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I share beautiful words from beautiful books. Mostly poetry. Some prose. Always attributed, always pro-author, and generative AI is theft. (All photos original. All rights reserved by original authors.) Get books here: https://bookshop.org/shop/litbowl
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From Shelley Puhak's book, Harbinger: bookshop.org/a/862/978006... #books #poem #poetry #writing

From Garous Abdolmalekian's book, Lean Against This Late Hour. Translated from the Persian by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey. #poem #poetry #books #writing

The final poem in Raymond Carver's final book. Photo from his posthumous collected poems, All of Us: bookshop.org/a/862/978037... #poetry #books #writing

From Hala Alyan's book, The Moon That Turns You Back: bookshop.org/a/862/978006... #poem #poetry #books #writing

From @hieuminh.bsky.social's book, Not Here. #poetry #books #writing

From Tony Hoagland's book, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty. #poem #poetry #books #writing

From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything: bookshop.org/a/862/978155... #poem #poetry #books #writing

From Jane Hirshfield's book, After. Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978006... #poem #books #writing

From Andrea Gibson's book, Lord of the Butterflies: bookshop.org/a/862/978194... #poetry #books #writing

From Hanif Abdurraqib's book, The Crown Ain't Worth Much: bookshop.org/a/862/978194... #poetry #writing #books

From Hayan Charara's book These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: bookshop.org/a/862/978157... #books #poetry #writing

From Wendy Cope's book, Family Values. #poem #books #writing

They are built off the blatant theft of the creative output of humanity. Hundreds of millions of copyrighted works, stolen and often directly plagiarized in outputs without permission or credit, as these people laugh about how no one needs artists or writers anymore. They’re wrong—but also fuck them

From Franz Wright's book, Walking to Martha's Vineyard: bookshop.org/a/862/978037... #poem #poetry #books #writing

From @nancyland.bsky.social's book, Inconsolable Objects. #poem #poetry #books #writing

This feels particularly important right now, as the worst people in the world try their hardest for the opposite. From @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's The Anthropocene Reviewed. #books #writing