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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Hear @rmennies.bsky.social read from The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) on Episode 73: (Of the Sapphic Epistolary Tradition, Braiding Your Work With Others’, and Having It Out With Melancholy) here: share.transistor.fm/s/6b0120b3

Photograph of a statue’s hand and the poetry lines:

All my life, I have measured my days by the gestures of a beloved
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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Of letters between women, of Plath and Sexton, of the organizing principle of the seasons, of the purity of what we read (and teach), of mental health & documenting medications & radical texts on women’s sexuality & health & more. Episode 73: Rachel Mennies is now live! 🎙️📚💙 @rmennies.bsky.social

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Episode 73: Rachel Mennies (Of the Sapphic Epistolary Tradition, Braiding Your Work With Others’, and Having It Out With Melancholy)

Rachel Mennies, author of The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Purchase: The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) Read: “Practice Elegy”…

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ArtfulTea @artfultea.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

17. Earl Grey Lavender & The Naomi Letters by Rachel Mennies (@rmennies.bsky.social) from @boa-editions.bsky.social

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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

✍️ AGNI at #AWP25 ✍️ 👉 Reviews editor & assistant poetry editor @rmennies.bsky.social — The Personal Is Always Political — 1:45pm — buff.ly/v0aau6E 👉 Assistant poetry editor @izineh.bsky.social — The Politics of Imagining: Poetry as Social Practice — 3:20pm — buff.ly/bmrIBrz

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

anyone know if/how today’s freeze announcement will/could affect NEA disbursements for recently awarded grants?

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

the chicago rat hole is now a small cheval

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Kinell @sinistercinemastudios.art · 16/12/2024

You can't understand what the 2000s were really like without realising that the official release Paris Hilton sextape opens with a tribute to the victims of 9/11

The intro to One Night In Paris which is an American flag graphic with the words "in memory of 9/11/01.... We will forget"

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 17/12/2024

Racism! Check out the relationship between the integration of higher education and the decision to increase tuition and cut state support for colleges. Public goods were only good when serving a specific version of the public.

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Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

heyo what poetry books are you buying this year for your buds? your family? the “non-poetry-readers” in your circles? this is one of my most beloved self-assigned tasks each holiday season & I want to know your favorite possibilities

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

All my life, I have measured my days by the gestures of a beloved. —Rachel Mennies, from The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021)

September 1, 2016

My calendar counts time like this: days Naomi writes days Naomi doesn't write.
All my life, I have measured my days by the gestures of a beloved.
(I am the book resting where your hand last laid it down.
I am the patient dog framed by the open door.)
The last man wrote me letters, too.
They began Next time—or Someday I'd like to—
The one before him would close the blinds as he left.
In my bed, he said when we're apart I always imagine you here.
I let him touch my stomach, whisper I wish I could stay with you.
But a body moves only forward, its course decided.
I foat over my body and remember its arms reaching for you.
Someday I'll ask them how they knew when to touch you and when to rest.
How they knew not to lift me to the door,
but to remain.

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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

This last long year has put everything we know and rely on under pressure. As the literary world starts to gather in solidarity, we at AGNI wish to thank our community for its generous support—it has steadied and heartened us.

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

If you love and miss Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social oh do we have good things in store for you at @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social 🎙️📚 💙 #poetry #podcast

Rachel Mennies’ second book of poetry THE NAOMI LETTERS (BOA, 2021) held up in morning light, windows and hardwood behind, philodendron revolution, cat in a cat tree

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Sumita Chakraborty @notsumatra.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Gaza Funds features a new fundraiser every time you reload the page: gazafunds.com

gazafunds.com

Gaza Funds Spotlight Campaign

Find vetted fundraisers for Gaza here

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 28/11/2024

wow the parade this year was crazy

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

I’ve found a lot of amazing community with JFREJ — their activism for Palestine, their social justice work more broadly, and especially their families/little kids programming in NYC — and if you become a member rn you can get this VERY good tshirt shop.jfrej.org/products/dia...

