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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Han VanderHart
@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...
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 2:04 AM
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:
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.
Noo Raymond—save your missing for good things! haha
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Noo Raymond—save your missing for good things! haha
Adrian let’s gooo
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Adrian let’s gooo
all fair points! I had just read another plagiarism piece, sigh.
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
all fair points! I had just read another plagiarism piece, sigh.
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
ooh so hard to separate those two. I think the most successful don’t attempt to / acknowledge that impossibility?
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
ooh so hard to separate those two. I think the most successful don’t attempt to / acknowledge that impossibility?
I mean, what I was responding to here was plagiarism in poetry.
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I mean, what I was responding to here was plagiarism in poetry.
Nooo this was an indictment of meee haha
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Nooo this was an indictment of meee haha
I read “mis-typed” as “misty-ped” several times so I think I need a direct coffee-on-brain pour this morning 😭
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I read “mis-typed” as “misty-ped” several times so I think I need a direct coffee-on-brain pour this morning 😭
don’t shit where you eat, haha (shortest gloss of Eliot’s TATIT ever? MAYBE)
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
don’t shit where you eat, haha (shortest gloss of Eliot’s TATIT ever? MAYBE)
That’s amazing
November 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
That’s amazing
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Anyway—yes, have been writing an essay about this, and the phenomenon of the after poem, and form today without meter, and nonce form, etc
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Anyway—yes, have been writing an essay about this, and the phenomenon of the after poem, and form today without meter, and nonce form, etc
The proof is in the pudding, as one of my teachers would always say.
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The proof is in the pudding, as one of my teachers would always say.
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).
Reposted by Han VanderHart
"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 🥰
Reposted by Han VanderHart
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/
Oh good. What a violent POS. I’m so sorry you went through that ❤️🩹
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Oh good. What a violent POS. I’m so sorry you went through that ❤️🩹
Is he gone 👀 I was VERY low energy, but reported so many of his posts, and his account, and blocked him
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Is he gone 👀 I was VERY low energy, but reported so many of his posts, and his account, and blocked him
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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
You’re really not 💅🔥
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
You’re really not 💅🔥
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.”