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Rebecca Hart Olander

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Poet: Singing from the Deep End (2026) & Uncertain Acrobats (2021) @cavankerrypress.bsky.social * Editor/Director: @perugiapress.bsky.social * writing teacher * mother * adorer of the Atlantic 🌊 * she/her https://linktr.ee/rholanderpoet

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Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social · 6d

So happy to share the cover of SINGING FROM THE DEEP END, coming from CavanKerry Press 2/3/26! Singing praises & gratitude to the @cavankerrypress.bsky.social team for making this book with me in such a beautiful way. 20% off till 11/2 (link in bio). Deep ♥️ & thanks to all who support/ed this book.

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 11h

Brava to the Last Syllable Book Award finalists, including Holli Carrell for Apostasies & Joan Kwon Glass for making the longlist for Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms! Thanks for honoring us in such great company, @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social! 🌟📚🎉 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @joankwonglass.bsky.social

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Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social · 14h

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Aw, thanks, Han! 🥰♥️😘

Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my, it’s GORGEOUS! I hadn’t realized that. You are a wonder. And thank you for your kindness re: my book! So looking forward to yours. 💞

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Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social · 1d

October beach reading: Abby E. Murray’s RECOVERY COMMANDS (Ex Ophidia Press, 2025). Here are two poems and an excerpt. And Abby writes in their final poem “If Humans Are Hopeless”: “How do we explain music? Or muppets? / And what about ofrendas in October…” 🎶🧡🌊 www.exophidiapress.org/books/recove...

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 1d

Joan Kwon Glass shared her thoughts on working with Perugia as her book Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms celebrated its 1st birthday this fall. Thanks, Joan! Our contest is open till 11/15 to emerging women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities. Info in Linktree. @joankwonglass.bsky.social

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Torch Literary Arts @torchliteraryarts.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Torch Features Patricia Smith and Tiana Clark, and all of the finalists longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry!

See Tiana Clark and Donika Kelly at the Torch events at the Texas Book Festival in November!

Details at TorchLiteraryArts.org

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Abby E. Murray on their Best of the Net nomination from Sheila-Na-Gig, and to all the honorees! 🌟🎉

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Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social · 2d

This is so kind - love y’all back ♥️💞♥️💞♥️💞 (why is there neither a barn nor a river emoji??)

Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations & thanks for reminder - just ordered mine! Love the title and the cover is stunning. ♥️

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you to Westover School for hosting Joan Kwon Glass as a visiting poet. Joan presented a workshop as well as an all-community reading, and it was a powerful experience for all. We’re so grateful to see Joan’s work and her Perugia book embraced in this way. ♥️📚♥️ @joankwonglass.bsky.social

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 2d

The WriteAngles Conference, organized by our friends at Straw Dog Writers, is coming up on 10/18 at Greenfield Community College! It features a keynote by Franny Choi, workshops, panels, an open mic & more. Perugia’s own Gail Thomas will present on publishing for poets. 📝📚🎤 @gthomaspoet.bsky.social

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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 6d

Good afternoon and Happy National Poetry Day! This is the very first post from Poets for the Planet here on Bluesky. We are very glad to be here. To start us off here's Wendell Berry's classic, The Peace of Wild Things #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry, A Poetry Film by Charlotte Ager & Katy Wang

YouTube video by The On Being Project

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Jenifer Lawrence @jenblaw.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you @perugiapress.bsky.social and @rholanderpoet.bsky.social for sharing one of my poems for a writing prompt today!

Women Poets, send your manuscript to Perugia Press thru Nov. 15! They publish 1st & 2nd books, and take good care of their poets forever 💗
#poetry #WritingCommunity #prompt

Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GRAYLING by Jenifer Browne Lawrence. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions and check out Lawrence’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @jenblaw.bsky.social

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 5d

Joan Kwon Glass is offering a FREE poetry workshop on 10/20 through the Connecticut Poetry Society. Check out link for more info on this “Poets on Poetry” offering! 📝📖📚 @joankwonglass.bsky.social ctpoetry.org/events/?fbcl...

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 6d

“Trump isn’t a doctor, but he plays one for power — spreading false claims about autism, vaccines, and medicine to build his own ‘truth’ empire.”
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Trump’s Fake Science: How Acetaminophen Lies Reveal His Authoritarian Playbook

From autism myths to Truth Social, Trump uses fear, disinformation, and “common sense” to replace experts with himself.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 5d

“next thing she / knew, her husband was appointed bishop, / locking her into weeknights at church, / more casserole deliveries, / nine relatives flying in for her / daughter’s baptism.” —Marianne Kunkel, “Apostate Abecedarian”

APOSTATE ABECEDARIAN. A sociology professor told my cousin Break a rule in a public setting. Cappuccino in hand, my cousin plopped down in the front pew of a Mormon chapel. Everyone turned when she slurped. Filthier than coffee, according to Mormon gospel, is immodesty—how my sister looked wearing pants instead of a dress to church. Simple, silky jade bell bottoms, and next thing she knew, her husband was appointed bishop, locking her into weeknights at church, more casserole deliveries, nine relatives flying in for her

daughter’s baptism. Over my dead body, my sister persisted, resisting the baptism after quietly reading that the Mormon founder raped his seven underage wives. Seventeen years young, I left the church too timidly—shoved my Book of Mormon under my bed, ghosted old friends. Voicing anger came later: I studied Wollstonecraft and hooks, heard X and Bikini Kill, bought a When there are 9 t-shirt. You who rage inside church walls, giving zero fucks if it’s polite, I worship you. Marianne Kunkel

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 5d

Um, didn't Depeche Mode write a song about this?

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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 5d

“We are not butterflies frozen under glass, we know,
but you curse this stage of womanhood: the body’s leaks
and liabilities now vexing and bloody,
its calendar now off-kilter with the moon,”

From “Nocturne for Elise” by Sarah Giragosian in ISSUE 27!

Sarah Giragosian "Nocturne for Elise" — THE SHORE

POETRY

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 6d

Rebecca Pelky will be reading in a creative writing alumni event at Northern Michigan University on October 9 at 6:30pm with Sarah Helen Bates, Krys Malcolm Belc, and Lisa Fay Coutley in the Peter White Public Library. 🌟🌟🌟🌟 @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social

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