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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
lareviewofbooks.org/article/ash-... “The place feels both wounded and holy, like a chapel hidden inside a ruin.”
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Consequences Accrue Downstream | Los Angeles Review of Books
The ongoing fight to restore the Colorado River Delta.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
it was prescient as hell when smashmouth said “the years keep comin and they don’t stop comin”
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Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Check it out: the pre-order link for Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest! This book collects dozens of #LiteraryLandscapes essays, and pre-orders will ship in November—perfect for Christmas! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
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Lingering Inland
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 28/02/2025
Happening now: in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, students at Sullivan High School are walking out this afternoon in protest of ICE and Trump's deportation regime.
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trying to do anything in the house without alarming my cat
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
New poem up today with @pinehillsreview.bsky.social!
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Reflecting on a silly essay about parenting in the NYT buttondown.com/possumnotes/...
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On parenting, work, and taking walks in winter
I’m not on social media much these days other than posting Rohan’s latest train track design, so I miss things like a guest essay in the NYT by a father who...
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Sometimes it’s okay for a park to be a park. A park-flavored park. Yes I’m 32 why do you ask buttondown.com/possumnotes/...
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Parks that deliver, parks that don't
Judging small parks by the stakes they set
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A newsletter is a blog you get in your email. You could get blogs in your email but newsletters are different, somehow, in a way that makes people read them. And I think that’s great
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
congrats to Outlook on making email (the sending and receiving of digital messages) a bewildering and upsetting experience
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...
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Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can.
Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
NEW POEM #138: "Other Lives" by Conor Gearin (@conorgearin.bsky.social) "If I was a lavender seed, on gravel or on good soil. If I was a gull on kitchen scraps or a pile of confiscated weed." stonecirclereview.com/other-lives/ #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
are indoor soccer shoes back in style? 6th grade me is vindicated at last
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Gaza's catastrophic food shortage means mass death is imminent, monitor says
Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and surge of food to areas cut off by fighting, the global hunger monitor said on Monday.
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/b...
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A Bronx Teacher Asked. Tommy Orange Answered.
When the author received an impassioned email, he dropped everything to visit the students who inspired it.
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Frozen Sea @frozenseapoetry.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Redcedar - Conor Gearin
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
A gray whale near Nantucket! The archeological evidence has gray whales here up to about 450 years ago, and then scattered sightings into the 18th century, so it’s been a long long time! www.neaq.org/about-us/pre...
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Gray whale, extinct in the Atlantic, seen in southern New England waters - New England Aquarium
In an incredibly rare event, the New England Aquarium aerial survey team sighted a gray whale off the New England coast last week, a species that has been extinct in the Atlantic for more than 200 yea...
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
Rejection can be brutal! 🙃 First drafted this while trying to find work before I found Our Climate. Full poem here: www.sierranevadareview.com/eben-bein-2024 What would you call this form? Considering "a disintegration" or "a mutation". #rejection #poetry #funny
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
One of the strangest and shortest poems I’ve published
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
I drafted this poem roughly 10 years ago. It’s been getting tweaks and revisions ever since. I’m glad it finally found a home with @eunoiareview.bsky.social eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/t...
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The Canal
The board where the tall old man wrote fossil data in chalk blurred in my still-waking eyes and is this what's needed, not sharper sight but little give, allowance of blur—as if Whistler, painting gra...
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
New poem out today
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
[nixon voice] slack it…to me??
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Claudia Geib @cgeib.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
I'm incredibly proud to share my latest for @mongabay.bsky.social: the story of the Hawaiian activists, scientists, and technology wizards working to restore an sacred island from military destruction, erosion, invasive plants and... cats. news.mongabay.com/2024/02/on-k...
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On Kaho’olawe, new technology could restore a sacred Hawaiian island
To bring seabirds back to Kaho‘olawe, you need to first find the cats. And to find the cats on Kaho‘olawe, you need to know where to find the bombs. Eleven kilometers, about 7 miles, off the coast of ...
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
Childhood hero: David Attenborough. Kinship with the living world he instilled in me has only grown. Thx Radar Poetry for celebrating this at www.radarpoetry.com/common-descent & to my #chickadeecollective, especially @conorgearin.bsky.social who helped identify the heart of this poem early on.
Zoomed in picture of a stag beetle's head with an excerpt from the poem Common Descent "This is an insect with zest, with heft enough to take down others of his kind... true mouthparts tucked discretely  beneath the massive grapplers—I, too, hide my real mouth behind something bigger."
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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Some of the most thoughtful science writing I've read have been in non-sciencey pubs (e.g. airline magazines); on topics that don't scream "science" (e.g. local communities, cultural history); by reporters who might not identify as science writers. Tell someone you know to enter NASW SciWriAwards!
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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 19/01/2024
Here’s the story for those wondering. What brought it to light was a missing persons case. Turns out the police ran over a guy, then just buried him out back of the jail without bothering to notify next of kin even though there was ample ID on the victim’s body.
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Families in disbelief after hundreds of bodies found buried behind Mississippi jail
The discovery of 215 bodies buried in unmarked graves behind a jail outside of Jackson, Mississippi, has left a community in disbelief. The families are angry they were never notified of the deaths an...
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
New poem out today, my first one in years. This one's a deep cut for you Gerard Manley Hopkins heads out there. More to come in February! Stay tuned! oneartpoetry.com/2024/01/19/f...
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Farrier’s Work by Conor Gearin
Farrier’s Work After Gerard Manley Hopkins I have never held the hammer and tongs, smacked sparks from orange iron, in fact it turns out I’m anemic, not even enough iron in my blood— so why am I...
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
among my top 10 proudest moments: today when the dental hygienist said I don't need to bother getting an electric toothbrush because of what a good boy I've been flossing every night
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Watching the big snow storm. So far, we’re underwhelmed, but happy to see some snow.
Baby in a sweater looks out the window
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
The "repost with comment" resurrects the medieval gloss, the monastic tradition of presenting original text along with interpretive commentary. In this essay I will
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
Pattern in frost melt from the tree’s shadow
Frost remaining on mostly melted lawn in the shape of a tree’s shadowA wide shot showing the tree casting the shadow on the frosty lawn
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
welcome to Supermonday, which is actually a Tuesday
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
Milestone: old enough to notice birds
Baby puts a hand on the window with a bird perched on a bird feeder just outside
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Year in review time for what people have published comes at a kind of funny time for me because I just got a few poems accepted, but they won't be out until Jan and Feb. So my year in review is: stay tuned, we'll be right back after this.
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
i'm here but I will not be saying skeet
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Conor Gearin @conorgearin.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Scones for the solstice
Two trays of chocolate chunk scones
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