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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"I thought I was a present father; my sons said otherwise. When my granddaughter arrived I made an offer." - Liam Heneghan, professor at DePaul University in Chicago and #BlackEarthInstitute Scholar Advisor

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i see myself reflected in clouds that are the eyes that didn’t look both ways before it crossed. the fawn that didn’t stop for drivers on their cell phones. More from Kathleen Hellen's 'O, Whitman.' Read the full poem in the lastest edition of our literary journal ➡️@aboutplacejournal.bsky.social

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Pamela Uschuk @1pamuschuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I put mine into creating a safe place for women to write their stories. I put my arms around them when they cry. I listen. I listen. I listen. But one day, I, and many women like me, might know just where to put our rage.

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today, October 1st is the deadline for submissions to the next edition of our literary journal. We publish About Place Journal as an expression of our founding mission to link spirituality, social justice, and care for the earth and its beings. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sometimes you walk away from all of the noise and the people seeking fresh air and silence for a moment. And there above you, outside the Anchorage Airport spreads the great wings of autumn sunrise. #apprenticetolight

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Gerald L. Coleman @geraldcoleman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To grab a spot or just to support go here: fnd.us/62mtne #poetry

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This issue of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. Work must be submitted via Submittable by October 1, 2026.

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did I think the ocean was unchanged? Only on the surface. Down below, it’s warming. The ocean will take it and take it and take it until the ocean can’t take it anymore, and then, the ocean will rise. From 'Landslide' by science writer & poet Melissa L. Sevigny aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

waves and a cliff. Photo by Daniel Salcius on Unsplash

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp has three new poems published in Issue #7 of Public School Poetry: 🖋️ Middle Distance 🖋️ Pears 🖋️ Permeable "In these poems, you will learn that solitude is not empty," says Sehee S. Oh about Camp's work. www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/lauren...

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now past equinox, we slip across the threshold into the dreaming time of year. #apprenticetolight

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Gerald L. Coleman @geraldcoleman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Since I’ve just signed the contract, I can announce that my poem “cosmic horror” has been accepted for publication by Uncanny Magazine. Here’s their most recent cover:

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Since I’ve spent my career exploring other species, they must be included in any conversation with AI. We must also look beyond us to imagine how AI will affect not only humans, but also our natural world." - Brenda S.Peterson #BEI Emeritus Fellow #AI bpetersonauthor.substack.com/p/beyond-us-...

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Beyond Us: Conversations with Claude

Is AI “another species” in Our Natural World?

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In Elizabeth Cranford Garcia's 'American Spring, v.1', the author asks "is there anything, America, that can stretch you beyond your elastic tolerance?" Read the full text in the latest edition of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social #Poetry #LitMag

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New date & location for Meghana's reading (Tues. Oct. 6, 6:00 pm; Maier Museum of Art at Randolph Collgee). Please join us! @randolphcollege.bsky.social

Randolph College Visiting Writers Series reading by Meghana Mysore
Randolph welcome and launch of her debut story collection, Let All Our Ghosts Depart. Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, 6:00 pm at the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College. College slogan: "Be an Original"

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I put them together and they make such a pretty family picture. #poetry #poet

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Pamela Uschuk @1pamuschuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Please join us for the PEN Women International Reading on Sept. 19 at 10 a.m. Mountain. Writing During The Difficult.... a reading by women poets around the world. I hope to see you there!

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@revolutelitmag.bsky.social now accepting poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and microreviews! No fee to submit! FInd on Submittable at Revolute.submittable.com

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Gerald L. Coleman @geraldcoleman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My thanks to the person who picked up the first perk for the WORDSMITH POETRY WORKSHOP! Grab YOUR spot for my first ever virtual poetry workshop via Zoom, or grab a perk/wish to just support the writing. Here: fnd.us/62mtne #poetry

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I know that most of you love summertime. But I feel like a part of my heart clicks into place when I can again see Orion rising from behind the mountains across Kachemak Bay. #alaska

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Every pastoral, including this one, risks sweeping clean history’s conscience. In the American vein, thick veil over the stygian face of forgetting every removal: people, animals, plants, water. From 'In Which She Considers the Midwestern “Landscape” S. Scarry aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

corn field. Photo by Travis Essinger on Unsplash

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp will be among the 2026 Conference Faculty for the 'Desert Nights Rising Stars Conference' hosted by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. 🗓️Oct 16–17 @arizonastateuni.bsky.social piper.asu.edu/conference/f...

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I've a new poem up at West Trestle Review about migration, myth, and restlessness. www.westtrestlereview.com/fall_2026_er...

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sometimes you read something so absolutely right it takes your breath away. Today, it was from Pádraig Ó Tuama's newsletter. "A myth is something that is so true we have to construct a container of fantasy to hold it."

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Devastating wildfires near and far. I wrote this poem six years ago. It was published in Terrain.org and included in one of my books. It is still so frightfully relevant. I worry for so many communities—including my own." -Lauren Camp, #BEI Emeritus Fellow www.terrain.org/2023/poetry/...

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Two Poems by Lauren Camp - Terrain.org

Two powerful new poems by New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp: "On the Margin of Patience" and "Days of the Fire of Fires", with audio.

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Farewell, farewell—again, farewell—to the once clean home, to the odán trees now weeping on lonely nights as bats no longer keep them company. They, too, are witnessing how a place begins to fade before it crumbles. -Aiyétéjú, by Nigerian poet Clement Abayomi aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Clement Abayomi – The Ground Beneath Us – About Place Journal

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Did you know➡️ #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow @nickolebrown.bsky.social is also the founder of the Hellbender Gathering of Poets, an organization that "aims to nurture a community hellbent on finding the words that protect and repair our climate-changed world." www.hellbenderpoets.org/about-us

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The end of summer where I live has a distinct scent. Musk of red elderberries crushed under foot. Yellow sweetness of wild chamomile’s fading blossoms. Rot of jewelweed and nettle overburdened and flattened onto the path. Mineral tang of the muddy shoulder of the gravel road.

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A new poem exploring the pantoum form from #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Elizabeth Cunningham🍃Discover more of Elizabeth’s work here: elizabethcunninghamwrites.com

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Call for Submissions: This issue of About Place Journal—The Power of Art in a Changing World—seeks poetry, prose, music (video and recorded), and visual and performance art that speaks to how art challenges, responds, represents, and critiques changes in culture. aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

About Place Journal - The Power of Art in a Changing World
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Gerald L. Coleman @geraldcoleman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Imma just drop this here …

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Bounty at the elderberry threshold. Cold wind rising on a warm afternoon. Speak your secret to the tale end of summer. . #apprenticetolight #charm #yesitsspelledcorrectly

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Grounded on a sandbar, eight not-quite- icebergs slump and rot to mud- and soot- smeared hills of gritty worn-out snow. Stranded, tame, their keels and peaks thawed off, they reminded us of the mounds snowplows leave in strip-mall parking lots. - J. Atkinson aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

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Jennifer Atkinson – The Ground Beneath Us – About Place Journal

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Marjory Wentworth @marjory.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sunday's protest at Blue Ash

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You will not regret prioritizing your writing. You will regret not focusing on what makes you happy.

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"That the Ice Sheet writes its own ledger, one that can’t be balanced, bought, or remodeled. That some accounts can’t be claimed by signature and seal. That the land is inscribing its own narrative of time elastic, time relative." - DJ Lee, BEI Scholar Advisor midwayjournal.com/on-greenland...

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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

everything berrying, burgeoning, seeding, green ripens flaxen crowned with mist, tips and slides into evening's waxing signature

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Storyknife Writers Retreat @storyknife.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The application period for Storyknife Writers Retreat is now open. 2 and 4 week residency slots, April through October 2027. Each writer has their own cabin, all meals are provided, no cost for writers to be in residence. Fellowships and travel stipends available. Apply now!

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"The way I start a piece is that the materials turn me on." —Betye Saar Ekphrastic Assemblage: Fabricating poems with the art of Betye Saar Come fabricate poems with me on August 16 (Poet Camp online workshop, 3:00-6:00 pm Eastern time)! poetcamp.com/ekphrastic-a...

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Ekphrastic Assemblage with Laura Gray Street | Poet Camp

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

ICYMI: "Tierney’s poetics proposes to embrace a condition of vulnerability as a strategy for living with and managing an apparently never-ending environmental crisis." Discover more in this review of #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow @orchidtierney.bsky.social's ecopoetry. academic.oup.com/isle/advance...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Packs the wound, fills the space with mountains that rejected you to begin with. In a broken whisper you catch their attention ask them when the mountains abandoned you, how did you feel? From 'Appalachian Dystopia' by Anna Bohn aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...

misty mountains. Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash.

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