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Prince Bush
@princebush.bsky.social
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Poet | Poems in The Cortland Review, The Drift, Northwest Review, etc | MFA @ Iowa Writers’ Workshop ⏭️ PhD CW/Poetry @ UC ❤️ (on hiatus 😴)

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Poetry by @seminewblack.bsky.social, Cecily Parks, and @princebush.bsky.social

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Computer Assembly Plant - Believer Magazine
After Betsy Every night a drove of us leaves Our work building And clot the lot’s exit upTill emptied and distant, No different when I’m stuckWith my key in the ignition, Not yielding in spiteOf my tu...
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June 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Two rejections = two submissions elsewhere!

"Accepting" my work before an editor does 😊
January 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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yrfrenbren.bsky.social
No resolutions but to be resolute in my joys.
December 31, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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Happy New Year’s Eve! Here’s to more and more poetry ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
December 31, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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Sharing what I posted on instagram about this poem that blew me away today 💕
December 23, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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Just wrote a poem! 😊😊😊❤️ happy winter solstice everyone!
December 22, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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Just wrote a poem!!!!!! I'm so happy ❤️
December 15, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
I just love good poems so much why can’t I talk about them all day instead of “working” to “support my family”
December 12, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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a-woo.bsky.social
W.S. Merwin, "Thanks"
Thanks W.S. Merwin /Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you/we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings/we are running out of the glass rooms/with our mouths full of food to look at the sky/and say thank you/we are standing by the water thanking it/standing by the windows looking out/in our directions//back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging/after funerals we are saying thank you/after the news of the dead/whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you//over telephones we are saying thank you/in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators/remembering wars and the police at the door/and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you/in the banks we are saying thank you/in the faces of the officials and the rich/and of all who will never change/we go on saying thank you thank you [Last stanza in the next post]
November 27, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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Reading the selected Reginald Shepherd 🩷
November 25, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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Just wrote a poem ❤️❣️
November 25, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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m.s. RedCherries
November 23, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Go to the dictionary tab after finding that word in the thesaurus! that word might not be as related as you think!
Image of two people hands to indicate empathy while telling someone something
November 22, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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“Don’t you love knowing
I’m drooling for you there?

Loveee 🥵
kevinbertolero.bsky.social Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · Nov 19
Wanna take a moment to admire this Chen Chen poem in the new issue of the Cape Cod Review
November 22, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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Reading poems tonight for @kristyngarzapoet.bsky.social’s new chapbook! Get it here: www.gasherpress.com/product-page...
Poster for poetry reading at Black Fern Tattoo in Cincinnati, OH.
November 15, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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Wow. This hit me!
ctsalazar.bsky.social C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · Oct 20
Mahmoud Darwish: “Leave metaphor, and walk with me.”
November 15, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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My poem in issue 11 of The Drift❣️
October 26, 2023 at 5:49 PM
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I wrote a poem that I am excited about ❣️
October 23, 2023 at 4:45 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
Just heard the shocking news that Louise Glück has passed away
All Hallows BY LOUISE GLÜCK Even now this landscape is assembling. The hills darken. The oxen sleep in their blue yoke, the fields having been picked clean, the sheaves bound evenly and piled at the roadside among cinquefoil, as the toothed moon rises: This is the barrenness of harvest or pestilence. And the wife leaning out the window with her hand extended, as in payment, and the seeds distinct, gold, calling Come here Come here, little one And the soul creeps out of the tree.
October 13, 2023 at 7:25 PM
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"Elms"
Louise Glück
All day I tried to distinguish need from desire. Now, in the dark, I feel only bitter sadness for us, the builders, the planers of wood, because I have been looking steadily at these elms and seen the process that creates the writhing, stationary tree is torment, and have understood it will make no forms but twisted forms.
October 13, 2023 at 7:59 PM
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One doesn’t really suck on frozen sugar water.
One allows it to melt in the oven of the mouth.

--Diane Seuss
[Intimacy unhinged, unpaddocked me] by Diane Seuss | Poetry Foundation
Intimacy unhinged, unpaddocked me. I didn’t want it.
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October 10, 2023 at 3:06 PM
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On shelves of shadowboxes, their warnings / waned to sepia, still lives // still / live

Patricia Smith in UNSHUTTERED (TriQuarterly Books, 2023)

I treasure this book.

#poetry #authors #writingCommunity
26 On shelves of shadowboxes, their warnings waned to sepia, still lives still live in unbearable magic Youth stunned and captured a second before the second "Please don't breathe You must not blur Any flaws will go to sepia Stay still Dare them this beauty hush" Portrait (head and shoulders) of a young Black woman in sepia. She wears delicate earrings, a white collar over a buttened-up frock (invisible). She might be smiling or not.
October 4, 2023 at 7:53 PM
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cphillipspoet.bsky.social
Excited to have a new poem up at Guernica Magazine!
October 2, 2023 at 4:44 PM