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Poet, professor, mama, redhead - THE CLEARING (Milkweed) 📚 - Work in Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Threepenny, Best American Poetry, Pushcart anthology. Hybrid enthusiast. www.allisonadair.com
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If you've got 14 minutes, you *should* watch this video, "Poetry is Not a Luxury," with Martha Silano and her wonderful poems and bright spirit. vimeo.com/1033914328/f...

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Free workshop this Friday!! ⚡️ZINE LUNCH!⚡️ presents Response & Play! a virtual workshop with Sarula Bao this Friday, March 7th at 12 PM EST Learn more and register at the link in our bio!

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I received an invitation from PEN America. I declined. In 2024 writers initiated a boycott because of PEN’s silence on the genocide and that silence is still loud. I believe daylight matters. Here is the text of my response:

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Enormous corruption. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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"She's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever Oh, but maybe I'm just too young To keep good love from going wrong" Music is such a balm in hard times.

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Nursing a take that the major Silicon Valley firms can be understood as organized crime syndicates and perform some of the same functions as the old ones used to — money laundering, feeding addictions, skirting regulations, political influence.

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It's been one hell of a 2025 for me so far -- so getting an acceptance from the Iowa Review today really brightened my spirits. Happy day of St. Valentine, poets! 🫀🫀🫀

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May her soul rest. Devastating loss in the world of poetry. Anyone who has heard Danielle Legros Georges read live has been changed. Her impact lives on. 🕊️

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Good reorientation from Arundhati Roy on "writer" vs. "writer and activist" moniker: www.instagram.com/p/DFu9QAusvxq/

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Allison Adair, from The Clearing. #booksky @fascicles.bsky.social

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Proof that wokeness has run amok: Nearly 7% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Been dealing w/ family member's urgent care for five weeks straight & I am TI. ERRRD. The vagaries of our healthcare & insurance systems are shocking. The lack of transparency should be illegal. Flipside? Life is precious. The human body is a miracle of resilience *and* fragility. Advocacy matters.

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Want to see a book review that cracks open the lyric capacities of book reviews? Watch @kristenmiller.bsky.social ‘s brilliant erasure-video review of @cwahmanholm.bsky.social ‘s brilliant 2018 book Wilder. I teach this every semester in my Hybrid Forms Workshop erasure section.

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Can't wait for this timely symposium at the Hutchins Center at @harvard.edu: "The Future of Hip Hop Studies" feat. H. Samy Alim, Regina Bradley, Adam Bradley, & Mark Anthony Neal w/ closing remarks by Tricia Rose. @adambradley.bsky.social hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/hiphopsympos...

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"Just Once," Anne Sexton photo courtesy of @patrycjasara.bsky.social

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In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

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💔 Call Grandmother and she says, Well you know death is death and none other. -- CD Wright, "More Blues and the Abstract Truth" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47842/...

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Fragment from Hermetic Definition 1.15 where H.D. references her old poem, a devastating recursion #poetrysunday -3

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Bringing it to 🦋 by request: People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there's no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art.

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The saddest, realest pietà I ever saw. Anguish, not serenity. Sculptor was Pietro Giuseppe Tito. In Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice.

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*Whispers and pinches self* I have a debut book of poems out next year in April 2025 @wapress.bsky.social

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A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him

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This is a great model for how representative democracy is supposed to function. Kudos to the MPs.

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Submit to our print edition for FREE this December or until we reach our cap! Send your lovelies and your daring darlings. Full submission guidelines on our website and Submittable. Link in bio!

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean parliament votes to defy the country's president and immediately lift his martial law declaration.

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