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Alastair Morrison
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Psychiatry resident, poet/poetry bore, tolerated parent. PhD English Lit, Columbia. MD McMaster. #medicalhumanities
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Alastair Morrison @alasmorrison.bsky.social · Mar 21
A poem of mine appears in the wonderful issue 25 of @theshorepoetry.bsky.social out today. Such a stellar journal to be involved with, such kind and incisive editing, so many great poets. Check out "Love Poem with Theme from Heraclitus" here!

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Alastair Morrison "Love Poem with Theme from Heraclitus" — THE SHORE
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pinholepoetry.bsky.social
“the courses of the droplets
on your skin,
so given, and gone.”

Beautiful. From Alastair Morrison.

Thanks for highlighting this one, Vicki. It was such a treat to read.
January 16, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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bookgaga.bsky.social
"Fixed
courses, immutable

pull; still
one could have been elsewhere."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Love Poem with Theme from Heraclitus by Alastair Morrison (@alasmorrison.bsky.social) (2025 @theshorepoetry.bsky.social) www.theshorepoetry.org/alastair-mor...
Alastair Morrison "Love Poem with Theme from Heraclitus" — THE SHORE
www.theshorepoetry.org
January 16, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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phillipcrymble.bsky.social
Charles Wright, from Littlefoot (2007)
I am the sign, I am the letter. I am the language that cannot be come to terms with. I will go to my resting place and will not be born again. I am what is scattered and cannot be gathered up. I am small, I am silence, I am what is not found.
January 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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Please share widely.
Hennepin County prosecutor asks the public to share Renee Good shooting evidence with her office
Mary Moriarty said that although her office has collaborated effectively with the FBI in past cases, she is concerned by the Trump administration's decision to bar state and local agencies from playin...
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January 10, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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Jim and Michael. #KFB10 #Spring2026 #poetrywellserved

JIM JOHNSTONE Eye for an Eye
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MICHAEL PRIOR Shadows Under the Trees
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January 9, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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British reporters often ask the best, most direct questions
sarahburris.bsky.social Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 9d
British reporter: "You REALLY believe after seeing this video she intentionally tried to hit this agent?"

JD Vance shorter "I don't know"
January 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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Daughter #poem of mine now up at the wonderful Porter House Review!
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October 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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What a year.
This arrived today, very lovely & very cold, from Orison Books.

If you want a copy of your own, you can pre-order here: Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books share.google/NR1Q8l2d3jcV...
Unboxed, Jane Zwart's Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, with a Joseph Cornell curio on the cover.
December 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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phillipcrymble.bsky.social
A reminder from Charles Olson, who was born on this day in 1910
These Days whatever you have to say, leave the roots on, let them dangle And the dirt just to make clear where they came from
December 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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itsakirby.bsky.social
Our first outing. [What fun!] #LIVE #SendMyLoveToAnyone

THE MOCKLER @themockler.bsky.social
& Me on #SelfPromotion #connectingwithreaders

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Kathryn Mockler (@sendmylovetoanyone)
More from mine and @KIRBY’s first live on self-promotion!
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December 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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phillipcrymble.bsky.social
Prince Edward Island's finest poet? Maybe.

Mark Strand, from Darker (1970)
The One Song I prefer to sit all day like a sack in a chair and to lie all night like a stone in my bed. When food comes I open my mouth. When sleep comes I close my eyes. My body sings only one song; the wind turns gray in my arms. Flowers bloom. Flowers die. More is less. I long for more.
December 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Students! Have you written a poem about math or a mathematical concept? There is a contest, and it is free to enter. Deadline January 20th: www.ams.org/learning-car...
AMS :: Math Poetry
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December 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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alasmorrison.bsky.social
So, Oedipus Rex. But what are your other favourite works of literature where self-discovery is BAD?
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
alasmorrison.bsky.social
So, Oedipus Rex. But what are your other favourite works of literature where self-discovery is BAD?
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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seanthomasd.bsky.social
My poem from the new beautifully done Nixes Mate
December 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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phillipcrymble.bsky.social
Delmore Schwartz, born on this day in 1913
O LOVE, SWEET ANIMAL O Love, dark animal, With your strangeness go Like any freak or clown: Appease the child in her Because she is alone Many years ago Terrified by a look Which was not meant for her. Brush your heavy fur Against her, long and slow Stare at her like a book, Her interests being such No one can look too much. Tell her how you know Nothing can be taken Which has not been given: For you time is forgiven: Informed by hell and heaven You are not mistaken.
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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btw, SO EXCITED about the poetry we have coming in the next issue of @reckoningmag.bsky.social -- aah! It's so good.
December 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal
Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests
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December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Great to see this article by @alasmorrison.bsky.social that explores the relationship between genre fiction and psychiatric care while making a case for interdisciplinary study.

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Psych ward gothic: melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research
This article offers a critical assessment of representations of psychiatric hospitalisation in modern Western societies, with the goal of informing clinicians’ approach to communication and reassuranc...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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pinholepoetry.bsky.social
Creative Constraints Workshop Series
In a series of 90 minute Zoom sessions, explore how creative limits can reroute writing habits, silence the inner critic and open up new ways of making a poem.

register & find out more at pinholepoetry.ca/events
Creative Constraints Workshop Series In a series of 90 minute Zoom sessions, explore how creative limits can reroute writing habits, silence the inner critic and open up new ways of making a poem. After a general introduction on constraints, special topics will include: The Cento (Dagne Forrest) Hermit Crab Poetry (Rayya Liebich) Erasure (Erin Bedford) & Poetic Forms (Jade Liu) first workshop: January 18, 2026 register or find out more at pinholepoetry.ca/events PINHOLE POETRY $15 per session or $50 for all 5
December 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Let this be the season of brave submissions and literary joy.
Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme
November 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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the usual reminder that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews, essays and translations; yes, please!
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periodicities is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews and essays. Please send submissions as .d...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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pinholepoetry.bsky.social
We’re missing pieces for our next issue!
We’re still looking for a few more poems and pinhole photography submissions.
Check out our guidelines on our website and send in work by Nov 28 to be considered for the Jan 2026 issue.

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November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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alasmorrison.bsky.social
I wrote an article about psychiatry and the humanities - more glamorously, about asylums and gothic melodrama - up now @ BMJ Medical Humanities . Check it out! #medhum #psychiatry

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Psych ward gothic: melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research
This article offers a critical assessment of representations of psychiatric hospitalisation in modern Western societies, with the goal of informing clinicians’ approach to communication and reassuranc...
mh.bmj.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM