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Bonanni Comma John

@bananascallops.bsky.social

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Poet. Winner of the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry for retrovirology (Pitt 2026). Editor of Cape Cod Review. Words in Gulf Coast, Foglifter, Electric Lit, & Michigan Quarterly Review. More here: www.johnbonanni.com

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Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · 2d

I'm both thrilled and shocked to announce this! Thank you Honorée Fonanne Jeffers for selecting my work for this honor. @upittpress.bsky.social has been a dream press since as long as I've been at this--not enough emojis for all these feels.

University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats to John Bonanni @bananascallops.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry for his collection, RETROVIROLOGY, selected by @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social!

UPP will publish RETROVIROLOGY in the Fall 2026:
www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Contests...

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 5d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 10d

This is terrorism in America.

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Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · 10d

"What would happen if I turned off my phone?" is my daily affirmation

Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · 11d

Added this underrated banger to my running playlist. Also: the 90210 allusion here

youtu.be/8Mtiecwd4ic?...

Salt-N-Pepa - None Of Your Business

YouTube video by Jaheim Hines & Jaydan Anderson

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 12d

Welp...:

Tonight on the Shuffle Up:
Save Me by Aimee Mann

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0V8...

Aimee Mann - Save Me

YouTube video by hugo01390

www.youtube.com

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Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · 14d

Note for those writing their "author bio." We do not receive our MFA; we EARN that shit.

Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · 16d

This is how you do activism. Electricify with creativity. Use the methods of fascism to critique it. Bring the ruckus.

WIRED @wired.com · 16d

A 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23.

A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."

Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you to @kevinbertolero.bsky.social for including 2 of my poems digging into ACTUP history in this incrediblly queer lit mag @andchangepoetry.bsky.social

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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 27d

Song of My House Being Battered by the Autumn Winds

translated from the Chinese by Marilyn Chin

poets.org

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Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · 28d

Says it.

Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · Sep 6

all vaxxed up for the school year and rfk

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Rotten Eggs @rottenehgs.bsky.social · Aug 31

Idk about you but im always hiding my masculinity behind my doe-like eyes

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Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · Aug 31

I love to hate this game

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 31

Connections is a daily game about finding common threads between words. Players must select four groups of four words without making more than three mistakes. Play now. nyti.ms/4mZgjvv

A grid of words including “CHOP,” “BASH” and “BLAST” for the Connections puzzle for Aug. 31, 2025.

Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · Aug 27

"aid purchased by U.S. taxpayers is simply being destroyed. The Trump administration... ordered the incineration of nearly 500 tons of food meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It also intends to incinerate nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives"
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Inside the USAID Fire Sale

Around the world, defibrillators, motorbikes, and water towers are being donated, sold, or simply abandoned.

www.theatlantic.com

Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · Aug 20

5. If you can't support a femme gay man, don't call yourself an ally. You don't get to pick & choose the "types" of gays you support.

6. If you don't like it, in the immortal words of Marsha P. Johnson, you can "pay it no mind."

Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · Aug 20

3. There are lesbian cheerleaders. Therefore, this was "gay" long before the re-introduction of men.

4. Football is gay as fuck. Like, let's all grunt and tackle each other, then try desperately to conceal our hard-ons.

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Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · Aug 20

I fixed it for you.

1. The history of cheerleading starts with males. It did not transition into a female sport until WWII, when men were being drafted in large numbers.

2. Male cheerleaders already exist at the college level, where (surprise) no one cares. Go watch "Bring It On."

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Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · Aug 20

It doesn't work

Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · Aug 20

I'll be reading some poems on Nantucket this weekend. Drop by the festival & say hi if you're in the area!

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · Aug 19

Wanna learn more about the Panthers’ work around disability? It wasn’t just the 504 sit-in. I have 2 chapters about them in my book Black Disability Politics which is available for purchase or free open access here from @dukepress.bsky.social:

library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

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Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · Aug 19

Congrats! I will not drink with you today!

Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thank you! 🙏

Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · Aug 18

#falmouthroadrace killed me this year, but it's always worth the sore legs. Thank you to all who donated!

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Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · Aug 18

Did I not post the photo? Amateur move.