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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 1d

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), “Untitled (Celestial Fantasy with Tamara Toumanova)” (early 1940s), collage and tempera on paperboard, 96.8 x 125.7 cm.

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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 18d

my mom is out of the halfway house and needs some cash to get on her feet in her new living situation. she already has a job. for those who don’t know, she got out of jail pretty recently and was facing deportation this summer. the goal is $2000.

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 18d

just sent one out about the end of dawson's creek, contrasting it with riverdale, substack.com/home/post/p-... :)

the end of dawson's creek sucks

long live riverdale!

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 18d

in between assignments for school i have been sending out newsletters more often, most of the time about the old teen dramas i am watching :) substack.com/@eveningconv...

Summer | Substack

poet, gamer, girl on the edge. currently putting all of my energy & potential into supernatural 🍉🇵🇸 summerfarah.com

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 18d

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 19d

love sending my book to people who have never reviewed poetry...my book will be different

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 19d

Yayy congratulations!!!!! Really looking forward to this!

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 19d

here's another one of the poems :) theseventhwave.org/publication/...

the angels are falling - Seventh Wave

"My recklessness can fit on one hand: the divine is reserved for the thumb."

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 19d

here's one of the poems :) poets.org/poem/after-m...

After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural

I understand, I tell her,

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 19d

still looking for reviewers/interviewers/other-forms-of-coverage for my debut poetry collection THE HUNGERING YEARS 💜🍃 please reach out (summerfarah.com) ‼️

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 23d

💜 thank you!

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shovda @shovda.bsky.social · 23d

To all my poets and Legend of Zelda lovers, if you want a book of poetry that breathes LoZ, consider "I could die today and live again" by @summ.bsky.social

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i could die today and live again — Summer Farah — Game Over Books

I could die today and live again is inspired by the realm of The Legend of Zelda . Giving voice to non-player characters and blurring the boundaries of game-world and real-world, Summer Farah’s poem...

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 25d

you will always end up here (inside)

summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 25d

originally had planned to celebrate 20 years of supernatural by doing fun things focused on tv in my new home of los angeles then ending the day by watching supernatural but plans changed and now i am at my parents' house...fitting :)

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 25d

here's one of the essays i get to thank for getting me into my phd program lmfao xx substack.com/home/post/p-...

stacked day 10: 2.01

this one is half about Mitski

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 25d

i wanted to write something for today but didn't so here's what i wrote about the pilot last year :) substack.com/home/post/p-...

stacked day 2: 1.01

or, 19 years of supernatural

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 26d

Best of the Net is now accepting nominations for the 2026 anthology! Submissions must come from the editor of the publication, or, if the work is self-published, it may be sent by the author. The deadline is September 30th, 2025. bestofthenetanthology.com

Best of the Net – Best of the Net Anthology

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 25d

20th anniversary of supernatural :) poets.org/poem/after-m...

Title: After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural
Epigraph: I make paintings and watercolors of Tamalpais. Again and again. Why do I insist? Am I trying to hold some image, to capture some meaning, to assert its presence, to measure myself to its timelessness, to fight, or to accept? —Etel Adnan, Journey to Mount Tamalpais
Poem: I understand, I tell her, the desire to not only return but to be consumed. I have had obsessions, I have been made small by those obsessions, I wonder if you would agree it is possible for something to be absolute but still unseen. I was Cassandra, once. I wanted dearly to go to the mountain. Instead of cliches, I design my pulse to loneliness anew. It’s different than ten years ago—I go outside, now, take its contradiction with me. Oh the most painful love-story of them all! These gaps between comprehension! I could never forget, no matter how many times they beg me to. The mountain was there before us and it will be there after. Yes, a return; each journey wrought another history, each day I try to capture its form; why do I insist? In lieu of a paintbrush, I sew my voice in its throat. In the Beginning, there was Blood, Horror, Myth, Obsession; and then there was Love, there was, I swear, when the static spilled! again and again, our eyes stained with its evidence, We find new proof uncovered on every return. We were all Cassandra, once, young and hysterical, oh, I hope you’ll understand I take it so seriously when I say the violence shifted subjects. Oh, we screamed! we screamed! We swore our eyes were true! Audience becomes the blood, the horror, the myth, the static, Again, and again, you said, again, and again, I say, again, again.

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Rhiannon @aywarhiannon.bsky.social · 25d

I went on Bechdel Cast to talk about when a woman shaves her head and withstands torture so she can…idk man it gets complicated just listen to us lose our minds

@jamieloftus.bsky.social @caitlindurante.bsky.social

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G.I. Jane with Rhiannon Hamam

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jacky. @jacky.wtf · 26d

I keep getting exposed to white ideologies that I do not consent to omg omg

Shinji sitting on their web browser over the world wide web

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 26d

Once again I am asking. Do you want to review my book ❗

summer farah @summ.bsky.social · Aug 28

DIGITAL REVIEW COPIES FOR THE HUNGERING YEARS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ INTERVIEWERS/REVIEWERS/BOOKFLUENCERS/BOOKSELLERS/ETC. PLEASE READ MY POETRY BOOK

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 26d

Solidarity with Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, target of a malicious report that attempts to silence her and others who demonstrate an unwavering commitment to Palestinian liberation

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#HandsOffDrRabab!

Defending anti-colonial revolutionary pedagogy against colonial impunity of Israel and the imperialist establishment

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 29d

god forbid you want to write about a book a few months after it comes out...

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 29d

puts so much pressure on small presses to meet a specific timeline...puts so much pressure on critics to decide and pitch in a short window...it's so DUMB!!!!!!!!!!!

Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · Sep 8

Worst thing to happen to book crit was getting mercilessly synced to pub dates. writer gets 97% of the coverage they're ever getting by the end of week 2, & if the book is widely reviewed (positive or not) in prestige places some of your would-be audience burns out on takes & skips the book itself.

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · Aug 28

feel free to reply here, contact me (summerfarah.com/contact) or my press ([email protected])

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