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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Sarabande Chapbook Prize is open! During the month of October, we’re reading your poetry and hybrid chapbook submissions. One winner selected by the editors will be awarded publication, $1000, and a standard royalty contract. Details and past winners in bio. We can’t wait to read your work!

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My book of surreal prose poems is out this month! I'm proud of this weird little book & would love it if you ordered a copy ❤️📚 www.gasherpress.com/product-page...

book cover for Uncle Time by Benjamin Niespodziany, a 2025 poetry chapbook prize winner

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The Inner Loop @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welcome Lenna Jawdat (@lennaj) to our Author's Corner spotlight, celebrating her new collection of poetry about grief, memory, and hope. 70,000 is out now with @centavebooks. Learn more about Lenna at the link in our bio! #202creates #DCwriters #TheInnerLoopAuthorsCorner #DMVWriters

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW ISSUE JUST DROPPED GET IT BUT WEAR GLOVES IT'S HOT thediagram.com/26_3/index.h...

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Perugia Press’s annual prize is open NOW and through November 15. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Full guidelines and submission info at linktree in bio. We look forward to reading your work! 💙📖🍂

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So excited about my first PM Deal report! Also proud and grateful to have two poetry books forthcoming: Field of Want, Etruscan Press, Spring 2028 Definition of Elegy: New & Collected Prose Poems, Cornerstone Press, fall 2027

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Deal Report
FIELD OF WANT
By Amorak Huey
Imprint: Etruscan Press
Cofounder of River River Books and professor at Bowling Green State University Amorak Huey's FIELD OF WANT, which explores distance, desire, and geography-in particular the fields of Ohio and the American Midwest-featuring the syntax of place, the light of the moon, the isolation of being alive, to Etruscan Press, for publication in April 2028.
Poetry
September 28, 2026

Screenshot of the first page of a book contract between Cornerstone Press and Amorak Huey for Definition of Elegy: New and Collected Prose Poems

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 23h

Calling all flash writers! I have *one* spot left in my Hermit Crab Flash Workshop, on Sunday, Oct. 18--a 4-hour writing session, with lots of feedback. Because there's been such interest, I've opened up the last session of the year, on Sunday, Nov. 8. Join us! www.cherylpappas.net/events

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Workshops & Readings — Cheryl Pappas

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love the game of hide-and-seek the poems in BLOODSTREAM play with passion, how they spring their fire upon a reader. 😊🔥💖 BLOODSTREAM by Sarah Carey (Mercer University Press, 2026) #poetry #bookSky 📚💙

The cover of Bloodstream depicts a color drawing of a flowering passion flower vine winding around the title and the author's name and beyond the cover's frame, on a greenish white ground.

Globus

I wake hungry, restless, stuck–
something I can't swallow. Forgive me
wanting more than a god

can give, I pray. I want to believe
divinity lives–within my body,
out of my hands. Years ago, I passed

the peace of the Lord in a pew.
Now, I toss, I want
my peace back. I reckon with the arbiter

who shuffles order, the shark who deals
luck like cards. I turn,
I tuck my head, take from childlessness

a holy solitude, a shell. Call me
mollusk, crustacean, reptile-
in-exile. Imagine Marvell's drop of dew–

so self-contained! But I know better,
I know burrows, dreams beyond
the terminus of my ancestral thread.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy publication day to Martha Zweig’s SNAILS OF THE APOCALYPSE! 🎉🎉🎉 Shipping now from riverriverbooks.org and Itasca! 📚 💙 riverriverbooks.org/store/Snails...

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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Humberto Ak'abal, from IF TODAY WERE TOMORROW (seems a fitting poem for a Sunday morning...) #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

DAWN

Dawn
is a little animal
that comes in noiselessly.

It’s so tiny
it slips under the door.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/09/2026

You can help build the library. 🏛️ Have digital materials you’re allowed to share? Upload them to the Internet Archive so other people can discover and use them. 📷 A photograph. 🎙️ A recording. 📄 A document. 💾 A piece of digital history. Upload your first item 👇 archive.org/upload 🧵

Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

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Christina Daub @christinadaub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Join the poets these last few days of Hunger Action Month! We’re almost halfway to our goal! mdfoodbank.funraise.org/fundraiser/h... #poetry #poetryxhunger #turningpoetryintofood @mdfoodbank.bsky.social

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everyone go read these, and that Columbine poem? Wow.

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Register today! Celebrate with Perugia Press & our poets during two virtual milestone readings featuring our authors from over the years & work from all 30 Perugia collections: 10/4 & 10/25, both at 4pm ET. We look forward to sharing our catalog with you! Links to register for each in Linktree. 🎉📚🎉

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We are tender in the treasuries of tomorrow, happy birthday Robert Kelly 🎈

Gacela

Are there at evening shuddering palaces
Where among shadows the moths go broke for light

Is there a broken shutter banging in the wind
Or is she just a breeze in a book?

But nice feral muscles of the sumac night play
Let lovers whisper among the transistors—

Under noise a continent of calm goes on
Right at the core of the clatter of hardware.

We are tender in the treasuries of tomorrow,
Our hands caressing switches that speak the light.

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Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Split This Rock's new slate of program offerings is LIVE! Join us for virtual/in-person workshops with Tala Khanmalek, A.D. Lauren-Abunassar, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Camisha L. Jones & Rob Macaisa Colgate! PLUS the free Stubborn Roots Book Launch in Washington, D.C.! Learn more: bit.ly/3Vren5N #Poetry

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The Inner Loop @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Join us for our next virtual craft chat with The Writer's Center on October 8th! Our Author's Corner spotlight, Lenna Jawdat, will be there discussing her poetry collection. We can't wait to see you all there! #poetrycraft #DMVwriters #DMVauthorevents #202creates #LocalLit

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 23/09/2026

"One of the best arguments for what poetry can do, what it's for, how it can serve us, is that poetry says the unsayable," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode. Read “Panegyric” by Leila Farjami, from DAUGHTER OF SALT: bit.ly/4yRqrM2 📖: @triohousepress.org

graphic featuring a portion of Leila Farjami's poem

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love the fantastical, bitingly ironic yet lyrical poetry of Nicole Alston Zdeb's THE END OF WELCOME (Airlie Press, 2025). ✨🔥💫🔥✨ #poetry #bookSky 📚💙

the full-page cover art is by Jon Ching and shows an owl clad in a cape of mushrooms and leaves with a moss collar in the woods. The owl looks slightly sideways as if skeptical. It has horns that look like coral and its claws are covered in moss. The drawing style is detailed and realistic, photographic.

Autobiography of the moon

I told you last night that I might go soon
When? you asked. Where?
and I said, The world is water
and sunsets between
incipient storms

we have always been what we can't explain
afloat between truths

this time, not marching in fields
practicing more than power permits

A is for abyss
I lost track of its music

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love the fantastical, bitingly ironic yet lyrical poetry of Nicole Alston Zdeb's THE END OF WELCOME (Airlie Press, 2025). ✨🔥💫🔥✨ #poetry #bookSky 📚💙

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"sloshing through the bathwater of a joyously drunken voice," from "Meanwhile" by Cedar Sigo in his SIREN OF ATLANTIS (Wave Books, 2025) ✨💫✨ #poetry #bookSky 📚💙

The cover of Siren of Atlantis: off-white grainy paper, the title in huge capital lettering down the page, barely fitting the width and Atlantis split over two lines. The author vertically to the side, down the right lower corner.

Meanwhile

I count
on the fringe,
the armored night,
the right shirt,
the reckless stain.
A drained look
from the barman.
I sense a shift
in the level white
of his eye. Grime
is a coat painted
in duress. Fearing
occasional thunder,
sloshing through
the bathwater
of a joyously
drunken voice,
its flailing soft
crust,
"Word without vision
are deprived of stability."

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Paying markets! Get that bread! 👇

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Book reviewers, especially new ones: this is for you! 📚💙

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NPR @npr.org · 22/09/2026

Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well? n.pr/4cWzDXd

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Police, fire, EMT and mental health: How one city is leading the charge to reshape 911

Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"sloshing through the bathwater of a joyously drunken voice," from "Meanwhile" by Cedar Sigo in his SIREN OF ATLANTIS (Wave Books, 2025) ✨💫✨ #poetry #bookSky 📚💙

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: Alice Miller on Ghayath Almadhoun’s “If We Lived in a Virtual World” Read here: poems.com/poem/if-we-l...

