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Jude Marr PhD (he/him)

@judemarr.bsky.social
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Poet, humanist. Former librarian, writing center director, also taught college. We Know Each Other By Our Wounds (Animal Heart Press, 2020) and Pushcart nominated.

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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 12h
There was a time when I did some reading and editing for my friend the historian Lorna Walker, who was working on a paper about St Stephen Muret and Limoges. The paper, in the Journal of Medieval History, also has my name on it. My only scholarly credit. Forty years ago. Life is strange #rijksmuseum
A gold enameled bird from the middle ages standing on a gold castle with three turrets. The bird is hugely out of proportion
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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 13h
Who's seen Digger? Thoughts?
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 13h
This is quite literally what happened to one of my grandparents in 1933. You know, in case we still have folks in the “it’s not fascism if it doesn’t meet these very specific, arbitrary characteristics based on my own refusal to accept responsibility to oppose it” crowd.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I think I have a good point here
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 11/10/2026
No zombies required. Apocalypse is climate. War. Extinction. Grief. The collapse of something you thought permanent. LAST LIGHT asks contemporary poets what the end of a world looks like from inside it.
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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If an account you suspect is a Russian bot is quiet right now, it might be because bot activity has dropped by half since Ukraine started hitting the Yandex data centers.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Next up: #Possessed. By love. By rage. By money. By memory. By the thing in the dark that absolutely promised it wasn't there. New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.
A cyan-blue image of a blurred figure reaching one hand towards the camera. The outstretched hand is in sharper focus while the person’s face and body appear distorted by movement behind it. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #POSSESSED”.
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Stoked to have a poem in the new mini issue of @bloominonionlit.bsky.social alongside five fantastic writers! 👇🏻 www.thebloominonion.com/diatribe-jac...
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Diatribe — The Bloomin' Onion
by Jack B. Bedell
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump’s border wall construction threatens rock art as old as the pyramids: ‘The ancestors are still here’
The president’s border wall plan could damage or destroy ‘the oldest-known books in North America’
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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My kind of library #rijksmuseum #amsterdam
From a balcony, looking down on a reading room with study tables and chairs; with four tiers of book stacks, each with a balcony, rising up to high arched windows and a curved ceiling with skylights. In the far corner, a winding stair gives access to the balconies
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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ooooo! I am entranced by this one. It makes me think about how if you take apart almost any sentence you'll find that almost EVERYTHING in it is abstract. Language is endlessly fascinating.
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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Congrats to @fuckyeahlaurenparker on her recent award! Lauren's David Bowie inspired collection 'Dark Way Down' took out silver in the Northern California Publishers and Authors Book Awards. It's easy to see why if you've read it!
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
extremely grateful to the editors of @tinywrenlit.bsky.social for including this small ekphrastic poem, after a photograph by Diane Arbus, in their most recent zine :) 📸
Tom Snarsky