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Diasporist T-Shirt - Pre-Order Now

This beautiful design was created for JFREJ by the Jewish illustrator Sarah Day. The term Diasporist, as in someone who practices Diasporism, is an idea that comes originally from the Jewish Social L...

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Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

who is the audience for AI-generated literature? novels, poetry, nonfiction? who is actually *asking* for this? (I don’t mean the stuff that writes your work emails or meal plans, also ethically nightmarish but I can at least picture a human being wanting such a thing—even if we shouldn’t)

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The American Poetry Review @ampoetryreview.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Have you heard? We've got a brand new prize on the horizon: aprweb.org/news/2024/10...

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is actually poets

just a dragon planting cabbages and watering them with his tears, you know doing what dragons fucking do

[illustrated quite beautifully]

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Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

trying to imagine explaining all of this to 2007 Rachel applying to graduate school from her dorm room senior year, the trusty reliable normal MFA blog open on her laptop

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Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

everyone say hi to @agnimagazine.bsky.social !! add us to all yr lit mag lists !!

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Jennifer Kwon Dobbs 허수진 @jkwondobbs.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

AGNI Magazine is on Blue Sky! I love these lines from Paisley Rekdal's poem, "My Brother": "I want a brother to walk with me now through these woods, to stare with me into Death’s eyes, those glassy, winking flames." Read the full poem here: agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/my-br...

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My Brother | AGNI Online

Where is my brother? I am stunned, starving, staring into the mirror in the hopes of seeing a face other than mine gaze back. Where is my brother? Wasn’t I promised, once, never to be left alone, my p...

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Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

love it here but still longing for the Weird. is the Weird coming? is it in the room with us and I just don’t have the tools to find it yet? show me the way weirdos

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

moaning “yes chef” as i eat an egg mcmuffin in my car

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Traci Brimhall

It's okay that it's over. Leaving is a lesson of pleasure. My ribs, sets of parentheses. My heart, an aside, an apple ready for the twist. My legs around your hips, a pillory, our shame public to the night. Tulip shadows on the nightstand, an apology marooned and lightless, each bite mark on your shoulder synonymous with grief.
You ask me to scrape the match against the red phosphorus of goodbye in a way that makes you believe it. I ask to be the one on top, the one struck bright when God pours out the lightning.

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Shane McCrae @akasomeguy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Jenny George is one of my favorite poets. Her books are fantastic, and this poem is fantastic. poems.com/poem/eurydice/

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"Eurydice" by Jenny George

from "After Image" published by Copper Canyon

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Megan McDermott (she/her) @megmcdermott92.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

"I admit to it. I have loved you publicly and I have loved you alone, and while the loves touch, they are not the same"

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Twitter isn’t a place, it’s a tool, one that’s being shaped by the person who owns it to specifically boost his ideology among users for his own personal gain. There comes a point where using it, by design, can only benefit him

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Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

your last meme saved is your moral philosophy

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Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I've got a new poem from the new-book-in-process live at Copper Nickel -- copper-nickel.org/practice-ele...

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Copper Nickel | Practice Elegy

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

will be reposting things I don’t even like but see as necessary for developing the culture here. like introducing wolves to a new environment

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Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

have thought ~ weekly since lockdown about going to pastry school. this is good and healthy and normal

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Feeling deeply tired, but going to call my senators (again!) and express support for the Joint Resolution of Disapproval, against arming Israel in the ongoing genocide www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/11/2024

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.

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Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

one of my favorite things we’ve run at AGNI of late — a must-read

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scare-ah 👻 @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Today longing for you feels like pressing a foot into untouched snow. It contorts the face as weeping does, or an idea suddenly arrived. It lives on the page where I know it will find you. from “The Naomi Letters,” Rachel Mennies #poetry

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Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

how I have missed you, little box of letters!!!!!!

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