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Thanksgiving at my Dad's = visiting with most of my own back catalogue. 😂
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Thanksgiving at my Dad's = visiting with most of my own back catalogue. 😂
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "persephone’s descent" by Eugenia Pozas #Tbt
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persephone’s descent
by Eugenia Pozas
i'm always chronically late,
even to my own thoughts and feelings.
when i first saw my husband's desk,
his stationery was all in order,
pen perpendicularly aligned
with the pages a...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "persephone’s descent" by Eugenia Pozas #Tbt
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“If I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.”
-- John Berryman
-- John Berryman
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“If I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.”
-- John Berryman
-- John Berryman
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I've got an article in this cluster on C.D. Wright—look at the gorgeous company it's in!
✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster!
Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social
ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet!
post45.org/contemporaries
Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social
ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet!
post45.org/contemporaries
Contemporaries – Post45
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I've got an article in this cluster on C.D. Wright—look at the gorgeous company it's in!
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“…we are reminded that what we love is also what renders us most vulnerable to heartbreak, because, after all, as Vanderhart writes, ‘the heart is muscle and sore.’”
Really grateful to Bridget Bell for this review of What Pecan Light in @nclitreview.bsky.social 🙏💙📚
Really grateful to Bridget Bell for this review of What Pecan Light in @nclitreview.bsky.social 🙏💙📚
North Carolina Literary Review Online Fall 2025
A literary review published online quarterly by East Carolina University and by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“…we are reminded that what we love is also what renders us most vulnerable to heartbreak, because, after all, as Vanderhart writes, ‘the heart is muscle and sore.’”
Really grateful to Bridget Bell for this review of What Pecan Light in @nclitreview.bsky.social 🙏💙📚
Really grateful to Bridget Bell for this review of What Pecan Light in @nclitreview.bsky.social 🙏💙📚
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And thanks to Sho Poetry Journal from an ex American who will always love America for its wild poetry.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Loudon (@esloudon.bsky.social), whose poem “Renunciation” was chosen for inclusion in Best New Poets 2025 and will be in our winter issue, Shō No. 8!
November 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
And thanks to Sho Poetry Journal from an ex American who will always love America for its wild poetry.
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Next Monday evening, when the holiday is done and you need something quiet, come listen to @darrencdemaree.bsky.social and I chat as he reads from his new selected poems Now Flourish Northern Cardinal and shares some insights.
Register here:
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November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Next Monday evening, when the holiday is done and you need something quiet, come listen to @darrencdemaree.bsky.social and I chat as he reads from his new selected poems Now Flourish Northern Cardinal and shares some insights.
Register here:
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Register here:
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I have a new poem up at 'Anthropocene'. =)
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November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I have a new poem up at 'Anthropocene'. =)
@anthro-poetry.bsky.social
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I could really REALLY use some more orders and love for Issue 20. It's here. It's gorgeous. It comes with a free gorgeous bookmark.
Priced fairly, printed beautifully, shipping immediately. 🖤🤍❤️
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Priced fairly, printed beautifully, shipping immediately. 🖤🤍❤️
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November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I could really REALLY use some more orders and love for Issue 20. It's here. It's gorgeous. It comes with a free gorgeous bookmark.
Priced fairly, printed beautifully, shipping immediately. 🖤🤍❤️
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
Priced fairly, printed beautifully, shipping immediately. 🖤🤍❤️
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
I'm almost finished the excellent MaddAddam trilogy and, for some reason, I keep hearing "It's a Small World After All" in my head.
it 's a small world after all is a disney animated movie .
ALT: it 's a small world after all is a disney animated movie .
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November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I'm almost finished the excellent MaddAddam trilogy and, for some reason, I keep hearing "It's a Small World After All" in my head.
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What a lovely treat this morning to have Stone Circle replay my experiment with an acrostic poem, in which I dare to talk back to Maggie Nelson!
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "But We Did Read the Darkness" by Jessica Coles (@prairievixen.bsky.social)
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But We Did Read the Darkness
by Jessica Coles
We cannot read the darkness. We cannot read it. It is a form of madness, albeit a common one, that we try.
– “130” Bluets, Maggie Nelson
We crouch in a corner of light,
cannot lif...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
What a lovely treat this morning to have Stone Circle replay my experiment with an acrostic poem, in which I dare to talk back to Maggie Nelson!
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@prairievixen.bsky.social how dare you make my morning this delightful. Y'all, read Jessica's lovely poem.
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "But We Did Read the Darkness" by Jessica Coles (@prairievixen.bsky.social)
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But We Did Read the Darkness
by Jessica Coles
We cannot read the darkness. We cannot read it. It is a form of madness, albeit a common one, that we try.
– “130” Bluets, Maggie Nelson
We crouch in a corner of light,
cannot lif...
stonecirclereview.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
@prairievixen.bsky.social how dare you make my morning this delightful. Y'all, read Jessica's lovely poem.
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What / is language when we look at the sky?
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "But We Did Read the Darkness" by Jessica Coles (@prairievixen.bsky.social)
stonecirclereview.com/but-we-did-r...
stonecirclereview.com/but-we-did-r...
But We Did Read the Darkness
by Jessica Coles
We cannot read the darkness. We cannot read it. It is a form of madness, albeit a common one, that we try.
– “130” Bluets, Maggie Nelson
We crouch in a corner of light,
cannot lif...
stonecirclereview.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
What / is language when we look at the sky?
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "But We Did Read the Darkness" by Jessica Coles (@prairievixen.bsky.social)
stonecirclereview.com/but-we-did-r...
stonecirclereview.com/but-we-did-r...
But We Did Read the Darkness
by Jessica Coles
We cannot read the darkness. We cannot read it. It is a form of madness, albeit a common one, that we try.
– “130” Bluets, Maggie Nelson
We crouch in a corner of light,
cannot lif...
stonecirclereview.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "But We Did Read the Darkness" by Jessica Coles (@prairievixen.bsky.social)
stonecirclereview.com/but-we-did-r...
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“Only those that know how to look will find magic in this world because there is none if you don’t know where to look.”
-- Guillermo del Toro
-- Guillermo del Toro
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Only those that know how to look will find magic in this world because there is none if you don’t know where to look.”
-- Guillermo del Toro
-- Guillermo del Toro
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Book reviews are starting to come in.
(No, not really. Please don't sue me, whoever owns the rights to Alfred E. Neuman.)
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(No, not really. Please don't sue me, whoever owns the rights to Alfred E. Neuman.)
bookshop.org/shop/nwp
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Book reviews are starting to come in.
(No, not really. Please don't sue me, whoever owns the rights to Alfred E. Neuman.)
bookshop.org/shop/nwp
(No, not really. Please don't sue me, whoever owns the rights to Alfred E. Neuman.)
bookshop.org/shop/nwp
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It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
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Repost with the last book you enjoyed, and we’ll enter you in a drawing for one of our new fall poetry titles! 🍂📚💙
We are thankful for our readers ❤️
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We are thankful for our readers ❤️
riverriverbooks.org/store/
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Repost with the last book you enjoyed, and we’ll enter you in a drawing for one of our new fall poetry titles! 🍂📚💙
We are thankful for our readers ❤️
riverriverbooks.org/store/
We are thankful for our readers ❤️
riverriverbooks.org/store/
“Can a timeless moment of consciousness be ever adequately conveyed in a medium that depends on time, i.e., language? This is the mystic's and the lyric poet's problem.”
-- Charles Simic
-- Charles Simic
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Can a timeless moment of consciousness be ever adequately conveyed in a medium that depends on time, i.e., language? This is the mystic's and the lyric poet's problem.”
-- Charles Simic
-- Charles Simic
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Got room for one more.
Send me a note if you're interested.
Send me a note if you're interested.
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Got room for one more.
Send me a note if you're interested.
Send me a note if you're interested.
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@notatawp.bsky.social is 100% free, too. Stay at home in your pj's and join our open mics, let @mitchnobis.bsky.social and I know if you're interested in running a panel, too.
PSA for poets: AWP prices go up TOMORROW. If you are, like me, on team Don't Give Em A Dime More Than You Have To, get that registration done tonight!
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
@notatawp.bsky.social is 100% free, too. Stay at home in your pj's and join our open mics, let @mitchnobis.bsky.social and I know if you're interested in running a panel, too.
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PSA for poets: AWP prices go up TOMORROW. If you are, like me, on team Don't Give Em A Dime More Than You Have To, get that registration done tonight!
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
PSA for poets: AWP prices go up TOMORROW. If you are, like me, on team Don't Give Em A Dime More Than You Have To, get that registration done tonight!
“Words owe their very existence to distance, although their deepest purpose is to overcome it; this is the truest in instances like homesick, a word I have always loved -- but never thought I'd feel, until today.”
-- Jennifer Croft
-- Jennifer Croft
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Words owe their very existence to distance, although their deepest purpose is to overcome it; this is the truest in instances like homesick, a word I have always loved -- but never thought I'd feel, until today.”
-- Jennifer Croft
-- Jennifer Croft
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LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY
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It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
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November 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY
Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
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Truly a dream publication!! 'Penelope Escapes the Platypusary' is now up at @anthro-poetry.bsky.social 🌊
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Penelope Escapes the Platypusary by Bex Hainsworth
Bronx Zoo, 1957Your disappearance was not unforeseen.Dragged across continents, far fromthe vast and unbroken heat of home,you found yourself in imitationmud and pool, encircled by foreignroars and sc...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Truly a dream publication!! 'Penelope Escapes the Platypusary' is now up at @anthro-poetry.bsky.social 🌊
www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/penelop...
www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/penelop...