Rachel Edelman
@rachelsedelman.bsky.social
poet & teacher. author of DEAR MEMPHIS (River River Books, 2024). living in seattle. learning yiddish. rachelsedelman.com.
shout-out to the northern hemisphere
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
shout-out to the northern hemisphere
It's been a hard few months and I needed a rest day yesterday, so I missed Short Run for the first time in many years. If you went, what inspired you? What do you now want to make?!
November 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
It's been a hard few months and I needed a rest day yesterday, so I missed Short Run for the first time in many years. If you went, what inspired you? What do you now want to make?!
PSA for Seattle: CVS has Novavax.
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
PSA for Seattle: CVS has Novavax.
sometime of late, zoom finally made collaborative overlap possible! huge level-up for yiddish class.
September 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
sometime of late, zoom finally made collaborative overlap possible! huge level-up for yiddish class.
איך װיל געלערן ײדישׂ, אָבער איך אַרבעט בײַ פּאַסיפֿישׂער זײגער
װאָס טוטסיר פֿאַר אַ קלאַס ין סאָך־װאָך?
װאָס טוטסיר פֿאַר אַ קלאַס ין סאָך־װאָך?
August 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
איך װיל געלערן ײדישׂ, אָבער איך אַרבעט בײַ פּאַסיפֿישׂער זײגער
װאָס טוטסיר פֿאַר אַ קלאַס ין סאָך־װאָך?
װאָס טוטסיר פֿאַר אַ קלאַס ין סאָך־װאָך?
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The NAACP intends to sue Musk over the pollution caused by his xAI turbines in South Memphis.
NAACP launches lawsuit over pollution from Musk’s xAI
Memphis is already ranked as an asthma capital of the nation.
www.politico.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The NAACP intends to sue Musk over the pollution caused by his xAI turbines in South Memphis.
I’m helping students set up a food pantry at the high school where I teach. I know some of y’all have done this before; I’d love resources for best practices and guidelines as we move forward
June 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I’m helping students set up a food pantry at the high school where I teach. I know some of y’all have done this before; I’d love resources for best practices and guidelines as we move forward
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
Them: wow, isn’t biking to work exhausting?
Me: yes! it almost exhausts my capacity for beauty
Me: yes! it almost exhausts my capacity for beauty
June 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Them: wow, isn’t biking to work exhausting?
Me: yes! it almost exhausts my capacity for beauty
Me: yes! it almost exhausts my capacity for beauty
“preservation tactics,” from @abipollokoff.bsky.social’s astounding debut, night myths •• before the body
@redhenpress.bsky.social
@redhenpress.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“preservation tactics,” from @abipollokoff.bsky.social’s astounding debut, night myths •• before the body
@redhenpress.bsky.social
@redhenpress.bsky.social
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Teachers (and everyone else!) need to be able to get season vaccines like covid and flu. Have these people ever been in a classroom in January, where you can’t hear anyone over the coughing?
May 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Teachers (and everyone else!) need to be able to get season vaccines like covid and flu. Have these people ever been in a classroom in January, where you can’t hear anyone over the coughing?
I’ve been using this gift from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social as a bookmark, and in doing so, have been marked by it.
![Think of Others by Mahmoud Darwish
Translated by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
As you prepare your breakfast, think of others [Don't forget to feed the pigeons]
As you wage your wars, think of others [Don't forget those who want peace]
As you pay your water bill, think of others [Don't forget those who are nursed by clouds]
As you return home, to your house, think of others [Don't forget the people of the camps]
As you fall asleep, counting planets, think of others [There are those with nowhere to sleep]
As you liberate yourself with metaphors, think of others
[Those who have lost their right to speak]
As you think of distant others, think of yourself [say: let me be a candle in the dark]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sj4fnaqydx5gwvhqzz4efq5v/bafkreifijmkeo5mme35vjhwxtfy5q5d746mn5jjifv47unnrnzwktefiqe@jpeg)
May 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I’ve been using this gift from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social as a bookmark, and in doing so, have been marked by it.
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I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED
GENOCIDE TO STOP
It is always a good morning for June Jordan.
GENOCIDE TO STOP
It is always a good morning for June Jordan.
May 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED
GENOCIDE TO STOP
It is always a good morning for June Jordan.
GENOCIDE TO STOP
It is always a good morning for June Jordan.
May 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Some of them are so quiet, so subtle. Whatever your situation or ability, there is protest available to you.
May 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Some of them are so quiet, so subtle. Whatever your situation or ability, there is protest available to you.
ANDOR has been a gift box of accessible examples in my 9th grade unit on literature of social hierarchies.
May 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
ANDOR has been a gift box of accessible examples in my 9th grade unit on literature of social hierarchies.
I can’t stop recommending Martha Park’s WORLD WITHOUT END: ESSAYS ON APOCALYPSE AND AFTER, for its determination, its capacity to consider and witness, its generous accompaniment in time. It’s out today from @hubcitypress.bsky.social: www.hubcity.org/books/nonfic...
World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After | Nonfiction | Hub City Writers Project
For fans of Margaret Renkl and Lisa Wells’s Believers, World Without End circles the connections between climate change and faith in the fear and fascination of the end of the world.
www.hubcity.org
May 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I can’t stop recommending Martha Park’s WORLD WITHOUT END: ESSAYS ON APOCALYPSE AND AFTER, for its determination, its capacity to consider and witness, its generous accompaniment in time. It’s out today from @hubcitypress.bsky.social: www.hubcity.org/books/nonfic...
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Also, anyone can take action! Do you have a kid who is in college, or soon going to college? Because that's what's getting dismantled - their future.
Our University leadership is letting us down. The College of Arts & Sciences at UW is trying to lay off over 200 people - our departmental staff in an ill-planned (barely planned) attempt to cut costs by centralizing staff (they have not talked to... anyone about this)
www.defendcasstaff.com
www.defendcasstaff.com
Defend CAS Staff
www.defendcasstaff.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Also, anyone can take action! Do you have a kid who is in college, or soon going to college? Because that's what's getting dismantled - their future.
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i realize the title is a bit counterintuitive but the answer is that you cannot as an individual guarantee your food is safe. we can, as a collective, push back HARD on dismantling food safety regulations, and put pressure on an unpopular administration to keep our food from killing us.
April 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
i realize the title is a bit counterintuitive but the answer is that you cannot as an individual guarantee your food is safe. we can, as a collective, push back HARD on dismantling food safety regulations, and put pressure on an unpopular administration to keep our food from killing us.
“If some lives are worth less, are a problem to be solved, well, there is only one sort of solution to a problem that consists of living human beings. And it’s a final one.”
if you're in the mood to read a strong affirmation about the worth of disabled lives in the face of a eugenicist administration.... so was i, so i wrote one: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Disability, Eugenics, and the Value of Human Life
The eugenicists Your worth is not tied to what you can do. Your worth is not tied to your health. Your worth is not tied to all the things you can do...
buttondown.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“If some lives are worth less, are a problem to be solved, well, there is only one sort of solution to a problem that consists of living human beings. And it’s a final one.”
Coming back from spring break with wild convergences in my heart
April 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Coming back from spring break with wild convergences in my heart
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It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
April 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
On language, expulsion, and making a life one wants to live: poet and typographer emet ezell on their return to and upcoming exhibition in Sabile, Latvia, the town from which their family was expelled 100 years ago. kulturaenter.pl/article/eng-...
[ENG] ART/INTERVIEW. Destruction Is and Is Not Forever
emet ezell (b. 1995, Texas, USA) is a poet and typographer living in Berlin, Germany. ezell is author of the chapbook between every bird, our bones, and their writing can be found in The American Poet...
kulturaenter.pl
April 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
On language, expulsion, and making a life one wants to live: poet and typographer emet ezell on their return to and upcoming exhibition in Sabile, Latvia, the town from which their family was expelled 100 years ago. kulturaenter.pl/article/eng-...