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Carlos A. Pittella @pittella.bsky.social · 18h

Since @hanvanderhart.bsky.social suggested the dad, I’ll shoutout Franz, the son ☺️:

“and I am the rain

and the others all
around you, and the loneliness you love”

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47565/...

To Myself

I’m the interminable fields you can’t see, the little lights off in the distance (in one of those rooms we are living) and I am the rain and the others all around you, and the loneliness you love, and...

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Carlos A. Pittella @pittella.bsky.social · 18h

Since @hanvanderhart.bsky.social suggested the dad, I’ll shoutout Franz, the son ☺️:

“and I am the rain

and the others all
around you, and the loneliness you love”

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47565/...

To Myself

I’m the interminable fields you can’t see, the little lights off in the distance (in one of those rooms we are living) and I am the rain and the others all around you, and the loneliness you love, and...

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Assisted Lab @assistedlab.bsky.social · 6d

Gina Montaner, a well-known journalist, recounts how her father sought an assisted death in her memoir 'Deséenme un buen viaje', a personal account of the intricacies of the new Spanish euthanasia law.

For an analysis of the book's impact by @pittella.bsky.social see

assistedlab.ch/textual/dese...

'Deséenme un buen viaje' by Gina Montaner

The memoir recounts Carlos Montaner's fight for democratization in Cuba and for the right to access legal euthanasia in Spain.

assistedlab.ch

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 8d

Noah Falck & Matt McBride

the entire world stopped

to listen to the slow whisper
of every boat being swallowed by the ocean

we forget, sometimes, what
we are sorry for

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 8d

W. S. Merwin

Invocation

The day hanging by its feet with a hole
In its voice
And the light running into the sand

Here I am once again with my dry mouth
At the fountain of thistles
Preparing to sing.

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Anthony Frame @anthonyframe.bsky.social · 9d

Tell your friends!

Or tell that file in your documents, you know the one, the one you never tell anyone about, called X-Files Poems or What Kind of World Will We Leave for Keith Richards: Poems, or Everything Was Great Until I Watched A Quiet Place 2.

You know I like the weird manuscripts 😬

Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 9d

psst....

we open for chapbook submissions in two days (October 1).

www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

Submissions Guidelines | Glass Poetry Press

www.glass-poetry.com

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 10d

Ouyang Jianghe, tr. Austin Woerner

4

We in our sleep have invented birds,
invented song, invented pure
white feathers. But birds
are just the party line on flight:
the bat has no residence in light, his sky
is an underground sky, lower than the visibility
provided by a guttering candle.
Extinguish sight: ash rises in peaceful spirals.

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Carlos A. Pittella @pittella.bsky.social · 13d

Also, "to[o] busy" to proof their cover, hmm? 😉

Carlos A. Pittella @pittella.bsky.social · 13d

I say publish it (on a slog day) but don’t tell them just to see if they actually read it… 😈

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 15d

Go buy Mexicans on the Moon. It's a wonderful collection.

Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social · 15d

Happy to announce that my poem "Perish and Live Forever," which first appeared in MEXICANS ON THE MOON, has just won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social 's Dwarf Star Award for poetry. This award is for best micro poem of 10 lines or less. Many thanks to members who voted. It is a big honor. Much love!

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 16d

I think about this poem all the time

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 15d

two tiny poems up on HAD today! ❤️☠️

HAD @havehashad.com · 15d

🚨 new Benjamin Niespodziany day! two amazing new shorties!! 🚨

"The magician looks the other way when he removes his first foot.

The butcher cooks the bear meat he captured in his pasture.

The executioner refuses to remove his mask..."

https://www.havehashad.com/vr767

Two Poems by Benjamin Niespodziany

The Five Rings The magician looks the other way when he removes his first foot. The butcher cooks the bear meat he captured in his pasture. The executioner refuses to remove his mask. The blacksmith…

www.havehashad.com

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Assisted Lab @assistedlab.bsky.social · 16d

'TI SI WHAT TI SI', Paola Roldán's memoir about living with ALS, influenced the legalization of euthanasia in Ecuador in 2024.

For an analysis of the book's role in law-making by @pittella.bsky.social see

assistedlab.ch/textual/ti-s...

'TI SI WHAT TI SI' by Paola Roldán

Narrating her journey of self-discovery and of living with ALS, Roldán's spiritual memoir helped promote her plea for self-determination in Ecuador.

assistedlab.ch

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Patrick Ziselberger @ziselberger.com · Aug 31

#Smallpoemsunday

I just memorized this one, because I liked it so much.

Te Deum
by Charles Reznikoff

Not because of victories
I sing,
having none,
but for the common sunshine,
the breeze,
the largess of the spring.

Not for victory
but for the day's work done
as well as I was able;
not for a seat upon the dais
but at the common table.

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Aug 31

You know when you write poetry you find […]

some glue for the heart

Joanne Kyger

You know when you write poetry you find
the architecture
of your lineage your teachers
like Robert Duncan for me gave me some glue for the heart Beats which gave confidence and competition
to the Images of Pertection
... or as dinner approaches I become hasty do I mean PERFECTION?

SEPTEMBER 17, 1986

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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · Aug 18

Zeina Hashem Peck

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · Aug 18

Status Update: We've accepted 38 poems by 26 poets for our winter issue and are looking for more work! Each issue of Shō typically features 40-50 poets.

• Send 3-5 unpublished poems
• Submissions close August 31
• We respond to all submissions in 30 days or less

shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

Pastel yellow/orange backgrounded black text on dark purplish background. Text reads:

Join these poets in Shō No 8 Winter Issue

Sean Cho A.
Elisa Luna Ady
Apollo Chastain
Carlos Andrés Gómez
Iain Grinbergs
Shira Haus
Aiman Tahir Khan
Sophie Klahr
Elizabeth Loudon
Betsy Mitchell Martinez
Rebecca Morton
Lisa Mottolo
James O’Leary
Konstantinos Patrinos

Ngoc Pham
Jessica Nirvana Ram
Jemma Leigh Roe
Adrie Rose
SM Stubbs
Virgil Suárez
Tiezst Taylor
Reed Turchi
Margaret Wack
Joey Wańczyk
Gwenyth Wheat
Yan Zhang

Submit: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com
Submissions close August 31

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Ellissa @ellissa.bsky.social · Aug 17

#dailyhaikuprompt (decay) #haiku #poem #poetry #blueskypoetry #mushroom #fungus #recycling #rebirth

Forest fungus
Feasting on dead wood
The beauty of decay

Dark purple complex mushroom/fungus, growing on dead wood

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Aug 17

Diane Wakoski

What happened?
How was I born to worry so much
about the possibilities
of loneliness?

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Carlos A. Pittella @pittella.bsky.social · Aug 16

Brazilians have no idea what time it is… & Carioca Brazilians don’t even believe in time 🙃

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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · Aug 15

Harryette Mullen with the perfect summertime poem

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Carlos A. Pittella @pittella.bsky.social · Aug 12

Love this episode & the show (best thing about Mondays)! 💙

On mRNA vaccines: they are not currently used for the flu vax (though they may one day). The first approved mRNA vaxes were for Covid—& 2 of the amazing researchers that made them possible got the 2023 Nobel (to the chagrin of RFK Jr.)

Carlos A. Pittella @pittella.bsky.social · Aug 9

This “Well, Carmen” volta absolutely made my day 😆

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · Aug 9

Beth Ann Fennelly

Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding

You ask me for a poem about love
in place of a wedding present, trying to save me
money. For three nights I've lain
under glow-in-the-dark-stars I've stuck to the ceiling
over my bed. I've listened to the songs
of the galaxy. Well, Carmen, I would rather
give you your third set of steak knives
than tell you what I know. Let me find you
some other, store-bought present. Don't
make me warn you of stars, how they see us
from that distance as miniature and breakable
from the bride who tops the wedding cake
to the Mary on Pinto dashboards
holding her ripe, red heart in her hands.

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