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Audrey Howitt
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Poet, voice teacher, recovering attorney, licensed psychotherapist, lover of life

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Audrey Howitt @audreyhowitt.bsky.social · 2d
So pleased to have three #poems in the fall issue of Soul Poetry. The three are: Presence, Leavings, and Poetry's Web Unfolding on pages 62-64. The link is below.

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Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine Volume 1 Issue 4 Fall 2025
Soul Poetry Volume 1 Issue 4 Fall 2025Download
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jessicadenson07.bsky.social
God I miss just posting about animals that need to be adopted from shelters and having my own ever revolving door of rescues. Can we get rid of this regime already so we can get back to things that fill our hearts with love?
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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paulwritespoems.bsky.social
This means so much to me.

Thank you 🙏
November 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
audreyhowitt.bsky.social
How to write in difficult times?
Write as though a life depends
on your carefully chosen words.
Somewhere in the US right now,
a Latina teenager is writing in a diary
in her attic.

#poets coping--
November 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
audreyhowitt.bsky.social
Writing and sending out #poetry is such a solitary task. I am often months in between published work. How do you all handle these times and what helps you?
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
A poem of mine for this slow approach of Wintering. It’s called Blackthorn.
Illustration of blackthorn and its dark berries. I am the seed that knows no name, I am the happenstance of germination, of endurance. I am the blackthorn, each twist and contortion, I am every layer of bark and every leaf grown and fallen, I am the nighttide of fruit, bletted or food for mistle thrush, the star-white bloom and friend of mottled pug and lonely bee. I am Winter's hope of crooked tree, I am the mistbright blossom of a Hawthorn's sister, I am the Maypole. I am the root and the unturned earth, I am the North Wind, a fence of prickles, I am the rain and the cloud it fell from, I am the worm. I am the black rod, I am a giant's cudgel, I am the pin of slumber, the wood's mother, a broken spell, I am all the tales you tell about me, I am an old wound, healed.
November 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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8rid6et.bsky.social
🌎

american gulf
is between
the ears

#senryu #senryusunday #shutdown
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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thedodgemag.bsky.social
Heads up...Our poetry and fiction teams will no longer be accepting submissions after November 20th. Want to submit a piece? The link to submit is in our bio (and submissions are free)!
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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chowleen.bsky.social
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Kay Ryan The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn't. Pretty much solid elephant. So there's no room to talk about it.
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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moritherapy.bsky.social
Great haiku, John!
November 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
audreyhowitt.bsky.social
So pleased to have three #poems in the fall issue of Soul Poetry. The three are: Presence, Leavings, and Poetry's Web Unfolding on pages 62-64. The link is below.

soulpoetry7.com/soul-poetry-...
Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine Volume 1 Issue 4 Fall 2025
Soul Poetry Volume 1 Issue 4 Fall 2025Download
soulpoetry7.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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alondra.bsky.social
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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tjjohnson.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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madp03t.bsky.social
#poet
#poem
#poetry
#writing
#vss365
#prompt
#science
#acrostic
#writesky
#skypoets
#poetrylovers
#blueskypoets
#poetrycommunity
Acrostic poem written, and Copyright (c) 2025, by Eric Montgomery (@madp03t.bsky.social). All Rights Reserved. Some call me magic, but I’m just curious Collecting tiny truths, one by one I ask a lot of questions, and that’s ok Every answer helps me learn a little Not guessing, just trying to know Careful, patient, sometimes slow Everything I find starts with “what?”
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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davidthedreamer.bsky.social
HAIKU 0309

winter moon watches—
crimson tracks— fresh fallen snow—
howls pierce dead silence

Copyright David Hoffmann © 2025 - All Rights Reserved
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mastodon(dot)world #dailyhaikuprompt Winter Moon #WinterMoon #haiku #senryu #senryusunday #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)
The Lampshade At the gates of heaven they said let's review: six snails eaten, but no burning buildings entered to save a child, a puppy, a mother's music box. You splashed into a dozen rivers, but many more you saw and never touched, never thought to touch. And yet, you spent most of your life working on this one species of looking. You'd see a wooden door and make a face from its knots and whorls. You'd find a dead cardinal and would wonder if the dead forget the color red first. Mostly we were impressed with this hat you made one night out of a lampshade. Your toddler laughed so hard he nearly lost his voice. After finishing his bedtime, you turned to go, and he told you to stay. We liked how he pulled an imaginary string dangling out of your nose. How you shut your eyes afterwards and lay perfectly motionless beside him. For years your son believed light is something you become. It's waiting, there, under your skin.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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haikucrush.bsky.social
#Haiku is alive in '25!

The judging panel @haikucrush.bsky.social is pleased to announce that a haiku by David Hoffmann @davidthedreamer.bsky.social #Oregon USA is in The Best Haiku 2025 international #anthology, available at tinyurl.com/TheBestHaiku/

#poetrycommunity #poetry #micropoetry #poet
A haiku by David Hoffmann of #Oregon, USA -- "The last time I held you... " -- was chosen by the three judges at HaikuCrush.com for publication in The Best Haiku 2025 international, annual #anthology. It's available at http://TinyURL.com/TheBestHaiku/ "I believe haiku provides a vast minimalist canvas for the complexity of simple discovery," notes David. You can follow him on both Bluesky and Twitter/X, and visit his website at davidhoffmann.com #poetrycommunity #poetry #micropoetry #poet
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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robmclennan.bsky.social
some above/ground press author updates: The Nelson Ball Prize, Pushcart Prizes, the bpNichol Chapbook Award + the ottawa small press book fair pre-fair reading,
and interviews, poems online + other things ; because we want you to remain informed,
abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/some-autho...
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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monostich.bsky.social
Fantastic cover for this.
frolicpress.bsky.social Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 4d
Cover reveal for Frolic's first release!

80th Anniversary Edition with an introduction by Ramsey Campbell @ramseycampbell.bsky.social

New over illustration by James Hutton

trade paper and e-book available:
February 10, 2026

frolicpress.ink

#FritzLeiber
#RamseyCampbell
#WeirdFiction
#CoverReveal
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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healingnation.bsky.social
All of Blue Sky will be automatically on the list.
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
A bunch of folks have asked me what this looks like in local currency terms. Here's the chart.

It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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haikutsunami.bsky.social
in the fading light
of a cold winter's day
geese flying south

across the valley
smoke drifts in the early mist
and windows light

and children call
their final games played out
in the gathering night

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku #senryu #tanka
November 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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hool415.bsky.social
@rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
@victoriaspires.bsky.social I’m hosting #promptcombo this week.Use the #promptcombo and post me @hool415.bsky.social for the theme of #workinglove Anything on love, work or a mix of both! All welcome till 5pm Friday!!
Working Love I fell for you in work amid the photocopier’s paparazzi-flashing, had no control over seating so, between floors giddy elevator conversations snatched. Once, outside, during a fire evacuation test I stood by you, aware my ruddy-face was so obviously smouldering. Hold the note you gave me for supposed help on an urgently demanded spinning-hamster-wheel type task, just a rather economical: ‘Thank you v v much’ but I imagined that first word unexpectedly promoted and H.R. formally introducing its shyest new replacement: Love. Since that day to my certain knowledge you’ve never used ‘v v’ again… though I make sure those twanging Cupid arrowheads are near daily kept still in play.
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona’s 3rd District describes the “horrific conditions” she witnessed inside the Eloy ICE Detention Center near Phoenix — including a leukemia patient “vomiting blood,” detained in February and forced to wait eight months before finally seeing an oncologist...
Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona’s 3rd District describes the “horrific conditions” she witnessed inside the Eloy ICE Detention Center near Phoenix — including a leukemia patient “vomiting blood,” detained in February and forced to wait eight months before finally seeing an oncologist. Ansari details how private prison giants CoreCivic and The GEO Group are “making billions” as detainees are denied water, medical care, and dignity. “What happens inside these for-profit prisons is how the world sees us now,” she warns — so “authoritarian regimes can point to America and say democracy is a façade.” Via @CrookedMedia (Crooked Con November 6-7, 2025) @yassaminansari | @TVietor08 | @brhodes
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM