deborah poe
@poebot.bsky.social
poet, book artist, random outburster—author of Our Parenthetical Ontology, Elements, Between Worlds, Hélène, the last will be stone too, keep. deborahpoe.com [she/they]
Du Fu once wrote that a man “must read the contents of five cartloads of books” (男儿须读五车书). Real literacy, in other words, is born of wide reading. Without it, a person cannot describe themselves, construct the narrative of their life, or articulate it for others.
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December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Du Fu once wrote that a man “must read the contents of five cartloads of books” (男儿须读五车书). Real literacy, in other words, is born of wide reading. Without it, a person cannot describe themselves, construct the narrative of their life, or articulate it for others.
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drill into observations from around the globe on literacy, reading, and literature and their relationship to, as Nicolás Medina Mora in his introduction, writes "the unholy alliance between capital & state." 1st read free if you don't already subscribe thebaffler.com/odds-and-end... @thebaffler.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
drill into observations from around the globe on literacy, reading, and literature and their relationship to, as Nicolás Medina Mora in his introduction, writes "the unholy alliance between capital & state." 1st read free if you don't already subscribe thebaffler.com/odds-and-end... @thebaffler.com
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This is so true! Thank you Rob! @robmclennan.bsky.social !
@robmclennan.bsky.social is always doing the most for all of us & everyone in poetry should be thankful every day! & should buy a few above/ground chapbooks to show it!!
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November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is so true! Thank you Rob! @robmclennan.bsky.social !
tomorrow morning the 24-hour 'Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & in Solidarity with Palestine' takes place. tune in from 5am PST/ 3pm EET Palestinian time—
broadcast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUg...
schedule
www.instagram.com/pamenarpress/
broadcast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUg...
schedule
www.instagram.com/pamenarpress/
Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and Solidarity with Palestine (3rd Iteration)
YouTube video by Pamenar Press
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November 29, 2025 at 4:42 AM
tomorrow morning the 24-hour 'Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & in Solidarity with Palestine' takes place. tune in from 5am PST/ 3pm EET Palestinian time—
broadcast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUg...
schedule
www.instagram.com/pamenarpress/
broadcast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUg...
schedule
www.instagram.com/pamenarpress/
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With readings from Palestine-Egypt-Sudan-N.Africa-Greece-Italy-Albania-Catalan poets-Chile-US-Japan-Germany-Ireland-UK-Canada-Caribbean poets-Puerto Rico-Mexico-Australia-Aotearoa NZ
November 26, 2024 at 7:48 PM
With readings from Palestine-Egypt-Sudan-N.Africa-Greece-Italy-Albania-Catalan poets-Chile-US-Japan-Germany-Ireland-UK-Canada-Caribbean poets-Puerto Rico-Mexico-Australia-Aotearoa NZ
oh boy, fun rabbit hole to go down—looking up artwork by this list of writers/artists published what seems an eternity ago in a special Trickhouse folio of Turkish visual poets, curated by
@keyclaw.bsky.social
@keyclaw.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
oh boy, fun rabbit hole to go down—looking up artwork by this list of writers/artists published what seems an eternity ago in a special Trickhouse folio of Turkish visual poets, curated by
@keyclaw.bsky.social
@keyclaw.bsky.social
writer peeps—for the last couple of years, I have taught a monthly creative writing workshop at Pike Place Market Senior Center & teach tomorrow. think we will do erasures. any tips for working with erasure? send my way please.
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
writer peeps—for the last couple of years, I have taught a monthly creative writing workshop at Pike Place Market Senior Center & teach tomorrow. think we will do erasures. any tips for working with erasure? send my way please.
Caturyay in the bag
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Caturyay in the bag
I worked with Mayor-elect Katie Wilson when I was in the transportation/transit sector. she is a good one: ethical, smart, kind. she gets things done. very happy for her, and for Seattle.
November 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I worked with Mayor-elect Katie Wilson when I was in the transportation/transit sector. she is a good one: ethical, smart, kind. she gets things done. very happy for her, and for Seattle.
reading this excellent book again—one of those I believe every American should read.
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
reading this excellent book again—one of those I believe every American should read.
scholar-activists—Natural History Museum invites applications for the 2026-2028 Red Natural History Fellowship, a 2-year program dedicated to creating a natural history for a world in crisis, confronting systems that reproduce colonial & ecological harm
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Open Call: 2026-28 Red Natural History Fellowship
In a time when critical and creative inquiry are under attack, The Natural History Museum is inviting applications for the 2026-2028 Red Natural History Fellowship, a two-year program dedicated to
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November 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
scholar-activists—Natural History Museum invites applications for the 2026-2028 Red Natural History Fellowship, a 2-year program dedicated to creating a natural history for a world in crisis, confronting systems that reproduce colonial & ecological harm
thenaturalhistorymuseum.org/open-call-20...
thenaturalhistorymuseum.org/open-call-20...
I like the part where Wole Salinka calls him “Idi Amin in white face”
October 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I like the part where Wole Salinka calls him “Idi Amin in white face”
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Need hope in this mess In Americ? Don’t know what you can do? Professor @hcrichardson.bsky.social has sage advice right here:
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Need hope in this mess In Americ? Don’t know what you can do? Professor @hcrichardson.bsky.social has sage advice right here:
1 in 8 Americans are on SNAP benefits. a line for your east wing valediction.
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
1 in 8 Americans are on SNAP benefits. a line for your east wing valediction.
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“Don’t want to lose SNAP? Tell the Dems to reopen the government!”
SNAP assistance gets cut in the big beautiful bill too.
Healthcare is slashed as well.
They’re withholding food for 40 million Americans to try and force the Dems to sign off on cutting food AND healthcare!
SNAP assistance gets cut in the big beautiful bill too.
Healthcare is slashed as well.
They’re withholding food for 40 million Americans to try and force the Dems to sign off on cutting food AND healthcare!
October 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“Don’t want to lose SNAP? Tell the Dems to reopen the government!”
SNAP assistance gets cut in the big beautiful bill too.
Healthcare is slashed as well.
They’re withholding food for 40 million Americans to try and force the Dems to sign off on cutting food AND healthcare!
SNAP assistance gets cut in the big beautiful bill too.
Healthcare is slashed as well.
They’re withholding food for 40 million Americans to try and force the Dems to sign off on cutting food AND healthcare!
Arthur Sze, “Library of Congress,” New Yorker
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Arthur Sze, “Library of Congress,” New Yorker
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This is just to say
I have bulldozed
the East Wing
that you were probably
hoping to pass down
to future generations
Well, fuck you
it was in the way
so inconvenient
and so old
I have bulldozed
the East Wing
that you were probably
hoping to pass down
to future generations
Well, fuck you
it was in the way
so inconvenient
and so old
October 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This is just to say
I have bulldozed
the East Wing
that you were probably
hoping to pass down
to future generations
Well, fuck you
it was in the way
so inconvenient
and so old
I have bulldozed
the East Wing
that you were probably
hoping to pass down
to future generations
Well, fuck you
it was in the way
so inconvenient
and so old
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Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
April 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
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“If you only purchase one chapbook in 2025, order COPIUM by Nada Gordon.”
De Villo Sloan reviews Nada Gordon's COPIUM (above/ground press 2025) / @nadagordon.bsky.social ;
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De Villo Sloan reviews Nada Gordon's COPIUM (2025) is reviewed at Asemic Front 2
De Villo Sloan was good enough to provide a first review of Nada Gordon's COPIUM (2025) over at Asemic Front 2 . Thanks so much! You can r...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“If you only purchase one chapbook in 2025, order COPIUM by Nada Gordon.”
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As always, Mike Masnick has a good take on the news.
I usually believe in "slow news" and tend to write about things the next day, but this Kimmel shit is such a mess, I put this together quickly.
Key points: 1. Most people are pretending Kimmel said stuff he didn't.
2. SCOTUS just last year said that you can't do shit like this.
Key points: 1. Most people are pretending Kimmel said stuff he didn't.
2. SCOTUS just last year said that you can't do shit like this.
Cowardly Disney Caves To Brendan Carr’s Bogus Censorial Threats, Pulling Jimmy Kimmel
There are multiple ways into this story, but almost all of the reporting on what’s happened claims that Disney pulled talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s show “indefinitely” over comments that Kimmel made about Charlie…
There are multiple ways into this story, but almost all of the reporting on what’s happened claims that Disney pulled talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s show “indefinitely” over comments that Kimmel made about Charlie…
September 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
As always, Mike Masnick has a good take on the news.
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General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.
September 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.
I, a comma
inserted numerically
into an empty space
between capitalist gory holes
Catherine Bresner, from can we anything we see (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025)
inserted numerically
into an empty space
between capitalist gory holes
Catherine Bresner, from can we anything we see (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025)
September 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I, a comma
inserted numerically
into an empty space
between capitalist gory holes
Catherine Bresner, from can we anything we see (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025)
inserted numerically
into an empty space
between capitalist gory holes
Catherine Bresner, from can we anything we see (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025)