Evalyn Lee
@evalynlee.bsky.social
Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
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Evalyn Lee
@evalynlee.bsky.social
· Dec 14
#Gratitude to @wildroofjournal.bsky.social for publishing & discussing my #poem ‘I Read A Lot’ in #Issue15. A #poetry highlight for me. What a brilliant team of #editors. Highly recommend them to the #BlueSky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting
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"We would never tolerate a government that chose to defund 70% of neonatal services, gambling that charities would fill the gap. Yet this is exactly the situation for end-of-life care."
Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As a palliative care specialist, I’ve witnessed the human tragedy of our end-of-life care crisis | Rachel Clarke
While the government debates assisted dying, palliative care is an afterthought. And many more people face death without the care and support they need, says Rachel Clarke
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"We would never tolerate a government that chose to defund 70% of neonatal services, gambling that charities would fill the gap. Yet this is exactly the situation for end-of-life care."
Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
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MONUMENTS, an exhibit featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments paired with work by contemporary Black artists, opens in Los Angeles next week.
This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
MONUMENTS, an exhibit featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments paired with work by contemporary Black artists, opens in Los Angeles next week.
This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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AUTHORS!!
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
AUTHORS!!
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
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Ellanya Sivasubramaniam, a Top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025, reads winning poem 'The Girls Who Grow Antlers'.
Read this year's winning poems and find out more about the Award: bit.ly/FoyleYoungPoets
Read this year's winning poems and find out more about the Award: bit.ly/FoyleYoungPoets
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Ellanya Sivasubramaniam, a Top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025, reads winning poem 'The Girls Who Grow Antlers'.
Read this year's winning poems and find out more about the Award: bit.ly/FoyleYoungPoets
Read this year's winning poems and find out more about the Award: bit.ly/FoyleYoungPoets
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The 2025-26 Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes are open! There are two competitions – poetry and essays – and two age groups: the Keats-Shelley Prize, which is open to all, and the Young Romantics Prize, aimed at anyone aged between 16-18.
For more information, visit bit.ly/3KdIurO
For more information, visit bit.ly/3KdIurO
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The 2025-26 Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes are open! There are two competitions – poetry and essays – and two age groups: the Keats-Shelley Prize, which is open to all, and the Young Romantics Prize, aimed at anyone aged between 16-18.
For more information, visit bit.ly/3KdIurO
For more information, visit bit.ly/3KdIurO
If you read one #poem today make it this one! #WendellBerry Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front. Enjoy!
cales.arizona.edu/~steidl/Libe...
cales.arizona.edu/~steidl/Libe...
MANIFESTO: THE MAD FARMER LIBERATION FRONT
cales.arizona.edu
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If you read one #poem today make it this one! #WendellBerry Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front. Enjoy!
cales.arizona.edu/~steidl/Libe...
cales.arizona.edu/~steidl/Libe...
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
A beautiful #essay about family, writing, grief, history & searing & invisible contexts of the cost war by @cathfeely.bsky.social #mustread
For Remembrance Sunday, a short reflection on the life and death of my great grandfather in the twenty years after his return. botheringmiancestors.substack.com/p/the-trench...
The Trenches, the Tram and the Trolley Bus
A twentieth-century story
botheringmiancestors.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
A beautiful #essay about family, writing, grief, history & searing & invisible contexts of the cost war by @cathfeely.bsky.social #mustread
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30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
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Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide.
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide.
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The work of contemporary ceramics artist Pollyanna Johnson #WomensArt
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The work of contemporary ceramics artist Pollyanna Johnson #WomensArt
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Read about WHY Ketanji Brown Jackson stayed the SNAP order. Her move is probably the best solution for getting SNAP benefits approved quickly. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
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Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
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When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent
Check out this story by @zenagrossa.bsky.social in @poynterinstitute.bsky.social:
Check out this story by @zenagrossa.bsky.social in @poynterinstitute.bsky.social:
When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent - Poynter
Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we're still figuring out how to sustain it
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November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent
Check out this story by @zenagrossa.bsky.social in @poynterinstitute.bsky.social:
Check out this story by @zenagrossa.bsky.social in @poynterinstitute.bsky.social:
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happy bday French writer Albert Camus, b.1913.
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
November 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
happy bday French writer Albert Camus, b.1913.
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing