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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉

@clbpoetry.bsky.social
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✊🏽 Unapologetically Black poet + writer. From 🇺🇸…living in 🇨🇦 #dualcitizen #immigrant Author of 5 chapbooks 📕📗📘📙📔 Collage ✂️ art ✨NEW✨Chapbook: Melodies of the Oppressed (@the-ethelzine.bsky.social, 2026) Available NOW (see pinned) 📌 FREE Palestine 🇵🇸

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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
💔 CBC reports Chelsea Bear, an Indigenous mother pregnant with twins, died after her family says she was sent home from hospital despite pain and bleeding. One baby also died. First Nations leaders want an independent investigation. What accountability and safeguards are needed?
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
“You see these children? These children perished under bombs with weapons used by the United States and Israel,” Pezeshkian said. “They were innocent, had committed no crimes.”
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U.S. Rep. Leaves U.N. as Iranian President Calls Out Strikes on Kids
The U.S. delegate at the United Nations General Assembly didn’t want to hear about children killed in the Iran war.
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sounds familiar.
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Pretty disappointing to see Rupi Kaur, one of the most chronically online poets completely vanish from social media after Nayyirah Waheed has called for accountability.
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hot take: that new Anne Carson essay on Rosalía was pure Gonzo journalism. And I mean that in all the best ways.
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Whomever came up with “other duties as assigned” is an opp. 😂
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Now that Google capitulated to Trump 2x and changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario I will be leaving all Google services by the end of the year.
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
His momma named him Lake Ontario so Imma call him Lake Ontario
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
RIP Nickel 2015-2026 💔 There’s no easy way to say goodbye to your first pet. It’s hard to find the right words to express this pain. So instead we’ll say thanks for the beautiful memories, you’ll always live in our hearts. Thank you for being the best good boy. 💔 #LongLiveNickel🇺🇸🇨🇦
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Taking a break from social media. Peace & blessings.
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Don’t mind me I’ve just been making art
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
POV you’re locked in
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Anxiously awaiting the results of ******** ******* grant 🙏🏽
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A member of the Order of Canada just bought my chapbook I need a moment.
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Ledance James's Post-Game Handshake
ALT: Ledance James's Post-Game Handshake
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Breh 🤦🏽‍♂️
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Knicks and Spurs needs to go to 7. I want the Spurs to win. I’m a Philly guy which means never NYC. I wouldn’t ask someone from Detroit to root for Cleveland in anything. Nor someone from Toronto to root for Montréal or Ottawa.
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
FREE KARMELO ANTHONY
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Let’s go Spurs 🌵👑👽🇫🇷🇨🇩🔥
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I will revel in delight when the credit system ends and companies like Equifax fold and go out of business.
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This gave me chills. Thank you brother Marshawn. And thank you sister Sherrilyn Hill for putting this on my radar. 🔥✊🏽
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Work in progress.
Drawing of a 25% complete stain glass window. Uniball black ink, and crayola crayons (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple).
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I’m almost at 1,000 days and I’ll be writing an essay about it.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 25/04/2026
Palestinians voted on Saturday in the first elections held in part of Gaza in more than two decades, while tens of thousands of Palestinians cast ballots in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. to.pbs.org/3OKJ3fh
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Palestinians vote in the first Gaza elections held in more than 20 years
Palestinians voted on Saturday in the first elections held in part of Gaza in more than two decades, while tens of thousands of Palestinians cast ballots in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
"In the 1950s, the Iowa Writers Workshop received funding from the CIA to push a writing style that centered the emotional life of the individual while decentering the social and political forces that shape human behavior." lithub.com/the-craft-ch...
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The Craft Challenges of Writing Political Fiction
In the 1950s, the Iowa Writers Workshop received funding from the CIA to push a writing style that centered the emotional life of the individual while decentering the social and political forces th…
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
W.S. Merwin was like that
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Felt
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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I promised you an early draft. Here ya go. Pistons in 6 in '26, baby.
Photo of the floor from our mezzanine seatsGames, Ghosts

            (An early draft by Mitchell Nobis)

On this, the day of the Detroit Pistons Playoffs Game 1, this YMCA gym 
is empty except for me, my son, and his coach. They're doing a workout, 

so I leave them and train with my ghost 
on the far end of the gym. The Pistons 
game later will be a surprise loss. Despite time to adjust, I am still surprised by my 

own loss. Where my body used to move, now I'm dusty 2x4s connected with dried out rubber bands. A rebound drifts by me, my feet unable to unlatch from the floor. 

I catch up to the ball, then shoot it 
& shoot it again. I count silently, trying 
to outscore my ghost. Game 1 later will leave its own ghost. 

We all chase, a rebound out of reach 
   until it isn't. 
Ghosts can't score unless you let them.
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Wanna know what it’s like to work in marketing? I just deleted 647 videos from my phone.
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
ICYMI
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Colleen Jenny (she/her)🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @cjenny2.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears
Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Teaching faculty poli sci. UW Milwaukee
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Our friends in Gaza have been paying a heavy price since bluesky libs latest round of attacking Palestinians. Hammam has not gotten any donations on days and could really use our support.
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Today I’m making my visual arts debut with @universityoflou.bsky.social’s own @miraclemonocle.bsky.social Magazine! You can check out my collages “Food for Thought,” “Harmony with the Natural World,” and my artist’s statement here: miraclemonocle.com/articles/foo...
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Collages - Miracle Monocle
Food for Thought Harmony with the Natural World Artist's Statement: These two works were birthed out of Februllage 2026, a month-long exercise for
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Submit flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, & experimental writing in under 405 words, 5 lines, or 4 pages for your chance to win cash prizes & publication & join the #ExpoFam. Submissions are open for Ashley C. Lanuza’s Flash 405: “Saudade” thru 5/10: tinyurl.com/FlashSaudade
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Koreen Brennan @koreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Just finished reading Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for the first time.
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Apparently playing a song over and over is a sign of neurodivergence 🤷🏽‍♂️ well my gifted ass has been running back Brick After Brick by Stove God Cooks for almost 12 hours today and it’s not even out yet….
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The min I find a scissors ✂️ flash tatt I’m grabbing it
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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The collection I'm querying is dark speculative stuff (more horror-leaning than my previous collections). (I am jobless and helping my family recover from a housefire so avoiding presses with fees) I do not have an agent 😔
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Villain Era 🖤🔪 @villaineralit.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
if you can read this send us some work
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
BING BONG
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I low key wanna live in Italy and Ireland even if just for a year each
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Win
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I appreciate you so much @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social! I hope you enjoy it ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Droppin some visual art on 4/20. Stay tuned.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/04/2026
there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
One day I will have a project that is completely about Montréal
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Donald J. Trump is the most unfit, unhinged President of all time since the slave master Presidents.
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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
“DEVOURING TOMORROW: Fiction From The Future Of Food” is an anthology I co-edited with @jeffdupuis.bsky.social “How will we feed ourselves in the future?” The authors knocked this premise out of the park! DEVOURING TOMORROW is Available Now! www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211... #booksky 💙📚👀
The front and back cover of DEVOURING TOMORROW. The front cover is light green with a yellow title font and a “glitchy” apple dripping fluorescent yellow slime.
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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
We are open for full length poetry collection submissions until 31st May. A very small percentage of people who submit to Broken Sleep Books actually buy a book from us. If every submitter bought just 1 title, it would make a huge difference. Guidelines: www.brokensleepbooks.com/submissions
Poetry collection submissions open!
1st April - 31st May
brokensleepbooks.com/submissions
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