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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...

Book covers featuring black and white photograph: wooden floor, spare wooden table, stack of four cameras, floating sheet white curtain. Delicate white title font.

Larks
Poems

Han VanderHart
Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Selected by Chanda Feldman

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 59m

How I would have felt if anything having to do with Israel was involved in a Nobel peace prize win.

Ef genocide and our involvement in Palestine’s destruction.

Padme: There's good in him, I know.
I know there's stil...

Obi-wan: Padme, that’s his SECOND genocide

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1h

my short piece on the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025), along with a few excerpts, is now online at The Woodlot; / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @the-wood-lot.bsky.social ;
the-wood-lot.ca/2025/10/09/o...

On the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, October 2025) and an Except

by rob mclennan I don’t hold too much stock in ideas of the muse, instead seeking the attention of craft. The working class farm-lad in me, I suppose: writing as simultaneous muscle and study, a bl…

the-wood-lot.ca

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 3h

It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 1h

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Foules

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1h

Conserve your energy for what is most meaningful to you 💜

happy friday

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 12h

I am already like oooooh I am going to loove this book 😍🙏

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 12h

If you don’t shine you are darkness.

Charles Wright, from Sestets

Tomorrow

The metaphysics of the quotidian was what he was after:
A little dew on the sunrise grass,
A drop of blood in the evening trees,
a drop of fire.

If you don't shine you are darkness.
The future is merciless,
everyone's name inscribed
On the flyleaf of the Book of Snow.

// poem on the page from Charles Wright’s book Sestets, stack of books above (LeVine’s FORMS Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
CECELIA WATSON’s SEMICOLON
CHELSEA GIRLS by EILEEN MYLES
Keats Selected Letters)

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 12h

not me giggling in bed over this ✨

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 13h

Somebody needed some dopamine, ahaha

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 16h

Just finished cleaning up a Dutch Renaissance symbol of desire off of my garage floor (broken eggs). #poetlife

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 23h

This is real cats-on-sills weather 🧣

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1d

A poem is an anti-capitalist machine

yes, it is broken if you try to produce with it

no, it doesn’t produce on command

the factory is closed

the worker is sleeping

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1d

omgggg, James ❤️

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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 1d

the absolutely terrific @ndbooks.bsky.social is responsible for every happy english speaking nerd (on this continent) right now

László Krasznahorkai

New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.

www.ndbooks.com

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1d

When I see it displayed in airports, I gasp

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1d

What a boooook

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 1d

“…the beauty of things that are ending.” — Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost

He didn’t say he would call. (In spite of myself, I think of my mother, the last time I saw her, in April ‘86. I said, “See you Sunday,” and she did not reply.) However, he did ask me if I was going to Salon due livre, meaning that we wouldn’t see each other before then.

And yet, and yet, what tenderness, the last time. But that’s just it: the last planned meetings have the beauty of things that are ending.

What if I were never to see him again, as with Claude G in the past? That is like death. I fear the worst (he’s leaving France, ditching me, etc.)

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1d

Ready for Halloween 💙🚀

Han in a blue startreck lower decks blue uniform top, bathroom mirror selfie, orange wall surrounding

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1d

Kyla! Just seeing now! Congratulations, dear poet! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 9d

#Poetry
Here it is, folks! If you preorder, good things will surely follow. (Or, a book, at any rate.)
Thank you thank you thank you!
🎶💯👀🤩☄️

Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social · 9d

Preorder now: the first full collection from Kyla Houbolt asterismbooks.com/product/beco...

The distributor’s search result for a book with a light blue cover with yellow type:

**ASTERISM
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Poems
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Nick M @halfricehalfchips.bsky.social · 1d

After that, just Fa.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 1d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 1d

Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social

I forget what I wanted to
mean to you.
I forget what I
meant to give to you, that I haven’t.

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 1d

Just straining to remember what the opposite of antifa is.

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