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Angela Chaidez Vincent
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Author of ARENA GLOW (Tourane Poetry Press, ‘24). Writer, ponderer, saunterer.🍍on everything. Critter enthusiast. Poems in Oxford Review of Books, NAR, 32 Poems. Poetry reviewer: #100smallpress. AssocEd. for Scrub Jay Press.
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If you love a small press, check out these 100 notable small press books from 2025!
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Notable books 2025 is live on LitHub! #100smallpress
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨
Cartoon depicting the black silhouette of a brachiosaur (long-necked dinosaur) vomiting from 14 meters (45 feet) above, and two small theropod dinosaurs fleeing from its impact; the deadly result of the impact velocity is shown in the upper right as a partial theropod skeleton with a splatter pattern around it. The cartoon has the following text: Brachiosaurus projectile vomiting: forces generated and resulting traces "Assuming 50 kg (110 lbs) of regurgitant, impact velocity from 14 m (45 ft) height, and hard-packed sand as impact site," and "Impact velocity = V = V 2gh = 16.6 m/s; kinetic energy before impact = 6,860 J Average impact force = 68,600 N." An original figure by me (Anthony J. Martin) in my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014, Pegasus Books).
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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I'm posting this because...well, because why the fuck WOULDN'T I post this? share.google/cqXyLKIccWir...
Man's Emotional Support Alligator Denied Entry to Walmart After a Customer Complaint. He Says They've Been Going for 'Years'
A man in Pennsylvania and his alligator were denied future entry into a Walmart in West Brownsville, Pa. Wesley Silva, 60, and his alligator Jinseioshi were photographed on a shopping trip in the box ...
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September 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This scene will haunt my dreams forever. Rest well, Rebekah. 🎤 🍂
nedraggett.bsky.social Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · Jun 27
Just now learning Rebekah Del Rio has suddenly and sadly passed on. Talk about film AND musical immortality in just one scene.
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June 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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It’s the first day in weeeeeeks that I haven’t needed to extrovert, perform, or do external biddings.

Reading this gorgeous chap (my little book of domestic anxieties by Elizabeth Sylvia | ballerini book press) in the breeze. Whispering expletives in admiration and recognition.
Book cover: my little book of domestic anxieties by Elizabeth Sylvia. Green with an aerial view of a perfectly centered teacup on a saucer, the tea red-hued like a brewing emergency. Backdrop: yard, fence, crepe myrtle about to pop. Pic of the beginning of a poem called Yearning: “What a word, work and pay / & desire boxed and ringing / in the gut. I won’t say // I awoke, but one morning the little house / below my lungs // began to shout. Text from a book of poetry: “…the both of us, by placid growing things / whose troubles wait for patient ministry. / Or else die quietly. I sometimes think / that quiet's all I want—this life is messy / and so loud, without reprieve. Can't I be / a seed inside my brittle coat, asleep?”
June 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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but who is going to write the poem
screenshot of an online article titled “drunk man sends injured baby bird to wildlife rescue center in Uber.” The caption reads: “A man who had a few too many alcoholic beverages ordered an Uber for a baby goldfinch that he found struggling on the ground. The baby bird was the sole passenger to a wild life rehab. There are two pictures of the bird: one of the bird resting in someone’s hand, and another of it chirping from a pile of towels.
June 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Yellow-Rumped Warbler, AKA "butter-butt." From my book A Field Guide to Cape Cod, Yale University Press. a.co/d/eK4A0sd

🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #warblers
Illustration of a Yellow-Rumped Warbler perched on Northern Bayberry.
June 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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A favorite protest sculpture / sign at #NoKings Fresno. Zoom in to the fly attached by a wire. 😂 The event felt peaceful, kind, joyous, moving. Something is definitely shifting in favor of constitutional rights.
Sculpture of crap on a stick wearing a crown at NoKings Fresno. Upper left has a wire with a fly attached.
June 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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I may not take this one out today (I have more / too identifying) but it felt cathartic to make it. Fist bump to all the other Geminis who deserve a better birthday twin. #NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I made this list of Nonviolent Political Actions for Writers for a course I taught during TFG 1.0 on Writers & Resistance. Please share. You do not need to be a writer to participate.

"You are here on this earth at this time. Don't act like you're not a part of what's going on."
Nonviolent Political Actions for Writers 1) Writing-speeches, letters, statements, flyers, leaflets, group letters, petitions...plus your poems, stories, plays, and commitment to making art as a person who desires a better world. 2) Banners bumperstickers, t-shirts, protest signs, sky-writing, sidewalk chalk, broadcasts, social media posts, articles, editorials, displays of language in public places. 3) Symbolic Acts-pickets, marches, prayer circles, vigils, mock awards, delivering symbolic objects (pies, dildos, dead flowers, glasses of water delivered by citizens of Flint, MI, to their local politicians, etc), displays of flags or other symbolic objects (in the Polish Solidarity movement, members wore electronic "resistors" from radios), public performances, satire, costumes (pussy hats at the Women's March; nuns' habits worn by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, etc.), disrobings, die-ins, mock funerals, effigies, puppets. 4) Public disapproval-whistles, bullhorns, assemblies, sit-ins, stand-ins, ride-ins, solidarity with those being attacked (Angel Action against the Westboro Baptist Church, US Veterans acting as "Human Shields" to protect the Standing Rock protesters), walk-outs, silence, withholding approval, turning one's back, boycott, sanctuary, total personal non-cooperation, conscientious objector status. 5) Witness-At any level of action, remember that action speaks louder with words. You not only have to be willing to participate, you must be willing to testify. You are here on this earth at this time. Don't act like you're not a part of what's going on.
June 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Add to your TBR to balance out all the anxieties that are outside the house. ☕️ 💚
esylviapoet.bsky.social Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · Jun 12
❤️ @theresegleason.bsky.social's praise for MY LITTLE BOOK OF DOMESTIC ANXIETIES

available at ballerinibookpress.ch/product/my-l...

Or signed from me—with more reasonable shipping, lol.
Black and green background and book cover with blurb: Contrary to its title, Elizabeth Sylvia’s My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties is anything but diminutive: these clear-eyed and bracing poems crackle with intelligence even as they brim with tenderness. From the vantage point of daughter, wife, and mother—“my heart banging the house’s worry”—the speaker wrestles with competing urges for freedom and safety, solitude and connection.
June 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit
June 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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It’s my book’s 1st birthday! Arenaversary wish? Consider adding to storygraph and /or goodreads want-to-read pile? 💜

app.thestorygraph.com/books/3ba060....

www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
June 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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LA Locals, I’m unable to attend #AWP and would be happy to transfer my registration if you can use it. 💜
March 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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While you're making your AWP plans, don't forget about this one! The featured readers are going to bring down the house. We're excited to co-host w/ @adroitjournal.bsky.social & @pleiadesmag.bsky.social. See you soon!
LIT UP! An offsite reading for AWP.
March 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Completely random pics from Rome.🕯️
Plaque in Italian: “Ara Di Cesare” that describes his funeral pyre around the corner. Caesar’s funeral pyre behind a crumbled wall. A tourist in white leaning over to photograph it. Caesar’s funeral pyre behind a crumbled wall. Orange gerbera daisies in pink paper nearby.
March 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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AMANPOUR (with face in hands): “Never have I ever ever ever seen anything like it… the president and VP were taking all the Putin talking points.”

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGolFp-...
February 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
angelacv.bsky.social
Proud of my nearby rangers. Right where everyone looks during firefall. NO to trashing national parks to set up plundering for lumber and oil. NO.
luckytran.com Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Feb 23
Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle
February 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Your outie called her congressional representatives today.
Picture shows Ms Casey / Gemma from Severance
February 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Elon Musk starts interfering with staffing at Twitter, and the site dies.

Elon Musk starts interfering with staffing at the FAA, and people die.

Please keep him away from things that matter.
January 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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I’m knee-deep in fabulous small press poetry arcs (2025). Scouting for more.
miriamgershow.bsky.social Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · Jan 24
Good lord — corrected link: www.miriamgershow.com/100smallpress
miriamgershow.bsky.social Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · Jan 24
This way lies hope.

I just counted it up and #100smallpress reviewers (17 days in) have requested and/or are reading *110* books from small presses. A hundred and ten!

I also got off my butt & made a waitlist form for interested future reviewers: www.miriamgershow.com/110smallpress
January 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Netgalley declined my heavy-breathing request for an arc of The Antidote. 😭 Jealousy and anticipation for March release.
alexanderchee.bsky.social Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · Jan 24
Opened the new Karen Russell novel, The Antidote, and it sucked me right in, even now I am trapped in its jaws. Not sure what it is about yet but I don't know that I care.
January 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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My Icelandic publishers office is on the ground floor in a residential neighbourhood where there are a lot of house cats. And many, many of the cats who live in neighbouring houses "work" at my publishers during the day, i.e. sleep and eat at home but spend 8 hours at their office during the week. 🧵
January 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM