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Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"Paestum": a poem traveling to your April all the way from Magna Graecia" bakkenpoet.substack.com/p/paestum-ev...

Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Yannis Ritsos, "News Report" During the military dictatorship in Greece (1967-1974), Ritsos was forbidden to publish and placed under house arrest: for long periods on the island of Samos, likely where he wrote this poem in 1969....[read more at bakkenpoet.substack.com]

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Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy to see mention of the sublime Amanda Michalopoulou, though it is a pity the author does not seem to be aware of the work of Natalie Bakopoulos, an exception to so much being glossed here. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

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The Light and the Poverty | Los Angeles Review of Books

Dominic Amerena examines the enduring appeal of Greece and the destination novel.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

It’s horrifying that it’s come to this, but as someone with a deep affinity for Europe I feel moved seeing that continent come together to try to save itself in the absence of any meaningful aid from the totalitarian regime that’s in the midst of taking over the United States through an illegal coup

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Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Lord Dampnut & VJ Dance: "bow and kiss our boots and grovel or we won't play." No truth. No sense of history. Just rambling bullshit and bowing to the real Oz in the room: Putin. Disgrace. Shame. American idiocy.

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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon. ~Guy Davenport (The Geography of the Imagination)

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Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki & Thasos @workshopsingreece.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Three days until our early decision application deadline for Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki and Thasos. This year's faculty: Amanda Michalopoulou Scott Cairns Christopher Bakken Joanna Eleftheriou Panayotis Paddy League and Allison Wilkins Bakken www.writingworkshopsingreece.com

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Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Apply now to write with us on Thasos this summer. Early app deadline is 2/15. Workshops and residencies. A Roman marble quarry. Three beaches. Island cuisine. Literary hootenanny. Www.writingworkshopsingreece.com

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Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Now reading applications for our summer writing workshops on the Greek island of Thasos www.writingworkshopsingreece.com

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Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Workshops and residencies for writers on the Greek island of Thasos. Yoga, Greek language instruction, archaeology, words. Summer Faculty: Courtney Zoffness, Scott Cairns, Joanna Eleftheriou, Amanda Michalopoulou, Paddy League, Christopher Bakken, Allison Wilkins. www.writingworkshopsingreece.com

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Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki & Thasos @workshopsingreece.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki & Thasos Hello to everyone on Bluesky. Join us this summer for literary inspiration, community and yoga on a remote peninsula on a remote island. www.writingworkshopsingreece.com

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Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki & Thasos @workshopsingreece.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Summer Faculty Spotlight: Courtney Zoffness is the author of the memoir-in-essays SPILT MILK (McSweeney's). She's an Associate Professor of English at Drew University and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Come find us at writingworkshopsingreece.com

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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Gorgona "Fall back into me now, little ghost/ Let go of the shore." www.juxtaprosemagazine.org/gorgona-by-c...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/11/2024

Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts diner was immortalized in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 song “Alice’s Restaurant,” died on Thursday — just a week before Thanksgiving, the holiday during which the story at the center of the song takes place. She was 83.

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Alice Brock, Restaurant Owner Made Famous by a Song, Dies at 83

Arlo Guthrie’s antiwar staple “Alice’s Restaurant” was inspired by a Thanksgiving Day visit to her diner in western Massachusetts.

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Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki & Thasos @workshopsingreece.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Here is a quick spotlight on a member of our summer faculty, the unstoppable Joanna Eleftheriou: writingworkshopsingreece.com/joanna-eleft... Join us on the Greek island of Thasos next summer. Now reading applications.

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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A lot of the dimwitted op-eds about Bluesky being an echo chamber because it doesn’t offer a platform for hate and the far right are just lazy find-and-replace reprints of op-eds about higher education being an echo chamber because it doesn’t offer a platform for hate and the far right

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Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Happy to have a new poem "On the Way to Panormo" in the new issue of The Sewanee Review thesewaneereview.com

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Relieved to know @jeffsharlet.bsky.social is tracking and reporting on Hegseth because, frankly, he’s one of the most ominous fascists Trump has chosen. Hegseth is charismatic to many MRAs; he is a skilled rhetorician and a true believer (unlike Trump). He has potential and he’s a diehard.

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John Gallaher @jgallaher.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Who was it, Marvin Bell I think, was doing a poetry reading, I think it was the Dead Man poems era, and someone asked him what one of the poems meant, if he could explain it. He said something like, "I'll try," and then read the poem again. Pretty good answer, really.

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Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

No narrative arc, but it is a book (DRIVING THE BEAST, forthcoming Louisiana State Univ Press 2025). The first reviewer was feline, and thus entirely inscrutable.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

THE CLASH - West Hollywood (1982)

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Allison Wilkins Bakken @wilkinspoet.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

WWIG 2025 is now accepting applications for both residents & workshop participants. 18 June to 9 July. Faculty: Joanna Eleftheriou, Courtney Zoffness, Amanda Michalopoulou, Scott Cairns & Christopher Bakken. Yoga with Allison Wilkins. Greek language & culture course with Panayotis League.

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Allison Wilkins Bakken @wilkinspoet.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Honored to share my poem in Sierra Magazine. Inspired by the 2014 derailment of a freight train which dumped rail cars & burning crude oil into the river. Big big gratitude & many thanks to poetry editor Aimee Nezhukumatathil for giving this one a home. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2023-...

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Derailment: James River, Virginia

A poem by Allison Wilkins

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Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The Trump kakistocracy is taking shape: these new appointments constitute a murder of boot-lickers and absurdly unqualified jackasses

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Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

My poem "For the Dead Union" went live at Plume poetry on Nov 1: "I had the initial idea for this poem many years ago, when one of my students submitted an essay in which they mistakenly referred to the title of Robert Lowell’s famous poem as “For the Dead Union.” plumepoetry.com/29573-2/

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For the Dead Union - Plume

For the Dead Union a savage servility slides by on grease After summer rain, the old-growth forest behind Greendale Cemetery fills with eerie promise—boletes, milk-caps, and terraces of pink-white...

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Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Can we do a POET Roll Call to see who's all here? #poetrycommunity Drop a note, reshare, etc.--let's see who's here!

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Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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Christopher Bakken @christopherbakken.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Just joined this space, which appears far less polluted. How is everyone?

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