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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

88 weeks of sharing a poem alongside a free writing prompt today's is a constraint-based poem, courtesy of @ctsalazar.bsky.social neonpajamas.substack.com/p/088-poem-p...

088: Poem + Prompt (C.T. Salazar)
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

my book is out next month! if you grab a copy, let me know, and I'll write you a personalized poem www.gasherpress.com/product-page...

"Made death new to me." - Hedgie Choi

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

out on October 15, 2026 with Gasher Press

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Acre #poet @ctsalazar.bsky.social in conversation with Angela Ball! 🎉🎉🎉

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Southern Review of Books @southrevbooks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Check out our brand new interview with @ctsalazar.bsky.social and Angela Ball on STEEPLECHASE. @upittpress.bsky.social southernreviewofbooks.com/2026/07/06/s...

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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Very grateful to have a few poems (including this one, loosely inspired by nature's reclamation of the Chernobyl exclusion zone) in the new issue of @conduit.org, one of the best.... Do yourself a favor & waltz over to grab yourself a copy, (costs the same as a cocktail, but the buzz lasts longer)!

MOST GHOSTS

don't believe in people, either.
They hold parties
in abandoned gymnasiums
where sapling maples
split the hardwood
flooring to reach
toward the white glow
dissolving through the skylights.
All the people left
town decades ago
when ash fell from the sky.
If you leave the gymnasium
and walk weed-shattered
asphalt lanes, you will
eventually come to a bungalow
inhabited by a bear.
She tumbles in and out
where the picture
window used to be.
If you were there,
you might liken the opening
to the dark socket
in the skull of a Cyclops.
She doesn't mind ghosts,
in fact she considers them
a sort of cousin, given
to flourishing in our absence.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

on this #twopageplustuesday & last day of June, here’s a poem by Kenneth O. Hanson

End of the Month Report
I have washed the windows
I have signed the checks I have arranged the books according to the six principles in my head
I have found my poems in a new anthology cheek by jowl with Robert Lowell
I have taken this into account
I have bought the beer for today
I have reread the material on the Industrial Revolution for Monday
I have read the student papers
1am pledged to read
I have put my life in order
Why then do the bits and pieces of another landscape
fragments of a great despair gather in a sidestreet with obscene gestures chanting fuck your order long live doubt
long live the paramýthy of the heart the storm and stress of the bounced check the pure disinclination of the who knows what the shipwreck always
of the uncertainty at the door long live the domestic tranquility of chaos

the rocks and water of negative capability the raw discrimination of the checks and balances
O burn the papers, put the books again in the damp basement Christopher Smart molding
alongside the Cat Man of Katmandu cheek by jowl with Lady Winchilsea O to be merely clever like the students of Salonika who believe in nothing but themselves or their uncles, which in this case is something to believe in O to have antecedents without thinking them up to have only lies to contend with the indiscriminate sun
in a plastic bag and the yellow wine more clear than a washed window week in and week out

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“Good Time Jesus” for Easter, “Those Winter Sundays” for Father’s Day, and “The Tiger” for every other day of the year

The Tiger
by Nael, age 6

From “They’re Singing a Song in Their Rocket”

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I facilitated a workshop yesterday evening called “The Poetics of Water” and we had a generative discussion and writing time. I’m going to share the poems we read together and the prompts in a thread 💙

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

What an event! Excited to see two of our poets in the mix: @ctsalazar.bsky.social and @josehernandezdz.bsky.social! Have a great #AWP26! 🎉🎉🎉

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

AWP 💥 BALTIMORE 🚨 Mark your calendars‼️ It’s all happening on March 4. See you there?

Neon Night Mic
AWP Offsite Reading
Hosted by [neonpajamas]

Alina Stefanescu
Jose Hernandez Diaz
Michael Martone
Annelyse Gelman
Nicky Beer
Chen Chen
Johannes Goransson
Alina Pleskova
Katie Jean Shinkle
C.T. Salazar
David Simmons
David Wojciechowski
Kenyatta Rogers
Henry Goldkamp
Matt Bell
Grant Wamack
Jon Woodward

@ Old Major
900 S. Carey St.
Batimore
Wednesday, March 4
Doors: 6:00pm
Readings: 7:00pm-10:00pm

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

has a man ever held me / in a crosshair

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"did I have enough money for the carcass / at the end of my time"💥

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A poem I wrote about state violence last year, ringing in my head again with new names

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Sharing the opening poem, “Pseudo Myth” from MORE FLOWERS, out with @triohousepress.org on February 1st, 2026! 🌺 #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Pseudo Myth

Again, I've confused the horseman for the horse, the artillery of a muscle for a minor hero's sling. What we do in the name of obedience, not thinking wonder has
anything to gain over wit. The wheel, at times, will envy the hands that clutch it. The horse, the inoperable reigns. Trust me. I, who have neither head nor heart, whose name is not mine but Girl. What's torn through the center is as good a guide
as any.

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Mississippi really banned this app for several months —wild

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Kathleen Fraser

IF

Suppose we are a fragment?

A perfect night of immediacy
in vital places.

Up here I am the disguised flower
you are where it came from.

To allow the hidden.
So slowly. My body.

And wouldn’t you

begin
to make friends with it?

I can wait.

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Honored by these words from @ctsalazar.bsky.social about Signal to Noise 🙏🏼

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 22/08/2025

The Black Panthers were accurately describing the US as fascist in the 60s. That's how far behind you are if a dictator moving troops in to occupy cities & arresting his opposition & disappearing people is just clicking as fascism for you.

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

TONIGHT! Join us for the virtual book launch of @writesloud.bsky.social collection: FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT (@stanchion.bsky.social) Readers include: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, @toddedillard.bsky.social, @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social, and me! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

It seems like “release the list” has become a fantasy for people who feel helpless for different reasons. Even if it were right in front of everyone, it wouldn’t enlighten us about what we already know is horrendous. Furthermore, who’s supposed to enforce the imagined consequences of being on it?

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

An anthology of contemporary surrealism? Say less! Compiling four years of our Surreal-Absurd Sampler series, we have 80+ poets across 370 pages, full of weird poems & micro essays on the surreal Thrilled to have helped with this tome 📚 More here: www.mercurius.one/books/the-su...

The Surreal-Absurd Sampler: a print anthology

Zachary Schomburg
Jennifer L. Knox
Tom Jenks
Michael Chang
Barton Smock
Rachel B. Glaser
John Maradik
Aase Berg
Réka Nyitrai
Liam Bates
Evan Nicholls
Shivani Mehta
Satoshi Iwai
Sawako Nakayasu
Joyelle McSweeney
Lesle Lewis
Evan Williams
Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
Kristin Bock
Howie Good
Jeff Alessandrelli

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Beth Gordon @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I'm beyond thrilled to finally share some amazing news. My second full-length collection, Alchemy of Nests, will be published by @acrebooks.bsky.social in 2027. Thank you to Lisa Ampleman and Nicola Mason for selecting this manuscript and for already being wonderful editors / collaborators.

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Absolutely delighted to share this news! Please welcome @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social to Acre Books! 🎉🎉🎉

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Fiston Mwanza Mujila, from his poetry collection The River in the Belly (2021) translated by J. Bret Maney @deepvellum.bsky.social

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

America is my myth. —Natalie Diaz

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Everyone thrives (dies) in the necro-economy

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

What if we're all lovers. What if we're all little books. Little consequences. Dawn Lundy Martin

Opening, red fabric, legs wanting to be that. There is want and then there are stones. I was a stone once myself. A smooth blind projection. I create you in the image of my desire. Which makes you nothing. I forget my own desire, which has a blame factor. A record of convolution. Remember, L----, I become consumed in waiting and then there's nothing else. All time is nothing.
The days just pass and I'm in anguish. Anguish is a red hurt, basalt. The time of expanded presence. What if we're all lovers. What if we're all little books. Little consequences.

