Anna Lena
@aproflection.bsky.social
Poet/teacher/editor/printer/plant person. Smaller Songs, St Brigid Press / Ornament, UNT Press / Editor, @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social / Opinions my own; reposts ≠ endorsements
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Anna Lena
@aproflection.bsky.social
· Apr 9
The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize – Guidelines and Entries
hechtprize.waywiser-press.com
I am honored and so happy to report that my second poetry collection, Might Could, has won the 20th Anthony Hecht Prize. Huge thanks to judge Shane McCrae and to the Waywiser Press.
You can see some poems from me and from the other finalists at the link—I love this tradition of Waywiser's. ❤
You can see some poems from me and from the other finalists at the link—I love this tradition of Waywiser's. ❤
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The submission window is now open to 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲, and 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬.
Guidelines are on the site.
Link in bio.
❤️
Guidelines are on the site.
Link in bio.
❤️
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The submission window is now open to 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲, and 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬.
Guidelines are on the site.
Link in bio.
❤️
Guidelines are on the site.
Link in bio.
❤️
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This is Her Royal Highness. She is the sweetest lady with the cutest little grinchy face! She was found as a pregnant stray, and when her own kitten didn't make it she very lovingly raised some orphaned kittens as her own. Adoptable in Burlington, VT! www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...
November 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is Her Royal Highness. She is the sweetest lady with the cutest little grinchy face! She was found as a pregnant stray, and when her own kitten didn't make it she very lovingly raised some orphaned kittens as her own. Adoptable in Burlington, VT! www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...
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We need to teach books BECAUSE students are so distracted. Sustained silent reading is the skill we're meant to be teaching!
November 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
We need to teach books BECAUSE students are so distracted. Sustained silent reading is the skill we're meant to be teaching!
Might Could has a cover! Designed by the lovely Philip Hoy, with artwork by Amber Cowan. Thanks to Waywiser Books—can't wait to share this book with y'all. ❤
www.waywiserbooks.org/coming-soon
www.waywiserbooks.org/coming-soon
November 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Might Could has a cover! Designed by the lovely Philip Hoy, with artwork by Amber Cowan. Thanks to Waywiser Books—can't wait to share this book with y'all. ❤
www.waywiserbooks.org/coming-soon
www.waywiserbooks.org/coming-soon
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It’s almost crunch time. Next week Peers will vote for or against swift bricks. To help swifts, please email [email protected] & [email protected] who are crucial to the decision. Ask them to SAVE OUR SWIFTS ‼️put SWIFT BRICKS in the subject line 🙏
October 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It’s almost crunch time. Next week Peers will vote for or against swift bricks. To help swifts, please email [email protected] & [email protected] who are crucial to the decision. Ask them to SAVE OUR SWIFTS ‼️put SWIFT BRICKS in the subject line 🙏
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If you break open the dry stems of certain plants /
you will find a snoozing grub.
from All Particles and Waves
By David Spittle from @blackheraldpress.bsky.social
you will find a snoozing grub.
from All Particles and Waves
By David Spittle from @blackheraldpress.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
If you break open the dry stems of certain plants /
you will find a snoozing grub.
from All Particles and Waves
By David Spittle from @blackheraldpress.bsky.social
you will find a snoozing grub.
from All Particles and Waves
By David Spittle from @blackheraldpress.bsky.social
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No screeners for this issue, folks. I’ll be reading and responding to every poetry submission.
If you identify as disabled, please submit!
If you identify as disabled, please submit!
Disability: The Revolution!
Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025
If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.
See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025
If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.
See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
September 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
No screeners for this issue, folks. I’ll be reading and responding to every poetry submission.
If you identify as disabled, please submit!
If you identify as disabled, please submit!
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UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
October 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
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My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.
October 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.
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Trump officials reportedly ordered the removal of “The Scourged Back” (1863), a famous image of a formerly enslaved man, from a national monument in Georgia where the US Army toppled a Confederate garrison during the Civil War.
Image Attesting to Horrors of Slavery Reportedly Ordered Removed by Trump
The famous 19th-century photograph of a formerly enslaved man is reproduced at the Fort Pulaski National Monument, a Civil War battle site in Georgia.
hyperallergic.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Trump officials reportedly ordered the removal of “The Scourged Back” (1863), a famous image of a formerly enslaved man, from a national monument in Georgia where the US Army toppled a Confederate garrison during the Civil War.
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This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.
ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.
October 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.
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For 2 years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, not one Palestinian voice has been featured on NBC, ABC or CNN’s Sunday shows.
@ahjohnson.bsky.social writes about how the U.S. media has debated Palestinians’ annihilation without letting a single Palestinian speak.
inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
@ahjohnson.bsky.social writes about how the U.S. media has debated Palestinians’ annihilation without letting a single Palestinian speak.
inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest
In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.
inthesetimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
For 2 years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, not one Palestinian voice has been featured on NBC, ABC or CNN’s Sunday shows.
@ahjohnson.bsky.social writes about how the U.S. media has debated Palestinians’ annihilation without letting a single Palestinian speak.
inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
@ahjohnson.bsky.social writes about how the U.S. media has debated Palestinians’ annihilation without letting a single Palestinian speak.
inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
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Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:
bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...
bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...
October 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:
bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...
bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...
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A student in my publishing course is interested in researching book pulping and book recycling. Do we know any work or introductory material in this area?
(Work on remainders, print runs, supply chain, raw materials all relevant, too.)
(Work on remainders, print runs, supply chain, raw materials all relevant, too.)
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A student in my publishing course is interested in researching book pulping and book recycling. Do we know any work or introductory material in this area?
(Work on remainders, print runs, supply chain, raw materials all relevant, too.)
(Work on remainders, print runs, supply chain, raw materials all relevant, too.)
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Translated and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor and guest edited by Jorie Graham, You Must Live compiles recent work from 30 poets living in Gaza and the West Bank. The challenges of publishing it were immense.
Copper Canyon Anthology Spotlights Poets in Palestine
Translated and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor and guest edited by Jorie Graham, You Must Live compiles recent work from 30 poets living in Gaza and the West Bank. The challenges of…
buff.ly
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Translated and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor and guest edited by Jorie Graham, You Must Live compiles recent work from 30 poets living in Gaza and the West Bank. The challenges of publishing it were immense.
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People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
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When we talk about fundraising for people in Gaza it is about survival, it is about getting out of the worst circumstances. We rarely discuss their dreams, hope, for rebuilding? What lives will be lived if the bombs were to stop falling tomorrow? Alaa is asking for support for her future
Your help are an investment in rebuild a woman and an architect
My name is Alaa, and I hold a Master’s degree in Architecture.
chuffed.org
September 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
When we talk about fundraising for people in Gaza it is about survival, it is about getting out of the worst circumstances. We rarely discuss their dreams, hope, for rebuilding? What lives will be lived if the bombs were to stop falling tomorrow? Alaa is asking for support for her future
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Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1
September 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1
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Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.
"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net
A post from Feeding the
networks.h-net.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.
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a lot of people don’t realize what a gift it is to receive.
just to be receptive to what others have to offer. to what others bring into relation.
that too is generosity in action.
just to be receptive to what others have to offer. to what others bring into relation.
that too is generosity in action.
September 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
a lot of people don’t realize what a gift it is to receive.
just to be receptive to what others have to offer. to what others bring into relation.
that too is generosity in action.
just to be receptive to what others have to offer. to what others bring into relation.
that too is generosity in action.
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Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
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September 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah
September 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah
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One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
September 22, 2024 at 11:07 AM
One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”