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Egan Garr
@garr.bsky.social
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poet, translator, lit ed
lesbian avenger-at-large, butch dad

📍Amsterdam, NL
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Egan Garr @garr.bsky.social · Sep 10
A poem very close to my heart has appeared for public viewing @glasspoetry.bsky.social - much love to Tony for trusting this work
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verseofapril.bsky.social
Yes, give us more poet-on-poet. Guidelines on our site: www.verseofapril.com/submissions

(Drawing by @dechabaneixbaptiste)
Verse of April Submissions Open for Poets-on-Poets Interviews and Poets-on-Poets Essays.
February 5, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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jackmirkinson.bsky.social
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
garr.bsky.social
Last night’s inauguration of the Netherlands’ new poet laureate, my dear friend Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad. As Sahand Sahebdivani put it in his speech: “What a gift it is to speak many languages” @uitgeverijpluim.bsky.social #dichterdernederlanden
February 2, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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jacobwren.bsky.social
"My identifying features / are rapture and despair."
- Wislawa Szymborska, Sky
February 1, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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alinaetc.bsky.social
A drawing by Erik Satie which cannot resist its fancies.
January 31, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social
We’ve extended the submissions deadline to March 1.
Still plenty of time for you to submit and for us to get our chicks in order (starting a lit mag definitely comes with a learning curve :))
A Space for Literary Translators and their Process | The Third Wheel
The Third Wheel is a digital publication conceived as a hub for literary translators and literature in translation. Alongside translated poetry and prose, we feature original writing that delves into the translators’ journeys.
Thethirdwheel.org
January 16, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
In 2021 I was telling people in my field of art history to stop legitimizing the use of image recognition, to stop applying for grants to use AI in identifying the subjects of portraiture bc this was what such work was being used to further. All this was obvious. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...
When AI gets attention for recovering lost works of art, it makes the technology sound a lot less scary than when it garners headlines for creating deep fakes that falsify politicians’ speech or for using facial recognition for authoritarian surveillance.
January 30, 2026 at 12:24 PM
garr.bsky.social
Happy annual mute AWP day to all who celebrate
January 28, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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ziibiing.com
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
January 27, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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jaypegplays.bsky.social
If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund
ICE Out - Fundraising Nail Polish
**Shipping Update** Shipping will continue once more ingredients have arrived for this polish. Orders should go out in about 2 weeks. Ice Out is a blurple based polish with a blue/aqua shift and pink ...
www.atomicpolish.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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eireannmor.bsky.social
whatever it may be, your movement needs poets (don't always look like Poets), not grifters, because every movement needs people who patiently examine, life long, how language pricks and punctures and grazes and warms and holds and pushes us toward what we don't know yet how to say--world in process
January 26, 2026 at 4:13 PM
garr.bsky.social
The Netherlands’ new poet laureate and a dear friend:
wwborders.bsky.social Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 13d
Check out “War,” a poem on the inescapability of violence by Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad (tr. Michele Hutchison) wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

And don’t miss both the author and translator during our World In Verse reading on 1/31! Free and virtual, RSVP here: wwborders.live/WorldInVerse2026
war by Nisrine Mbarki - Words Without Borders
For our final selection in the 2025 National Translation Month series, a poem by Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad, translated by Michele Hutchison.
wordswithoutborders.org
January 26, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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davidforbes.bsky.social
There's a lot of issues with the myths around nonviolence and protest. A big one is that they erase the actual history of the civil rights movement — complex coalitions whose struggles and strategies are vital to understand — into a whitewashed saintliness that gentry liberals are comfortable with.
It is important that those who seek to crush liberation today must sanitize and erase the movements of the past, particularly the civil rights movement. They conflate its nonviolence with passivity and a lack of disruption. Some, like 50501, do this explicitly. In doing so they even get nonviolence wrong. The civil rights movement had its own disagreements and differences with other groups in the wider Black liberation struggles, but its use of nonviolence was explicitly a set of highly disruptive tactics aimed at making injustice impossible to maintain. Its groups and organizers intentionally defied laws and police while refusing “moderate” offers of compromise. “It isn’t nice” was one of their songs for a reason. Today, there’s good odds those organizers and activists would be condemned as “provacateurs” and turned over to the police by those who invoke their memory to shut down militant demonstrations today. Their attitudes on armed defense — and even violence — were also much more complex, rooted in the reality of the cold terrors they faced. It is also much more complex than portrayed in today’s liberal mythology. Martin Luther King, Jr., while not expressly advocating violent revolt himself, nevertheless refused to condemn tactics used by others in the fight for Black liberation, especially in his later years. “It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society,” King said in his 1968 lecture The Other America. “These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention.” ”And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard,” King continued to the audience of high schoolers in Grosse Point, Mich. “And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.” In 1965 King even pointedly refused to condemn Annie Cooper, a Selma, Ala. woman who punched the notoriously racist sheriff square in the face and knocked him to the ground, noting that her actions were clearly “provoked” by his racist violence. In Charles Cobb’s seminal book on the role of armed resistance in the struggle for Black liberation, especially in the American Civil Rights Movement, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed, he recounted how journalist William Worthy stumbled upon two firearms in King’s house. The civil rights leader noted these were “just for self-defense.” Another activist described King’s home as “an arsenal.” “The claim that armed self-defense was a necessary aspect of the civil rights movement is still controversial,” Cobb, a legendary journalist and former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary, wrote. “However, wielding weapons, especially firearms, let both participants in nonviolent struggle and their sympathizers protect themselves and others under terrorist attack for their civil rights activities. Their willingness to use deadly force ensured the survival not only of countless brave men and women but also of the freedom struggle itself.” He lays out a multitude of examples, like the heavily-armed Deacons for Defense and Justice group that mobilized against segregation and worked closely with civil rights organizers. “If we had a picket line, these guys were standing on the corner, on both sides of the street,” CORE organizer Fred Brooks recalled. “Wherever we went it was like a caravan; these guys in their pick-up trucks with their high-powered rifles.” Renowned radical civil rights organizer Fannie Lou Hamer put it bluntly: “I keep a shotgun in every corner of my bedroom, and the first cracker even look like he wants to throw some dynamite on my porch won’t write his mama again.” Cobb wrote his history to counter the ongoing sanitization of the realities of that struggle. He’s honest about divisions within the movement over the use of armed force, but also emphasizes that fears that armed demonstrations and defense would lead to overwhelming retaliation proved unfounded. Instead, in plenty of cases local segregationist governments folded in the face of them. “It may be that ‘nonviolent’ is simply the wrong word for many of the people who participated in the freedom struggle and who were comfortable with both nonviolence and self-defense, assessing what to do primarily on the basis of which seemed the most practical at any given moment,” Cobb concluded.
January 8, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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minorliteratures.bsky.social
"Stemming etymologically from the same roots, these languages have branched out and the distance from their roots, the connections, may have been severed—or, this poem asks, perhaps there is still some collective soil?"

Jennifer K. Dick

minorliteratures.com/2026/01/13/m...
“[M]y books share my natural openness to loose connectivity, grammatical fluidity, and promotion of connections related to word sounds over specific meaning:” An Interview with Jennifer K. Dick — Nina...
The phenomenon of Jennifer K. Dick’s bilingualism all started for me at Ivy Writers Paris, a cycle of bilingual readings that she has organized for nearly twenty years. It was there in the early 20…
minorliteratures.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:54 PM
garr.bsky.social
A poem very close to my heart has appeared for public viewing @glasspoetry.bsky.social - much love to Tony for trusting this work
September 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
garr.bsky.social
“Espionage”
financialtimes.com Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Apr 14
Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...
Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage
April 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
garr.bsky.social
Today a neighbor complained to me and my kids that the fort they’d made on our patio was not “aesthetic” and was like homeless
people had moved in. She did this while holding her naked breasts over her balcony. “I didn’t know kids lived here,” she said, of an 18 story highrise in Amdam north . . .
April 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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aclu.org
BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech.

The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.
April 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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fabidanslemetro.bsky.social
Voor De Gids schreef ik over mijn veranderde verhouding tot het russisch, mijn tweede taal in plaats van het Kazachs, en over de historische, traumatische gebeurtenissen van Bloedige Januari in 2022. Hier te lezen:

www.de-gids.nl/artikelen/qa...
Qantar, of de binnenkant van mijn jas – De Gids
www.de-gids.nl
April 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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anariablooms.bsky.social
White guy gets a little validation from other men and immediately starts praising the taliban lol
April 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.

And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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demsabroad.bsky.social
Democrats Abroad "Hands Off" protests around the world. #handsoff #april5 #5April #democratsabroad
DA Resistance Events
Democrats Abroad hosts resistance events all over the world. Find one near you today!
www.democratsabroad.org
April 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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demsabroad.bsky.social
And please don't forget that the SAVE Act requires in-person voter registration (in many states that means every year). This will disenfranchise Americans abroad (or force them to pay to travel to the US), including the military, as well as the elderly and disabled. Stop the #SAVEAct !
demwomencaucus.bsky.social Democratic Women’s Caucus @demwomencaucus.bsky.social · Apr 3
The SAVE Act is a poll tax.

Over 69 million women would have to get new IDs to vote under the SAVE Act—all of which, except military IDs, cost money.

As @mcclellan.house.gov explained, whether it’s $1,000 or 1￠, no one should have to pay to vote.
April 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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megireid.bsky.social
The NYT reports DOGE has recommended cuts that would likely result in the shutdown of the NEH. This would gut Tennessee Humanities, which funds the excellent Southern Festival of the Book, as well as Chapter 16--the only outlet in TN that still reviews books. This is heartbreaking.
As of this morning, Humanities Tennessee and all state councils have receive a notice of termination of our NEH grant. What does this mean for Humanities Tennessee? What will we lose? Free reading and book programs like the Southern Festival of Books, HT's annual largest annual event connecting readers and authors for 36 years, and access to book news and events via Chapter16.org Young writer and reader programs like Student Readers Days that connect school students with authors while providing free books, plus our annual writing workshops for high school students Shared Futures Lab podcast spotlighting Tennessee stories and exploring ways to create a thriving future for all Tennesseans History programs commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence Opportunities for K-12 students across the state to participate in Tennessee History Day and National History Day competitions Funding for rural museums and historical societies Scholarships for volunteers at small museums to attend the annual Tennessee Association of Museums conference
April 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
garr.bsky.social
Rome being Rome
March 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM