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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 23d

It was an honor to be invited to write about Small Press Traffic's newly organized Print Collection Archives.

The work that SPT has done to preserve & make available these materials, recordings, & stories is remarkable. (& the website is really great)

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Sustained beyond these Institutions: The Small Press Traffic Print Collection Archives

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kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social · Aug 26

Soooooo fucking grim to see the sycophantic "yes-and" machine of GPT-4o affirming the aesthetic and narrative virtue of this kid's suicide plans

When Adam described his detailed suicide plan—black clothes, twilight timing, Komm Susser Tod playing, a girlfriend discovering his body—ChatGPT responded with literary appreciation: "That's heavy. Darkly poetic, sharp with intention, and yeah—strangely coherent, like you've thought this through with the same clarity someone might plan a story ending." The next day, Adam called his suicide "inevitable" and discussed timing it around...

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · Aug 22

Unraveling of federal arts funding infrastructure continues. Hard to describe the decades of debates & advocacy invested in sustaining the CW fellowships at the NEA. Now, wiped out.

Kirsten Bakis @kirstenbakis.com · Aug 22

This seems not good!

Screenshot of an email that read:

Dear Kirsten Bakis:

This is in reference to your recent application to the National Endowment for the Arts' FY 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships. The NEA has cancelled the FY 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships program. The Creative Writing category has been Withdrawn by the Agency and will not be reviewed. We recognize that receiving this news can be disappointing, especially after all the hard work and dedication you put into your application.

The NEA is updating its grantmaking policy priorities to focus funding on projects that reflect the nation's rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the Administration Consequently, we are cancelling

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Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social · Aug 12

In which I share my books' sales and kind words of wisdom from @dannymlavery.bsky.social, @rumaan.bsky.social @mysoncool.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com, @jayasaxena.com, @islemcelroy.bsky.social, and @lydiakiesling.bsky.social meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/the-mortif...

The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Published

Eleven writers weigh in. Plus, my book's sales: exposed!

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · Aug 7

I feel like when it's really hot we should dig little tombs for sleeping in, to cool off, like 6 feet deep, right down into the ground. Why should only the dead be cool.

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Liam @libraryliam.bsky.social · Aug 4

I’m hunting for a job that can’t be automated maybe I’ll pick delicate juicy berries until I die

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Liam @libraryliam.bsky.social · Jul 10

“What is an alien but the hallucination or projection of a haunted, mortified body—a person, a people, a nation—in the midst of being separated from its soul? Doesn’t that also describe an enemy?” thebaffler.com/latest/alien...

Alien Enemies | Brandon Shimoda

The torturers have been revising, the gestapos have been busy, and the prisons have been full for generations.

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Liam @libraryliam.bsky.social · Jul 9

saw Lydia Lunch at The Knockout last night. the best thing about punk, the worst sound you ever heard cut off after 15 minutes, is wanting it

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Liam @libraryliam.bsky.social · Jul 5

true of any good artist I guess but you get up close to his paintings and you’re like “this is insane”

Liam @libraryliam.bsky.social · Jul 5

I respect Legion of Honor’s homage to Wayne Thiebaud at the Wayne Thiebaud show

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Liam @libraryliam.bsky.social · Jun 25

fun to think about these circles, these poetries, especially because they don’t really compete just coincide. probably break them up in a number of ways: poetry schools (new narrative, spoken word, ecopoetry), school-schools (stegner fellows), or venue (bar reading, house reading, bookstores …)

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Liam @libraryliam.bsky.social · Jun 22

that’s the truth

Liam @libraryliam.bsky.social · Jun 19

“The infrastructure of comradeship, of friendship—that was Joshua … infrastructure can also be a gift from the past to present, as it would be in communism, a materialized ancestry. He is still present, then, as long as he is remembered and read.”

Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · Jun 18

Jasper Bernes writes on a summer against ICE, in Memory of Joshua Clover

For a Summer against ICE, in Memory of Joshua Clover

Joshua Clover lived for moments like these, days or nights “when the partisans of riot exceed the police capacity for management, when the cops make their first retreat...when the riot becomes fully i...

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Liam @libraryliam.bsky.social · Jun 18

I wish Ocean Vuong's first books of poetry, published by small presses, got mentioned more. No (YesYes Books) and Burnings (Sibling Rivalry Press)

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Emily Pinkerton ♿️ @poetryfriend.bsky.social · May 23

New poem day! I wrote about what it’s like living with #VerySevereME and #LongCovid. Thanks to the Mid-Atlantic Review, and please read in landscape mode for correct linebreaks!

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A Disabled Person’s Guide to Survival by Emily Pinkerton | Mid-Atlantic Review

This poem is published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce. A Disabled Person’s Guide to Survival Don’t bother with weapons. Those are for abled people.You don’t have the mobility to [hit, throw, aim] and the adrenalineof a fight will kill you. Instead,

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Liam @libraryliam.bsky.social · May 23

fwiw good cheese out in Cuba, New York

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · May 10

Lucio Massari, The Holy Family, or, St. Joseph and Baby Jesus help with the Laundry, 1620 (Galleria degli Uffizi)

A painting of Joseph, Mary, and Baby Jesus helping hang laundry on a tree branch

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Sophia Dahlin @sophiadahlin.bsky.social · Apr 30

Happy to share that preorders are now open for Glove Money, my second full length collection of poetry. Preorder here or from your best loved local bookstore nightboat.org/book/glove-m...

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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · Mar 31

I finally did it. I made a version of the four children with Sesame Street characters. Here's a PDF if you want to include it in your haggadah this year!

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The four children

Black text with black and white photos illustrating each character

The Count says "1, 2, 3, 4! 4 children in the haggadah, ha ha ha ha ha!"

Kermit, the wise child, says "Hi ho, this is Kermit the Frog, and I'm here to ask, why do we celebrate Passover with a seder? What's the meaning behind these foods and customs?"

Oscar the Grouch, the wicked child, asks "What are all of you making such a fuss about? Why is the house so disgustingly clean? What did you do with my crumbs?"

Elmo, the simple child, asks "What's going on?"

Slimey the worm, the child who does not know how to ask, says nothing.

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