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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Please join us to celebrate @kathryncowles.bsky.social & @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social’s respective new poetry collections with a double book launch reading at Word Virus Books in Portland on July 16th at 7 PM! 🧵 With Nancy Flynn, Quinn Gancedo, & Isabel Zacharias. 🌞 @fonografeditions.bsky.social 💌

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Jami and I are very much looking forward to this in early April!

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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 10/12/2025

"In A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, poetry becomes a lens through which to explore the complex, visionary world of William Blake." Enter to win a copy of @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social's "A Grain of Sand in Lambeth: Poems" from @unvpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

A Grain of Sand in Lambeth has a cover! Many thanks to Caroline Dickens and the folks at UN Press for the design. Official release is December 2nd, which I am happy to share with the wonderful Jami Macarty’s The Long Now Conditions Permit, whose cover I also love. Preorder links below in comments.

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I couldn’t be happier to read with @kathryncowles.bsky.social and @cathylinhche.bsky.social in the Highland Park Bowl on Thursday night! 6:30–9:30

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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Schumer’s New York Times interview is a disaster after a dumpster fire. He needs to go. Now.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 19/02/2025

Republicans will soon bring forward a “reconciliation” bill, that encapsulates the value system of greed and their obedience to oligarchy. It is the economic essence of Trumpism. It will make the rich richer & the poor poorer. It must be defeated. And we can defeat it.

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Thank you to @amsterdamreview.bsky.social for the shoutout… and for featuring two poem from my forthcoming book on Blake in their spring ‘24 issue!

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy 50th anniversary of this Schuyler poem, whose ending gets me every damn time!

February 13, 1975
Tomorrow is St. Valentine's:
tomorrow I'll think about that. Always nervous, even after a good sleep I'd like to climb back into. The sun shines on yesterday's new-fallen snow and yestereven it turned the world to pink and rose and steel-blue buildings. Helene is restless: leaving soon. And what then will I do with myself? Someone is watching morning TV. I'm not reduced to that yet. I wish one could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Schoenberg's archives in Los Angeles are gone. 💔

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The task of the community school is to confer more dignity on work by infusing it with thinking, and not to make the worker a compartmentalized thing that sometimes works and sometimes thinks. - Simone Weil, The Need for Roots

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Finally, Beckett and Derrida is out and free to download for a month! www.cambridge.org/core/element... Let me know what you think!

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Beckett and Derrida

Cambridge Core - English Literature 1900-1945 - Beckett and Derrida

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

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Kathryn Cowles @kathryncowles.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This tiny tiny play in a tiny tiny perfect chapbook from Kazim Ali takes place entirely with Neel’s back facing the audience as he sits at a bar. @kazimali.bsky.social swoon swoon swoon. P.S. the first line is “Idaho weather doesn’t give a shit about you.”

The cover of Kazim Ali’s SWEET NOTHING is subtitled PROSE & POEMS & PLAYS. The chapbook is tiny and pale pink, almost lavender, with grey penciled drawings and patterns. It’s adorable.

Scene:
Neely is sitting at a bar. His back is to the audience. The bartender is serving people at the bar. There are people sitting on either side of him, talking to each other. He is talking to whoever will listen, sometimes the bartender, sometimes to the people on either side of him, but no one is really listening
(Image cuts off mid-sentence)

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

If you are a copyeditor, I hope something excessively kind or wonderful happens to you today ✨

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

hello the sky that is blue! i am a writer! who has written these two poetry collections with super long titles, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities + Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency. book covers are superb imo.

cover of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency. art by Vincent Chong, design by Sandy Knight. artwork is a painting of two embracing nude figures atop a dryer + a green cat atop a washer. in the background, a mountain & crescent moon

cover of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. art by Anne Havens, design by Sandy Knight. artwork is a painting of the outline of a face, rippling outward or repeated several times + a band of red egg-like shapes across the bottom

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Welcome to new followers. Please come on over here from the Death SXtar.

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

A lot of people have shared this poem over the past week. It’s a sentiment I think about a lot, especially now. I hope everyone is doing what they need to take care of themselves. One step at a time. One day at a time.

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Kathryn Cowles @kathryncowles.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I just read the first two pages of Elizabeth Willis’s sure-to-be-brilliant new book, and it’s already pushed me flat over. Start anywhere / THE END (Note: THE END is the name of the first section)

The first page reads, “Begin anywhere” and the second page (which contains a section title) reads “THE END” (in white on black capped lettering).

The cover of the book, dark dark green with a swirling white line and half images of a lion and a piece of mountain from an old photography with a bit of blue sky next to it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/11/2024

i’ll say i am darkly amused by the increase in web searches for “what are tariffs”

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

A rare image depicting how saints were made in the middle ages. The image on the right is a close up of what you see in the sack in the image on the left. For centuries people have mistaken the person in the image on the left for a goldbeater with a mallet. He's actually making saints. True story.

A man is sitting at a stool, pounding gold bars on an anvil with a hammer. There are gold coins around him.
(Ref: The Morgan Library and Museum, MS M. 1056)

An image of saints from a medieval manuscript. The image mostly shows gold circles (which are their halos), almost giving the impression that one is looking at a snake with gold scales.
(Ref: BnF, Latin 920, f. 180r)

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Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

So I'm booking on X (twitter) and migrating here. I haven't explored it yet, but it has to be better than the alternative.

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I can't think of a better poet or a better suited conversation to confront and transform the long shadow of the days ahead than this one with today's guest Danez Smith. Join us as we navigate a way through Audio📻🖤🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/dane...

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Danez Smith : Bluff - Tin House

Danez Smith’s poetry is so many things, a poetry of resistance, of elegy, of joy, of care, of repair. Their poetry is Afrofuturist and Afropessimist. It’s nature poetry, decolonial poetry, queer poetr...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/11/2024

as long as journalists and pundits act as if they are amateur political strategists & not people trying to understand and tell the truth about the world, they are going to take the implicit view that voters can never be wrong, which then demands endless explanation of their morally blameless choice

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Seneca Review @senecareview.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

We are so excited to reveal the cover for the 2024 Winner of the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize! Get your copies of The Tilling on December 10th!

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Seneca Review @senecareview.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Happy September! Our fall reading period is now OPEN!! Send us your submissions now through midnight on Oct 31. We can't wait to read your work!

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Boxman214 @boxman214.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

If you live in the United States of America, *please* make sure you are registered to vote. You can go to the link below and confirm that you are registered. If you're not registered, you can get registered in just a couple of minutes. www.vote.org

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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

Thrilled to publish this brilliant and moving elegy by @kaseyryoen.bsky.social in the spring issue of Seneca Review!

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

Happy birthday to Anne Fucking Carson 🎈

SHORT TALK ON
LE BONHEUR D'ÊTRE BIEN AIMÉE

Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels.

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

Over a year ago, my father died of Alzheimer’s when I was in Belfast. The end of “the long goodbye,” as they call it. I started this poem on the way from Derry to Drumcliffe, to visit Yeats’ grave. Thanks to @nimrodjournal.bsky.social for putting it in such a fine issue!

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Seneca Review @senecareview.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

Our spring reading period closes at midnight tonight (Eastern). Please send us your work! Last chance until the fall.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

A brilliant review essay on my Iliad translation, by brilliant Ovid translator @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social There is nobody in the world better qualified than Stephanie, to comment on the joys and challenges of producing an iambic pentameter translation of an ancient epic poem.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Spending the afternoon reading submissions for the Seneca Review, in my role as one of the Editorial Assistants. What a lovely time! Keep 'em coming! This current reading period ends March 31. 😀 @senecareview.bsky.social

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

There are more NYT pieces on detransitioners than there are detransitioners

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Seneca Review @senecareview.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Thank you to Kathryn Winograd and the Colorado Poets Center for interviewing Katherine Indermaur, author of I|I! We are so proud of I|I ! Check out the interview here: www.coloradopoetscenter.org/eWords/issue...

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Seneca Review @senecareview.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

SRB has some exciting news! Congratulations, Matthew Morris! Many thanks to @walterspot.bsky.social for judging!

Matthew Morris is the Winner of Seneca Review Books’ 2024 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize for his manuscript F-cked Fable/Ghost Hand.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

One of the most beautiful of many sublime similes in the Iliad is the moment at the end of book 8 when the Trojans, awaiting a great victory in battle the following day, light watch-fires all over the plain -- [lil thread]

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

This is a really good long read about life for the monks at Canterbury. Thanks to Luke Daly for writing it (and for the two other pieces in this series that will come out in the following weeks). www.medievalists.net/2023/10/dome...

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Decoding Divine Enterprise: The Domestic Affairs of 13th Century Canterbury Cathedral - Medievalists...

In understanding the domestic affairs of Canterbury, we shall be able to witness the bustling day-to-day life of those who lived and breathed in the 13th century.

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Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

@notquitehydepark.bsky.social gave a brilliant introduction for Donald Revell today. (And the impromptu interlude between Revell and Burt about WH Auden was worth the price of admission alone.) The poetry reading and talk on Enchantment were 🔥. I’m enchanted still….

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