JoAnn Balingit
@balingit.bsky.social
Poet. Kapampángan German American. Mother of four grownass adults. 2023-2024 Fulbrigiht Scholar🇵🇭always on a journey. Writing family love & trouble. Once a school librarian ❤️, once poet laureate of Delaware. Linktr.ee/Balingit
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“she swaddles them in tissue paper / and passes them to you across the counter // so tenderly you are clearly being handed / either a newborn or a grenade”
— Amy Grimm
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This poem appeared in The Swannanoa Review, Issue 1, Spring 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Amy Grimm
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This poem appeared in The Swannanoa Review, Issue 1, Spring 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.
February 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“she swaddles them in tissue paper / and passes them to you across the counter // so tenderly you are clearly being handed / either a newborn or a grenade”
— Amy Grimm
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This poem appeared in The Swannanoa Review, Issue 1, Spring 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Amy Grimm
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This poem appeared in The Swannanoa Review, Issue 1, Spring 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.
My book of the month! Sangamithra Iyer’s gorgeous memoir*watershed*confluence, Governing Bodies, is out on November 4 from Milkweed.
October 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My book of the month! Sangamithra Iyer’s gorgeous memoir*watershed*confluence, Governing Bodies, is out on November 4 from Milkweed.
Sharing this poem, with thanks to the writers & poets & curators at Split This Rock for their good work getting poetry to the world❤️❤️❤️
Water Birth | Poetry Database | Split This Rock
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July 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Sharing this poem, with thanks to the writers & poets & curators at Split This Rock for their good work getting poetry to the world❤️❤️❤️
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the invisible birth waters
rain from our past
already bewater our future
Poem of the Week is “Water Birth" by JoAnn Balingit @balingit.bsky.social
The poem is available as audio and text at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/4eH1E4y
#PoemoftheWeek #Poetry #Poems #Poets
rain from our past
already bewater our future
Poem of the Week is “Water Birth" by JoAnn Balingit @balingit.bsky.social
The poem is available as audio and text at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/4eH1E4y
#PoemoftheWeek #Poetry #Poems #Poets
July 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
the invisible birth waters
rain from our past
already bewater our future
Poem of the Week is “Water Birth" by JoAnn Balingit @balingit.bsky.social
The poem is available as audio and text at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/4eH1E4y
#PoemoftheWeek #Poetry #Poems #Poets
rain from our past
already bewater our future
Poem of the Week is “Water Birth" by JoAnn Balingit @balingit.bsky.social
The poem is available as audio and text at The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database: bit.ly/4eH1E4y
#PoemoftheWeek #Poetry #Poems #Poets
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Image Description: Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author & excerpt with a photo of JoAnn Balingit in a circular frame. JoAnn, a Kapampángan German American woman with olive skin, black hair, & glasses, smiles. Behind her are an ocean, sky, & palm trees.
July 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Image Description: Poem of the Week graphic, which includes the poem title, author & excerpt with a photo of JoAnn Balingit in a circular frame. JoAnn, a Kapampángan German American woman with olive skin, black hair, & glasses, smiles. Behind her are an ocean, sky, & palm trees.
This morning my piece for The Nation, “New World Sourdough” (reporting from Delaware) came out for the July / August issue, These dis-United States. Meanwhile, let’s eat.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
June 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This morning my piece for The Nation, “New World Sourdough” (reporting from Delaware) came out for the July / August issue, These dis-United States. Meanwhile, let’s eat.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Getting feisty.
May 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Getting feisty.
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One of the dynamics which has become visible to me since I started serving on a school board: Everybody involved in standardized testing - from the state administrators to the testing services to the tutors/preppers - are invested in perpetuating the narrative that US schools are failing…
May 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
One of the dynamics which has become visible to me since I started serving on a school board: Everybody involved in standardized testing - from the state administrators to the testing services to the tutors/preppers - are invested in perpetuating the narrative that US schools are failing…
Today, baking and catching up on writing. Tomorrow and next three days, camping! 🔥
Images: tray of everything sourdough bagels; sourdough loaf I’m bringing; & bald cypress swamp at #TrapPond a glorious (surviving fragment of) Southern Delaware wetland
Images: tray of everything sourdough bagels; sourdough loaf I’m bringing; & bald cypress swamp at #TrapPond a glorious (surviving fragment of) Southern Delaware wetland
May 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Today, baking and catching up on writing. Tomorrow and next three days, camping! 🔥
Images: tray of everything sourdough bagels; sourdough loaf I’m bringing; & bald cypress swamp at #TrapPond a glorious (surviving fragment of) Southern Delaware wetland
Images: tray of everything sourdough bagels; sourdough loaf I’m bringing; & bald cypress swamp at #TrapPond a glorious (surviving fragment of) Southern Delaware wetland
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Seconding this as a former librarian - many libraries across the U.S. offer either Mango or a similar language learning program. You'd be amazed what kind of things you can access for free or very low cost with a library card! It is essential, now more than ever, to support libraries.
Just letting fellow New Yorkers know that you can get access to Mango through your library card!!! FREE!!!! and it is a better language learning program!!
April 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Seconding this as a former librarian - many libraries across the U.S. offer either Mango or a similar language learning program. You'd be amazed what kind of things you can access for free or very low cost with a library card! It is essential, now more than ever, to support libraries.
Report from language-learning world! my daughter and partner just figured out why my granddaughter, almost two, calls her baby doll’s pacifier a *fireplace* 😂🔥 🥵 —the syllables 🔂 🤯 —haha so good
April 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Report from language-learning world! my daughter and partner just figured out why my granddaughter, almost two, calls her baby doll’s pacifier a *fireplace* 😂🔥 🥵 —the syllables 🔂 🤯 —haha so good
📝another bookmark!📝
1st thing I do waking is stretch and read a poem. that’s why I’m Covid-free after life with two Covid peeps these past 12 days. Or turkey.
1st thing I do waking is stretch and read a poem. that’s why I’m Covid-free after life with two Covid peeps these past 12 days. Or turkey.
Big thanks to Brittany Cavallaro for the chance to highlight 2024 poems I loved in @literaryhub.bsky.social, including one by @cerena.bsky.social! (+ gratitude to Anna Journey for unexpectedly tagging one of mine here too from @newyorker.com! 🥰) lithub.com/49-contempor...
49 Contemporary Poets on the Best Poems they Read in 2024
In the sea of endless year-end lists, poetry often seems to get sidelined, or forgotten—or maybe the critics and listmakers just aren’t reading enough poetry in the first place. Which made me…
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December 30, 2024 at 9:22 PM
📝another bookmark!📝
1st thing I do waking is stretch and read a poem. that’s why I’m Covid-free after life with two Covid peeps these past 12 days. Or turkey.
1st thing I do waking is stretch and read a poem. that’s why I’m Covid-free after life with two Covid peeps these past 12 days. Or turkey.
So much hurt is forgotten with the horizon
as backdrop. It comes down to simple math.
www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/heres-a...
as backdrop. It comes down to simple math.
www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/heres-a...
Here’s an Ocean Tale | Poetry Out Loud
My brother still bites his nails to the quick,but lately he’s been allowing them to grow.So much hurt is forgotten with the horizonas backdrop. It comes down to simple math.The beach belongs to none o...
www.poetryoutloud.org
December 7, 2024 at 3:39 PM
So much hurt is forgotten with the horizon
as backdrop. It comes down to simple math.
www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/heres-a...
as backdrop. It comes down to simple math.
www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/heres-a...
Audre Lorde was a “theorist of survival” whose primary technology was poetry
December 7, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Audre Lorde was a “theorist of survival” whose primary technology was poetry
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When fascism arrives in America it won’t know how to spell it.
December 1, 2024 at 2:45 PM
When fascism arrives in America it won’t know how to spell it.
Follow my kid @spiritloops.bsky.social dance away those blues
This evening and all day tomorrow, I'm giving away Ectoplasm for FREE on Soundcloud. Grab yourself a copy!
Happy Halloween 👻
soundcloud.com/spiritloops/...
Happy Halloween 👻
soundcloud.com/spiritloops/...
Ectoplasm (The Soloist)
Buy: https://spiritloops.bandcamp.com/track/ectoplasm-the-soloist
Logotype: @debisco
Mastering: @ranzor
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December 7, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Follow my kid @spiritloops.bsky.social dance away those blues
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Interesting peak into the major funders of Project 2025 from @amywestervelt.bsky.social. Lots to tease out, but it's a good thread to start pulling to find out how we got here.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Project 2025
docs.google.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Interesting peak into the major funders of Project 2025 from @amywestervelt.bsky.social. Lots to tease out, but it's a good thread to start pulling to find out how we got here.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Donika Kelly doing memory work
December 4, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Donika Kelly doing memory work
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I’m receiving
December 4, 2024 at 3:54 PM
I’m receiving