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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

poem from my little chap with @the-ethelzine.bsky.social

Dialogue

Judith and her Maidservant (1613-14)

Where shall we put the head?

It drips through the basket.
Put your hair in braids tonight, my love.
Set pearls in your ears.

We have tasks. Tasks that require
a weapon. Tie your laces. Bring

a basket. Bring your mother's
basket, the one that could hold

a pig's head. Bring a white cloth.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's Feature: "COURAGED! by the body as a quiver of arrows" by @tommywyattblake.bsky.social from Mutually Assured Destruction published by @the-ethelzine.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/courage...

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COURAGED! by the body as a quiver of arrows

the body as toyhacked. body as premature goreform, a marionette of blood and fluid and sinewy muck.

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cryptid Parker’s SHE KEEPS HER DEAD is now available for pre-order. www.ethelzine.com/shop/she-kee...

Gichigami
Area: 31,700 mi2
Length: 349.8 mi
Volume: 2,903 cubic miles
Width: 159.7 mi
Islands: Isle Royale
Notable Shipwrecks: SS Edmund Fitzgerald, SS
Arlington, SS MM Drake, more

Superior
The lake wrapped in a landlocked hug churns. It holds. It freezes. It keeps.
Over 550 ships are laid to rest in her belly: Over 10,000 Souls lie restless in the deep. Superior does not give up her dead willingly. They wander her shores eternally, searching for a way

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Now available for pre-order! Léa Roger Abi Zeid Daou’s A MILLENNIA OF SEEDS www.ethelzine.com/shop/a-mille...

Cyclamen Libanoticum
يَجِقُّ للشاعر ما لا يُجِقُّ لغير»
As the saying goes,
What is permitted to a poet is not permitted to others.
In a palm.
A drop in the sea Of our memory and land Is eternal in poetry.
A drop from the sea, Along our border Is collective memory.
Every village,
Children sprouting out from the mud like
Wildflowers,
Like Viola Libanotica and
Iris Sofarana.
I observe Cyclamen Libanoticum
Blooming,
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Endemic to this labal.
And they observe me too,
In my blooming Endemic to right here.
Jeddo pointing to the tree his Jeddo planted, Before there was anything cise.
The albalut tree in front of my home Is thousands of years old.
My father's hands have pressed into this soil, And so have mine.
A life of becoming
Between sea and mountains, Where life was just beginning.

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Binding Tommy Sheffield’s THE WHITE ROOM which you can order at the link below. www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-whi...

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Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Ethel added some new copies of Being Seen to the shop 🌼 www.ethelzine.com/shop/being-s...

Photo of author in green dress and pink glasses holding copies of a purple chapbook which has a daisy eye on the cover. She's outdoors with greenery in the background.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Today's Feature: "Lyria, ki ékri kabann-la" by @ghoststructural.bsky.social from The story that begins with a story named Death published by @the-ethelzine.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/lyria-k...

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Lyria, <em>ki ékri kabann-la</em>

O virgin candle-eater pray for my prayers

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t.a. 👻 tanis abate @ghoststructural.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Massive honor to be featured on @poetrydaily.bsky.social with one of my favorite pieces from “The story that begins with a story named Death” from @the-ethelzine.bsky.social. Okay, maybe they’re all my favorites. The point remains. 💜

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

From The Collected About Ethel: www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-col...

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Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just a little more than one week left to participate in our annual chapbook search! Details & guidelines here: pinholepoetry.ca/chapbook-con...

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Vaghawan Ojha’s THE LOW MURMURS OF AN EMPTY MOOR is now available. www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-low...

Sometimes
Sometimes,
I absolutely don't feel like talking with her, then I do,
Sometimes,
I absolutely like to ask her
to pay every inch of scratch that she leaves inside me, then I don't
I look back at this ever stretching time, and as if I'm on the mouth of a river, the gurgling waves come toward me,
After forty years, of wanting and not wanting, what I'm now is a ranch of emptiness
one after another, where the shell grows double in diameter every season
Sometimes,
I like to sit beside her and talk, talk about all these listless things, that I am and nag about every ifs
Sometimes,
I absolutely don't feel like talking with her then, I call her name, it echoes and submerges inside me;
Hello!
Now, I wait for her to reply forever.

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Iris Aguilar’s IN ÁANALTE’, IN PIXAN is available for pre-order. Iris Aguilar is an American woman with mixed indigenous Mexican roots residing in Washington state, USA. She is a businesswoman of many trades, master of none. She has Cerebral Palsy and uses a wheelchair.

Chanlool And The Jade Chair
In Mayab, where Yuum K'iin, the sun patriarch, smiles too proudly upon the people, and where iron and smoke collide with the ancient ways-this land of secrets and unscen beings is where the Aluxo'ob still live.
Long before humans began making a mess of things, the female creators, Xkiichpan Ajawo'ob, and the Creator Lords, the Yuumstilo'ob, shaped the Aluxo'ob, tiny spirits born to care for nature. Yuum Ká'ax, Lord of the Forest, taught them about Meyaj lik' and the joy of mischief.
Across the many moon cycles of the lunar matriarch, Xki'ichpan Ajaw Ixch'eel, the Aluxo'ob learned to watch over humanity. Humans and Aluxo'ob worked together for ages until the conquistadors, táanxelil máako'ob, came and stained the earth red. The villagers began to forget the Aluxo'ob, too afraid of the old ways.
Still, the Aluxo'ob watched humanity change again, favoring the monsters of iron and smoke that devoured the carth matriarch, Xki ichpan Ajaw Lu'um.
Limestone caverns filled with water, called ts'ono'oto'ob, began to vanish, and the Aluxo'ob lost their homes. Many left for the underworld realms of

Xiiba'albaj. Yet one ts'ono'ot remained: the place of Aluxkaaj, near a human village that remembered the old ways and offered gifts to the Aluxo'ob in exchange for help with their milpas.
In Aluxkaaj, the Aluxo'ob became more flesh than spirit. They grew to human height and dressed in traditional garments, and cach had a role within the community. They all played in the forests near their kaaj. leaping among the branches and helping farmers by chasing away thieves
—all but Chanlool.
He couldn't jump between branches. He couldn't chase off thieves, and he couldn't make deals with the human farmers like his siblings did. For the little Alux was born with his legs and feet turned inward, muscles tight and knees crossed by unseen forces beyond his control. His body was unable to obey the commands meant to make him walk on his own, destined to never know what it is like to freely move his legs.
Yet he had something better than working limbs: Xki'ichpan Ajaw Lu'um gave him a jade chair, smooth and bright. The chair could not move on its own, but ki'ichpan Ajaw Lu'um's Meyaj lik' stirred the carth beneath it, carrying Chanlool wherever he wished to go.
This is how he ran with his siblings, the ground shifting under his chair, lifting him toward the treetops, often leaving them behind in their games.

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

An oldie but goodie poem published online and in a handmade zine by @the-ethelzine.bsky.social, also it's in my book "Slow Now with Clear Skies," Read it here: www.ethelzine.com/volume-5-jul...

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Volume 5 - Juliene T. Weaver - Radical Places — Ethel

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Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Excited to read from my @the-ethelzine.bsky.social chapbook Being Seen at the Sept 4th reading!

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Coming soon: Iris Aguilar’s In analte, In Pixan (My book, My Soul)

Kanulilo'ob of Earth
They don't know they are among us.
They are very special to Yuumstil.
They are disabled and have illnesses.
They are close to Yuumstil.
They are sometimes abused and not seen as we are.
Others have the honor to see us, as we truly are, Kanulilo'ob of Earth.
For some reason, Yuumstil clipped our wings and sent us to earth.
Could it be to suffer our hearts?
I don't know why?
I do know that one day we will return to him,
with headdresses of ya'axtuunich and feathers,
and he will answer our questions.
Why did you make us Kanulilo'ob of Earth?

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Coming soon: Iris Aguilar’s In analte, In Pixan (My book, My Soul)

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Tommy Sheffield’s THE WHITE ROOM is now available for pre-order. Get a feee copy of Tommy and john comptons the pain diary when you order! Link to shop in bio and comments. @poetjohncompton.bsky.social

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Sending these off to Left Bank Books Seattle!

