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What is the best Love you’ve ever had in this world? Be quiet while thinking about that Love. If someone comes along and starts talking, quietly shoo them away, you’re busy, you’re a poet… Be quiet so quiet, let the very sounds of that Love be heard in your bones. —CAConrad, from “(Soma)tic 6”

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One more reason to love Edith.

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Quince, cabbage, melon, & cucumber. Precisely arranged & painted in 1600 by Juan Sanchez Cotán, born OTD in 1560.

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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 103 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

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As a friend, community builder, once said, "There's not a day I'm not asking for money [for poetry]." KFB @knifeforkbook.bsky.social is fundraising for their Tenth Anniversary Season. All donations/support warmly received, returned ten-fold. Thank you.

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But when i'm under the moon with you I'm in heaven When i'm under the moon with you I'm in heaven #MarcAlmond #pride25 youtu.be/er2JR9ty8Dc?...

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"[my brother] was born & we ran across the village to meet him. My bare feet pounding the ground. Our neighbours clapping & singing my name as I ran past them – it was like running through a gauntlet of joy." @jessicajoyhiemstra.bsky.social #SMLTA sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/i-think-il...

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“Are you laughing or crying?” I asked. “Laughing,” she said as she wiped tears from her eyes. The Mockler. On point. @themockler.bsky.social #SMLTA sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/father-say...

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Goodnight. 🖼️ Two Fairies Standing on the Back of an Owl Beneath a Moon, Amelia Jane Murray.

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Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

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Oh, you want this ... it's so many kinds of lovely ...

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Softie. Softness lingers. #SoftFest3 softflirt.ca A few remaining (signed) copies of "Softie" at Midnight Mass Books www.instagram.com/midnightmass... and KFB @knifeforkbook.bsky.social www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p200/K...

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I'm hosting the Bay Area launch of The Gate of Memory, Saturday July 12 at J-Sei, feat. readings by anthology contributors and community members. Nikkei Resisters is co-sponsoring. Eastwind is selling books. In-person and online t.ly/O0wTZ The Gate of Memory is @haymarketbooks.org t.ly/Imo-l

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Summer Me, Winters Me

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Love say "Take my hand, it'll be alright C'mon save your soul tonight" music.apple.com/ca/album/dia...

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"WE ARE TRANS!" #PrideBaby R/B Mertz & I... some balcony time. #afternoondelight

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Flinch by Bardia Sinaee, now available via horsebrokepress.etsy.com

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It's an astonishing thing for a temple boy to enter The Temple. Paul Taylor. Alvin Ailey. Bill T. Jones & Artie Zane. This. #WhatTheDayOwesToTheNight #CompanieHervéKoubi #LuminatoFestival (Returning tomorrow night.) www.luminatofestival.com/what-the-day...

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"Oh has the world changed or have I changed?" music.apple.com/ca/album/the...

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By some of the email requests I get from Can Lit men—you'd think I work for them. My new super power is the unanswered email. And if I don't answer an email by mistake—by all means circle back but first ask yourself if you've asked me to do something FOR you then it might not be a mistake.

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"I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread." Poem for Juneteenth. From The Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: bookshop.org/a/862/9780679728184 #poem #booksky #writing

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convocation day :)

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It can be hard to prioritize self-care when you feel like everything around you is under attack, that's why we're bringing back this classic by Ellis Schwamm to talk about what you can do to make it easier to deal with all of the anti-trans rhetoric and chaos. www.scarleteen.com/read/cultu...

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"Tell me why" #gaygay youtu.be/KJCPfuTn9ew?...

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New author photo. #Softie (by Daniel Ramahlo www.instagram.com/realtimeartho/)

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Canada's own, Al Purdy

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Just dropped. Happy Pride darlin's. #softie #KFB

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Now shall I praise the cities, those long-surviving (I watched them in awe) great constellations of earth. for only in praising is my heart still mine, so violently do I know the world. And even my lament turns into a paean before my disconsolate heart. - Rilke, in a fragment

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Good night. music.apple.com/ca/album/int...

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… I wake up And the day feels broken I tilt my head I'm trying to get an angle music.apple.com/ca/album/its...

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Walking up the sidewalk to the porch, the home of “WELCOME” I will never forget. And, the poetry. #KFBstyle #poetrywellserved knifeforkbook.com/2025/06/18/w...

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Honey, look what just arrived in my apartment!! Yes, the galleys for TERRY DACTYL, out on November 11th from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, get ready!!!!💜💖🌹👠💥⚡

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Softie. @itsakirby.bsky.social #SoftFest3 #LondonON www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p200/K... Photo: @themockler.bsky.social

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London. Soft Fest. My heart. #thankyou #softie #launch #SoftFest3 #LondonON

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