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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"I want you to know it too." Two poems by Najwan Darwish from NO ONE WILL KNOW YOU TOMORROW (Yale Margellos, 2024), transl. Kareem James Abu-Zeid, for #smallPoemSunday. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Land

Land, how much misery
you've brought to your people.
They're wretched when they have you,
wretched when they lose you.

Land, if only
we could inhabit the clouds.

Lost

That which is lost for forever,
that which that no one knows
but me–
I want you to know it too.
If it's lost but you know it
it's as if
it was never lost.

My hands are open,
and in every home I pour it out–
the childhood
I once had.

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I usually don’t but the last few weeks I’ve felt it necessary because I only have so much time!

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Love showing up to therapy like it’s a meeting with an agenda. Should I send minutes? Or should I leave academia?

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

[“Fall”] Fall We must pull the curtains— we haven’t any leaves —Lorine Niedecker

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wish I could just get on AIM & chat with my friends

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Think Backpack knows he’s a champion?

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In personal disability/chronic illness news, I walked my dog this evening for the first time in two (almost three?) months. Am I coming out of this crash? I am so hesitant to say.

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Friends, this concerned femme felted banana came home with me from the farmers’ market today. I hope to alleviate her worries & provide her with the home she needs ❤️

A bright yellow felted banana with red lips, a yellow nose, and eyes with drooped eyelids, held by a white hand

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This perfect babyman has a very persuasive gaze

A black and white dog looks longingly at the camera

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t care who you are. If you’re at my house, you’ll see me in pajama pants.

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thrilled to have my poem “Projection Study” in the Queer+ Ekphrasis Folio edited by Nicky Beer in the new Copper Nickel alongside so many amazing poets! What a cool feature, and I’m so honored to be included!

Cover of Copper Nickel journal number 43, Fall 2026 featuring a cover image of a coyote with a hot dog in its mouth and a list of contributors’ last names at the top

Table of contents of Copper Nickel journal number 43, Fall 2026, including the Queer+ Ekphrasis Folio

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We're back! Thrilled to finally share the hate in my heart for Peter Duesberg, Thabo Mbeki and Dave Grohl

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Read Emily Wilson’s Burnt Mountain oceanside this morning. Seaside for my ailments. Have to say the sound is pretty regulating even though I spent yesterday in bed and was too exhausted to stay standing up against the waves today.

A white hand holding out the book Emily Wilson’s Burnt Mountain: Poems against a sandy beach

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good morning. Sending love and solidarity to the students, faculty and staff, including the students that wanted to pursue majors (but now can’t!!) in Black studies, Latino Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies at UT Austin

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wasn’t expecting this cat, but I’ve fallen in love with her ❤️

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wasn’t expecting this cat, but I’ve fallen in love with her ❤️

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The amount of times the cat turns off the TV when I am watching it…

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

obsessed with this poem by CAConrad. the empire will tax your soul! I prefer the forests making blankets from themselves!!

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Why don’t our distinguished orators turn up as usual to make their speeches, say what they have to say? Because the barbarians are coming today and they’re bored by rhetoric and public speaking. --C. P. Cavafy www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51294/...

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Waiting for the Barbarians

Because the barbarians are coming today. Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor’s waiting to receive their leader. Because the barbarians…

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

She manipulated it back into the right place. It was hell when she was doing it but it offered some relief. Several other issues there, but it was sitting on a nerve and some arteries and veins, causing pain and slow capillary refill in my fingers.

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For all you other hEDS folks out there, TRUST YOURSELF. I subluxated my right shoulder in July. I felt my collarbone or top rib wasn’t in the right place after. All the imaging showed everything “normal.” Just saw my longtime & EDS-trained PT who immediately noticed it being in the wrong place.

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What’s up with scammers pretending to be literary agents? What’s the endgame?

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yep! The anti-vaxx/MAHA movement is very clearly a product of a right-wing media environment. A 2022 survey found Fox News viewers were 4x more likely to hold anti-vaxx views than non-Fox viewers, by far the best predictor. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Government vaccine programs have saved tens of thousands of lives! It is not "absolutist thinking" to say that good things are good.

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Out on FMLA right now because of chronic illness flare. Two sessions ago my therapist told me I am allowed to enjoy my rest & it has changed everything.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Translated, from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Bishop

Manuel Bandeira

My Last Poem

I would like my last poem thus

That it be gentle saying the simplest and least intended things
That it be ardent like a tearless sob
That it have the beauty of almost scentless flowers
The purity of the flame in which the most limpid diamonds
are consumed
The passion of suicides who kill themselves without explanation.

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Literally just here writing poems about my compost. Which means I’m also writing about my mother’s Alzheimer’s, my chronic illness, the bricks capitalism throws at our heads, compromised watersheds, apocalyptic climate visions, the dearth of social services in this state, time’s accordion length.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can’t afford groceries? No problem! It’s not safe to consume them anyway!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Cackling at this quote from an article about whether to reinstate Pluto as a planet www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There is one month left to submit to RHINO's Founders' Prize! Submit your poems today: bit.ly/founders27

Flyer with a speckled peach background and overlaid areas of green. purple, and pink; text in various colors. Photo of Allison Joseph in bottom left. Text reads: Rhino Poetry Founders' Prize. Submit today! August 1–September 30, 2026. All submissions considered for publication. Winners nominated for Pushcart Prize. $500. Guest Judge Allison Joseph.

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Walked out to the compost. Passed by the garden on the way back, got some winter squash.

A burlap sack full of butternut and spaghetti squash

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think the biggest reason I’m proud of being from Tennessee is that I shared that honor with Dolly. RIP to the very best of us.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She was heaven itself.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today was definitely the day I needed to stumble to the kitchen and pour myself a cup of ambition Thank you, Dolly, for giving the world words to express our daily selves 🙏

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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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Hellrosser @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

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Melayna @melaynalokosky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Wow! Annie Lennox & David Bowie rehearsing for Freddie Mercury tribute concert.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Groceries might cost half your paycheck, but don't worry, corporate deregulation ensures half of them are recalled for salmonella anyway.

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Finally reading Silent Spring by Rachel Carson! Excited to read her other books after this one.

The book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, the Mariner Classics edition with an Introduction by Linda Lear and Afterword by Edward O. Wilson. It features a green cover with a leaf skeleton into which a bird in flight cut out is taken out. The book is held by a white hand on red pants.

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