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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · 13d

Look forward to your announcement

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats!!

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · 13d

Love this title!!

Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · Sep 6

#Poetry -- I know, the world news and department of warring and not-yet-melting ice -- all so much more gripping, but may I say, possibly, some of the antidote will be found in this book, come autumn. 💜

Book cover in blue with yellow words reading "Becoming Altar, New and Selected Poems, Kyla Houbolt." The book has white words on the spine. Classy, no?

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · 13d

“…a kind of reader as I write…”

Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 17d

“But I want to be a kind of reader as I write. That means not knowing what’s up ahead.”
– Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · 13d

“…a certain fundamental opacity of human being,…”

sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 13d

Note that the word 'mute' is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental opacity of human being, which likes to show the truth by allowing to be seen hiding.

Anne Carson, Nox

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · 13d

“… Ambient intelligence
Rising like wet wet dough

On the back of at-scale listening.
Can you imagine, throwing it all
Away, unreusableing the water

Just to hold up a mirror
To what spirit has heretofore
Supplied? If I died

It would be recorded
So many places,
Trained on, learned”

Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 13d

new one up at the Neutral Spaces blog today, still one of my favorite places on the internet

NEUTRAL SPACES

INSIDE THE HEAD OF A GOD
TOM SNARSKY
25th September 2025

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · 13d

Feel better soon!

thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · 13d

Advance praise from Martha Ronk~~

thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · 13d

Pleased to announce my latest poetry book, Signal to Noise~~
Mishearing serves as a sounding board for the difficulties we all have understanding one another and making sense of the larger world.~~
📣 Available for pre-order until the end of September
www.ornithopterpress.com/store/p26/SI...

Book Cover titled Signal to Noise with abstract design

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · 29d

Timely…

Paul Pearson @paulpearson.ca · 29d

This week’s book is resistant to short excerpts, to sound-biting, but is ultimately perfect for a slow, deliberate reading.

Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-09 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/

Today’s striking line comes to us from Claudia Rankine.

#poem #poetrysky 💙📚

thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Sep 7

Some visual poetics for #smallpoemsunday
Detail from Diego Rivera’s mural El Hombre Controlador del Universo

thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Sep 7

🍂🎻🍂

Sarah Alice @bandytstamp.bsky.social · Sep 7

the deep / rosined bow sound of the living

Dorianne Laux, “Cello”
#smallpoemsunday

CELLO

When a dead tree falls in a forest
it often falls into the arms
of a living tree. The dead,
thus embraced, rasp in wind,
slowly carving a niche
in the living branch, shearing away
the rough outer flesh, revealing
the pinkish, yellowish, feverish
inner bark. For years
the dead tree rubs its fallen body
against the living, building
its dead music, making its raw mark,
wearing the tough bough down
as it moans and bends, the deep
rosined bow sound of the living
shouldering the dead.

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Sep 7

💥💥💥

Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Sep 7

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)

here’s a moment from St. John of the Cross, in a version by Mary Oppen~

what is there to be thought

comes by the road
if you will give it shelter

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Sep 7

💨📃🤧

Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Sep 7

Bill Knott

AT THE CROSSROADS

The wind blows a piece of paper to my feet.
I pick it up.
It is not a petition for my death.

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Sep 3

And see well…

sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · Aug 20

things
that can't move
learn to see

Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Sep 3

Fantastic exhibition if you find yourself in LA

Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · Sep 3

The issues Nancy Buchanan began grappling with in the 1970s — misogyny, racism, the climate crisis, government secrecy, warfare, gentrification, and unbridled capitalist consumption — are not past threats but hauntingly present ones.

The Prescient Politics of Nancy Buchanan’s Art

A survey of the LA artist’s work proves that the issues she began grappling with in the 1970s are not past threats, but hauntingly present ones.

hyperallergic.com

thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Summer lies heavily on my chest.”

Paul Pearson @paulpearson.ca · Sep 2

As we suffer through the most unseasonably hot start to September in decades….

Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-09-02 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/

Today’s striking lines come to us from Zakaria Mohammed, translated by Lena Tuffaha.

#poem #poetrysky 💙📚

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Sep 2

🤘🏼

Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · Sep 1

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems / to the absurdity of not writing poems”
- Wislawa Szymborska

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Sep 1

For Labor Day in the U.S. from @ctsalazar.bsky.social

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’m so thrilled to have a book review of Larks by Han VanderHart in this issue! 🕊️💕

Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy official release day for Issue 36 Fall 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine!
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/fall-...

It's our 10-year anniversary issue. Thank you to everyone who has helped us grow and thrive over this past decade!
#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Sep 1

🗣️✍🏼

Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · Aug 31

sometimes you really do write a whole poem just to give one beautiful phrase a home

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · Sep 1

🌊 Atlas des zoophytes: .
Paris: Roret, libraire rue Hautefeuille, au coin de celle du battoir, [18--].

[Source]

Historical illustration titled "Atlas des zoophytes" showing five detailed black and brown ink drawings of marine zoophytes related to eel habitats. The illustrations include: 1) Le Madreporé cespiteux, a cluster of tubular structures with star-shaped openings; 2) Le Madre meandrine, a convoluted, ridged coral-like form; 3) Le Madre laitue, a circular, ruffled coral resembling a lettuce leaf; 4) Le Madre capuchon, a wavy, layered coral structure; 5) L’Ocellaire, a small, irregularly shaped patch with dotted textures. The drawings emphasize structural details and textures with shading and line work typical of 19th-century scientific plates.

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Rebeca Omordia @rebecaomordia.bsky.social · Aug 31

Nigerian composer Ayo Bankole explores African Pianism beautifully in ‘Egun Variations’ based on an Egun theme of the Yoruba people of Nigeria.
🎥Video courtesy of Onassis Stegi, Athens, part of my African Pianism recital programme.

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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Aug 31

Last Day of #NoahDavis at The Hammer

thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Aug 31

“I'm more than I say in time
but time's less exact than I am.”
~~Alice Notley

rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Aug 31

a stunning essay by one brilliant poet on the work of another brilliant poet,
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/171...

A Charmed and Desperate Poet

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

www.poetryfoundation.org

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