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Eben E. B. Bein (they)
@ebenbein.bsky.social
Poet. Teacher-Turned-Youth-Climate-Justice-Advocate. Renaissance person. Chapbook: bit.ly/CharacterFlaws.
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the poppies return
and we vow ‘never again’
again, and again

#HaikuSaturday #haiku #poetry
May 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We carry versions of our people in us. How tricky it can be to sort our version of them from the real thing.

Thank you @pacificalit.bsky.social, my therapist, and Internal Family Systems. #ifs

www.pacificareview.com/issue-21-2/
September 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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POW! It's NAWP time!
September 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Takes an ecosystem to raise a poem. Thanks @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, Mary Angelino, @yungwerther.bsky.social, Marisa Tirado, John Howard, Courtney Caldwell, the Quinobequin (Charles River), and its vociferous, eating, drinking, shitting inhabitants.
September 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Tonight at 8EST! Come listen and/or read!
Want words in your ear Wednesday night? 🖌

Take me on your evening walk. Tune in on Zoom at 8PM with Penny Thieme and VALA Gallery (Visual Audio Literary Artists). If you like, stay and read at the open mic at 9PM🎤!

RSVP here or DM for link:
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August 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Want words in your ear Wednesday night? 🖌

Take me on your evening walk. Tune in on Zoom at 8PM with Penny Thieme and VALA Gallery (Visual Audio Literary Artists). If you like, stay and read at the open mic at 9PM🎤!

RSVP here or DM for link:
www.facebook.com/share/19R4Gg...
August 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
June 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Come join me and some amazing poets in Brookline on Thursday!

brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-0...
June 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Nearly 18k cis women have signed this petition. If you are cis and haven't signed it already and support the trans+ community, please sign and share this.

If you are trans, remember you are supported; however, the transphobes try to make it look. Please share this.

www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
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May 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Wild. So I just got 4 poems accepted in a batch, bringing my total to 70! independently published/forthcoming poems.
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Me making the best decision of my life ... on the lawn of the same courthouse where the first same sex marriage happened in 2004. Gay marriage was not legalized across the country until 2015.

Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social for publicly sharing these vows:

www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
May 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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New issue is LIVE and IN FULL EFFECT. Feat. Miriam Akervall, @daynabateman.bsky.social, @ebenbein.bsky.social , @danielbrennanreads.bsky.social, Karan Kapoor, JP Kemmick, @poetryphone.bsky.social, Megan Snyder-Camp, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social, & Virginia Watts

Be astonished: www.pacificareview.com
Pacifica Literary Review
Publishing online and in print since 2012. Based in the great northwest.
www.pacificareview.com
May 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This Thursday!
3 poem hanging on a public wall the 1st time, opening on May 1st from 6-7:30!

Symbiosis exhibit at Arlington Center for the Arts pairs visual art & poetry from local creatives about community & change, from evolving family relationships to complex feelings about history & identity.
April 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Wow, congrats Eben!! It's great to revisit this poem!
A childhood backyard poem about extinction & The Avengers first published in @wildroofjournal.bsky.social paired with the layered printmaking, collage, and needlework of Karen McCarthy. Don’t miss the epigraph from my dear poet friend and housemate, Lulu Liu.
April 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
3 poem hanging on a public wall the 1st time, opening on May 1st from 6-7:30!

Symbiosis exhibit at Arlington Center for the Arts pairs visual art & poetry from local creatives about community & change, from evolving family relationships to complex feelings about history & identity.
April 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I am what you protected,
the mechanism begin in utero, but I am also
what I make myself...

@mspicone.bsky.social, this tenuous atmosphere
April 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Anyone have recording equipment I can borrow for my keynote next Wednesday?
April 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
If they each had a bird in hand
they would open their hands.

Obsessed with this line from "How to Live" in "Ragnarok at the Father-Daughter Dance" by @toddedillard.bsky.social, thanks @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for bringing me Todd's book.
April 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
#handsoff Boston
April 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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But will not be using the tax system to get rich people to pay taxes.
🚨 SCOOP 🚨

DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.

It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.

IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants
The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information. But immigration officials now say they’re seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without...
www.washingtonpost.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My first "Best New Poets" nomination!? 👀🤯🤓
April 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Love to see our grads and their books. Congratulations, Eben!
Swing by to grab a book from me and Jennifer Case at booth 323 with @terrainorg.bsky.social #awp2025
March 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Stop being one person" relays @nickolebrown.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM