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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 1d

New #poems!

"Natural History" & "Mind Made" out now at @emergejournal.bsky.social

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#poemsky #writingcommunity #poetry #authors

Current Issue | Issue 35

Emerge Literary Journal: 2025 Editor’s Note It’s October 2025. We’ve entered fall, the season of bright color. I love the turning of greens to fiery reds, oranges, yellows, how leaves make th…

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 1d

#KeukaLake can only have a few restaurants. The buildings predate the zoning and have lived many lives, gathering #ghoststories: amusement park, bear cages, water slide, cork-gun shooting gallery, brothel...

Today's poem "...Or Ruby Cottage" tinyurl.com/4ws4uuef

#UpstateNY #poetry #restaurants

...Or Ruby Cottage

Keuka Lake can only have a few restaurants. The buildings predate the zoning and have lived many lives, gathering ghosts: amusement park, bear cages, water slide, cork-gun shooting gallery, brothel...

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 1d

huzzah!

Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 1d

#KeukaLake can only have a few restaurants. The buildings predate the zoning and have lived many lives, gathering #ghoststories: amusement park, bear cages, water slide, cork-gun shooting gallery, brothel...

Today's poem "...Or Ruby Cottage" tinyurl.com/4ws4uuef

#UpstateNY #poetry #restaurants

...Or Ruby Cottage

Keuka Lake can only have a few restaurants. The buildings predate the zoning and have lived many lives, gathering ghosts: amusement park, bear cages, water slide, cork-gun shooting gallery, brothel...

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 1d

Libra season is upon us. My power is now infinite and fall has finally fallen. Crisp and clear today. Praise Beyoncé.

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 1d

Frosty Friday. Almost time to break out the winter #poems.

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 1d

Also an update... I saw @theformat.com at The Beacon last week...and not only was my 15yo self healed, but I legitimately levitated

Purple concert lighting shines down on a crowd. A large sign reads The Format

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 1d

New #poems!

"Natural History" & "Mind Made" out now at @emergejournal.bsky.social

emergeliteraryjournal.com/current-issu...

#poemsky #writingcommunity #poetry #authors

Current Issue | Issue 35

Emerge Literary Journal: 2025 Editor’s Note It’s October 2025. We’ve entered fall, the season of bright color. I love the turning of greens to fiery reds, oranges, yellows, how leaves make th…

emergeliteraryjournal.com

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Christopher Ayala @rattysnake.bsky.social · 2d

Pic of me smiling while taking in a bright happy future.

#pentax #pentaxcamera #film #photography #filmphotography #mediumformat #mediumformatfilm #mediumformatphotography #filmphoto #phoenix #arizona #saguarocactus #camelbackmountain

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 2d

Today in #EnglishClass David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster" and asking students to imagine a physical magazine.

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 3d

The Finger Lakes. This is wine country and where my family tried to run restaurants. I was a tourist in my region's history of work, tending to land, lakes, industry and champagne.

Today's poem "On the Champagne Line" tinyurl.com/5xbj3ehu

#poetry #UpstateNY #FingerLakes #writing #poemsky #history

On The Champagne Line

Upstate New York. The Finger Lakes. This is wine country and where my family tried to run restaurants. I was a tourist in my region's history of work and tending to land and industry and champagne.

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 3d

Tiana Clark's 'Scorched Earth' on the longlist for the #NationalBookAward. Let's go!!

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 3d

The Finger Lakes. This is wine country and where my family tried to run restaurants. I was a tourist in my region's history of work, tending to land, lakes, industry and champagne.

Today's poem "On the Champagne Line" tinyurl.com/5xbj3ehu

#poetry #UpstateNY #FingerLakes #writing #poemsky #history

On The Champagne Line

Upstate New York. The Finger Lakes. This is wine country and where my family tried to run restaurants. I was a tourist in my region's history of work and tending to land and industry and champagne.

tinyurl.com

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 3d

Raiiiiiinyyyyy day #poems kinda mood out here

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Christopher Ayala @rattysnake.bsky.social · 4d

One hell of a tree.

#mamiya7ⅱ #mamiya7 #film #photography #filmphotography #photo #colorphoto #mediumformat #mediumformatphotography #mediumformatfilm #massachusetts

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 4d

It is my favorite day in #englishclass

Today in pairs, my #students must #proofread by listening to their #essay read to outloud. The Horror!

But seriously the ear catches what your head voice misses. Read it aloud! even just to your phone or to the mirror or to no one.

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 4d

#5amwritersclub today was one of those sessions that feels like the key finally turned in the lock and opened. Like I can see the path again in this #memoir

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Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 5d

Our first interview and feature poem from our October 2025 issue is with Shannon Lintott, who shares their poem ‘knot,’ along with thoughts on creative success as an artist, animals that live in the shadows and how a poem begins. Thanks Shannon!

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An Interview with Shannon Lintott · P I N H O L E • P O E T R Y

Shannon Lintott’s poems have been featured in the Literary Review of Canada, NōD Magazine and the Power of Words Exhibit at Arts Etobicoke and are forthcoming in Phylum Press, Great Lakes Review and t...

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 5d

I wish we had a seedy river district. I wish we had a river festival. But for a community built on the water, our river only lorded over us as a threat and a memory of storm.

Today's poem "Riverwatch" tinyurl.com/2kpw9kpc

#poetry #weatherpoems #writing #history #Upstate #poemaday #poemsky #authors

Riverwatch

I wish we had a seedy river district. I wish we had a river festival. But for a community built on the water, our river only lorded over us as a threat and a memory of storm.

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 5d

And now we have a new album! 👀

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 5d

A Louise Glück miniature that appeared in The Threepenny Review in 2023. To my knowledge, it remains uncollected.

Passion and Form

Ah, they have kissed!
The rhyme
Comes in unnoticed.

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 5d

I wish we had a seedy river district. I wish we had a river festival. But for a community built on the water, our river only lorded over us as a threat and a memory of storm.

Today's poem "Riverwatch" tinyurl.com/2kpw9kpc

#poetry #weatherpoems #writing #history #Upstate #poemaday #poemsky #authors

Riverwatch

I wish we had a seedy river district. I wish we had a river festival. But for a community built on the water, our river only lorded over us as a threat and a memory of storm.

tinyurl.com

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 5d

a woman is covering her mouth with her hand while holding a bow and arrow in a field .

ALT: a woman is covering her mouth with her hand while holding a bow and arrow in a field .

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 5d

#5amWritersClub may the word count be ever in your favor

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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 5d

#boardgamingcommunity #tabletop

Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social · 6d

@rattysnake.bsky.social with the #boardgame hook up: this game looks laser focused on its demographic, me.
#HomesteadOrDie

www.midcoastvillager.com/life/homeste...

Homestead or Die: An Extremely Maine Board Game Unlike Any Other

A Waldo County homesteader designed a board game where survival requires cooperation, skills — and a sauna.

www.midcoastvillager.com

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