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I am very delighted to be part of my beloved @paullisicky.bsky.social's book launch for his absolutely beautiful new book.

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'I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.' –John Keats (d. Feb 23, 1821)

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Rage gardening really is the biggest fuck you to fascist fuckers who’d prefer I just crumple up and die. I am taking time and planning for my future. For the pure, unadulterated love of beauty and nature. Not just for me, but for my neighborhood. Watch me bloom, assholes.

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The @nytimes.com is doing pioneering work in the field of anti-journalism by pushing the boundaries of euphemism to find new degrees of passivity.

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Just preordered this first book from a new press created by @neonpajamas.bsky.social because I know know know it’ll be good.

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I really can't wait to have this stellar & strange book out in the world! pre-order if you're a real one: www.neonpajamas.com/pizama-press...

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But the sea which no one tends is also a garden William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower (excerpt)

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Thanks for this beautiful review of FRENCH GIRL @fieldmousepress.bsky.social , WorldLiterature Today! worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/f...

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lynch’s “the home is a place where things can go wrong” is up there with randall jarrell’s “a novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it” for definitions I am going to beat into the ground until there is nothing left but a faint stain & the memory of a horse

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—attended a workshop on “Erasures and Found Texts” led by @kathryncowles.bsky.social today, and made a thing. Source text comes from The Medieval Treasury (Victoria & Albert Museum, 1986).

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A haunted house but it’s just the Democrats whispering “Trump doesn’t care about inflation” and “what about the price of eggs” while a horrifying demon slowly devours you

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Louise Bourgeois, The Couple, 2007-09 #WomensArt

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvE9... Happy Valentine Day Bluesky @rfredekenter.bsky.social

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Happy 50th anniversary of this Schuyler poem, whose ending gets me every damn time!

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German poet Durs Grunbein called reading the morning papers Ashes For Breakfast and that really sums up the moment right now

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It’s official!! The Sweating Sickness, my third book of poetry, is out today from @upittpress.bsky.social! I’m so proud of these poems, and hope you love them.

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Every time I teach Sarah Sloat’s (@sjane.bsky.social) brilliant, brilliant erasure book Hotel Almighty, I remember that it is speaking directly to me, rather than anyone else. Case in point: “o doubt burst not out of everything (like a rat, across the parlor,”

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every news cycle for the next four years is just going to be Monday: Trump has fired all the people who were responsible for keeping poo out of the drinking water Tuesday: okay for some reason there is now a lot of poo in the drinking water

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What Ubuweb said.

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hi can I please encourage you to go participate in cultural events, even if it is just to witness & support. it will be good for you and your brain and also for the folks who are making the art. stay curious. ❤️

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Last night I had a nightmare about the situation in which I said, “It’s like one of those nightmares you’re telling someone about inside another nightmare, thinking you’ve woken up and you haven’t, and then you realize you’re still in the same nightmare—but it’s real and you can’t wake up.”

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Charles Olson

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Finger Lakes friends: My collage-poem art exhibition Feminine Monstrous opens Thursday, with a craft conversation at 5:30, at the Solarium Gallery on the HWS campus in Geneva. Come, come!!

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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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Speaking of flowers... (more in comments)

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I found out this week that Larks’ publication date has been moved up a month—! when does this ever happen??—so your preorders will arrive in March versus April. Also she’s a Pisces not an Aries now and YES I have feelings about it, haha. The water makes sense, though. 🌊

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Like the moon, life surely has a side permanently turned away from us which is not its [opposite] but its complement toward perfection, toward consummation, toward the really sound and full sphere and orb of being. - Rilke to Margot Sizzo

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i went to a Chicago Public Library branch that I had never been to before and happened across these very cool Archival Grab and Go Kits with an invitation to archive your stories

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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

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Hiiiiii—I’m here, seeking refuge from the algorithms of the tech oligarchy—will it be different here, @bluesjy.bsky.social ? Here’s a little Octavia E. Butler today—#parableofthesower

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Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

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it's not fleeing / if it's freeing @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social HBD! 🎈

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the bags under my eyes are carrying bags with little bags attached to them

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Ozick addressed them to the philosopher in his university office, signing them all in “passionately counterfeit handwriting” as “Lady Caroline Lamb.” www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/1/21/of-epistles

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Last night I finished reading RED CLOCKS by Leni Zumas. It’s a stunning book but also should be required reading for every single person in this age of Dobbs. Thanks for the rec @rpmirabella.bsky.social ❤️🧡💜

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ICYMI Don't miss poet Aria Aber on BTC discussing her debut novel Good Girl & everything from Kafka to Celan, annihilation & God, exile within language itself, translating her own book into German, and more Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/aria... @ariamisha.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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I make little versions of my kids’ Halloween costumes every year for our tree. This year, my eldest was an avenging angel, so…

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Inside me are two wolves. One is anxiety. The other is more anxiety.

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