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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 14h

From Linda Pastan's book, Queen of a Rainy Country: bit.ly/lindaqueenLB #poem #booksky #writing

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 8h

"When you get old you are not bored with mushrooms." --Fleda Brown www.fledabrown.com/mushrooms

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Mushrooms — Fleda Brown

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 11h

Bracken is open for submissions! Send us your poems, poetry translations, and visual art October 1 - November 30. See our guidelines here: www.brackenmagazine.com/submit.

Wetland with dry-grass meadow and gold-orange cottonwoods in the background

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 17h

Good poetry coming your way this evening.

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 17h

Happy Q4 to all who celebrate

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Circle is always open. The poems I’m looking for return, in Charles Simic’s words, “that which is familiar to its original strangeness” No fee. Four-week turnaround. Full guidelines at stonecirclereview.com/submissions-... #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jesse Welles is on NPR right now talking about protest music

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"No more boots sliding on ferns and underbrush, the exhale of breath rising in the fog and scent of pine needles." Enjoy "Mushroom Hunting Elegy" by Sharon Hashimoto in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xv/mus...

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Mushroom Hunting Elegy by Sharon Hashimoto — Bracken

No dripping rain tickles trails inside the arms of our Gore-tex jackets, knuckles growing frosted as rounded stones, clutching burlap bags…

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 28/09/2026

"Today’s poem speaks to the ways we can care for one another, and of how profound and meaningful even the smallest gestures are,” shares host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s encore episode. Read “Lotioning My Mother’s Back” by Ama Codjoe: bit.ly/3ViKjJE 📖: @milkweededitions.bsky.social

graphic featuring a portion of Ama Codjoe's poem

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Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Excuse me, I have already gutted this life like a fish. Believe me when I say, I will not curtsy for you. I will not dress up in bells and whistles. Thank god, I am someone’s idea of ugly. I’ve heard that’s what makes me beautiful."

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Poetry By Alex Dawson

John Buie CC For every bird, a bomb for every love story, a tale of unbearable loss. Excuse me, I cannot look into the light without squinting. Excuse me, I have already gutted this life...

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last night in class we did one of my favorite group exercises--a villanelle cento derived from a WSJ financial report. The low stakes are what make it fun.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

POEM 374: "In midlife," by Kristen Holt-Browning "feeling reckless and suburban, we are tired of the pond / at the far end of the yard, the same old ecosystem as last year, stones / slick with repetitive moss, another snakeskin shed at the little shore" stonecirclereview.com/in-midlife/ #Poem

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY, fam!! Start it with a review 😁 Contributor @brettstuckel.com's review of Rebecca Wood’s MULTIMORBID was published in Volume 20, Issue 1 of Wordgathering 🎉 buff.ly/lYv1ZiQ

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So there's a fair chance I'll be on 2 panels at next year's Appalachian Studies Association conference.

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Peace Fair poetry reading is canceled, and that sounds like a metaphor.

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I heard "liminal" come up in 3 conversations this week and wonder how that word got so trendy.

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The Nature Conservancy @nature.org · 26/09/2026

Public lands are where we hike, camp, explore and make lasting memories. They're also worth speaking up for. This National Public Lands Day, join us in urging Congress to keep public lands in public hands: nature.ly/4A17ZlL

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm happy to have two poems in the new issue of 2River View. Oddly neither of them include rivers. 2river.org/2RView/31_1/...

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Jessica Whipple @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Quick little reading of "Grubb Run Sonnet" which was published at @whaleroadreview a few years ago. It's an American sonnet on parenting that references Abraham and Isaac. Sorry for background noise!

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm looking forward to participating in a poetry reading at the Peace Fair this weekend. www.peacefair.org#h.dc5nurpbvsmd

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have a new prose poem "I Blame the Planets" in the beautiful new DMQ Review. The issue also features an in memoriam featured of @jpdancingbear.bsky.social's work, along with poems from @renee-emerson.bsky.social, @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social & other great writers. www.dmqreview.com/vorreyerf26

I Blame the Planets,

though I don’t understand them, even poor relegated Pluto, who has vanished from the old mnemonic memory song so that now My Very Educated Mother Just Serves Us Noodles instead of Nine Pizzas. No matter. Astrologers say that those bulbous spheres are at fault for all my troubles. Who am I to argue when my car’s battery dies beneath a flock of shitting pigeons on a cold day and the windows fog from the steam of my breath while I wait for a tow truck? I curse those damn globules of gas and rock until I remember how lovely Earth looks from space, its oceans and cloud garments, its swirling. I can’t stay mad for long, at least at Earth. Or Mercury. I wish it would clap back, rain asteroids on our heads every time someone says retrograde to explain their misfortunes. It’s not Mercury’s fault, hung on the sky like an ornament, gazing out at its backyard of stars. I understand what it’s like—to take the blame, to have no voice.

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We had a wonderful class discussion on meter last night. It's great to see some of my mostly-prose students light up when they read language for texture more than just meaning.

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm happy to have two poems in the new issue of 2River View. Oddly neither of them include rivers. 2river.org/2RView/31_1/...

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E. LYNN ALEXANDER @elynnalexander.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Words in the Ward poetry (local) in October, at Plants + Coffee

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🍁Welcome the Autumn Equinox with Issue 22 of Plant-Human Quarterly. Featuring misshapen pomegranates, maple whirlybirds, rock-breaking flowers, algal blooms, ancient bracken, autumn marshes and more. 🍂 Read here: otherwisecollective.com/current-issue

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Current Issue — OTHERWISE COLLECTIVE

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Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sometimes a piece of writing surprises you. This one surprised me. Maybe you'll like it? “I am thinking about people and birds and words and books and magic.” Thanks to Ed Simon and @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social for publishing it. pghrev.com/words-birds-...

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Words/Birds – Essay/Poem - Pittsburgh Review of Books

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is there a demon face in my office rug?

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The natural world that so astonished Annie Dillard & Wendell Berry is right outside your front door, right now, hungry to be encountered. Encounter it. Be an instrument of awe.

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Looks like I should have bough this winter's heating oil two years ago.

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Now Annie Dillard! It's like someone is targeting all my influences from grad school at once.

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

News of the U.S. deploying weapons in space of course brings this poem to mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2...

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Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Ace Records

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JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

America’s Crossroads: An Interview with Curtis Smith by Jen Michalski I think the one thing that unites the stories—at least in my mind—is the idea of grace.

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America’s Crossroads: An Interview with Curtis Smith by Jen Michalski

I think the one thing that unites the stories—at least in my mind—is the idea of grace.

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