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Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021). Co-Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Oct 24

Cover of Larks, with photograph by Nicola Davison-Reed, forthcoming from Ohio University Press in April, 2025.

www.ohioswallow.com/978082142591...

Book covers featuring black and white photograph: wooden floor, spare wooden table, stack of four cameras, floating sheet white curtain. Delicate white title font.

Larks
Poems

Han VanderHart
Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Selected by Chanda Feldman

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Nick M @halfricehalfchips.bsky.social · 1h

After that, just Fa.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 4h

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 1h

Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social

I forget what I wanted to
mean to you.
I forget what I
meant to give to you, that I haven’t.

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 42m

Just straining to remember what the opposite of antifa is.

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 42m

One must imagine Sisyphus unhappily foiled by large spiderweb decoration, flummoxed by seasonal domesticity, bereft by frugality of reducing, reusing, and recycling, and longing for his great, big, stone. 🕸️

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 53m

Oooh 😍

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1h

lauughing at penpersonship

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 2h

I like how you say “more beautiful.” Sly!

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 2h

Bookshop has free shipping today! Find River River Book titles there 🌊 🌊 📚 #poetry #booksky

Our Poetry Catalog

Checkout out this list on Bookshop

bookshop.org

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 2h

🙏🥰🎉🎉 So happy for you and Unrivered, Donna! Hope you are having some great celebration time this week!

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you, @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social and @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for all of your support!

Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 6h

Happy publication week to @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Unrivered (@sundresspub.bsky.social)! 🎉🎉🎉

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/efda5033

Unrivered here: sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri...

OF POETRY PODCAST
Donna Varreyer
Unrivered
DONNA VORREYER
(Of Unrivering, Writing the Liturgy of the Body, and Creating Giving Communities in the Arts)
EPISODE 78

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 6h

fountain pens are great if you are secretly and not so secretly a messy person

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 14h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 7h

Correction: I wore a sensible sweater, but I didn’t bring a second, fluffier, snuggly sweater.

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 7h

Such a beautiful book.

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 7h

It’s always so wild to me those two are related!!!

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 7h

when you brought your raincoat to work not a snuggly sweater 😤 ugh, rainy day snuggly fail ☔️🍂

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 8h

The moon drops one or two feathers into the
field.
The dark wheat listens.
Be still.
Now.

James Wright

POETRY FOUNDATION
Beginning

BY JAMES WRIGHT

The moon drops one or two feathers into the
field.
The dark wheat listens.
Be still.
Now.
There they are, the moon's young, trying Their wings.
Between trees, a slender woman lifts up the lovely
shadow
Of her face, and now she steps into the air, now she
is gone
Wholly, into the air.
I stand alone by an elder tree, I do not dare breathe
Or move.
I listen.
The wheat leans back toward its own darkness, And I lean toward mine.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 8h

Editor @amorak.bsky.social is at home resting, and if you can share a poem or a book recommendation, I know he’d love it 💙🙏💐

Poetry meme from fleabag, wedding scene with both sisters, text boxes being:

Lying in bed

Lying in bed ordering poetry books

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 8h

😂🙏🎉

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 8h

Hell yes, Frances!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 12h

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 21h

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social · 6d

So happy to share the cover of SINGING FROM THE DEEP END, coming from CavanKerry Press 2/3/26! Singing praises & gratitude to the @cavankerrypress.bsky.social team for making this book with me in such a beautiful way. 20% off till 11/2 (link in bio). Deep ♥️ & thanks to all who support/ed this book.

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1d

Ohh I love it, Becky 😍🙏🎉🎉🎉 Gorgeous!

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow things will be official, so today is your last chance for the pre-order sale price of Unrivered AND to have a portion of your $ go to @wck.org.

Order here:
tinyurl.com/4pj96v59 .

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