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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 04/07/2026

Always great, hanging with The Kingcast:

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 17/06/2026

New story up:

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Southwest Music Archive @ttumusicarchive.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Learn more about the Southwest Collection through Doña Ana County's podcast, "Preserving History & Democracy" featuring Archivist Kylie Kincaid! #Podcast #SouthwestCollection #Archives #History #Lubbock youtu.be/D4Atqnl4rQU?...

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Preserving History & Democracy: Doña Ana County in the Texas Tech Archives ft Kylie Kincaid (S6 E14)

YouTube video by Doña Ana County Clerk's Office

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 16/06/2026

And here they are are with the Locus Award:

The Locus Award: glad-looking plastic with words.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 16/06/2026

Nice to get home from the UK to the Bram Stoker Award and the Nebula Award waiting here:

Teri trophies on a granite counter. One’s a little haunted house. The other’s the whole cosmos.

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

@stephengrahamjones.com and his horror novel Buffalo Hunter Hunter have been busy these past couple of weeks winning awards left and right! Nebula Award for Best Novel, Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel, and Locus Award for a Horror Novel! #SowellCollection #StephenGrahamJones

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The Sowell Collection holds the personal papers of some of the country's most prominent writers on the natural world. #SowellCollection #InternationalArchivesDay #Literature #Community #Nature #Archives

3 file folders reading International Archives Day. 5 small Polaroid photos; top right archival boxes, bottom left to right, slides in plastic protectors, archived files in box, many boxes stacked around the office, and archived books on shelf.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Looking forward to this next week

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The Horror Writers Association have announced the winners of the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards!! Congratulations to everyone!! 🥳🦇

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Here Are the Winners of the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards - Reactor

Congratulations to the winners!

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Need some ocean reads on World Ocean Day? We've got some recommendations! Facing the Wave by Gretel Ehrlich How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler The Sea Around Us and Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson #SowellCollection #WorldOceanDay #BookRecs #literature #community #nature #archives

World Ocean Day, June 8, 2025. 3 ocean pictures and coral graphics.

World Ocean Day. Book Covers of Facing the Wave by Gretel Ehrlich How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler The Sea Around Us and Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 07/06/2026

Whoah, wow: thrilled, floored, and honored for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter to have somehow won both a Bram Stoker Award and a Nebula Award last night! Thanks, all. Signed, a horror writer stumbling around Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 08/06/2026

Coming through like … like I don’t know enough British history to come up with anything clever.

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Want read something about the environment and our connections to it today? The Sowell Collection is full of books all about nature and community. #SowellCollection #WorldEnvironmentDay #literature #community #nature #archives

Explore the Sowell Collection and its authors for some amazing books on the World's environment and our relationship with it. World Environment Day, June 5. Background of blurred grass and sky.

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

June is National Pollinator Month! A couple of our authors are big into these little guys, so check out their collections for more pollinator info. #SowellCollection #NationalPollinatorMonth #literature #community #nature #archives

June is National Pollinator Month. Background of a bee on a flower.

Peruse these papers for powerful pollinator prowess. Background of butterflies in the sky.

Robert Michael Pyle Papers, 1874-2014 and 1956-2021. Ro Wauer Papers 1913-2015. Gary Paul Nabhan Papers 1866-2010 and 1986-2021. Background of a butterfly on a flower.

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We are super excited to reveal the stunning cover for OFF THE RESERVATION by @stephengrahamjones.com! 🖤 A spine-tingling and terrifying road trip across America from a modern master of horror in this follow-up to the bestselling The Only Good Indians. Coming in October this year… ☠️

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Red POP! News @redpopnews.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Titan Books has revealed the cover for @stephengrahamjones.com's upcoming novel Off the Reservation, giving readers their first look at the highly anticipated follow-up to The Only Good Indians. redpopnews.com/titan-books-...

