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“[Poetry] can awaken us, from our sloth, even yet.”

Denise Levertov
April 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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"What we are witnessing is grand scale theft. These public institutions belong to us, the American people. We’ve funded them through our taxes for all the years we have paid taxes. In return we get the benefits. Disease eradication, rivers that don’t catch on fire..."

- Melissa Tuckey
My latest substack post is a report from science and education protests in DC. Read about it here.
Stand up for Science & Education
A report back from my trip to DC
melissatuckey.substack.com
March 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Alison Hawthorne Deming is a longtime friend of Orion (and an instructor at this year’s Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop). Here, she corresponds with Alice Bell on the role of hope in the climate crisis, the problem of hiding in history, and more.
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March 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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A story about living with and learning from a lizard named Squeaky.
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March 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
After a long day-week-month-year so far, picked a favorite human up from the train station and paused to take in this light, together. Gathering beautiful moments, gathering light.
February 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A small patch of “snow globes” bobbing on a cold winter breeze. A portend, a cairn, nature’s simple beauty as an act of resistance?
February 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
An important time to lift these voices.
Ask me how I put my shoulder to the wheel. Storyknife Writers Retreat, lifting women's voices.
February 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Poetry and flowers. Panaceas, joyful resistance.
February 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Speak out, rest, speak out—repeat!
February 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“I live in a diorama of days extending out into what I cannot imagine. At the furthest reach, I long for a red-winged blackbird on a fence post in a pasture full of daisies.” J Moon
February 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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DOGE employee Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old high school grad who goes by "Big Balls" and owns porn site Tesla dot Sexy, a criminal hacker who solicited illegal cyberattack-for-hire, has full access highly sensitive US computer systems.

He also runs Russian websites.

www.wired.com/story/edward...
DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
www.wired.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Two favorites, Anna and Jane, their intermingled breath of a line on the page.
Anna Akhmatova, translated by Jane Kenyon

@graywolfpress.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Need a good distraction? I suggest a few lovely poems here to ground you.
February 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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If you give me 2 minutes, I'll read you a poem and tell you about this book by @joshrobbinswrites.bsky.social. 😊

youtube.com/shorts/1f9CS...
Poetry Rev 62 - Joshua Robbins - Eschatology in Crayon Wax
YouTube video by Katie Manning
youtube.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Toxic, toxins, cancer, ideograms, men, women, and the old/new president: Elizabeth Jacobson's searing Letter to America, "America, Here We Go Again!" has it all. Don't miss this one.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-to-america-jacobson/
Letter to America by Elizabeth Jacobson - Terrain.org
Toxic, toxins, cancer, ideograms, men, women, and the old/new president: Elizabeth Jacobson’s searing Letter to America has it all.
www.terrain.org
January 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Daniel Seifert's "Calming exercise for the 21st Century" is a welcome and no doubt essential Letter to America poem for Inauguration Day.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/letter-to-america-seifert/

#poem #poetry #poet #politicalpoetry #winter
www.terrain.org
January 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Here's a peaceful moment for you, with a hooded merganser on the Salish Sea. Breath on the water.
January 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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I wrote this for a Storyknife alum, but maybe we all need it:
Please remember that your job is to bring your individual talent to the world in service of the stories that will help the people that find them. We cannot fix everything or reach everyone, but we can do our work with all our hearts.
January 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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*and move to BlueSky
January 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Our Spring Poetry List is here!

Celebrate the season with powerful voices & breathtaking words. Pre-order now and support indie artists directly. Your purchase helps us keep creating wild, inclusive spaces for poetry.

Browse and pre-order: wayfarerbookstore.com

#IndiePublishing #Poetry
January 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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🌿📚 Hello, Bluesky! We’re Wayfarer Books, publishing the cryptic, floral, queer-at-heart voices reshaping the world. Since 2012, we’ve inspired action & change-making through literature. Leaving platforms that don’t reflect our values, we’re building wild, inclusive futures. wayfarerbooks.org
January 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Revamped my substack. God, I love the word Revamp! It's so unintentionally sexy. The site: A bit more professional, loads less bloggy. renpowell.substack.com #playwright
Dramatic Roots | Ren Powell | Substack
At Dramatic Roots, you'll find essays on the creative process, poems exploring nature and memory, and exercises to hone your craft. Monthly Rehearsal Notes share works in progress and reflections on a...
renpowell.substack.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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"Writing a little bit each day is akin to leaving the faucets dripping on a cold January night; while the ideas are flowing the creative pipes won’t freeze." ~ @marthasilano.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The Salem Poetry Festival is February 27, 28, and March 1. Come help us celebrate place and our words. This free event with three venues and many poets is going to be deep and fun and memorable. Watch for more details.
January 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM