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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 22d

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 21h

what PA events are you heading to?

Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 21h

I just ordered this. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Pine

Poems that travel through time and terrain, seeking solace in the raw physicality of the world. To grieve is to search. In Pine, Jonathan Johnson’s poems travel across continents: through Michigan’s U...

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 1d

Been working on a poem about the end of garden season, then remembered the poem I wrote last Oct about the same thing, and the Oct before that... I need a new hobby.

Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 1d

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'What we need right now is tenderness,' former poet laureate Ada Limón says

Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement.

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to appear in the new issue of Southern Review with a poem that takes inspiration from Ruth Stone.

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 2d

The Freedom issue of ABOUT PLACE just dropped with super fine work by Susan Terris, Nancy Mercado, Alexandra Teague, Laura- Gray Street, Pam Uschuk, Denise Duhamel, Jacquiline Johnson, and Marjorie Maddox, and so much more. I have a couple poems, scroll all the way down.

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Home – About Place Journal

a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 3d

A little mental cleansing at the end of the week. After this the kayak goes into hibernation.

Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 4d

A gathering of poets is still one of the best things in this world.

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 4d

Friend

Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 4d

I think I have an avocado growing in the tomato garden. Might put it in a pot to bring inside.

Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 4d

Al Maginnes takes on the pumpkin spice industrial complex northamericanreview.org/online/2018/...

Pumpkin Spice and the Infinite Horizon Blues | North American Review

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 5d

These two are as important to me as vital organs.

Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 5d

Emmett can’t read but still takes comfort from poetry.

Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 5d

The end of Meh American Poetry www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

What Was Best About the ‘Best American Poetry’?

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Brian Beatty @brianbeatty.bsky.social · May 12

Two Poems by Brian Beatty oneartpoetry.com/2025/05/12/t...

Two Poems by Brian Beatty

Silhouettes A half dozen hawks floated in the white sky above an anonymous river’s rushing brown floodwaters. The sun above that scene was blinding, beating down, drying the bank’s loose prairie sa…

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Brian Beatty @brianbeatty.bsky.social · May 18

New poem.

Brian Beatty

Minor Miracles The red leather chairin the middle of the roomwhere I write floats a littlewhen poems arrive like birds called to their feeder. . Brian Beatty is the author of five small press…

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 5d

RIP my friend

Brian Beatty @brianbeatty.bsky.social · Sep 4

Contemplating the never-ending poetry manuscript.

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 5d

My friend Brian Beatty ( @brianbeatty.bsky.social ) passed away from an unexpected medial issue yesterday. You can hear his poems here on a spoken word album he made with musician Charlie Parr. brianbeatty.bandcamp.com/album/hobo-r...