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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Jul 9

Fanny Howe was one of the first poets I ever heard read, at the Grolier from her book Second Childhood. From there it was so easy to fall in love with her poems’ simultaneous strangeness and ineffably inviting familiarity—they’ve been constant companions, and we’ve lost a legend

I won’t be able to write from the grave
so let me tell you what I love:
oil, vinegar, salt, lettuce, brown bread, butter,
cheese and wine, a windy day, a fireplace,
the children nearby, poems and songs,
a friend sleeping in my bed—

and the short northern nights.

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Ifeoluwa Ayandele @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social · Jun 6

I reviewed Okwudili Nebeolisa ‘s Terminal Maladies sometimes ago and it is thrilling to see it published @SoutheastReview. Please click on the link below and read it. Thank you.

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Book Review: ‘Ignore the Bleeding’: A Review of Okwudili Nebeolisa’s Terminal Maladies by Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé

‘Ignore the Bleeding’: A Review of Okwudili Nebeolisa’s Terminal Maladies by Ìfẹ́olúwa ÀyàndéléNebeolisa, in this debut poetry collection, Terminal Maladies, confronts the darkness that engulfs h...

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Ifeoluwa Ayandele @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social · May 3

Please my book review for Ajibola Tolase’s “2000 Blacks” published in @southeastreview.bsky.social. Click on the link below to read. Thank you.

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Book Review: ‘Dreaming of the Possibilities’: A Review of Ajibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacks

‘Dreaming of the Possibilities’: A Review of Ajibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacksby Ìfẹ́olúwa ÀyàndéléAjibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacks invites readers into a travelogue of Black history—that is slavery, prec...

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Ifeoluwa Ayandele @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social · Apr 16

Thank you

Ifeoluwa Ayandele @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social · Apr 15

I’m glad to share that my debut full length poetry manuscript has won the Moon City Press Poetry Award and will be published by @mooncityreview.bsky.social housed in the @MissouriState University English Department and will be published in the coming months.

Many thanks.

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Ifeoluwa Ayandele @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social · Apr 12

I have a new poem in the latest issue of Jacar Press. I hope you’ll find the poem lovely. It is a honor to be
among great poets in this issue. Many thanks to the editors for finding my poem worthy.

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Ifeoluwa Ayandele @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social · Mar 1

Dear friend,

I have a nonfiction published in the latest issue of Sierra Nevada Review.

www.sierranevadareview.com/ifeoluwa-aya...

Alien | Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé — Sierra Nevada Review

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Feb 7

going back to Juliana Spahr, always

In the midst of this unsureness,
we are trying to tell a personal
story.

This story, the story of we, is of
our loss and our loving.

It is the story between deeply
sleeping, dreaming, and waking.

It is the story of what is crooked
and loving that crooked.

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Shannon 🦂 @sweeetlikehoney.bsky.social · Dec 10

Rest in eternal peace Nikki Giovanni 🕊️

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Ifeoluwa Ayandele @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social · Dec 10

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Ifeoluwa Ayandele @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social · Dec 9

Many thanks

Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · Dec 8

(once more with feeling, and without so many typos lol)

We are thrilled to announce the fifteen finalists in the 2025 Glass Chapbook Series! We'll be choosing three chapbooks for publication. Thank you to the nearly 300 poets who sent in a manuscript.

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The 2025 Glass Chapbook Series

We are proud to announce the finalists for the 2025 Glass Chapbook Series. Almost 300 manuscripts were submitted, from which the following fifteen finalists were selected.

Daria-Ann Martineau: To Behead These Gods
Nur Turkmani: October
Philip Kenner: BOYSTUFF
Em Townsend: Astronaut of Loss
Diane G. Martin: Traced on Snow
Melanie Hyo-In Han: Passing Note in Secret
Heidi Seaborn: Brush Fire
Han VanderHart: Hawks & Moons
Romana Iorga: Witness Protection
Jude Marr: Silence Will Not Save Us
E.B. Schnepp: Blueberries Stain Like Blood
Stephanie L. Harper and Robert Okaji: Inevitable River
Ashley Cline: loading a new continent
Stefanie Kirby: Opening
Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé: Our Body is an Offering

From these fifteen finalist, three manuscripts will be selected for publication.

Thank you to everyone who submitted a manuscript. It was an honor to read them all.

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Ifeoluwa Ayandele @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social · Dec 9

Grateful to be on this list. Congratulations to everybody on the list.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · Dec 6

Sending this around again tonight

Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · Sep 8

A stunning poem of lesbian love by the legend Willyce Kim. poets.org/poem/places

Places

I dreamed you. / I waited 45 years for you

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · Dec 4

When someone dies, we go searching for poetry.

But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings.

—Jenny Zhang

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · Nov 30

Keep re-reading this stunning poem by Naomi Shihab Nye:

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Marty McConnell @martyoutloud.bsky.social · Nov 27

A little Jane Hirschfield for a tender, tender Wednesday.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · Nov 23

Dear humans,
Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤
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My Heresies, Alina Stefanescu — SARABANDE BOOKS

Pre-order only. Available April 2025. Behold My Heresies : the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, b...

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Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social · Nov 19

Modern Poetry is out today in paperback. 💋

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Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · Nov 17

I love this Xin Qiji poem, translated by @chowleen.bsky.social

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Naza Amaeze Okoli @nazaokoli.bsky.social · Nov 15

Concluding my African American lit class with bell hooks’ “Love as the Practice of Freedom”. The twofold aim is in the spirit and form—a powerful closing message and a masterpiece on essay structure.

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Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social · Nov 14

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Afaa M. Weaver @elder-afaa.bsky.social · Nov 13

By Meg Day 🙏🏽
poets.org/poem/i-am-no...

i am not deaf

the way

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · Nov 13

Creative writers: come work with us at ASU! We're currently running a search for an Assistant Teaching Professor to teach undergrad CW in-person and online, and to oversee online curriculum development as their service component. More info here: english.asu.edu/about/employ...

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Afaa M. Weaver @elder-afaa.bsky.social · Nov 13

By Ted Kooser

poets.org/poem-a-day

Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-Day is the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 250 new, previousl

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Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social · Nov 11

This is an essay on my poem "Ballad," Keats's notion of Negative Capability, and Lorca's Duende, with a prompt and a link to the original poem. I'm happy to share it with you.

I Know You Know: Diane Seuss On “Ballad,” Negative Capability, and the Duende

Christ was laid out in a glass coffin, like Snow White. I visited and re-visited him. He looked so much like my father on his deathbed.

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