Han VanderHart
@hanvanderhart.bsky.social
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021). Co-Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
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@hanvanderhart.bsky.social
· Oct 24
Cover of Larks, with photograph by Nicola Davison-Reed, forthcoming from Ohio University Press in April, 2025.
www.ohioswallow.com/978082142591...
www.ohioswallow.com/978082142591...
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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revision is relentless. oh you thought these poems were done? so you submitted them to several journals? how silly. they will never be done.
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
revision is relentless. oh you thought these poems were done? so you submitted them to several journals? how silly. they will never be done.
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Repost with the last book you enjoyed, and we’ll enter you in a drawing for one of our new fall poetry titles! 🍂📚💙
We are thankful for our readers ❤️
riverriverbooks.org/store/
We are thankful for our readers ❤️
riverriverbooks.org/store/
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Repost with the last book you enjoyed, and we’ll enter you in a drawing for one of our new fall poetry titles! 🍂📚💙
We are thankful for our readers ❤️
riverriverbooks.org/store/
We are thankful for our readers ❤️
riverriverbooks.org/store/
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@renbolger.bsky.social and @hanvanderhart.bsky.social talk about their day jobs
AINT NO MONEY IN PUBLISHING YR OWN BOOKS OR STARTING A PRESS
IT’S LOVE OF ART AND BELIEF IN THE WORK
THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS PAY $17 FOR A BOOK
AINT NO MONEY IN PUBLISHING YR OWN BOOKS OR STARTING A PRESS
IT’S LOVE OF ART AND BELIEF IN THE WORK
THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS PAY $17 FOR A BOOK
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
@renbolger.bsky.social and @hanvanderhart.bsky.social talk about their day jobs
AINT NO MONEY IN PUBLISHING YR OWN BOOKS OR STARTING A PRESS
IT’S LOVE OF ART AND BELIEF IN THE WORK
THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS PAY $17 FOR A BOOK
AINT NO MONEY IN PUBLISHING YR OWN BOOKS OR STARTING A PRESS
IT’S LOVE OF ART AND BELIEF IN THE WORK
THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS PAY $17 FOR A BOOK
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literally a segment called “what do you do all day” where we talk about how you crowbar out time to write yr book while also having a day job
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
literally a segment called “what do you do all day” where we talk about how you crowbar out time to write yr book while also having a day job
10/10 recommend peacing out with your dog when your migraine comes on fast—just go, baby, go. And yes, take your meds.
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
10/10 recommend peacing out with your dog when your migraine comes on fast—just go, baby, go. And yes, take your meds.
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Episode 81 with Nicole Cooley (Of Form and Flood, the Documentation of Grief, and Poetry That Violates Rules)
Read: “Mother Water Ash” (Poets.org)
poets.org/poem/mother-...
Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/2fb8d4c8
#poetry 💙📚🎙️
Read: “Mother Water Ash” (Poets.org)
poets.org/poem/mother-...
Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/2fb8d4c8
#poetry 💙📚🎙️
![Image of White House in a flood
Text:
from "Mother Water Ash"
I...] is it any wonder I've followed
her advice
to subtract myself Good daughter always
till I'm not
Nicole Cooley](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mexnbfjn7yqdsnr76bggh5m/bafkreifr55jxgp7lg3yowkc4nucsjtnqmoludr4j47gdphnulzavkzdu7i@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Episode 81 with Nicole Cooley (Of Form and Flood, the Documentation of Grief, and Poetry That Violates Rules)
Read: “Mother Water Ash” (Poets.org)
poets.org/poem/mother-...
Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/2fb8d4c8
#poetry 💙📚🎙️
Read: “Mother Water Ash” (Poets.org)
poets.org/poem/mother-...
Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/2fb8d4c8
#poetry 💙📚🎙️
Slept in AND talked with a dear friend on the phone 🥹🙏💗 Drove child to friend meet up. Now, to work!
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Slept in AND talked with a dear friend on the phone 🥹🙏💗 Drove child to friend meet up. Now, to work!
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Lawrence Stephen Lowry, Ships Near Cumberland Coast, 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135624
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135624
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Lawrence Stephen Lowry, Ships Near Cumberland Coast, 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135624
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135624
Reposting for the Tuesday morning crowd because oh—I love this love poem by @burgi.bsky.social, which is also an ekphrastic poem, also an ars poetica, and also speaks to long relationships and devotion ❤️📚
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Reposting for the Tuesday morning crowd because oh—I love this love poem by @burgi.bsky.social, which is also an ekphrastic poem, also an ars poetica, and also speaks to long relationships and devotion ❤️📚
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Thank you @hanvanderhart.bsky.social 🙏💙💙💙
Also, if any of you would like to get a signed copy or a review copy feel free to DM. 🙂💙
Also, if any of you would like to get a signed copy or a review copy feel free to DM. 🙂💙
So pleased to have come home to @burgi.bsky.social’s White Door in the mail today! ❤️📚
“Simone Weil wrote that unmixed attention is prayer, and this collection streams with the light of attention and language that feels to me holy.”
—Han VanderHart, author of Larks
Find your copy here:
“Simone Weil wrote that unmixed attention is prayer, and this collection streams with the light of attention and language that feels to me holy.”
—Han VanderHart, author of Larks
Find your copy here:
018: White Door by Burgi Zenhaeusern — Carbonation Press
www.carbonationpress.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Thank you @hanvanderhart.bsky.social 🙏💙💙💙
Also, if any of you would like to get a signed copy or a review copy feel free to DM. 🙂💙
Also, if any of you would like to get a signed copy or a review copy feel free to DM. 🙂💙
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Cosplayed Scrooge today and I think it worked.
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Cosplayed Scrooge today and I think it worked.
When I get home from work I am going to faceplant into a pumpkin pie and there I shall remain
no, I don’t like pumpkin pie
yes, it sounds like a soft landing place
no, I don’t like pumpkin pie
yes, it sounds like a soft landing place
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
When I get home from work I am going to faceplant into a pumpkin pie and there I shall remain
no, I don’t like pumpkin pie
yes, it sounds like a soft landing place
no, I don’t like pumpkin pie
yes, it sounds like a soft landing place
I have never seen a contemporary poem that borrowed language from a peer’s poem that was BETTER than the original poem—I think it’s the plagiarizing from a contemporary move, rather than stealing from the distant dead, which is the pro move (read Eliot’s Tradition & the Individual Talent, etc).
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I have never seen a contemporary poem that borrowed language from a peer’s poem that was BETTER than the original poem—I think it’s the plagiarizing from a contemporary move, rather than stealing from the distant dead, which is the pro move (read Eliot’s Tradition & the Individual Talent, etc).
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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, …
lithub.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"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...
And you, what did you pay to enter this world?
—Benjamin Garcia, with many voltas this morning 🥰
—Benjamin Garcia, with many voltas this morning 🥰
Egg Tooth
Ears are the eyes on the sides of your head. / Memory lives here, between these apostrophes.
poets.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
And you, what did you pay to enter this world?
—Benjamin Garcia, with many voltas this morning 🥰
—Benjamin Garcia, with many voltas this morning 🥰
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girl working in the fields. Mississippi Delta
#mississippidelta #america #american #dorothealange #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763002/
#mississippidelta #america #american #dorothealange #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763002/
![The photograph is a black and white image showing an individual standing in what appears to be agricultural fields. The person, whose gender isn't specified but could potentially be female based on attire and posture, wears a wide-brimmed straw hat and long-sleeved cotton dress that suggests rural workwear suitable for protection from the sun's rays during farming tasks.
In their hands is held an elongated tool with a handle; it resembles a hoe or similar garden implement commonly used in cultivation activities. The fields are filled with tall, mature crops, most likely corn given its height and structure, which reach up to approximately half of the individual's body length. These plants suggest late summer harvest time.
The sky is overcast without direct sunlight visible on either subject or crop, indicating potentially cloudy weather conditions during this outdoor work scene. The photograph has a grainy texture typical for vintage black-and-white photographs from early 20th-century America and carries with it an air of historical documentation that captures everyday life within the Mississippi Delta region.
There is no explicit context provided about why exactly this image was captured, but such scenes were often documented to reflect rural American work conditions. The photograph may have been taken by Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), a renowned photographer known for her work documenting America during the Great Depres [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ls2ap3pxsotp3pgwjf7o633l/bafkreiho2phpujn4px54mc7r6zdr6apek7n6pfmlzrnrd7a63npvtghkii@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
girl working in the fields. Mississippi Delta
#mississippidelta #america #american #dorothealange #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763002/
#mississippidelta #america #american #dorothealange #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763002/
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can a period of time become sentient
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
can a period of time become sentient
Can’t say how important this panel excerpt with @drtanksley.bsky.social is—particularly, IMO, for teachers using grading/anti-cheating programs run by AI.
“Anti-Blackness is the algorithm meant to solve the problem of Black life.”
“Anti-Blackness is the algorithm meant to solve the problem of Black life.”
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Can’t say how important this panel excerpt with @drtanksley.bsky.social is—particularly, IMO, for teachers using grading/anti-cheating programs run by AI.
“Anti-Blackness is the algorithm meant to solve the problem of Black life.”
“Anti-Blackness is the algorithm meant to solve the problem of Black life.”
“It’s reasonable for all poets to say that they work in STEM.”
Our greatest tool for fighting AI might actually be poetry.
Can “adversarial poetry” save us from AI?
Turns out, the Terminator movies would have been more realistic if Sarah Conner had a poetry MFA. In a new paper titled “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large L…
buff.ly
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“It’s reasonable for all poets to say that they work in STEM.”
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That we are among a proletariat of poets of all the classes
Each ill-paid and surviving on nothing
Or on as little as one needs to survive
Steadfast as any farmer and fixed as the stars
—Bernadette Mayer
poems.com/poem/essay/?...
Each ill-paid and surviving on nothing
Or on as little as one needs to survive
Steadfast as any farmer and fixed as the stars
—Bernadette Mayer
poems.com/poem/essay/?...
Essay
I don't want to be a farmer but my mother was right
I should never have tried to rise out of the proletariat
poems.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
That we are among a proletariat of poets of all the classes
Each ill-paid and surviving on nothing
Or on as little as one needs to survive
Steadfast as any farmer and fixed as the stars
—Bernadette Mayer
poems.com/poem/essay/?...
Each ill-paid and surviving on nothing
Or on as little as one needs to survive
Steadfast as any farmer and fixed as the stars
—Bernadette Mayer
poems.com/poem/essay/?...
Reposted by Han VanderHart
Seascape near Fecamp - 1881
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9580
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9580
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Seascape near Fecamp - 1881
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9580
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9580
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You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
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"small-press publishers are the spirit that animates our literature. [They] put on the most community-led, exciting and engaging literary events, forming life-giving networks that sustain the industry at large"
yes! yes!
yes! yes!
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"small-press publishers are the spirit that animates our literature. [They] put on the most community-led, exciting and engaging literary events, forming life-giving networks that sustain the industry at large"
yes! yes!
yes! yes!