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Oh goodie! It's #WeirdPoemWednesday! @tomsnarsky.bsky.social here's Rot and Glory, soon to appear in *Little Survivors Everywhere*

Rot and glory
Watching the fierceness of
vegetables hiding among
the cashy leaves. Suddenly,
Ho! Santa Claus! What a plucky
old fella you are. Here,
have a squash.
The mockingbirds resume.
I mean sing, of course. It is
because I asked for it,
for my one present. This one.
Right now. Listen.

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Matt Stefon @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social · 5h

That job was cancelled for low enrollment. I just had rent help (again—thank you all) but will need help next week and up to midmonth. Backing off that right now. Let’s hope I get this job and never have to worry about adjuncting again.

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Matt Stefon @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lunch time! And a poem from one of this temp jobs I did where the working class didn’t consider me working class and the middle class thought I was just another warm body. (Standardized test scorer.) From my first chapbook. #LunchPoems #Lunch #WorkPoems #FuckTempWork

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Justin Karcher @justinkarcher.bsky.social · 9h

I got some fiction published in Dodo Eraser. It’s about the day Dolly Parton died

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22h

I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me

A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.

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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 20h

Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h

Time for this classic again.

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Honey Girl Grows @honeygirlgrows.bsky.social · 16h

Religion is THE greatest supporter of toxic male abusive patriarchy. Women can launch all of the #MeToo movements they want, but conservative values will continue to exploit, oppress, and excuse violence on women and LGBTQNB.

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 23h

Final cover image for *Little Survivors Everywhere*! We should be gearing up in the next week... watch this space! Coming soon from www.pearlpirie.com/phafours

Book cover image features a battered cardboard box in which are some autumn leaves, a knife, and an ant plushie. A green striped caterpillar crawls up the side of the box. The title is in some funky font I don't know the name of, in a kind of mustard color matching some of the leaves.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If we passed a similar law, how many in Washington would be out of a job? ================

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Qhapaq 🦙🇵🇪 @qhapaq.art · 29/09/2026

my NY Mets fandom

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JC (baseball season type) @conductress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Iam a professional musician. I adore beginning orchestra and band concerts. Love them. My kid's first orchestra concert, one of the pieces was literally just them playing a Dmajor scale and I cried. That said: I could. not. handle. teaching. recorders.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Textile embroidered art by Sophie Standing, British born textile artist #womensart

Pictorial textile artwork featuring an elephant facing forwards

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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Samantha Terrell @samanthaterrell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Author copies have arrived! DM for a signed copy ($20 includes shipping) #poetry #poetrylovers #booklovers #poetrycommunity

Stack of books with title Survival Instincts

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Matt Stefon @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

help? please?

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.

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Rewilding Academy @rewilding.academy · 26/09/2026

How to Live on Earth 🌍📽️ The brand-new documentary exploring nature-based solutions, ecosystem restoration, and rewilding is now streaming free on YouTube! 🌿✨ Energising, uplifting, and actionable. 🎬 Watch full film: www.rfr.bz/bc04a1ae3 #Rewilding #NatureBasedSolutions #EcosystemR

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How to Live on Earth | Feature Documentary | Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch

What if the solutions to building a better future already exist?How to Live on Earth is an ambitious feature documentary that explores how humanity can build...

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Philippa Bowe @philippabowe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Managed a quick #PoemsAbout #deadletters piece on the way to Madrid for the @saloneurope.bsky.social. Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk 🙏💜

Black box with white letters of a poem:

dead letters

some of the letters survived
but not all -
the k of kindness
lopped down
mercilessly trampled
underfoot -
the c of compassion p of patience
thrown into blazing fires
citizens of Hades rubbed their hands
prepared new dictionaries -
and on and on
until the only ones left
spelled nothing we wanted
to say

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Joseph Donahue

Something somewhere
is eclipsing something else.
Now, suddenly, looking up,
the sky is different. Some
great joy may be about
to transform your life.
The moon glows red.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Again and again the leaves / enact their beauty Marianne Boruch

Over the Twilight Street

Fall. And the boys are cold, without jackets the football their milkweed pod
bursting over the twilight street. They jump and release themselves, crying
like birds. Hours from the morning fog
the air is chilled good water
taken from a stream
with a cupped hand. They can barely keep themselves inside their bodies, vivid as light
through leaves, though now the leaves
have their own lifetime to consider
pressing back
into trance: a red brilliance
which listens for no one, an iridescence too complete to translate. I bike by them the football spinning above me,
a blurred planet. Boys who will be men, boys who will be taken by surprise by failure. Again and again the leaves enact their beauty.

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shy🎀 @shy.center · 27/09/2026

Lost one of my heroes today. Slinger Francisco, also known as Mighty Sparrow, passed away at 91. Trinidad's most famous calypsonian, always infusing his songs with sharp political wit and humor. A friend and influence to many, including Van Dyke Parks. Here he is performing "Jean & Dinah."

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For #SmallPoemSunday, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social, this from poets.org/poem/going-a... Going and Staying, by Thomas Hardy: "Then we looked closelier at Time..."

poets.org

Going and Staying

The moving sun-shapes on the spray,

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Areanna @areannathatsall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Get this to more people and do everything you can to make sure this gets met.

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J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

3 yo is singing as she plays by herself. Here's the bit I just overheard: 🎶 Shooting in the sky / with a life jacket on / Everyone together / We have to get out 🎵

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just overheard my son, at the park, point to his friend's younger sister and say, "So she is a human?"

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Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Over and over, our institutions fail to protect us, especially when it comes to sexual violence. But these young journalists understood the assignment…

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️

Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is such massive bullshit. I am hella older than ole Chris here, and extremely curious to the point of being annoyingly nosy, and it doesn't take some crappy AI junk to "prop" me up. Shit.

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AJ Odasso @ajodasso.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I need to clarify something here: this is a physical, print collection that I’m looking to get back in actual physical print. If all an imprint is going to do with my book to give it second life is make it entirely digital and distribute it for free, that…sadly isn’t what I’m looking for, I’m sorry.

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Modern cars spy on their drivers. Newer model vehicles contain black box telematics devices, GPS tracking, smartphone integration systems, and other ...systems that lift users’ data. ...cars can watch their drivers with cameras,... Numerous newer models have in-cabin microphones."

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Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You

Pardoned mechanic Matt Geouge has built a device that blocks vehicles from spying on their drivers, because in 2018 his fiancée realized investigators…

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"With proof of concept in hand, I asked Wendell if he might have a poem he would let me print. In March of 1996 Wendell sent me a poem titled “Amish Economy,” which was something new he had been working on."

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30 Years Ago I Published Wendell Berry—by Hand

A Look Inside the Printing Process of a Small-Press Edition of the Late Poet’s Work

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Owl,” said Rabbit shortly, “you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest—and when I say thinking I mean thinking—you and I must do it.” -The House at Pooh Corner A.A. Milne #BookWormSat #InternationalRabbitDay

Illustration by Ernest Howard Shepard from "The House at Pooh Corner." Rabbit walks through the Hundred Acre Wood on a nice spring day.

Illustration by Ernest Howard Shepard from "The House at Pooh Corner." Rabbit can be seen standing in the doorway talking to Owl.

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AJ Odasso @ajodasso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Are any #presses / #publishers open to submissions of out-of-print #poetry collections? Ever since Tolsun Books went under, I’ve been worried about my 2019 collection, “The Sting of It,” going out of print. Amazon & others have finally marked it as such. Any leads or offers would be helpful!

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Matt Stefon @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Now need $125—two days ago. Could someone please help?

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 26/09/2026

You know a great thing about Montana? With nothing more than a MT driver's license, you can check out books from any state university library. Just walk in, select the ones you want, stop by Circulation, and walk out with them. Amazing. Do other states do this?

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

From *Little Survivors Everywhere*, coming in October. (I read somewhere that Patchen drew while he was laid up like that.)

Ars Poetica

Kenneth Patchen
lies in bed
with his ruined back,
draws his magical creatures,
gives them voice.

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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

ai is far worse than contaminated lettuce and shouldve been recalled years ago.

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