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Grant Clauser
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Poet | Teacher | Editor | Walker | Pennsylvanian | Plant-based
Temporary Shelters (2025)
Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven (2020)
Teaches at Rosemont College
Montgomery County Poet Laureate 2010
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
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November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"This Animal" by Aracelis Girmay from Green of All Heads published by Boa Editions, Ltd.

Read here:
poems.com/poem/this-an...
This Animal
By what do I feel she is a woman rat
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November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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New from Jared Beloff: "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," a gorgeous, haunting poem.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/jared-beloff/

#poem #poetry #poet #water #coast #swimming
One Poem by Jared Beloff - Terrain.org
New from Jared Beloff: “Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” a gorgeous, haunting poem.
www.terrain.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Oh my, I love this reading by Cleveland wall of my poem Blessings of a Dog. youtu.be/AfH1tTsELzw?...
"Blessings of a Dog" by Grant Clauser - Poem of the Week No.196
YouTube video by Bethlehem Area Public Library
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November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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“The speaker of today’s poem imagines loved ones coming to their funeral—and they have some directives, and some requests," host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's episode of The Slowdown, number 1402.

Read "Gloria Mundi" by Michael Kleber-Diggs: https://bit.ly/3Xb2ezJ
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"I wake when I feel like it,
read what Rilke wrote to Tsvetaeva." --Linda Gregg georgebilgere.com/so/b9PgOIyjO...
Here’s a poem for today, November 24, 2025
Poetry Town
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November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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"Poetry helps us to say, oh, there are things I know that I haven’t learned. There are instincts or intuitions that arise for me that prove to be quite practical and useful." —Tracy K. Smith lithub.com/tracy-k-smit...
Tracy K. Smith on the Spiritual and the Poetic
First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, …
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November 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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So grateful to have a poem in the lovely @asteralesjournal.bsky.social thanks to @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Rachel Bunting. Such a lovely journal to work with, and they even send personal thank you cards through the mail!
Put on your Doc Martens and take a hike with nostalgia and regret in this poem by @jillkitchen.bsky.social : asteralesjournal.com/1-4-kitchen-...
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Charles Coe, RIP What a writer and what a solid decent person. Such a shock to hear the news. www.charlescoe.org/about
ABOUT — Charles Coe
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November 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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POEM 285: "Flyer Taped to a Store Window…" by Sam Rasnake (@samrasnake.bsky.social)

"the mouth is a cavern with rock formations,
trails, and stream—the lips an eel—the chin
a block of granite chiseled to fit—the face"

stonecirclereview.com/flyer-taped/

#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The European Association for Bachelor Princes has clearly been lobbying the Christmas movie industry.
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I love dogs but they're terrible at keeping secrets
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In the notebook I took camping last week I wrote "It's not the horses, it's the horses." and I wish I know what I was thinking
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Billy Collins talks about dogs and poetry in this interview on his new book. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins releases 'Dog Show' poetry collection
"Dog Show" includes 25 poems accompanied by watercolors by Pamela Sztybel.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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So delighted to have this little poem appear in @ampoetryreview.bsky.social, alongside a handful of others! Much gratitude to the editors!
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
At This College, the English Dept. Is Out. ‘Human Narratives’ Is In. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
At This College, the English Dept. Is Out. ‘Human Narratives’ Is In.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Reading with friends tonight at Eastern University for Keystone Poetry
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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I hope you'll check out this interview and let me know your thoughts ~

Moon Beams #24 - Mark Danowsky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZXn...
Moon Beams #24 - Mark Danowsky
YouTube video by Greg Lehman
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November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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A round of applause for the 2025 #NBAwards winner in Poetry: Patricia Smith for The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Patricia Smith’s The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems has won the National Book Award for Poetry! Read more here: buff.ly/HKCSQQQ
Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages
Nobody—and I mean NOBODY—warned me about my pubic hair. It glistened for years, springy and sprite, an Ivory Soap-scented welcome mat for lucky episodic visitors. I never gave it much thought, cert…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
After dropping off my cabin key I visited Crow’s Nest—another beautiful property saved by Natural Lands
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM