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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i’ve transitioned my 9th grade ELA classes entirely to working on paper, and for a Friday treat, i’m planning dictionary races.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it's possible that the only silver lining of this era are the student journalists

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Guess who's got their first Yiddish publication forthcoming ✨

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i have a different depression for each season

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

for a layered, deeply resonant accompaniment to the days of awe, may i suggest my khveyrim maia and shelby’s audio project Ways of Awe? here’s the kol nidre episode, perfect for your now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

podcasts.apple.com

Kol Nidre

Podcast Episode · Ways of Awe · S1 E2 · 40m

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Seattle has a heated pool on Puget Sound that closes in mid-September, make it make sense.

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 11/09/2026

I love this Yiddish postcard celebrating Rosh Hashanah, I love the delicate subtlety of the family tablecloth that has been embroidered to read "Oh God, oh almighty God! Forgive our sins, forgive! Also please don't erase anyone in this house from the book of life!!"

postcard of a family around the table, candles lit, flowers in a vase, with yiddish letters on a fringed tablecloth

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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

the finest small language model we have is the poem

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

It’s true that I’m pushing the agenda of empowering students with the notion that their minds are worth their time

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1 day until we begin a strike or start school.

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

seattle public schools wants to make unconscionable changes to special education. seattle education association is pushing back. yesterday, sps left the bargaining table. read more about how said changes would affect children here and educators, and email school board members, here: spsforkids.org

spsforkids.org

No one wants a strike. Here's how you can help.

SPS added a special education redesign into contract negotiations that would affect 170 jobs. Two emails.

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

spsforkids.org

No one wants a strike. Here's how you can help.

SPS added a special education redesign into contract negotiations that would affect 170 jobs. Two emails.

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Seattle, your public schools need you. SPS is pressuring union SEA educators to accept terrible contract takebacks: increased SPED caseloads, reduced planning time, and abysmally low pay for paraeducators and SAEOPS (school secretaries, registrars--the people who make it work!). We need your help!

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🎃Meli👻 @mismatched.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🧵 for seattleites!

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Local media is going wall-to-wall w/meaningless tabloid shit about the mayor while she quietly builds a solid legislative record. So by the time the know-nothing suburbanoids eventually say "what has she even done??" it's gonna a solid list of meat-&-potatoes progressive accomplishments

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

this is my favorite part of teaching. fighting the forces that would take it from me is (among the reasons) why i am a union rep.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I was bred for slaughter, like the other animals. To suffer exactly at the center, where there are no clues except pleasure. - Linda Gregg, “Whole and Without Blessing”

WHOLE AND WITHOUT BLESSING
What is beautiful alters, has undertow.
Otherwise I have no tactics to begin with.
Femininity is a sickness. I open my eyes out of this fever and see the meaning of my life clearly. A thing like a hill.
I proclaim myself whole and without blessing, or need to be blessed. A fish of my own spirit. I belong to no one. I do not move.
I do not need to move. I lie naked on a sheet and the indifferent sun warms me.
I was bred for slaughter, like the other animals. To suffer exactly at the center, where there are no clues except pleasure.

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

איך האָב אָנגעהויבן צו באַצעטלען מײַן יורונגן אויפֿ .ייִדיש—אַזוי איז קולטור

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

so my awp panel of poets writing with and translating from heritage languages was rejected again. where should i propose it instead? we have poets working with armenian, dakota, hebrew, vietnamese, and yiddish.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Another interpretation, beyond preferences for a small-town "lifestyle," is that when cities don't allow growth (often because of faux-environmental concerns about individual trees on private lawns), growth pushes to the fringes where it impacts actual forests. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

seattletimes.com

While Seattle slows, the region’s fastest growth is on the fringes

Remote work is pulling growth away from the city and driving an exurban boom in fringe communities many Seattleites couldn't find on a map, writes FYI Guy.

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

hellooooo seattle, public school educator here; there are just 19 days until school starts, and we need a contract ASAP! will you please read and sign this petition supporting our union (SEA 💪) as we push for a fair contract with the district? secure.ngpvan.com/B6gt06ZZqEaN...

secure.ngpvan.com

Show your support for SEA educators

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You can read “Charm Before Sleeping” alongside poems from Muriel Rukeyser and Jean Valentine! www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Full text of Martha Zweig’s poem:

CHARM BEFORE SLEEPING

You are of my species
Against the ocean's inroads
Upon the ringed kingdom
Of recognition: among all
Mixed daily things I know you.

Whatever the dreams do, may
The constant bodily keeping
Involving us now within
The waking coincidence
Maintain you nearby, while we

And all who have held tight
Relax to sleep, and through these hours,
Difficult to remember, when death will
Undo each double helix and
Comb the loose strands, like the sea.

