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Laurel Radzieski
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Poet; Books: LEAF MANIFESTO and RED MOTHER https://bookshop.org/p/books/leaf-manifesto-laurel-radzieski/208e7f3772063848
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Laurel Radzieski @eatmorepoems.bsky.social · Oct 24
Just found out that my new book, Leaf Manifesto, is now available at @bookshop.org. Ready to turn into a tree?🍂
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Leaf Manifesto
Check out Leaf Manifesto - <b><i>Leaf Manifesto</i> examines the trend of women turning into trees through the lens of standardized testing. Informative, playful, and often participatory, <i>Leaf Mani...
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I was really touched by this review and Shelli Rottshafer’s thoughtful reflection within.
southbroadway.bsky.social South Broadway Press @southbroadway.bsky.social · Oct 20
Book Review: Leaf Manifesto by Laurel Radzieski

A review of Laurel Radzieski's book Leaf Manifesto by Shelli Rottshafer
Book Review: Leaf Manifesto by Laurel Radzieski
A review of Laurel Radzieski's book Leaf Manifesto by Shelli Rottshafer
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October 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
eatmorepoems.bsky.social
Just found out that my new book, Leaf Manifesto, is now available at @bookshop.org. Ready to turn into a tree?🍂
bookshop.org/p/books/leaf...
Leaf Manifesto
Check out Leaf Manifesto - <b><i>Leaf Manifesto</i> examines the trend of women turning into trees through the lens of standardized testing. Informative, playful, and often participatory, <i>Leaf Mani...
bookshop.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Thank you to everyone who has preordered my new book, Leaf Manifesto, so far! There's a few days left to preorder for anyone who wants to get their copy from @middlecreek.bsky.social
at a discount. www.middle-creek-publishing.com/leaf-manifesto
. Text: Ready to turn into a tree? Preorder at www.middle-creek-publishing.com (end text) Includes cover of a book with title "LEAF MANIFESTO" by Laurel Radzieski. Cover is white with a black bubble pattern over three figures of women, including a lime green woman standing in a dress standing, a yellow woman standing in a puffy skirt, and a red woman sitting on ground with legs sideways.
September 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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There's still time left to preorder my new book, Leaf Manifesto, from @middlecreek.bsky.social at a discount ($18). Preordering really helps this indie small publisher ❤️and it gives you a head start on turning into a tree!🌳
Preorder at www.middle-creek-publishing.com/leaf-manifesto
Text: Advance praise for Leaf Manifesto: “...the poems in Leaf Manifesto are a staggering homage to the loneliness and rebirth of transition... “...a modern-day reader can’t help but glean from these poems a fierce resistance to U.S. fascism and transphobia... “This book gives me hope.” – Remi Recchia, author of Quicksand/Stargazing Preorder at www.middle-creek-publishing.com (end text) Includes cover of a book with title "LEAF MANIFESTO" by Laurel Radzieski. Cover is white with a black bubble pattern over three figures of women, including a lime green woman standing in a dress standing, a yellow woman standing in a puffy skirt, and a red woman sitting on ground with legs sideways. Background is left to right color gradient of coral to neon purple.
August 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Reposted by Laurel Radzieski
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New Sumerian myth just dropped
News - Newly Deciphered Cuneiform Tablet Contains Unknown Sumerian Myth - Archaeology Magazine
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—A riveting lost Sumerian myth was recently rediscovered thanks to University of Chicago Sumerologist […]
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July 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Celebrating my first piece of art in a gallery show! 😊Thank you to GoggleWorks Center for the Arts for including my work in the Dynamic Reflections: Diverse Perspectives community gallery showcase open now through August 15! #artexhibit #visualpoetry #eatmorepoems
Black and white photo woman with short hair in front of a framed artwork. Exhibit label on white wall. Text as follows: Laurel Radzieski, Duties, Print on paper, 2020, $40.
July 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
eatmorepoems.bsky.social
This blue hippo looks like a playful poem.
alisonfisk.bsky.social Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Jul 19
Happy weekend! 🦛💙

Here’s a wonderful c. 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian glossy blue hippo decorated with a little bird perched on the stem of a lotus flower.

Egyptian Museum Cairo 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows an ancient Egyptian statuette of a standing blue hippopotamus on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. It is made of Egyptian faience, a ceramic material coated with a bright blue glossy glaze. The hippo is viewed from the side profile with head on the right. It is decorated in black pigment with outlines of lotus plants which grow in the hippos Nile habitat. A little bird is perched on the stem of one lotus flower. Dimensions: Height 11.5 cm, length 21.5 cm. Excavated by Auguste Mariette in 1860 at the necropolis of Dra’ Abu el-Naga’, western Thebes. Dated Middle Kingdom, 11th Dynasty, c. 2134-1991 BC. Egyptian faience is a ceramic material made of quartz. Blue hippos are decorated with black pigment outlining depictions of Nile river plants, in particular lotus flowers. In ancient Egypt lotus flowers had religious symbolism; the flowers close at night and reopen with the rising of the sun in the morning, which was associated with regeneration and rebirth. Blue faience hippos have been found in Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate period tombs. It’s thought they were placed there to help the rebirth of the deceased. Associated with the life-giving Nile, regeneration, and Tawaret, the ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility and childbirth. Hippos were also seen as dangerous to humans so the legs of faience hippos have often been broken off the statuettes found in tombs, perhaps to make sure the hippo could not harm the deceased in the afterlife.
July 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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You don't have to be cool in the literary world. Don't even worry about it. The ones that think they are cool are the biggest nerds of them all. You're doing fine
July 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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My mother had a rule I was not allowed to tell her my dreams. This was an early sign I was a poet.
July 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Really enjoyed being interviewed by Lucille DiGiamberardino on BCTV Artists Speak out. We talk about family, poetry, my new book, writing community service, and even touch on gaming. #laurelradzieski
#leafmanifesto #eatmorepoems #poetry #interview
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Poet/Writer Laurel Radzieski | Artists Speak Out
YouTube video by Berks Community Television
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July 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Staying in the shade while helping with the Gristle Relics booth at the Goblin Market in Belvidere, NJ today. www.etsy.com/shop/Gristle...
Woman sitting behind a hand loom outside. Two tables with green tablecloths filled with hand woven creations by Gristle Relics. Chalkboard with text, “Weaving is an ANCIENT SACRED art form @GRISTLE.RELICS” with drawing of rising Sun. Sign with blue frame and white background with text,”GOBLIN MARKET” and blue arrow pointing right. Sign is outside leaning on a gate.
June 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The change is coming. The seas will turn
to lemonade, sweep you up, everyone will speak

in blank verse, and everyone, everyone will join.

Bob Sykora

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@gameoverbooks.bsky.social
UTOPIANS IN LOVE by BOB SYKORA beside a bowel of yogurt and peaches and cup of coffee on a poet’s kitchen counter Second page of “The Utopians are in Love” by Bob Sykora, under yellow Peruvian lilies, and the lines: sometimes just a few, but always everyone eventually. The utopians are charged, positive. The change is coming. The seas will turn to lemonade, sweep you up, everyone will speak in blank verse, and everyone, everyone will join.
June 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Morning peony report: like yesterday, many are so heavy with their own fabulousness that they must lay their heads on the ground. And some have decided to let go completely and send their fabulousness back to their maker.
June 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
eatmorepoems.bsky.social
Feeling hopeful at Hope Hill Lavender Farm.
Woman in red jacket holding takeout cup stands in front of a sign that says “HOPE” with a purple spoked wheel as the “O”. Two rusted metal donkey cut outs are in front of the sign.
June 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
eatmorepoems.bsky.social
Freelancers is back on the table. First go was a refreshing treat.
Freelancers board game location book. Spiral bound book with cover illustration of a group of fantasy characters facing toward a mountain topped with a blue dragon with outspread wings. Illustration is primarily pink and orange with pops of dark tones.
May 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Quinns Quest Season 2 is NOW LIVE!

