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Genevieve DeGuzman

@gendeguzman.bsky.social

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Poet & writer. KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD out 3.16.2026!

💥 Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/p/books/karaoke-at-the-end-of-the-world-genevieve-deguzman/5d74aed48282ab57
💥 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Karaoke-End-World-Genevieve-Deguzman/dp/1956907246

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Genevieve DeGuzman @gendeguzman.bsky.social · 4d

BOOM. ⚡️🧨 Consider a pre-order! My debut collection explores grief for our mothers and ourselves.💥The vibe: end times in the multiverse, tender apocalypses, music, the extinct, ancient, alien, and animal. A bit speculative, a bit strange. Links in bio & here genevievedeguzman.carbonmade.com/karaoke

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November 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM

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K Weber

@midwesternskirt.bsky.social

continuing my walkthrough of DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES over at @donatedwords.bsky.social!

PAGE 14/"Shadowcast” by @melissacuisine.bsky.social

words donated by
@gendeguzman.bsky.social
Patrick Dorsey
@madelinksi.bsky.social

author took on a “light word” challenge

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donated words poetry @donatedwords.bsky.social · 6d

DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES walkthrough!

PAGE 14: “Shadowcast” by @melissacuisine.bsky.social

donated words
@gendeguzman.bsky.social SIPHON
Patrick Dorsey SYMPHONIC
@madelinksi.bsky.social HARBINGER

word challenge: light word
word choice: dawn

free PDF collection: tinyurl.com/2025daylight

square image with black background and black border. a digital book page is at the center. the page is white with black text. the title of a poem, “Shadowcast,” is at the top left of the page. poem text is as follows:
Shadowcast

Siphon the heat of the day
Into the palm of your hand
Close your fingers around the warmth
Press it to my skin
To ward off the desert dip down

The glow once stayed through the night
But now fades before dawn returns
And I shiver in the gray, gleaning

The sun rises across the foothills
Casts symphonic shadows
Across the plaster that holds the walls intact
Hollow inside, termites eating through the studs
A sluggish harbinger of destruction

It is not us entangled
Just the outline of empty bedsheets
Miniature dunes of dust along the baseboards

Melissa Flores Anderson

long rectangular box, longer horizontally, is at the bottom of the page. has a black border and white background. black text reads the donated words author used: siphon symphonic harbinger and then a blue underlined jump link to the donated words list. then the name of the challenge “include a word related to light" and the author’s word choice: dawn
page number 14 is in black text at bottom center of page

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Melissa Flores Anderson's work has been featured in more than 40 literary venues and anthologies, including swamp pink, Chapter House and HAD. Her flash "Nesting Doll" has been selected for inclusion in the 2025 Best Small Fictions Anthology. She is the EIC of the Broken Hearts Gallery Literary, an Instagram project that features photos and micro stories
(@brokenheartsliterary) and a reader/editor with Roi Fainéant Press. Her first full-length short story collection All and Then None of You is out now (Cowboy Jamboree). Follow her on Twitter/Bluesky @melissacuisine or IG/Threads @theirishmonths. Read her work at melissafloresandersonwrites.com

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Page 14 features the poem "Shadowcast" by Melissa Flores Anderson. Melissa incorporated the following words into this piece:

SIPHON donated by Genevieve DeGuzman
SYMPHONIC donated by Patrick Dorsey
HARBINGER donated by Madeleine Corley
word challenge: light word
word choice: dawn

"Shadowcast" has such fresh imagery. there's much warmth throughout and the landscapes and surroundings are rich with abundant detail. there is also a sense of safety and beauty and illumination in many forms. then, the poem takes a turn and not just in tone. sudden, surprising moments reflect a coolness in temperature and emotion. the poem becomes a meditation on opposites. that final image of "dunes of dust" is so striking. it takes us a long way from the glow and welcome heat that was introduced at the beginning.

November 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM

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JackLeg Press

@jacklegpress.bsky.social

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November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM

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donated words poetry

@donatedwords.bsky.social

(words/word donors 2 of 3)

MIRACLE - @karenmsteiger.bsky.social
PERMISSION - Melinda Farrar
PROLIX - Meesh Montoya
REGENT - @stonespiral.bsky.social
SIMULTANEOUS - @norbaikin.bsky.social
SIPHON - @gendeguzman.bsky.social SYMPHONIC - Patrick Dorsey
TIDE - @krislindbeck.bsky.social

November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM

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donated words poetry

@donatedwords.bsky.social

DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES walkthrough!

PAGE 6: & DAYLIGHT/intro to the project featuring 17 authors & 17 donated words

this resulted in 16 poems & 1 microfiction work! credits in thread!

i will be focusing on 1 poem at a time in the 17 posts ahead!

get the free PDF: tinyurl.com/2025daylight

white square image. a page of a digital book appears at the center. the book page has a close-up of the cover art in the background. the attention is mostly on the yellow shading but there is orange shading in a small sliver to the right vertically (but not straight) down the page.

“& daylight” heading text is at the top left of the page in bold white font

black text reads discusses more about how the project (alt text won’t fit - msg me if you need help!)

a white box with a black border and two columns contains the following black text:

APRICITY - Marie Marchard
DAYLIGHT - Oswald Perez
FREQUENCY - Julia Beach
GOSSAMER - Linda Crate
HARBINGER - Madeleine Corley
HEARTSICK - K Weber
KERFUFFLE - Elizabeth Fletcher
MIRACLE - Karen Steiger
PERMISSION - Melinda Farrar
PROLIX - Meesh Montoya
REGENT - m klein
SIMULTANEOUS - Norb Aikin
SIPHON - Genevieve DeGuzman
SYMPHONIC - Patrick Dorsey
TIDE - Kris Lindbeck
VERIFY - Kim Mannix
WOMB - Kashiana Singh

The following appears in black text outside of the box at the end of the page:

I am really excited for all to read these poems... for the authors to see who contributed the words they were assigned... and for the word donors to see how their words inspired the authors!

The page number six appears in black text at the bottom center

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on page 6 we have the intro to a new series of donated words writing. i called this section & DAYLIGHT. the background is a simple zoom-in of the front cover but with more attention paid to the yellow-shaded area. this portion of the book contains 17 original pieces - 16 poems & 1 microfiction - by 17 authors. i received 17 donated words for this project.

i got creative in how i assigned words randomly to each author from the pool of 17 words. revisiting the WELCOME section (pages 2 & 3) you can find more detail as to the methods and tools i used. i decided to give each author 3 words, from those provided to us, to infuse into our writing. no 2 authors share more than one of the same donated words with the exception of one writer - who i gave 4 words - as she participated as an author in the first donated words collection, THIS ASSEMBLY, in 2019. each author was given an optional, unique challenge wherein they chose a word to incorporate into their piece.

pages 7-24 contain these new works and show which words and challenges were weaved into them. i am so excited to take a deeper look into all of the resulting writing and the donated words and tie it all together!

this has been a beautiful collaboration! you can get the free PDF here: tinyurl.com/2025daylight

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here are the words & word donors who made this project so vibrant:

APRICITY - Marie Marchand
DAYLIGHT - Oswald Perez
FREQUENCY - Julia Beach
GOSSAMER - Linda M. Crate
HARBINGER - Madelinksi
HEARTSICK - Kristi Weber
KERFUFFLE - Elizabeth Fletcher
MIRACLE - Karen Steiger
PERMISSION - Melinda Farrar
PROLIX - Meesh Montoya
REGENT - m klein
SIMULTANEOUS - Norb Aikin
SIPHON - Genevieve DeGuzman
SYMPHONIC - Patrick Dorsey
TIDE - Kris Lindbeck
VERIFY - Kim Mannix
WOMB - Kashiana Singh

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our amazing authors who took on new challenges and created fantastic poems & microfiction:

Julie Luepke
K Weber
Karen Steiger
Kiley Lee
Marie Marchand
Melissa Flores Anderson
Michael Metivier
Millie H
Misty D. Hudson
Oswald Perez
Preston Danvers
Sara Matson
Sarah O’Brien
Scott Nickell
Steph Patterson
Tiffany Sciacca
Will Davis

November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM

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Juan Martinez

@fulmerford.com

Here are all the birds you need to worry about this week

Collage of five stolid birds on top of five worried heads

November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM

Genevieve DeGuzman

@gendeguzman.bsky.social

"Chimera/ of passion flowers running into Lady Banks/barely keeping pace with the sampaguitas." 💖

Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 22d

“Honestly, it's the wrong year / to write a love poem.”

— Asa Drake (@asaldrake.bsky.social)

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This poem appeared in Sierra Magazine, 2022. Shared here with deep gratitude.