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“The sonnets are merely markers serving to indicate that you are still in a graveyard. This is NPR.” Ahh this beauty of a poem by Alex Tretbar in @poetrydaily.bsky.social! LOVE to see an @the-ethelzine.bsky.social title today! 💙📚

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[And perhaps there is a bedroom in my bed,]

Watch your head, this is a graveyard.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Today's Feature: [And perhaps there is a bedroom in my bed,] by @alextretbar.bsky.social from According to the Plat Thereof published by @the-ethelzine.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/and-per...

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[And perhaps there is a bedroom in my bed,]

Watch your head, this is a graveyard.

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Second run of Eleanor Holmes’ book # MOTH in the works. $5 of all proceeds will go to to Second Step Mental Health charity: www.second-step.co.uk www.ethelzine.com/shop/moth-by...

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLAYING BADMINTON by Tana Oshima’s is made and ready to ship! www.ethelzine.com/shop/instruc...

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Going to be binding Tana Oshima’s INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLAYING BADMINTON and getting pre-orders out this week! Link to shop in bio. 🏸 @tanaoshima.bsky.social

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Available for pre-order: Vaghawan Ojha’s THE LOW MURMURS FROM AN EMPTY MOOR. www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-low...

The Low Murmurs of an Empty Moor
I watch the gurgling scream pass through all the nooks of rocks and pebbles
It reminds me of how it swept my father and my mother, once and kept sweeping them again and again and again,
They say, death happens once, but that's a ill
it happens, and keeps on happening for those who still breathe,
The moor outstretches, empty, taking all in, in its gentle breeze like a newfound love,
how it blooms the heart with sweetness, the hope,
reflecting these myriad head of mountains, It feels like sometimes, this moor is all there is, swallowing everything that it sees,
Standing here,
I look forward to the afternoon however,
all it brings is the low murmurs of an empty moor and the smell of death that happened and never stopped;
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Fatigue
You were utterly bored,
I was as dull as lulled by death,
That's where we met,
the time of late afternoon, filled with torpor
we wanted to ride a bicycle, that could take us across the valley perhaps,
When we unmet,
we knew we were indefinite ruins. beyond the measure of chaos and catastrophe;

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

“he looked like a cartoon coyote she looked like a useless sewing machine” Printing Tana Oshima’s covers! INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLAYING BADMINTON is available for pre-order @tanaoshima.bsky.social

A USELESS SEWING MACHINE
he wrote down her number like he was taking notes in an advanced history class
er nair lookea 11ke a aop that 8 bee amn for three and a half vear
he looked like a cartoon coyote
she looked like a useless sewing machine
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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

France’s Cannon’s BITTEN BY THE LANTERN FLY is now available! @frankyfrancescannon.com www.ethelzine.com/shop/bitten-...

The dogbane beetle mystery
I find this wayward creature far from its preferred habitat or food source.
He's been washed up on a lip of sand at the edge of Lake Champlain, crawling up towards the top of the miniature cliff and falling back into the cool, wet sand beneath. I send you a photo, and you text back, "That's your beetle! Chrysochus auratus, that's the one I've been wanting to show you, the dogbane beetle, it only feeds on the leaves of dogbane. Good find!" The beetle's iridescent shell flashes in the bright afternoon sun—it's almost 100 degrees outgreen-blue head, green thorax, and wing casings transitioning from red to gold to green. There are little bright, white spots on the edge, similar to those of the six-spotted tiger beetle. When I see you in person later that night, I bring the beetle as an offering. We put it under the microscope and I'm bewildered to find that the white polka-dots have completely disappeared. We compare the photo to the physical specimen, and indeed the spots which were very distinct at four-o-clock earlier today are absent now at eight-o-clock. Perhaps they were grains of sand from the beach? No, they're perfectly symmetrical in the photo, three on each side. The case of the dogbane beetle's missing polka-dots remains unsolved.

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

“foie gras merch” “Wishlist” from Tana Oshima’s upcoming INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLAYING BADMINTON @tanaoshima.bsky.social www.ethelzine.com/shop/instruc...

