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kami enzie @yungwerther.bsky.social · Jun 24

Thank you to Ashna Ali, Heather Gluck, and the entire editorial team at @epiphanylit.bsky.social for their care and dedication in the production process, and for featuring “Bolaji Badejo” in their Spring Summer 2025 issue, Desire & Dread! 🙏🏽😍🥹👽

Epiphany Lit Journal @epiphanylit.bsky.social · Jun 20

Big congratulations to Epiphany contributor Kami Enzie (@yungwerther.bsky.social), named a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship! We're thrilled to celebrate this recognition. Read his poem from our pages here: epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

BOLAJI BADEJO by Kami Enzie — Epiphany

I put on my suit every day for work. It takes three hours.

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Jenny 🥑 @famousjenny.bsky.social · Jun 9

The passive voice. Like the tear gas just appeared, magically. It fired itself.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · May 9

Laura Boswell, contemporary printmaker based in Scotland specialising in wild landscape and coastal prints in linocut & woodblock

Print of a landscape under a stormy sky with swirling grey and light purple clouds and golden rising sunlight

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · Apr 15

If only the White House press release describing NPR as "the trash that passes for news" were critiquing NPR for the right reasons, I mean NPR has moved so far to the right that it's nearly indistinguishable from corporate crap but only KKK 24/7 would please this administration.

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Mike C. @m1a2c3-po.bsky.social · Apr 13

My favorite dog meme 🤣

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kami enzie @yungwerther.bsky.social · Apr 8

This McPherson quote has never left me since I read “Gold Coast” in Best Am Short Stories of the Century like two decades ago. I was once curious about it and now can confirm it’s very true.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · Apr 7

“He tried to kill his own Vice President. Do you think he cares about you?” -Barack Obama

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kami enzie @yungwerther.bsky.social · Apr 7

Can I sail through the changing ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life? Just realized what is covered up is the terrifying threat of one being unable to sail, to handle. What does it mean to surrender

Baby Rose - Landslide (Fleetwood Mac Cover) [Official Audio]

YouTube video by Baby Rose

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · Apr 4

From Robin Becker's book, Giacometti's Dog.

#poem #books #writing

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Acting the Fulemin @actingthefulemin.bsky.social · Apr 3

"I'm Just A Girl (Because Gender Is An Immutable Biological Category)"

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · Apr 1

My heart is so full over what Brother Cory @booker.senate.gov has done. The symbolism of it—breaking Strom Thurmond’s record. The physical resilience. The intellectual imagination. The love for our nation.

For the first time in 2 months, I’m allowing myself a bit of hope instead of despair.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Apr 1

tl;dr:

I have long said that we cannot trust the government to have the power to kill as a punishment. Now, we have an administration that will undoubtedly be eager to prove my point.

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kami enzie @yungwerther.bsky.social · Mar 31

when sleep/naps became solutions and a GOAL, not a inconvenience to be reluctantly and quickly if at all

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · Mar 30

When did you know you were an adult fr*?

For me, it was when I started loving sourdough bread.

*Fun answers only, please.

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kami enzie @yungwerther.bsky.social · Mar 29

everything we’re experiencing today is compatible with entitled Jan 6 cis yt male rioters being welcomed into the Capitol Building instead of shot en masse, hogtied, or otherwise denied entry as literally any other imaginable demographic would have been

kami enzie @yungwerther.bsky.social · Mar 29

my higher power rly did its big one by not exposing me to cruising until after I aged out of it. cos i will not be in trees amongst a young generation milling by me as symbols of innocence my mortality and the irrecoverable past, as older bodies standing together turn into ghosts

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SeattleSanta @seattlesanta.bsky.social · Mar 26

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · Mar 24

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · Mar 25

This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · Mar 25

This is why they hate DEI. The Senate has confirmed John Phelan, an investment banker and Trump supporter with no military experience, to be Secretary of the Navy.

www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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mkroger.bsky.social @mkroger.bsky.social · Mar 24

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Mar 24

The media mostly takes for granted that some attacks are in bad faith, e.g. on judges and the media itself. In other cases (civil service and especially higher ed) they are more willing to adopt Trump's framing that he is responding to institutional failings, rather than using them as an excuse.

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Rick Larios @ricklarios.bsky.social · Mar 18

Beautiful poem by Najwan Darwish from his recent Selected Poems, 2014-2024.
#NajwanDarwish #poetry

Photo of a page of poetry titled A DINNER INVITATION
I told myself: If you want to see her now, / look where the sky meets the mountain / as it descends to the sea.

Her invitation's eternal now, / and her home is time. // So let others sing their lamentations, / let them surrender to separation/ I'll sing nothing but your promise, / nothing but your life, falling / like a late spring rain, / your life like a summer breeze.

Let others sing their sorrow. / I'll sing your joy-- / not even death could break it.

Dust jacket book cover for Najwan Darwish's book NO ONE WILL KNOW YOU TOMORROW, Selected Poems 2014-2024, Translated From The Arabic By James Kareem James Abu-Zeid
The cover images are a squarish black blot centrally spread with individual lines below. The author's name is in all caps drop-out white type; translator's name in off-white drop out type. The book title appears in what looks like the lower corner of a torn page placed at the top of the blot in stacked flush left black type, one word per line.

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kami enzie @yungwerther.bsky.social · Mar 22

“Subcity” should be highly coverd and going viral right now 🥺💔💙

Subcity (2015 Remaster)

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kami enzie @yungwerther.bsky.social · Mar 21

Been watching X Files lately as a ritual cleansing of preternatural dangers. Save us Scully

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · Mar 21

Did someone say a breathless search for intimacy and connection, I'm blushing!! 🫧✨💎💫💜

Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · Mar 20

🎉🎉🎉COVER REVEAL🎉🎉🎉
"From iconic author and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore comes a breathless search for intimacy and connection, from club culture to the art world, from the AIDS crisis to COVID-19." Thanks to Electric Literature: electricliterature.com/exclusive-co...

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