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Eben E. B. Bein (they)

@ebenbein.bsky.social
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Climate Justice Educator. Facilitator. Multi-disciplinary artist. Living, organizing, creating, and interbeing on Massachusett Land.

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
regret. I sincerely 🤣🤣🤣
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Pretty cool. Boston Globe interview about No Contact. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/24/a... Happy pub day, and see some of you at @belmontbooks.bsky.social tomorrow!
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Jenny Bartoy on her new anthology, ‘No Contact,’ and the complexities of family estrangement - The Boston Globe
In the new anthology out April 21, Jenny Bartoy curates a collection of essays as an exploration of how "estrangement is a form of grief," with works by Cheryl Strayed, Nick Flynn, and Deesha Philyaw....
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
In 5 days :-)
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Here's a teaser of some of my work on this theme. Thanks @pangyrus.bsky.social for publishing it.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Writers on #estrangement at @belmontbooks.bsky.social on April 29th at 7pm. Editor @jennybartoy.bsky.social and Nicole Graev Lipson.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Let's talk about hard things.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"the euphoria of being an error"
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
i am in possession of a very active and very homosexual imagination
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Omggggggg
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It's summer in the winter of my life!
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Anyone know Rochak Agarwal(l)? He reached out a 2nd time about putting my poem on a bottle of Reed Diffusers he sells. Nothing bad happened the 1st time, but ... I do not like diffusers, so I didn't buy. I do not like scams. I do like cute collabs and gifting my art to others. Thoughts #poets?
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Clean Water Action Massachusetts @cleanh2oma.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The terrible climate rollbacks bill is on hold, thanks to the voices of grassroots organizations and people across Massachusetts. Read more about what was proposed, and why a broad coalition rallied to stop it: cleanwater.org/2025/11/17/h...
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House Climate Bill is a Big Step Backwards – read our coalition op-ed
Coalition partners Cindy Luppi, Clean Water Action; Kyle Murray, Acadia Center; Caitlin Peale Sloan, Conservation Law Foundation; and John Walkey, GreenRoots jointly authored the following op-ed, publ...
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
If anyone is wondering why Democrats look the same as Republicans to a lot of young people ... commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/hous... Thank you Cindy, Caitlin, Kyle, and John, for saying the thing. #mapoli
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House climate bill is a big step backward   - CommonWealth Beacon
At a moment when President Trump is dismantling federal climate policy, this bill would do the work for him. It would abandon our 2030 emissions targets, gut our most effective programs, and lock Mass...
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Mo Schoenfeld @moschoenfeld.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
the poppies return and we vow ‘never again’ again, and again #HaikuSaturday #haiku #poetry
Photo of a country land with a hedge at the left. A lone poppy grows out toward the road. Blue sky in the distance.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I am in awe and gratitude for every page. I am made more ready to hold everything.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Don't miss bangers from @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social's Karan Kapoor and editor I appreciate Miriam Akervall in the issue.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We carry versions of our people in us. How tricky it can be to sort our version of them from the real thing. Thank you @pacificalit.bsky.social, my therapist, and Internal Family Systems. #ifs www.pacificareview.com/issue-21-2/
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NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
POW! It's NAWP time!
A promo graphic with author photos, and it says:
A NAWP Reading
Majda Gama
Julia Kolchinsky
Alina Stefanescu

Hosted by Jared Beloff
September 9, 2025
7:00-8:00 PM EST
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Takes an ecosystem to raise a poem. Thanks @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, Mary Angelino, @yungwerther.bsky.social, Marisa Tirado, John Howard, Courtney Caldwell, the Quinobequin (Charles River), and its vociferous, eating, drinking, shitting inhabitants.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Tonight at 8EST! Come listen and/or read!
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Want words in your ear Wednesday night? 🖌 Take me on your evening walk. Tune in on Zoom at 8PM with Penny Thieme and VALA Gallery (Visual Audio Literary Artists). If you like, stay and read at the open mic at 9PM🎤! RSVP here or DM for link: www.facebook.com/share/19R4Gg...
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
#freemahmoudkhalil #freepalestine Thank you, @mosababutoha.bsky.social. www.columbiajournal.org/articles/fou...
“Poetry makes nothing happen”—an Auden quote out of context, with a grain of truth. We must do more than art right now. We must return again and again to our connections with people who persist in the face of being starved, bombed, shot, trapped, occupied. We must tend these connections in the streets, in our homes, in difficult conversations with decision-makers, and in our own hearts. 

And art also has its place in this moment. Last fall, in a completely packed and sweaty Harvard Bookstore, the words of Mosab Abu Tohah reopened my heart. He and many other Palestinian writers can help us orient to and confront our reality. Let’s be in conversation with them.Let’s harness the power of words. May they allow all of us, from centers and peripheries, to slowly grow 
a shared vision for living together on our one Earth. 


Aracelis Girmay says, 

“& so to tenderness I add my action.”



Free Mahmoud Khalil. Free Palestine. ...throw pillow
 
is for placing over
the mouth
 
after calling your representative
again, 
 
for contemplating what we sent
& didn't ...

from "Throw pillow"
full poem in The Columbia Journal
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
#freemahmoudkhalil #freepalestine
It’s the day after summer solstice. In my new neighborhood, hundreds of bands are playing music on their porches.  And I am just not able to be here.

Watching my country fund, arm, and abet genocide has sucked something out of my soul. No words can touch even the edge of the horror.

But being silent feels even worse.And so I try imperfectly to say what I believe:

None of us will be free until the people of Palestine are also free. May we resist every justification for occupation, starvation, and slaughter like our own humanity is at stake because it is.A year ago, I submitted some non-Gaza-related poems to the Columbia Journal, a publication run by MFA students at the Columbia University School of the Arts. Then, a lot went down, including that the Trump administration accused Palestinian advocate and Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil of being a "national security threat" and the university administration capitulated to his arrest and detainment without charge. A few months later, I received an acceptance note in my inbox. 

Unsure what to do, I reached out to the student editors to learn about their curation duties and efforts to hold up artful and timely political expression. I asked them to take a small risk with me. They agreed to add one more poem.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Come join me and some amazing poets in Brookline on Thursday! brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-0...
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An Evening of Poetry: Love is For All of Us
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 31/05/2025
Nearly 18k cis women have signed this petition. If you are cis and haven't signed it already and support the trans+ community, please sign and share this. If you are trans, remember you are supported; however, the transphobes try to make it look. Please share this. www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
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Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Lmfao
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Wild. So I just got 4 poems accepted in a batch, bringing my total to 70! independently published/forthcoming poems.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I first bumped into James' work through a Parker Palmer style Circle of Trust with at Hallelujah farm and I am so excited to read with him and Brad at the @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social on 6/5 at 7PM. What a way to kick off Pride Month! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Thank you also to the incredible James Crews and his husband Brad Peacock for holding up these words in their new anthology "LOVE IS FOR ALL OF US: poems of tenderness and belonging from the lgbtq+ community and friends" with truly charming art from @lisacongdon.bsky.social
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Me making the best decision of my life ... on the lawn of the same courthouse where the first same sex marriage happened in 2004. Gay marriage was not legalized across the country until 2015. Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social for publicly sharing these vows: www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
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pacificalit.bsky.social @pacificalit.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
New issue is LIVE and IN FULL EFFECT. Feat. Miriam Akervall, @daynabateman.bsky.social, @ebenbein.bsky.social , @danielbrennanreads.bsky.social, Karan Kapoor, JP Kemmick, @poetryphone.bsky.social, Megan Snyder-Camp, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social, & Virginia Watts Be astonished: www.pacificareview.com
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Pacifica Literary Review
Publishing online and in print since 2012. Based in the great northwest.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This Thursday!
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Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Wow, congrats Eben!! It's great to revisit this poem!
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A childhood backyard poem about extinction & The Avengers first published in @wildroofjournal.bsky.social paired with the layered printmaking, collage, and needlework of Karen McCarthy. Don’t miss the epigraph from my dear poet friend and housemate, Lulu Liu.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A poem remixing Robin Wall Kimmerer’s essay on the Common Plantain, “White Man’s Footprint”. Paired with the Frida Kahlo-inspired art of Missy Arellano. A time-traveling family history poem paired with the embroidery of Malden-based Anna Thai, first published in @pigeonpagesnyc.bsky.social.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
3 poem hanging on a public wall the 1st time, opening on May 1st from 6-7:30! Symbiosis exhibit at Arlington Center for the Arts pairs visual art & poetry from local creatives about community & change, from evolving family relationships to complex feelings about history & identity.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I was stuck on the angles of those stars, the cheap flow of dark shapes unsticking themselves from the firmament ...
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I am what you protected, the mechanism begin in utero, but I am also what I make myself... @mspicone.bsky.social, this tenuous atmosphere
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Anyone have recording equipment I can borrow for my keynote next Wednesday?
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The fart in me sees and honors the fart in you.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
My @awpwriter.bsky.social haul. @queerloveproject.bsky.social @redividermag.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @cmariefuhrman.bsky.social @mspicone.bsky.social
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
If they each had a bird in hand they would open their hands. Obsessed with this line from "How to Live" in "Ragnarok at the Father-Daughter Dance" by @toddedillard.bsky.social, thanks @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for bringing me Todd's book.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#handsoff Boston
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
But will not be using the tax system to get rich people to pay taxes.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My first "Best New Poets" nomination!? 👀🤯🤓
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MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing @mitsciwrite.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Love to see our grads and their books. Congratulations, Eben!
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Was looking for you all. Oh well, I'll send a submission in tribute.
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"Stop being one person" relays @nickolebrown.bsky.social
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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Swing by to grab a book from me and Jennifer Case at booth 323 with @terrainorg.bsky.social #awp2025
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