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Abena Ntoso
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Writer, Artist, Teacher ✍️📝🎨💻
Supporting authors in writing and publishing literary works that inspire deep conversations and awaken our humanity.
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Christmas in July! Thank you @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social for the shipment of this spring’s poetry collections translated from five poets around the globe. Can’t wait to read each one!
Christmas in July! Latest works in translation from five poets around the globe, from World Poetry.
July 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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A quote to start the day, from “China” by Bob Perelman. Makes me think of wonder, discovery, and excitement, and how I share this with others. What does it make you think of?
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“A sister who points to the sky at least once a decade is a good sister.” - quote from “China” by Bob Perelman excerpt published in Conceptualisms edited by Steve Tomasula
April 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 20
We Borrowed Gentleness by J. Estanislao Lopez
December 20, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 19
Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder
December 19, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 18
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
December 18, 2024 at 4:42 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 17
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Victoria Chang
December 16, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 16
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
December 15, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 15
Incubation: A Space for Monsters by Bhanu Kapil
December 15, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 14
Sula by Toni Morrison
December 13, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 13
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
December 13, 2024 at 4:55 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 12
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
December 12, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 11
View with a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska
December 11, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 10
Bright Felon by Kazim Ali
December 9, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 9
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
December 8, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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Not only does travel open us up to new worlds and new experiences, it also helps us gain a new perspective on our own origins. Love this passage from the novel “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino:
💙📚 #BookSky #travel #writer #amwriting #writingcommunity #literature #literarypractice
Passage from the novel “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino
December 8, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 8
December 7, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 7
December 7, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 6
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
December 6, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 5
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
December 5, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 4
The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks
December 4, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 3
December 2, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 2
December 1, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge
Day 1
The Delicacy and Strength of Lace
November 30, 2024 at 7:49 PM