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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 5h

Too late; doing a line of Alice Notley before bed

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 10h

Laynie Browne

Nine-Fourteenths Sonnet

(Forgive me
This is the only
place I may
speak to you
freely
As conversation
is not what I
intend
in talk)

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 9h

Czesław Miłosz

On the need to draw boundaries
Wretched and dishonest was the sea.

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 9h

It has become very relevant with AI. I point to it a lot. I hand out copies. Students are very into it.

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 9h

I think it comes baked in, in the sperm ahaha

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 10h

Ended up getting too busy and forgetting to post, but this was my work space for a few minutes today 🙏💙 chill friday FTW 🙌

Desk with orange Stanley cup and stickers, sunglasses, Robert Hass’s A Little Book on Forms, Read Write Edit Cite poster, and Poetry is Not a Luxury print from Big Baby Small Press. Also a punctuation poster, made by me ✨

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 10h

flirting! at the etymology

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13h

This is the way

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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 10h

The mostest fun I had today was rereading Stein today and feeling her voice wash over me like the tidal wave it is—hope this brings you some joy, too ✨

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 13h

“I think, in this hard life, we deserve a little ease.”

On ease, complication, pleasure, and the comma. And Gertrude Stein.

The Punctuation Series: The Comma

What does a comma do.I have refused them so often and left the out so much and didwithout them so continually that I have come finally to be indifferentto them. I do not now care whether you put th…

linebreakworkshop.com

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KR Morris @krmorris.bsky.social · 12h

My work/life (Buddhism) is heavily interested with and occupied by breathing. While Gertrude Stein does complicate the breath, I find her comma-less sentences also an insight into Buddhist practice:

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 13h

“I think, in this hard life, we deserve a little ease.”

On ease, complication, pleasure, and the comma. And Gertrude Stein.

The Punctuation Series: The Comma

What does a comma do.I have refused them so often and left the out so much and didwithout them so continually that I have come finally to be indifferentto them. I do not now care whether you put th…

linebreakworkshop.com

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 13h

“I think, in this hard life, we deserve a little ease.”

On ease, complication, pleasure, and the comma. And Gertrude Stein.

The Punctuation Series: The Comma

What does a comma do.I have refused them so often and left the out so much and didwithout them so continually that I have come finally to be indifferentto them. I do not now care whether you put th…

linebreakworkshop.com

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 13h

Omggg. I want to be friends.

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 14h

She does not! 💅 How incredible. A natural force. The wind does not need people!

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 14h

A comma by helping you along holding your coat for you and putting on your shoes keeps you from living your life as actively as you should lead it and to me for many years and I still do feel that way
about it…Let me tell you what I feel and what I mean and what I felt and what I meant.

G. Stein

What does a comma do.
I have refused them so often and left the out so much and did without them so continually that I have come finally to be indifferent to them. I do not now care whether you put them in or not but for a long time I felt very definitely about them and would have nothing to do with them.
As I say commas are servile and they have no life of their own,and their use is not a use, it is a way of replacing one's own interest and I do decidedly like to like my own interest my own interest in what I am doing. A comma by helping you along holding your coat for you and putting on your shoes keeps you from living your life as actively as you should lead it and to me for many years and I still do feel that way about it only now I do not pay as much attention to them, the use of them was positively degrading. Let me tell you what I feel and what I mean and what I felt and what I meant.

Gertrude Stein

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 14h

I love Stein because I also tell people how I really feel about things and then people are like “tell me how you really feel” and I’m like “I just did weren’t you listening.”

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 14h

The question mark is alright when it
is all alone when it is used as a brand on cattle or when it could be used
in decoration but connected with writing it is completely entirely completely uninteresting.

Gertrude Stein

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 18h

How I would have felt if anything having to do with Israel was involved in a Nobel peace prize win.

Ef genocide and our involvement in Palestine’s destruction.

Padme: There's good in him, I know.
I know there's stil...

Obi-wan: Padme, that’s his SECOND genocide

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 18h

my short piece on the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025), along with a few excerpts, is now online at The Woodlot; / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @the-wood-lot.bsky.social ;
the-wood-lot.ca/2025/10/09/o...