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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I’m hosting this book launch for Brett’s debut with @jacklegpress.bsky.social one week from today. Join me, Simone, Anthony, @dorseycraft.bsky.social, @aniking.bsky.social, nat, & Natalie for the fun! RSVP ⬇️

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Brett Hanley @brettghanley.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Help me celebrate the launch of my debut on July 15 with @jacklegpress.bsky.social and friends! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

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Brett Hanley @brettghanley.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Surreal and incredible to see my debut book for sale wherever books are sold online: Bookshop, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon (if you must). I Was Your Bird is my eco-feminist, post-confessional, queer baby. rb.gy/zjgne4

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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Lucie Brock-Broido

Herculaneum
No one is bored, just barbaric
Anymore. Ash admixed with rain, which cooled
The air. How much longer will this beauty
Of yours last?
As if even the idea of the city Has been lost for twenty centuries.
Don't quail like this; go Gracefully instead.
Eros enters
The room like a lesser god stopped still In the middle of a bath of oil & umbrage in
The exquisite hour.
No one is
Exquisite anymore. The river is so small now
It will be hard to drown
In it. And still this world's a pretty one.
What world.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Swirl & Vortex, the collected poems of Larry Levis, will be published next February by @graywolfpress.bsky.social. So pleased that the full breadth of Levis’s immensely beautiful, troubled and troubling lyric poetry will be available to read.

Swirl & Vortex, Collected Poems of Larry Levis, published by Graywolf Press, February 2026.

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ZeeshanJaanam @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

My life was the size of my life. —Jane Hirshfield

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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

A favourite poem by Alice Notley.

Alice Notley
"I've meant to tell you many things about my life"
I've meant to tell you many things about my life, & every time the moment has conquered me.
I'm strangely unhappy
because the pattern of my life
is complicated,
because my nature is hopelessly complicated;
& out of this, to my sorrow, pain to you must grow.
The centre of me
is always & eternally
a terrible pain—
a curious wild pain—a searching beyond what the world contains, something transfigured & infinite-I don't find it, I don't think it is to be found.
It's like passionate love for a ghost.
At times it fills me with rage,
at times with wild despair,
It's the source of gentleness & cruelty & work.

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Colorado Review @coloradoreview.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🎉 COVER REVEAL 🎉 The Summer 2025 issue is coming soon! Head to the link in our bio to purchase your subscription. ☀️

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Jonathan L. Fischer @jonfischer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Our reporting on the NEA suddenly yanking grants. Affected include: n+1, McSweeney’s, Paris Review, Oxford American, book publishers, nonprofit theaters, more: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters

Arts organizations across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether.

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Brett Hanley @brettghanley.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Our verses (and Mary Ruefle) are once again calling us back to ourselves.

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

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Brett Hanley @brettghanley.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I’m so happy to have a couple of poems in the absolutely stunning new issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social, including this one, which took far longer than any of my poems to find its ending (three years)! Thanks so much to the Editors for taking such care with the work in this journal.

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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Here’s the cover for our upcoming issue, Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/25), which features 57 poems by 40 poets. Cover art: “In Gilded Walls” by Tanya Rastogi. Preorder your copy at: bit.ly/shono6 – orders ship in January.

List of 40 poetry contributors:
Saida Agostini
Jubril Badmus
Jo Bear
Tianna Bratcher
William Ward Butler
Allisa Cherry
Ari B. Cofer
Erica Dawson
T. De Los Reyes
Rosemarie Dombrowski
Saddiq Dzukogi
Nathan Erwin
M.J. Gomez
Ranudi Gunawardena
Brett Hanley
Chris Hoshnic
Mickie Kennedy
Susanna Lang
Kabel Mishka Ligot
Alejandro Lucero
Maja Lukic
Nick Martino
Becka Mara McKay
Jackson D. Moorman
Jarrett Moseley
Jae Nichelle
Hannah Faith Notess
Robert Okaji
Shawnte Orion
Alison Pelegrin
Ciaran Pierce
Nicholas Pierce
Samodh Porawagamage
Meg Reynolds
Wesley Rothman
Katy Scarlett
Amanda Maret Scharf
Hannah Tennant-Moore
Alyssandra Tobin
Bunkong Tuon

Saturated high red and blue painting featuring a young woman of South Asian descent

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Joshua Burton @joshuaburton23.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Purchase "Grace Engine" here!! uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6178.htm

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UW Press: Grace Engine

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Brett Hanley @brettghanley.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Always returning to this Solmaz Sharif poem, especially now.

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