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Nancy Chen Long @nancychenlong.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Grateful to have a strange little poem in the latest edition of Buffalox8. The poem is a loose tautogram (most words begin with 'd') in which all of the 'd' words were sourced from a local newspaper. @buffalomag.bsky.social buffalojournal.tumblr.com/post/8017048...

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A Difficult Defense

Details disturb, so I’ll donate this day to a dozen dramas. Death doesn’t disturb the doing done by those drawn to duty. Damage—deliberate, direct. I’ll demonstrate with departure, not dinner. A...

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I'm happy to share this interview by Patty Paine of @diodeeditions.bsky.social Diode Editions! Please take a look, and I'd be really grateful if you might share this elsewhere on social media. Thank you. diode.substack.com/p/auto-towns...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 01/03/2025

No platform is ever truly free. That applies whether we’re talking about TikTok, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook - or Substack. And if you think to yourself, this time, it'll be different, good luck to you. But sooner or later, you're going to get fucked.

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Why I Won't Write on Substack

There is something perverse about every voice of record, every journalist with a profile, every writer with an audience abandoning ship for Substack. It's been a growing trend for the past few years, and it's getting worse. Substack has done an excellent job convincing intelligent people from legacy media backgrounds

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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! 7 Days left to enter. Poems from manuscripts considered for features along with a chance for the book prize! www.versedaily.org/bookprize.sh...

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Nancy Chen Long @nancychenlong.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Felt powerless-needed to hear this: "The real value of the first step isn't in its specific direction. It's in breaking the paralysis of possibility." "Movement creates information. Standing still creates nothing." "There's value in a shitty First Step."—JA Westenberg www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB8U...

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Nothing Is Impossible (If You Know How to Start): On First Steps and False Barriers

YouTube video by JA Westenberg

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 12/02/2025

According to DOGE... $65 for grandma: waste $8 million for the richest man in the world: not waste

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Nancy Chen Long @nancychenlong.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

#poem #poetry #wsmerwin #spring "To Paula in Late Spring" by W.S. Merwin, from The Shadow of Sirius (2009, Copper Canyon Press) and found in The Essential W.S. Merwin, edited by Michael Wiegers (2017, Copper Canyon Press)

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Nancy Chen Long @nancychenlong.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Happy Lunar New Year! We are entering the year of the Dragon. I read that this is to be a year of luck, growth, and change/reinvention. May your year be auspicious, Friends.🎉🐉💖 #YearOfTheDragon #LunarNewYear

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Jessica Goodfellow @jessicagoodfellow.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Nice to have a poem up today at Verse Daily, thanks to J P Dancing Bear, @cincinnatireview.bsky.social, @lisaampleman.bsky.social. www.versedaily.org/2023/stay.sh...

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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 02/11/2023

@triohousepress.bsky.social is pleased to announce that submissions have opened for our Louise Bogan Award! Win $1000 and publication. This year’s judge is Oliver de la Paz, author of The Diaspora Sonnets. For more info, click here: triohousepress.org/contests

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Nancy Chen Long @nancychenlong.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

#Bloomington #IN #MorgensternBooks Poetry Open Mic, 11/12 , 2pm. Poet Patsy Rahn will be MC'ing.

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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 02/11/2023

Poets! The Trio Award is now open! Enter to win publication of your first or second book of poetry. This year’s judge is Jessica Q Stark, author of the collection Buffalo Girl. For more info, click here: triohousepress.org/contests

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Okay, to help everyone make their BlueSky what they want it to be, here's a thread about feeds. What they are, how to find them, how to add them, how to pin them, what feeds to follow if you're a #writer, and how you can make your own 🥸 1/16

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

The new journal my grad students and I are creating has gotten a flood of poetry and fiction submissions (yay!), but the editors are especially hoping for more open genre (hybrid, multimedia) and nonfiction pieces too! Send them some good longform work!

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Nancy Chen Long @nancychenlong.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

"Snowdrops" by Louise Glück. RIP. 💔

"Snowdrops" by Louise Glück

Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know
what despair is; then
winter should have meaning for you.

I did not expect to survive,
earth suppressing me. I didn't expect
to waken again, to feel
in damp earth my body
able to respond again, remembering
after so long how to open again
in the cold light
of earliest spring—

afraid, yes, but among you again
crying yes risk joy

in the raw wind of the new world.

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