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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/09/2026

The author Joyce Carol Oates reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

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Joyce Carol Oates Reads “Lost Child”

The author Joyce Carol Oates reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Fruit fly without fruit to feast spends briefest life in pursuit of esoteric joy found in torturing eyes too blind to see, hands too slow to kill, put out of misery. 9/13: Esoteric #vss365 #prompt #esoteric @tetrametracall1.bsky.social

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Bird wings open, close, create upward force called lift. Flight begins from depth. 9/13 Wings #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Weasels got chickens. The Japanese quails escaped for a little while. 8/22 Quail #dailyhaiku #poem #prompt

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My day is loud as a load of laundry, blankets, towels, sheets: terrycloth, cotton, polyester blend. Hot water waits to agitate, impel, beat grime, grease, dirt, blood stains, all of it the same. The draining follows, then the rinse and final spin. #vss365 #prompt for Aug. 22, 2026 #towel

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

An urge to write urgent poetry arises, surges. Then what? From a sea of marine and naval inks beware explosions. 8.9.2026 #vss365 #prompt #urge

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Fine black field cricket chirps; shirks all other duties on hot summer night. 8/09 Cricket #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Cold rains grip fall days, hold on with furious rage until the first frost. 8/11 Cold rains #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Forlorn, exiled leaves dream of deciduous roots, lost family ties. 8/8 Leaves #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Fall colors disco, dance with platform shoes and heels, reap blowout harvest. 8/06 Fall colors #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Kismet extends paws towards rim of chaos, begins to lick order into existence. She shoots looks with eyes, never denies ambushing, torturing, killing bird, mouse, vole, shrew. She knows what she is due, and she knows you've known it, all along, too. 8.5.2026 #vss365 #prompt #chaos

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Deluge leaves soaked feet without place to sleep, lay head to dream of rainbows. 8/06 Soaked #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I remember wine made in the basement of a home in North Buffalo, New York. It was rest-belt wine made with local grapes bought at the market on Clinton and Bailey. Niagara grape vines fruit late, produce sweet juice that ferments, makes lasting memory. 8.4.2026 #vss365 #prompt #fruit

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Dry eyes don’t cry tears. Blurred vision makes for blurred life; nothing refreshes. 8/04 Refresh #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#Poets: How do you keep track of various drafts of your work? Analog? Digital methods? A mix? On a separate note: How do you keep track of developing projects (i.e., poems about a specific theme; poems that share same form, etc)? How do you keep track of your work? #poet #organizing

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

On the docket for today: Write #dailyhaikuprompt and post; write #vss365 #prompt and post; read and take notes on Voigt's "Rethinking Adjectives;" read and take notes on Longenbach's "Lyric Knowledge;" and work on a two poems that I have ideas for (generative work).

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

On the docket for today: Write #dailyhaiku; and #vss365poem; work on 3 other different poems for a project/collection; drafts syllabuses and weekly class plans for this semester; finish reading Barrera Tyszka’s The Sickness.

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sometimes to tend is to let go, let grow untended, wild. Sometimes to tend is to let reseed without need to control what must be. 8.3.2026 #vss365 #prompt #tend

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Pasta with sardines filled Friday night dinner plates with Sicilian dreams. 8/03 Sardines #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 29/07/2026

The Durutti Column made post-punk whisper. As Vini Reilly returns with his first album in 16 years, we revisit the Factory Records years that made him a quiet revolutionary.

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The Durutti Column’s Factory Years, Reconstructed

The post-punks' first album in 16 years brings their long, revolutionary path full circle.

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I hate that period after you've completed a final draft for an editor, but then you haven't heard back from the editor so you don't know if it's really the final draft or if they will want another final draft. #writing #revising

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Here's a recommended book-list-interview, for a UK publication. For everyone who has had enough of discourse (as I certainly have): it has a tiny mention of Nolan as the hook, but then we move on to some reading. www.countryandtownhouse.com/culture/emil...

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‘Homer Is For Everyone’: How Emily Wilson Elucidates & Obfuscates In Equal Measure

Classicist Emily Wilson has made headlines in recent weeks for slating Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation of The Odyssey – for which the director,

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If you want a big spectacular book-adaptation American movie about a reluctant clever hero on an impossible journey through weird places (which I do), Project Hail Mary is great.

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What is creation but map once dreamed, made with paper, then impossible to evade, deny, scorn.* 8.2.2026 #vss365 #prompt #creation *I thought a lot about #punctuation here.

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What is creation but map once dreamed, made with paper, then impossible to evade, deny, scorn. 8.2.2026 #vss365 #prompt #creation

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Sail around the Earth. Presumptuous wind moves boat. Currents shape harbors. 8/02 Sail #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/08/2026

The author Rachel Yoder reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

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Rachel Yoder Reads “The Promise”

The author Rachel Yoder reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Read lie upon lie, then lay the lying book down to rest. Leave it there. Don’t look again. Don’t guess. What might have been of Eden, was lost in all the different ways one can lie with objects made up in the mouth of sound temptation. 8.1.2026 #vss365 #prompt #temptation

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Two-striped Grasshopper intently stares, wonders why I can’t jump like him. 8/01 Grasshopper #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Summer Party August arrives right on time, but without fanfare. She’ll drink vermouth and soda, but sit all alone. She’ll get up. Ask you to dance, but you aren’t there. 7.31.2026 #vss365 #prompt #arrive

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 31/07/2026

Happy (nearly) Halfway Day for our novel/novella book submissions period! If you've got a 100pg (or more) novella or a novel looking for a home, we've got a reading team and editor who are hoping they'll read your book before subs close at 11:59pm CT on Sept 1! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

orange background, yellow letters: HALFWAY THERE: OPEN CALL FOR NOVEL & NOVELLA MANUSCRIPTS, reading period July 1 - September 1, submit at splitlippress.submittable.com

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Yarrow grows in shades: puce, chartreuse, smoky white, gold. Its wild nature consumes. 7/31 Yarrow #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The white Land Rover crosses the solid yellow line to brake break time. We slid on black ice, we slide. We stop, stopped when we hit, we hit a tree, didn’t die, didn’t roll into the ditch. 7.30.2026 #vss365 #prompt #brake

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Western New York sky: Overcast. Rust belt city dreamer’s dreams shine. 7/30 Overcast #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Maine island cabin sleeps until it cannot sleep, wakes up with low tide, darkness, and brews black coffee before sun gets the chance to bully Dulse fronds, before Rockweed locks eyes with lobsterman, rake and knife in steady cold hands, ready to harvest lobster pack. 7.29.2026 #vss365 #prompt #coast

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Quick holdover fire: Smoldering ash reignites. Old growth forest cries. 7/29 Smoldering #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

When the first category you get is shoe brands. Connections Puzzle #1143 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A copy of Dante’s Inferno burns by my bedside. It waits to be read, held by soft, smooth hands. It dares me to descend, contend with devils. 07.28.2026 #vss365 #prompt #descend

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Caterpillar eats milkweed leaves growing in glad, Makes chrysalis. Wait. 7/28 Glade #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt #poetry

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hurricane Mountain Fire Tower (much abbreviated) More than four kilometers separate you from summit of Keene steel lookout. Look out. And once you've climbed the last forty-nine steps, take pics or did it really happen. 7.27.26 #vss365 #prompt #summit #poetry

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Build a sandcastle, not ranch, Craftsman, cape; not home. Play with grains. Escape. 7/25 Pinks #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt #poetry

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Pinks of peonies poke out of bounds, around fence to be seen, worshipped. 7/24 Pinks #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt #poetry

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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Night. Dawn. Cool morning: Each shy before warming to adventurous sun. 7/23 Cool morning #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt #poetry

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