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If We Lived in a Virtual World

If we lived in a virtual world I would have turned off the war like you turn off the television But we were born into a bitch of a world

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

amit majmudar VOCATIVE

VOCATIVE

English is my native anguish.
I was born here, read here, teased and torn here,

Vocative, ablative,
locative, alive: English was a dislocation navigating oceans, Wherever it arrived,
it broke and brokered words.

its little bits of Britain pilfered, bartered, written, looted, hoarded, heard.

Papa swapped a world for shiny colored beads, for dandelion seeds. We are subject verbs.

The root word of my name hooks a foreign land, long-since-shifted sand books cannot reclaim.

Graft of tongue, gift of dust, mother and stranger, sing the kedgeree, the everything at once you've made of us.

AMIT MAJMUDAR

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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hey Literary pals - Just as an FYI: In honor of National Translation Month, Milkweed Editions is offering a rather incredible deal on their Seedbank Series: 10% off one book, 20% off two, 30% off three, 40% off 4 or more…

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If Today Were Tomorrow | Milkweed Editions

“My language was born among trees,it holds the taste of earth;my ancestors’ tongue is my home.”—from “The Old Song of the Blood”A legacy of land and language courses through the pages of this spirited…

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Tiny poem from our collaborative chap, BRINK WAS THE WORD I WAS LOOKING FOR: diodepoetry.com/leary_susan_... Love poem-ing with Jarrett Moseley! Happy #smallpoemsunday! @darkwebtofu.bsky.social @diodeeditions.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Lost Couplet

When I die, let my body be donated to silence.
The final noise: when I'm clothed in ground.

Sparrows asleep inside a glass violin.
Bells with their throats cut.

The song went: plenty, plenty. I've plenty of bones.

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you're in the DC area, I'll participate in this local author showcase on Oct 8. Come by if you're around. It's Wonderland Books' first such event. wonderlandbooks.com/events/63646...

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Local Author Showcase | Wonderland Books

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 19/09/2026

📖 There’s still time to support the Internet Archive and Better World Books “For the Love of Books” campaign! 📖 By donating to the Internet Archive through October 31, you'll support literacy and preservation. Join Us: donate.archive.org/campaign/838...

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Check out these gorgeous pieces by @majda.bsky.social from The House of Modern Upbringing for Girls from Wandering Aengus Press. #poetry, #poems, #multi-worlds, #dislocation, #everywoman, #poet, #bridges, #MAPS,

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sometimes you really do only need a few words. 💔 LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING by Ashley M. Jones (@hubcitypress.bsky.social, 2025) ✨💖✨ #poetry #bookSky 📚💙

book resting in lap on colorful fabric. The full-cover, grainy color photograph shows a young black man facing the camera and holding the receiver of a red phone. He wears a cap and striped, shortsleeved shirt. A baby girl with short ponytails sits in his lap. She also faces the camera, smiling. It is a portrait of the author and her father.

Grief Interlude VI

When I met my love I wondered what you would say.
But you are beyond saying.

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sometimes you really do only need a few words. 💔 LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING by Ashley M. Jones (@hubcitypress.bsky.social, 2025) ✨💖✨ #poetry #bookSky 📚💙

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today, 125 yrs ago, my grandma was born (she lived to be 97). A wild number to me, wild to have had someone in my life born that long ago. Here is the only poem I've written that features her: www.apjpoetry.org/portrait-gra...

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portrait of grandma:trees in february Burgi Zenhaeusern APJ poetry it

portrait of my grandma as a young woman : trees in february by Burgi Zenhaeusern APJ poetry in the December 2018 issue of The American Poetry Journal APJ poetry

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naviyuk @naviyuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

bit.ly/torringreatg... TOMORROW @tagreathouse.bsky.social September 17 630-745pm Eliot Hall chapel free and open to the public please share and please attend and send your people such a gift to listen to such a poet and scholar and writer

Event poster for Visiting Writers Series featuring torrin greathouse on
Thursday, September 17, 2026, 6:30pm to 7:30pm with image of writer.

