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Burgi Zenhaeusern
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Loves books. Writes poems.
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For everything else, incl. WHITE DOOR order link: https://linktr.ee/burgitree
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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 21d
My debut collection WHITE DOOR is out!!! 💃✨💃
Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social!
Link to order and more info in 🧵
DM for signed copies/to review 🙏💙
Watch this space for events/news 😊
three copies of white door on patterned upholstery fabric. cover image shows detail of Alternative Reality by Alan Sirulnikoff, photographer: logs floating on dark water and a white door among them. front and backside of bookmark on same surface. Front shows detail of book cover, centering the door among logs. title isn't shown. Backside has a poem from the book printed on it plus attributions: Horizons Traditions I keep take hold in this soil slowly— home grows fainter still until distant slopes briefly make me forget where I am, re-etch longing. yours truly (white woman, shoulder-length dark-blondish hair, glasses, dark green sweater, scarf with green and gray leafmotif) smiling into camera holding the book in front of her, white bookshelves along white walls in the background.
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Sometimes to pick striking lines from a poem feels like disclosing a spoiler. Beast You Are Who Calls to the Beast I Am is such a poem.
I mean how does Mai Der Vang do it, write gorgeous poetry after gorgeous poetry. Anyway, I'm so grateful for it and her new book Primordial (Graywolf, 2025)
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The cover art is based on a photograph by William Robichaud / Ban Vangban Village / Wildlife Conservation Society. The photo is blown up and stylized in teal and brownish black that make it look like a painting. It covers the entirety of the cover with the title and author showing as two separate horizontal banners. The photo depicts a jungle scene with a Saola seemingly standing sideways in water, looking towards the camera. Beast you are who calls to the beast I am I watch for the animal in you, wander the muscle of my days for you after the pages have flamed. I gnash between hours of stir and stirring, throw my speech into a ball when my figure wants to climb out. Sometimes I want to scream. I want to smash the pottery and pour wax on the furniture. Sometimes I want to cut loose the animal in my cortex, tear into this ache. There is no such thing as new pain, only the same pain recycled a hundred ways. Sometimes innocence is a lie, a scheme invented to bury one's primal source, to pretend that nothing hounds me into dirt, deny poison that eats me deeper into gangrene of my days. Purity is all but plastic made in factories and shipped worldwide. Your horns with every radiance will always make you more person than beast, more hunted than I will ever be. For a human to call out to a creature, part of the human must be creature, too.
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
burgi.bsky.social
Sometimes to pick striking lines from a poem feels like disclosing a spoiler. Beast You Are Who Calls to the Beast I Am is such a poem.
I mean how does Mai Der Vang do it, write gorgeous poetry after gorgeous poetry. Anyway, I'm so grateful for it and her new book Primordial (Graywolf, 2025)
📚💙
The cover art is based on a photograph by William Robichaud / Ban Vangban Village / Wildlife Conservation Society. The photo is blown up and stylized in teal and brownish black that make it look like a painting. It covers the entirety of the cover with the title and author showing as two separate horizontal banners. The photo depicts a jungle scene with a Saola seemingly standing sideways in water, looking towards the camera. Beast you are who calls to the beast I am I watch for the animal in you, wander the muscle of my days for you after the pages have flamed. I gnash between hours of stir and stirring, throw my speech into a ball when my figure wants to climb out. Sometimes I want to scream. I want to smash the pottery and pour wax on the furniture. Sometimes I want to cut loose the animal in my cortex, tear into this ache. There is no such thing as new pain, only the same pain recycled a hundred ways. Sometimes innocence is a lie, a scheme invented to bury one's primal source, to pretend that nothing hounds me into dirt, deny poison that eats me deeper into gangrene of my days. Purity is all but plastic made in factories and shipped worldwide. Your horns with every radiance will always make you more person than beast, more hunted than I will ever be. For a human to call out to a creature, part of the human must be creature, too.
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Tomorrow! 💙
hanvanderhart.bsky.social Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 21d
Very excited for this reading in a couple weeks—make a wonder with your friends. ❄️ Celebrate poetry. Have a party for your chapbooks! 📚💙 #booksky #poetry RSVP details in next post.
AMORAK HUEY CARLOS A. PITTELLA CATHERINE ROCKWOOD ELIZABETH SYLVIA HAN VANDERHART A Ainter's Night Chapbook Reading 12/7, 7pm ET (Zoom)
December 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Poets aren’t bad at self-promotion because we’re inherently humble, but because the habits that sustain poetry have very little to do with the habits required to promote it. Promotion can feel like an assault on the inner world by the outer one.
Poets, We Need to Talk About Self-Promotion
Why asking for support feels harder than writing the book
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December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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emdashphillips.bsky.social
Hey, publishers, especially poetry ones, I need you to know something: As of April 26, 2026, universities will have to meet new federal accessibility standards, which means all assigned & suggested texts must be screen reader accessible. (Thread)
December 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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majda.bsky.social
Split This Rock is why I love DC poetry, it nurtures community and welcomes diversity. Let’s help them stay funded! Come out and hear the phenomenal Clint Smith!
splitthisrock.bsky.social Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · 2d
DC EVENT! Gather in person for EVERYDAY KIND OF LOVE: A Poetry Party to Save Split This Rock, ft. Clint Smith on 12/11 at Busboys & Poets 450K! There will be a live DJ, raffle prizes, tarot readings, special guest readers & more as we fundraise to bridge a funding gap. Get tickets: bit.ly/4oyqbMy
EVERYDAY KIND OF LOVE: A Poetry Party to Save Split This Rock!
Join us for EVERYDAY KIND OF LOVE: A Poetry Party to Save Split This Rock!At the heart of Split This Rock’s work has always been an insistence that poetry for liberation does not happen in isolation, ...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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heart of snow, a heron flies
silver world of marshland wintering, snow flakes scatter across a tree-lined view like a Japanese print as a heron flies high in the heart of it
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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splitthisrock.bsky.social
DC EVENT! Gather in person for EVERYDAY KIND OF LOVE: A Poetry Party to Save Split This Rock, ft. Clint Smith on 12/11 at Busboys & Poets 450K! There will be a live DJ, raffle prizes, tarot readings, special guest readers & more as we fundraise to bridge a funding gap. Get tickets: bit.ly/4oyqbMy
EVERYDAY KIND OF LOVE: A Poetry Party to Save Split This Rock!
Join us for EVERYDAY KIND OF LOVE: A Poetry Party to Save Split This Rock!At the heart of Split This Rock’s work has always been an insistence that poetry for liberation does not happen in isolation, ...
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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sidhepress.bsky.social
Still Friday, still raining, still time to donate and share. #WeKeepTelling #MutualAid
sidhepress.bsky.social Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 2d
It´s Friday, it's raining- and most of us have a safe place to stay, away from the rain and the cold. Palestinians do not have this luxury, the situation is catastrophic and wishing it away won´t help. But you can help by sharing and donating, you can offer real, tangible help. Please do.
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Tune in to Episode 81 (Of Form and Flood, the Documentation of Grief, and Poetry That Violates Rules) with Nicole Cooley today!

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/2fb8d4c8
Blue graphic with photograph of poet Nicole Cooley, book cover of MOTHER WATER ASH and the text: OF POETRY PODCAST MOTHER WATER ASH poems NICOLE COOLEY (Of Form and Flood, the Documentation of Grief, and Poetry That Violates Rules) EPISODE 81
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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4aamari.bsky.social
whisper moon whispering
over the band of still marsh and mirrored just-wintering trees held in a blanket of waking cloud, the full moon hovers high in the pale blue and is itself again lingering whispering behind wisped tendrils below
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Rachelle Toarmino

@rchlltrmn.bsky.social
@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
I have my doubts finally not to tell a strange world flashlight under the chin but to react / right-sized and given / something to do since I smell smoke I buy flowers
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory. In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities. "The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
burgi.bsky.social
Reposting this from @heideerdrich.bsky.social's IG post.
theconversation.com/thomas-king-...
Thomas King: As we learn another ‘hero’ is non-Indigenous, let’s not ignore a broader cultural problem
Indigenous people are more than stories. We deserve a future where our identities are not commodities, and accountability is measured by actions that build trust and repair harm.
theconversation.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
burgi.bsky.social
Just heard these poets read!!
💙✨️💙
And if you don't already follow @wplseries.bsky.social give them a follow. 🙏🙂

#poetry #writingCommunity
wplseries.bsky.social Wild & Precious Life Series @wplseries.bsky.social · 7d
Join the WPLS on 12/3 to celebrate a night of @smallharborpub.bsky.social collaborations!

Megan Merchant & Luke Johnson will read from A SLOW INDWELLING.

Order your copy: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/a-slow...

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #books
#bookrecommemdation
December 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
burgi.bsky.social
T rump funds & charity--what a combo to run a country with!!
I thought I had no more disgust to give. Proved wrong yet again.
🤮🤬
December 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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4aamari.bsky.social
from estuary dawn
the voluminous grey-blue curtain of sky and water opens to share the brightest horizon gold while a faint line of distant geese in flight floats over a sweet line of friends resting in calm waters crossed by yet another angled line of lines placed by carefully tending sanctuary hands
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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adimagazine.bsky.social
"When Josefa heard that bird camouflaged among the trunks, she remembered when mother had run away from home."

New fiction, "The River of Birds" by Quya Reyna, translated by Andree Michelle Viladegut Peñaranda is live today on Adi's website!

Read: adimagazine.com/articles/the...
The River of Birds
He who leaves, takes his memory,  his way of being river, of being air,  of being goodbye and never. Love, Rosario Castellanos When Josefa heard that bird camouflaged among the trunks, she reme...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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splitthisrock.bsky.social
#GIVINGTUESDAY SPECIAL: Through 12/2 & while tickets last, donate at least $120 online & get tickets to 5 virtual poetry workshops in the new year with Hanif Abdurraqib, @rarasaur.substack.com, Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, @khadijahqueen.com, & Jorrell Watkins! Learn more: bit.ly/4i3UBEK
Split This Rock’s red logo at the top with the GivingTuesday logo. Bold text below with color alternating between white for headings and purple, blue, green, yellow, and pink for body text. Text reads: “Poetry Workshop Bundle Deal: access to 5 virtual workshops with $120 online donation through GivingTuesday (12/2) while tickets last. Winter 2026 Virtual Poetry Workshop Facilitators: Jorrell Watkins, Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, Khadijah Queen, Hanif Abdurraqib, Ra Avis. Donate Online: bit.ly/GiveSplitThisRock.”
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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juneroadpress.bsky.social
We’re open for submissions! This winter’s reading period is for individual poems for our first anthology rather than full-length manuscripts. Details at www.juneroadpress.com/submissions!
December 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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bookgaga.bsky.social
"and on his palette the painter mixes
the cheap acrylic reds and blues to
make something past periwinkle"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
After the rain starts by @wynnlibby.bsky.social (2025 @pinholepoetry.bsky.social) pinholepoetry.ca/13982-2/
· P I N H O L E • P O E T R Y
WYNN LIBBY After the rain startsand on his palette the painter mixesthe cheap acrylic reds and blues tomake something past periwinkle,and the way the rain splattersand hangs on the windows makesyou wo...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Good morning to our newest cover:
The Visible Field by Zoë Ryder White, design by Alban Fischer! 📚🎉 ✨

Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...

@zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @alban-fischer.bsky.social
Dark blue cover with pale blue flowers and botanicals, like photo-sensitive paper. White lettering of title and author’s name: THE VISIBLE FIELD Zoe Ryder White
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
burgi.bsky.social
I love this 💙💙💙
December 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Yes! You might like this site: alt-text-as-poetry.net
Alt Text as Poetry
Alt text is an essential part of web accessibility. It is often disregarded altogether or understood through the lens of compliance, as an unwelcome burden to be met with minimum effort. How can we in...
alt-text-as-poetry.net
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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hanvanderhart.bsky.social
I did an accessibility course today at work re digital content, and was reminded that alt text replaces the image, & is not description—& wow. More of that.

Not “this is x poem” but the poem text.

Not “a painting” but what the viewer sees.

Not “a graph of x” but what information is communicated.
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM