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Burgi Zenhaeusern
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Loves books. Writes poems.
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For everything else (incl. WHITE DOOR order link): https://linktr.ee/burgitree

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 4d
My debut collection WHITE DOOR is out!!! 💃✨💃
Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social!
Link to order and more info in 🧵
DM for signed copies/to review 🙏💙
Watch this space for events/news 😊
three copies of white door on patterned upholstery fabric. cover image shows detail of Alternative Reality by Alan Sirulnikoff, photographer: logs floating on dark water and a white door among them. front and backside of bookmark on same surface. Front shows detail of book cover, centering the door among logs. title isn't shown. Backside has a poem from the book printed on it plus attributions: Horizons Traditions I keep take hold in this soil slowly— home grows fainter still until distant slopes briefly make me forget where I am, re-etch longing. yours truly (white woman, shoulder-length dark-blondish hair, glasses, dark green sweater, scarf with green and gray leafmotif) smiling into camera holding the book in front of her, white bookshelves along white walls in the background.
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glasspoetry.bsky.social Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 21h
Today on Glass!

"Grief Theory" by Cleo Qian!

www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
Image of a dark room and a person at the window Text: Cleo Qian Grief Theory You will describe one thing over and over again: over and over again, you will describe the wrong thing. https://www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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sidhepress.bsky.social
Let the light in. Start your day by clicking one link and helping six families and a camp to get their basic needs covered. Thank you.
A gravel path, flanked by trees, pines, I think. There is light pouring in and a little fog, making it look like a painting
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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burgi.bsky.social
"after / or before: only the obvious blue."

What a beautiful new poem by @kaseyryoen.bsky.social 😍✨️😍!
psalteryandlyre.bsky.social Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 3d
"Enter through a goneness, the way snow / finds the hole in the roof..."

"Each Time as Suddenly" by @kaseyryoen.bsky.social

psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/17/e...
Each Time as Suddenly
by Kasey Jueds
psalteryandlyre.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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susanlleary.bsky.social
And if anyone is interested in reviewing MORE FLOWERS, please message me! Would love to have an ARC sent your way! 🌸🌺
susanlleary.bsky.social Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 3d
Proof copy is here, and she’s lovely, so let this be a little reminder that MORE FLOWERS is out with @triohousepress.org in less than 3 months! You can pre-order at the link in the replies or wherever books are sold!

Here’s to more poetry and more flowers!
🌺🌸🌼
The poetry collection, More Flowers, resting against a vase of red carnations. ♥️🌸💐
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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victoriachang.bsky.social
This Saturday, I'll be leading an online poetry writing workshop, where we'll read together and write together. This is through Scotland's Push the Boat Out Festival. 9am PT/12pm ET. pushtheboatout.org/events/p...
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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hanvanderhart.bsky.social
I do want this night to end.

Bill Knott
WIDOW / WIDOWER'S WINTER Outside, the snow is falling into its past... I do want this night to end. In the fireplace, a section of ash caves in. The fall day you were buried, birds went over, south, thick enough to carry someone. They took my gapes of breath. -Their fuel? We are together in some birds, who fail. I didn't want to look down, to glimpse your grave, its heroic little mound like the peck of dirt we hope to eat in our life.
November 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I guess we can take the "pre" out and just say "order". I learned Asterism is now shipping copies of *Becoming Altar*! So go ahead and grab one, maybe a few to give as holiday gifts! Some people who don't usually read poetry like this book. (My family. Go figure.)
asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
Book cover in blue with yellow type: Becoming Altar, New and Selected Poems by Kyla Houbolt
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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smartishpace.bsky.social
Erin Barach, Donald Berger, Sophia, and Camilo Montoya reading in The HOT L Poets Series on Nov. 9, 2025. Join us for our next reading on December 14th with poets Michael B. Tager and Burgi Zenhaeusern ( @burgi.bsky.social )at Bird in Hand (Baltimore)!

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Erin Barach, Donald Berger, Sophia, and Camilo Montoya reading in The HOT L Poets Series
YouTube video by SmartishPace
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November 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Need a gift idea this season? We’ve got you covered, and will ship to you free with the code 2025GIFT 🌊 🌊📚💙 #poetry #Booksky

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Give the gift of small press poetry this year! Free shipping & 10% with code 2025GIFT RiverRiverBooks.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
New episode with poet Nicole Cooley (@lsupress.bsky.social), dropping tomorrow! 🎙️📚💙

Subscribe today: ofpoetrypodcast.com

On Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Graphic of person writing on beach and the quote: "If you want to change your writing, change your writing space." NICOLE COOLEY, EP 81
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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"And now for something completely different, work by Maudie Bryant."

Blended & Beyond: defiant stones; heavy treasures; bathtub vignette by Maudie Bryant

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Blended & Beyond: defiant stones; heavy treasures; bathtub vignette by Maudie Bryant
And now for something completely different, work by Maudie Bryant.
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
burgi.bsky.social
"after / or before: only the obvious blue."

What a beautiful new poem by @kaseyryoen.bsky.social 😍✨️😍!
psalteryandlyre.bsky.social Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 3d
"Enter through a goneness, the way snow / finds the hole in the roof..."

"Each Time as Suddenly" by @kaseyryoen.bsky.social

psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/17/e...
Each Time as Suddenly
by Kasey Jueds
psalteryandlyre.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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smartishpace.bsky.social
Poets G. H. Mosson, Jordan Keeney & Lisa Green Cudek reading in open mic at The HOT L Poet Series on Nov. 9, 2025. Join us for our next reading on December 14th with poets Michael B. Tager and Burgi Zenhaeusern ( @burgi.bsky.social ) at Bird in Hand (Baltimore)!

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G. H. Mosson, Jordan Keeney & Lisa Green Cudek reading in The HOT L Poets Series
YouTube video by SmartishPace
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November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Full context here: www.sarabandebooks.org/donate
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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davidnaimon.bsky.social
Today's conversation is with the painter Stephen Hayes about his new exhibition, twelve abstract paintings engaging with Gaza. We talk abstraction and representation, who makes meaning, the artist or the person before it, and much more.
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-...
Tin House Live: Stephen Hayes - Tin House
Painter Stephen Hayes latest exhibition, “Elegy,” consists of twelve abstract paintings that engage with the genocide in Gaza. One of the twelve paintings was created while listening to the Between th...
tinhouse.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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burgi.bsky.social
My debut collection WHITE DOOR is out!!! 💃✨💃
Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social!
Link to order and more info in 🧵
DM for signed copies/to review 🙏💙
Watch this space for events/news 😊
three copies of white door on patterned upholstery fabric. cover image shows detail of Alternative Reality by Alan Sirulnikoff, photographer: logs floating on dark water and a white door among them. front and backside of bookmark on same surface. Front shows detail of book cover, centering the door among logs. title isn't shown. Backside has a poem from the book printed on it plus attributions: Horizons Traditions I keep take hold in this soil slowly— home grows fainter still until distant slopes briefly make me forget where I am, re-etch longing. yours truly (white woman, shoulder-length dark-blondish hair, glasses, dark green sweater, scarf with green and gray leafmotif) smiling into camera holding the book in front of her, white bookshelves along white walls in the background.
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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chiaradilello.bsky.social
Humans! Pre-orders are open for my chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL. Read more about it and grab your copy here:
www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/chil...
@gameoverbooks.bsky.social
Promo graphic: An ultrasound showing a yellow book, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL, by Chiara Di Lello from Game Over Books. Expected Jan 2026 Childless Millennial is a rallying cry for a label reclaimed with pride. This book is a blueprint-by-amalgamation for what a fulfilling non-reproducing life can be. Drawing inspiration from as disparate sources as her own non-biological mother figures, the act of nurturing of other people's children, and the natural world, Chiara Di Lello's chapbook cuts against the expectation of compulsory motherhood. Through a multi-generational dive into her own Ukrainian immigrant family, she wrestles with the choice to be child-free and its thorny entanglements with gender and culture. Childless Millennial rejects expectations and forges its own answers to what makes a meaningful life.
November 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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susanlleary.bsky.social
Proof copy is here, and she’s lovely, so let this be a little reminder that MORE FLOWERS is out with @triohousepress.org in less than 3 months! You can pre-order at the link in the replies or wherever books are sold!