Identical twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967

— after a photograph by Diane Arbus

One small smile, one
mini-frown. Everything

is dual,
a written word

you hope
gets saidIdentical twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967, a photograph by Diane Arbus
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Trump admin announced that winter oil and gas exploration in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve will be exempt from environmental reviews. That includes seismic surveys, building temporary roads, and drilling exploration wells. Our public lands keep paying the price…
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As you probably missed it yesterday, in all the joy around Anne Carson's Nobel win, for The Guardian, here's my longer review of Patricia Lockwood's return to poetry: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
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Agate Head / Stone Soup by Patricia Lockwood review – a gem of a collection
Inspired by stones and metals, the memoirist and novelist’s first poetry collection for more than a decade is charming, whimsical and intimate
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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Last day of the show! The remaining prints are on sale so if you want some of my art--last day. www.artsy.net/show/drawing...
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Jesse Lee Kercheval : I Want to Go to Sleep in a Nightgown as Bright as the Sun | Artsy
Special Pricing-Extended One Week ! This collection of self-portraits--memories simply and beautifully rendered--tell a story of self-awareness and coming-of-age. Each is a page from Jesse Lee Kercheval’s recently released graphic memoir, French Girl, and her upcoming new graphic memoir, Household Gods.
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@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anne Carson isn't American, but is on this list Canadians are sadly used to this kind of casual American erasure of our separate existence and identity But it's still lame and ignorant and super annoying
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The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)
The 25 most consequential collections from the past 25 years
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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Reading McDermid (slowly) in Portuguese en route to Amsterdam is about as European as it gets, não é?
A copy of Fim do Silêncio by Val McDermid balanced on my knee with airport seating in the background
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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you’re near Coram’s Fields or Gt Ormond Street, Lamb’s Conduit St, pop to us first. Tix on the door.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 08/10/2026
We wanted BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS to look gorgeous. Of course we did. It's a book about glamour. But glamour gets interesting when you ask what it's hiding. A beautiful hardback with teeth. Edited by Alan Parry He/Him & Karen Pierce Gonzalez shorturl.at/126Ks
Book cover for Beautiful Little Fools: Poetry of Glamour, Obsession, and the Gilded Age. A stylised Art Deco illustration shows a sharply dressed man in a black tuxedo and a glamorous woman in a black cloche hat, with geometric black, white and burgundy shapes behind them. The title appears in large white lettering on a deep burgundy panel, with The Broken Spine logo at the bottom.
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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For those following along, this is why I was at Teatro Tivoli in Lisboa last night. Brilliant. And as Suzy said, if there ever was a time for a trans woman to be performing Hamlet - yes, the whole play - as a one-woman show on a world tour, then this is surely it
Suzy Eddie Izzard in costume as Hamlet. A woman with blonde hair pulled back and wearing a black flared jacket, black leather pants, black boots. She is looking off to her left, head tipped, arms raised in an eloquent gesture
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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nice
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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Join us for our Fall Reading Celebration this Saturday, Oct. 10, at 9 a.m. Pacific! Register here: pointloma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you can guess the drink you may not win a prize! First drink of the year but not necessarily the last
A cocktail in at a tall glass sitting on a metal table at an outdoor cafe. The drink is golden brown with lime and other greenery. There's a straw
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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Traveling can be alarming but worth it, I think. I always liked arriving in Aberystwyth, where you're up against the buffers and there's nowhere else to go. I hope whatever takes you there is fun and/or productive
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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Get those vaccines and mask up, punks!!
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dr. kimberly ann @kimannjosouth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My child is a Girl Scout and it's "Fall Product" time--some people actually dig the fall products? They have BarkBox stuff and sports stuff. Anyway. If you're interested in the stuff and/or want to support a local Girl Scout troop in AL: www.gsnutsandmags.com/landing/14/2...
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Please help reach the goal for Girl Scouts
Visit Esme's ​personalized site now to see how you can help.
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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I did my library training in Aberystwyth. 40 years ago, but I remember those train transitions well
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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lube the Tube and slide him back down to FL!
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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
💔
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Marc Alan Di Martino @marcadimartino.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Russia is evil. We need a strong Democratic congress to help Ukraine, so vote! 🇺🇦💙
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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm sorry about your friend, Beth
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Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Beth Brooke (@bethbrooke)
Today is the 42nd anniversary of my father’s death. Yesterday I heard that one of my dearest friends had died suddenly last week while she was on holiday. I am in that place again - the confusion of n...
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Owen Wyke @owenwyke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No "AI artist" understands art. They do not understand the agonic meaning of it all. They do not understand the love of it, the pain of it, the way it cries out and what it cries out for. They have not lived the childhood, the adolescence, the adulthood of the artist. Nor will they die an artist.
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Owen Wyke @owenwyke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is for all those people who thought Gavin Newsom was some sort of liberal hero.
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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
so any "anti-woke folk" not speaking medieval german is simply a performative fuck full of shit. 😑
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Start with The Nerd Reich, by @gilduran.com Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
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Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here.
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 03/10/2026
Cheating for this week’s post. A re-send of one I wrote some time ago, which still feels relevant. How do we move forward when the end of everything looks imminent? A short one this week. Join me.. drnaturegirl.substack.com/p/post-truth... #blog #newways #postgrowth
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Post-Truth, Post-Growth, Post-Everything..
Originally written in 2017 and reprised here as one of my first articles three years ago, I’m re-sharing this as I’m away from home and don’t have the time to produce new material and I feel this is s...
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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 03/10/2026
The apocalypse doesn't have to arrive with a mushroom cloud. Sometimes it is environmental collapse. Sometimes a society ending. Sometimes one person's world disappearing while everybody else's carries on. LAST LIGHT: APOCALYPSE POETRY. shorturl.at/hFE9K
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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s so lovely to welcome October with two new prose poems in the lovely fall issue of @westchesterreview.bsky.social So grateful to the editors for including my work, two poems very steeped in my the woods of my childhood in Westchester County. Listen to me read both at the links in my bio.
Cover art collage with leaves and birds from the Fall 2026 issue of The Westchester Review. Image of a willow tree with the text Jill Kitchen and Listen. what you still carry with you

by jill kitchen

here you are this sunlit morning watching february lift us closer to spring closer to hopes of sugar snap peas with tendrils weaving around anything they can find longing to connect to wrap their tiny arms around other plant friends as they bloom into their own crunch-sweet while spinach rises out of earth in dark green quadruplets while chard grows its rainbow popsicle-colored stalks while you wonder if this year the forsythia will grow into the fairy caves of sun-shaped flowers you hid inside as a child in that backyard in new york state that you still carry with you like a lost sibling the out breath of pitch pine of dogwood the little corner of garden where your mother showed you how to plant zinnia wild strawberry and marigold the apple tree over the sandbox whose branches tangled and swirled in patterns at first unintelligible to your small child self sitting in the sparse grass over the cement roof of hidden bomb shelter where one day you worked out the language of those limbs and even now that map lives inside you those secrets of how to climb where the tree needed to be touched how she could hold you how you still need her to hold youThe Westchester Review
A Literary Journal
cluster by Jill Kitchen
reach of basil lush and wide already hardening because winter is just about to touch us like the willow tree that used to touch ground in new york state in the neighboring yard where i longed to swing on a gathered grasp of branches but could only cross the stone wall when the neighbor's small feisty granddaughter was visiting the one who shouted you're not my father whenever my dad asked her not to do something like touch the wisteria or throw wet clumps of leaves at the window and so instead we swung our small shapes on the lengths of willows ran to my mother's lilies of the valley against the stacked stone wall the girl bowed over touching the tiny white cups with her fingers while i hovered in the side of her eye in case she felt more like destruction that day like
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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are OPEN FOR SUBS!!! All the deets here: animalheartpress.net/submissions/
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Be the iceberg you want to see in the world.
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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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The Garden
A new poem by Niall Campbell
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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I got my flu and covid shots yesterday which means I'm slightly out of sorts today, so I've come to the mall to see the Brad Pitt dog movie. I'm reliably informed that the dog does not die ...
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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-very-lit...
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A Very Literary Happy Hour - October !
Join us for laughs, stories, and cool vibes at A Very Literary Happy Hour—books never felt this fabulous!
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Imagine being a healthcare provider and a botched “death penalty” victim is brought into your ER. This is so depraved
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Sue Finch (she/her) @suefinch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October on the calendars brings: #LookThere Ronnie in autumn leaves in Betws-y-Coed #ElasticBandPhotos ' Leaf Under Matryoshka Moon': A discarded elastic band in the gutter makes the shape of a matryoshka doll. A leaf adds interest.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Some books you read. Some you want to own. BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS is a gorgeous hardback built to be held, kept and revisited. Then you open it, and the glamour starts coming apart. Edited by Alan Parry He/Him & Karen Pierce Gonzalez shorturl.at/126Ks
Book cover for Beautiful Little Fools: Poetry of Glamour, Obsession, and the Gilded Age. A stylised Art Deco illustration shows a sharply dressed man in a black tuxedo and a glamorous woman in a black cloche hat, with geometric black, white and burgundy shapes behind them. The title appears in large white lettering on a deep burgundy panel, with The Broken Spine logo at the bottom.
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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks, Jack. It was great to see you and I enjoyed your reading very much. Combining two of my favorite things, poetry and crime :)
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