Cosimo Giovine
@beerandcandy.bsky.social
Writer & Poet, Librarian for Literacy & Learning, Cat Dad, Good Cook, Publisher @ZioApolloPress (he/him)
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Me & another local writer are starting a Philly branch of the long-running NYC Writers' Circle. It's going to be the 2nd Tuesday of every month at Ray's Happy Birthday Bar (one of my favorite places, even tho I don't drink). If you're a Philly writer, come read with us! Open to all levels of writer!
September 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Me & another local writer are starting a Philly branch of the long-running NYC Writers' Circle. It's going to be the 2nd Tuesday of every month at Ray's Happy Birthday Bar (one of my favorite places, even tho I don't drink). If you're a Philly writer, come read with us! Open to all levels of writer!
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Sucks that feminism became politically verboten at exactly the moment when the right calcified into a masculinity death cult
August 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Sucks that feminism became politically verboten at exactly the moment when the right calcified into a masculinity death cult
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Hey #BookSky!!!
One of my favorite children’s book writers is opening a new bookstore on the southside of Atlanta and could use your help getting it off the ground. Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse donate. Yes $5 is enough!!
We need more Black women-owned bookstores.
🌝🌚
📚💙
gofund.me/60b14fa8
One of my favorite children’s book writers is opening a new bookstore on the southside of Atlanta and could use your help getting it off the ground. Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse donate. Yes $5 is enough!!
We need more Black women-owned bookstores.
🌝🌚
📚💙
gofund.me/60b14fa8
Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville, organized by Breanna McDaniel
Hi, I'm Breanna J. McDaniel a born and raised Atlantan from t… Breanna McDaniel needs your support for Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville
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August 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Hey #BookSky!!!
One of my favorite children’s book writers is opening a new bookstore on the southside of Atlanta and could use your help getting it off the ground. Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse donate. Yes $5 is enough!!
We need more Black women-owned bookstores.
🌝🌚
📚💙
gofund.me/60b14fa8
One of my favorite children’s book writers is opening a new bookstore on the southside of Atlanta and could use your help getting it off the ground. Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse donate. Yes $5 is enough!!
We need more Black women-owned bookstores.
🌝🌚
📚💙
gofund.me/60b14fa8
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Reminder! My online book launch is August 19th! ❤️
And joined by a 🔥🔥🔥 lineup: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social @anniejowrites.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social
RSVP (and get the link):
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
And joined by a 🔥🔥🔥 lineup: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social @anniejowrites.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social
RSVP (and get the link):
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
August 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reminder! My online book launch is August 19th! ❤️
And joined by a 🔥🔥🔥 lineup: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social @anniejowrites.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social
RSVP (and get the link):
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
And joined by a 🔥🔥🔥 lineup: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social @anniejowrites.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social
RSVP (and get the link):
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
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San Diego book lovers, here's an important message:
SAVE THE DATE: Friends of the Kensington-Normal Heights Library are having a big book sale on Saturday, Aug. 2, from 9am until 1pm. Come find some of the best deals in town!! 4121 Adams Ave., San Diego.
SAVE THE DATE: Friends of the Kensington-Normal Heights Library are having a big book sale on Saturday, Aug. 2, from 9am until 1pm. Come find some of the best deals in town!! 4121 Adams Ave., San Diego.
July 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
San Diego book lovers, here's an important message:
SAVE THE DATE: Friends of the Kensington-Normal Heights Library are having a big book sale on Saturday, Aug. 2, from 9am until 1pm. Come find some of the best deals in town!! 4121 Adams Ave., San Diego.
SAVE THE DATE: Friends of the Kensington-Normal Heights Library are having a big book sale on Saturday, Aug. 2, from 9am until 1pm. Come find some of the best deals in town!! 4121 Adams Ave., San Diego.
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The manager for the Downey Animal Care Center, urges people who are in a position to adopt to stop by to visit dogs like Canela, a five-year-old Belgian Malinois. A total of 18 animals have been turned in due to the deportations.
By @janettev.bsky.social 🐕
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By @janettev.bsky.social 🐕
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July 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The manager for the Downey Animal Care Center, urges people who are in a position to adopt to stop by to visit dogs like Canela, a five-year-old Belgian Malinois. A total of 18 animals have been turned in due to the deportations.
By @janettev.bsky.social 🐕
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By @janettev.bsky.social 🐕
lataco.com/ice-raids-pe...
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The reader doesn’t need everything explained. But they do need a frame of reference: an image, a gesture, a flicker of risk. A poem that won't commit to clarity often isn't mystifying, just afraid.
June 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The reader doesn’t need everything explained. But they do need a frame of reference: an image, a gesture, a flicker of risk. A poem that won't commit to clarity often isn't mystifying, just afraid.
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One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Masked Terror
At this point, we have all seen the videos.
open.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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We'd especially love to read more from queer Indigenous African and queer Indigenous Asian writers!
Only two days to go!
ALOCASIA is open for creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by Indigenous queer writers around the world.
Deadline: June 25th
alocasia.org/about-send-w...
ALOCASIA is open for creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by Indigenous queer writers around the world.
Deadline: June 25th
alocasia.org/about-send-w...
June 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
We'd especially love to read more from queer Indigenous African and queer Indigenous Asian writers!
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Only two days to go!
ALOCASIA is open for creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by Indigenous queer writers around the world.
Deadline: June 25th
alocasia.org/about-send-w...
ALOCASIA is open for creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by Indigenous queer writers around the world.
Deadline: June 25th
alocasia.org/about-send-w...
June 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Only two days to go!
ALOCASIA is open for creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by Indigenous queer writers around the world.
Deadline: June 25th
alocasia.org/about-send-w...
ALOCASIA is open for creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by Indigenous queer writers around the world.
Deadline: June 25th
alocasia.org/about-send-w...
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We're partnering with Candlewick Press to give away 100 copies of TRANS HISTORY by Alex L. Combs & Andrew Eakett to 100 Little Free Library stewards and fans in the U.S.! Peruse illustrated stories, historical records, and conversations. lflib.org/books
June 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We're partnering with Candlewick Press to give away 100 copies of TRANS HISTORY by Alex L. Combs & Andrew Eakett to 100 Little Free Library stewards and fans in the U.S.! Peruse illustrated stories, historical records, and conversations. lflib.org/books
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I'm terrible with publication promotion and all the stuff I should be doing with the new book, but if anyone is interested in an ARC/review copy, it would mean the world to me! Your engagement with my work / featuring of a review in your publication is a gift.
June 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I'm terrible with publication promotion and all the stuff I should be doing with the new book, but if anyone is interested in an ARC/review copy, it would mean the world to me! Your engagement with my work / featuring of a review in your publication is a gift.
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COVER REVEAL! Travis Chi Wing Lau’s “What’s Left Is Tender” is a full-length collection of poetry. This book will be available the end of July!
Cover art: Kevin Wilson Kinzer
Cover design: Brianna Protesto
Get ready and keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/whats-...
Cover art: Kevin Wilson Kinzer
Cover design: Brianna Protesto
Get ready and keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/whats-...
June 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
COVER REVEAL! Travis Chi Wing Lau’s “What’s Left Is Tender” is a full-length collection of poetry. This book will be available the end of July!
Cover art: Kevin Wilson Kinzer
Cover design: Brianna Protesto
Get ready and keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/whats-...
Cover art: Kevin Wilson Kinzer
Cover design: Brianna Protesto
Get ready and keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/whats-...
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In exchange, here are (just a few) pics of adoptable dogs we currently have!
In order: Carmella, Halo, my foster dog Ernie, and Nova Lee! All available for adoption through WCAS! If anyone is interested in Ernie just message me! I have lots to say about this little fella!!
In order: Carmella, Halo, my foster dog Ernie, and Nova Lee! All available for adoption through WCAS! If anyone is interested in Ernie just message me! I have lots to say about this little fella!!
June 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
In exchange, here are (just a few) pics of adoptable dogs we currently have!
In order: Carmella, Halo, my foster dog Ernie, and Nova Lee! All available for adoption through WCAS! If anyone is interested in Ernie just message me! I have lots to say about this little fella!!
In order: Carmella, Halo, my foster dog Ernie, and Nova Lee! All available for adoption through WCAS! If anyone is interested in Ernie just message me! I have lots to say about this little fella!!
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The full spread of @writesloud.bsky.social Hannah Grieco's debut book, First Kicking, Then Not is ready! It'll be available on August 12th from wherever you like to order books.
Pre-order now to save $2 on the cover price and be among the first to devour it.
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
Pre-order now to save $2 on the cover price and be among the first to devour it.
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
May 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The full spread of @writesloud.bsky.social Hannah Grieco's debut book, First Kicking, Then Not is ready! It'll be available on August 12th from wherever you like to order books.
Pre-order now to save $2 on the cover price and be among the first to devour it.
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
Pre-order now to save $2 on the cover price and be among the first to devour it.
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
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Are you a poet?
Do you know a poet?
Have you ever felt like a poet after eating a strawberry in June?
Submit to the Poet of the Year Prize:
$3,000, bragging rights, and immortality.
$500 to 4 finalists. Extensive interviews for everyone :)
Do you know a poet?
Have you ever felt like a poet after eating a strawberry in June?
Submit to the Poet of the Year Prize:
$3,000, bragging rights, and immortality.
$500 to 4 finalists. Extensive interviews for everyone :)
April 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Are you a poet?
Do you know a poet?
Have you ever felt like a poet after eating a strawberry in June?
Submit to the Poet of the Year Prize:
$3,000, bragging rights, and immortality.
$500 to 4 finalists. Extensive interviews for everyone :)
Do you know a poet?
Have you ever felt like a poet after eating a strawberry in June?
Submit to the Poet of the Year Prize:
$3,000, bragging rights, and immortality.
$500 to 4 finalists. Extensive interviews for everyone :)
Support San Diego Public Libraries by visiting a Friends of the Library book sale. Run by volunteers with proceeds going to the library. Buy good reads for a good cause📚
www.friendsofsdpl.org/chapters.htm#/
www.friendsofsdpl.org/chapters.htm#/
FSDPL -- Chapters
www.friendsofsdpl.org
March 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Support San Diego Public Libraries by visiting a Friends of the Library book sale. Run by volunteers with proceeds going to the library. Buy good reads for a good cause📚
www.friendsofsdpl.org/chapters.htm#/
www.friendsofsdpl.org/chapters.htm#/
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Happy chapbook release to SG Huerta @sgpoet.bsky.social!!! Go order “Good Grief” for their confessional, confrontational, comforting, castigating, consoling poems on love, loss, light, and liberation. SG, we and the Root Wounds Words fam are sooo proud of you 👏🏾🥳😍💕
January 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Happy chapbook release to SG Huerta @sgpoet.bsky.social!!! Go order “Good Grief” for their confessional, confrontational, comforting, castigating, consoling poems on love, loss, light, and liberation. SG, we and the Root Wounds Words fam are sooo proud of you 👏🏾🥳😍💕
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For SoCal friends,
Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can.
For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla
Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can.
For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla
January 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
For SoCal friends,
Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can.
For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla
Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can.
For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla
Library content: Check out Library Cheer on Hulu. Watch hours of people at a library as they read and make crafts🤣🤪
December 15, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Library content: Check out Library Cheer on Hulu. Watch hours of people at a library as they read and make crafts🤣🤪
Transgender Day of Remembrance at the library. So many books checked out this past week, hard to keep the display full.
November 20, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Transgender Day of Remembrance at the library. So many books checked out this past week, hard to keep the display full.
⭐Highly recommend Lies, Fibs, & Fabrications. I read an early draft of the manuscript—a unique voice, melancholic, with a real sense of place and time.⭐
—Nathan Oseroff-Spicer @nateo.bsky.social, Copy Editor, Lies, Fibs, & Fabrications
📕BUY TODAY📕
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—Nathan Oseroff-Spicer @nateo.bsky.social, Copy Editor, Lies, Fibs, & Fabrications
📕BUY TODAY📕
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December 8, 2023 at 7:57 PM
⭐Highly recommend Lies, Fibs, & Fabrications. I read an early draft of the manuscript—a unique voice, melancholic, with a real sense of place and time.⭐
—Nathan Oseroff-Spicer @nateo.bsky.social, Copy Editor, Lies, Fibs, & Fabrications
📕BUY TODAY📕
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—Nathan Oseroff-Spicer @nateo.bsky.social, Copy Editor, Lies, Fibs, & Fabrications
📕BUY TODAY📕
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📕LIBRARIANS: Great job opportunities📕
Bring communities together with literacy & learning programs, and lead a team of assistants & aides in supporting the community.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/sand...
Bring communities together with literacy & learning programs, and lead a team of assistants & aides in supporting the community.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/sand...
December 8, 2023 at 7:15 PM
📕LIBRARIANS: Great job opportunities📕
Bring communities together with literacy & learning programs, and lead a team of assistants & aides in supporting the community.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/sand...
Bring communities together with literacy & learning programs, and lead a team of assistants & aides in supporting the community.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/sand...