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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 19h

Well that sucks. Did Alabama get any increases in federal funding and any other departments or areas? Or did we just lose massively all around? www.al.com/news/2026/09...

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Alabama loses $3B in federal funding, and here’s what it covered

Alabama has lost billions in federal funding since January 2025. See what areas the cuts impact.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

O may this be a happy international translation day to one of the best doing it! Monica Cure’s talent and passion for translation is a force of bewildering beauty. She will win a prize for this one day. Thus do I spit three times and mark the dirt with my words. 🖤

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Christina Tudor @christinaltudor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You heard it here first, CALL MY BODY A CAUTIONARY TALE is UNHINGED and BRILLIANT. Thank you so much to @writesloud.bsky.social for featuring my debut @thirtywestph.com flash collection in this roundup: washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7924... Get a copy: www.thirtywestph.com/shop/p/callm...

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Spot LIT: Short on Time? Read a Chapbook

Have you heard of chapbooks—the little cousin to novels, essay collections, and short story collections? If not, you’re missing out on an entire series of short works from today’s writers. Modern publ...

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I lament the trivialization of Ancient Greek history accomplished by these pseudo-lettered keg-hounds and little princesses. Capitalism is stupefying. Truly.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Cornell rape case owes so much to the self-styled “Greek system” which uses exclusivity as a prerogative to take whatever one wants among the humans who believe they deserve it and are entitled to it. Please spare me the #notallfratboys twaddle ✌️

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An old anthem from my early 20’s… car je veux. youtu.be/so0XGV782lY?...

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Car je veux

YouTube video by Salvatore Adamo - Topic

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What those wedding fellows were trying to do, minus magic costumes and sticks. It’s one of my favorite folk dances 🖤 youtu.be/VM7lTvNWH8o?...

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Calusul, possibly the fastest folk dance in the world!

YouTube video by maralan51

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did my PhD at Cornell and too often ended up in a coffee shop or restaurant overhearing frat boys spewing misogyny. Just disgusting cesspools, frats, in general, and Cornell frats in particular.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

mentioned a poem of mine is getting a lot of likes on instagram to my dad during our weekly call and he asked me to send it, which I did, hours ago, and he has not replied with anything, and I’m just reliving the “Ok….?”s if get in high school when I showed them my work 😂😭

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Joseph Donahue

Something somewhere
is eclipsing something else.
Now, suddenly, looking up,
the sky is different. Some
great joy may be about
to transform your life.
The moon glows red.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it would've proven his point

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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let's begin this Monday morning with the inimitable @pdforan.bsky.social's magical fiction piece, "Kissing, Still." "You are living and not living, and we are kissing." literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

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Kissing, Still by Pat Foran

after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In case you didn't know, we open for chapbook submissions on (checks calendar) THURSDAY!!! (submissions, as always, are free) www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

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Submissions Guidelines | Glass Poetry Press

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY! Tuesday, 10/6/26, 7-9PM ET, Zoom Poems That Speak to Other Poems with Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social Learn more here: www.swwim.org/readings-eve... Registration & payment link: buy.stripe.com/00wcN54p40ww... Price: $80/each OR all 3 for $220

Poems That Speak to Other Poems

A poem may address another poem in different ways-- directly, indirectly, as a legacy or a disputation.

Throughout the history of poetry, the poetic form has emerged from dialogue with its ancestry. Many poems also dialogue with others through traces or by picking up lines and carrying them into the present. Each poem sets the conditions and demarcates the terrain of its particular intimacy and intensity. In this generative workshop, we will explore writing poems that speak to or with the poems that have shaped us.

Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). Alina's poems, essays, and fiction can be found in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, World Literature Today, Pleiades, Poetry, BOMB, Crab Creek Review, and others. She serves as editor, reviewer, and critic for various journals and is currently working on a novel-like creature. My Heresies, a poetry collection was published by Sarabande in late April 2025. More online at www.alinastefanescuwriter.com.

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Derek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Congratulations to Poets on Poetry Series author Jason Schneiderman on being awarded the 2026 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism by the @poetry.foundation! If you haven't read Jason's book yet, you can order your copy directly from @uofmpress.bsky.social here: press.umich.edu/Books/N/Noth...

