Smith
@davidglensmith.bsky.social
Poet, literary type. First book out in 2015. Trying to finish a complex manuscript currently.
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Oh, how I love this. Thanks for the recommendation, @ambersparks.bsky.social and thanks for writing "Volcano People" @rpmirabella.bsky.social
This story by @rpmirabella.bsky.social is so gorgeous and strange and sad, I loved it. That last line! hexliterary.com?p=2727
Volcano People by Richard Mirabella
Our sister went to help the people who came out of the volcano. She told us she was going to leave at the 4th of July picnic, while we sat around eating corn, our hands fatty with butter, silk in our ...
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June 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Oh, how I love this. Thanks for the recommendation, @ambersparks.bsky.social and thanks for writing "Volcano People" @rpmirabella.bsky.social
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friendly reminder the image is language too and not just a product of the language that describes it in the same way the circumference isn't the circle
June 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
friendly reminder the image is language too and not just a product of the language that describes it in the same way the circumference isn't the circle
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects. https://n.pr/405DN8P
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first images are stunning — and just the start
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects.
n.pr
June 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects. https://n.pr/405DN8P
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This tree is incredible, a huge heritage-listed Curtain Fig Tree in Far North Queensland, estimated to be at least 500 years old! #tree #queensland #nature
June 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This tree is incredible, a huge heritage-listed Curtain Fig Tree in Far North Queensland, estimated to be at least 500 years old! #tree #queensland #nature
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Dr. Hayden has more class and intelligence in her pinky finger than the entire Trump administration put together.
www.cbsnews.com/news/former-...
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Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden speaks out on her firing by Trump
Last month, Carla Hayden, the first woman and first African American to serve as Librarian of Congress, received an email announcing her dismissal. She talks about libraries as bastions of democracy, ...
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June 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Dr. Hayden has more class and intelligence in her pinky finger than the entire Trump administration put together.
www.cbsnews.com/news/former-...
www.cbsnews.com/news/former-...
This is where my mind has been these last three days. Total. Stall. Out.
May 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This is where my mind has been these last three days. Total. Stall. Out.
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"I'm realizing I'm being vague here. That's intentional." (via @literaryhub.bsky.social)
None of Your Business: Why Writers Shouldn’t Feel Obligated to Share Too Much
If I tell you secrets about my personal life, will you look at my new book? My first book, a novel called After World, was a relatively comfortable book for me to market in many ways. It takes plac…
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May 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"I'm realizing I'm being vague here. That's intentional." (via @literaryhub.bsky.social)
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Another librarian is standing up for herself! If you feel led to do so, consider giving up a snack/treat this week and donating that $5 to my friend Christine.
www.gofundme.com/f/legal-supp...
www.gofundme.com/f/legal-supp...
Donate to Legal Fees for Librarian Christine Beachler, organized by Michelle Vanallsburg
No one should be consistently attacked for doing their job as a schoo… Michelle Vanallsburg needs your support for Legal Fees for Librarian Christine Beachler
www.gofundme.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Another librarian is standing up for herself! If you feel led to do so, consider giving up a snack/treat this week and donating that $5 to my friend Christine.
www.gofundme.com/f/legal-supp...
www.gofundme.com/f/legal-supp...
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The ghosts and the gays have more in common than you might think.
8 Books About Queer Hauntings - Electric Literature
To summon queer ghosts is to counter queer invisibility, to invent a language for what's inarticulable
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April 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The ghosts and the gays have more in common than you might think.
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I was raised in a multi-generational organizing family and I can say with firsthand knowledge that 20th century organizers read theory and they studied history and literature quite closely
The need to do that hasn’t changed
If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
The need to do that hasn’t changed
If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
January 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I was raised in a multi-generational organizing family and I can say with firsthand knowledge that 20th century organizers read theory and they studied history and literature quite closely
The need to do that hasn’t changed
If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
The need to do that hasn’t changed
If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
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Not everyone can run or sit on a board.
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
56 Small Tasks to Be Proactive Against Book Censorship in 2025 and Beyond: Book Censorship News, January 3, 2025
Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.
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January 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Not everyone can run or sit on a board.
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
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Dear friends, the winners of Best Microfiction 2025 are live! A huge thanks to 2025 judge Dawn Raffel! BM 2025 will be released in the Spring! If you're on this list, expect an email and contract from us in the next 2 weeks. www.bestmicrofiction.com? #flashfiction #microfiction #writingcommunity
Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
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January 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Dear friends, the winners of Best Microfiction 2025 are live! A huge thanks to 2025 judge Dawn Raffel! BM 2025 will be released in the Spring! If you're on this list, expect an email and contract from us in the next 2 weeks. www.bestmicrofiction.com? #flashfiction #microfiction #writingcommunity
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Submissions to The Commuter are OPEN! We want to see your short prose, poetry, and graphic narratives. Each category will be capped at 375 submissions, so don't wait to submit! https://buff.ly/3PoeZ6l
December 2, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Submissions to The Commuter are OPEN! We want to see your short prose, poetry, and graphic narratives. Each category will be capped at 375 submissions, so don't wait to submit! https://buff.ly/3PoeZ6l
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This is a pay-to-play ‘publisher’ who claims to be using AI to edit and distribute books, not write them. The 8,000 books in 2025 is a target they made up. They will publish as many or as few books as people pay them to (at $3k-$5k per book). While the threat of ‘AI’ is real, this is silly.
A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence (AI) 👇 www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub... #BookSky
New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone
A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.
www.thebookseller.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:24 PM
This is a pay-to-play ‘publisher’ who claims to be using AI to edit and distribute books, not write them. The 8,000 books in 2025 is a target they made up. They will publish as many or as few books as people pay them to (at $3k-$5k per book). While the threat of ‘AI’ is real, this is silly.
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Publishers who are getting it right, allowing Indigenous writers to tell their own stories in their own voices. https://buff.ly/4g1ST4u
November 27, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Publishers who are getting it right, allowing Indigenous writers to tell their own stories in their own voices. https://buff.ly/4g1ST4u
Reread Woolf’s MRS. DALLOWAY this week for the third time. It carries such a strong pace and rhythm, an awareness of all levels in society. One of my top ten.
November 24, 2024 at 3:56 AM
Reread Woolf’s MRS. DALLOWAY this week for the third time. It carries such a strong pace and rhythm, an awareness of all levels in society. One of my top ten.
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A Sunday tradition from the other place is my friend The Orchard Keeper posting a Wendell Berry poem. Well, until we get him here:
November 17, 2024 at 4:04 PM
A Sunday tradition from the other place is my friend The Orchard Keeper posting a Wendell Berry poem. Well, until we get him here:
Redrafting my second manuscript again. This process will never end.
November 19, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Redrafting my second manuscript again. This process will never end.
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at the bookstore
November 17, 2024 at 3:40 PM
at the bookstore
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Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from the far side of the moon this year, and they suggest that the moon may have some new stories to tell
Findings from the first lunar far side samples raise new questions about the moon’s history | CNN
The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, according to two new studies.
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November 17, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from the far side of the moon this year, and they suggest that the moon may have some new stories to tell
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“If Adam Picked the Apple” by Danielle Coffyn
Love this. Reminds me of “If Men Could Menstruate” by Gloria Steinem
Love this. Reminds me of “If Men Could Menstruate” by Gloria Steinem
November 18, 2024 at 3:05 AM
“If Adam Picked the Apple” by Danielle Coffyn
Love this. Reminds me of “If Men Could Menstruate” by Gloria Steinem
Love this. Reminds me of “If Men Could Menstruate” by Gloria Steinem