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Ori Fienberg

@artfulherring.bsky.social
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Poet. Braiser. Candlestick maker. WHERE BABIES COME FROM, Cornerstone Press INTERIM ASSISTANT DEAN OF HAVING A RICH INNER LIFE, @ghostcitypress.bsky.social OLD HABITS, NEW MARKETS, Elsewhere

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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
What's the best theater cheese for seeing The Odyssey in IMAX?
Refrigerator wall of processed cheese at Walmart. CHEESE in big blue letter up top, the categories of cheese, including shredded, snack, and block, alternating orange and white cheeses.
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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Beautiful small poem ...
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Just the taste of a poem...
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Writing friends: what's your longest current wait for a response from a literary journal (that still exists)?
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
My actual brother promoting my poetry berg-brothers!
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Start your climb of Berg x Berg x Berg now! Thanks to my fellow bergs, @gachzoldberg.bsky.social and Dan Rosenberg for the fun, and to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social for giving it a home!
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Concessions" by Ori Fienberg (@artfulherring.bsky.social‬) stonecirclereview.com/concessions/
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Concessions - Stone Circle Review
by Ori Fienberg - Taking turns napping counts as a vacation under circumstance of life and death; a bed will take us over months of flood each night. A good ...
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Thrilled to have two sonnets to share with you today! electricliterature.com/two-poems-by... via @electricliterature.com
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My Strengths Are Primarily Avian - Electric Literature
Two poems by Ori Fienberg
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I 100% would have used ChatGPT for homework when I was in school, because homework sucked ass. However, if I hadn't been forced to bullshit a lot of essays 15 minutes before class I wouldn't have learned that I enjoy writing. The moral is to destroy both ChatGPT and homework.
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Inside the secret bunker, a secret library Inside the secret library, a secret book Inside the secret book, a secret bunker... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Secret Tunnels, Bunkers and Arsenals: The ‘Panic Industry’ Is Booming
Fortifying the American home has become big business, selling an endless supply of paranoia.
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Emily Maloney @emilyfmaloney.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
i talked about why it's important to have a community and make art, especially now: open.substack.com/pub/emilymal...
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Art under fascism
making community wherever we can
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Who is 35 in New York and wants to run for office?
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Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
It’s over a 100 years after the great Jewish crusader for free speech, Emma Goldman, was deported from USA for her speaking out. Yet history repeats itself. People shouldn’t be deported for speaking out. People shouldn’t be deported for speaking out. We mustn’t stay silent.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
Indeed, a White House official told The Free Press that the basis for targeting Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations against other students.

Khalil is a "threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States," said the official, noting that this calculation was the driving force behind the arrest. "The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law," said the official.
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
“And we need to be there for people, now more than ever.” A beautiful post by @emilyfmaloney.bsky.social. Check it out, friends.💜
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Had a dream last night that I was a poet--can you imagine?
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
What are you celebrating today? I'm thrilled to have two poems, alongside so many poets whose work I admire, in the latest issue of Smartish Pace.
Ori Fienberg

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Every Special Offer is a Special Celebration

My inbox offers true meaning,
but settles for swing and splash
savings. Today is earth day in
unseen ecosystems hidden on

our bodies and currents of dust
beneath our beds. The face can
not be trusted over top products
for hydration or beach properties.

You'd be amazed what a savvy
investor can do with five dollars;
you'd be foolish not to backfill a
narrow lot with all past savings

on eco-conscious art supplies,
with a plethora of prickled ferns,
with the best seat in the house,
with the worst song ever heard,

but we can celebrate reasons,
operations, passports, or every
surcharge. Beauty is the cost
of excellence, of longer lasting

knives, of better business and
custom canvas prints, but you
are beautiful: can be beautiful
as a payment: complete: clean.

[Smartish Pace, 25th Anniversary Issue]Text: Smartish Pace 25th Anniversary Edition [author roster]: Amy M. Alvarez, Brian Baker, Jessica Bowdoin, Ian Cappelli, Grady Chambers, Caroline Chavatel, Josiah Cox, Adam O. Davis, Patricia Davis-Muffett, Moira Egan, Kimberly Esslinger, Beth Ann Fennelly, Allison Field Bell, Ori Fienberg, Forrest Gander, Jay Gao, Kim Garcia, Stephen Gibson, Rodney Gomez, Barbara Hamby, Jared Harél, Bob Hicok, Rick Hilles, Laura Reece Hogan, Carolina Hotchandani, Julia Johnson, A.M. Juster, John Kinsella, Peter Kline, Lance Larsen, Susan L. Leary, Keith Leonard, Heather McHugh, Paul Muldoon, Harryette Mullen, Carolyn Oliver, Amy Ratto Parks, Megan Pinto, Smartish Pace 25th Anniversary Issue [poet contents]: Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Emily Schulten, Tom Sleigh, Matthew Buckley Smith, Bruce Snider, Tramaine Suubi, Henry Taylor, Cammy Thomas, Lloyd Wallace, Whitney E. Walton, and Joshua Weiner 

Cover: Erik Barthels [Loose Leaves, Acrylic, 2022]
Design: Jeremy Teaford
Editor: Stephen Reichert
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 29/01/2025
"But there’s something sinister about the way brands keep finding bigger, flashier ways to repurpose great moments in art to sell products" is a thing I wrote about a mayonnaise ad because I am in a normal and cool state of mind www.eater.com/24354679/whe...
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Of Course the ‘When Harry Met Sally’ Cast Reunited at Katz’s for a Super Bowl Commercial
It’s a Hellmann’s mayonnaise ad
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
When someone asks how the new poem draft is going...
Man in white painter suit in a room he is painting red. Still shot from John Baldessari's video painting project 'Six Colorful Inside Jobs', 1977. On display at MCA Chicago.
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A transformative poetry experience and community!
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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Happy 5th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary! #Geology ⚒️
Twitter post screenshot of the San Miguel Sheriff account. 5 years ago they posted about a boulder on the road but referred to it as "Large boulder the size of a small boulder".
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 26/01/2025
I do not want any record of the shit decisions I make except my own haunted guilt and poor memory. Fuck off robots
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Skellyton 🦇 @infinitefinite.blog · 23/01/2025
During these difficult times, it's important to cherish the little things, like walks in the forest, spending time with loved ones, a beautiful sunset, the cries of terror as an entire village flees before your flaming visage, a good book.
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I don't think Elon Musk doing a clumsy salute makes him a Nazi. I do think that supporting Nazi-adjacent international political parties and propagating Great Replacement Theory talking points and kowtowing to elected officials who kowtow to Nazi-friendly pundits makes him... Oh, whatever.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17/01/2025
If you are arrested in Illinois protesting deportation actions are under the Trump administration, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
No.
Screenshot of weather app showing "0" degrees (feels like -17), with an "N" scrawled I'm front of the "0" so it spells "No".
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/01/2025
Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge). You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Temperatures will continue until morale improves.
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"Lynchian" is a fully realized and instantly comprehensible adjective, as concrete a one-word summation of an artist's aesthetic and worldview as has ever been associated with any artist in any medium. Things will forever be Lynchian, but there was only one David Lynch. #RIP
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David Lynch, Auteur Drawn to the Dark and the Dreamlike, Dies at 78
With such hallucinogenic masterworks as 'Eraserhead,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Elephant Man,' he often left more questions than answers.
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New Israel Fund @newisraelfund.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Me in the summer: I am a brilliant young god, I will live forever Me in the winter: I am a fragile, eldritch being, held together with tape and glue, I will blow away like ancient dust
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Emily Maloney @emilyfmaloney.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
i sent my book to my agent, pls clap
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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This awesome group is reading & reviewing small press books this year to raise the visibility of great, often overlooked presses & authors. Follow them all! go.bsky.app/E6oomtn #100smallpress
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
What need then, for poetry? Great need! - From the preface to 101 Famous Poets, edited by Roy J Cook, 1929
Preface: This is the age of science, of steel--of speed and the cement road, The age of hard faces and hard highways. Science and steel demand a medium of prose. Speed requires only the look--the gesture. What need then, for poetry?  

Great need!

[Continues]Cover "101 Famous Poems ... With a Prose Supplement"
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
What is HOLDING YOU BACK from being 100% cozy?
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Mark Baumer (1983-2017)
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Thrilled to have a poem, April is the cruelest month, except all the ones before it, in this issue!
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Erasure of the Threepenny Review auto-displayed message following online submission:
Blacked out erasure [blacked out words removed, "/" inserted between line breaks]:

Thank you /
until /
we will not be able to tell you anything / 
until /
much sooner) and /
inevitably /
you should assume / 
A silence that lasts more than two weeks
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Michael Welch @mbwwelch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The deadline for submissions to the Great Lakes Anthology is January 31! I'm particularly interested in finding: - Work about Indiana (Gary, East Chicago, the dunes, etc) - Work about Erie, PA or NY (Rochester, Buffalo, etc) - All nonfiction in general! chireviewofbooks.com/2024/09/06/c...
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Call for Submissions: The Great Lakes Anthology - Chicago Review of Books
The following is a call for submissions for The Great Lakes Anthology, edited by our Editor-In-Chief Michael Welch and forthcoming from Belt Publishing. Call for Submissions: The Great Lakes Anthology...
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Days of Braise.
Seared beef shanks atop diced caramelized onions, celery, and carrots in red wine, with bay leaves, and diced shallot sprinkled on top, in a light blue dutch oven, just before going in the oven [appliance].
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
What is HOLDING YOU BACK from being 100% cozy?
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
"golden sugar cube"
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The much-missed Jonathan Demme's documentary "Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains" is streaming on Amazon, if anybody is interested in such things.
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Moving to Germany to pursue my dream of becoming a champion pretzel cutter.
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Now probably isn’t the time to tell the guys at the tire store that I’ve watched “Days of Thunder” enough times to know that they should be able to give me four new tires in under 12 seconds.
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Ori Fienberg @artfulherring.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Just found a gorgeous property on the San Andreas Fault. What could go wrong?
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Albert Goldbarth
The snow fell.
He looked at that blank
white space it made on the ledge,
and heard the sky say Now,
so late, what a shame it would be
for even one word to disturb it.
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