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Kyla Houbolt

@luaz.bsky.social

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I write poems and I garden. *Becoming Altar*, new and selected poems, coming from Subpress Collective Nov. 2025 https://kylahoubolt.us My most recent collection here: https://cccpchapbooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-ghost-of-it-by-kyla-houbolt

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 8d

#Poetry
Here it is, folks! If you preorder, good things will surely follow. (Or, a book, at any rate.)
Thank you thank you thank you!
🎶💯👀🤩☄️

Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social · 8d

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

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lisamims.bsky.social @lisamims.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks to the BlueSky poets I have read and written more poetry than I have since my childhood in San Antonio, where Naomi Nye’s poetry classes were an event. #poetry

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 18h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 1h

Me too except when it's 3. 😑

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 3h

Well, a few years ago, I printed up individual poems and pinned them to trees in a local park. (I took them down after a while, no litterer I.)

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Eniko Deptuch Vaghy 🪞🦌 @persepheni.bsky.social · 6h

Weather is a texture

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 6h

Ah, I thought it might be that one! 💜

Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 9h

🌱 Here's another hodge podge splatter of random-seeming garden self-designed flowers, flora

By a brick wall: a spray of tiny white weedy aster flowers, on the right a white cosmos with a smaller pink one above and behind it. On the left, two tangerine-orange zinnias with vosmos foliage above amd partially obscuring their faces. A mix of weedy growth filling in below.

Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 10h

🌱 Good morning

A brick corner. A monarda seed head, a pale pink cosmos flower above it, on the sunlit side. Directly in front of the corner, a sprig of bright red cardinal flower. To the left, on the shaded side, fading cosmos foliage and beneath that, a light orange cosmos flower, some petals missing. A tiny yellow flower in the lowest corner of the image. Part of a dry brown oak leaf on the lower right.

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 10h

Ancient Chinese poetry therapy

Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social · 5d

Medieval techniques to preserve mental health? Sage advice here (and a wonderfully written post).

"Tao seemed forever struggling with the dilemma between living freely but poorly and working in the government but unhappily. Besides resorting to alcohol, Tao dealt with such struggles with poetry."

The Rise of Poetry Therapy in Eleventh Century China

How did literati manage their mental health in middle period China? Melancholy, depression, and down moods were as common among them as among us today. In the absence of antidepressants and therapists...

www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 15h

Crimes being committed.

A photo of Gustave the tabby kitten climbing up a screen door designed to keep him out of a room. He is clinging onto the top with his claws.

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 13h

Charles Earl Boles was an 1870s American stagecoach robber who left poems at his crime scenes, signing them “Black Bart”. One verse was:

I’ve labored long and hard for bread,
For honor, and for riches,
But on my corns too long you’ve tread,
You fine-haired sons of bitches.

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 12h

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 16h

What's the book??

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20h

"Dozens of rare Jewish religious books, some believed to have belonged to the legendary Library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva, were recently discovered in the basement of a Jewish-owned building near the Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw." www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world...

Rare pre-Holocaust Jewish books found in Warsaw basement

Books bearing stamps from the legendary Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva—lost during the Holocaust—were found in poor condition in Warsaw; Polish experts are working to preserve the mold- and fungus-damaged te...

www.ynetnews.com

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 16h

Yow. I do hope you get real help soon, and over this whatever-it-is. 💙

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 1d

❤️

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 1d

Halie Theoharides

We tell ourselves a myth
We wait for a bigger entity
Some casual proof
To descend without trumpets
Before we’re let out
Into the big diorama of
Whatever things
Are sort of safe

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 1d

😂 Definitely demonic.

Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 1d

Not at all! But I do hope it isn't always like that. Now goat yoga, on the other hand.... Maybe you should check that out next. 🤪

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe they were just having a bad day?

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Ecosystem Restoration Communities @erc-earth.bsky.social · 1d

A century of coal mining left Appalachia's forests devastated. Compacted soil. Invasive ground cover. And here's the problem most people miss: standard reforestation methods are failing. Fast-growing trees can't survive these conditions. So what works? 🧵

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 1d

yes i am crying!

(by plumesofficiel)

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Shaindel Beers @shaindelr.bsky.social · 2d

An AI horror story: A friend's daughter left her phone on the roof of her car and drove off. Because of the rate of speed and the phone falling off the roof of the car, my friend got an automated text from her daughter's phone that her daughter had been in a car accident.

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 2d

“Every work of art must have about it something not understood to obtain its full effect.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 2d

autumnally-aspirational wardrobe aquisition: new-to-me purple cargo corduroy drawstring trousers. waiting for the rain that will free up the fall weather…

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 2d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : James Bradley: Necessary, by David Harrison Horton / @unionherald.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/jame...

James Bradley: Necessary, by David Harrison Horton

Necessary , David Harrison Horton Downingfield Press, 2025 Necessary , David Harrison Horton’s most recent publication, is str...

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