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𝚊𝚜𝚑 @ashleyvarela.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

january

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Hey y’all—any interest in a poetry review workshop? From a practical, critical perspective? And if yes: when? Weekend? Evenings? Could record for folks unable to attend. No cost. Let me know! 📚💙

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

if nothing else to read and know their names and that they wrote and made and wanted more life that is now gone

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These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza.

One of my dreams is for my books and my writings to travel the world, for my pen to have wings so that no unstamped passport or visa rejection can hold it back. Another dream of mine is to have a ��...

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𝚊𝚜𝚑 @ashleyvarela.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

not sure the ex i wrote this poem about is going to love this news, but i sure do

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from writers of Palestinian descent. The grant will award $500, a slot in Sundress's reading series, a one-week residency and more. sundressblog.com/2023/11/14/s...

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𝚊𝚜𝚑 @ashleyvarela.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

lately

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𝚊𝚜𝚑 @ashleyvarela.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

very very recently (for me): “i’ll call those things my cats” by kim hyesoon

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Paul Hlava Ceballos @paulhlava.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

“As if his shooter were more a community than the police our country fashioned of itself.” Friends, I’m beyond thrilled to be featured as the Academy of American Poets poem today! 🫀🫀🫀 poets.org/poem/er-sp-gsw

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Wild & Precious Life Series @wplseries.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Wednesday! @taylorbyas.bsky.social, Aaron DeLee, & @sofiafeycreates.bsky.social join the WPLS!

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𝚊𝚜𝚑 @ashleyvarela.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

read this last week & haven’t been able to get it out of my head since. writing is agony; writing is process; writing is joy.

imagine a stranger who may be reading one of your poems in secret someday. Try not to think about people who are writing facile things on the Internet. Remember the radical ancestor poets who have gone before, especially those who received less acknowledgment than they should have, those whose genius was insufficiently recognized. Their poetry provides excellent company, as does the work of great living poets who offer inspiration & consolation. Read across aesthetic lines & identity groups, assembling a varied canon. When you feel paralyzed by the pointlessness of temporary fashion, or when dull or predictable work is lauded, try new things that will surprise you as you work for the joy of the process, remembering that all a writer needs are four true readers & one of them can be a tree. Emphasized text: “work for the joy of the process.”

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Sarah Ghazal Ali @sarahali.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

tomorrow. please join as we gather, read, and fundraise 🍉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Anyway i havent posted resources here irt to palestine and no one on this dash is posting anything so heres smn I stole off twitter

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𝚊𝚜𝚑 @ashleyvarela.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

one of my favorite poems was published today 🎀🚀 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/bar...

Margot Robbie, dressed as Astronaut Barbie, peeks through a pink porthole.

Poem text: Barbie walked on the moon four years before Neil Armstrong, & you know what, that shows vision & confidence & grit, doesn't it, the way Barbie knew the moon could be walked on, knew she could be the first, the only Barbie to shake spacedust from her stilettos & take the world to new fashion heights. Barbie ventured into the final fashion frontier in zip boots & a metallic pressure suit; Barbie wore a moon hat for the moon so they could match & the moon loved it. & then Barbie got down to rocket science business.

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