November 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM

Genevieve DeGuzman

@gendeguzman.bsky.social

Reunited and it feels so good. Dropped by HOCUS Live for the PBF Cover to Cover series and read with local poet/writer besties, Andrea Deeken & Theresa Tran. We managed to channel Moon, Tower, & Fool energy for the night's Major Arcana theme, helped with some hot toddies. #pdxbookfest

Selfie of Andrea Deeken, Theresa Tran, and Genevieve DeGuzman. We read at HOCUS Live, a reading series in Portland held at the Rose City Book Pub that emphasizes poetry and prose and literary games and community.

Theresa Tran, Genevieve DeGuzman, and Andrea Deeken squeeze onto a bench at the Rose City Book Pub behind our hot toddies and HOCUS Live programs. Shelf of books lines the wall behind us.

November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM

Genevieve DeGuzman

@gendeguzman.bsky.social

Pre-game this weekend’s #PDXBookFest. Come by Rose City Book Pub on NE Fremont, 7pm TONIGHT 11/7 for some tarot-themed poetry & prose and literary games with local writers. Hosted by HOCUS as part of the Cover to Cover series. #PBF25

November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Mamdani: "Yes, aunties."

November 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD

@nnedi.bsky.social

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

SAY. THAT. SHIT!

November 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM

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Stephen Jackson

@fortyoddcrows.bsky.social

A gorgeous day in the PNW.

November 3, 2025 at 3:51 AM

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Elly

@ellyzoe.bsky.social

Just gorgeous: Saeed Jones’ “Date Night”

Poem titled Date Night
By Saeed Jones

I meant to bring you flowers but when I reached
your door, all I had in my hands was teeth. Sorry,
I meant to say /grief/. Seems like all I say is /grief/.
Or /ghosts/. Or /please, don't leave/. Lately, I say it
in my mother's sleep. She used to cry and call out
her brother's name in her sleep. I've written about
this before. Grief, of course, but also, her sleep, but
also, her brother. He doesn't call me anymore. He
is my blood, and in a book I wrote but I don't think
he bothered to read. I grind my teeth in my sleep.
A man I used to sleep with told me I talk in my sleep
but blushed and held his tongue when I asked him
to say what I said in my sleep. When a Venus Flytrap
flowers, the two white blossoms sit atop a very tall
stalk. Green teeth way down at the bottom. It's trying
to avoid triggering its own traps. It's trying to keep

the bees it needs for pollination away from its own traps.
I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry
when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting. Nothing
but teeth. Nothing but the same words calling out to me
in my sleep. Grief asking its ghosts not to leave. Please.
It's not up to me when I get to stop crying. Or hurting.
Or holding memories in my mouth, gentle as bees
I promised not to eat, but oh, the hurt is so sweet.

November 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM

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StoryStudio Chicago

@storystudiochicago.bsky.social

Please read our statement to support immigrants and immigrant communities.

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October 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM

Genevieve DeGuzman

@gendeguzman.bsky.social

🚨 📙 My forthcoming book has a cover! I hear dynamite gets lit once you start reading. 🧨

The one-and-only @taylorbyas.bsky.social was my editor and @simonemuenchie.bsky.social brought me into the @jacklegpress.bsky.social fold. ✨

Goes boom on 3.16.2026. More info coming soon!

Cover art for Karaoke at the End of the World, a debut poetry collection by Genevieve DeGuzman, out from JackLeg Press in March 2026. Cover is an illustration of a lit stick of dynamite and rays of light emanating around it with frenetic energy. Pink and orange and beige yellow. Pre-order details coming soon.

October 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM

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Kashana

@kashana.blacksky.app

Bottom of the 18th. Sisyphus, tired of pushing the rock, is grateful to break up his time in Hell by getting hit with a pitch.

October 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM

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Martyn

@martynpedler.com

I don't follow baseball but I've been enjoying the Lovecraftian glimpses of it I get here. Like something beyond human understanding has just occured in America.

October 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM

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Pwnallthethings

@pwnallthethings.bsky.social

Fun fact the time between now and the beginning of this game is the same as between the beginning of this game and the construction of the pyramids

October 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM

Genevieve DeGuzman

@gendeguzman.bsky.social

A rain soaked #caturday in Portland. No outdoor time. Beezy decides to rage nap instead.

Tuxedo cat giving her owner the side eye. Cat is curled up on a blanket, about to rage nap. It’s raining out and she’s stuck inside.

October 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

October 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM

Genevieve DeGuzman

@gendeguzman.bsky.social

Mutual aid. YES

Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · Oct 22

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

October 23, 2025 at 6:52 AM

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Tim Dickinson

@timdickinson.bsky.social

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings

October 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM

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G Elliott Morris

@gelliottmorris.com

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...