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kdawn999.bsky.social
Reader, poet, essayist, reviewer, cat person, Trekkie, ไทย speaker, book clubber, linguist, Texan/Floridian, missionary kid, she/they https://www.chillsubs.com/user/kdawngibson https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/kimberly_gibsontran
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the moon is a pale ghost ship, adrift in a bottomless sea #poetry #Metaphor

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Love it when lit mags register books on GR so that I can count them toward my yearly reading goal 😇 Also, here’s me dissing #haibun before actually writing one for myself and liking it! lol @rattlepoetry.bsky.social

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Reviewed a recent read from my #BookClub. #IWantWhatIWant was a stunner and took me by surprise with its depth and empathy. I hope this gets rediscovered as a #classic!

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Just got my copy of Saw Palm! This spring they published my poem “Snake, A Nightmare.” 🐍

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“The Word is my leopard” A poem by the much-missed Chris Toll.

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Currently working on the manuscript of my first collection of poems. Any and all advice on revising/structuring/submitting is welcome. If you’re a poet with a book, tell me what you wish you knew the first time around 📃✂️📤

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Oracle Fine Arts Review recently published one of my favorite poems of those I’ve written. Excited to see “The Tree and the Valley of Twilight” in print at last!

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Thrilled to see my poem “Air” opening the new issue of 3Elements Review. The words everyone had to use were “prophecy,” “attic,” and “isolation.” I saw “attic” and knew my poem was going to converse with #JaneEyre

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My new poem—a love poem!—just out @rustandmoth.bsky.social rustandmoth.com/work/my-husb... ✨⭐️💫🤩

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Once I stood naked in a garden eating pancakes smeared with apricot jam. It was like being born—the space between two notes of a struck bell… Love, if you're real, make me the earth's again. Lie down with me on the grass. —Jenny George, from “Mythology”

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Everything is shit, but I made some porcelain tile cookies🌀

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Black Cat (2021) by Yuko Nakamura

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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

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Hi, I'm God. Human beings should not be thrown into prisons without due process. Even Jesus got a hearing.

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'What Form' by Natalie Marino Cover art: ‘where Love unpins her scalding hair’ by Prerna Bajaj

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Woohoo my cover letter posted again as I wait at the edge of my seat for rejection. 💀

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For those who celebrate: may your #Easter weekend be as strange and random as this vintage postcard.

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“Strange daughters I will leave in the woods” A poem by Traci Brimhall.

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So proud to have my essay in Thin Air Magazine’s issue 31! thinairmagazine.org/store/

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Today was a 4-poem pub day for me! I have a sestina and two other poems in The Bombay Literary Magazine and another poem in @baltimorereview.bsky.social Here are the links: baltimorereview.org/spring_2025/... bombaylitmag.com/contribution...

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I started listening to the audiobook for Parable of Talents by Octavia Butler today, and it's eerily prescient.

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Woohoo! I have 3 poems just published in @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social ! The fun is they also assigned me a 5-paragraph essay. It was an honor to get to write about Gahl Liberzon’s poems. 🩵💛 Here’s the issue: www.publicschoolpoetry.com

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What an incredible episode from #ThisAmericanLife podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Recently received these snow-skin mooncake treats from my aunt who visited my favorite shop in Bang Khla, Thailand for me. Also thinking about everyone’s harrowing experience with the earthquake some hours ago. My heart goes out.

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Thou shalt not snatch people off the streets for their opinions.

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happy #smallpoemsunday from this snippet by Rae Armantrout @armantrout.bsky.social 🌈

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Today's Featured Poem: "When the Sky Is No Longer" by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (@lenakt.bsky.social), from Something About Living, published by University of Akron Press (@uakronpress.bsky.social). Read here: poems.com/poem/when-th...

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My first published #villanelle just arrived with my copy of #TheWindhover 🧡🩷🩵

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burrow = 🐿️ borough = 🌆 burro = 🫏

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I’m not doomscrolling I’m just diligently researching a very long very stupid dystopian apocalyptic satire called America

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lol my poems rejected but my cover letter published 💀🖤💀🖤💀

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"...Mulder wants to believe in extraterrestrial life and Scully wants to believe in Mulder’s conviction. And you, you want to believe in the conviction of stories..." 🛸 👽 today from Audrey Bauman! https://www.havehashad.com/qwi64

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Who needs therapy when you can just write a poem, delete it, then write it again with more adjectives?

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All morning the / Morning has been blackening, / —Sylvia Plath

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Yay! I have a #poem in Creation Magazine’s new issue dedicated to Holidays. 🥟🥢🫖🧧🏮

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"It turns out that people would rather read a thoughtful essay with an error in it than one of ChatGPT’s grammatically flawless articles about delving into a thought-provoking tapestry of synergy."

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Quit buying shit, write poems, live más

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"You're so young," he said. "It seems almost criminal that you should be so young in these terrible times. I wish you could have known this country when it was still salvageable." "It might survive," I said, "changed, but still itself." --Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler

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Stopped being a lurker and called in for Prompt Lines for @rattlepoetry.bsky.social last night! Thanks for the encouragement @kdawn999.bsky.social ! I’m at 1 hr 45. Kimberly is at 1 hr 30. www.youtube.com/live/xWqgtrj...

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"Every empire sings itself a lullaby." - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

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Excited to get my contributor copy of The Windhover soon! In it is my first published villanelle. Reed Magazine will be coming out with my 2nd sometime this year too! 💙🖋️

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