Event poster for Visiting Writers Series featuring torrin greathouse on
Thursday, September 17, 2026, 6:30pm to 7:30pm with image of writer.

Torrin A. Greathouse (she/they) is an award-winning transgender cripple-punk poet and essayist. They are the author of DEED (Wesleyan University Press, 2024), winner of a 2025 Stonewall Book Awards Barbara Gittings Prize in Poetry, and Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), a Minnesota Book Award and CLMP Firecracker Award finalist, and winner of the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Their work has been featured in Poetry Magazine, The Rumpus, the New York Times Magazine, Copper Nickel, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Greathouse has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity, Zoeglossia, The Ragdale Foundation, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.
Location of event is Eliot Hall chapel.
Organized by Visiting Writers Series.

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

poets.org/poem/new-nor... "We’ll embrace all the mysteries, we’ll be lovers of the invisible and death, death will be quite bearable."

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The New Normal

We will sink our feet into other sands, / in the new normal. We will grow plants

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My book is out next month so we’re having a party! Join us on Oct. 17 at @whistlerchicago.bsky.social @saramatson.bsky.social / @ezhang77.bsky.social / @gasherpress.bsky.social

I’ll be reading from my new collection & a bunch of my favorite writers will be doing their thing. Hope to see you there!

🎤 Nathan Hoks
🎤 Kenyatta Rogers
🎤 Sara Wainscott
🎤 Lemmy Ya'akova
🎤 Collin Callahan
🎤 Sara Matson
🎤 Jacob Saenz
🎤 Elena Zhang
🎤 William Stobb

October 17 @ The Whistler
2421 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Doors: 6:00pm
Readings: 6:30pm-8:30pm

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/09/2026

We’ve secured 217 out of the 218 signatures needed for Congress to vote on this critical bill, the Dream and Promise Act. Contact your representatives and demand their support.

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Pathway to Citizenship Now

ICE has shot and killed people in our streets. Dozens have died in ICE custody. These aren’t isolated events. We need solutions today and the Dream and Promise Act is a critical piece of that. Take action now

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/09/2026

We’re ONE SIGNATURE AWAY from forcing a vote on a bill that would protect over 4 million immigrants. Tell your member of Congress to support the Dream and Promise Act now.

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Pathway to Citizenship Now

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 10/09/2026

‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible. By Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor www.972mag.com/naza-exposin...

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‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza

Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible.

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The wonderful @eveninghouse.bsky.social recently had a store break-in & could use your help! Consider grabbing a book, Piżama or otherwise eveninghousebooks.com

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/09/2026

Here is our draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981. It was written by a lovely human.

Index card with Merriam-Webster's draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🧵A new Highlight available on #PalQuest examines the United Kingdom’s role in the Palestine Question between 1917 and 1950, tracing the political, diplomatic, and military policies that shaped Palestine during and after the British Mandate: www.palquest.org/en/highlight...

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The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question, 1917-1950

Highlight - Imperial Design, Sordid End - The British Empire’s military occupation of the Palestine region in 1917–18 ended four hundred years of Ottoman control. The British were assisted by...

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Of Oneida, of heartbreak, of hotel rooms and mansions, of travelling to research poems, of Utopians & dragon flies & the seas turned to lemonade & &! Hear @bobsykora.bsky.social read from his gorgeous collection UTOPIANS IN LOVE @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/7c3ac522

Author photo of Bob Sykora in brown cableknit sweater and cover image of UTOPIANS IN LOVE

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Episode 92: Bob Sykora (Of the Poet and the Archive, Love and Community, and the Lens of American Utopias)
UTOPIANS IN LOVE
BOB SYKORA
Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere

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Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

❤️‍🔥 Join our team defending the movement for Palestinian liberation! Legal interns will conduct legal research, draft legal research memos and advocacy documents, and assist with intake calls and client communications. Learn more and apply today at bit.ly/legalinternsPL.

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