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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 15h

Nobel Laureate Anne Carson, with one of my all-time favorite opening lines and one of my all-time favorite closing lines.

O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love

Anne Carson

I like being with you all night with closed eyes.
What luck—here you are
coming
along the stars!
I did a road trip
all over my mind and heart
and
there you were
kneeling by the roadside
with your little toolkit
fixing something.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 20h

Anne Carson, SHORT TALKS.

On Shelter

You can write on a wall with a fish heart, it's because of the phosphorus. They eat it. There are shacks like that down along the river. I am writing this to be as wrong as possible to you. Replace the door when you leave, it says. Now you tell me how wrong that is, how long it glows. Tell me.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 19h

I'm looking at my Anne Carson shelf right now and thinking YES!

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alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social · 19h

one of my (less shared) faves from Carson’s Short Talks

Short Talk On The Sensation Of Aeroplane Takeoff
Well you know I wonder, it could be love running towards my life with its arms up yelling let's buy it what a bargain!

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 05/10/2026

Awful in every way

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

punching left to stop fascism is like blowing in the coals to put out a fire.

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Lee Potts @leepottspoet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Please celebrate with me my friends! 🎉 My third chapbook, Sky In Some Mosaic, is now available for preorder from the wonderful Pinhole Poetry Press (@pinholepoetry.bsky.social). Each copy will be made by hand and beautiful. Link in bio. More information to follow.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you’re illuminated by / some mystery / almost infinitely / smaller than your self, David Bromige

JUST THINK

Suppose this really were
happening to you
so that a screen
repeated every swollen move
a second after its enactment—

how would that feel,
reel upon reel
compelling as the notion of
your children growing older
when you stared at one just then,

that you’re illuminated by
some mystery
almost infinitely
smaller than your self,
the square you
could never make it through
at the back of the theater.

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i have a great-grandmother named Dixie, a great-great-grandmother named America, a 3x great-grandmother named Virginia, a 4x great-grandmother named Missouri, and a 5x great-grandmother named Canada.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Morning. Waxwings in Juniper, Kent Ambler.

Five waxwings in juniper bush, pale green background, woodcut.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Circle is always open. The poems I’m looking for return, in Charles Simic’s words, “that which is familiar to its original strangeness” No fee. Four-week turnaround. Full guidelines at stonecirclereview.com/submissions-... #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here’s an art post for you to share and click on

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

press D to dance with horses

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"In the shower, we compare her eating disorder to my gender dysphoria. We’re running low on food stamps" —Madeleine Poole beestungmag.com/issue28/midd...

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Midday, my lover brings home groceries by Madeleine Poole

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Matt Stefon @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I do still have online teaching starting up, but not till November at least, maybe January. Need help with bills and my share of the rent till then! PayPal: @MatthewStefon Venmo: @Matt-Stefon Cash $MFStefon

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

happy publication day to Danielle Chelosky for Romantic Abjection 🎈

Is this why I’m so crazy about Matt? Like I think love can save me from existential dread or something. I can’t keep doing this. Thinking in circles. It never ends. No solution. Just why why why why why. I wish my brain would shut up. I guess that’s why I like writing so much. My brain finally shuts up. I don’t even realize it. It just happens. It’s like I’m blacking out. Floating. No longer trapped in aliveness. I don’t know where I am—some secret place, a limbo between life and death.

Please please please tell me it gets easier. But also tell me that I’ll still be myself.

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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Newsom is going to out-fash the GOP.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

newsom and bonta let paramount threatening to pull out of california torpedo the entire lawsuit and this is going to be an abject disaster for everyone - including california, where they'll gut jobs anyway what a fucking disgrace

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

got a friend request on fb and as far as i could scroll this person only had AI enhanced pics. like just everyday pics of all kinds of things in their life, all looking like dogshit

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

smosh aita is millennial church

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

banshees of inisherin. they'd be so confused.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

From Cape Cod poet John Bonanni's book Retrovirilogy (University of Pittsburgh Press) this haunting eloquent poem "Death of the Sperm Whale."

Death of the Sperm Whale

At the Whaling Museum in New Bedford,
my father & I walk into a life-
size ship of what a vessel might
have looked like for the long need
of whale slaughter. Everyone
is here on a Saturday. We walk
around the deck & duck our heads
in the same way any sailor would
& just like a real sailor, you, too, can touch
wood & you, too, can hit your head on the mast.
We roam to a Plexiglas table
to peer into the quarters below:
Small, claustrophobic. A group
of school children climbs aboard.
A chaperone tells them to stay together,
but they don't.
One child disappears
into the laughter.
Another child
won't stop crying.
He is afraid of the stairs.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

oh man RIP annie dillard, i still reference The Writing Life all the time

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Charles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bob Mackie died….another truly beautiful and kind human we lost this year

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“try that again” on bluesky that is, def not going back to twitter lol

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

problem is i can’t sustain commissions bc of both mental health and physical health, so im super limited. i have a buddy who *every time* i post art is like if you did these 6ft by 6ft i could sell it for you for 10,000 and its like well i cant is why. maybe one of those a year lol

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

ok i really need to sell some paintings, i haven’t really sold one since i left twitter, used to i could post one and someone would just see it or find it and be interested. i guess i might try that again? maybe on facebook too. idk just hanging by a thread and feels likely ill lose disability :s

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

my brothers daughter is starting to look so much like him! so freaky haha i love it

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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Holy shit" — Jean Baudrillard

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 helped shift Silicon Valley from the center of global capitalism to the center of global fascism

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

oops oops oops gave you all the wrong email to get the link from before this is the right one (RTs appreciated!)

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

its so weird seeing ppl i grew up with just using AI to write posts or make ads for their businesses, bc i swear to god they think we dont know and arent just giving them too much grace out of embarrassment. they think theyre spies or something

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Travis Hedge Coke @travishedgecoke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Consider backing what is likely to be important history that might otherwise be lost. Sy Barry was drawing comics professionally at fourteen, in 1943. His bibliography includes Phantom Stranger, Rex the Wonder Dog, The Phantom, and from 1957, Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story.

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Sy Barry: The Ghost Who Draws

Sy Barry is an American comic-book and comic-strip artist best known as the artist for The Phantom for more than three decades (1961 - 1994). "Sy Barry: The Ghost Who Draws" is a commemorative edition...

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

RIP Wendell Berry 💜

For an Absence
When I cannot be with you I will send my love (so much is allowed to human lovers)
to watch over you in the dark— a winged small presence who never sleeps, however long the night. Perhaps it cannot protect or help, I do not know, but it watches always, and so you will sleep within my love within the room within the dark.
And when, restless, you wake and see the room palely lit by that watching, you will think,
"It is only dawn," and go quiet to sleep again.

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

since Wendell Berry was from KY, y’all know he was already on my family tree (bc genealogy work is one of my special interests.) we’re more distant than my appalachian music connections, but we were 7th cousins 2 times removed, both descended from the Scottish progenitor of the ky/wv/v Duncan family

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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you, Wendell Berry

The text of The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

tim robbins does a great nick nolte

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

From ‘Sleepy Book’ by Charlotte Zolotow, 1958, illustration Vladimir Bobri.

A sleeping great egret with frog and water lilies. Night. Stars. Illustration.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

*Cackles in Southern queer*

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Kolloween III: Season of the Bitch @kolleencarney.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just got another $500 bill from my lawyer, so sharing or donating to this would be very much appreciated. There is so much to say about this but honestly what's the point? I appreciate everyone who has helped me so far. Thank you.

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ash @ashhull.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Answering the knock at my front door of my house by yelling OCCUPIED.

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

man ppl are rly trying to paint dolly as apolitical. she was to the left of most of the current dem leadership.

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

great ok, thank you so much for your help! 🙏🩵

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the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

IN A FEW HOURS I WILL READ BRAND NEW NEVER BEFORE HEARD POEMS TO YOU BUT ONLY IF YOU GO TO RIVERS & ROADS @mytwords.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social & @yoadrianididit.bsky.social will be there too! Go for them more than me!

flyer reading RIVERS AND READS featuring Matthew Murrey Donna Vorreyer Adrian Sobol Chris Corlew 7 PM August 27 at Rivers and Roads Cafe 1259 W Devon Ave

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

it’s weird too bc i have no trouble parsing most of the dense poetry and prose i try to tackle, rly ive always been a denser the better reader. i wonder if it’s different parts of the brain, or just about the anxiety of instruction

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

i have such a hard time understanding written instructions. like it can be in black and white right there, do this then this, and i will panic immediately and be confused

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

i truly appreciate it! thank you so much 🙏

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