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JP Dancing Bear

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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Feb 27

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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Aug 22

Today's poem is "Ghost Catalog"
by John A. Nieves
from Pembroke Magazine
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Aug 17

Anytime you communicate with a MAGAtype.

JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Aug 17

Today's poem is "why we chicanas listen to los coyotes"
by Kristyn Garza
from Pembroke Magazine
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Aug 16

Today's poem is "Mercy"
by Brian Simoneau
from American Literary Review
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Aug 15

Today's poem is "a.m."
by Sheila E. Murphy
from Escritoire
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Aug 12

Today's poem is "Slippery Slope"
by Alexis Rhone Fancher
from Women in a Golden State
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Aug 10

Today's poem is "On De Kooning's 'Woman and Bicycle'"
by M. L. Lyons
from Songs from the Multiverse
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Aug 8

Today's poem is "Love Letter"
by Connie Post
from Women in a Golden State
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Aug 7

Today's poem is "Deep inside me, the hawks"
by Robin Reagler
from The Always
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Aug 6

Today's poem is "Ode to My Lover's Sequined Dress"
by Jaz Sufi
from Glass: A Journal of Poetry
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Aug 5

Today's poem is "Crows Tell My Fortune"
by Terry Wolverton
from Women in a Golden State
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Aug 3

Today's poem is "California Dreaming"
by Rebecca Foust
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Aug 2

Cruelty.

JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today's poem is "The sound of stars crumbling without any malice/ In a corner...,"
by Elena Karina Byrne
from Women in a Golden State
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Jul 30

Today's poem is "Ardea Sacra"
by Sophie Mollart
from wildness
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Jul 29

Today's poem is "Febrile"
by Susan Michele Coronel
from Gone Lawn
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Jul 28

Today's poem is "On Belonging"
by Zoe Boyer
from American Literary Review
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Jul 27

Today's poem is "Ricky Rozay raps 'put Molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it'"
by Raphael Jenkins
from The Cincinnati Review
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Jul 25

Today's poem is "Sonnet after Autocorrect Turns Why Do You Live So Far Away? to Why Do You Love So Far Away?"
by Erica Dawson
from Sugar House Review
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Jul 23

Today's poem is "Upon Taking the Sacrament"
by Taylor Franson-Thiel
from Sugar House Review
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Exploring Literality, Directness, External Processing, and the Challenges of Communication between Autistic and Non-Autistic People.

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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Jul 21

Today's poem is "Dark Suite for My Country"
by April Ossmann
from We
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Jul 20

Today's poem is "tiny-winged dinosaurs sing sweetly from the trees"
by Scott Ferry
from dear tiny flowers
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Jul 19

Today's poem is "The Wanderer"
by Alison Hicks
from Homing
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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today's poem is "Essay"
by Denise Duhamel
from Sugar House Review
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