Jenne Hsien Patrick
@jennehsienpatrick.bsky.social
poet / writer / artist / comics / words / paper / thread / textiles / zines / RISOgraph / nature / magic
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April 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Yes I know: the thread you have to keep finding, over again, to
follow it back to life; I know. Impossible, sometimes.
—Jean Valentine, from "Sanctuary"
follow it back to life; I know. Impossible, sometimes.
—Jean Valentine, from "Sanctuary"
April 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Yes I know: the thread you have to keep finding, over again, to
follow it back to life; I know. Impossible, sometimes.
—Jean Valentine, from "Sanctuary"
follow it back to life; I know. Impossible, sometimes.
—Jean Valentine, from "Sanctuary"
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Skipping physical AWP this year, come hang with us online and see me read new poems I’m excited about? March 28, 8 pm.
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March 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Skipping physical AWP this year, come hang with us online and see me read new poems I’m excited about? March 28, 8 pm.
www.eventbrite.com/e/stanzas-in...
www.eventbrite.com/e/stanzas-in...
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What’s more exciting to me as an editor than under 30 debut lists? A poet who returns with something exquisite after a decade of silence. Books that take years to discover their shape, not more-of-the-same sequels to best sellers. Poets who reinvent themselves because life has reinvented them.
March 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
What’s more exciting to me as an editor than under 30 debut lists? A poet who returns with something exquisite after a decade of silence. Books that take years to discover their shape, not more-of-the-same sequels to best sellers. Poets who reinvent themselves because life has reinvented them.
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The mayor of Cascadia's largest city, Bruce Harrell, called these tech bros "smart innovators" last night
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"The FCC is run by Brendan Carr, who did write the playbook for the FCC chapter in Project 25. We know that our current president surrounds himself by some of the smartest innovators around. When we drop names like Andreessen or Peter Thiel or David Sacks or Elon Musk, these are smart innovators."
February 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The mayor of Cascadia's largest city, Bruce Harrell, called these tech bros "smart innovators" last night
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Spring workshops are up on our website! Sign up! www.paperpresspunch.com/workshops
February 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Spring workshops are up on our website! Sign up! www.paperpresspunch.com/workshops
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Write *away from* certainty, not toward it.
February 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Write *away from* certainty, not toward it.
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You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
—Louise Erdrich
—Louise Erdrich
February 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
—Louise Erdrich
—Louise Erdrich
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So excited to host our THIRD poetry reading to raise funds for beloved families in Gz who continue to need our support as they remain steadfast on their land. Come join Sarah Ghazal Ali, George Abraham, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Cindy Juyoung Ok on March 7th, online: workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...
A Poetry Reading for Gaza III — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $45). Step 2: Register for “A Poetry Reading for Gaza III” here . Join Workshops4Gaza for our third online poetry reading featuri...
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February 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
So excited to host our THIRD poetry reading to raise funds for beloved families in Gz who continue to need our support as they remain steadfast on their land. Come join Sarah Ghazal Ali, George Abraham, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Cindy Juyoung Ok on March 7th, online: workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...
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History says we forgave the executioner.
—Sharif
—Sharif
![Social Skills Training
by Solmaz Sharif
Studies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What's the problem? Studies suggest it’s best the help reply My pleasure and not No problem. Studies suggest it’s best not to mention problem in front of power even to say there is none. Gloria Steinem says women lose power as they age and yet the loudest voice in my head is my mother. Studies show the mother we have in mind isn’t the mother that exists. Mine says: What the fuck are you crying for? Studies show the baby monkey will pick the fake monkey with fake fur over the furless wire monkey with milk, without contest. Studies show to negate something is to think it anyway. I’m not sad. I’m not sad. Studies recommend regular expressions of gratitude and internal check-ins. Enough, the wire mother says. [ran out of space. poem also here: https://tinyurl.com/sharifpoem]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlmttkf54je7ie22kz7oymca/bafkreigd6yv4wvtxd2uwuzf27xbt62mpxep67ljta2edqmjeywqi7zfmhu@jpeg)
February 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
History says we forgave the executioner.
—Sharif
—Sharif
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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Our first all ages RISO JAM workshop of 2025 is Saturday, February 8th! We’ll be making Valentine’s Cards. 🥰
Sign up here! www.paperpresspunch.com/workshops/p/...
#risograph #riso #risoworkshops
Sign up here! www.paperpresspunch.com/workshops/p/...
#risograph #riso #risoworkshops
January 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Our first all ages RISO JAM workshop of 2025 is Saturday, February 8th! We’ll be making Valentine’s Cards. 🥰
Sign up here! www.paperpresspunch.com/workshops/p/...
#risograph #riso #risoworkshops
Sign up here! www.paperpresspunch.com/workshops/p/...
#risograph #riso #risoworkshops
Celebrate the real new year with us Wednesday at Common Objects in Seattle!! Poetry, snakes, cake and zines what else would would u want to be doing to celebrate the Year of the Snake?!? RSVP here: www.tixtree.com/e/seven-snak...
January 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Celebrate the real new year with us Wednesday at Common Objects in Seattle!! Poetry, snakes, cake and zines what else would would u want to be doing to celebrate the Year of the Snake?!? RSVP here: www.tixtree.com/e/seven-snak...
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“…it is crucial that a poet see when she or he is not looking—just as she must write when she is not writing. To write just because the poet wants to write is natural, but to learn to see is a blessing.”
Linda Gregg
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Linda Gregg
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January 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“…it is crucial that a poet see when she or he is not looking—just as she must write when she is not writing. To write just because the poet wants to write is natural, but to learn to see is a blessing.”
Linda Gregg
poets.org/text/art-fin...
Linda Gregg
poets.org/text/art-fin...
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Don't know if anyone is struggling with the futility of writing right now, but if it helps, I think it probably matters more than ever
January 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Don't know if anyone is struggling with the futility of writing right now, but if it helps, I think it probably matters more than ever
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![Denise Paolucci (rahaeli on Bluesky) cofounded blog site Dreamwidth and previously worked in trust and safety at LiveJournal. She has a ton of experience with every possible form of social media bad actor and regularly posts on Bluesky about trust and safety. Lately, she's been writing about our bot friends.
Paolucci thinks this particular wave of "reply guy as a service" bots are test runs by a spambot maker, who hopes to rent the bots out to other bad actors as a service: "It's common for spamming software to be pitched as social media management." [Bluesky]
Bad actors want to sort out what bot styles get the most responses for engagement farming. Bluesky is light on algorithms that filter what you can see, but spammers got in the habit of exploring how the algorithms work on Twitter, Facebook, and Threads so they could exploit them.
Some bots are being run to establish what can lower the quality of discussion on a platform. These bots may be political or commercial in intent. Twitter has long been overrun with this style of bot.
The bots also join followback and follow-for-follow hashtags. Content-scraper accounts are grown in the hope of selling the account to a spammer Bluesky has a large number of followback
accounts. Some of these accounts have already](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreidx5saezlmhms642lmv4eyzn637wqjd36zct7lrehnvos2vzfq7vu@jpeg)
January 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check
Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts
Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts
January 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check
Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts
Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts
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Good morning. You are still here. Do something kind for someone you love today--and if you can, for someone else in your community, even if they're a stranger. We're in this together. ❤️
January 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Good morning. You are still here. Do something kind for someone you love today--and if you can, for someone else in your community, even if they're a stranger. We're in this together. ❤️
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today is a good day to go unbridled into yourself and write the thing you have been hesitating to write, to invent a new way of getting lost, to discover a different way back
January 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
today is a good day to go unbridled into yourself and write the thing you have been hesitating to write, to invent a new way of getting lost, to discover a different way back
Very grateful for this tender poem to be featured in The Margin’s #PoetryTuesday @aaww-nyc.bsky.social today and am honored to be able to share it here. ❤️
“The only/ whole things left are the tangled gold necklaces knotted/ with grief, chains my mother will not break.”
Read this week’s #PoetryTuesday piece, “Echo Body” by
@jennehsienpatrick.bsky.social, in #TheMargins.
🌟 aaww.org/echo-body/ #poetry
Read this week’s #PoetryTuesday piece, “Echo Body” by
@jennehsienpatrick.bsky.social, in #TheMargins.
🌟 aaww.org/echo-body/ #poetry
January 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Very grateful for this tender poem to be featured in The Margin’s #PoetryTuesday @aaww-nyc.bsky.social today and am honored to be able to share it here. ❤️
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I love this Xin Qiji poem, translated by @chowleen.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 5:08 AM
I love this Xin Qiji poem, translated by @chowleen.bsky.social
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It’s like the worst Ground Hog’s Day but with too many people acting like it is new somehow.
November 14, 2024 at 1:25 AM
It’s like the worst Ground Hog’s Day but with too many people acting like it is new somehow.
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“Before they were metaphors they were someone's city. / They were a lover's beach, // a weekly market visit, a daily drive home. / Before they were victims, / before we were victims, // we were beloveds.”
—Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Water & Salt (Red Hen Press, 2017) #poetry
—Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Water & Salt (Red Hen Press, 2017) #poetry
August 9, 2023 at 2:17 PM
“Before they were metaphors they were someone's city. / They were a lover's beach, // a weekly market visit, a daily drive home. / Before they were victims, / before we were victims, // we were beloveds.”
—Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Water & Salt (Red Hen Press, 2017) #poetry
—Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Water & Salt (Red Hen Press, 2017) #poetry