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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 1d

Look out! Jameela Dallis’s ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING & THE DEAD (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social) is out in the world, in bookstores! Here it’s seen in Scuppernong Books! Come out to Dallis’s reading for @mfagreensboro.bsky.social at Scup this Thursday at 6 PM ET!

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 5d

This year’s #Lammys are virtual! I’m a finalist for the LGBTQ+ Award in Poetry & I’ll be on a panel called “Beyond the Gender Binary” with Lonnie Garcia & Jennifer Espinoza at 11 AM ET. The award ceremony is 5–7 PM PM & hosted by Jozie Clapp! Tickets are $55.20 for all day access! Link in stories!

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UNCG Creative Writing @mfagreensboro.bsky.social · 5d

Identifying the Pathogen, the latest collection from UNCG Creative Writing alum Jennifer Millitello, is now available for pre-order from Tupelo Press buff.ly/D7yYSms @mfagreensboro.bsky.social

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 5d

“Sundress Reads: Review of Nonbinary Bird of Paradise” by Catie Macauley, @sundresspub.bsky.social

sundressblog.com/2025/09/30/s...

#poetry #poetrybook #poetrybookreview #booksbooksbooks #booksofınstagram #booksof2024 #queerbooks #nonbinary #nonbinarybooks #lgbtbooks #lgbtqbooks

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 5d

Adrenalized by this beautiful review of NONBINARY BIRD OF PARADISE (@uakronpress.bsky.social) by Catie Macaulay for @sundresspub.bsky.social. I feel like he truly GOT the book, its whole structure, each gesture. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

sundressblog.com/2025/09/30/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of Nonbinary Bird of Paradise - The Sundress Blog

In Emilia Phillips’ Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (The University of Akron Press, 2024), God is many things: they are “a knot / that knows how to untie itself,” “the first/war,” a “voyeur, who gave / [t...

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 7d

Thinking of writing about OCD & of the form(at)s & modes that could support symptoms like reassurance seeking, justice seeking, a sense of foreshortened future, intrusive thoughts, & more.

Of course, the obsessive forms of the sestina, villanelle, & pantoum come to mind.

But maybe a new form?

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 7d

One of my favorite linguistic things we can do in English is add -ish to words

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 8d

what a time to be alive (derogatory)

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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ACLU @aclu.org · 7d

Dissent isn't grounds for deportation.

If the Trump administration's arguments are adopted, it would grant them unconstitutional and unprecedented power to censor our speech.

U.S. Argues That Detained Protesters Can’t Seek Release in Federal Court

A federal appeals court heard arguments over whether noncitizens subject to deportation have the right to challenge their detentions using one of the oldest legal precepts.

www.nytimes.com

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Kristin Wyatt @kristinwyatt.bsky.social · 7d

These guys will be heading on their long journey soon.
#monarch #nature #photography #butterflies

A monarch butterfly from yesterday feeding on bright yellow wingstem flowers.

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juanma3010.bsky.social @juanma3010.bsky.social · 7d

Buenos días y feliz miércoles!
Julie Andrews cumple 90 años.
¿Cuántas veces visteis Mary Poppins de niños?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7d

Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.

Jane Fonda Relaunches Committee for the First Amendment With Support of 550 Celebrities Including Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and More

Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment with the support of Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and more.

variety.com

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 7d

My body likes to remind me it is a sack of bones & a storm cloud of intrusive thoughts

Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 7d

Having chronic illness flare due to life stress even when you’re doing your best to take care of yourself is like tending dutifully to a garden only to have a drought & no other access to water

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Oh we’re happy to see Jameela F. Dallis’s Encounters for the Living and the Dead on @bookmobile-itasca.bsky.social’s Top 10 for September list! Thanks to booksellers and readers everywhere 🙏💙📚🎉

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ITASCA'S TOP I0, SEPTEMBER '25
1. Free the People to Free the Money to Free the People
- Organize the Rich - Eds. Michael Gast, Marian Moore & Alex T. Tom
2. Your Year of Wonders - Beaver's Pond Press - Nick Tasler
3. Lucia Morning in Sweden - Nodin Press - Ewa Rydecker
4. Mistër E's Eclectic Compendium of Wondrous Hits
- Beaver's Pond Press - Elias Mondegreen
5. Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction
- Rose Metal Press - Dinty W. Moore
6. Fam: The Remarkable Story of a Canada Goose Adopted by Sandhill Cranes
- Beaver's Pond Press - Martha Harding & Gary Noren
7. Little Deaths All in a Row - Jaded Ibis Press - Elizabeth Earley
8. Beyond Grit - Wise Ink - Cindra Kamphoff
9. Encounters for the Living and the Dead - River River Books - Jameela F. Dallis
10. Hiro Doggie
- Literati Press Comics and Novels - John Eric Osborn & Charles J. Martin
Find More Great Books at www.ltascaBooks.com
ITASCA BOOKS
DISTRIBUTION & FULFILLMENT
A DIVISION OF BOOKMOBILE

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University of Akron Press @uakronpress.bsky.social · 15d

Less than two weeks until the winners of the Lambda Literary Awards are announced during the virtual ceremony! 🎉

Join us in rooting for all the #finalists, but especially UA Press #author @emdashphillips.bsky.social!

www.eventbrite.com/e/lammys-day...

#poetry #poetrycommunity #universitypress

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 17d

Made a bouquet & found (what I believe to be) a Goldenrod Crab Spider 🥹 I didn’t realize until I was in the car, well on my way from Greensboro to Durham, & so I did my best to give her an access point back into nature

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 17d

Your word combinations are unparalleled. The spreads you lay before us are abundant. And you know what else? You are BELOVED by so many people, including me 💕🦪

Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 17d

Thrilled I got to be there tonight to celebrate one of my dearest friends in the world as she launched her first book into the world! Congratulations, Jameela Dallis on ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social)!

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 17d

Thrilled I got to be there tonight to celebrate one of my dearest friends in the world as she launched her first book into the world! Congratulations, Jameela Dallis on ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social)!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17d

Winter is coming.

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 17d

People contain multitudes (positive)

People contain multitudes (derogatory)

Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 18d

I’d love to hear from #rhetcomp folks, #librarians, other #professors & #academics, & #informationliteracy experts.