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Erin Malone

@erinmalonepoet.bsky.social
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Poet and editor living in the Pacific Northwest; Bainbridge Island Poet Laureate. Newest collection is Site of Disappearance from Ornithopter Press. www.erinmalonepoet.com

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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 24/08/2026
We are proud to say our Poetry Editor, Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social, is a 2026 Poet Laureate Fellow! With a local school district, she will create and lead workshops for fourth grade students using a bilingual illustrated edition of Pablo Neruda’s "Book of Questions." Congrats, Erin! 🫏🎉
TEXT: Erin Malone 2026 Poet Laureate Fellow
CONGRATULATIONS!

IMAGE: A deep blue background shows a folk-art style person extending their hand with thumb and forefinger holding the stems of a flower, weeds, and grains. Erin's red-tinted headshot is framed as a circle at the end of a stem, like a flower. Sad Jack is also tinted red and has a laurel framing his head. He stands on the wrist of the hand alongside the book cover of the bilingual illustrated edition of Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions.
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 21/04/2026
ICYMI…
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 24/04/2026
thanks for pointing that out! we'll get on correcting it okaydonkeymag.com/2026/04/24/i...
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In the Other World, They’ll Receive Mitzvahs by Daniel Lurie
I’ll commission a dollhouse door just below my collarbone, with a toothpick for a handle. Inside, there’s a brand-new laundry line, where I pin their worn clothes: the mother’s denim, the daughter’…
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 08/04/2026
We’re so excited to welcome new Poetry Editor Erin Malone and Associate Poetry Editor Emily Blair to the OKD drove! Erin and Emily have transitioned into their new roles seamlessly. You can learn more about them at okaydonkeymag.com/masthead/.
MEET OKD'S NEW POETRY EDITORS

[Sad Jack wears a tan detective-like fedora and holds a brown quill]ERIN MALONE
Poetry Editor

“I’m so impressed with the Okay Donkey team, their energy and aesthetic. Poems that are vibrant, emotionally true, and well-crafted are what I’m seeking. It’s a gift to discover work in the queue that has that shine on it, that commands us to come closer.”EMILY BLAIR
Associate Poetry Editor

“I love poems that surprise me, especially when it feels like they surprised the writer as well. I'm excited to join Okay Donkey's community of writers, readers, and staff!”
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
James Schuyler, from Other Flowers: uncollected poems
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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Year's End by Richard Wilbur
Quotable line from poem
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social @ampoetryreview.bsky.social
TIME

How will we tell time without the river?
It was always there and always different.
Which is to say, the perfect clock.
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Jonathan Everitt @jonathaneveritt.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Cheers to everyone who marched today in big cities, small towns, blue country and red country. Keep bringing the energy. There's strength in numbers, and greater numbers in diversity than hegemony. Hold today close, remember you're not alone, and never let them steal your joy. #NoKings 🇺🇲
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Resharing this one-line poem by Czesław Miłosz for #smallpoemsunday
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) here’s one by Emma Winsor Wood, from Preferred Internal Landscape (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social)
Judgment Call

In the book I'm reading, a woman wakes up every morning and asks herself:

What will I do to make myself happy today?

I decide to stop reading the book.
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Sonora Jha @sonorajha.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Seattle friends! Come to the book launch for Intemperance on October 14, at Elliott Bay Book Company! I’ll be in conversation with these two brilliant authors, who have some irreverent questions planned for me. And there will be an Intemperance-shaped cake because the protagonist loves cake. Ahem.❤️
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
the secret is that your poems get better because you had/have to keep working and success is a spirit & craft blunter (you don’t want folks lining up to to publish everything you write 💙)
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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Another early poem by Cole Swensen. Can't get this one out of my head.
War on the Past

Love is just a clue.

If we win the world
can come back
to the world, speechless

aligned, cell within cell

You must put the objects
down on the table
and walk casually from the room
you cannot re-enter

