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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 8d

The new book by @luaz.bsky.social is almost here

Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social · 8d

Preorder now: the first full collection from Kyla Houbolt asterismbooks.com/product/beco...

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 6h

I might be wrong. I’ll ask folks with clearer memories

Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, lyrics. I mean, Bob Dylan is still with us

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 6h

Frequent performer at Postcrypt iirc

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 6h

Had another tomatothon just now

aon tomato, dà thomato, tri tomatothan
one tomato, two tomatoes, three tomatoes

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🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 7h

This week’s #Poet in #Mexico moves in different directions. ¿Día de Muertos? Yom Kippur? That close. Abrázame mis amores.

The essence of it is this: On whose shoulders do you stand? Or, who are you because?

#Poetry from Jordan Davis! ¡Calaveras mariachi! ¡Baile!

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Get It Done: Remembrance as Absence, Presence, Resistance

And Poems by Jordan Davis

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 8h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 7h

Many thanks to @markstatman.bsky.social for including some seasonally appropriate poems of mine in a new post on his Substack open.substack.com/pub/markstat...

THREE JEWISH POEMS
He walks down Eastern
Parkway, tallit katan
under his t-shirt

The fringe hanging
over his Adidas tracksuit
makes a fourth stripe

It meets the fourth bar
of the tefillin shin
halfway

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 7h

Also, Paro?

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 10h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Bird @hatulimyafim.bsky.social · 12h

Coworker said, "you can't just take off every Jewish holiday, they can't all be this important" and in that moment I became a Halakhic scholar.

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K. Liakos @kliakos.com · 8h

America 2025:

The facade of a store in a Delaware strip mall called its fashion but the lights on the o n and exclamation point are out so it says it’s fashi

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 10h

Did I say I was reading tomorrow? I’m reading *next* Thursday

OVERHEAR
10.16.2025 THURSDAY 6:15PM
DOUGLASS ROTHSCHILD
DON YORTY
JORDAN DAVIS
ANNA GURTON-WACHTER
LOFTY PIGEON BOOKS
743 CHURCH AVE, BROOKLYN
HOSTED BY BRENDAN LORBER + JOE ELLIOT
FINAL READING AT LOFTY PIGEON
BEFORE MOVING TO OUR NEW HOME!

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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 2d

Chag sameach!

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 2d

Only played this one once. That’s on me music.apple.com/us/album/nim...

Nimueshtaten nete by Kanen & Louis-Jean Cormier on Apple Music

Song · 2022 · Duration 4:00

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 2d

Played this three times in a row just now. I’ll play it again some more on Thursday, most likely music.apple.com/us/album/e-w...

E Witaman by Régis Niquay on Apple Music

Song · 2019 · Duration 4:27

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 2d

Take the Obama path. What’s the worst that can happen

Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 2d

Writing is seventh, right after publishing other writers

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 2d

The 501(c)(3) I keep mentioning here not only documents misbehaviour by government lawyers, but also celebrates government lawyers like Elizabeth Yusi, who are defending the rule of law while facing pressure from their superiors!
If you are a lawyer/law student and want to help, DM me.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking MSNBC:

A top prosecutor in Virginia has informed colleagues she plans to decline to seek charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James — resisting intense pressure from Trump, according to two people familiar with her discussions. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Top prosecutor is rejecting Trump pressure to charge New York AG

A key federal prosecutor in Virginia, where James Comey was indicted, is resisting bringing charges against Letitia James.

www.msnbc.com

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Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Yet another poll finding the same thing polls have found for months: 66% of Israelis want to end the war, 69% think Netanyahu should resign either now or after the war. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 2d

I truly have to be more chill about acquiring new books for the near future, and mainly I have been, but I *need* this book

Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 2d

Truly think this volume is great, and I can’t wait for you to read it!

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 3d

*Best* discourse has me looking for my notes from Mary Mothersill’s class.

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 2d

“Dog Yoga, please hold”

Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 2d

Fame yoga, mastery pose

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 2d

“If you only purchase one chapbook in 2025, order COPIUM by Nada Gordon.”

rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 2d

De Villo Sloan reviews Nada Gordon's COPIUM (above/ground press 2025) / @nadagordon.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/de-v...

De Villo Sloan reviews Nada Gordon's COPIUM (2025) is reviewed at Asemic Front 2

De Villo Sloan was good enough to provide a first review of Nada Gordon's COPIUM (2025) over at Asemic Front 2 . Thanks so much! You can r...

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 2d

You loved “Wallace Stevens, but more interesting and likable”

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 2d

Send in yer poems!

Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 2d

MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 is now open for entries in both categories:
The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines
The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines
Deadline 31 January 2026
This year's judge is Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social
Good luck!
magmapoetry.com/competition/

Magma Poetry Competition - Magma Poetry

MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 is now open for entries in both categories The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines De...

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