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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Mary Ruefle
PERSONALIA

When I was young, a fortune-teller told me that an old 
woman who wanted to die had accidentally become 
lodged in my body. Slowly, over time, and taking great 
care in following esoteric instructions, including laven- 
der baths and the ritual burial of keys in the backyard, I 
rid myself of her presence. Now I am an old woman who 
wants to die and lodged inside me is a young woman dy- 
ing to live; I work on her.
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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
We are pleased to reveal the cover and contributors to Granta 174: Therapy. We live in a therapeutic age. In this issue, writers explore the talking cure and alternative forms of therapy. The issue publishes 12 February 2026.
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berlin lit @berlinlit.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Issue ten is out now! berlinlit.com
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
“We fall into this rhythm of silence.” A poem by Dorianne Laux.
Enough Music

Sometimes, when we're on a long drive,
and we've talked enough and listened
to enough music and stopped twice,
once to eat, once to see the view,
we fall into this rhythm of silence.
It swings back and forth between us
like a rope over a lake.
Maybe it's what we don't say
that saves us.
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 04/12/2025
something is rattan in the state of denmark
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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Mary Ruefle:
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
> jake stefan ferguson @jakestefan181.bsky.social > Christopher Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social > Billie Manning > Gayathiri Kamalakanthan @unembarrassable.bsky.social > Freya Jackson > Olive Franklin @usuallyolive.bsky.social > Stephen de Búrca @sdeburca.bsky.social (2/3)
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Propel Sixteen, edited by Richard Scott — Propel Magazine
Propel Sixteen, edited by Richard Scott, July 2025
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rosamundtaylor.bsky.social @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This gorgeous ghazal has taken up residence on my head since I heard @usuallyolive.bsky.social read it aloud!
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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
BANSHEE 19 POETS 1 Campbell McGrath| Alex Wong| Cal O'Reilly |Emily R. Daniel | @eoghancarrick.bsky.social | @oliviaheggarty.bsky.social | Lesley-Anne Evans | Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi @usuallyolive.bsky.social | @annpedone.bsky.social |
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
thinking of Mary Oliver writing, "We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power"—and there really is so much in how a culture responds to loss, to mortality & vulnerability. do we try (endlessly, violently) to "conquer" it? suppress/erase/export it? or do we face it? do we grieve?
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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thanks to Oxford Poetry and Godelieve de Bree for reviewing With My Back to the World
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Cherish 🧶 @smalljoys-tinywins.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Day 10 - Blue #Januarty #Januarty2025 🧶 I debated when to post this one again because it is my fav punch needle piece (Day 1) & it is the most textured I’ve done (Day 9), but it is also mainly blue. I guess Blue won 😅 “Aeolian” 3ft x 4ft Nov 2024 #punchneedleart #punchneedle #fiberart #abstractart
A abstract punch needle piece that is punched on monks cloth with blue, cream, and white yarn, as well as roving to add more texture. This piece uses varying loop heights creating a landscape that features both flat stitches and differentiating loop lengths.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
in my next life i want to be a bookmark
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olive franklin @usuallyolive.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
new poem : www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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Eileen
Eileen, my hilltop-hike, my lucky-strike, watching from the other side of every woman I’ve kissed—leather-bombed, corner-bound, Eileen, you never left me lonely. Leave an Eileen -sized hole in the cit...
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