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Kathy Fagan

@kathyfagan.bsky.social
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Poet, prof, she/her. Books at @MilkweedEditions @W.W.Norton (forthcoming) #resist kathyfagan.com 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸🇺🇦

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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Featured Writer #132: Kathy Fagan – Ninth Letter
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Such a treat to be hosted by these terrific poets on their rollicking podcast. breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com/1865753/epis...
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The Unbecoming (with Special Guest Kathy Fagan) - Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast
The girlz queen out with Kathy Fagan who joins for the Breaking Form Interview!Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry S...
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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A Conversation between Kathy Fagan and Kortney Morrow
Kortney Morrow is the author of Run It Back (Saturnalia Books, 2026). She lives in Cleveland where she is the Program Director of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards—the nation’s only prize dedicated …
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Had a lot of fun talking with podcaster #JohnKing about #TheUnbecoming thedrunkenodyssey.com/2026/09/19/e...
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Episode 724: Kathy Fagan!
Episode 724 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s…
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
laurelreview.org/kathy-fagan
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Laurel Review - Kathy Fagan
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
hope to see you there. pub date 9/22. preorders soon to ship💛💚
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
compelling & gut-wrenching #sesshufoster
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
TY @janezwart.bsky.social & #plume🖤💛🖤
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
She was otherworldly, this poet💫
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
feelin lucky? enter the goodreads giveaway up to 8/2 to snag a free cloth copy of The Unbecoming!
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
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Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Today's Feature: "The Elevens" by @kathyfagan.bsky.social from Ninth Letter, Summer 2025 Read here: poems.com/poem/the-ele...
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The Elevens
my hair thin, parentheses around a mouth that could be my mother's: Unbecoming,
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Poem for Father's Day. From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458 #poem #booksky #writing
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
my book can be preordered at a steep discount 6/23-26 if ordered thru barnes & noble. you can sign up for free here www.barnesandnoble.com/pages/member...
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
happy pride, happy full moon (minus a sliver), here are some pies🏳️‍🌈
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
read this poem! worth every minute☁️🌨️
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Oh this poem. From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458 #poem #booksky #writing
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Heedful Hold
An indefinite walk through a long icy underpass, a bus elapsing at a velocity that seems to deform the flank’s advertisement, the large faces of the ad’s…
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
peonies we love you get up
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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With No Equipment Allowed Into Gaza, Palestinians Are Digging With Their Hands to Retrieve the Dead
Mahmoud Khilla managed to find the remains of two relatives but he is still digging through the rubble for his wife and children. “We will continue and we will find them,” he said.
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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 05/05/2026
In equal measures a work of eco-criticism and a study of human behavior, ANIMAL LOGIC witnesses. It remembers. It resists. on-sale today! Arah Ko's poetry collection ANIMAL LOGIC is here: buff.ly/Lntgmfo
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
My new book is ready for preorder wherever you like to buy books. @w.w.norton wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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The Unbecoming
A dazzling meditation on the limits of life from a poet whose “mind is endless with depth and truth” (Brenda Shaughnessy)., The Unbecoming, Poems, Kathy Fagan, 9781324131397
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
luv this poem on @poetrydaily.bsky.social today by @kristencase.bsky.social poems.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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HIND (after Thomas Wyatt’s “Whoso List to Hunt”)
Just before the turn at the end of line eight, the hunter’s breath gives out, becomes general: wind from a net.
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Derrick Austin @paradiselaust.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Happy to have a new prose poem out today that came out of a transformative morning I spent in Florence looking at Fra Angelico’s paintings.
Audience by Derrick Austin