We start with a double feature reviewing Delta Green, purely so I can go *straight* into a review Impossible Landscapes, one of the best campaigns ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx_y...
May 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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congratulations to Marie Howe on the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry!! i’m thinking again of this moment from an interview—

Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart.
May 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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In manuscripts class, a student noticed a page with text that’s barely visible, & nothing could have possibly made me feel any cooler than the fact that I had a small UV wand in my backpack that I used to reveal the text. I don’t think this means the students think I’m cool, but I do.
A small book of hours open and viewed under UV lights so that some text in Italian is now visible. I haven’t transcribed it yet, but it’s pretty clear now.
April 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Anyone know of a modern version of this beautiful blue game?
alisonfisk.bsky.social Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Mar 25
Senet gaming board and gaming pieces made of blue faience, c. 1390–1353 BC.

Popular in ancient Egypt, Senet is one of the world’s earliest board games. It was associated with the soul’s journey to the afterlife and senet game boards were often placed in tombs. Brooklyn Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows an ancient Egyptian Senet gaming board made of bright blue faience with a separate sliding drawer for storing the thirteen blue faience gaming pieces. Eight of the faience gaming pieces are reel-shaped and five are semi-conical shaped. The side of the gaming board is decorated with alternating ‘Isis Knot’ and ‘djed pillar’ symbols. The gaming board dimensions are 5.5 x 7.7 x 21 cm. On display at Brooklyn Museum. Museum Catalogue game board description: Top of board divided into thirty compartments with dividing lines glazed black. Four squares inscribed with numerals and a nefer sign. Long sides decorated with painted design of seven panels, each with alternating ankh and ded signs. Solid end bears painted Horus name (Amenhotep III?) ‘beloved of Amon.’ Open end pierced twice on one side. Base glazed black. Ends of drawer glazed dark and light blue in checkerboard pattern. Base and interior of drawer glazed dark purple-blue. Front of drawer pierced with four small holes (for handle?); sides pierced three times and two times-purpose not evident. Condition: Object has been assembled from fragments. Extensive scattered areas of plaster restoration. The drawer was probably originally much longer. Glaze worn in spots. Numerous firing cracks.
March 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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The Matrix, but Neo gets board game rules uploaded into his brain, and the rest of the movie and all the sequels are just super succinct how-to-play videos by Keanu Reeves. 💙🎲
March 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I suggest a new dice notation term for y'all.

2d6↑ for "roll 2d6 and keep the highest."
2d6↓ for "roll 2d6 and keep the lowest."

Now go use this responsibly.
March 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Helpful reminder for us all.
shoutingcrow.bsky.social Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · Mar 12
The scope-creeper would like to know if that project you're working on could maybe needs to be scaled back a bit? Perhaps you could add those extra features as an update or supplemental material? Just sayin'.
a telescope with legs and a single large eye where the lens would normally be. Wires dangle from its tripod, sparking.
March 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Played Septima for the first time last night. Great pace, beautiful art. Didn’t win but looking forward to another go.
Septima game board with meeples on it. Board has many nature-oriented graphics. Illustration composed of mystical dark shades with pops of an aged parchment tone and other colors. Board notably includes an old woman with grey hair looking magical.
March 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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A little bummed that this year I’m already booked on the weekend of Moravian University’s free writers conference.
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2025 Moravian University's Write to Explore Conference
This is a FREE conference will cover different ways for thinking about story and story sharing, with a focus on social justice.
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March 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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If you see this, post or quote repost a tree🌲
Sharing my poem, “Helpful Wellness Tips for Women Who Have Turned into Trees.”
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March 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM