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Arielle Kaplan
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Poet • educator • ariellemkaplan.com • editorial team & newsletter @agnimagazine.bsky.social
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Robert Pinsky's translation of "Incantation."
September 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for publishing my review of THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME by @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social in the latest issue of On the Seawall. If you haven't read Bailey's work yet, consider this a sign that you should start!

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on Thank You for Staying with Me, essays by Bailey Gaylin Moore – On the Seawall
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September 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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The Sept/Oct edition of ON THE SEAWALL has just been published. Come on by the gallery & take a look at what we have to show. www.ronslate.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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My friends in high school used to call it Pacey’s Creek and it is wild how right they turned out to be.

(This tweet is for geriatric millennials)
June 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Thrilled to have a poem in the new issue of The Fiddlehead ♥️
April 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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This Passover I’m thinking hard about the holiday’s history of resistance to tyrannical leaders, and the imperative for Jewish people to stand with all oppressed peoples of the world.
April 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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So grateful to have been named a Semifinalist! Thank you @adroitjournal.bsky.social & congrats to the Scholars (especially @spaghettiutopia.bsky.social, of whom I’m a perpetual fangirl)!

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Announcing the Adroit Journal’s 2025 Djanikian & Veasna So Scholars! - The Adroit Journal
The Adroit Journal is proud to announce the eighth class of Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry and the inaugural class of Anthony Veasna So Scholars in Fiction—twelve exciting emerging poets and fic...
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April 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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What a great time to impeach and convict the president.
April 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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It’s going to be 60 degrees in Boston on Saturday—let’s turn up the heat on Elon and his supporters!

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Tesla Takedown - Boston Downtown
We are taking action at Tesla. ⚡ Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. ⚡ Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk. ⚡ Stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy. The stakes could...
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March 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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“At the museum I learn I am as tall as some bombs.” — Steven Duong, “Ordnance,” At The End Of The World There Is A Pond
Ordnance At the museum I learn I am as tall as some bombs (5'7"). The bombs in question are dumb bombs, which means they do not question gravity. They just land where they land, bury what they can. Placed in rows they look something like soldiers. Dumb soldiers. The placard explains how all bombs used to be dumb, how the term was coined retroactively by whoever made them smart, taught them about lasers, thermo-dynamics, critical theory, all the things a contemporary bomb must know to stay competitive in a growing field. War was simpler when my dad lived here. It was called Saigon then & the bombs were so dumb they didn't even know it. All they had to do was their jobs. Christ. This place has no damn AC. The casualties are colorized, the tourists are foreigner than me, & Lennon serenades us on a loop, asking us every three & a half minutes to imagine no possessions. My phone dings. Take museum with salt, texts Ba. It's propaganda. Fish sauce, I reply. I send him photos: me standing in front of a nearly forgotten apartment, an elementary school, a wildlife sanctuary. I allow him to imagine me happy. I tell him on Tuesday I fed mangoes to a ten-year-old elephant. I do not tell him it was recovering from a land mine blast. I do not tell him his friend groped me last night at the bar, & I definitely do not tell him I am a communist. The world is a list of things I keep from my father. Before I leave, I run my hands over the shell of another sleeping bomb. But I'm not the only one, sings John. We're dumb as hell. Full of hurt. Excerpted from "At the End of the World There Is a Pond: Poems." Copyright © 2025 by Steven Duong. Published by W.W, Norton &
February 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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new poem—thank you @yalereview.bsky.social
Sometimes you have to be still and suffer, my teacher says about writing, but I have an active suffering that calls me to run after it. Keep up, says the feed of bad news. It's dangerous to see others as an abstraction. I don't need to hate anyone as an abstraction because I have my mother—I hate my mother. She who keeps stealing the car keys is very real. I see her; I know Terror. What does it mean that I know just where to find a sugar baby but not a nice companion for my Terror? What does it say about me that I'd rather be a sugar baby than a nice companion for my mother? I don't actually know if that's true. But when I'm in a car chasing my mother down I-95, wind slicing through the papers in the backseat, I'm not thinking about writing, or about suffering, even if that's what this is.
February 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Everything We Could
A few words on Cecile Richards
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January 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Couplet Therapy
January 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Can't wait to read with two poets I so admire! Join me, @dianacao.bsky.social, & Angela Siew on the 21st!
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Poetry Reading: Diana Cao, Arielle Kaplan, Angela Siew
Come join us for an evening of readings!
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January 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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my student: goats are a very food motivated animal and this can present some challenges

me, a Capricorn: wow, OK yeah
December 13, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live

— Nikki Giovanni
December 10, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem: "Re: your lab results" by Hannah Grieco (@writesloud.bsky.social) #TBT

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Re: your lab results
by Hannah Grieco   Bilirubin like my heart used to rise, code yellow despite these worn-out thumps, these elevated platelets, buttery veins, weighted skin clinging a depression of dermis. When did ...
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December 5, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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thinking about that Billy Collins interview… everyone has particular turnoffs when reading; it’s natural! but it’s also worthwhile, I think, to be mindful of them and at least acknowledge the possibility that the fault lies not in the writing, but in you as a reader
December 4, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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🔥Coeditor Sven Birkerts (@birkerts.bsky.social) has arrived—give him a follow! And while you're at it, check out "Ed Simon on What Sven Birkerts Got Right in The Guttenberg Elegies” on @literaryhub.bsky.social!

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December 3, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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I can’t see all of any horse at once.
They weave through twilight, in and out of sight,
as the sky drains of color, enters dusk.

The barn’s a bloodstain on an ivory dress,
lost in the skirt, a spiraling red kite.

~from "Come Back"
by Chloe Honum
AGNI 70
Come Back | AGNI Online
I can’t see all of any horse at once. They weave through twilight, in and out of sight, as the sky drains of color, enters dusk. The barn’s a bloodstain on an ivory dress, lost in the skirt, a…
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November 24, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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“For me, the revision is often when a poem is too controlled... I haven't really disrupted it from the bottom -- and that's when I step in to mess with it and experiment.”

-- Allison Adair
November 21, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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I’m very excited to introduce these three talented poets tomorrow night! In-person tickets are sold out, but you can still join us virtually! @dianacao.bsky.social @mbrrray.bsky.social

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Photos of poets Diana Cao, Perry Janes, and Margaret Ray
November 20, 2024 at 10:46 PM