Here’s to more poetry and more flowers!
🌺🌸🌼
The poetry collection, More Flowers, resting against a vase of red carnations. ♥️🌸💐
November 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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972mag.com
New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since Oct. 7

Post-mortems & testimonies suggest many died from torture, medical neglect & food deprivation. According to leaked Israeli intelligence database, dozens were civilians.

www.972mag.com/98-palestini...

@mekomit.bsky.social
New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since October 7
Post-mortems of the deceased and testimonies from former detainees suggest many died from torture, medical neglect, and food deprivation. According to a leaked Israeli intelligence database, dozens we...
www.972mag.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Tonight!

Register now!

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A NAWP Reading: Victoria Buitron, Taylor Byas & Daniella Toosie-Watson
A NAWP Reading with Victoria Buitron, Taylor Byas and Daniella Toosie Watson hosted by Jared Beloff.
www.eventbrite.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean. n.pr/4r5pU67
Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats
NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Our editors reading together with friends on 12/7! Stay in, have a cup of tea or hot chocolate, and hear some poems! 💙📚🎉🎉🎉
hanvanderhart.bsky.social Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 4d
Very excited for this reading in a couple weeks—make a wonder with your friends. ❄️ Celebrate poetry. Have a party for your chapbooks! 📚💙 #booksky #poetry RSVP details in next post.
AMORAK HUEY CARLOS A. PITTELLA CATHERINE ROCKWOOD ELIZABETH SYLVIA HAN VANDERHART A Ainter's Night Chapbook Reading 12/7, 7pm ET (Zoom)
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social
For our Sunday morning readers: a new review of Catherine Rockwood’s DOGWITCH, by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza! ☕️☀️📚 #booksky #poetry #review

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November 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Her skirt was full of roses...

Marosa di Giorgio
Her skirt was full of roses; in her lap roses were blooming.... -prose poem by Marosa di Giorgio
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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kaseyryoen.bsky.social
It's a joy and an honor to be a (small) part of this wise, brave, lovely book. So happy it's in the world. Congratulations @burgi.bsky.social!
burgi.bsky.social Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 4d
THANK YOU to @kathryncowles.bsky.social, @hanvanderhart.bsky.social & @kaseyryoen.bsky.social for supporting WHITE DOOR (Carbonation Press) with their generous words. I'm beyond honored! 💖🙏💖

And thank you, too, to Alan Sirulnikoff for letting me use his wonderful art for the cover! 🙏💖😍
Three copies of WHITE DOOR on patterned upholstery fabric. Cover image shows detail of Alternative Reality by Alan Sirulnikoff, photography: long logs and a white door among them, floating on dark water. Image of blurbs as appearing in book listing: From the first astonishing poem of White Door you can feel it—the stitching together of separated things, the line pulling away from the sentence and then hard-threaded back at stanza’s end, the then pulling away from the now, the child from the mother, frayed, and then hand-sewn back. Burgi Zenhaeusern’s language is stitch-work, textile, sensory, but the kind of sensory that begins to lean figurative, to mean more than it says. The I can be “light forced through / split clouds,” or “my shiny coin” can be “falling into the empty well of me—its bright ping,” the sun can be a she, “her mouth a white-hot hole,” fear can be “packed like old snow.” When I look up after disappearing into the careful weave of these poems, I am amazed to find how far moved I am from where I started, how completely everything behind me has changed in the new light. - Kathryn Cowles, author of Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World Framed by the tender ordinary, by branches through the kitchen window, by generational memory and a grandfather’s painted Alpine meadow, Burgi Zenhaeusern’s White Door asks the central question of poetry: “How long / can you continue without yearning?” Simone Weil wrote that unmixed attention is prayer, and this collection streams with the light of attention and language that feels to me holy. - Han VanderHart, author of Larks In White Door, Burgi Zenhaeusern circles back again and again to necessary, enduring questions—how to care for each other, what home is—refusing to settle for anything less than the real. Despite the way exploration tends to “re-etch longing,” despite the complexities of language and being, these poems do not give up their hunger to understand. Intelligence and integrity shine through them. Kasey Jueds, author of The Thicket
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM