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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A review I wrote of Melanie Soiset-Weldon's Welcome Calm, Silence Tyrants is up @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social If you suffer from insomnia or love well-crafted poems in unique forms, this book is a sanctuary for you!

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trying to get better and sending out Poems to Carry You here -this one is about the sacredness inherent in "remembering to remember"... Poems to Carry You #35 sararburnett.substack.com/p/poems-to-c...

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Poems to Carry You #35

Remembering to remember...

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you so much for reading and for selecting that poem to share!

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Still time to register for my class starting next Tuesday evening online where we will read and write poems that unpack resilience. Poems, I think, many of us need to hear... and maybe write? All levels welcome. Recently laid off feds get a discount. (Books not req). www.sararburnett.com/classes

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

My latest "Poems to Carry You" is about the ways in which poems navigate the relationship with the news, between truth & what feels true — & what they can tell us about leading meaningful lives in spite of & because of it. News & art made by my 8 year old. us9.campaign-archive.com?u=4050f8d21c...

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This week's batch of curated poems on resilience is an homage to the people who have helped or cared for others. mailchi.mp/366766c78754...

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Join me starting May 27th as we build our resilience muscles through poetry in a series of 3 online classes. Open to all levels of writing. Former federal employees are eligible for scholarship. My hope is this is a class you didn't know you needed right now. politics-prose.com/list/online-...

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ONLINE CLASS: Containers of Light and Dark: Reading and Writing Poetry of Resilience (2563)

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

“You can cut all the flowers, but you can’t keep spring from coming.”- Pablo Neruda More on spring poems of resilience in my Poems to Carry You Letter. mailchi.mp/03aa0a59899d...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"Despite the district’s ruling, Inama refuses to remove the signs, even if it means risking her job. 'There’s no way I would be able to allow myself to just take it down and roll over to what I feel like they’re asking me to do.'"

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Teacher ordered to remove signs from classroom, including one saying 'Everyone is welcome here'

“There are only two opinions on this sign: Everyone is welcome here, or not everyone is welcome here,” argues Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher.

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Let’s build our resilience writing muscles together! This Wed, free Workshop!

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I love Vermonters. So glad the VP chose Sugarbush mountain to ski this weekend and was met with massive protest.

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” — Elie Wiesel

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Carry signs of written or pictorial message that highlights the effects of his disastrous policies and have one single unifying message on them for Dems writ boldly on each one. #notmypresident

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Looking forward to offering a free workshop on resilience poetry with @brownbaglit.bsky.social Any writer or anyone in interested in reading and writing poetry to strengthen your spirit right now is welcome! Register below.

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A friend sent this to me and it's very timely. I have incidentally started to memorize a poem again (Invictus) as a way to build inner strength. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/m...

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How Poetry Helps Me Resist the Algorithm

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way.

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I have made it a habit. I call 2 republican senators a day on an issue (lately the DOE for me) like it’s a something on my to-do list. The 5 Calls app makes it very easy to do (although I usually tweak the script). In my mind, something is better than nothing. Make some noise!

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

To see Marco Rubio, a child of Cuban exiles who fled a Russian-backed communist regime, make friends with Russia today has my Cuban born grandparents, who fled for the same reason, turning in their graves. The utter shame and hypocrisy of it.

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I am the granddaughter of Cuban exiles who escaped a Russian-backed Communist regime. To see Marco Rubio, a child of Cuban exiles who fled for the same reason, make friends with Russia today has my grandparents turning in their graves. The utter shame and hypocrisy of it.

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Another installment of Poems to Carry You during this time. mailchi.mp/ba95c7eb5a0b...

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Called senators Suzanne Collins and Tim Scott today about protecting DOE. I made contact with Tim Scott’s office twice. The first time they hung up on me so I called back and got another person who was more polite.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

More courage… more resistance.

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I say this now into the BlueSky void because that the more people are transparent about the ways we resist, the more courage it gives to all of us.

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I don’t think it’s going to change anyone’s mind. I’m not even a constituent. BUT I do think every call, every voice, every action matters to put the pressure on that we the people are not going to roll over belly up during this destruction.

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I live in MD and I think @raskin.house.gov is doing great right now and putting pressure where he can. I’ve started calling Republican congressmen and women in other states to voice my concerns about the dismantling of our democracy, wholly unqualified cabinet picks, egregious Musk overhead etc.

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I’ve heard something very similar… cognitive dissonance I think is the term.

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The AP should stop covering Trump events. Instead send those White House reporters out into the field to report on the harms and repercussions of his policies. The U.S. public never needed coverage of pseudo-events anyway.

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Chloe Yelena Miller @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Question: Are you a federal worker (or adjacent) who has lost your job because of the current cuts and are interested in a free zoom workshop on writing cover letters and resumes? DM me with email addresses; I can send out more information. It will be Wed., February 26, from 7-8 pm EST on Zoom.

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Jonathan Laxton, MD, FRCPC @drjonl.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

For all our American neighbours who may be struggling to find accurate health information - thr Public Health Agency of Canada has a website you are more than welcome to use: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

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Comic Book Herald @comicbookherald.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Casual library pickup Librarian told me "this ones been popular" Shocking!

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jocelynpoet.bsky.social @jocelynpoet.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Words to live by. #booksky

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Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

In Nov, I started Poems to Carry You, a free "e-letter," where I curate 2-5 poems of resilience 2x month. There's hope, there's resilience, and people (who happen to be poets) digging deep into their light, their strength, their voice, their power. All are welcome. mailchi.mp/e6ce235d7e74...

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