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Andrew Hemmert

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Florida poet living in Denver. No Longer at This Address forthcoming in Fall 2025 from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Pre-orders are live via the link below! https://andrewhemmertpoetry.com/no-longer-at-this-address/

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Andrew Hemmert @andrewhemmert.bsky.social · Apr 16

I am absolutely thrilled to finally share the cover of No Longer at This Address. Out with University of Pittsburgh Press on Oct 21. Pre-order link is in the comments!

Book cover of No Longer at This Address. A red to green to blue color gradient, shrubs and trees giving way to mountains. A satellite dish sits on the far left mountain. Foregrounded is a saber tooth tiger skill in a scratchy glass box.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 9h

I don't know how else to tell you this: generative AI, the dismantling of Dept of Ed, defunding science, MAHA, banned books. They're of a piece. They're trying to disenfranchise you of your brain. Keep thinking.

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Andrew Hemmert @andrewhemmert.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks for sharing this!

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Jim Kuhn (he/him) @jckuhn4.bsky.social · 5d

Poetry at a little free library in Austin TX: In a yard of fallen yellow peaches I am listening, by Andrew Hemmert (Missouri Review, Summer 2025).

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 10h

FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4d

"First, videos that suck are the future. If I could make a video that sucks this much in one hour, imagine how hard I could make something suck in two hours, or even three."

I Used AI to Make a Video That Sucks

I used AI to make a video that sucks. It is bad. It is boring. But I made it in under an hour. And now it is my entire personality. To some, my AI-...

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 11h

Bill filed in #Florida Legislature would make every single college & university name one street after Charlie Kirk. And the bill even specifies WHICH street at each one. (But the governor doesn't want streets used for political messages, which is why no rainbows!) www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Bill would make Florida colleges, universities name streets after Charlie Kirk

A new bill would make all of Florida's public state universities and colleges rename one roadway on their campuses after Charlie Kirk.

www.tallahassee.com

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Iron Horse Literary Review 🐴 @ironhorselitrev.bsky.social · 1d

One week left!

Our NaPoMo Contest Issue closes October 15. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this incredible collection of poems!

Send us your strongest work today: ironhorse.submittable.com

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Poets, Shenandoah reading periods are coming up fast! The one for Virginia poets will stay open till 10/31, but Samyak’s great call for formal experiment will hit the cap fast (I’d guess 3 days). www.shenandoahliterary.org/submissions/

Two Shenandoah submission periods for poetry start 10/15

Editorial fellow Samyak Shertok is looking for poems using form, including modified, hybrid, and more

The Graybeal Gowan prize offer $1000 for a poem written by someone who has lived in VA at any point for 2+ years

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Andrew Hemmert @andrewhemmert.bsky.social · 3d

Wait for the contract! Nothing is final until it's in writing, and it would be unfortunate to have needlessly withdrawn one or more paid submissions before knowing for sure.

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Shaqsquatch @shaqsquatch.bsky.social · 6d

someone must have told gavin the game involves destroying hastily built shelters

matprotocol @mmatt.net · 6d

WHAT THE FUCK

@ConnorEatsPants tweet,

"💥 Fortnite Friday is BACK 💥

🚨 Governor of California, @GavinNewsom hops on the Battle Bus to talk all things gaming, politics, and more 🚨

🇺🇸 2:30 PM PST / 5:30 EST 🇺🇸"

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 6d

Broken Social Scene's self-titled LP was part of a massive indie rock groundswell in the mid-2000s.

The album turns 20 this Saturday, so let's look back:

'Broken Social Scene' Turns 20

In which the social scene started to seem a lot more coherent.

www.stereogum.com

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 11d

(58/61) “Witness, / if you can, listen: I slurped the frog-leg soup / gone bad. Held a brass spoon like a barrel / to my mouth.” —Vievee Francis, “Break Me and I’ll Sing” (The Shared World)
@nupress.bsky.social #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

The cover of Vievee Francis’ The Shared World: a black-and-white photograph of a concerned-looking woman with dark hair holding a white cloth the neck and face of a dark-haired man whose white shirt has dark stains on it.

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BOA Editions @boa-editions.bsky.social · 12d

Two months left! Submissions are open for the 25th Annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize!

🎯 Prize Details:
- Winning manuscript published by BOA Editions in Spring 2027
- $1,000 honorarium

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 12d

Perugia Press’s annual prize is open through 11/15, for what will be our 30th collection. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Guidelines & info at linktree in bio. We look forward to reading your work!

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 14d

Every time someone says, "I used ChatGPT to help with this," I immediately assume they suck.

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 15d

friendly reminder my loves to schedule your vaccinations as soon as possible, we are seeing an increase in infections already

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 15d

Call me from Albemarle Station if you can
I hope you find your concentration beneath those ceiling fans
We used to dance in this split-level ranch
Moonlight flooding the room
Now you're gone and the shades are all drawn
In my air-conditioned tomb

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16d

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21d

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21d

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 22d

2 YEARS TOO DAMN LONG. INTERVENTION NOW. DEMAND YR LOCAL EVERYTHING TO STOP BEING PARTY TO GENOCIDE.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22d

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States:
(a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip;
(b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide;
(c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law;
(d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide;
(e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
(a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants;
(b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social · 23d

Read "In every religion, a purifying" by the legendary Diane Seuss in our latest Flight 23.4. Link in bio and below! 🐦‍⬛

blackbird.vcu.edu/in-every-rel...

A black-and-white portrait of Diane Seuss. She has long dark hair with bangs, wears dark eyeliner, and looks directly at the camera with a serious expression. The image is framed by a salmon-pink border.

A white graphic bordered in salmon pink featuring an excerpt from Diane Seuss’s poem "In every religion, a purifying." The excerpt reads:
“The rain came in multitudes, / in droves, like supplicants / to a holy place, almost // beautiful, as a shattered / windshield is beautiful, / especially when it rains.” At the bottom, text notes: Poetry / Blackbird v23n4, with a small blackbird silhouette.

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