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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 2d

Louise Glück

Vespers
I don't wonder where you are anymore.
You're in the garden; you're where John is,
in the dirt, abstracted, holding his green trowel.
This is how he gardens: fifteen minutes of intense effort,
fifteen minutes of ecstatic contemplation. Sometimes
I work beside him, doing the shade chores,
weeding, thinning the lettuces; sometimes I watch
from the porch near the upper garden until twilight makes
lamps of the first lilies: all this time,
peace never leaves him. But it rushes through me,
not as sustenance the flower holds
but like bright light through the bare tree.

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 4d

I just texted the GC cause wow

Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 7d

this is so unhinged -- the emojis???

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ACLU @aclu.org · 8d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 8d

my mfa thesis has gone from 130+ pages to 80ish... now down to 51. fishing quarters out of the change jar. looking for geodes in the ball pit.

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 13d

real

Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 13d

thank you for your submission, we’ll get back to you when you’ve started hating it

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 16d

(and it's rad as hell)

Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 16d

my body is a machine that turns creativity into tiered rejections

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 16d

A sniper missed all the ICE agents and instead killed detainees to send an *reads notes again* anti-ICE message. They know they are untouchable at this point because...what?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16d

Hours after a shooting of ICE detainees, the FBI says “early evidence” of messages on the rounds are “anti-ICE in nature.”

Here is a picture FBI Director Kash Patel just tweeted of “the unspent shell casings recovered…engraved with the phrase ANTI ICE.”

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 16d

Just finished this book and. Wow. @riverriverbooks.bsky.social The way the poems shift their language in a parallel gesture to the ever changing photographs. So good!

A photo of the cover of Field Notes by E.G. Cunningham. The cover shows a vast hazel field with gray sky above.

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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social · 17d

Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care.

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Porcupine Literary Submission Manager

We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the ugly, the loving, the grieving, the anything-but-perfect teach...

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🎃 Taylor S. Pumpkins 🎃 @taylorschu.bsky.social · 18d

not going to worry about the rapture unless Waffle House closes

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you!

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 18d

the ending, omg

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 18d

thank you ❤️

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megchan16.bsky.social @megchan16.bsky.social · 20d

Newest and most important poem yet ✨

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Meagan Chandler

Feminine Mystique Our cauldron: a backyard fire pit in Ohiowe circled to tell the ways men turned usinto painted vessels. Even then we knewwe had no kinship with the moon.Is there an ethereal way t…

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 21d

not a bad sound for this friday today, coltrane covered by the all timer
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Welcome

YouTube video by Pharoah Sanders - Topic

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 23d

They don’t know what they’re doing.

- Tomaz Salamun

WE'LL CALMLY SWALLOW THIS
TOMAZ SALAMUN
They don't know what they're doing.
Girls remain lying.
You're rabid.
The papyrus' breath.
When you tear yourself away from the chain, do you still sense saltiness?
I passed the night on the sieve.
Below the grill there were eyes and water.
Little cloths, with them you mopped the tiger's front, where are the temples from?
The poodle has built himself the wooden shack and leveled it with his right leg.
I shudder in the bindweed.
The bindweed overgrew my shoulder.
Translated from the Slovenian by Michael Taren and the author

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Jooli-AHH! Ghoulia 🎃🍂🔪 @jooliaghoulia.bsky.social · 24d

GM 🖤

It's only Tuesday. Plenty of week left to channel the energy of the Chihuahua who joins the wolf pack

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 25d

Ahhh you're too nice! Thanks 🙏 🙏

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Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 25d

WHAT'S BETTER THAN @therumpus.net OPENING FOR ESSAY SUBMISSIONS??? Well, a few things, tbh, but still....
#RumpusEssays
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The Rumpus Submission Manager

We have paused submissions for fiction, poetry and nonfiction, so we can catch up. We'll re-open for these categories on 9/15/2025.The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing...

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 25d

this feels so correct

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 25d

love them both but the first poem especially, beautiful, textured images. Thanks for sharing!

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 26d

thank you!!

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 27d

Happy to have a poem in the current WRR :)

Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 27d

Since I live in a place without colorful leaves or colder weather to make it feel like fall, our fall issues are my favorite harbingers of the season. This Fall 2025 issue is full of earnest language and surprising humor, and these pieces are packed with autumn.

www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-40

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