Poetry magazine from January 1968. Dark blue or black, classic Pegasus, and the text:

POETRY
VOLUME 111 NUMBER 4
JANUARY 1968
MARK VAN DOREN
Slouly, Slowly Wisdom Gatlers
JEAN VALENTINE
Three Poans
VERNON WATKINS
Gremydycinu Elegiacs
MURIEL RUKEYSER
Delta Poems
TURNER CASSITY • MARGARET RANDALL
DAVID MUS • FREDERIC WILL • DABNEY STUART MARJORIE HUNT • MARTHA MAc NEAL ZWEIG DAVID ROSENTHAL •KATHLEEN SPIVACK
LISEL MUELLER on GARY SNYDER FREDERIC WILL on ROBERT CREELEY TOM CLARK on EDWIN DENBY RICHARD MOORE on WILLIAM BLAKE WILLIAM HUNT Poetry Without Letters
MARVIN BELL Four Anthologies

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It is in fact racist to call an Arab with views you disagree with an antisemite. I know this will be a surprise to many but unless that person is actually saying something antisemitic, the Arab is not genetically predisposed to antisemitism

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

wrote a poem that, without intending to, is testing the limits of all the word processing platforms (yes, scrivener too)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I consistently remind myself that we know and understand less than 5% of the total matter and energy in the universe. This counters the seduction of despair.

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No Hate in WA State @nohateinwastate.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Retired WNBA player & Naismith College Player of the Year winner @katestarbird.bsky.social joins soccer champ Megan Rapinoe in opposing I-638: "The 'unintended consequences' of this [initiative] will impact every girl playing sports in WA state." Vote NO on I-638 this November. #NoHateWAState

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I don't wish we could schedule gun violence, personally

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

חברים, ניצט איר בליצקאַרטלעך פֿאַר װאָקאַבולאַר? אויב יאָ, ניצט איר פּאַפּירע אָדער דיגיטאַלישע בליצקאַרטלעך? װעלכער איז בעסער?

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Here is AMR dissenting over the false dichotomy of providing school meals for kids. These are the sources that the more tenured city councilmembers funded this year - Graffiti abatement: $4.1M - Unified Care Team (homeless sweeps): $30M - Real time crime center funding for Axon CCTV cameras): $4.9M

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

remember, Rinck and Foster are at-large, so all of seattle is their constituency.

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

""Before there were weathermen, writers animated the weather with their own beautiful thoughts." Bernadette Mayer, to her sister Rosemary Mayer, November 3, 1976

marbled blue book cover with the title "The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer 1976-1980)

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

הײַנט פֿאָר איך אויף אַ באַן פֿאַר אַכט שוה. כ'װעל שרײַבן, אָבער ס'איז אַ לאַנגע צײַט. אפֿשר װיל איך לייענען אַ ביסל יידיש מיט אַן אַרטיקל פֿון יידיש־ליגע. צי מ'האָט אַ רעצאָמענדאַציע, רעדט צו מיר

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 12/07/2026

i like that the yiddish verb "mekhabed zayn" (מכבד זײַן) can either mean to honor someone or to offer them a snack

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

most iconic experience of zummerkurs so far: annotating a passage's noun phrases for gender/case, gritting teeth, and hearing myself whisper, in unison with my seatmate, "i need this."

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

most iconic experience of zummerkurs so far: annotating a passage's noun phrases for gender/case, gritting teeth, and hearing myself whisper, in unison with my seatmate, "i need this."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

movements change the "common sense"

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

the yiddish word for "ladybug" is "moyshe-rabeynu," the same moniker we use for moses the prophet who led us out of egypt etc etc

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

my 3L of water and i are venturing from berlin to varshe today. send mazel and breezes.

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Elena Ferrante fiends (& friends), i have a new poem out in Poet Lore, in the On Devotion folio curated by brilliant poet @patrycjasara.bsky.social.

RACHEL EDELMAN
TO BEAR IT
after The Neapolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante
Elena Greco can't stand
her mother's limp.
All four books see her body lopsided,
rabid at her children.
Elena and her friend keep eating
each other's egos, trading subservience in a shared self.
Elena scratches a line through time in one long press.
Virgil says toil is a glory to the gods; Elena despises her mother's suffering.
Chase Elena
chase refusal down to the lower senses.
A mother becomes her own ruin in making them fear her.
Elena gets books and men and revolutions
they exist until an ember burns out.
Elena accepts her own limp, doesn't go to the doctors.
She says it was so easy to tell the story without
what her friend poured into the crack.

My mother was never one
to surrender
in view of her children.
Elena's friend accuses her
of trying to move back inside her mother's body.
Where my toes,
that smolder so slowly you forget
like my mother's, press
too close together, a nerve resists its current.
A hip-ward tremble.
Heat shivers out the edges.
The ember I place on the injury, trying to set it. The bones jostle.
A passing omen of cold.

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Elena Ferrante fiends (& friends), i have a new poem out in Poet Lore, in the On Devotion folio curated by brilliant poet @patrycjasara.bsky.social.

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