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Dana Delibovi
@danadelibovi.bsky.social
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Poet, essayist, translator. Consulting Poetry Editor, Cable Street, https://cablestreet.org. My book: Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila, available everywhere.
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Cable Street Issue 10 is live.
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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#acrylics #acrylic #acrylicart #art #perspective #abstractart #abstract
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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A white bunny with a tiny crown on its head sits on a stone surface, grooming itself.
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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What Bill W. did has been life-saving for many. AA is not for everyone with a substance abuse problem. It is a flawed, very human program. But for those who find help there, it gives new life after a living death.
matthewjdowd.bsky.social Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d
happy bday co-founder of AA Bill W., b.1895, East Dorset, VT.

“To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.”

“Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.”
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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i mucked around and slipped in once before, let's see if i caint do so again...
haydensferryreview.bsky.social Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social · 27d
The mountains are calling — and so are we. Submit your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and translation Nov. 1–30 for Issue 78: Aftercare. Writers & artists, we’re ready for your brilliance. ✨
#literarymagazine #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #shortstory #callforsubmissions #submityourwork
A blue graphic with snowy mountain peaks and a faint moon in the upper right corner. Text reads: “Hayden’s Ferry Review — Call for Submissions! Nov. 1–30. Poetry, nonfiction, fiction, translation & art. Issue 78 & Aftercare.” The design is minimal and serene, with white serif text over a cool blue mountain landscape.
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Cal Lane, Canadian trained welder and metal artist, transforms common tools and also industrial steel products into intricate sculptures #WomensArt
Photo of two spades against a white surface, the metal blade part has been cut into lace like patterns
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Grrrrrr!
www.macworld.com/article/2952...
Here’s proof that those iPhone typos you keep making aren't your fault
iOS 26 seems to have broken one of the most fundamental parts of the iPhone.
www.macworld.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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“…we are reminded that what we love is also what renders us most vulnerable to heartbreak, because, after all, as Vanderhart writes, ‘the heart is muscle and sore.’”

Really grateful to Bridget Bell for this review of What Pecan Light in @nclitreview.bsky.social 🙏💙📚
North Carolina Literary Review Online Fall 2025
A literary review published online quarterly by East Carolina University and by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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rainer maria rilke
ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO
Archaic Torso of Apollo By Rainer Maria Rilke Translated By Stephen Mitchell We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams in all its power. Otherwise the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could a smile run through the placid hips and thighs to that dark center where procreation flared. Otherwise this stone would seem defaced beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur: would not, from all the borders of itself, burst like a star: for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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🌱 Holiday decor, wild style
2 magenta cosmos flowers peek through other growth, now dried, and in the foreground a wispy dried aster plant has a line of suspended oak leaves arrayed diagonally across its width.
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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This post on permanent repeat—oh and you should read “Larks” by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social if you have not done so already: cablestreet.org/issue-8-tabl...
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Thank you so much @jenwithwords.bsky.social! A beautiful message and photo! I'm so grateful and happy that you've been enjoying IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS (@icefloepress.bsk.social).

Much warmth for the season ahead and thank you for supporting our collaboration 💙

@rfredekenter.bsky.social
jenwithwords.bsky.social Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 3d
✨Today’s Bookmail!✨

A bold and striking collaboration of words by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and images by @rfredekenter.bsky.social (both amazing artists that I very much admire) published by @icefloepress.bsky.social

This book is a wordy visual treat (also, a great holiday gift idea)!
The book ‘In the Blueprint of Her Iris’ with poems by Vikki C. and art by Robert Frede Kenner sits amidst pine tree boughs and lights. Two small Christmas tree balls, on red, one gold, hang next to it.
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Griffin Protome from a Cauldron (Greece, Samos, 650-640 BCE)

Harvard Art Museums, Boston
Griffin Protome from a Cauldron (Greece, Samos, 650-640 BCE) Harvard Art Museums, Boston
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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It’s like folks *want* to act like humans, but don’t trust their own human bodies or the humans around them? Humanity without humans is not humanity, folks.
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee 52A @ MICE @alexandragallant.com · 3d
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
Al is also changing how we communicate. With so little free time and so much pressure to be perfect, many who've never cooked a turkey might have a chatbot walk them through the steps, feeling safer asking "stupid questions" in private. People even report using Al conversation prompts to get lively discussions going at the table. Al can generate the toast, the prayer, the party games and the poem read before dessert.
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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"..its language teaching us to kiss through a war."

'Diaspora' from IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS.

Poems by Vikki C. in dialogue with stunning artwork by Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social

Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social Link below 💙

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#poetrycommunity
DIASPORA What day is it when we both wake in translucence? A garden gate to climb over—just to say goodbye, bees motioning of honey, or death by habit. Because 3,000 miles makes us closer than family— love is created this way, knowing how brief we’ll be. Hands slipping from each other’s sides—running off course. Like wet babies a mother tries to bathe safely— mothers who still don’t understand their cries decades later. An old song opens my chest and names it foreign, its language teaching us how to kiss through a war. I wear my best dress for strangers who die after we speak— depressed colours breaking at the hem of violence— for the guilt inherited by voyeurs and canvases left blank. I’m absent when the piano falls out of tune because God can’t save us all. An instrument’s lungs eventually flood while it plays on—even when music is forbidden —even when every child is too far to hear the singing. Without asking—the water shows us our wounded constellations.
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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A little backyard birding. Not Melvin (too thin).

#birds
#photography
Bright red northern cardinal perched on plants in fall colors of yellow.
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Children are not therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy

only therapy is therapy
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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We love all things #Istanbul ❤️
ottomanhistory.bsky.social History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 4d
📷 Soğukçeşme Street, Istanbul, 1875
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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“All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.”—Spinoza, from his book, Ethics

This guy is my favorite philosopher, bar none. Happy Birthday!
matthewjdowd.bsky.social Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 4d
happy bday Portuguese Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza, b.1632.

“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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6 pm Tuesday, November 25th, Missouri Conservation Department virtual class

Missouri's Wild Turkeys 🦃

Register
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This and other Garden & Nature events can be found on the blog
This Week in Gardening & Nature
Plant of the Week: Snapdragons, great garden color in cooler months. If you are just looking for St. Louis Area Plant and Seed Swaps and Sales, they are here. 2026 Updates: Added Missouri Invasive …
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November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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This is brilliant
victinibcn.bsky.social Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 5d
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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happy bday Romanian-born writer Paul Celan, b.1920.

“Don't sign your name
between worlds,

surmount
the manifold of meanings,

trust the tearstain,
learn to live.”

"In the mirror it's Sunday,
in dream there is room for sleeping,
our mouths speak the truth."
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM