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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · Sep 4

Are you a poet? I am inspired and want to use this, but will give you full credit.

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The New Verse News (always open for newspoems) @newversenews.bsky.social · Sep 4

NVN Thursday at Substack: Ron Riekki’s @rriekki.bsky.social #newspoem “Mass Shootings #3: Saginaw (and Chicago), August 16, 2025.” thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-thursd...
@rodmannix.bsky.social
@literaryreport.bsky.social
@literarybulletin.bsky.social

NVN Thursday: MASS SHOOTINGS #3

SAGINAW (AND CHICAGO), AUGUST 16, 2025

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · Aug 15

What are they? So fabulous.

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · Aug 7

In light of recent horrors as the result of #abortion #laws I wrote a piece about how it used to go for my great-grandmother. #women #writing
www.thepalisadesreview.com/new-stories/...

Handwork — By Adrienne Pilon — The Palisades Review

The chuppah that served as my wedding canopy started out as a white linen tablecloth, one made by my great-grandmother sometime between the World Wars. With close friends, I spent some happy hours emb...

www.thepalisadesreview.com

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · Jul 8

A lovely poem by Marina Hope Wilson @theoffingmag.bsky.social #poetry #poems #poets

theoffingmag.com/micro/brand-...

Brand New Noise - The Offing

Micro - The Offing Magazine

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · May 29

What is "need" and who is defining it?

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · May 28

I wrote a poem about this. Because poetry. And free speech.
newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/subj...

SUBJUNCTIVE

The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · May 11

Really enjoyed "What is rest/orative?" and the context for this issue.

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · May 1

Happy to have this essay,"On Fatigue," published at @tendonmag.bsky.social @jhu.edu #chronicillness #writing #medicalhumanities #narrativemedicine #Rilke #fatigue hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · Apr 19

"Cut the good fabric," is going to be forever used as a motivational phrase by me. Got some stuff to make. With fabric and life.

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · Apr 19

Fun piece, and thank you for the new word! Latibule...going to write about mine.

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · Apr 6

Asking "where is our humanity is a good question," but what we need now is concrete action. Could you point us in the right direction? Where is this school and what is the news source? Some organizations might help point the way:

www.freedomforimmigrants.org/take-action

Take Action — Freedom for Immigrants

take action

www.freedomforimmigrants.org

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · Apr 5

Yep

Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · Apr 1

Right on.

Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · Apr 1

That is something to look forward to in a week when everything is terrible but please tell me this is not a joke....

Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · Apr 1

A lot of people like fascism.

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · Mar 31

Grateful to have my essay, "In Bloom" up @solsticelitmag.bsky.social which feels pertinent given the current moves by the #epa to deregulate just about everything. #writing #writingcommunity #als #pesticides #toxins #motorneurondisease #veterans
solsticelitmag.org/content/in-b...

In Bloom - Solstice Literary Magazine

Rhododendron bushes frame our little family group in a series of photographs: my mother, brother, sister-in-law, their baby, my boyfriend, and me. The bushes are filled with full, lush blossoms of red...

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · Mar 31

Such a great book Recommending it to everyone I know.

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Barry Trachtenberg @barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · Jan 19

Poem: Your civility is a siege mondoweiss.net/2025/01/poem...

Poem: Your civility is a siege

In the wake of the ceasefire in Gaza, a poem about maintaining militant clarity on what the last year of Zionist genocide means for writers and people of conscience across the world.

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · Mar 19

A poem of mine from this week. @newversenews.bsky.social #poetry #poems #students #freespeech #Palestine #genocide #MahmoudKhalil #socialmedia #deportations

The New Verse News (always open for newspoems) @newversenews.bsky.social · Mar 18

NVN Tuesday at Substack: Adrienne Pilon’s #poem “Subjunctive” #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-tuesda...

NVN Tuesday: SUBJUNCTIVE

by Adrienne Pilon

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