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Titan Books Reveals Cover for Stephen Graham Jones' Upcoming Novel, Off the Reservation

Titan Books has revealed the cover for Stephen Graham Jones' upcoming novel Off the Reservation, giving readers their first look at the highly anticipated follow-up to The Only Good Indians.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 31/05/2026

Whoah, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter got a Locus Award! @locusmag.bsky.social

A very cool Locus award, which is Lucite with all the right words, and’s against the fetching random background of a girl desk.

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It's National Paperclip Day! Here are all the weird paperclips we've collected over 5 years and our stash of colorful plastic paperclips used in collections. We use these and remove the metal ones to avoid rust in the collections! #SowellCollection #NationalPaperclipDay #archives

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There are a lot of notebooks in the Sowell Collection. Field notes, observances, and doodles all kept in notebooks for you to find in the archives! #SowellCollection #NationalNotebookDay #literature #community #nature #archives

It's National Notebook Day. The Authors of the Sowell Collection have been using notebooks their whole careers. From Field notes, observances, ideas, and doodles, the notebooks chronicle all the adventures! Written on a ripped out lined notebook page. Background of a beach.

Gary Nabhan: notebook pages full of notes and another notebook with notes and a doodle of a turtle. Written on a ripped out lined notebook page. Background of a beach.

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Happy World Bee Day! Remember to take care of our very important pollinators and maybe read something about these honey making friends! #SowellCollection #WorldBeeDay #literature #community #nature #archives

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 18/05/2026

Wow, from so long ago:

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Southwest Collection @swcscl.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

May the 4th be with you! These newspaper clippings are from The Rising Star Sept. 8, 1977 issue. Star Wars was released on May 25, 1977, but was so popular that the Majestic Theatre reopened the film. #SouthwestCollection #Archives #History #WestTexas #SpecialCollectionsLibrary #StarWars

Newspaper clipping that shows Star Wars movie poster and an advertisement for showings at the Majestic Theatre in Eastland, TX.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 04/05/2026

THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER is nominated for Best Fiction at the @readingthewest Book Awards! Voting is open now through May 31st. Cast your vote for Good Stab at readingthewest.com.

digital placard showcasing the tpb of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, with a very male buffalo bull in the immediate, red-faded background, and some words: "Reading the West / Awards / Vote Now! / Best Fiction Novel / Available in Paperback July 14th".

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

It's National Scrapbook Day was Saturday, but we wanted to share a really cool scrapbook from Barry Lopez on his European Tour in Summer 1962! These ones are from Paris! #SowellCollection #scrapbook #literature #community #nature #archives

National Scrapbook Day. Photograph Album, European Tour, Summer 1962, Barry Lopez Papers, 1901-2022 and undated. Scrapbook of black and white photographs from Paris, France. Includes Notre Dame Cathedral, Arc de Triomphe, and Sacré-Cœur Basilica.

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I keep finding Poems in my Pocket! Must be Poem in Your Pocket Day. What poem would you keep in your pocket to share on the last day of National Poetry Month? #SowellCollection #NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #archives

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Robert Wrigley grew up in Collinsville, a coal mining town and was the first member of his family to graduate from college and the first in generations never to have worked in a coal mine. It was in Montana that he developed an abiding love for the western wilderness. #SowellCollection #poetry

Scrapbook background. Heading reads Robert Wrigley. Portrait of Robert Wrigley and covers of his books Anatomy of Melancholy, The Ture account of Myself as a Bird, Box, Beautiful Country, Lives of the Animals, Earthly Meditations, and The Reign of Snakes.

