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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · Sep 2

Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · Aug 19

"I was filling out the application to be a tycoon and I was being
careful with my handwriting but then I got to the section
on references and I wondered exactly who could speak best
to my latent tycoon potential. A minute later I found myself

on the phone with my mom."

Michael Bazzett

The Glacier Issue Three Winter 2024 THE FAVOR Sometimes as a favor, I dream other peoples’ dreams. I do it in their stead so they can sleep the sleep of dark silence, so they can take a crack…

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · Jul 21

"The little god has grown, a little god
no longer."

From "Parenting Triolet" by Gabriel Fried

Gabriel Fried — Bennington Review

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · Jul 7

OofahPapa @oofahpapa.bsky.social · Jul 7

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · Jun 6

"I OEDIPUS, Darth Vader, and Jesus Christ walk into a bar. We
make a clever premise in the ooze."

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Adam Tavel, featured in the Ocean State Review - The Ocean State Review

I OEDIPUS on Fridays strip my anger off like mummy-wrap / and pitch it at the night, our dusty orchid wallpaper where / shadows are themselves the other half of us, in bed, inside my

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · May 30

simultaneously one of the funniest and the most cutting poems I've read in ages, from Rebecca Hawkes in @phoebejournal.bsky.social

Birth Control - phoebe

Rebecca Hawkes “why suck the strap” why look at a sunset. why listen to your favourite song. why stop to smell the flowers. come on now – Tumblr user @bloodpups To live ethically in the present moment...

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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · May 27

Like a prepubescent tee-ball player, our piece for this week is short and hard-hitting. Get the breath knocked out of you by "Tests to Determine Whether Moonboy Has a Soul" from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social

Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-27-25/moon...

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · May 27

From Julia Ross in The 2River View www.2river.org/2RView/29_3/...

Excerpt from "The week I keep my government job but you lose your gender," a poem by Julia Ross in 2River View:

we endeavor to fuck the algorithm:
send each other nonsense phrases about sourdough
until our news feeds are a blur of dead-looking women
kneading in long skirts. You learn

twenty nine uses for discard
& give your starter a name: I mull the perils

A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · May 27

"I have buried myself in the hole
of America, its plastic freedoms,

elastic unfreeness—America,
you have rendered me a corpse of delightful

emptiness. You have plundered me of heft,
ground the God in me to tin and clatter.

God, the grind."

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Immigrant Duplex - Lily Poetry Review

by LAUREN K. ALLEYNE from Issue 12 … Continue readingImmigrant Duplex

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · May 21

"I google it after they’re gone, alone in my classroom. But my phone isn’t working. My phone isn’t working because moments ago another country hacked our country’s grid and shut the whole thing down forever."
From @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social

I Don’t Know What Wind Is by Chris Scott | New Flash Fiction Review

Approximately thirty seconds before dismissal, one of my first graders asks me what wind is. I freeze up, sixteen first grade faces watching me, they all suddenly want to know what wind is, right now,...

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · May 16

Feeling grateful (also floored) to turn to a page in Poetry Magazine & find this poem I wrote, with all admiration, after Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes."

Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.

This poem will be available in an accessible online format at Poetry Magazine's website shortly. You'll also be able to listen to me read it.

Cover of Poetry Magazine's June 2025 issue:
half-carton of eggs, with the letters P O E T R Y painted on them.

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · May 16

Thanks for the introduction to Wiman. After I saw your post I checked out a collection of his to take to lunch, and now I have to track down everything he ever wrote.

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · May 16

"A week or so after passing a bill to make it easier
to fire librarians, the Alabama House of Representatives
passed another naming Little Bluestem the state grass."

From @pamelamanasco.bsky.social in @identitytheory.bsky.social

Little Bluestem: A Poem by Pamela Manasco - Identity Theory

What should we tell our children about it?

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · May 14

*crab-walked

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · May 9

"I’m not going to do a thing today.
Shoo-off the squirrels raising hell in the vegetables?
Let ‘em at it.
Re-read the last letter my father sent me?
No can do. I died it in a fire."

From Michael Martin in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social

Poetry | Needle by Michael Martin - The London Magazine

'I’m the way she likes anyone left behind — / undeserving, falling.' New poetry by Michael Martin.

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · May 5

"they call us invasive opportunistic
say we have wandered too far looking for water
taken more than our share"

a poem about feral hogs from Danielle Fleming in Pidgeonholes

You can ignore wild pigs all you want until you can’t ignore them

It’s just this time they got it rightI mean that’s what they saidfound the reason why some ofus go feralwhy […]

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · May 2

"Ay, Count Sucks-Ass-ula, try hitting the pins next time.” Happy Friday, here's a flash about vampires who are very bad at bowling. @xraylitmag.bsky.social

BOWLING WITH DRACULA by Justin Gibson

The first thing we discovered was that vampires loved contracts. Well, no, sorry, I guess the first thing we discovered was the vampires themselves — that they’re real. We figured it out pretty quick,...

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · Apr 29

"Love did this: the riot of it. Love
for the smashing, the making,
the breaking. Love
for our country and the streets"

Breaking News: Barbie Eats Trump During Baltimore Pride Fest by Chrissy Stegman

What else was left for her to do? Giant in pink, her laughter clanging down Charles Street like bells rung wild to the dystopian melody. She was a blaze in glorious sequins. Swirls through the crow…

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · Apr 13

Every thing you do, no matter how small, to remind people that the wannabe dictators are actually sad, scared, fallible little boys is helpful. The more we laugh at them, the less fearsome they are and the easier it is to wrest power back from them.

Also? These messages are effing hilarious.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Apr 13

Twelve of them! They got Zuck too

Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg voices

Crosswalk buttons along the mid-Peninsula appear to have been hacked, so that when pressed, voices professing to be Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk begin speaking.

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · Apr 11

"Some years come at a price.
Some marked down, on sale, tagged
'as is'. Some days line up like siblings
against a wall, each waiting their turn
to be smacked with a ruler."

From Dorianne Laux's "The Weight of Days" in Post Road www.postroadmag.com/2024/01/09/4...

- Post Road Magazine

Four Poems Dorianne Laux Garage Band for my brother, Jack My brother had one, my boyfriend.Every man I have loved loved music.Each song a pearl threaded onto a necklaceI have worn all my life. I see t...

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Apr 1

“I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint… Carver gave me the face he makes on the back of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: an eyebrow-raised smirk that said, ‘give me your best shot.’”

@martinezfjulian.bsky.social is back on hex with a wild tale about the student surpassing the teachers! ✍️😤

Gordon Lish by Julián Martinez

I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint. I didn’t know he’d be sitting in the kitchen when I busted into the apartment of my old creative writing professor, Gordon Lish. Carver gave me the face he makes on ...

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Postcard @postcardlit.bsky.social · Mar 31

Issue 3 is here! 10 postcards with 10 poems by 10 amazing poets (Emma Bolden, Adam Clay, Jessica Cuello, Erin Dorney, Susan Leary, Erin Malone, Nora Nadjarian, Michael Robins, Diane Wald, and Jane Zwart). Order your copy at www.postcardlit.com/store today! Preorders and orders ship soon!

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · Mar 28

"Dear Thomas of Aquinas, spare me. Where to put
the jack is on the jack, words plus pictogram
for the verbally challenged."

From James Wyshynski in @lascauxreview.bsky.social

On Doing Good | The Lascaux Review

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Mar 21

Really stoked to have a new poem in the spring issue of @theshorepoetry.bsky.social! I have long admired this journal, & I’m grateful to the editors for including me—& alongside so many poets I love! Happy World Poetry Day, too, friends! 💙

Read the issue here: www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-25

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · Mar 21

"Time is the only thing that passes.
Gather up what small magics you can."

Issue 2 | Winter 2024 | What choice do I have anyway? - Hindman Settlement School

Untelling WHAT CHOICE DO I HAVE ANYWAY? Kari Gunter-Seymour Such a tired questionor slack-spined answer,wind whipping the parched grassinto a thrash of dried-up voices,a leap of grasshoppersmocking the cracked ground. As hot as it is, we may bein the coolest summerof the rest of our lives,a fate that lands jackbooted,a kick to the face,two black … Issue 2 | Winter 2024 | What choice do I have anyway? Read More »

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