until we get it right.
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Ursula K. Le Guin's classic on growing old and what beauty really means www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/21/u...
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Ursula K. Le Guin on Growing Older and What Beauty Really Means
“There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment.”
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The Jaipur Literature Festival is one of the most famous in the world. This isn’t it, but rather the International version that appears in different US cities. I’m glad to be back in one of my favorite cities, Seattle, in conversation with legend Shawn Wong.
Jaipur Literature Festival, Seattle WA. “To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other” September 20th, 2025. 11AM-11:45AM PST. The Wyncote Northwest Forum, Town Hall Seattle.
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Very happy to have a poem in the gorgeous new issue of @epochliterary.com. Many thanks to the editors 💚
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/08/2025
NEW: Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-must...
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Trump Must Resign Now
Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · 25/08/2025
Also, electronic subs are open for one more week!
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EPOCH Magazine Submission Manager
We are open for electronic submissions only during the months of August and January. Each submission costs $3, and a portion of each fee, after processing costs, is donated to the Cornell Prison Educa...
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herminemeinhard.bsky.social @herminemeinhard.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The Sleeping Pig I love Jenny George’s poems and thought to share this earthy, ethereal one with you today. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147680... Find more of her poems on the Poetry Foundation website. Photo by Kameron Kincade on Unsplash
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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · 25/07/2025
Volume 72, Issue 2 is out now! 192pp. Cover art is Transit, Acrylic gouache paint on paper, by David Pjecha. Stop by the shop for a print ($10) or PDF ($7) copy. Complete contributor list in the image alt. Subs for 73.1 open in a week! www.epochliterary.com/archive
Greg Ames, Aldo Amparan, Kristof Anetta, Brittany Atkinson, Remy Barnes, Danny Cassidy, Ariel Courage, Laine Derr, Renesha Dhanraj, Taylor Franson-Thiel, Elisa Gabbert, Lily Jarman-Reisch, Christopher Kennedy, Erin Malone, Cary Marcous, Michael Martin, Betsy Mitchell Martinez, Pegah Ouji, Weijia Pan, Micah Perks, David Pjecha, Bryan Price, Stephen Thomas Roberts, Bee Sacks, Gabriel Schicchi, Greg Sendi, Brandon Shimoda, Murzban F. Shroff, Ed Skoog, Lisa Russ Spaar, FM Stringer, Justin Taylor, Emma Cairns Watson, Korey Williams.
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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006. She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.” With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...
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Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran
The American people do not want to enter Netanyahu’s war with Iran. American involvement would not only put our troops into harm's way, but risk escalating an already volatile situation into all-out r...
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Helen of Troy, 1993: Poems Maria Zoccola Formally inventive, funny, and fierce, this collection reimagines Helen of Troy as a 90’s housewife stuck in Southern suburbia. Finally, Helen of Troy speaks! —and her restlessness is real. This is a fast-paced collection that reads like a novel.
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
If everything ends, why are you sharpening your sorrow —Martha Silano
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Sometimes over on Insta I like to post little appreciations of writing I’m enjoying. Going forward I’m going to try and put them here, too. New from Alice James Books is If Nothing by Matthew Nienow. (Alt text below) @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social #indiebooks # poetry # reviews
If Nothing
MATTHEW NIENOW
Friends, l've got a new poetry recommendation for you:
Port Townsend poet Matthew Nienow's second collection If Nothing is a searingly honest account of addiction and remorse. Here are poems of desire, destruction, prayer, and recovery. They're structurally beautiful in cadence and rhyme (i.e. “every mirror an error") but plainspoken around the most painful admissions: "I had/ been thinking of killing myself." The balance makes for a hard-won, unforgettable book.
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Carlos @dapherdoos.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The indie bookstore around the corner had this sign. So I went inside and bought 2 books from the banned book section. Support local small businesses. Read banned books. Drink your Ovaltine.
Sign reads HEY! You're about to walk by a BOOKSTORE. Are you okay?2 books, the handmaid tale and the color purple
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
At a GOP town hall last night, heckling from constituents was apparently too much to handle—so they used police force and even stun guns on their own constituents. What are they so afraid of? Someone disagreeing with their views?
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
From Naomi Shihab Nye's book, Everything Comes Next. #poem #books #writing
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Happy National Poetry Month to those who celebrate. Photo credit: Peter Wong. #nationalpoetrymonth #foundpoem #poets
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Local Indivisible member was abducted by ICE in Washington. If you're in the state, please elevate this thread to your electeds and ask for their help in getting his release.
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I keep thinking about this too. And landlines.
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This “bonsai tree” in Fairy Lake, BC is shaped by its challenging environment and illustrates the art of perseverance 🇨🇦🌲💕
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“Because life has reinvented them.” Yes. 💕
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 07/03/2025
When Amazon launched in 1995, there were 5,500 indie bookshops in the U.S., with 7,000 locations. By May of 2023, that number had decreased to 2,185 indies & 2,599 locations. When you purchase audiobooks via Libro.fm vs. Audible, you directly support indie bookshops. Let's make that number grow ❤️
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Have you read Laura Read? 👇
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Art is everywhere
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Patricia Sonnino @psonnino.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Bristlecone Pine, a survivor. Oil on wood panel 10x12.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/03/2025
Trump tonight: “I brought back free speech in America. It’s back.” Trump this morning:
Trump on “Truth Social”: “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests.
Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A brilliant Banksy.
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This 👇
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I keep thinking about this quote from one of his supporters from the first term. www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/u...
voted for him, and he's the one who's doing this," she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Songs in the Key of Life
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Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A little PNW natural wonder for the timeline
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
ahhhhh!!!! this amazing review dropping on my birthday is the best thing!!!! THANK YOU @susanlleary.bsky.social!!!!
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