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Poets! What are your favorite poems about stars? ✨

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Poets! What are your favorite poems about stars? ✨

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Poets, what’re your favorite contrapuntal poems? 👀

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Poets, what’re your favorite contrapuntal poems? 👀

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Southern Review of Books @southrevbooks.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

"If 'Tree Fall' is loss — that things change, life ends, meaning is lost — what could represent the opposite qualities of birth, of creation, of fullness. An early poem gave me my answer with 'Birdsong.'" Read more from @ctsalazar.bsky.social's interview with @kdunkelberg.bsky.social!

southernreviewofbooks.com

The Way Sound and Meaning Interact: A Conversation with Kendall Dunkelberg

“I knew that mortality was goig to be a big part of the collection.” An interview with Kendall Dunkelberg about Tree Fall with Birdsong, his fourth poetry collection.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I am so excited to announce that the launch reading for A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems officially has a lineup!! register at the 🔗 in 🧵 to hear Lauren Parker, Jude Marr, Zoe Mitchell, Amanda McLeod, C. T. Salazar, Beth Gordon, & Tom Snarsky on Thursday, 7/17! 🎤💌⛰️💡

NIGHT LIGHT
THURSDAY 7/17
9PM EASTERN
ZOOM

ANIMAL HEART PRESS / LAUNCH FOR TOM SNARSKY’S A LETTER FROM THE MOUNTAIN & OTHER POEMS

LAUREN PARKER
JUDE MARR
ZOE MITCHELL
AMANDA MCLEOD
C. T. SALAZAR
BETH GORDON
TOM SNARSKY

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/06/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Today in the retirement community I write poems with weekly we looked at poets who wrote through the AIDS epidemic of the 80s through early 90s. We had a conversation about the politics of care & remembering, resilience, and loss 🙏🏼

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

“I knew debt was a golden guillotine some men watched sway over their children” 🤯⚔️ The inimitable @ctsalazar.bsky.social reading a new poem ‘O Ye Cattle Thieves’ in LA The entire event is available here: youtu.be/T-buPF_9uaA

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

…to the editorial team at Animal Heart for all their work making this book beautiful, & to @ctsalazar.bsky.social, @susanlleary.bsky.social, + Ariana Reines for the incredibly kind words you see above about the collection :) 🔗 to the Animal Heart preorder page: animalheartpress.net/a-letter-fro...

animalheartpress.net

‘A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems’ by Tom Snarsky – Animal Heart Press

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

From South Arts: that they terminated ArtsHERE, one of the most substantial nonmatching grants I've ever seen. Millions of dollars stripped from orgs who were already depending on it. Call your reps & tell them to restore the (broad bipartisan!) commitment to funding the NEA in next year’s budget.

Last Friday, many though not all active and pending direct grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) were terminated. One of the projects that was terminated effective May 31, was the NEA’s ArtsHERE initiative, delivered in cooperation with South Arts and through significant partnership with the US Regional Arts Organizations. This comes alongside the president’s proposal to eliminate the NEA entirely in the FY26 federal budget. Together, these actions will have devastating impacts on communities throughout the country.

We at South Arts, along with the national collective of US Regional Arts Organizations, strongly urge Congress to restore the grant funding in support of the arts, culture, and creativity that was passed during the last budgetary approval process, in addition to maintaining its broad bipartisan commitment to funding the NEA in next year’s budget.

Guidelines of the ArtsHERE grants, which offered $65k - 130k in nonmatched funds

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Robert Grenier

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

When I saw SINNERS yesterday, I saw the Mississippi delta’s community cast to the screen beautifully and with incredible respect. The movie is a reminder that the predominantly Black, Brown, and working class delta has a past, a present, and a future worth fighting for

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It feels so special to have 2 poems in Valley Voices’ Mississippi Delta-themed issue ❤️ Having so many delta-based folks in conversation together is a real gift.

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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It feels so special to have 2 poems in Valley Voices’ Mississippi Delta-themed issue ❤️ Having so many delta-based folks in conversation together is a real gift.

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