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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Kobayashi Issa (tr. Anthony Opal)

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Japanese booksellers will be relatively happy with Anne Carson as Nobel laureate in Literature. There are two recent translations of her work available and one, "Wrong Norma", came out less than a year ago.

Cover of the Japanese translation of "Autobiography of Red" by Anne Carson.

Cover of the Japanese translation of "Wrong Norma" by Anne Carson

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sending a lot of texts to old friends today like "Fuck yeah Anne Carson"

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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Very few see him [Eros] coming. He lights on you from somewhere outside yourself and, as soon as he does, you are taken over, changed radically. You cannot resist the change or control it or come to terms with it. ~Anne Carson

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The Hand Magazine @thehandmagazine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Hand Magazine Issue 54 contributing artist, Tricia Peery, "Fire Horse", Cyanotype on fabric, toned with wild strawberry leaves, embroidery, 16" x 16" Visit Tricia's website: www.bluezinniastudio.com Visit The Hand Magazine: www.thehandmagazine.space

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anne Carson NPL! NPL! NPL! Eros the Bittersweet on replay today.

Someone will remember us / I say/ even in another time (Sappho trans. By Carson)

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DC Public Library @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Your quiet workspace is waiting. Reserve a meeting or study room at DC Public Library, or book a space at MLK Library for your next private event. t.co/LTswZS96yg

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Are you a DC artist who knows a lot about looms? Do you want to help develop a poetry x textile arts x learning sciences workshop using a loom? Inquire #looms

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hey babe. We’ve got you covered: www.riverriverbooks.org/store

Comic by Kyle Bravo with a woman looking and her bookshelf at home and the dialogue:

"Hi honey, could you run by the bookstore on the way home? We're almost out of poetry."

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Autumn’s out. Shahnameh skirt’s out. 🐎

A blue skirt with a lot of imbricated horses on it.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

'Autumn' by Hugo Simberg, 1895. #WyrdWednesday #weirdart #art

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Overheard two Gen Z students just meet and start flirting in face-to-face talk-to-text. “What do you want to major in?” “Umm backspace backspace physiology and physical therapy” “Physical therapy question mark” Bless you kids fr

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My apologies to anyone listening to me screaming whilst disrobing a public university bathroom bc this latern fly thought it was cute to dive bomb into my dress during a meeting. Miraculously, it survived, as latern flies are wont to do.

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

At a house showing, a bunch of real estate dudes asked me what I did. I said I was in the library business. One of them asked me if I had heard of the library of Alexandria. This was the first time he had heard that it had burned down—not once, but several times. There was a legit moment of silence.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#OTD in 1773, Phillis Wheatley's "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" was published. Born in W. Africa, sold into slavery at age 7, she is one of the best-known poets in 18th-C America and the first Black women to publish a book of any kind. #LitSky #BookSky #Poetry

Open antique book showing the engraved frontispiece portrait of Phillis Wheatley on the left page. The right page reads: “MEMOIR AND POEMS OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY, A NATIVE AFRICAN AND A SLAVE. ALSO, POEMS BY A SLAVE. THIRD EDITION. BOSTON, PUBLISHED BY ISAAC KNAPP, No. 25 Cornhill. 1838.” Beneath the main title is a short abolitionist verse beginning “Some view the sable race with scornful eye…”

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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

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Hanna Blue 🏴‍☠️🏴🏁🗽⚜️❤️‍🔥🎃🎭🍁 @blueberrypoison.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.

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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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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Me, writing a letter to Paddington the Bear after rewatching the three movies: “You are all that matters to me. I don’t want to ever let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life.”

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/08/2026

Never let a writer help you move

A cardboard moving box with EPHEMERA written on it in Sharpie

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Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dutch word of the day: peperduur "very expensive", lit. "pepper-expensive", from the late 18th century when pepper was one of the most costly commodities. The second element (duur) is cognate with English "dear".

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

How you do one thing is how you do everything: I had a whole year to create my frozen embryo transfer #FET playlist, and of course I’m doing it in the 11th hour. Playlist: it’s just @joriegraham.bsky.social reading “Lapse” over Rachmaninov’s Op.37: 1-15. aprweb.org/poems/lapse

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American Poetry Review - Jorie Graham - "Lapse"

Published in American Poetry Review - Volume 41 | No. 02

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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · 02/08/2026

Cheese type and Bellflower Borders are ready! What do you want to print with them? Grab a set at bowerbox.com #letterpress #typecasting

2 printed specimens of my new designs, Bellflower Border in purple and cheese squares in yellow!

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Thomas McAuley @wakapoet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

On seeing a goose jointed for cooking atop a kitchen counter. あはれなり雲ゐのよそに行くかりもかかるすがたになりぬとおもへば O, how sad it is, that Even, into the distant clouds Once going, a goose In such a state Has ended, I feel… Kinkai wakashū 705

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s #WorldEmbroideryDay ! I make #SciArt #embroidery of #anatomy and #symptomatology. After I got sick with #MECFS in 2015 I started stitching as a more restorative creative practice than my previous music and theatre work.

she breathed (2018). An embroidery on a pale natural linen. There is a bone white diagram of a vocal apparatus, trachea, and bronchi/lungs. In between the branches of the bronchioles are small words embroidered in cursive in thin burgundy thread. They read: she breathed. Inhaled. exhaled. she knew. that breathing. was beauty. was the way. inside. to outside. when her breath. tightened. she found. ways. to soften. be still. to allow that. in. of the out. breath. to be. the. way through. she found the throughline. somehow. it. also found her. still. and breathing. deeply. each day was. new. each breath. a. different. path. always. through her. and. throughout her. such a. simple. thing, breath. such a journey. through. trees. and. branches. how the body knows. to still. itself. if we learn how. to. listen deeply.

summer mitosis sampler (2024). Two reproductive cells dividing embroidered on off-white linen. The edges of the dividing egg cells and the nucleus membranes are in bright acid green split stitch. A circle of dark green stem stitch is started for the cell membrane. The corona radiata is in sage green zig zag chain stitch. The nucleolus of each cell is in sage green bullion stitch. The polar bodies are stitched in purple single strand back stitch. The cytoplasm is in variegated dark to bright green thread in a mix of seed stitch and French knots. Lia’s initials are stitched in off white whipped back stitch on the lower right.

deep dilation (2025). A pelvis with lumbar vertebrae is stitched in thick backstitch in a white just slightly bluer than the white linen. Part of the iliac vein is outlined in grey-green stem stitch. A section on the left branch is outlined in darker grey-green split stitch with a honeycomb filling stitch stent on it. Intricate turbulence is stitched in single strand dark aquamarine backstitch within the iliac vein. Three blocks of text are stitched in dark grey. They read: Branches of the internal. A single trunk. A stem which opens. Deep. Deep. Deep. Dilated. A tributary. A portal. Lia’s initials stitched in white thread on the bottom left.

Paresthesia (tongue 2) 2018. An embroidery on black linen. There is the outline of an open mouth with the tongue sticking out. The lips are outlined in dark pink, the tongue in paler pink, & the teeth in bone white. There are sections outlined on the tongue in thick blue lines. The tip & sides of the tongue are covered in tiny red, orange & white dots. In the center there is an hourglass shape of tiny pink dots. There are taut lines of thin dark blue thread stretched from the tip of the tongue to the sides, from the sides of the tongue to the lips & palate, & from the palate to the tip of the tongue.

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Newish work in the latest Denver Quarterly (v.60 no.3), thanks to Jane Huffman, Ian Cappelli, et al. Here’s the opening three entries (of thirty-one) out of “Notes Written in October.” Part of a manuscript called “Notes for General Circulation.”

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Garboodorian Gray @garbodoriangray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Humorism is back btw The new humors are estrogen, testosterone, dopamine, and cortisol Once you notice this you'll see it everywhere

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 15/07/2026

movie on the 1381 Peasants Revolt #medievalsky? LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 13/07/2026

My 5 year plan is to be a stock photography model who sits at the beach with a laptop that isn't on

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Keeping the Carol Ann Duffy party going with this brief lyric from Selling Manhattan (1987)

LOVESICK

I found an apple.
A red and shining apple. I took its photograph.
I hid the apple in the attic. I opened the skylight
and the sun said Ah!
At night, I checked that it was safe, under the giggling stars,
the sly moon. My cool apple.
Whatever you are calling about, I am not interested.
Go away. You with the big teeth.

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 11/07/2026

Some things I love: - When a parent says to a kid, "I got my favorite book here when I was [age]." - When somebody brings a book up to the counter and actually does want to hear the funny story about how I ended up with [famous author's] copy of [niche book]. - When people make delighted noises.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

New billion dollar idea: Book sommelier

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Little known IVF fact: most patients inject progesterone in oil in North America, but you do it the traditional way—ask your doctor is progesterone in butter is right for you. #WritingIVF #FertilityLiterature #FertLit

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 05/07/2026

“here they serve coffee in cups and a good mood,” I post from my iPhone and a narrow sliver of the Venn diagram

A cafe called “Zeugma Mediterranean Cuisine,” Sai Kung, Hong Kong, February 2018.
They did not in fact serve coffee, because the machine and the social contract were broken.

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Hwæt! @hwaet.info · 30/06/2026

"Fucken A!" Wolf-boy versus Grinder (the Bow Valley Beowulf), 2026 James Harbeck 🇨🇦

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Same goes for relentless military aircraft flyovers 😕

The poem no explosions by Naomi Shihab Nye

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Under my administration all money for data centers would be rerouted to poets.

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Instruction manuals have always been onerous.

A papyrus filled with instructions for a ritual. From the Egyptian Wing of the Met.

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Books Are Magic, Brooklyn, NY. Things have been bought.

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Will be starting all my emails U+FDFD

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

If you’re a writer on the east coast, it’s not summer until you’ve cried on an Amtrak. #soltice #summersolstice

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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this:

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Perseus Greenman @futharkvillage.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Poem sent around at work for Poetry Wednesday (a tradition of the English dept). I thought people here would appreciate.

THEY/THEM
(dedicated to Nex Benedict)

If God created night & day
& dawn, of course
& dusk
& the tangerine rosepink sunset
& the deep amethyst twilight
& the infant bright of morning

then to perceive the world in binary
is to forgo knowledge of the divine.

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Friend: Hey, are you free July 12th?! Anyone in the throes of IVF:

The red wheelbarrow poem by William Carlos Williams; inscrutable, until it is not.

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Not me who has downloaded 18 podcast episodes on Eros & Psyche in the last week…

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Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I ran a 5k at the National Harbor today. Which is to say I picked up my tee shirt and walked directly to Mahogany Books and got some books and a cute pride button. 📚 #blackowned #blackownedbookstore

The cover of the rainbow ain’t never been enuf

A wall of science fiction books by black authors, please buy all of them for me thank you

Oh hello, it is a shelf of poetry by black poets, I will take them all. Thank you.

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