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Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com · Apr 27

In “Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic,” Huda Fakhreddine examines place, time, and anti-colonial memory in Arabic literature, concluding that “A poem in itself is survival, and a poem written post-extermination is a victory.”

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Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic • Protean Magazine

In "Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic," Huda Fakhreddine examines place, time, and anti-colonial memory in Arabic literature, concluding that "A poem in itself is survival, and a poem written...

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · Aug 14

Here it is, the call for submissions for my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org! Please forward widely!⚡💕⚡💕⚡ Here's the link to the call: www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/other

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK:
STORIES AND STRATEGIES FROM A MOVEMENT TO END THE AIDS CRISIS

Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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Fonograf Editions @fonografeditions.bsky.social · Jul 30

As recipients of Literary Arts' fellowship for publishers, we ask them to divest from genocide. Please sign and share. Free Palestine.

An Open Letter to the Portland Book Festival

We, the undersigned writers & literary organizations, many of whom have been a part of the Literary Arts ecosystem in some way—whether the Portland Book Festival, as finalists or winners of the…

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Fonograf Editions @fonografeditions.bsky.social · Jul 2

With your support, in April 2026 Fonograf Editions will publish Bird Watching & their First Three Books of Poems, a 230-page volume of the earliest works of the inimitable American poet, Cuthwulf Eileen Myles. Kickstarter with some great perks at kck.st/4lzQZuS

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adiebsteckel.bsky.social @adiebsteckel.bsky.social · Jun 26

Portland folks, I'm doing this thing. Poetry in, ICE out ❤️‍🔥🧊

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Jun 11

Today, a second conversation about the late Alice Notley. The brilliant poet and critic Joyelle McSweeney joined me to talk about grief and life in the underworld in Notley’s extraordinary epic The Descent of Alette. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Joyelle McSweeney on Alice Notley (The Descent of Alette)

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 06/11/2025 · 1h 41m

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adiebsteckel.bsky.social @adiebsteckel.bsky.social · Jun 12

Mur by Jean-Robert Alcindor

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · Jun 11

wait jfc i'd never heard about this one before????

this is one of those things about this man: there is, was, so much depth. i have a close friend about whom another friend says: after decades, there is always something new to learn. always some further-away shine www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKew...

The Trinidad Cassette - Brian Wilson (1982)

YouTube video by Thump Stuff

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adiebsteckel.bsky.social @adiebsteckel.bsky.social · Jun 11

God only knows what I'd be without you...

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adiebsteckel.bsky.social @adiebsteckel.bsky.social · Jun 8

Jean-Robert Alcindor | Swimming pool « Un soir d’été » | 2022

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · Jun 6

Jaime Gil de Biedma’s IF ONLY FOR A MOMENT (I’LL NEVER BE YOUNG AGAIN) stages “poems committed to beauty and resistance, weaving together a politics filled with erotic charges…” —Alexis Almeida

From @fonografeditions.bsky.social‬ & our #PrideMonth reading list:
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FONO34 // Selected Poems of Jaime Gil de Biedma — If Only For a Moment (I’ll Never Be Young Again) (print; hardback book) – Fonograf Editions

This will only take a…

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adiebsteckel.bsky.social @adiebsteckel.bsky.social · Jun 6

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adiebsteckel.bsky.social @adiebsteckel.bsky.social · Jun 6

The best collection of writing on Palestine I've ever seen ❤️‍🔥@parapraxismag.bsky.social

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Fonograf Editions @fonografeditions.bsky.social · Jun 3

Great to see Matt Broaddus' Deeper the Tropics reviewed by Lloyd Spencer Wallace @clereviewbooks.bsky.social

These Lit Particulars: On Matt Broaddus’ “Deeper the Tropics”

all the little objects and actions that dress the set of time in an often repetitive world.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Jun 3

Today’s Featured Poem:

“[stones stacked at the back]” by Justin Cox from Stock Pond, published by Bench Editions

Read here:
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[stones stacked at the back]

I thought "count every rock" and you know, "one, one, and so on"

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adiebsteckel.bsky.social @adiebsteckel.bsky.social · Jun 3

On Alice Coltrane at the Hammer Museum for Variable West

Monument Eternal: Alice Coltrane at the Hammer Museum

Read Monument Eternal: Alice Coltrane at the Hammer Museum on Variable West.

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Fonograf Editions @fonografeditions.bsky.social · May 28

Join us for an Alice Notley celebration reading on June 14th at 7pm at Bishop & Wilde. Featured readers will read some of their favorite Alice Notley poems and time will be given to attendees to read their own favorite Notley works.

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adiebsteckel.bsky.social @adiebsteckel.bsky.social · May 24

Review: Wrong Winds; A Struggle Against “Nothing”, Effaced

Palestine Square

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adiebsteckel.bsky.social @adiebsteckel.bsky.social · May 23

The Jews mourn Sarah and Yaron. The poets mourn 14,000 starving Palestinian babies and Alice Notley. I am both, neither, and have no language with which to speak to or of myself. I mourn.

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · May 20

Submissions are open! We are looking for contemporary trans writers working in hybrid for our new Calico collection. Find out more here: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

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adiebsteckel.bsky.social @adiebsteckel.bsky.social · May 20

Alice Notley, 1945-2025, still alive

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Fonograf Editions @fonografeditions.bsky.social · May 8

Forthcoming in winter 2026 from Fonograf Editions: Bird Watching & Their First Three Books of Poems by Eileen Myles. This 230-page, four-volume collection includes Bird Watching (unpublished, 1978), The Irony of the Leash (1978), A Fresh Young Voice From the Plains (1981), and Sappho's Boat (1982).

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adiebsteckel.bsky.social @adiebsteckel.bsky.social · May 1

Phoebe Light forever.

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adiebsteckel.bsky.social @adiebsteckel.bsky.social · Apr 28

David Velasco & Sarah Schulman

adiebsteckel.bsky.social @adiebsteckel.bsky.social · Apr 25

Anita Steckel, Untitled (Anita of New York Meets Tom of Finland), 2004