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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

5 month old is snoring & I should work but Crusader Kings is way too much fun--after all, I finally, 3 generations in, managed to form the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1127. Although, I still don't have control of Praha.

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ALT: Crusader Bursts In with Sword

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Read Frank O’Hara’s Collected in three days and preparing to do the same with Stanley Plumly. Feels kinda like speed-dating all the alternate-universe versions of the same person.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

BREAKING: Crucifictorious has withdrawn from the Freedom 250 Celebration.

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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

thanks for the thoughtful read of my work!

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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

so what I might be working on my bus routes in a city simulator while editing a chapter on constitutionalism in Latin America--it's how I unwind!

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HAD @havehashad.com · 09/05/2026

I’m reading submissions now, I guess! havehashad.submittable.com/submit/35598...

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Oh, Jack Gilbert and the people who are always not you 🖤

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Derrick Austin @paradiselaust.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Sloe Gin by Seamus Heaney

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

There's no money in poetry, as they say, but there's no money in short stories either. What about novels? No. All the money's in home repairs.

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Charles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Almodóvar holds gossip in gloriously high regard

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

writing is boring and frustrating and painful and ridiculous and confusing and embarrassing and there is nothing on this earth i want more. i’m always trying to make more time for writing, i always want more time to write because i know how much time it takes

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dr. kimberly ann @kimannjosouth.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

WXPN playing "Sunday, Bloody Sunday," and it's like I've never heard this song before, but also I've heard it almost every day of my life, you know?

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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

So far my 5 day old daughter has watched Industry and Shoresy. Not sure what that says about me, but that’s what’s up over here.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

If it isn’t baroque, don’t fix it 🎶

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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Over here wondering where my yearly Threepenny Review rejection be.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Asterisks are my favorite fallen stars. *This poem was found after the poet's death on the back of an envelope from Helen Vender, November 28, 1981.

You came one day and
as usual in such matters
significance filled everything
your eyes, the things you
knew, the way you turned,
leaned, stood, or sat,
this way or that: when
you left, the area around here rose
a tilted tide, and everything that
offers desolation drained away.

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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

thanks: Joyce & Norman "Some books of poetry take on a single subject... In others, artists create a work into which they pour everything they know. Expansive, elegiac, exuberant, tender yet cool and precise in its observations, Reading Water is such a book." www.poetryinreview.com/reviews/read...

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Restless Messengers - Poetry In Review

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This is one of those quotes I think about more than any other.

from Jonathan Franzen's 2013 By the Book interview in the New York Times:

Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how).

The book creates the experience. If I’m loving something, I suddenly discover large chunks of reading time that I wasn’t aware of having.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

In case any poets needed some Dan Beachy-Quick tonight... "When the eye loses the ability to see an object for the fact of its very nearness, then the imagination must alter the lens. A poem may bring us what we see in it just such a way."

“When the eye loses the ability to see an object for the fact of its very nearness, then the imagination must alter the lens. A poem may bring us what we see in it just such a way. It reaches through the little hole in the eye and puts the thing in mind, that realm in which perception and forgetting are simultaneous, where every presence coincides with a corresponding absence, where experience, as in an old iconic painting, holds aside the breast of its garment to reveal not a burning heart, but a nothing that pulses and is on fire.”

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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

there is no reason for ICE to exist. immigrants aren’t doing anything wrong by trying to live and work and provide for their loved ones. I don’t care how people got here. if they want to be here that’s good. leave them alone.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.

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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

so much love for everyone reading and thinking about my work, all that time and effort in addition, I'll be back in the US and doing some reading/talk dates in late April (early May) - shout if you want me to come visit!

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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

🌟NEW REVIEW ALERT! Check out Tyler Truman Julian’s review on READING WATER by Derek JG Williams.🌟 Link in bio! www.theshorepoetry.org/shore-things...

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Joanna Robinson @jowrotethis.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

THE PITT 🤝 INDUSTRY Me somehow understanding everything despite not following 98% of the jargon.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night. Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim. Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen. Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

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Joanna Robinson @jowrotethis.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Benicio awards fever in FULL effect. I’m a fan.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

just realized I somehow thought Lady Bird and Frances Ha were the same film? no clue how that happened...

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

collage from may

especially grimy and crumbly collage, comprised of distressed and in some cases painted papers // a kiosk in what may be an Arab-speaking country; some feathers viewed closely, the letter S, a man's head and shoulders

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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

pretty sad, not even listening to D'Angelo - I've got Frightened Rabbit on instead, which is also sad

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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

"America I used to be a communist when I was a kid I’m not sorry. / I smoke marijuana every chance I get. / I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet. / My mind is made up there’s going to be trouble." - AG -

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

"I'm not paying your fee. Give the grant, the residency, that place in a journal, that job to someone else. I'll be here under the Bodhi tree with Tu Fu. He's sold a sheaf of poems." shopoetryjournal.com/sean-thomas-...

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Sean Thomas Dougherty – Hanzi in the Rain - Shō Poetry Journal

I think I'm tiring of auditioning. / I'm not dancing for bread anymore.

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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

so I haven't submitted work to journals in a few years, not with the publication of the book & the prose manuscript I've been writing, but holy wow everyone charges sub fees now--what a bummer

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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I've been sick and kind of depressed that I had to cancel a bunch of readings in the US this fall. I couldn't make the dates work with some family commitments. BUT, I'm excited to teach this workshop in Geneva in a few weeks! genevawriters.org/event-6341404

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Geneva Writers Group - Radical Revision: A Poetry Workshop

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Devindra Hardawar @devindra.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Saw Mark Ruffalo eating a messy hoagie on Task and now I want a messy hoagie. Now that's prestige TV

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/09/2025

YES someone else noticed the hysterical phrasing of those Penguin books (yes I did a whole thread at the time because I just couldn't get over it) bsky.app/profile/youn...

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jesse @tiddypills.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

if i was the talented mr ripley i wouldn’t kill anyone. i’d just hang out with jude law and have a good time

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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I did an extensive interview with CutBank about the book. Lisa Kouroupis really nailed it in our conversation. Which you can check out here: www.cutbankonline.org/interview-de...

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July 2025 Interview with Derek JG Williams and CutBank Poetry Editor Lisa Kouroupis — CutBank Literary Magazine

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