Millicent Borges Accardi
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NEA Poetry| CantoMundo |Fulbright | Calif Arts Council | Author of 4 poetry books includ Quarantine Highway (FlowerSong), Thru a Grainy Landscape, Only More So (Salmon) #Portuguese #poetrycommunity #Binders #Yaddo https://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/
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Millicent Borges Accardi | Nothing Sentimental | Glass: A Journal of Poetry
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Thank you to editor Anthony Frame for featuring my poem, "Nothing Sentimental" in Glass: A Journal of Poetry today There is an audio of my reading of the poem as well.
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
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Coming soon, January 11th
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Coming soon, January 11th
Charles Coe, RIP What a writer and what a solid decent person. Such a shock to hear the news. www.charlescoe.org/about
ABOUT — Charles Coe
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November 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Charles Coe, RIP What a writer and what a solid decent person. Such a shock to hear the news. www.charlescoe.org/about
My heart goes out to Sharon Olds www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48565/...
My Son the Man
Suddenly his shoulders get a lot wider, the way Houdini would expand his body while people were putting him in chains.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
My heart goes out to Sharon Olds www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48565/...
Poetry Foundation announces the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second collection. The awardee will receive a prize of $10,000 l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Poetry Foundation announces the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second collection. The awardee will receive a prize of $10,000 l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
Daijoubu (大丈夫) Dodger Blue!
November 2, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Daijoubu (大丈夫) Dodger Blue!
Happy Halloween from Topanga
October 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Happy Halloween from Topanga
NEW Literary FUND Open call for general operating grant applications for Literary Arts opens Nov 1st. literaryartsfund.org/grants/
Grants | Literary Arts Fund
The Literary Arts Fund offers two grant opportunities for U.S.-based literary arts nonprofits: general operating and innovation project grants.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW Literary FUND Open call for general operating grant applications for Literary Arts opens Nov 1st. literaryartsfund.org/grants/
A new fund will route millions to the literary arts www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
A new fund will route millions to the literary arts
A coalition of charitable foundations are creating the Literary Arts Fund, which will distribute at least $50 million to various organizations over 5 years.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A new fund will route millions to the literary arts www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
i was looking for a link and came across this Atticus interview I did with the wonderful Irish novelist Evelyn Conlon in 2023, What is Your Dream Residency? atticusreview.org/what-is-your...
What is Your Dream Residency?
Millicent Borges Accardi interviews with Evelyn Conlon,
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October 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
i was looking for a link and came across this Atticus interview I did with the wonderful Irish novelist Evelyn Conlon in 2023, What is Your Dream Residency? atticusreview.org/what-is-your...
Bluesky! I like the idea of you, and I found many writer friends I had misplaced when Twitter collapsed. . .but I never find myself lingering, scrolling, reading, finding interesting things here. I WANT to make this my home-- what am I missing?
October 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Bluesky! I like the idea of you, and I found many writer friends I had misplaced when Twitter collapsed. . .but I never find myself lingering, scrolling, reading, finding interesting things here. I WANT to make this my home-- what am I missing?
Me feeling the autumn in the air
October 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Me feeling the autumn in the air
Thanks to the editors of Slipstream for including my poem "Still and Just" in Slipstream 45
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October 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Thanks to the editors of Slipstream for including my poem "Still and Just" in Slipstream 45
www.slipstreampress.org/index.html
www.slipstreampress.org/index.html
"For Peixoto, poetry is the medium that allows us to slow down, reflect, and gather the threads that constitute our being." from Irene Marques' review of José Luís Peixoto's poetry book Homecoming, translated by Hugo dos Santos (Arquipélago Press, 2024) worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...
The Self Is a Book Made of Expanded Memories: José Luís Peixoto’s Homecoming, by Irene Marques
Irene Marques reviews José Luís Peixoto’s new book of poems called Homecoming, translated by Hugo dos Santos (Arquipélago Press, 2024).
worldliteraturetoday.org
October 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
"For Peixoto, poetry is the medium that allows us to slow down, reflect, and gather the threads that constitute our being." from Irene Marques' review of José Luís Peixoto's poetry book Homecoming, translated by Hugo dos Santos (Arquipélago Press, 2024) worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...
In my latest interview, Stephen Rebello kindly agreed to answer questions about his new book, Criss-Cross: The Making of Hitchcock’s Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train (2025). Join him on Sept 27th in Pasadena for a book signing portuguese-american-journal.com/stephen-rebe...
| Stephen Rebello | A Storyteller of Film, Secrets, Intrigue, and Suspense – InterviewPortuguese American Journal
By Millicent Borges Accardi When we last interviewed* Portuguese-American writer Stephen Rebello, the movie Hitchcock, adapted for film from Rebello’s wonderful book, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making o...
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September 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
In my latest interview, Stephen Rebello kindly agreed to answer questions about his new book, Criss-Cross: The Making of Hitchcock’s Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train (2025). Join him on Sept 27th in Pasadena for a book signing portuguese-american-journal.com/stephen-rebe...
Congrats to all of the latest Barbara Deming Poetry grant winners. I was honored to have been a past Money for Women recipient. Special congratulations to my AWP Mentee Nina Peláez
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Awards — BARBARA DEMING MEMORIAL FUND, INC
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September 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Congrats to all of the latest Barbara Deming Poetry grant winners. I was honored to have been a past Money for Women recipient. Special congratulations to my AWP Mentee Nina Peláez
www.demingfund.org/awards?fbcli...
www.demingfund.org/awards?fbcli...
Interview with João Pedro Porto
A. In Latin countries, necessity compels us to be rebellious and call for revolution from time to time. Anything else would be complacency and a gateway to rigid, devoid, and absolutist affairs. portuguese-american-journal.com/joao-pedro-p...
A. In Latin countries, necessity compels us to be rebellious and call for revolution from time to time. Anything else would be complacency and a gateway to rigid, devoid, and absolutist affairs. portuguese-american-journal.com/joao-pedro-p...
| João Pedro Porto | Combining experimental form with existential paradoxes – InterviewPortuguese American Journal
By Carolina Matos, Editor João Pedro Porto, born in the Azores in 1984, has established himself as one of the most distinctive contemporary voices in Portuguese literature. A novelist, poet, and psych...
portuguese-american-journal.com
September 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Interview with João Pedro Porto
A. In Latin countries, necessity compels us to be rebellious and call for revolution from time to time. Anything else would be complacency and a gateway to rigid, devoid, and absolutist affairs. portuguese-american-journal.com/joao-pedro-p...
A. In Latin countries, necessity compels us to be rebellious and call for revolution from time to time. Anything else would be complacency and a gateway to rigid, devoid, and absolutist affairs. portuguese-american-journal.com/joao-pedro-p...
"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes 1930s allpoetry.com/Let-America-...
Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry
Comments & analysis: Let America be America again. / Let it be the dream it used to be.
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September 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes 1930s allpoetry.com/Let-America-...
Thank you to editor Anthony Frame for featuring my poem, "Nothing Sentimental" in Glass: A Journal of Poetry today There is an audio of my reading of the poem as well.
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
Millicent Borges Accardi | Nothing Sentimental | Glass: A Journal of Poetry
www.glass-poetry.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Thank you to editor Anthony Frame for featuring my poem, "Nothing Sentimental" in Glass: A Journal of Poetry today There is an audio of my reading of the poem as well.
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
No one is united and all things are untied. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ey5...
The World's a Mess, It's in My Kiss
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September 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
No one is united and all things are untied. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ey5...
It's awful. People are being taken by force from the streets, from courts, from churches, from schools, from workplaces and sent "somewhere" with no access to an attorney, family, friends, or a phone. Anyone can be disappeared into the ocean or to a prison in Uganda, never to be heard from again.
August 31, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's awful. People are being taken by force from the streets, from courts, from churches, from schools, from workplaces and sent "somewhere" with no access to an attorney, family, friends, or a phone. Anyone can be disappeared into the ocean or to a prison in Uganda, never to be heard from again.
More bad news on the arts front,
Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program. Due to circumstances beyond our control and beyond the control of our 2025-2026 admitted fellows, we are unable to consider the following disciplines: Film and Video, Music, Playwriting, Poetry, and Visual Arts.
Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program. Due to circumstances beyond our control and beyond the control of our 2025-2026 admitted fellows, we are unable to consider the following disciplines: Film and Video, Music, Playwriting, Poetry, and Visual Arts.
August 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
More bad news on the arts front,
Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program. Due to circumstances beyond our control and beyond the control of our 2025-2026 admitted fellows, we are unable to consider the following disciplines: Film and Video, Music, Playwriting, Poetry, and Visual Arts.
Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program. Due to circumstances beyond our control and beyond the control of our 2025-2026 admitted fellows, we are unable to consider the following disciplines: Film and Video, Music, Playwriting, Poetry, and Visual Arts.
So much for the NEA. . . That is awful news. The NEA is cancelled. . . That grant changed my life. Everything good in America is being destroyed.
August 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
So much for the NEA. . . That is awful news. The NEA is cancelled. . . That grant changed my life. Everything good in America is being destroyed.
Thanks Cordite editors for featuring my poem! cordite.org.au/poetry/nothe...
A Shoe, a Scarf, a Thimble Full of Faith
– “ Border Tryptich,” Norma Cantú
Outside, the hate copied and cropped
in reverse as if people were trying
to put together a construct by sorting out. . .
A Shoe, a Scarf, a Thimble Full of Faith
– “ Border Tryptich,” Norma Cantú
Outside, the hate copied and cropped
in reverse as if people were trying
to put together a construct by sorting out. . .
A Shoe, a Scarf, a Thimble Full of Faith
– “ Border Tryptich,” Norma Cantú Outside, the hate copied and cropped in reverse as if people were trying to put together a construct by sorting out a manufactured cross, struggling over a wall an…
cordite.org.au
August 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Thanks Cordite editors for featuring my poem! cordite.org.au/poetry/nothe...
A Shoe, a Scarf, a Thimble Full of Faith
– “ Border Tryptich,” Norma Cantú
Outside, the hate copied and cropped
in reverse as if people were trying
to put together a construct by sorting out. . .
A Shoe, a Scarf, a Thimble Full of Faith
– “ Border Tryptich,” Norma Cantú
Outside, the hate copied and cropped
in reverse as if people were trying
to put together a construct by sorting out. . .
Come join in Casa da Saudade: Tertúlia da Casa
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A tertúlia is a social gathering where people come together to build community through discussion and intellectual exchange. Tertúlia da Casa on GoogleMeet Saturdays 12 - 1:00 PM (Boston time):
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August 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Come join in Casa da Saudade: Tertúlia da Casa
A tertúlia is a social gathering where people come together to build community through discussion and intellectual exchange. Tertúlia da Casa on GoogleMeet Saturdays 12 - 1:00 PM (Boston time):
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A tertúlia is a social gathering where people come together to build community through discussion and intellectual exchange. Tertúlia da Casa on GoogleMeet Saturdays 12 - 1:00 PM (Boston time):
newbedford-casadasaudade-ma.whofi.com/calendar/eve...
Just rec'd my contributor copy of the new Pessoa anthology where I am honored (and in shock) to have a poem alongside the likes of Ginsberg, Billy Collins, and Kay Ryan.
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In the Footsteps of a Shadow | MadHat Press
Praise for In the Footsteps of a ShadowThis lush florilegium of poetic evocations, variations, and inquiries is a beautiful testament to how far and fru...
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August 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Just rec'd my contributor copy of the new Pessoa anthology where I am honored (and in shock) to have a poem alongside the likes of Ginsberg, Billy Collins, and Kay Ryan.
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