Scrapbook background. Creel poem by Robert Wrigley, We sentimentalize the weaver, the hands that love and bind methodical and true, wicker tightly wound on ribs. Fronds of fern too, and rainbow trout blue and gold rose, are likewise woven, fisherman looping the air with their lines. What is weaving but a kind of love in the world for that holds: the tines of branches locked among leaves, sure elegance of burlap on the bundled roots of a transplanted sapling, and if you’re fishing, that dark nest at your hip boots’ top, nestled variegations of trout and leaf, ribs and whitely-layered flesh – streams falling all ways down and out, the cold fabric of the river, a mesh. From The Poetry Foundation, July 1988

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It's National Email Day! Archives keep emails, too! whether it is physical copies or on a floppy drive they stay in the collection. #SowellCollection #NationalEmailDay #literature #community #nature #archives

Background of robotic hand coming out of a laptop and @ symbols around the text. Reads National Email Day. Archives keep the emails, too! The Sowell Collection

Background of robot reading a book and @ symbols around the text. Reads If our authors give us their emails we keep them in the collection! Some of the formats we have emails in ... flash drives, floppy disks, physical copies. The question of how to properly conserve emails is answered in modern archives all the time.

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

J. Drew Lanham earned his degrees from Clemson University where he currently serves as Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Master Teach and Certified Wildlife Biologist. He is also the author of Sparrow Envy and Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves. #NationalPoetryMonth #archives

Scrapbook background. Heading reads J. Drew Lanham. Portrait of Lanham and covers of his books Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves and Sparrow Envy.

Scrapbook background. Love for a Song poem by J Drew Lanham, Love is barter - bits of affection traded for pieces of adoration. It is desire doled out on the whippoorwill’s summer wanting. It is our craving for the meadowlark’s ringing song – our longing for spring’s greening from our sun-starved spirits down to our bare-toed roots. We seek the winding path and wander until we find the sweet spots – blackwater cypress swamp, tallgrass prairie sweep – the place where moonlight glancing off of tire-slicked stones makes us weep. We ant the wild soul and a shadow-dwelling wood thrush heaps it on us in self-harmonizing sonata – We revel in wild-flower bloom – marvel in the migratory sojourns of birds dodging falling stars. Sink yourself deep in the dizzying dance of pollen-drunk bees. Find hope in the re-leaved canopies of the tallest trees. Wind and water – storm and surf – they can move us to other ends. Therin is the turn on. It’s the honey sweet seduction. Nature asks only that we notice – a sunrise here – a sunset there. The surge, that overwhelming inexplicable thing in a swallow’s joyous flight or the dawning of new light that elds heart and head into sensual soul in that moment of truly seeing – that is love. From onbeing.org.

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Today is International Cli-Fi Day! Here are some recommendations so you can pick up some climate fiction books today. #SowellCollection #InternationalCli-FiDay #ClimateFiction #literature #community #nature #archives

International Cli-Fi Day. Fantasy creature in flowery meadow on orange background.

What is Cli-Fi? Cli-Fi is short for Climate Fiction. literature that deals with climate change. Works of climate fiction may take place in the world as we know it, in the near future, or in fictional worlds experiencing climate change. the genre frequently includes science fiction and dystopian or utopian themes, imagining potential futures based on research about the impacts of climate change and speculations about how humans may respond to these and the problem of climate change. definition from wikipedia. clouds on an orange background.

book covers of Cupido Cupido by Emily Grandy, The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins, The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin and Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan. oragne background with cloudsa and a blue dragon

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Susan Brind Morrow is classicist, linguist, poet, and translator of ancient mythology and contemporary Arabic poetry. Morrow uniquely saw that this extensive hieroglyphic work was a compendium of mystical poetry made up of beautifully composed verses. #SowellCollection #NationalPoetryMonth #archives

Scrapbook background. Heading reads Susan Brind Morrow. Portrait of Morrow and covers of her books Water, The Dawning Moon of the Mind and The Silver Eye.

Scrapbook background. February Sea, poem by Susan Brind Morrow. The harbor gleams blue in the light A mist diffuses the sun The masts are a pleasing sight An old and reassuring one Forever suggesting freedom. Even o this winter day The wind rides over the sea And fills the sails like clouds That carry our thoughts away. From compass.icwa.org.

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Robert Michael Pyle is a professional writer and lepidopterist living in Grays River, Washington. He has published 17 books and has published hundreds of papers, short stories, poems and essays. #SowellCollection #NationalPoetryMonth #InternationalHaikuDay #haiku #literature #nature #archives

Scrapbook background. Heading reads Robert Micharl Pyle. Portrait of Pyle and covers of his books Chinook & Chantrelle, Evolution of the Genus Iris, Swimming with Snakes, and The Last Man in Willapa.

Scrapbook background. Heading reads International Haiku Day. Haiku for a Beetle With Spiderwebs on Its Antennae poem by Robert Michael Pyle for Bill Yake, who noticed it. O polka-dotted longhorn How did those spiderwebs Get there, anyway?
Gossamer beams across Segmented spars – which Came first? Did the spider Spin from pole to pole, Or did you merely walk Into her web? Maybe a spiderlet ballooned Caught On long Silk Road: One arm West, one East. Silk strands between antennae: Do they really improve Your reception? But what I really Want to know Is the installation cost.

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Join us TONIGHT @ 6pm for Emily Grandy reading from her book Cupido Cupido! There is still time to register. texastech.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SowellCollection #reading #literature #community #nature #archives

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Pattiann Rogers, her poems are noteworthy because in them she combines scientific language and concepts with questions of cultural and spiritual values. #SowellCollection #NationalPoetryMonth #literature #community #nature #archives

Scrapbook background. Heading reads Pattiann Rogers. Portrait of Rogers and covers of her books, The Dream of the Marsh Wren, Song of the World Becoming, Firekeeper, Holy Heathen Rhapsody, and Quickening Fields.

o Scrapbook background. The Body As Window poem by Pattiann Rogers. Open over a seed-and-insect-hazy prairie or a pond Of knotted black willow or open beside an oak-shaded Garden of painted trillium or a sea-rocketed And salty sky, a window never exists As Anything but pure continuum. Forever empty, Its fame is only filled by the everlasting beyond Of inside and outside. If a flower were a window, then through the split, Lavender stained-glass of the pinewoods lily, The first careful violet clasp of the void Might be seen, the perfumed and petaled origin Of the abyss might be sighted. And by watching through and beyond The three wing-shaped windows gliding as birds Above the winter trees, one might witness A three-way bending of matter to conception, The multiple creasing of blessing To bone, the clear intention of illumination Gathering itself to blood. Grey Bark, scaly buds, simple lobed and saw-toothed Leaves can disappear into the details Of the beech becoming invisible within the frame Of its Own existence, becoming the transparent And branch-shaped window through which one might look out Upon the arboreal creation of emptiness only visible Through sweet sap and wood. And learning how to look both ways Through this skulled window, how to watch Through breast and hands and marrow, one might actually see That transformation, that union of death And light occurring continually right now and forever, On both Sides of the body and far, far beyond. From The Poetry Foundation, Oct 1983.

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Tomorrow! Join us at 6pm for Emily Grandy reading from her Sowell Emerging Writers Prize winning book Cupido Cupido. Register Here: texastech.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SowellCollection #reading #literature #community #nature #archives

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Barbara Ras is the author of four poetry collections. Ras has taught at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson and worked for forty years in book publishing and is the founding director emerita of Trinity University Press in San Antonio. #SowellCollection #NationalPoetryMonth #archives

Scrapbook background. Heading Reads Barbara Ras. Portrait of Ras and covers of her books The Last Skin, The Blues of Heaven, Bite Every Sorrow, and One Hidden Stuff.

Scrapbook background. All, poem by Barbara Ras. The Prisoner can’t go any longer, but he does. The beggar can’t go on begging, but watch- Tomorrow he’ll be in the alley, holding out a bowl To everyone, to even a young, possibly poorer, child. The mother can’t go on believing, But she will kneel for hours in the cathedral, Holding silence in her arms. The rain goes on, daily, sometimes, and we cry, As often as not alone. The fishmonger, the bell ringer, the cook, each Can be corrupted in a less than dire way. Nothing can replace the sea breezes you were born to. Nothing can stay the shy ache in the palm you hold out to the fortune-teller. The concrete lions on her steps go on Making bloodless journeys, they go on Hunting in air longer than any of you will live to watch, Hunting still after your futures become all irises and blamelessness. From The Poetry Foundation.

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This Thursday!! Join us at 6pm for Emily Grandy's reading of Cupido Cupido. Register Here: texastech.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SowellCollection #reading #literature #community #nature #archives

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 13/04/2026

Always cool, talking with Grimdark:

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Don't forget the reading next week! Cupido Cupido by Emily Grandy Thursday the 16th @ 6pm. Register Here: texastech.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SowellCollection #reading #literature #community #nature #archives

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Poet, environmentalist, educator. John Lane is currently a professor of English and environmental studies at Wofford College. He is the author of nearly a dozen books of essays, poetry, and non-fiction. #SowellCollection #NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #literature #community #nature #archives

Scrapbook background. Heading reads John Lane. Portrait of Lane and covers of his books Abandoned Quarry, Southern Range, Anthropocene River, and The Mad Kayaker.

Scrapbook background. Early Spring on Cumberland Island, poem by John Lane. For David Scott. Friends for ten years, we know without saying, to walk the edge, to watch ahead from herons, to check the low limbs of willows for snakes. You motion across the marsh’s width and I wade, waist-deep in stained water, to where you’ve, stopped a cottonmouth at the margin of grass, and rt deer path, and with your simple presence, twisted the snake into its quick defensive coil. Then it strikes deep and decisively, but misses, directed toward the nearest pocket of heat. I want to joke with our first words in an hour, that now we can be sure another spring his here, that our first snake each year calls back, long days and warm nights, the click of cricket, frogs, and the quickening crawl of green. From Gwarlingo The Sunday Poem.

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Southwest Collection @swcscl.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It's quieter at the archive because the West Texas Historical Association (WTHA) conference is being held in Lubbock. We have every issue of WTHA's journal, West Texas Historical Review, dating back to 1925. These can be accessed through Reference Services. #westtexashistoricalassociation

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The Sowell Family Collection in Literature Community & Nature @sowellcollection.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Clara Bush Vadala is a poet and veterinarian from North Texas. Clara is a good friend of the collection and regularly reads her poetry at our Conferences! #SowellCollection #PoetryMonth #poetry #literature #community #nature #archives

Scrapbook background. Heading reads Clara Bush Vadala. Portrait of Bush Vadala and covers of her books Prairie Smoke and Resembling a Wild Animal.

Scrapbook background. Skunk, Alive, poem by Clara Bush Vadala, It’s 4am, and you’re as sleek as tar, It’s really not your fault you’re marked like roads- Your asphalt backside broken by the white, That lines you sides about your shoulder blades- Like you’ve nowhere else to be but on them, You descend form midnight onto highways, When we forget the stench of paving roads, Reminding us with sacrifice: that scent, That Stretches miles before the wind makes you, Anonymous, again. Please, find a stream, Be washed away in that instead of smashed, By bumpers. There’s no glory in your guts, They’re only feeding hungry buzzards now, Don’t you get it? I don’t want to smell you.

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Southwest Music Archive @ttumusicarchive.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Today is the exhibit opening of “Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m a Cook!” 🥳To learn more about Stubb’s history, read this blog written by Kylie Kincaid, co-curator of the exhibit. See our previous post for information about the reception. southwestcollection.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/l...

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“Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m a Cook”: The Legendary Stubb

This blog was written by Kylie Kincaid, Assistant Archivist of the Southwest Collection. Stubb in his signature cowboy hat standing in front of a sign that states, “The Legendary Stubb’s Bar-B-Q an…

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