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Michael Garrigan
@mgarrigan.bsky.social
Teacher. Writer. Pennsylvania. River, Amen (2023 - Winner of the Weatherford Award), Robbing the Pillars (2020) — Wayfarer Books.

www.mgarrigan.com
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This. Let it drift on for 30 more minutes, please.

stevegunn.bandcamp.com/track/mornin...
Morning on K Road, by Steve Gunn
from the album Daylight Daylight
stevegunn.bandcamp.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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hard to believe this was 2 years ago today!⚡️

best @taperschoice.bsky.social show to date! (as voted on by the fans and also my personally opinion!)🍌

youtu.be/bMVxJ54_Ibk?...
Taper's Choice Live From Kung Fu Necktie, Philly
YouTube video by wook plus
youtu.be
September 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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My old alien body is a foreigner struggling to get into another country. The loon call makes me shiver. Back at the cabin I see a book and am not quite sure what that is.

Jim Harrison
September 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Thanks @riverriverbooks.bsky.social . My classroom just got a bit cooler
September 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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It’s been years since my mother and father
turned to ash. Tonight my lover holds me
in the bed where I was conceived.

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From: “In the Bed Where I Was Conceived,”

by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Todd Davis

Published in the Missouri Review. #Poetry #Poem

missourireview.com/davis/
September 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Susquehanna River petroglyphs
September 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Be sure to stop at our Free Library (curated by two book nerds!) next time you’re walking or riding along the Northwest Lancaster County River Trail!

#freelibrary
August 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Oh! Okay, y’all! 🙏💙

I made another color version, and will have them in a week or so, if you’d like to order one:

riverriverbooks.org/store/Read-W...
August 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Does anyone else love this record?
August 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Man this was a wonderfully engrossing read. Anyone else read it???
August 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.”
Wendell Berry
#writer #poetry
August 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Which Gregory Orr book should u buy?
August 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Our Summer 2025 issue is here, kicking off our second year as a magazine! It's full of poetry and personal essays from this wonderful list of folks.

Always free, always with a musical ear: quarternotesmag.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Excited to have three new Dead elk poems in the latest issue of Cutleaf Journal!

cutleafjournal.com/content/dead...
Dead Elk Antlers a Constellation - Cutleaf Journal
Dead Elk Listens to the Last Crickets and understands what’s done and what’s to come. He sighs into the hillsideand for the whole length of that breathhe is
cutleafjournal.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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I hope you enjoy my new poem featured in @terrainorg.bsky.social. It's loaded with mushrooms, slugs, butterflies, and orcas. www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
One Poem by Grant Clauser - Terrain.org
Grant Clauser's ecopoem "Slugs Have Teeth, and Other Useless Facts" (with audio) may, like the poet himself, keep you up worrying at night.
www.terrain.org
August 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
New author photo?
August 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Is it possible to write an erotic (intimate?) poem with a mountain? Because I think I just did?
July 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Working on a quadtriptych, hoping to mirror a mountain range.
July 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I’m writing a sonnet but breaking all the rules.
July 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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It's publication week for my first poetry collection. If you read poetry, you might dig it. If you don't but still want to support me and my press (the wonderful @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social), your library might want it.
The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees by Mitchell Nobis | Books | Match Factory Editions
The Size of the Horizon explores parenting, uncertainty, and injustice, weaving nature, gun violence, and joy into poetry that embraces life’s chaos.
matchfactoryeditions.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Paddling into a wilderness lake in the Adirondacks (pre-falling in while portaging a beaver dam and breaking a lovely glass fly rod.)
June 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
18 years ago, MadTV called it..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjL...

iRack...iRan
Apple presents the iRack
YouTube video by MadtvOnFox
www.youtube.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Ride slow, die whenever
June 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Poet Anne Michael writes aboout the new anthology for Pennsylvania Poetry. annemichael.blog/2025/05/27/b...
Back in PA
Last year at this time, I had covid and was languishing in bed, unable to tend to the garden. A regional drought meant I really should have been watering the new plants; and it also kept the weeds …
annemichael.blog
May 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM