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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Patty's awesome and this spot's going to rock.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ART IN THESE TIMES October 2-4! events free and open to all: exhibition of political art neighborhood party bookbinding workshop poetry reading theory reading group on Ranciere's The Paradoxes of Political Art join us!! #falloffreedom CHICAGO!! interccect.com/2026/09/10/a...

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Art in These Times: an InterCcECT exhibition

ART IN THESE TIMES affirms art’s special obligation to refuse authoritarian assaults on free thinking and creative making. Spotlighting works that circumvent familiar gestures of political ar…

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Real heads still call it the Expedit. 😆

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Want to celebrate Latinx culture, artistic collaboration, & community in support of the artists, writers, & performers of the Lit+Luz Festival as well as MAKE Lit's work building creative bridges between Chicago & Mexico? Come to the Empty Bottle on August 8th! www.litluz.org/luzattheedge

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Luz at the Edge — Lit & Luz

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Our neighborhood LFLs are so, so good.

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

fiberoptic hair, swelling and bruising, grim reaper son in law... worth thousands of words.

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Who among us wouldn't take a sick day if that happened?

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

ICE just moved through Rogers Park, headed north into Evanston. The RP community response has not gotten slower in the winter. A lot of folks were out in the streets the moment they got off Lake Shore Drive. Everyone on the North Side is on high alert today. Stay ready.

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

The Pegasus Poetry Book Prize will recognize poets 40 and older with a $10,000 prize and publication for their first or second book. The inaugural winner will be named next fall.

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Graywolf, Poetry Foundation Team on New Book Award

The Pegasus Poetry Book Prize will recognize poets 40 and older with a $10,000 prize and publication for their first or second book. The inaugural winner will be named next fall.

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Michael Friedrich @mfriedrichnyc.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

In the 1970s, landlords burned their buildings for profit, displacing thousands of tenants in poor neighborhoods. For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about @benchansfield.bsky.social's excellent “Born in Flames” and the consequences of the arson wave. thebaffler.com/latest/ring-...

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Ring of Fire | Michael Friedrich

A new book explores the incentives that sparked an arson wave in the Bronx during the 1970s.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Hi poetry reviewers, writers, readers: here’s a document I made of paying reviews markets. Holler at me if you see something that needs to be updated/deleted/added! 🙏 I would appreciate it. Would love this to be a community resource for freelance writers to be paid for their criticism.

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Poetry Review Submissions: Paying Markets

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

more on the folk end of folk-rock, but Davy Graham & Shirley Collins Folk Roots, New Routes is super great.

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Selina Trepp @selinatrepp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We Walk Together Installed in O’Hare airport Terminal 5 international arrival corridor. Finally Max got to see my piece at O’Hare.

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Postcard @postcardlit.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Issue 3 is here! 10 postcards with 10 poems by 10 amazing poets (Emma Bolden, Adam Clay, Jessica Cuello, Erin Dorney, Susan Leary, Erin Malone, Nora Nadjarian, Michael Robins, Diane Wald, and Jane Zwart). Order your copy at www.postcardlit.com/store today! Preorders and orders ship soon!

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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iamb.uk · 22/03/2025

'your daughters take spoons to devour the cakes we brought propped on round white plates they remind me of the palm-sized paving stones we pocketed last night on our walk home' iambapoet.com/wave/21-fred...

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Fred Schmalz | wave 21 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

Hear poet Fred Schmalz read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

These books have four-digit numbers in the titles and are very, very good.

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Tiny Bjilly’s Tjeerd Bongers

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I'm in her district. Sleepwalking through the last ten years, really.

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Way, way gone (from the rotation)

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

some mornings the lake is just right... Saturday was one of those mornings:

Lake Michigan from the shore just before sunrise on January 25, 2025, the clouds providing a streak of orange along the horizon, ice on the surface of the water.

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Chicago! Start your New Year with Poetry & Biscuits! Carrie and I are excited to bring you readings by Natalie Eilbert, Donato Loia, Ruben Quesada, and Deborah Shapiro along with biscuits and cozy company. Fri, Jan. 17 @ 7pm 2145 W Walton RSVP to the biscuit maker: mailto:carrieolivia@gmail.com

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The new DIAGRAM is here and Susy and I have a visual poem in it. Check out the whole scene. @eldiagram.bsky.social www.thediagram.com/24_4/

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DIAGRAM :: 24.4

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I've found that real oatmeal reheats easily without getting gluey/mushy, so I take the half hour to make enough for the week and then portion it out every morning. it's WAY better (w/maple syrup and fruit).

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The 2024 Poetry Award goes to Daniel Borzutzky for his collection “The Murmuring Grief of the Americas” (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social)

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Cooking on a new art project in Pittsburgh. So many amazing humans and artists and writers here. Thankful.

Photo of the traffic signal and street signs at the intersection of Penn Ave and Atlantic Ave in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Thanks for getting this rolling, Lucy. Would love to be added.

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Here's Shishito, who lives with her sister, Poblano, (and sometimes an opossum) under the porch of our building. I feed her every day, but can't invite her in because my partner's allergic. She's perfect.

close-up image of a small gray and white cat standing on a red-and-white checkered tablecloth.

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Couplet Poetry @coupletpoetry.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Issue 7 is live!!!! Featuring work by @amorak.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social Wayne Koestenbaum, Sophie Klahr, Kent Shaw, Chris Santiago, SJ Pearce and many more! coupletpoetry.com/issue-7/

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Issue 7 – Couplet Poetry

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

In their defense, they're totally exhausting.

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Happy pub day to these three (three!) new Dorothy books: Renee Gladman's MY LESBIAN NOVEL and TO AFTER THAT (TOAF) and Ariane Koch's OVERSTAYING translated by Damion Searls! 🎉 🎉 🎉

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Seven-digit number (and one year on Thursday… what is time?)

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

The exhibition design for this show was phenomenal, down to tiny details that mirrored elements in the paintings, the flow of it all, the ways walls and windows operated throughout. Can’t recommend this show enough.

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Stand down Skeeter stand down please

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

For art, definitely go out to MUAC on the UNAM campus... worth the trip.

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

buddah walks up to a hotdog stand, says "make me one with everything."

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