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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · 17d

Sat., October 4, the Poetry Society of VT & NE Poetry Club are holding their first collaborative event & NEPC member Gail Thomas will be one of the readers! 10:30am-2:30pm, W. Village Meetinghouse, W. Brattleboro, VT. Reg by 10/1. (www.ascvt.org). @nepoetryclub.bsky.social @gthomaspoet.bsky.social

Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · 25d

This Saturday, 9/20, 7-8:30, join PVWW for a night of poetry, stories & literary magic under the fairy lights on the lawn of the Florence Civic Center in downtown Florence MA! Featuring a lineup of local authors - including Perugia’s own Gail Thomas. ✨🌟✨ @gthomaspoet.bsky.social @pvww.bsky.social

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Aug 15

Congrats! Wonderful news!

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Aug 13

Register at www.pioneervalleywriters.org

Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop | a literary arts center for writers

Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop is a literary arts organization based in Northampton MA and online. Each season our team of thirty author-instructors offers around 25 - 30 one-day and multi-week writ...

www.pioneervalleywriters.org

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Aug 13

Register at www.pioneervalleywriters.org

Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop | a literary arts center for writers

Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop is a literary arts organization based in Northampton MA and online. Each season our team of thirty author-instructors offers around 25 - 30 one-day and multi-week writ...

www.pioneervalleywriters.org

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Jul 19

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · Jul 18

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection FINDING THE BEAR by Gail Thomas. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Thomas’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @gthomaspoet.bsky.social

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Jul 12

This is to distract us from his Epstein connection and from LA and every other cruelty he is committing.

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Jun 27

He couldn't answer the 100 questions that immigrants must learn to pass the citizenship test!

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Jun 12

Go Elizabeth! Every Senator and Representative needs to step up...NOW.

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Apr 1

Thank you, Cory Booker! Let's go, everyone else!

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Mar 28

So good.

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Mar 23

This is wonderful!

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Mar 20

It just keeps getting worse...time for a national strike, a national movement to stop paying federal taxes.

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Mar 19

Unbelievable!

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Mar 19

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Mar 19

The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.

Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention | CNN Politics

Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault and suicide prevention are among the tens of thousands either removed or flagged for removal from Pentagon websites as the ...

www.cnn.com

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Mar 19

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Mar 19

Foreign nationals here legally getting thrown in prison without due process.

Illegally firing govt agency commissioners.

An unelected billionaire defunding vital services.

The Republicans who cried about "the left" violating checks and balances are now awfully quiet, huh?

Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Mar 14

This poem by Mosab Abu Toha, a Palestinian poet, is heartbreaking.

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[You were so small in my hands]

You were so small in my hands no shrapnel could hit you,

poets.org

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Mar 14

Richard, I am not finding a poetry haven on this site. Starting to think it's not possible. It's all political now, and we need all hands on deck. No thanks to Schumer.

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Mar 12

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Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández @fernandez.house.gov · Mar 12

Arresting someone without charge, explanation, or due process to silence dissent is unconstitutional. This type of thing happens in dictatorships, not America.

You don’t have to agree with Mahmoud Khalil to defend his rights—if his freedoms can be taken by the Trump administration, so can yours.

Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Mar 8

What was it like?

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Mar 7

One of the reasons that I left FB. My attention deserves to focus on more important things now.

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Gail Thomas @gthomaspoet.bsky.social · Mar 6

Do you think that a national strike/work stoppage would be effective? Other nations have used this protest method.