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I thought a Starter Pack with #poets associated with prompts might be useful. So I put one together. If we're connected & you contribute to #poemsabout or #promptcombo please check you're here. If I've missed you, let me know. (#ItsASin of omission not commission...) & please repost #poetrycommunity

Posted this to Substack today with some commentary … open.substack.com/pub/johnadla...

New Substack. This especially goes out to @notdoriangray.bsky.social for the structure and @bethbpoet.bsky.social in that it continues our conversation about Greta Thunberg...and to anyone who's ever been told they are not allowed the feeling they are feeling! ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/johnadla...

#PoemsAbout #ItsaSin @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Because away last weekend and this & working on other stuff in between, my apologies again for this Friday, and also this week's #PromptCombo, but for #ItsaSin this from Gram Parsons and co was my first association❤️ open.spotify.com/track/5bfvQG...

Check out this wonderful poem by @bethbpoet.bsky.social inspired by the voyage of the Madleen to bring aid to Gaza through the Israeli blockade - playing with a link between Greta Thunberg and the figure of the Sophoclean Antigone in response to this Substack piece: open.substack.com/pub/johnadla...

Flyer for an online event, tickets not yet available but please save the date, the Henderson Heritage Group Experiences in Communities 4th annual event (HHG were inaugural winners of the Elly Jansen Award research grant and this will share some of our findings) ☺️

Fundraiser, Medical Aid for Palestinians - Serian, the daughter of an old colleague of mine, is running the midnight sun marathon in Sweden... www.justgiving.com/page/map-mar...

#PromptCombo #Hidden Thank you v much @victoriaspires.bsky.social for this prompt, also @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social because your conversation with Vic finally led me to a #hidden hook on which to hang a poem this week - this one is a true story from long ago now, and 'do not attempt at home'! 😱🙏🥰

johnadlam1.substack.com/p/of-unhouse...

The Keeling Curve, based on air carbon parts per million on Mount Mauna Loa - about 20 ppm higher than at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic…’safe’ level was 350 ppm around the mid to late 1980s…ppm had run at very roughly +/- 250 through the Holocene...look upon our works! 😔 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

#Transitions - an association to the theme, seeing as the old guy is in town...♥️ open.spotify.com/track/0YCm4j...

MY PRESS IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. WE PAY YOU. WE'RE WEIRD. thebraag.co/the-press/

Happy Bloomsday! Continuous readings from Ulysses here today, for them as wants….❤️ www.rte.ie/radio/rte-ra...

@brokenspinearts.bsky.social #LiftToTheSky I want to honour Graham Allen who has generated an epic poem one 10-syllable line a day since 2006 (I am not sure if he's still at it, the last line on the site is 30/4). 25/3/25: "Let's all stick our heads in the fucking sand."❤️ holesbygrahamallen.org#read

Thanks for the incredible responses & engagement with last week's #PromptCombo 🫶🏼 You're actually stuck with me for another week 🤭 This week's prompt is #Hidden. What will your poem reveal, or take care not to reveal? I'll be quiet the first half of the week due to commitments but will catch up.

Not a “best of.” A manifesto. A razor. A single breath held for 24 pages. That’s a chapbook. Send yours Aug 1–31. 👉 shorturl.at/eTSjI 👤 @AlanParry83.bsky.social

#PoemsAbout #FierceBattle ❤️

#PoemsAbout #FierceBattle

Announcing this Friday’s #PoemsAbout theme is #Transitions Bodies shift. Names change. The self stays sacred. 📅 Share your poem Friday for feedback from @alanparry83.bsky.social. 🖼 Use alt-text if posting images. #TakeRisks #LeaveScars #EndOnAnImage