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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Future Starts Anew at Any Moment tanajeanwelch.com/news

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Honey, I'm sobbing, yes, literally SOBBING after reading this review of TERRY DACTYL by Trish Bendix in the New York Times Book Review, which engages with the book on so many deep levels, yes, I'm reading it over and over, what a gift, this means everything to me!!!💞💞💞💞💞

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This Club Kid Knows How to Survive. The Better Question Is: How to Live?

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Happy discovery! Rama Duwaji's plates! tanajeanwelch.com/news/2025/11/10/winter-2025-featured-artist-rama-dujawi

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Winter 2025 Featured Artist: Rama Duwaji — Tana Jean Welch

I just want you to see these plates.

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Gabriele Münter, “Breakfast of the Birds” (1934) See it at the National Museum for Women in the Arts (or the Guggenheim Nov to April 2026)

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Anyone read All Fours by Miranda July? What’d ya think?

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Out now at @translunartl.bsky.social , "Vengeance As Sweet As My Love", my weirdo tale with the premise of: "What if two figures from Malaysian folk horror were thrust into a cyberpunk Sherlock-Moriarty situation"? translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/v... (you know I'm a Sherlock Holmes nerd)

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Vengeance as Sweet as My Love, by Anita Harris Satkunananthan

My love is pixelated letters and symbols made by keypads in a locked chatroom on an irc network so encrypted, even botnet overlords would not be granted admittance. My love is algae-rich pools in t…

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

A grain silo can be a metaphor for any feeling—one misstep and you are simply engulfed. poems.com/poem/day-10/...

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Day 10

I think: sunshine as punishment, lavender as love language

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

HEAL: Humanism Evolving through Arts and Literature is currently seeking visual art submissions. HEAL welcomes a variety of genres and themes, and submissions are open to all. Please share with your artistic people! #art #submissions #callforart #healingthroughart

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Revisiting: Audrey Kawasaki Tingling 12” x 15” graphite and oil paint on wood panel 2024 www.audkawa.com

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I'm in love with Kati Thomson's vibrant art! An added bonus: she lives and paints in my hometown. #clovis This one is entitled "Flyers." See more at katithomson.com or tanajeanwelch.com/news

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

#LosAngeles "Susan, Aarti, Keerthana and Princess, Sunday in Brooklyn" (2018), by Mexican artist Aliza Nisenbaum. For more on Nisenbaum's work with immigrants, see bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

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Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Soft numb resilience, wing me a story. Scratch me a skin poem. Chase the sparrow’s tail, roll the boulder. Poem of the Week is “Cedar Waxwing, Pyracantha II" by Lehua M. Taitano. The poem is available as audio and text for free at The Quarry: bit.ly/4jvygPJ #Poetry #PoemoftheWeek #Poem #Poet

Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author, and excerpt with a photo of Lehua M. Taitano in a circular frame. Lehua M. Taitano, a CHamoru woman with dark, wavy, shoulder-length hair, smiles warmly while standing outdoors in front of lush green foliage. She wears a black shirt and a black blazer decorated with a white daisy floral pattern.

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Jenny @foxaboxen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

"Dog Years" by Michael Bazzett #NationalPoetryMonth #poetry

"Dog Years"

We’re all aware that when we are walking
the dog, and he spends an hour lovingly sniffing
posts and tufts, and we then return home
and his tongue hangs from his panting mouth,

that somehow seven hours have passed for him,
which means that, allotting time for grieving,
our lives consist of maybe five dogs, and when we
clutch the slack skin behind a puppy’s ear, when

we gather up that impossibly soft coat into our fists,
part of the stabbing intensity of our grip comes
from grief. Right there. Even as that soft pink
tongue is licking you. But what we do not

consider often enough is that old-growth maples
peer down at us in the same way, bewildered
by how soon we are gone, how little we grasp
while we’re here, at our odd rootless ways of love.

— Michael Bazzett

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 07/04/2025

Brimming with praise ( @roxanegay.bsky.social! @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social! ) GRAPHIC RAGE exposes the absurdities + injustices that women know all too well, turns rage into razor-sharp wit, pushes back against the world’s worst takes, + channels frustration into fearless humor + incisive critique.

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

A hauntingly beautiful poem. Maybe one day they'll stop spitting.

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Martha Rich Art Projects @martharichart.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

A poster for the economic blackout on February 28. It is a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

“boys in the cul-de-sac shooting / rubber bands and rocks from PVC pipe guns // this is how I remember my childhood” — @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social Highway 99: Jane Visits My Valley” @upittpress.bsky.social

HIGHWAY 99: JANE VISITS MY VALLEY. tiny teeth marks gnashing a hole in a paper fan purchased at the Fresno Fair. boys in the cul-de-sac shooting rubber bands and rocks from PVC pipe guns. this is how I remember my childhood: a ravenous static a static explosion, killer sharks floating belly up in the sun-bleached fiberglass pool, blood on the slide, the wasp whipping the back of a knee, the smell of a rattlesnake stripped of its skin, the metal barrette, the light socket

when Jane was in the bathroom and my mother told me to leave Jane, go back to the husband in Boston, because “You are not a lesbian,” I didn’t remind my mother of her own infidelity: the mother-daughter “shopping trips,” to meet her lovers in San Francisco. I didn’t say: “I never said I was a lesbian.” there was only rubble, Jane bending to pick out a scrap of painted shirt as if it were soiled ivory from a grand piano, possessed of us both, and ruined now. Tana Jean Welch.

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Just want to give a shout-out to Jhon Gonzalez! His Latin dance classes on Apple Fitness make me so happy. Each time I do one, I feel like the day, the week (dare I say year) is actually going to be ok. Anyone else a fan of this fun, happy, loving dancing man?

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

“I would’ve told you // I should but don’t / regret trying to OD on my mother’s heart pills // at age 16. I slept five days straight and it was absolutely / fabulous.” — @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social, “Letter to Those Who Wanted Me”

LETTER TO THOSE WHO WANTED ME

to choose truth over dare. Self-disclose for once. Give anything, a barbed fluke, a chain tongue of a buckle, enough for them to claim, I know her. She is mine. Me. Always opting to kiss the cis girl, never holding fast. Tagging her lips as if a hot pot, hardly a blink. Just enough to satisfy the dare, the boy forever asking me to strip and streak even though my deft undress-dress celerity—perfected in junior high locker rooms—long ago evolved into a moonlit self-evasion, polished in pretense. But no one wants to be left suffocating in the polluted orchards of this valley: the earth everywhere brown and aching. So, older now, I long to unmoor myself, disassemble my semblance,

to imagine I never left Jess Johnson’s game room without answering questions about ejaculations, virginity mislaid, sexual partners, and other regrets. I would’ve told you I’d never fake an orgasm. I would’ve shared the stale story about the back seat of somebody’s mother’s Camry. Spectators sneering round the windows. I would’ve told you how many sexual partners: enough, and the only celebrity crush I’ve ever had—Frank O’Hara. Odd, but true. Because starseeds, because a brittle desire to land. Because Alice Neel painted his portrait not once, but twice. Because the body is a place in which the city squats and tarries. Because I’ve never faked an orgasm—except when drunk. I would’ve told you

I should but don’t regret trying to OD on my mother’s heart pills at age 16. I slept five days straight and it was absolutely fabulous. I would’ve said Frank O’Hara. Because he “had so much grace, that man, even through all the delirium and agony.” Because sex is a common denominator. Because humans do things like release all the British birds cited in Shakespeare into Central Park. Because you wanted the truth is I would’ve liked to kiss her harder. Longer. To splay myself agape. To open in slow motion everything a body has to offer. Hers. Mine. Middled bare in the coed dare circle—a cadaver peeled and pinned—authenticating the thrust and gut inside us all. Tana Jean Welch.

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Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Me every time a new person is announced on that man’s team.

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

With election day upon us, I wanted to offer hope for a better future by sharing one of my favorite artists, Firelei Báez. Drawing from and destabilizing the past, Baez presents new possibilities for the future. tanajeanwelch.com/news/2024/11/4/firelei-bez-on-imagining-positive-possible-futures

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Just finished the absolutely gorgeous Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. It’s one of those rare books I never want to end. She captured so well so many of my current feelings: on being a mother, apocalyptic thinking, time, and more.

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

I’m a long time fan of Jena Osman’s poetic investigations. This poem seemed especially apt in wake of all the texts Republicans keep sending me about dark money taking over Tallahassee. poems.com/poem/disclos...

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"Disclosures" by Jena Osman

from "A Very Large Array" published by DABA

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Hey Seattle area! Join me in Everett next Monday (9/30)!

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

I'm excited to read in my home state next week! If you're in the Davis/Sacramento area, please join me. @poetryindavis #californiapoetry #parachutes

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

California writers! Did you have a book come out this past year? Consider entering the Golden Poppy Awards! Deadline: September 15 caliballiance.org/page/GP2024

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Taking her out for a little west coast jaunt! Tell your Davis, Everett, and Bellingham amigos I'd love to see them.

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Happy Summer Everyone! Gen’ichirō Inokuma, “Answer from the Constellations” (1983)

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

It means I start walking faster as I pass by. Sometimes you don’t need to KNOW in order to UNDERSTAND.

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

I finally saw Asteroid City and loved it! So much of the good old Wes Anderson in this one.

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

Barbara Takenaga's paintings are gorgeous and transportational. Where do you want to go? More here: www.barbaratakenaga.com

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Tampa! St. Pete! Clearwater! Come on out to the Dali

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

Victoria Lupascu interviewed me about my book, Advancing Medical Posthumanism, for NBN's "New Books in Literary Studies" podcast. Or, further evidence that I should stick to written communication :) newbooksnetwork.com/advancing-me...

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Tana Jean Welch, "Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024) - New Books Network

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Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Hey poets! I'm looking to put together an AWP panel on Poetic Futures. All poetic styles and topics welcome, including sci-fi or posthuman poetry. I'm keeping it broad and then I'll narrow down based on responses. DM me your ideas! (by May 19) Please share this! #AWP25

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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Call the mayor’s office to oppose library cuts, which are coming at his behest: (206) 684-4000

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