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hrcraig.bsky.social
writer • printmaker • Pittsburgh • she/her • latest poems in greensboro review, the dodge, nimrod, & saranac review • hrcraig.com
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A small thing I've started doing that has had a tremendous positive effect on my mental health is listening to music instead of podcasts

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Louise Glück ♥️

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Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

From The Violet Book.

The most Pittsburgh of Pittsburgh days. This kind of morning. Tornado warning by nightfall.

We’re hosting an online poetry reading with @biidaasamose.bsky.social as well as Natalie Diaz and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio on December 5th! Come join us, all funds go to the Sameer Project, which is providing a critical lifeline for Palestinian survival ✨

Please help us welcome our gorgeous new 💫 NOVEMBER ISSUE 💫 https://buff.ly/2Z36noR Sending LOVE & THANKS to our contributors 💖 WORDS: C. Russell Price, @christinajcooke.bsky.social , Victoria Hood & Thomas Kearnes ART: Zhuo Xiong PLUS: @alhs.bsky.social reviews Sarah Ghazal Ali’s THEOPHANIES

By the by, we're open for submissions in fiction and poetry until December 1! (We will remain open for cnf and translation.) www.thedodgemag.com/submissions Our megatherium wanted you to know that.

love a good “O” in a poem, little fearless halo, the line’s volume knob turned all the way up, the stanza’s submarine window through which we glimpse an ocean of thought and feeling

My ranking of 1000+ literary magazines www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings

The US just keeps picking the Joja Mart route instead of the Community Center route.

Louise Glück.

Been waiting for our NOVEMBER ISSUE? Well, the wait is almost over. New issue drops this FRIDAY! 🤩

Edward Jean Steichen, Nocturne—Orangerie Staircase, Versailles

Reading @mosab_abutoha

This poem by Craig Santos Perez absolutely destroyed me this morning. Quite amazing. #lit www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154797...

Parents... please check your children's candy tonight. I just went through Salomé Athena's haul and I found a copy of the Jorge Luis Borges short story collection "The Garden of Forking Paths". This metatextual exploration may be too advanced for young readers.

We close for submissions on poetry & fiction November 1st—send us your beautiful weirdness before Wednesday using this link: pinchjournal.submittable.com/submit

Just have not been able to get this line of Audre Lorde's poem out of my head for the last few weeks..."a circle does not suffer/nor can it dream."

From “Horse,” Louise Glück, 1943-2023

"All the molecules were focused on your next move Didn't mean to move, didn't mean for it to move you" youtu.be/-I7fiuRhxV8?...

Two Kevin Prufer poems in the Fall 2023 Georgia Review that are giving it all this morning. Not available online but can be purchased here: thegeorgiareview.com/shop/issues/...

Just a few journals which are open for #poetry submissions right now: Southeast Review - www.southeastreview.... Poet Lore - www.poetlore.com/ Birdcoat - www.birdcoatquarterl... Worcester Review - www.theworcesterrevi... Michigan Quarterly - sites.lsa.umich.edu/...

Ohara Koson - "Crow on a Snowy Bough" Early 20th century painter and woodblock printmaker who was part of the shin-hanga movement,

Hodaka Yoshida woodblock print "Watakushi no corekushon yori - shiroi ie (From My Collection - White House)"

Weirdly, *every time* they do a “just give people enough resources to live” experiment it works to reduce misery and save governments money but they gotta keep studying it forever I guess.

Enjoyed these kinda savage erasures by Daniel Lehan (www.ballastjournal.com/daniel-lehan) and this poem/recording by poet Renee Yaseen (www.ballastjournal.com/renee-yaseen).

Audre Lorde, from "Outside:" "In other destinies of choice you could have come redheaded with a star between your thighs and morning like tender mushrooms rising up around your toes" You can hear her read it here (around 18:02): www.loc.gov/item/917...

More Audre Lorde, from "A Song For Many Movements" "..,and our labor has become more important than our silence. Our labor has become more important than our silence." Full poem avail here: poets.org/poem/song-...

I always wake up after an intense night of doing submissions ravenous to read some actual good poems. Reading Audre Lorde this morning...this snippet is from the close of her poem "Touring."

Just finished "The Call of Paradise" by @majda.bsky.social out from Two Sylvias. Really love the musical references in this book (as in this snippet from "Under the Moon") twosylviaspress.com/the-call-of-...