Book cover for NOTHINGISM by Jason Schneiderman, published in the Poets on Poetry Series by the University of Michigan Press, edited by Derek Pollard. The background is deep purple. The title, NOTHINGISM, appears as large, light purple text running vertically down the left side of the cover. On the right side, in gold text that contrasts with the purple background, is the subtitle POETRY AT THE END OF PRINT CULTURE. The author's name, JASON SCHNEIDERMAN, appears in white text below the subtitle. In the bottom right corner is a simple illustration of a tan cardboard box. The overall design is minimal and contemporary, using typographic elements as the main visual focus.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Bring back these colorful album covers

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thomas irvine @ahermitsvino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

'cabbaged-faced' is a quite a nice loop, ends on the supertonic but resolves if repeated

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Richard Wattenbarger @musicologyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Don’t forget about using S for e-flat! For the “Motto” of his Chamber Concerto, for example, Berg uses these letters for the three leading composers of the 2nd Viennese School: ArnolD SCHönBErG, Anton wEBERn, and AlBAn BErG.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Some of the longest words that can be written using musical notation include acceded, baggage, defaced, and feedbag. If you substituted H for B, you could add the words headache, beachhead, eggheaded, and deadheaded to this list. Rumor has it the longest word ever scored is 'cabbage-faced'.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A note slipped under a door or a crumpled message passed from cell to cell, hand to hand is called a kite—words travel even when we can’t. — Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives Beautiful Experiments

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“We flinch from the immediate pressures of mystery in poetic, in aesthetic acts of creation as we do from the realization of our diminished humanity, of all that is literally bestial in the murderousness and gadgetry of this age. The secondary is our narcotic.” – George Steiner, Real Presences

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Join us for a virtual writing workshop series with SWWIM this fall! Generate new poems & learn how to send them out for publication. Sign up for one or for all three. 10/6/26: Poems That Speak to Other Poems w/ Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social #SWWIMEveryDay #PoetryWorkshops

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Grateful to celebrate David Vernon’s book on Clarice Lispector. 🖤

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I shared this @alinaetc.bsky.social stunner in a Teachers as Poets group last week!

I Nominate the Magnolia as Sexiest Tree

Forget the stories of fairy-tailed monsters that spooked you: the wolves in southern ladies' eyes will eat you for brunch with ambrosia salad. There is no forest outside the tradition's silk tent: an alien must wed a southern man to keep the south in her mouth from losing the ballpark. I wear a skirt to seem worthy of wind lifting it skyward. I practice kissing the trunk's shoulder. I plant a tiny magnolia in the middle of my middle daughter's name so none can deny her placement.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Suicide is now the second leading cause of death among 10- to 14-year-olds in the US, with marked increases noted between 2007 and 2021, according to a new report in JAMA Pediatrics.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It’s the heart of a world whose life is belt drive and clockwork, piston rhythm and siren scream. - Joseph Roth, “Affirmation of the Triangular Railway Junction”

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was just writing about this in the context of gilgamesh. As a "bad practice in a mythical past" to be contrasted with the way kings are supposed to be.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

nullibiety n.s. [from nullibi, Latin.] The state of being nowhere.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

American billionaires are more powerful than Satan, as Andreyev knew, for an American billionaire can sway the Pope or the President while Satan can only cause the occasional glossolalia at midnight. www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4...

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Satan's Diary

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Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"But it's the terror of being just one person—one chance, one set of days— that keeps me absolutely still tonight" -- Denis Johnson

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fuck genius. Or anything other than what we make with many hands. Injecting mixed thoughts into the superstructure, into the fight between classes, into the annals of history's radical traditions means finding theory in the most meagre places. The most squalid atmosphere. - Lola Olufemi

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Dear Ron Padgett, Thank you for honoring wild palookas.

Ron Padgett
A Brief Correspondence Course
When I close a letter with "Cordially," I blush with shame.
It sounds insincere.
But when a letter
comes to me
with that same closing, I glow with warmth.
I smile. I think this person is cordial, although until
a few moments ago
I had never heard of him. In fact he is a wild palooka in a half-lit office, his hair crazed with enterprise, large rubber mice in
the corridor.
Sincerely,
Ron Padgett

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Tomorrow is emails, hotdogs, and a pool party with dogs.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Dwight and Nancy. *I finally read Nancy’s memoirs, Homage to the Spanish Exiles, and deeply appreciated the Zinn-like sections in which refugees told their own stories. The seductions of Great Men angles prime us for personality cults and Trumpshit.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I wish I could say this surprises me but it does not.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Dear writers, you know all those sensory details and memories from summer travels that you wish you could honor in text? Give me your eyes and hands for a virtual weekend. 🫶 bendinggenres.com/writing-grou...

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