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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Love this poem which reminds me that we take joy where we can. Will not stop!

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Public School Poetry @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Check out this amazingness from Justin Hamm in our new issue. So grateful to hear it live at our launch party!

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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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Public School Poetry @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tonight! Our launch reading for Issue #7 @ 7. Bring your own pizza and stay for our high class poets. Message and we'll send you a direct zoom link.

Partial cover for Issue #7 of Public School Poetry, featuring a giant, mobius-like shell in a desert landscape with an empty middle

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me when the writing is coming out really easily: This can't be good. Me when the writing is coming out with great difficulty: This can't be good.

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Public School Poetry @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Issue #7 is now live! Stunning poems and essays from Joseph Chapman, Justin Hamm, Karen Finneyfrock, Karen Holman, Katie Hartsock, Lauren Camp, Mike Santora, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Sehee Oh, and Zach Savich. And a "Crawling, Grasping" mobius from Christina Mesiti. www.publicschoolpoetry.com/current

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CURRENT | Public School Poetry

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Goldenrod with honeybees and bumbles

Close of bright yellow goldenrod, honeybee, and bigger, fuzzy bumblebee

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When I submit poems to a journal, I don't want to get a notice from submittable that "my application has been received." Submissions are soul-sucking enough- please no involuntary applications.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

No I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Writers, are you finding your Alarm Clocks uninspiring? Try Alarm EAGLES!

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five commas a pound, can't say fairer @commamonger.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"I brought him the Encyclopaedia Britannica and he asked 'what year?' I said 'I think it's 1911'...'Oh, the best year for that Encyclopaedia. Give it to me!' And he takes it and starts licking the book and the little old librarian says 'you must not lick the book, sir. You must not lick the books'."

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Borges and Me: New film tells story of writer's 1970s tour of Scotland

A film about the great Argentinian author's trip around Scotland in 1971 has premiered in Edinburgh.

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sometimes you go to the field to get poetry & sometimes the field secretly presses itself into you

Small wasp pressed against a lined notebook page

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/07/2026

This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

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Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives

One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Michigan primary is August 4th- voted early and easily at my local library. Everyone in our country should have this same kind of access! mapresearch.org/democracy-ma...

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Early Voting Availability - Movement Advancement Project

Almost all states offer some form of early voting, but the length of the early voting period varies by state.

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My 8-year-old self demanded I buy this rose gold glitter notebook for Writer Camp @barrelhouse.bsky.social

Rose gold glitter notebook and green pen on peeling porch rail

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I've been in sustained poetry making this past year- lots of curiosity and awe. Now, in a submitting phase which can so easily harm creativity. Holding these words from Victoria Chang's Only Poems interview close:

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.

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Opinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.

Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I know soccer's happening, but also, pitting cherries using a glass beer bottle and a chopstick is highly effective and fun @davidww.bsky.social

Guy in glasses holds a tart cherry over a green glass beer bottle and pushes a chopstick through the cherry to pit it

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

One of many Monday morning monarchs skimming milkweed. Clay Cliffs Nature Preserve

monarch butterfly, wings open, skimming an open field filled with milkweed

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

@writesloud.bsky.social spent an amazing morning with Hannah Grieco's speculative nonfiction prompts! Thanks @poetcamp.bsky.social for the recommendation!

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Reading David Lynch's Room to Dream is really helpful when you stare out at a summer half gone and anxiety-wonder about all your poetry mornings

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Writing tip: Give your protagonist a pet cat. In the final pages, shift to the cat's point of view. Follow the cat outside, through moonlit woods, to a pasture where cows kneel in worship around a glowing spacecraft. As the cat trots up its gangway, we glimpse in the windows an all-cat crew.

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Turns out you can make an Italian liqueur with young, green black walnuts. Will these baby nuts I've been gathering with @davidww.bsky.social turn into Nocino?! Check back in about 3 months!

A young black walnut, halved. It's green and almost looks like an apple core inside

Glass jar half filled with halved green walnuts, sweet woodruff, cloves and strong vodka

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Minneapolis visit=1st visit to Milkweed Books & my new obsession with Tomaz Salamun

Text of "Rain and Honey Apples" in Kiss the Eyes of Peace, selected poems

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Thrilled to have a short strawberry poem in this issue with 9 other amazing pieces! www.identitytheory.com/if-things-do...

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If Things Don’t Go Wrong Today - Identity Theory

Let’s pick strawberries

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This @tomsnarsky.bsky.social poem made me stop and break today. #weirdpoemwednesday open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem...

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Weird water haibun from David Ward today- all new and already bedecked 🏞️

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Public School Poetry @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Remembering the poet Dale Going, who was a joy to work with, and whose poem "This Is My Secret Society My Private Tribe," we nominated for a Pushcart Prize last year. Read the whole poem here: www.publicschoolpoetry.com/dale-going

Beginning of Dale Going's poem "This Is My Secret Society My Private Tribe"

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I love how poetry gives you room to take yourself way too seriously one day and then to play recklessly another.

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Finished my annual report and then dug a hole to celebrate

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

it’s okay to feel bad about bad things happening. to feel grief over loss, rage over injustice. it’s okay to weep and scream. it seems like poems are the last place where it’s okay to sit with a difficult set of tangled emotions. and leave it at that. at being a living thing.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 05/05/2026

You will never find what you're looking for here in the doom scroll. You must go deep inside to find a personal hell only you alone possess.

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

What a great speech that has no reason to be erased and apologized for by institutional spinelessness. Great Michigan Daily article for context: Faculty Senate chair praises student activists at commencement share.google/WiS7b6iYeaJa...

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Faculty Senate chair praises student activists at commencement

History professor Derek Peterson, outgoing chair of the Faculty Senate, congratulated pro-Palestine student protesters at spring commencement.

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Pretty awesome that we created a weird imaginary space. And that great poets want to hang out with us and each other there

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Sending love to language and vultures this afternoon: A group of vultures is called a committee, venue or volt. In flight, a kettle, and when feeding at a carcass, the group is referred to as a wake Interesting Facts - Vulture Culture - Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum share.google/FpxXgrzu3llV...

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Interesting Facts - Vulture Culture - Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 25/04/2026

This is Geoff. He's lucky to be in a household that values sleepiness over cleanliness. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: sarahmeyers14)

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Me the day after teaching my last class this semester: 7am- I'll get through 40% of my student feedback today/ 9am- maybe start student feedback tomorrow and apply for a residency instead/ 11am- how about just blueberry pancakes?

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Public School Poetry @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Tonight! PSP Issue #6 reading launch with our amazing contributors. One of whom is Kristie Williams who may read her poem "All That I Know of Tree Sex and Panties Was Unearthed at Another Poet's Reading" www.facebook.com/events/16776...

cover image for Public School Poetry #6 featuring the names of our ten contributors against a blue sky, above a cemetery, beside a Dollar General sign that's been edited to read Public School

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

"the Curiosity Clinic was also a different way to organize our work in the university and—importantly—to teach differently in a particularly difficult time and in ways that restored joy and wonder for faculty and students alike, all done during the span of about six hours." bit.ly/4tSrk4E

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Curiosity Clinics and the Speculative Pedagogical Future | UW College of Arts & Sciences

An essay focusing on a pedagogical experimental model called the Curiosity Clinic.

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

UM student Tony Lui doing a Lemon performance in honor of his immigrant great great grandfather who came to America and then never got to see his family again. Lemon eating contest, lemon baseball, and homemade lemonade sweetened with pomegranate molasses.

Tony Lui in yellow cap and gown starts the lemon eating challenge

Tony Lui making lemonade to share with everyone

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Public School Poetry @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"They tell me to exit you must go through" "Ikea Panic Attack" by Claire Denson www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/claire...

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Claire Denson | Public School Poetry

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Public School Poetry @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

It's 5pm and Public School Poetry is officially open for submissions! If the thought of writing a 5-paragraph essay in response to another (anonymous) contributor's poems strikes that magic combo of excitement and nerves, send us some work! publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit

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Public School Poetry Submission Manager

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Julie Babcock @juliebabcock.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Snake in the spring garden surprise

Long garter snake slithers into some rocks

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