness looking at the camera. Woods in the background.Mikey, the tawny chihuahua, walks thru tall grass in a purple harness looking at the camera.
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"At night, I whispered to the fig. I told it about the nights I crouched in the kitchen, counting the cracks in the floorboards, pretending I was invisible. I told it about the hands that could both hold and harm..." —Toya L. Walker alocasia.org/2026/08/11/t...
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Toya L. Walker :: “Fiddle Leaf Confessions” – ALOCASIA
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The BBC, like the NYT, supports the transphobes and fascists.
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Andrew Cuomo, through tears : this is marxism
huffpost.com
Mamdani Delivers $131 Million Settlement For DoorDash Drivers
The Mamdani administration said the settlement is the largest labor enforcement action in the city’s history.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 23/09/2026
“The Poetics of Social Forms”: Remembering Fredric Jameson www.publicbooks.org/the-poetics-of-…
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“The Poetics of Social Forms”: Remembering Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) - Public Books
“No other thinker, Hegelian Marxist or otherwise, has lived up to this modernist vocation with the originality, intellectual élan, aesthetic intelligence, and political trenchancy of Fredric Jameson.”
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, that’s that.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
regarding taylor swift
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/09/2026
It's not just gender affirming care, this act would have protected abortion providers as well. Newsom being anti trans is hurting abortion provision as well.
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