Aditi Machado
@aditimachado.bsky.social
Poet of EMPORIUM and SOME BEHEADINGS (both Nightboats). Does translation, essay writing, teaching, gardening, wine consumption.
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I am disturbed by the news that 300,000 Black women have left the labor force within a three-month period, largely due to dramatic cuts to the federal workforce.
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300,000 Black women have left the labor force in 3 months. It’s not a coincidence.
For decades, the public sector has been a lifeline for Black women shut out of economic opportunity. It’s no surprise that Trump's federal downsizing targeted them first, explains gender economist Kat...
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August 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I am disturbed by the news that 300,000 Black women have left the labor force within a three-month period, largely due to dramatic cuts to the federal workforce.
www.msnbc.com/know-your-va...
www.msnbc.com/know-your-va...
Among the rare pleasures of having poor vision: misreading blurry signs as my inmost self desires to. Today: "Our Lady of the Holy Shits."
August 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Among the rare pleasures of having poor vision: misreading blurry signs as my inmost self desires to. Today: "Our Lady of the Holy Shits."
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Today's Feature:
In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Endlessly Now: An Interview with @aditimachado.bsky.social
Read here: poems.com/features/wha...
In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Endlessly Now: An Interview with @aditimachado.bsky.social
Read here: poems.com/features/wha...
poems.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Today's Feature:
In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Endlessly Now: An Interview with @aditimachado.bsky.social
Read here: poems.com/features/wha...
In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Endlessly Now: An Interview with @aditimachado.bsky.social
Read here: poems.com/features/wha...
Apparently I'm growing papaya and musk melon by accident (seeds left in the compost last year).
July 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Apparently I'm growing papaya and musk melon by accident (seeds left in the compost last year).
A very important fundraiser for a very important book! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bir...
Bird Watching by Eileen Myles: An Archival Collection
Support Fonograf Editions in publishing a volume of four early Eileen Myles books, including the never-before-published Bird Watching
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July 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A very important fundraiser for a very important book! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bir...
Ah the fart of July
July 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Ah the fart of July
Trendy summer footwear
June 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Trendy summer footwear
Damn Tom is such a proud papa this season.
June 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn Tom is such a proud papa this season.
Left town for three rainy days and my babies had a growth spurt!
June 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Left town for three rainy days and my babies had a growth spurt!
Just wept through that Top Chef semifinal. Ant fucking togarashi on cabbage. Tom going "I love my job."
May 31, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Just wept through that Top Chef semifinal. Ant fucking togarashi on cabbage. Tom going "I love my job."
Something I am realizing is that when people say "I just need an hour of your time," what they mean is "3 to 4 hours" and because I work at the snailiest of paces, that's anywhere from 6 to 12 hours of labor from me.
May 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Something I am realizing is that when people say "I just need an hour of your time," what they mean is "3 to 4 hours" and because I work at the snailiest of paces, that's anywhere from 6 to 12 hours of labor from me.
Blanket flower and Ohio spiderwort
May 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Blanket flower and Ohio spiderwort
Desperately need an ad blocker extension but for AI. An AI blocker extension. Does this already exist?
May 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Desperately need an ad blocker extension but for AI. An AI blocker extension. Does this already exist?
Wild indigo! And another columbine!
May 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Wild indigo! And another columbine!
I have translated a book of poems from French! It is appearing from Roof Books in September! The poet is the wonderful Baptiste Gaillard (baptistegaillard.com)!
May 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I have translated a book of poems from French! It is appearing from Roof Books in September! The poet is the wonderful Baptiste Gaillard (baptistegaillard.com)!
Also blooming: wild geranium and wild hyacinth
May 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Also blooming: wild geranium and wild hyacinth
Came home (five days later) to columbines in full bloom!
May 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Came home (five days later) to columbines in full bloom!
Should have posted this at least 24 hours ago, but well: I'm reading with Kai Ihns, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, & Margaret Ross at the Neubauer Collegium (U of Chicago) at 5 pm today!
neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/events/new-d...
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April 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Should have posted this at least 24 hours ago, but well: I'm reading with Kai Ihns, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, & Margaret Ross at the Neubauer Collegium (U of Chicago) at 5 pm today!
neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/events/new-d...
neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/events/new-d...
Thanks so much for sharing this, Monika!
Zipped over to my neighborhood “small” Powell’s yesterday to buy @patrycjasara.bsky.social's We Contain Landscapes and saw, again, that the poetry people there have good taste! Look at @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social and @aditimachado.bsky.social's books!
April 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Thanks so much for sharing this, Monika!
I am at the Cleveland Poetry Festival this weekend with some amazing poets!
4/26, 7 pm, Poetry Crawl closing reading @ Literary Cleveland
4/27, 1.30 pm, Workshop @ CMA Community Art Center at Pivot
4/27, 3.15 pm, Poetry in the Community Panel @ CMA Community Art Center at Pivot
4/26, 7 pm, Poetry Crawl closing reading @ Literary Cleveland
4/27, 1.30 pm, Workshop @ CMA Community Art Center at Pivot
4/27, 3.15 pm, Poetry in the Community Panel @ CMA Community Art Center at Pivot
April 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I am at the Cleveland Poetry Festival this weekend with some amazing poets!
4/26, 7 pm, Poetry Crawl closing reading @ Literary Cleveland
4/27, 1.30 pm, Workshop @ CMA Community Art Center at Pivot
4/27, 3.15 pm, Poetry in the Community Panel @ CMA Community Art Center at Pivot
4/26, 7 pm, Poetry Crawl closing reading @ Literary Cleveland
4/27, 1.30 pm, Workshop @ CMA Community Art Center at Pivot
4/27, 3.15 pm, Poetry in the Community Panel @ CMA Community Art Center at Pivot
It is not spring until Mx Violet the Wood Sorrel maketh an appearance. Herewith:
April 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It is not spring until Mx Violet the Wood Sorrel maketh an appearance. Herewith:
Everything sucks about my university except we have a great reading series. Personal heroes Julie Carr & Gillian Conoley will read tonight at 5.30 pm.
April 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Everything sucks about my university except we have a great reading series. Personal heroes Julie Carr & Gillian Conoley will read tonight at 5.30 pm.
Never call me a creative.
April 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Never call me a creative.