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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Celebrating two weeks since the release of SLIPSTREAM 🌟 featuring "Sestina" by Diana Cao

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

sending my doctor a portal message to ask if he’s mad at me

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A friend said he was endlessly revising four poems. How am I supposed to know when a poem is done, he asked. Simple, I said, you stick a toothpick in and if it comes out clean it's done.

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Diana Cao @dianacao.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

thank you to the boulder bookstore for some wonderful questions! and the chance to talk about some things i was reading and loving this summer (rosalie moffett's making a living and e.m. forster's a room with a view <3)

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Claims we have no power to impact what happens are nevertheless an intervention in what will happen, by discouraging participation, by encouraging passivity, surrender, acquiescence. If you insist that a given outcome is inevitable, you are lobbying against resistance.

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Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender)

I have been hesitating to hit send on this one, because across the world we are all under the shadow of Trump's threat to commit war crimes that will "eradicate a whole civilization" in Iran while Ira...

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

"When he grows up he wants to be a constructionworker, and then, says M., he’s going to build a dog museum." "Dog Museum" by @ariellemkaplan.bsky.social variantlit.com/dog-museum/

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Dog Museum

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Hannah Cohen @hcohen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

me at AWP offsites and readings: perhaps I am :) a writer :) wow :) amazing community :) I am inspired :) me the moment I step outside the building: what the fuck dude

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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

We're in Baltimore! Join us TOMORROW NIGHT at 7pm for our AWP off-site reading, Boathouse Extravaganza: Writers (and Editors) on the Waterfront! Lia Purpura, @rika99.bsky.social, @samuelkolawole.bsky.social, and Athena Nassar will be reading for AGNI. See you there! #awp2026

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Check out the new poem "Dog Museum" by @ariellemkaplan.bsky.social from Variant issue 22 What about turtles? variantlit.com/dog-museum/

From the poem "Dog Museum" by Arielle Kaplan, from Variant issue 22: "I ask M. if other animals can visit the museum:
What about turtles?

Sadly, he says, no. You have to be a dog
or have a dog to get in."

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Arielle Kaplan @ariellemkaplan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I’m thrilled to have a poem in Issue 22! Thanks to the editors of @variantlit.bsky.social for giving “Dog Museum” a home! variantlit.com/dog-museum/

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

ChatGPT / an LLM will never have angst over its writing and that’s why it will never be as good as you, a fallible human, wrapped around the coil of your own anxiety and heart muscle

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Robert Pinsky @rpinsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Robert Pinsky's translation of "Incantation."

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Arielle Kaplan @ariellemkaplan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for publishing my review of THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME by @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social in the latest issue of On the Seawall. If you haven't read Bailey's work yet, consider this a sign that you should start! www.ronslate.com/on-thank-you...

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on Thank You for Staying with Me, essays by Bailey Gaylin Moore – On the Seawall

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The Sept/Oct edition of ON THE SEAWALL has just been published. Come on by the gallery & take a look at what we have to show. www.ronslate.com

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My friends in high school used to call it Pacey’s Creek and it is wild how right they turned out to be. (This tweet is for geriatric millennials)

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Alice White @poetalicewhite.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Thrilled to have a poem in the new issue of The Fiddlehead ♥️

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Jillbles @jillbles.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This Passover I’m thinking hard about the holiday’s history of resistance to tyrannical leaders, and the imperative for Jewish people to stand with all oppressed peoples of the world.

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

What a great time to impeach and convict the president.

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Claudia Koerner @claudiakoerner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“At the museum I learn I am as tall as some bombs.” — Steven Duong, “Ordnance,” At The End Of The World There Is A Pond

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At the museum I learn I am as tall as some bombs (5'7"). The bombs in question are dumb bombs, which means they do not question gravity. They just land where they land, bury what they can. Placed in rows they look something like soldiers. Dumb soldiers. The placard explains how all bombs used to be dumb, how the term was coined retroactively by whoever made them smart, taught them about lasers, thermo-dynamics, critical theory, all the things a contemporary bomb must know to stay competitive in a growing field.
War was simpler when my dad lived here.
It was called Saigon then & the bombs were so dumb they didn't even know it. All they had to do was their jobs. Christ. This place has no damn AC. The casualties are colorized, the tourists are foreigner than me, & Lennon serenades us on a loop, asking us every three & a half minutes to imagine no possessions. My phone dings.
Take museum with salt, texts Ba. It's propaganda.
Fish sauce, I reply. I send him photos: me standing in front of a nearly
forgotten apartment, an elementary school, a wildlife sanctuary. I allow him to imagine me happy. I tell him on Tuesday I fed mangoes to a ten-year-old elephant. I do not tell him it was recovering from a land mine blast.
I do not tell him his friend groped me last night at the bar, & I definitely do not tell him I am a communist. The world is a list of things I keep from my father. Before I leave, I run my hands over the shell of another sleeping bomb. But I'm not the only one, sings John. We're dumb as hell. Full of hurt.

Excerpted from "At the End of the World There Is a Pond: Poems." Copyright © 2025 by Steven Duong. Published by W.W, Norton &

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Diana Cao @dianacao.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

new poem—thank you @yalereview.bsky.social

Sometimes you have to be still and suffer,
my teacher says about writing, but I
have an active suffering that calls me
to run after it. Keep up, says the feed
of bad news. It's dangerous to see others

as an abstraction. I don't need to hate anyone
as an abstraction because I have my mother—I hate
my mother. She who keeps stealing the car keys
is very real. I see her; I know Terror. What does it mean

that I know just where to find a sugar baby but not
a nice companion for my Terror? What does it say
about me that I'd rather be a sugar baby than a nice
companion for my mother? I don't actually

know if that's true. But when I'm in a car chasing
my mother down I-95, wind slicing through the papers
in the backseat, I'm not thinking about writing,
or about suffering, even if that's what this is.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Couplet Therapy

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

my student: goats are a very food motivated animal and this can present some challenges me, a Capricorn: wow, OK yeah

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Quise @marquisedavon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live — Nikki Giovanni

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Ben Purkert @benpurkert.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

thinking about that Billy Collins interview… everyone has particular turnoffs when reading; it’s natural! but it’s also worthwhile, I think, to be mindful of them and at least acknowledge the possibility that the fault lies not in the writing, but in you as a reader

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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I can’t see all of any horse at once. They weave through twilight, in and out of sight, as the sky drains of color, enters dusk. The barn’s a bloodstain on an ivory dress, lost in the skirt, a spiraling red kite. ~from "Come Back" by Chloe Honum AGNI 70

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I can’t see all of any horse at once. They weave through twilight, in and out of sight, as the sky drains of color, enters dusk. The barn’s a bloodstain on an ivory dress, lost in the skirt, a…

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

“For me, the revision is often when a poem is too controlled... I haven't really disrupted it from the bottom -- and that's when I step in to mess with it and experiment.” -- Allison Adair

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Arielle Kaplan @ariellemkaplan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’m very excited to introduce these three talented poets tomorrow night! In-person tickets are sold out, but you can still join us virtually! @dianacao.bsky.social @mbrrray.bsky.social www.grolierpoetrybookshop.org/upcoming-rea...

Photos of poets Diana Cao, Perry Janes, and Margaret Ray

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

love a good “O” in a poem, little fearless halo, the line’s volume knob turned all the way up, the stanza’s submarine window through which we glimpse an ocean of thought and feeling

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I saw the worst minds of my generation appointed to cabinets

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Haolun Xu @haolunxu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Excited to share my poem Faint Drum, which received a BOTN nomination this week from The Arkansas International:

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Can someone please direct me to the poets starter pack??? (I dislike this phrase) (Still, one discovers that there is in it after all, a place for the genuine etc)

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Arielle Kaplan @ariellemkaplan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I’m here 🦋 & looking for the poets!

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