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Caleb Curtiss

@cdcurtiss.bsky.social
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Parent, teacher, writer, notably slow learner. books: Age of Forgiveness (Sundress), A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us (Black Lawrence). I live in a special economic zone called Delaware.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If I had a time machine I would go back to ancient Greece with a Slinky and film guys like Aristotle going bananas over the Slinky
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It’s official: @abdulelsayed.bsky.social wins the Democratic Primary for Senate! The People Prevail Over Corporate Profits Once Again!
50501 BREAKING NEWS
MICHIGAN SENATE
ABDUL EL-SAYED (D)
WINS THE PRIMARY!
Source:
Steve Kornacki

No Kings!
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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
You can only worry about your audience so much because if you truly cared about reaching the masses you would have chosen something other than writing a novel.
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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Editor badges ready for our 20th (!!!) @barrelhouse.bsky.social Writer Camp. See you good weirdos soon, @aaronburch.bsky.social, @livesinpages.bsky.social, @mikeingram.bsky.social, @danbrady82.bsky.social, @embfitz.bsky.social, @beckybarnard.bsky.social, @cdcurtiss.bsky.social.
Barrelhouse Writer Camp editor badges.
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Like poetry, for example.
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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Congrats to Issue 7's @adamg.bsky.social whose poem "Consumption" is on Poetry Daily today! tinyurl.com/ajp6bbb2
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Consumption
I have swallowed rot as rank as riverbeds, gnawed mold- pitted pride until it reached its dim-lit dwelling
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Very sad to have learned that Nance Van Winckel passed away late last month. Nance was among the most supportive and attentive poets I have ever had the joy to learn from. She was so present in her poems. I will miss her here and keep looking for her there. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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Been About
Says he’s sure I’d been swallowed by the elements, says he’d been about to come looking.
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I feel like it may lend itself to heavily affected performance à la so I married an ax murderer
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It’s revelations like these that convinced me to stop writing down my midnight revelations.
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Just read an absolute triumph of a friend’s poetry manuscript. Outlandishly good. God, I love poems and (several of) the poets who write them.
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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New work out today in @thedodgemag.bsky.social; it is about, among other things, Shrimp Jesus thedodgemag.com/summer-2026-...
Table of contents for The Dodge Summer 2026 issue
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It’s an incredible honor to see this poem, originally published by @roxanegay.bsky.social in @therumpus.net, featured in today’s episode of The Slowdown. I am beyond grateful. therumpus.net/2026/05/13/f...
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Four Poems - The Rumpus
Kwikset That lock we kept on our doorwasn't so much of a lock as a nonbinding contract I keptwith an outside world only vaguely complicitin our agreement—
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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 01/07/2026
"I’m awarding bonus points for a clever nod to Prufrock in a poem about a sexy selfie," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1549. Read "Thirst Trap" by @cdcurtiss.bsky.social, originally published in The Rumpus: bit.ly/4arVm87
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Thanks, man!
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It’s an incredible honor to see this poem, originally published by @roxanegay.bsky.social in @therumpus.net, featured in today’s episode of The Slowdown. I am beyond grateful. therumpus.net/2026/05/13/f...
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Four Poems - The Rumpus
Kwikset That lock we kept on our doorwasn't so much of a lock as a nonbinding contract I keptwith an outside world only vaguely complicitin our agreement—
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"I'd seen it and wondered several things, including: what kind of baby would stick its head into a bucket? And what became of him, anyway?" // "Bucket Baby" + 4 more by the inimitable Caleb Curtiss (@cdcurtiss.bsky.social) / new today at AC
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CALEB CURTISS / 5 POEMS — always crashing
Bucket Baby The wedding had been over for a good long while,  and so, it was just me and the wife standing there  talking about how nice some parts were  and how we might’ve done other...
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I don’t want to get into the details, but he ruined everything for everyone.
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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Camp has occurred
Group photo at BH campHorrible quality photo of camp fireworks
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
An oldie but a goodie!
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This isn’t exactly the question asked but it made me think of Salter: "There's wide agreement that writing is difficult even for very good writers. Sometimes it's more difficult, sometimes less. In climbing the difficulty defines the achievement. In writing it doesn't have anything to do with it."
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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Still open for Barrelhouse essay subs, keep em coming
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
⚠️ www.alwayscrashing.com/submissions ⚠️
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It’s a lot.
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
We saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe
Former U.S. presidents Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush pose together for a smiling seaside selfie, wearing collared shirts against a bright blue ocean and sky backdrop.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New poem in the inaugural issue of Waltz and honored to share space with so many incredible poets. waltzjournal.com/issue-one/
Screenshot of my poem on the Waltz website. The poem reads:

Paradise
In fact, an unsettled heaven is what I had prepared for. In all directions the songs of specters, a harp floating midair.
There is one difference between a hymn and a song and it's in its power to parch its listener. I sometimes wonder if angels too need water for how long they're asked to hold their notes. I imagine them singing, shining, rows of plastic bottles lined at their sandaled feet.
Heaven is the planet we destroy after this one.
In the beginning, they too called this place magic.
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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Illinois
Road to the horizon. Clouds in the distance. Blue sky. Flat earth.
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Erin Fitzgerald @embfitz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Has anyone made a gif of it yet? No, I don’t want to talk about it. I’m tired. I just want the gif.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
PRIDE SALE! Two gay poetry books for $20, with free shipping. Sales will benefit gay shenanigan throughout June (e.g. buying more gay books for myself).
Two books: “Poems to Stage Dive to” and “Every Living Day”
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Jack Gilbert
MENISCUS: OR HOW THE HEART MUST
NOT BE TOO MUCH QUESTIONED

There is a film on water
which permits a glass to hold
more than it can hold.
If probed, the water breaks.
Before and after,
both are truly water. But
only one will support swans.
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Maybe it’s just not meant to be
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Highly relatable
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Idk what is wrong with me that I have missed literally all of your submissions windows. It feels pathological to me at this point.
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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Just saw this tiktok of a linguist talking about Adler’s levels of reading and he said “recognition is not the same as recall” aka “knowing” and I realized all these AI evangelists constantly mistake recognition of AI generated content as their own knowing.
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Raffi is untouchable, nobody can compete. For example, have you ever listened to his album, Raffi Radio? It’s a fully realized concept album with guest appearances, features, recurring characters and a jazz dog (whatever that is), all voiced by one man: Raffi.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Thanks to NYHTC, the essential work of housekeepers — so often ignored or demeaned — pays enough in NYC to lead a life of dignity. That’s the power of a union. At this moment of staggering inequality, we need more of it.
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N.Y.C. Hotel Housekeepers Will Earn Over $100,000 Under New Contract
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Just going through some old papers…
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 15/05/2026
"Bless / the wound / for what it has changed, / how it heals into itself." From "Thirst Trap," one of four new poems by @cdcurtiss.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/TdXvzaS
The cited quote and information written in black against a white background. The full Rumpus logo is at the top.
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
✨thank you✨
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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Ahhhh so happy for my pal @cdcurtiss.bsky.social
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🙏🙏🙏
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
😘
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I'm very grateful to @roxanegay.bsky.social for publishing these four new poems in the beautifully redesigned @therumpus.net! therumpus.net/2026/05/13/f...
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Four Poems - The Rumpus
Kwikset That lock we kept on our doorwasn't so much of a lock as a nonbinding contract I keptwith an outside world only vaguely complicitin our agreement—
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 06/05/2026
On April 8, Israel dropped more than 100 bombs on Lebanon in an unprecedented attack that hit densely populated neighborhoods during Beirut's afternoon rush hour. to.pbs.org/4u3QgXl
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Families in Lebanon still search rubble for loved ones killed in a day of Israeli strikes
Tomorrow marks four weeks since the day known as “Black Wednesday” in Lebanon. The Israeli military, claiming to be targeting Hezbollah militants, unleashed an unprecedented aerial campaign on April 8...
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
sometimes (often?) someone's feedback in workshop is more about wanting a poem to be easier to read (for them) than about trying to help the poem open into greater (stranger) possibilities
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Correction: it’s all actually pretty bad.
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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I do not recall which teams I referred to here, but this seems pretty accurate nonetheless.
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The award-winning Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha was castigated by the president of Le Moyne College for using the word "genocide" to describe the situation in Gaza. The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network responded with a letter on Mosab's behalf. www.ghscn.org/letters-and-...
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GHSCN - Letters and Statements
April 29, 2026 - Letter to Le Moyne College in support of Mosab Abu Toha
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