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Anna Lena

@aproflection.bsky.social

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Poet/teacher/editor/printer/plant person. Smaller Songs, St Brigid Press / Ornament, UNT Press / Editor, @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social / Opinions my own; reposts ≠ endorsements linktr.ee/alpb

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Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social · Apr 9

I am honored and so happy to report that my second poetry collection, Might Could, has won the 20th Anthony Hecht Prize. Huge thanks to judge Shane McCrae and to the Waywiser Press.

You can see some poems from me and from the other finalists at the link—I love this tradition of Waywiser's. ❤

The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize – Guidelines and Entries

hechtprize.waywiser-press.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

For 2 years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, not one Palestinian voice has been featured on NBC, ABC or CNN’s Sunday shows.

@ahjohnson.bsky.social writes about how the U.S. media has debated Palestinians’ annihilation without letting a single Palestinian speak.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

inthesetimes.com

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 2d

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 1d

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 3d

A student in my publishing course is interested in researching book pulping and book recycling. Do we know any work or introductory material in this area?

(Work on remainders, print runs, supply chain, raw materials all relevant, too.)

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 21d

Translated and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor and guest edited by Jorie Graham, You Must Live compiles recent work from 30 poets living in Gaza and the West Bank. The challenges of publishing it were immense.

Copper Canyon Anthology Spotlights Poets in Palestine

Translated and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor and guest edited by Jorie Graham, You Must Live compiles recent work from 30 poets living in Gaza and the West Bank. The challenges of…

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 10d

When we talk about fundraising for people in Gaza it is about survival, it is about getting out of the worst circumstances. We rarely discuss their dreams, hope, for rebuilding? What lives will be lived if the bombs were to stop falling tomorrow? Alaa is asking for support for her future

Your help are an investment in rebuild a woman and an architect

My name is Alaa, and I hold a Master’s degree in Architecture.

chuffed.org

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 11d

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13d

Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 13d

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net

A post from Feeding the

networks.h-net.org

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 13d

a lot of people don’t realize what a gift it is to receive.

just to be receptive to what others have to offer. to what others bring into relation.

that too is generosity in action.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 15d

From ‘The Rain In The Trees’ (1987)
—W.S. Merwin

#poetry #poem #poems

After The Alphabets

I am trying to decipher the language of insects
they are the tongues of the future
their vocabularies describe buildings as food
they can depict dark water and the veins of trees
they can convey what they do not know
and what is known at a distance
and what nobody knows
they have terms for making music with the legs
they can recount changing in a sleep like death
they can sing with wings
the speakers are their own meaning in a grammar without horizons
they are wholly articulate
they are never important they are everything

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15d

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Sep 22

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15d

“CBP has never stopped operating its drones on behalf of other federal, state, and local agencies, including ICE,” EFF’s @jenlynch.bsky.social told @404media.co. “In fact, the program has expanded exponentially since EFF first reported on it in 2012.”

CBP Flew Drones to Help ICE 50 Times in Last Year

The drone flight log data, which stretches from March 2024 to March 2025, shows CBP flying its drones to support ICE and other agencies. CBP maintains multiple Predator drones and flew them over the r...

www.404media.co

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · Aug 20

Yes, here's how to start a book ⚡⚡

@sophiadahlin.bsky.social GLOVE MONEY (Nightboat Books)

I need money to buy gloves
so that I never need again to touch it, money. I need gloves to separate my hands from dollars. Also from other hands when they hand me money, handling others' money, others' hands, disgusting. And cold, or hot, and lotion. To regulate mine own hands' temperatures, gloves. To buy them, money.

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 18d

It’s official (again): Climate change is real, it’s caused by us, and it’s dangerous

The science isn’t new

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Climate change ‘beyond scientific dispute,’ National Academies report says

The report is a sharp rebuttal to a recent Trump administration's report, and Republicans have already targeted the report as “a blatant partisan act.”

www.politico.com

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Take the clown statue and get out! WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS!!! @brainmage.bsky.social · Jan 24

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16d

So if I understand it, the mere words “from the river to the sea” are definitely a call to genocide against Israel, while Israel actively blocking a Palestinian state, building 700K illegal settlements, & committing actual genocide of the Palestinian people is not.🤔

The vile & deadly hypocrisy.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 17d

I have been saying this for 3 years now; it is evident from even a theorerical understanding of these systems' operations. But ppl keep claiming it's not true or not important, or could be patched over, & so I keep hoping each time an "AI" company CEO comes out & admits will be the one that sticks

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 18d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Lich-Anne, who is not dead in this photo @ennael.bsky.social · 20d

I hope you all stay safe tonight and tomorrow is a better day

A pool flows over a small ledge in front, and behind a bright pink water lily reaches high from the water’s rippling surface and bright yellow-green lily pads. The background is shady with trees. It was peaceful place, and the sound of the water refreshing

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 23d

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

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Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social · 24d

Not Raritan too! Sad times for little magazines 😢
raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/editors-note...

Editors' Note - Winter 2025

Raritan is a journal of wide-ranging inquiry publishing leading voices on history, literature, politics, and the arts since 1981. Edited by Jackson Lears.

raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu

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Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa.bsky.social · 25d

Why is it “if you can't pay rent, buy fewer lattes” and not “if you can't pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts”?

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