When I think on Your nearness, I picture a lizard biting my thumb. We're both rather private, and I'm not quick. That's why I'm writing. I love listening for You from this distance. Truth be told, I'm comforted by Your steady silence and absence. I know You are there by how often I feel Your absence, not at all like abandonment, not wholly like loneliness, which has its share, but also like the wake that follows when I leave a friend's potluck into cold streets crazed by ice. If You are a grammatical mood, You are homo irrealis. If You are a verb, You are a copula. You were the year I lived in a food desert. The year of the solar eclipse. The year of the abscess and overdraft fees. The year Lake Merritt reeked of death, choked by algal bloom: yellowfins, flounder, crabs, striped bass, and bat rays choked by algal bloom. The year I landed in Florence, I was the only one from my flight questioned (first in Italian, then English): Where are you from? Not African? How much money do you have on you? Where is your passport? Why are you here? In the Convent of San Marco where, once, friars tended a garden of simples and a great library of 400 books, Fra Angelico painted frescoes inside their cells, a small scene from the life of Christ beside a smaller window, and each cell I entered shook me like a good line break, a poem's leap of faith, and in my unknowing, and in my surprise, was happiness. Fra Angelico knew what to withhold, scripture being a shared language, and painted details, not props. The door to hell kicked off its hinges, indelible, sure. But the nails. The bent nail.
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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'Iran Is Not Gaza': Read Arundhati Roy's Scathing Speech on the US-Israeli War
Exclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness.
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Dean Young in @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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If Anyone Asks by Dean Young
"Maybe the unknown still loves me. Maybe it wants me dead."
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Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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The Beach Where All Babies Are Born | Patricia Lockwood
We mailed ourselves the moonstones home.Ten pounds of them, a private beachThat cuts and cuts and cuts the feet.Where all babies are born, but not any of
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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 04/03/2026
"I can’t imagine feeling less, or caring less. That’s not the heart I have," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's episode of The Slowdown, number 1469. Read "Pardon My Heart" by Marcus Jackson — from PARDON: POEMS — and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4lbRRqu
text graphic featuring a portion of Marcus Jackson's poem. it reads:

Pardon my heart if you have to kick it out. 
After you’ve muzzled the music and brightened

the lights to tidy, my heart will ignore 
and keep doing its little two-step, aglow

in the middle of the room, never 
happier to have nowhere else to go.
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Astonishment by Wisława Szymborska open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem...
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Astonishment by Wisława Szymborska
"What made me fill myself with me so squarely?"
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Love this poem by #LadanOsman that was on Poem-a-Day a few days ago. poets.org/poem/after_f...
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Dear, I wished you heavens. / If not heavens, earths.
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
honored to talk about poetry with incarcerated communities thx to aaron hand & this amazing podcast project open.spotify.com/episode/5Bzw...
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Spotify – Web Player
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458 #poem #books #writing
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
A master class in rhyme. Elizabeth Bishop poetryfoundation.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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The Armadillo
With a wind, they flare and falter, wobble and toss; but if it's still they steer between the kite sticks of the Southern Cross, receding, dwindling,…
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
love this poem-a-day selection by @katrinavanden.bsky.social poets.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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Tomatoes
The best ones / I ever ate I ate / that summer,
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
super intrigued by this poem @poetrydaily.bsky.social @circumferencemag.bsky.social @kirajosefsson.bsky.social 💜
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
luv this issue. thx @ninthletter.bsky.social 💚
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
lil gem from the paris review archive #lisarussspaar
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Join this supportive poetry workshop 11/22. Zoom only. Register through Hudson Valley Writers Center. Would love to read your work!
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
2 very new poems. Thx, The Account❣️ theaccountmagazine.com/article/faga...
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2 Poems | The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
check out this poetry podcast, a favorite of mine❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
our so-called christian govt giving more demonic energy every day
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Take This Waltz by Federico García Lorca open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem...
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Take This Waltz by Federico García Lorca
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder, My mouth on the dew of your thighs
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Really love this lush & surprising lyric on the Academy's Poem-a-Day today. poets.org/poem/homecom...
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Homecoming
One bridge and then another over the fisherman’s net / of steel water and high, secreting grasses.
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Thanks to @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for running these poems from the forthcoming book & a super insightful interview. Thank you, Karan & Shannan! www.onlypoems.net/poets/kathy-...
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Poet of the Week: Kathy Fagan — ONLY POEMS
Kathy Fagan’s seventh collection, The Unbecoming, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in Autumn 2026. Her 2022 collection, winner of PSA’s William Carlos Williams Poetry Prize, is Bad Hobby (Milkweed), av...
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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Lamis asks for funds for a tent to shelter her three very young children. Before being displaced by bombing, she was in her 3rd year of dental school. Now she's fighting to keep her family alive during a genocide. Please share and support her campaign: gofund.me/7b79d792
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Donate to Help me and help my children, organized by Lamis Adwan
Hello, my name is Lamis. I’m 22 years old and a third-year dental student. I was supposed to … Lamis Adwan needs your support for Help me and help my children
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Join this supportive poetry workshop 11/22. Zoom only. Register through Hudson Valley Writers Center. Would love to read your work!
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Thanks to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social & @slowdownshow.org for featuring my poem today. #BadHobby @milkweededitions.bsky.social www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Ohio State Bans Most Land Acknowledgments
The new policy is one of several in response to a state law that aims to eliminate any mention of diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Famine has now been officially declared in Gaza City, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). We know that this wasn’t inevitable but is a deliberate strategy of starvation by our government. (1/3)
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