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the /gh/ is aspirated • helen zell writers' program '27 • https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenBrdH1TBMV2swdIO8Djf5dHkqJ49i2Al2NbCA8DOXPmSnIw/viewform
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summ.bsky.social
We are officially over a week in - but there's still time to pledge support for The Sameer Project! open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...
Sealey Challenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser
All funds collected through this page will be sent to The Sameer Project, a donations-based initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora working to supply aid to displaced families in Gaza. You can ...
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August 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
Squabble up
smashfizzle.bsky.social Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · Aug 1
A lot of people are learning that cowardice won’t save them in real time. Might as well be brave.
August 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
amoghaaa.bsky.social
This August, I am participating in the Sealey Challenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser for Gaza organized by @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥

If you pledge on my behalf, do let me know and receive my mini-newsletter on my reading this season. Pledge link in bio. #sealeychallenge
August 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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janezwart.bsky.social
Thank you, dear ones, for making a spot for my poem & for your kindness to me.
July 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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mandrigall.bsky.social
i need to be better about being on here but my debut poetry collection, FABLEMAKER, is available for preorder! thank you to the team at Gaudy Boy / Singapore Unbound for all their work on this. would love it if you'd preorder!

singaporeunbound.org/gaudy-boy/fa...
July 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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burgi.bsky.social
Song of Inverted Time from @summ.bsky.social's I COULD DIE TODAY AND LIVE AGAIN (@gameoverbooks.bsky.social, 2023). 🌟✨🌟
#poetry #bookSky 📚💙
Cover shows what seem to be dark paper cut-ours of figures in a round dance on a moonscape. Pastel colors prevail. The sky is a muted purple. The lettering is reminiscent of old computer script. Song of Inverted Time Oh, I know I learned songs of protection sang to the moon until it turned but a tongue lost turns to smoke When the moon chooses its end, who will remember us here? Sang to the moon until it turned "I learned a song to erase the past" When the moon chooses its end, who will remember us here? Listen, I learned a song to erase the past Bundled memories in tattered notebooks Listen, what else would you choose? Bundled memories in tattered notebooks, but we lost this language so long ago. What else would you choose? If history never happened again? We lost this language so long ago. Silent heroes become quiet civilians if history never happened again. "...." Silent heroes become quiet civilians, we are the lucky ones. "... ..." We are the lucky ones. "... Do you need me to repeat that? ..."
June 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social
September 30!
June 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
amoghaaa.bsky.social
rating novels by superstar poets based on titles ONLY.

-martyr! by kaveh akbar 8/10. nice use of punctuation. a thing i never say.
-good girl by aria aber 3/10. it's giving publisher's choice. sorry queen.
-emperor of gladness by ocean vuong 100/10. man, i would not have guessed that's a place.
June 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
amoghaaa.bsky.social
every day i hate punctuation more stop clarifying meaning let me be confused let me delight you in sleights of hand
May 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
amoghaaa.bsky.social
i’m sorry but those white devils popped off with rocky road to dublin
May 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
amoghaaa.bsky.social
juno dawson do you want a link to notes on craft: writing in the hour of genocide by fargo tbakhi
May 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
amoghaaa.bsky.social
bring inua ellams back. i've had it with these white folks writing the doctor.
May 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
amoghaaa.bsky.social
I’ve been falling in love with the word “wide” btw. If you even care.
May 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Federico García Lorca, tr. Christopher Maurer
II I go alone through the poplar grove like the girl in the engraving. (Moonless sky, Windless earth.) I remember your hand in mine, and your word in my word. II Voy solo por la alameda como la niña de la estampa. (Cielo sin luna. Tierra sin viento.) Y recuerdo tu mano en mi mano y tu palabra en mi palabra.
May 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
amoghaaa.bsky.social
beloveds, my review of Desire/Halves by @jaiofearth.bsky.social is out today on the PoetryNW web — and it has mini-moons, prayers, Paul Celan, and ofc a reference to Anne Carson. shoutout to reviews ed @nanya.bsky.social for playing along with this whimsical review!

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Everything Was in The Throat of The World: On Jaia Hamid Bashir’s Desire/Halves | Poetry Northwest
"Often in Desire/Halves, language is derived from the ways of the animal, reminiscent of letters in an alphabet wrought from Taurian head and horn."
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May 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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chenchenwrites.bsky.social
... the foolishness

with which we sculpt time into a life

—Jennifer Chang, from "Dialogues (Against God)"
May 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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pittella.bsky.social
Liberation Day, Carnation Revolution, cover reveal day!

👉 propersitions (sic!), my 2nd chapbook, is coming out with Cactus Press on May 18th!

So excited to share my dislocated prepositions with y'all—& thrilled to be label-mates with @lunarmariarilke.bsky.social & @salenawiener.bsky.social ☺️
Cover of Carlos A. Pittella's chapbook "propersitions," featuring an array of 9 squares with different shapes. It is a cabinet-of-curiosities of visual representation of dislocated prepositions, with dots, circles, and curves occupying improper positions in the squares, sometimes precarious, sometimes breaking thru the borders...
April 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
amoghaaa.bsky.social
“Why was I born among mirrors?”

Federico García Lorca, Song of the Dry Orange Tree
April 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
amoghaaa.bsky.social
breaking news girl who enjoyed the Alan Cumming Bacchae and the Alan Cumming Hamlet also enjoyed the Alan Cumming Doctor Who ep today
April 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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huaxi.bsky.social
mark yakich —
Before Losing Yourself Completely to Love Drop bread crumbs around your feet. You will find yourself far away and hungry.
March 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
amoghaaa.bsky.social
thinking of the birth of myths, thinking of time as a marker for difficult knowledge, thinking of sea anemone
The sea, framed by trees The sea and rocks, clouds at a distance. Hand holding a seashell, iridescent on the inside in the sunlight. Rocks in the background. Close up image of a tide pool. There are sea anemones.
April 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM