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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And a hundred other quotes highly relevant to today's zealotry and fascism that have gotten this book banned.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The same perfect sky exactly 25 years later.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A priest and a minister walk into a bar with a rabbit. The bartender asks the rabbit, "Why are you here with them?" The rabbit answers, "Autocorrect."

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Went to dinner at a cozy restaurant to celebrate my GF's new job. As our food arrived, a 4some took a table inches away. The woman nearest to us announced that she's "coming down with something." We got up immediately, paid the check & left. Night ruined by a selfish idiot. Stay home if you're sick!

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So now, I guess the mnemonic for the Great Lakes is "SHAME." How fitting is that?

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm not much of a country fan, but Dolly has me all choked up today. She was quite a person.

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Sweet Cháa: Playful Sip

ALT: Sweet Cháa: Playful Sip

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

How blackboard chalk looks under an electron microscope. Insane!

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The coolest of the eclipse images I’ve seen.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I keep returning to the “Orientalism” exhibit at The Met. Wonderful show!

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I've broken down and started submitting to poetry contests.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Overheard on 79th St., NYC: Woman, 50ish, on cellphone: "So wait, if he kicks the bucket, you get the whole thing?"

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

poems.com/poem/meditat... I don't know how I'm going to get through the day after reading this. I'll just have to stay inside, I guess.

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Meditation on Blue

If truth had a color, this would be it. A shade less than shady.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My son's chihuahua goes to the beach, where the sand bothers her eyes.

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Darby Lyons @darbylyons.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A Father's Day poem

The Summer You Learned to Swim

BY MICHAEL SIMMS

For Lea

The summer you learned to swim
was the summer I learned to be at peace with myself.
In May you were afraid to put your face in the water
but by August, I was standing in the pool once more
when you dove in, then retreated to the wall saying
You forgot to say Sugar! So I said Come on Sugar, you can do it
and you pushed off and swam to me and held on
laughing, your hair stuck to your cheeks—
you hiccupped with joy and swam off again.
And I dove in too, trying new things.
I tried not giving advice. I tried
waking early to pray. I tried not rising in anger. Watching you I grew stronger-
your courage washed away my fear.
All day I worked hard thinking of you.
In the evening I walked the long hill home.
You were at the top, waving your small arms,
pittering down the slope to me and I lifted you high
so high to the moon. That summer all the world
was soul and water, light glancing off peaks.
You learned the turtle, the cannonball, the froggy, and the flutter
and I learned to stand and wait for you to swim to me.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Receiving the publication proof for an accepted poem is such a great feeling!

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

For a minute right before taking this video, I was completely alone in the main hall of The Met’s Oceania wing. I love late Sunday afternoons at this museum. Stay away from European paintings, Egypt and the major special exhibits and you can often have the place nearly to yourself.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

@northamerreview.bsky.social does such a great job in building visibility for its contributors and their work. I'm so grateful to them. A marvelous bunch.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I just finished a poem I've been working on pretty regularly (at least a few hours a week) for six years. It's 27 lines.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

At The Met in front of my favorite Degas.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I submitted the manuscript of my first full-length poetry collection to a major contest judged by a famous poet. Regardless of the outcome, I'm absolutely thrilled!

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Three rejections in less than 90 minutes, a record.

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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Morning friends. There are still those amongst us that need to wake up.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

My new poem in North American Review. I'm so grateful to J.D. Schraffenberger, Rachel Morgan and Emily Stowe for their continued support of my work. It means the world to me.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I just administered my first injection ever for a loved one. It will be my new daily responsibility. so much for my squeamishness about needles.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

My annual pre-dawn Christmas Day walk to The Met through the empty NYC streets.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

My GF rescued an injured sparrow on 1st Ave in NYC, and I played avian EMT and transported him/her crosstown to Wild Bird Fund on Columbus. Gave them a nice donation for taking care of the little guy/girl. #animalrescue #birdrescue

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I'm excited to have work appearing imminently in The Louisville Review. It will be my first published three-page poem for which -- as anyone who writes longer poems knows -- acceptances come even harder given the journal space they require.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Usually, I can talk about my dad's recent death w/ little problem, even a sense of humor about certain memories. Then other times, like at my MD appt today when she asked if any stress could be contributing to my symptoms, I just simply lost it, like a wave crashing out of nowhere. So embarrassing.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

My girlfriend and her workmates as Edna and The Incredibles. #Halloween #costumes #TheIncredibles

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I've drastically reduced my Amazon shopping.

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The Uses of Sorrow (in my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. —Mary Oliver #SmallPoemSunday #poetry

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Out with my GF on the Upper West Side for a friend’s birthday.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

My only poem on a spiritual subject was just accepted by one of the nation's oldest poetry journals. I'm absolutely thrilled! Deets soon.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

And the rejection parade continues with 10 top journals piling on in the past 14 days. But five invited me to send more work, and one editor said my poems had been "definitely in the mix." So, that's a bit of sparkle on an otherwise disappointing two weeks. #poetry #poems #writingcommunity #writers

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

It took me 10 years to write poems about my mom’s death. The first was just published by Midwest Quarterly.

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I love August, when so many lit journals open for submissions! Brings excitement and hope to my heart!

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Commercial by Dutch alternative-energy company Vattenfall. Brilliant!

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

My poem is featured in promotions for Midwest Quarterly's July issue! I'm very excited to have work appear again in this wonderful journal!

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

If you’re in New York, do not miss the Sargent exhibit at The Met! Photos do it no justice! The light, OMG, the light!!

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I overheard a guy in a coffee shop say he was a 19XX graduate of NYU, which was my class. We struck up a convo about school during that era, and I learned he's a prof. of literature in Italy. We spent the afternoon discussing Ovid, Dante, Milton, Spenser and Whitman. What a rare & pleasant surprise!

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

First acceptance of 2025! It took awhile, but I'm thrilled and grateful! Details to come...

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

An early birthday gift from my GF’s mom. The best Florida oranges ever! 😋😃🍊

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Second Avenue street fair in NYC, you know, a family event. 😆

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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

My only Covid poem was just published by the marvelous poetry annual Rhino.

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