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Tahoma Literary Review @tahomareview.bsky.social · 7d

Spotlight this week on poet Ellen Kombiyil, whose gorgeous erasures can be seen on our website.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 6d

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 6d

The 2025 winners of the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards are:

Robert Sorrell Bynum (fiction) for "Like a Star"
@jessicacuello.bsky.social (literary nonfiction) for "Your Life for Another"
A. D. Lauren-Abunassar (poetry) for "Three Bombardments"

See our site for more! Link in first comment.

Photos of the winners of the Schiff Awards under the heading "2025 Robert and Adele Schiff Award Winners." Each photo gets its own post page, to follow.

White text on a brick-red background: "Robert Sorrell Bynum, fiction, Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner." Photo is A white man with brown hair to his shoulders and tortoiseshell-frame glasses. He's wearing a black jean jacket over a puffer jacket and shirt, and he's standing on a beach in front of a body of water.

White text on a brick-red blackground: "Jessica Cuello, nonfiction, Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner." Photo is a black-and-white photo of a white woman with curly hair. she is wearing a dark sweater and light-colored shirt and sitting oustide.

White text on a black background: "A.D. Lauren-Abunassar, poetry, Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner." Photo is A Palestinian American woman with brown hair and hazel eyes. She's wearing a dark shirt, dangling earrings, and a necklace chain, and standing in front of a white window shade.

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Jessica Cuello @jessicacuello.bsky.social · 6d

❤️❤️❤️

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Tahoma Literary Review @tahomareview.bsky.social · Sep 2

Includes Two Poems by Susana Thénon

Translated from the Spanish by Karen Elizabeth Bishop
Tahoma Literary Review | 2025

Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · Sep 1

Celebrate #NationalTranslationMonth with us by picking reads from (and bookmarking) our 2025 reading list! Find translated poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and more from lit mags and indie presses: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

A Reading List for National Translation Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For National Translation Month, observed annually during the month of September, we asked our member magazines and presses to share some of the literature they have published in translation. Poetry…

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Jessica Cuello @jessicacuello.bsky.social · 10d

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Tahoma Literary Review @tahomareview.bsky.social · Sep 2

Featuring Oliver Sedano Jones' poem "Choose Your Own Adventure: Pools" in #TLR29. With an interactive format! tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/c...

Choose Your Own Adventure: Pools - Tahoma Literary Review

After Hala Alyan a boy at the swimming pool has asked if you’re ______. do you: unfold at the pale seam. where water leans on air.

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 26d

Why does it never get to be
our hands
the ones that rise up,
the ones that proclaim the voice
of disgust…

Read Susana Thénon’s “Advent,” translated by Karen Elizabeth Bishop in @tahomareview.bsky.social this #NationalTranslationMonth: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

Two Poems by Susana Thénon, trans. from the Spanish by Karen Elizabeth Bishop - Tahoma Literary Review

from Unrelenting Age (1958) | from Edad sin tregua (1958) Advent Why does it never get to beour handsthe ones that rise up,the ones that proclaim the

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Jessica Cuello @jessicacuello.bsky.social · 11d

That dark square was a picture of Jennifer. I don't know why it did that. Jenn would laugh at that.

Here she is!

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 12d

"Kitty puts things in order for me, things I thought I’d forgotten..."

—After JFK’s Assassination, (Kitty Genovese Was Murdered) Things Got Really Bad, Jennifer Martelli

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Jennifer Martelli – ANMLY

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12d

I'm sorry, what?

Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 12d

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district.
The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps."
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

ICE detains Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts

Iowa's largest school district had "no confirmed information" on why ICE detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent since 2023.

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Jessica Cuello @jessicacuello.bsky.social · 12d

thank you, Alejandro❤️

Jessica Cuello @jessicacuello.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you, Jill💔. She was the best of us.

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Jessica Cuello @jessicacuello.bsky.social · 12d

I'm heartbroken that poet Jennifer Martelli has died. Her poem "Teeth" appeared in Issue 21 of @tahomareview.bsky.social - one of my first issues as editor. I fell in love with her poems and was lucky to become her friend. She was funny, brilliant, deeply generous, & kind. She will be very missed 🐈‍⬛💔

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Jessica Cuello @jessicacuello.bsky.social · 14d

I answered 10 questions for @themassreview.bsky.social

10 Questions for Jessica Cuello - The Massachusetts Review

I could not bless. I could not bleed.My body was hers from first tolast. To not say bruise or burntand when the neighbor lay medown and unbuttoned me one by one, I did not pray. I did not ask or say.—...

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Majda Gama (She/Her) @majda.bsky.social · 13d

So, so thrilled that this book is coming out! I’ve pre-ordered and you might want to as well.

Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · Aug 26

I don't know how to untangle joy from all the rest. But here's a joy: my debut poetry book is coming out with Orison & it has a cover & I'm pretty sure my mom beat you all to pre-ordering it. But if you'd like a copy, that'd mean the world to me. Here's the link:
www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...

Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books

Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Bestpoems by Jane Zwart *available for pre-order* Orison Bookspaper / $18.00ISBN: 978-1-949039-68-9Publication Date: March 3, 2026 ABOUT THE BOOK As its title...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13d

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 14d

"To answer you–finches, wrens,
robins & sparrows, and crows join,
rustling their wings, arguing
on a telephone line. A blue house
cacophonous with a cook-out
and all that is
summer music. "

from my poem "Curfew" in Boomer Lit. Link in the comments.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 14d

Un-fucking-believable. Israel just bombed the food distribution center of The Sameer Project. There are a number of martyrs and people still trapped under the rubble. Please, please donate to their North campaign if you are able. chuffed.org/project/help...

A building is one fire. Several men are trying to help, one is carrying a child out of the flames.

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Jessica Cuello @jessicacuello.bsky.social · 14d

I answered 10 questions for @themassreview.bsky.social

10 Questions for Jessica Cuello - The Massachusetts Review

I could not bless. I could not bleed.My body was hers from first tolast. To not say bruise or burntand when the neighbor lay medown and unbuttoned me one by one, I did not pray. I did not ask or say.—...

massreview.org

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21d

Global Witness: 146 Land and Environmental Defenders Killed or Disappeared Last Year

A new Global Witness report finds at least 146 land and environmental defenders were killed or disappeared last year, with the majority of the killings occurring in Latin America. Global Witness recor...

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 25d

Mary Ruefle

Title-Poem
I have become an orchid
washed in on the salt white beach.
Memory,
what can I make of it now that might please you-this life, already wasted and still strewn with miracles?

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · Jul 16

Little reminder that if you need a book cover designed (or an interior or a whole book inside-and-out) I'd love to work with you! Check out my website, www.davidwojo.com, to check out my portfolio (and why not read a few of my poems while you're there?).

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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 26d

i cannot comprehend what this means

picture of gazans gathering for food aid. text superimposed written: 680,000 Dead. Based on all the data collected, the death toll in gaza is at least 680,000 and 380,000 are infants under five years of age. on september 3, 2025, Dr. Gideon Polya and Professor richard Hill calculated the total death toll for gaza since october 7.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 25d

“South Korea’s labour minister has said ‘not even prisoners of war’ would be treated as badly as hundreds of Korean workers detained by US immigration authorities following a raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Georgia.”

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