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Andrew Hemmert

@andrewhemmert.bsky.social
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Florida poet living in Denver. No Longer at This Address and Blessing the Exoskeleton from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Sawgrass Sky from Texas Review Press. andrewhemmertpoetry.com

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Sarabande Chapbook Prize is open! During the month of October, we’re reading your poetry and hybrid chapbook submissions. One winner selected by the editors will be awarded publication, $1000, and a standard royalty contract. Details and past winners in bio. We can’t wait to read your work!
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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 17h
Submit to our annual anthology! We're looking for poetry and short stories. You can submit your work right here: www.driftwoodpress.com/submit
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Driftwood Press Submissions
Looking to submit your work? We now have a Subfolio submission portal, but if you're afraid of change, our Submittable portal is still open!
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University Press of Florida @floridapress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On LitHub (@literaryhub.bsky.social y.social) today: the cover reveal for ALL THIS BEAUTY, a literary anthology edited by @kristenarnett.bsky.social and @cunningpscott.bsky.social, forthcoming in March 2027! Cover photo by Josh Aronson, cover design by Mindy Basinger Hill.
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Here is the Cover For All This Beauty, a New Anthology of Florida Writing
Below is the cover for All This Beauty, a new anthology of literary Florida edited by Kristen Arnett and P. Scott Cunningham, forthcoming from University Press of Florida in early March 2027. The c…
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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Hub City Press @hubcitypress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy pub day to SMALL TALK by Acie Clark, on shelves today! This debut collection was selected by @paradiselaust.bsky.social as the winner of our New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize. Copies are available at hubcity.org/smalltalk with free shipping through next Tues (9/30)
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Small Talk | Poetry | Hub City Writers Project
New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize winner Acie Clark’s debut collection asks us to lean into conversation.
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Ifeoluwa Ayandele @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dear friends, You can read my poem which was the runner-up for the 2026 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Honoring Jake Adam York in the link below👇🏾. I hope you’ll find it worthy. www.southernhumanitiesreview.com/593-the-body...
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59.3 The Body That Walks Out of Fire Is Something Else by Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé
SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.
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Meatwad Ron: Summer of Ron @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“I would rather see a photo of a sheet of notebook paper messily scrawled with the day’s specials in the chef’s own hand than feel the queasy upset as my eyes and brain try to meet across the uncanny valley of a dish I know cannot be real”
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Why restaurants are facing backlash for fake food pictures | CNN
Generative AI is being used to advertise food around the world to the disdain of many beholders. But there are real reasons why consumers are repelled by the sometimes bizarre-looking meals.
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The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“August, listless. A glaze/of heat on skin. The slow/smear of roads/below thick air.” Read Joanna Klink’s poem "Lat Summer, Childhood" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
Headshot of Joanna Klink
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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 13/08/2026
Can you imagine having instant access to actual experts at basically any time you want but instead you talk to the robot that you're pretty sure is wrong?
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Love essays on place and writing? We’ve got you covered! 💙📚✍️ Preorder by backing our kickstafter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/riv...
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A River Runs Through It: Essays on Form & Water
An anthology exploring rivers and writing, forthcoming from River River Books in Fall 2026.
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brosaleigh @brosaleigh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Which one of you oomfs lives in Denver and wants a delightful night of music to attend on Friday
Show flyer in blue with white text 

JOSALEIGH POLLETT
(SLC INDIE-ROCK)
AUGUST 14 2026
A PLACE
WITH
FOR OWLS
VANNA BLUE
AND
ALL AGES!
MLADY
SOBER SPACE!
$15
D3 ARTS
6PM DOORS
3632 MORRISON ROAD
7pm MUSIC
DENVER, COA sick film photo of me playing guitarat my album release show by Jackson Lund
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
dear local business owners, nobody is going to tell you they’re bailing on your business because of the AI ads. they’ll just stop going. in a year you’ll have run out of customers and you’ll be totally mystified as to the reason
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Steven Lemongello @stevelemongello.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The state is seeking to build 5 detention facilities south of I-4
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 30/07/2026
"Ruth stayed up all night / listening to her father’s snoring, / listening to the great insectoid heart / of Florida beating all around them" From "Notes Toward the Great Floridian Novel I," one of two new poems by @andrewhemmert.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/P1ctkPt
The cited quote and information written in black against a white background. the full Rumpus logo is at the top.
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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"NINE PERSIMMONS reveals how the most unassuming corners of existence sometimes hold the deepest truths. @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social has crafted a beautiful poetry collection that really excels in grounding the reader in a place and time," writes The Great Book Wyrm bit.ly/4hvvmNe
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Nine Persimmons by Kerry James Evans
"...and I love you, reader, who knows so little about me —who tries not to,but can't help but judge me for how I say these things so causally— how my drawlreappears like azalea blossoms in spring, thenpoof!Gone with the first rain."~The World In Nine Persimmons Kerry James Evans traces a geography both intimate and far-flung—Tuscaloosa…
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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 27/07/2026
"Death of the author" is a literary theory that emphasizes the personal interaction and connection to an artistic work over the concept of an authorial ultimate meaning. "Separate the art from the artist" is a catchphrase to mumble to yourself so you can justify buying more Harry Potter shit.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions
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brosaleigh @brosaleigh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
An album about distance but mostly about love. If I Let it Quiet is out now.
A photo of my best friend and creative partner Jordan Watko and I, slumped back to back together and looking down and pensive The album cover for if I let it quiet - a glitched out blue and purple and white figure with a banner of the title across her eyes
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
my other main ANDOR thought is it just makes me wish ROGUE ONE were a better movie (i know, i know i'm a minority on this)
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 17/07/2026
After 27 years and the deaths of both bandleaders, the Olivia Control have announced 'The Same Place,' their third and final album
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The Olivia Tremor Control Announce First New Album In 27 Years The Same Place
The idea of a new Olivia Tremor Control was basically unthinkable, but it’s happening anyway. The lo-fi psychedelic pop band was a key driving force in Athens, Georgia’s Elephant 6 collective in the ’...
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
i don’t understand the desire to get married and the desire to write a novel. i’m not against commitment or i guess duration. i just dislike these two things as institutions and as normative aspirations. like to be a “real” couple or “real” writer.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I wrote about "performative reading," resentment, and how tech CEOs managed to make us so incurious, to their great benefit johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/on-perform...
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On Performative Reading
Language, resentment, magic, and morals.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 11/07/2026
i don't respect england. (looking at the timeline and finding out there is world cup soccer on) i don't respect england.
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dariusjagjag.bsky.social @dariusjagjag.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
So many incredible moments on this album, Nirosta Steel's "My Skyscraper." Ulyssa’s Eric & John meticulously culled & curated from 40 years of works by Steven Hall, co-conspirator to Arthur Russell. #whenlabelsdogood Pure, unadulterated magic from beginning to end. & I love the description below.
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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 09/07/2026
For about 6 months this past year I basically stopped making art or writing and I couldn't figure out why. Turns out I was on a new medication that had a side effect of reducing anxiety. Because I no longer had any anxiety, I stopped making art. That was a weird thing to learn about myself.
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The Florida Review @theflreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We are thrilled to announce @andrewhemmert.bsky.social as the winner of our 2026 Editor’s Prize in Poetry! Winners receive publication and a thousand dollars. "Natural History" will appear in THE FLORIDA REVIEW Vol. 50, No. 2, Spring 2027, on sale in March 2027. #flreview
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/07/2026
"Just imagine the glory and pride you’ll feel witnessing an Olympian receive a gold medal for half-pipe snowboarding while the devastating guitar power chords of Mastodon’s Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher bludgeon the self-worth of the other loser countries." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why...
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Why “The Star Spangled Banner” Should Be Replaced by Mastodon’s “Crusher Destroyer” as Our National Anthem
“‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ does not slap. You can’t possibly add it to a Summer Jamz playlist. If it appears mid-shuffle between ‘SICKO MODE’ and ‘Run The W...
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Andrew Hemmert For today, and for all days ♥️💙 “…this I think is what is necessary for survival, pledging allegiance to the heart…” from “I Pledge Allegiance to the Heart” in Waxwing and in NO LONGER AT THIS ADDRESS (Pitt Poetry Series) @andrewhemmert.bsky.social waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...
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I Pledge Allegiance to the Heart | Andrew Hemmert
I pledge allegiance to the heart— / not the empty aluminum heart...❡
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 02/07/2026
i believe that going to a restaurant with an ampersand in the name and eating a ludicrously tall burger with a name that makes light of heart disease and washing it down with like four IPAs would fix me
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Louise Glück ♥️ “You see again how far away / each thing is from every other thing.” from AVERNO
TELESCOPE

There is a moment after you move your eye away when you forget where you are because you've been living, it seems, somewhere else, in the silence of the night sky.
You've stopped being here in the world.
You're in a different place,
a place where human life has no meaning.
You're not a creature in a body.
You exist as the stars exist, participating in their stillness, their immensity.
Then you're in the world again.
At night, on a cold hill, taking the telescope apart.
You realize afterward not that the image is false but the relation is false.
You see again how far away each thing is from every other thing.
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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
our oven’s control board is broken and the repair guy won’t be here until next week so I have no choice but to grill dinner outside during an extreme heat warning. I would have done so anyway, but still
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Louise Glück ♥️ from AVERNO Happy #smallpoemsunday! @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
THE NIGHT MIGRATIONS

This is the moment when you see again the red berries of the mountain ash and in the dark sky
the birds' night migrations.
It grieves me to think the dead won't see them— these things we depend on, they disappear.
What will the soul do for solace then?
I tell myself maybe it won't need these pleasures anymore;
maybe just not being is simply enough, hard as that is to imagine.
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This one from Andrew Hemmert’s NO LONGER AT THIS ADDRESS! 💛 @andrewhemmert.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social
EATING HONEY FROM A CANOPIC JAR

In winter, honeybees gather around their queens and shiver to keep them alive. Years ago the sky over the hollowed factory was honey, sunlight combing through broken storms. No one yet has explained satisfactorily why I so often dream of tornados, or at least in those dreams I remember. All through Indiana we drove in that weather to take your friend's wedding guests to the airport, clouds roiling and surrounding, jaguars of black smoke. Love is an atavism, or a dog in traffic.
I wasn't home when either of my dogs died, and I can't decide if that's worse than the alternative. The pain, I mean.
One went during surgery in a doctor's office, asleep, and one, nearly blind by then, fell into the pool at night.
The second time, my mother called to tell me while I was driving and I saw the factory and the rain was barely falling on the windshield. Often, when I dream of tornados, those dogs are what I lose to the wind, again and again. Today, despite the cold, the burn-purple wildflowers on the hillside are livid with bees. I understand that under the right conditions what they produce will never perish. I wanted to say, what they love will never perish. The pain I mean.
Calyx and proboscis. How the subconscious seems to be a strange, incessant catacomb of wings, needles, and warmth.
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✨ Star @ LBX ✨ @thestarfishface.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“I’m pretty sure I have ADHD, and while it’s difficult to deal with sometimes, over the years I’ve found coping mechanisms and methods that allow me to still make stuff while working with my limits” …Is what I say most of the time. But sometimes it Doesn’t Work and it feels like I’m dying oTL
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
it wouldve been funny if goldfinger wasnt a movie and just a crazy song about a guy shirley bassey made up
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Out: Better things are possible In (laser eyes etc): Better things are inevitable
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Andrew Hemmert 💙 “Everywhere wants to be spring.” from NO LONGER AT THIS ADDRESS (Pitt Poetry Series) @andrewhemmert.bsky.social
AFTER MOVING

In a room full of boxes, I am listening 
to the rain falling on my roof for the first time.
It's March. Denver doesn't know whether it wants to be spring. Or maybe that's not the right way to say it.
Everywhere wants to be spring. Things bloom early and hard frost drags the season back.
Here the birds start singing long before the sun has shown any sliver of its arc. Here the birds are trying to build a nest in a hole in the siding above my back door. I chase them off, but like shadows they wait
and return. It is impossible not to love them.
They are the color of roadside peaches.
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"I’ve always thought of Levis as a writer of what the kids call 'bangers,' poems that begin gloriously and end with drama." Katie Peterson reviews Larry Levis’s "Swirl & Vortex": lareviewofbooks.org/article/swirl-v…
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Poem on Fire | Los Angeles Review of Books
Larry Levis’s collected poems tell the present moment to go to hell.
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Mar Romasco-Moore @marromasco.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My queer internet horror book is on sale AND has free shipping from bookshop June 23-26 bookshop.org/p/books/dead...
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Deadstream
Check out Deadstream - <b><i>Rear Window </i>meets <i>The Ring </i>in this sinister YA thriller, in which a teen girl witnesses the livestreamed murder of a popular online streamer by a paranormal ent...
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Not to poet-post, but one of the problems of the internet is that it's fuelled a culture in which people "love poetry" but never actually pay for it - consuming fragments posted online instead of immersing themselves in full collections - then being surprised when poets ask to be paid for their work
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
as my ability to read books has returned, I read more and write less. I'm more convinced now that writing is best as a result of reading, that it's best at a 3:1 ratio, that letting the reading create the writing is actually less work than I was doing all along when I thought reading was too hard
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