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Joseph Dante

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Writer and instructor living in FL. 🐈‍⬛ ✍️ 📚 🎮 🏳️‍🌈 http://josephdante.com

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Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Dec 8

My latest publication is a lyric essay, which was selectable as Notable for Best American Essays 2024. You can read it online here: salamandermag.org/if-men-had-w...

If Men Had Wings – Salamander Magazine

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Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 2d

"her memory is a cloud she can't hold..."

Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.

(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)

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Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 3d

All these incredibly short windows for open submissions.

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Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 6d

Tired of this vessel.

Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 8d

Take my poems!!!! Now!!!!!!!

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 9d

It's the end of The Best American Poetry.

I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.

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Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector

When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

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Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 11d

These past two months have been exhausting, physically and emotionally. I hope you’re well.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 17d

I think about this poem all the time

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 22d

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

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Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · 22d

Trying, desperately, to stay sane and hold on to any iota of joy I can find.

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 27d

Charles Simic

CLOUDS GATHERING
It seemed the kind of life we wanted.
Wild strawberries and cream in the morning.
Sunlight in every room.
The two of us walking by the sea naked.
Some evenings, however, we found ourselves Unsure of what comes next.
Like tragic actors in a theater on fire, With birds circling over our heads, The dark pines strangely still,
Each rock we stepped on bloodied by the sunset.
We were back on our terrace sipping wine.
Why always this hint of an unhappy ending?
Clouds of almost human appearance
Gathering on the horizon, but the rest lovely With the air so mild and the sea untroubled.
The night suddenly upon us, a starless night.
You lighting a candle, carrying it naked Into our bedroom and blowing it out quickly.
The dark pines and grasses strangely still.

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Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Aug 23

Poets 🤝 the word “wound”

Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Aug 20

I know I’m depressed when writing feels useless.

Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Aug 1

Is every poem a love poem or an elegy?

Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Jul 27

Brigit Pegeen Kelly forever.

Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Jul 26

Now that I can read, but my brain always breaks with the stylized version 🥴

Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Jul 26

Still don’t know how to say her name 😔

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Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Jul 25

Do we laugh or cry? Yes.

Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Jul 24

Happy birthday!!

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Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Jul 24

I’d LOVE to not grade. But then most of my students wouldn’t do anything. I have to attach a grade to everything. 😒

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Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Jul 23

Me, an edgy teen in the early 00s: lol you can say anything online and just get away with it xD

Me, now, radioing the police: People are literally saying anything online and getting away with it!!!!!!! 🚨 🚨

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Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Jul 21

Things have become so homogenized so quickly! I am not here for it.

Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Jul 21

Tired of hearing/reading “impactful.” Do not use that AI-speak around me or in meetings.

Joseph Dante @josephdante.bsky.social · Jul 17

This was nice to read today. Wishing you both well.

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