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Jared Beloff
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teacher, poet, father, husband | WHO WILL CRADLE YOUR HEAD (ELJ 2023) | Ed. POETS OF QUEENS 2 | EIC of @porcupinelit.bksy.social | Co-Founder of monthly reading series and poetry community get togethers, @notatawp.bsky.social

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Collecting Garbage Pail Kids
Donkey Nose Pizza
January 9, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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My winter break in one image:
Plague doctor
December 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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New library haul!
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, The Odyssey, The Intentions of Thunder, Startlement, The Naming of the Birds.
December 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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December 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Its the final night of Hanukkah and it's the rule that anyone who has any of my Jewish poems must send me a verdict.
Hershel of Ostropol facing the Goblin King on the 8th night of Hanukkah...also me looking at the form letters coming to haunt me after the holidays.
December 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Every time!

Very much this right now.
Boyfriend (me) looking at the other girl (my new ms) while girlfriend (my finished me) looks on in disgust.
December 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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I started using Brick and I really like it.
Physical devise used to lock and unlock your phone Screen shown when you attempt to open your blocked apps while bricked: "this is a distraction your phone is currently bricked. To access app tap your brick"
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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New Hanukkah ritual unlocked: making Zines together after lighting candles.
Things to Consider While Looking at Art on Your Phone Screen. 9yo making a zine about why books are important. Black cast iron menorah on the second night of Hanukkah.
December 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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I found it...the perfect sweater.
Spock and Kirk playing Driedel on a blue ugly sweater filled with Jewish Stars...
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Two years in a row...
Your top album (from Spotify Wrap) is Interstellar by Hans Zimmer.
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Tomorrow is December. Only two weeks until Hanukkah! NAWP is hosting our 3rd annual Hanukkah reading with 22 Jewish poets (we know, it isn't chai, but we have some great readers!)

Please join us!

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From Darkness to Light, Poetry in Celebration of Hanukkah: a list of 22 poets! Jared Beloff Rosebud Ben-Oni Robin Rosen Chang Moriah Cohen David Ebenbach Sarah Etlinger H.E. Fisher Elisheva Fox Josette Akresh-Gonzales Jared Harél Carlie Hoffmann Julia Kolchinsky Maud Lavin Arden Levine Mordecai Martin Erika Meitner Lynn Melnick Richard Newman Hila Ratzabi Jason Schneiderman Sean Singer Yerra Sugarman
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Cover of The Hounding by Zenobe Purvis. The background is a field. In the foreground are three thin sizeable dogs.
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The painting my student made 20 years ago. I bought it from the art gallery that showcased it and have it in my classroom
A pastel watercolor of sharks in a rainbow ocean.
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Look at this political cartoon my student made based on Hamlet!
A political cartoon of Hamlet mourning his father while Claudius and Gwrtrude get married.
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Yes, beards are great.
spock with a goatee
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Your last meme is your moral philosophy.
Rabbit with a walkie talkie saying wtf over.
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Perfect album that cam out when I was sixteen.
Album cover for Pearl Jam's Yield. It has a road that stretches to the horizon and a yield sign next to it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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This is tomorrow night!

Register here to see @victoriawrites.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @toosiewatson.bsky.social

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A NAWP reading with Victoria Buitron, Taylor Byas ans Daniella Toosie Watson. Nov. 17th 7 to 8pm EST
November 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Brad, go primary Schumer! We are with you!
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Schumer saying I voted
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for the Senate Brad Lander for the Senate
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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In case you want AOC for 2028.
"Brad Lander for the Senate" in a Zohran Mamdani style poster
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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When are the primaries?
Zohran Mamdani style sign of blue background and gold letters: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for the Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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So I appreciate his work and books, but it is strange that he is claiming a "we" here while living in self chosen exile / expatriation.
Timothy Snyder post stating "this is not the country we should be" in response to news about ICE detention center abuses.
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM