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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Even though AI image generators are evil, fellow evil practitioners, please create some images of Donald Trump being smuggled out of Turkey in a food cart. GO!

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Poets in summer mode: taking their "clothes" off, exposing themselves. That's what poets do. It moves me, that human side, that it still exists, that Dave keeps collating our deep musings.

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

What a tasty, rich selection this week, Dave! There is much to dwell on in this week's sampling. People thinking, feeling, sorting. It's a counterweight to people acting, reacting, and regurgitating!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

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The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started

Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is a meaty and inspiring selection about the writing life, Dave! Writers are so deep in it, we don't have the sense to step out and soak up the experience of others. Many thanks for your work, as always!

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

What a chockful, excellent Digest! There is so much great writing here, from around the blogosphere. Thank you, Dave. Here's to the renewal of Spring!

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Every American needs to watch this:

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It's only week 3 of the year, but we're deep in the trenches of witness via language. That's what poets do. Join us.

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The dark irony of being in a French town named "By-the-Sea" yet there was no sea! We wandered in search of home/paradise. Post-apocalypse? Post-Eden? The imperative to "see like the grass sees"? Utopia means No Place - the poem's shimmering absence/presence. www.thecommononline.org/january-2026...

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January 2026 Poetry Feature #1: U-topias

JILL PEARLMAN <br> One of us sleeping, one of us dreaming with open eyes / strands of your hair in the silver light / when I rubbed the hair in the small of your back, / you awoke to a dog’s sharp nai...

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

This deep into holidaze I will not be linking anyone tonight but here at least is a not-at-all-rushed edition of the poetry blog digest for your reading pleasure. I think it's a particularly good round-up. But then I think that every week. www.vianegativa.us/2025/12/poet...

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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 51

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

In this week’s newsletter, I explain how Trump’s $1,776 payments is actually one of the most dangerous things he’s ever done. Armies loyal to a paycheck and not the government is how you get authoritarian overthrows of republics.

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Trump’s ‘Warrior Dividend’ Might Be His Scariest Idea Yet

In this week’s Elie v. US, The Nation’s justice correspondent explores the authoritarian threat beneath Trump’s bonuses for military families. Plus, a case for getting rid of the Second Amendment.

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

To quote Churchill, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Sam Zurier, State senator in RI, representing #Providence has it right...we've been through a lot already. Still we're in for a rough ride. Be gentle.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Helicopters are circling again over the Brown campus and College Hill. After whirring for hours and hours on Saturday night, they stopped -- let's now call it a pause - the killer hadn't been caught, the goal hadn't been met. Anxiety runs high; the choppers whirr. #BrownUniversity #massshooting

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Helicopters have been circling overhead #BrownUniversity, shining searchlights down onto the Green, gardens and contorted streets looking for today's horrid perpetrator. Circling circling, light shining off my windows in my darkened house (all neighbors darkening our houses). Peace to the students!

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

This is what @thepoetslizard.bsky.social and I are facing at Via Negativa, a literary blog with nearly 15,000 posts. We might have to password-protect our archives just to keep the site from being taken offline www.glamelab.org/products/are...

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Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A round of applause for the French is in order! 👏👏👏

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Beautiful thought and writing. I feel so good after reading the Digest. Giving thanks to Dave!

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Poets...canaries in the mind. It's always a bellwether whether it's change of season or radical reorientation. Another great digest, Dave!

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

A young artist, Julia Lion, sat at the back of my reading at Lange Studio for “Diaspora of Things,” jotting down her favorite phrases. She sketched me on her IPad. I love the image she created! It is so much fun!

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Trump’s Marie Antoinette Moment: asked for Trump’s response to #NoKingsDay massive protest for fairly priced bread, a spokeswomen conveyed his concern: “Who Cares?” WHO CARES? #Trump, Ask your fellow celeb monarch how that turned out!

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

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Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Dallas Holladay, DO (she/her) @dholladay.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I braved the war-torn streets of Portland to pick up dinner at Panera. Tragically, I accidentally ordered two tomato soups instead of one tomato and one squash as I planned. I appreciate your thoughts and prayers during these difficult times.

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Literati Bookstore @literatibookstore.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Note left on our typewriter.

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The totality of David Byrne’s art piece- ie his massively conceived conceptual concert — is inspiring in its daring and overstuffedness. No minimalism here. One of the reasons I loved it. Like he’s back at #RISD, having rolled up a lifetime of curiosity & sensory experience. #DavidByrne #concert

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Yehuda Amichai from Open Closed Open. So felicitously said! The point is as universal as it gets— we have to fiercely guard hope. And particular for Yom Kippur — be strong and strengthen your heart. Life isn’t for the weak hearted.

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

A taste of my chapbook, “Diaspora of Things.” Every poem could be accompanied by a sad monkey, though this one is particularly apt. Launch: 9/27, 6pm, Riffraff, 60 Valley St, Providence, RI.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Thinking about our commandant-in-chief, who loves to mock but can’t bear being mocked

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

My sister tactfully decided not to discuss my will so close to my birthday. We moved on to the demise of our country. #JimmyKimmel

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

They don’t know what they’re doing. - Tomaz Salamun

WE'LL CALMLY SWALLOW THIS
TOMAZ SALAMUN
They don't know what they're doing.
Girls remain lying.
You're rabid.
The papyrus' breath.
When you tear yourself away from the chain, do you still sense saltiness?
I passed the night on the sieve.
Below the grill there were eyes and water.
Little cloths, with them you mopped the tiger's front, where are the temples from?
The poodle has built himself the wooden shack and leveled it with his right leg.
I shudder in the bindweed.
The bindweed overgrew my shoulder.
Translated from the Slovenian by Michael Taren and the author

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Literati Bookstore @literatibookstore.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

When control rests in the hands of the few, then the few control the rest of us.

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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Your silence will not save you! #AcademicSky

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

[everyone posting cool Redford photos] [posts one with former Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms, on the set of Three Days of the Condor, October 1975] [record scratch]

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Untitled Clear and still, with dew dripping off the roof and a pair of phoebes yelling "Phoebe!" at each other. Twenty-four years ago, the sky was just this clear.

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Clear and still, with dew dripping off the roof and a pair of phoebes yelling "Phoebe!" at each other. Twenty-four years ago, the sky was just this clear.

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Ira @thejazzsoul.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Clifford Brown & Strings "Memories Of You" youtu.be/yAand_kXMds?... #Jazz #JazzSky #JazzMusic #Music #MusicSky 🎧

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Poet Gillian Allnutt has flown under my radar. The poems highlighted by Victoria Moul are startling and gorgeous. The beginning of a new poetic fascination? Gillian Allnutt, "lode" open.substack.com/pub/vamoul/p...

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Gillian Allnutt, "lode"

And a welcome to many new subscribers

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Another bang-up edition of the Poetry Blog! Poetry ripens in the September harvest. Many thanks, Dave!

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The Guardian's own brilliance in putting #Alcaraz-#Sinner in context: "There’s something profoundly moving about two young people captivating the world with their brilliance; in the sense that by watching them, we’re participating in art and history at the same time." @us.theguardian.com #usopen

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The disappearing sea, whales, ICE and icebergs, summer tremors recorded by poets and gathered by the inimitable Mr. Bonta!

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

What a beautiful July outing! Full of feeling. Poets are ripening in the mid-summer sun.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." — Voltaire

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I see the Washington Post is platforming an op-ed by Krisi Noem, because apparently they're still pissed they missed their opportunity to publish Goebbels in the original German.

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

When I read, may I be relaxed as Geoff Dyer and keep one hand in my pocket in case i need a sneezing instrument. (Or an instrument of magic.) Riffraff, Providence, RI #homework #books @literaryhub.bsky.social

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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Teaching a Celan seminar brought out the best in me and readers. It's deep stuff, so we were all talking from our depths, groping along as our poets did. No need to dumb down anything! Just guide. Often our best work is done in collaboration. Given the intensity of each day, we need each other! #Lit

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