WISHLIST
frigid air general robinson
5772 dishes to wash last minute insult amazon killer mechanical rubbing yelling tube youtube exorcizer passive aggressive yoga foie gras merch

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Réka Nyitrai’s latest collection is out next week! A surrealist who masterfully blends the narrative with the lyric, these are her four available books (two full-length collections, one chapbook, and one book of haiku). @the-ethelzine.bsky.social / @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Will be getting Frances Cannon’s BITTEN BY THE LANTERN FLY out in the next couple of weeks! Order yours here: www.ethelzine.com/shop/bitten-... Cover art by Claire Sage Jorgensen @francescannon.bsky.social

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

“foie gras merch” “Wishlist” from Tana Oshima’s upcoming INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLAYING BADMINTON @tanaoshima.bsky.social www.ethelzine.com/shop/instruc...

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Jon Cone’s THE MENDICANT FELL BY THE STONE FENCE AT THE HERMITAGE CALLED AURORA is now available!! www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-men...

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Jon Cone’s THE MENDICANT FELL BY THE STONE FENCE AT THE HERMITAGE CALLED AURORA is now available!! www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-men...

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A huge thank you on this last day of April to Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social for this fab Book Bag Month of #Moth out with @the-ethelzine.bsky.social - BIG NEWS - a 2nd Limited Edition of 60 will be made in June and Ethel will donate $5 from every book to a MH charity of my choice.

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Gillian Isaacs Russell @girussell.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

So thrilled to receive this absolutely exquisite hybrid collection by @eleanorholmes.bsky.social! @the-ethelzine.bsky.social You can order here: www.ethelzine.com/moth #Moth #newpoetry #hybrid #Handmade

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Now available for pre-order! Tana Oshima’s INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLAYING BADMINTON with cover art and design by Tana. @tanaoshima.bsky.social www.ethelzine.com/shop/instruc...

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Lovely to receive the broadside that accompanies Father Tectonic by @rfredekenter.bsky.social, published by @the-ethelzine.bsky.social. A reunion in kind! I was honoured to blurb this powerful collection on familial dynamics. Available🔥⬇️ www.ethelzine.com/shop/father-tectonic-by-robert-frede-kenter

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Tonight 19.30 U.K. time is the launch of my hybrid mini-book #moth published by @the-ethelzine.bsky.social get your FREE tickets here 👇 many special guest readers & music🪉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moth-launc...

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#Moth Launch Night with Eleanor Holmes & Special Guests

Join Eleanor Holmes for the launch of her new hybrid mini-book #Moth (available to pre-order from Ethel Zine) alongside guest readers.

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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 13/04/2026

@the-ethelzine.bsky.social makes some of the coolest hand-stitched books...

photo of a book with a hand-stitched spine. the cover itself is primarily black bordered with red and green wavy lines. yellow, hand-written block print on a white background reads the title, Melodies of the Oppressed by Chris L. Butler. those words are stitched to the cover with red thread.

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Submissions for our new anthology are now open! We are looking forward to reading your work. Please check out the guidelines. #Poetry #CNF #anthology The theme is " A long way from home" www.sidhe-press.eu/submissions/...

a path along the cliffs, heather left and right of it, trees in the distance. A rugged landscape.

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Just one day to go! Join us for tomorrow´s launch of "Rain Was Once A Promise" by Lama Alharazin, published by @zinesfromgaza Lama will be joined by friends and readers from around the world. Get your ticket now, they are free, buytickets.at/sdhepress/21... 🧵

Photo of Lama´s zine, cover is with Kraft paper. Behind it you can see a tiny tree in a terracotta pot. The drawing on the cover is black and white, It's a black and white drawing of a woman crying. She is flying, arms outstretched, inside a black bird. She is wearing a traditional Palestinian dress and a hijab.

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Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

April’s Poetic Voice is the excellent @eleanorholmes.bsky.social who is sharing work including from her masterpiece #Moth published by @the-ethelzine.bsky.social 🦋 Today I’m sharing her second poem ‘Emperor Gum’ Catch up on the full feature here: shorturl.at/5qL2m

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

my usual sportsbar corner, sketching reviews; with titles by Nikki Wallschlaeger, Joe Hall, Suzette Bishop, Nathan Hoks, Mark Tardi + others, // @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social @the-ethelzine.bsky.social

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