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Andrew C Gottlieb
@andman1.bsky.social
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Writer, fisher, reader, hiker, gazer.
Born in Canada. 🇨🇦 Raised in America.
Allies to humans of all sorts.
Poetry Collection: Tales of a Distance.

https://www.andrewcgottlieb.com/
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A fave poem by poet pal Matthew Thorburn. Longing, loss, nostalgia, the passage of time. Love this one. Thx you Matthew!
The cover of the poetry collection The Grace of Distance, by Matthew Thorburn. A dark night with stars, a horizon, the shadowy images of people The poem A Poem for my Birthday. By Matthew Thorburn
March 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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For Feb 28, this last day of 2025’s Black History Month, Zuwena ZZ Packer’s collection of stories Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. I’d love another book from her. Fingers crossed! #blackhistorymonth #zzpacker #stories #writing #books
The cover of ZZ Packer’s story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. The back cover of the book.
March 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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For Feb. 27, Caryl Phillips’s novel The Nature of Blood. Phillips is St. Kittian and British but teaches in the US now. I need to read more of his work. #blackhistorymonth #novels #carylphillips
The cover of the novel the Nature of Blood The back cover bio of Caryl Phillips with a photo.
March 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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For Feb 26, Carter G. Woodson’s collection of essays from 1933, The Miseducation of the Negro. Insightful, wise, deconstructing the flaws in the white-supremacist society that’s historical but of course currently relevant. Give it a read! #blackhistorymonth #cartergwoodson
The cover of Carter G Woodson’s essay collection The Miseducation of the Negro A brief summary from Wikipedia of Carter G Woodson’s biography
March 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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For Feb. 25, have you read The Expendable Man by Dorothy Hughes? A fantastic mystery. Hughes was not Black but was a smart smart writer. I wish I’d found this one earlier. A gem. Don’t read about it; just read it. #dorothyhughes #blackhistorymonth #novel #mystery #mysteries
The cover of the novel The Expendable Man by Dorothy Hughes. The back blurbs and summary of the novel
February 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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For Feb. 24, Edward P. Jones collection of stories Lost in the City. From 1992, these are so good. He won the Pulitzer for his novel. With luck we’ll get more writing. #edwardpjones #blackhistorymonth #writers #fiction #stories #prose
The cover of Edward P. Jones first collection of stories Lost in the City. A two story narrow DC house with a red sedan parked in front The back summary and blurb of the collection
February 27, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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For Feb 23, Porsha Olayiwola’s poetry collection I Shimmer Sometimes, Too. From Chicago to Boston this is strong, Black, queer poetry. A range of forms too. Thx you Porsha! #blackhistorymonth #poetry #poems #writing #bostonpoetlaureate
The cover of Porsha Olayiwola’s book I Shimmer Sometimes, Too. Black with gold writing. The poem Ghazal for the Chicago Two-Step.
February 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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For Feb 22, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o prolific Kenyan writer and now at UC Irvine. The River Between is a novel and we’ve seen his plays here with him in the audience. Super cool. #blackhistorymonth #drama #novels #kenya #ngugiwathiongo
The cover of the Ngugi Wa Thiong’o novel The River between Page one chapter one of The River between.
February 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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For Feb. 21, Camille Dungy’s poetry collection What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison. The first book of Camille’s I bought. There are many more of course. #poetry #writers #blackhistorymonth #blackhistoryisamericanhistory #camilledungy
The cover of Camille Dungy’s poetry book. The page with the poem Before My Histriy Class by Camille Dungy
February 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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A little tying this morning. Saturday, coffee, and Elk hair caddises. #quiet #flytying #elkhaircaddis #deerhair #coffee #18 #teenyweeny
A close up of an elk hair caddis fly still in a tying vise. 10 elk hair caddises on the rim of a styrofoam cup ready for cementing A size 18 elk hair caddises trout fly on top of a penny to show how small it is
February 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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For Feb 20 some prose! A history book that changed me profoundly. Ronald Takaki’s A Different Mirror. This is the US history too often untold. I’m gonna read it again. Asian, Irish, Chicano, Black. #thisisamamerica #blackhistorymonth #blackhistoryiseveryday #blackhistoryisushistory
The cover of Ronald Takaki’s history book A Different Mirror A picture of the first page of chapter 5, No More Peck O’ Corn 2 photos of black protestors at a diner counter and also the three murdered civil rights workers in Mississippi.
February 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Feb. 19: John Edgar Wideman. Prose master. Form shifter. Another brilliant American writer. And for Philly who won the Super Bowl, the beginning of Fever. #blackhistorymonth #johnedgarwideman #prose #fiction #philadelphia
The cover of John Edgar wiseman’s collection of stories Fever. A painting of a lawn chair and a house The opening page of the story, Fever.
February 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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For Feb. 18, bell hooks prose in all about love. bell hooks wrote about everything but here corruption. And love. This copy is my wife’s. #essays #blackhistorymonth #prose #culturalcritic #writer #books
The cover of bell hooks’s book of essays all about love. A black cover with 2 butterflies on it One paragraph on White House corruption in the modern imperial United States Back flap of the book with a photo of a younger bell hooks
February 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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For Feb. 17, poems. Carl Phillips’s book Riding Westward. Such smart, touching poetry. #blackhistorymonth #poems #poetry #books 🙏🏻
The cover of Carl Phillips’s poetry book Riding Westward, with a bird’s wing outstretched A photo of part of the poem Armed, Luminous
February 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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For Feb 16: some prose! Richard Wright’s Uncle Tom’s Children, novellas. A good entry before tackling Native Son. Thx you Richard Wright. #blackhistorymonth #richardwright #prose #books #novellas #blackhistoryisamericanhistory
The cover with abstract painting of Richard Wright’s Uncle Tom’s Children. The back cover of the book with a photo of Richard Wright and a blurb by Charles Johnson
February 17, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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For Feb 15: the Execution Poems by George Elliott Clarke. Letterpress edition. Gorgeous work. About the hangings of his cousins, George and Rue.
The dark one color cover of the letterpress edition of Execution Poems Front main page of the Execution Poems with black and red text. Beginning of the poem, Ballad of a Hanged Man. Back cover showing a photo of the author George Elliott Clarke and a brief para of info about the book and his writing
February 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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For Feb 14, a book I love about love of place, family, nature. J Drew Lanham’s The Home Place. This memoir will introduce you to Drew and his fine prose. #blackhistorymonth #memoir #place #nature #thehomeplace #jdrewlanham
The cover of the memoir The Home Place by J Drew Lanham. First page of the chapter Life Springs in The Home Place. Back cover and blurbs of the Home Place. Light blue paper with dark text
February 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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For Feb 13: Nicole Sealey’s book, Ordinary Beast. Nicole Sealey founded the Sealey challenge (reading one book of poetry a day in August). Her own work is fantastic. #blackhistorymonth #nicolesealey #poetry #books #sealeychallenge #poems
The cover of Nicole sealey’s book Ordinary Beast. A porcelain figurine with back to the viewer The poem “It’s not fitness, It’s a lifestyle” from Nicole Sealeys book The back cover of Nicole Sealey’s book Ordinary Beast
February 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Feb 11, poet Sean Hill’s first book Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. History, poetry, Milledgeville, a gem of a book. #blackhistorymonth #poems #books #seanhillpoet #blackhistoryisamericanhistory
The cover of Sean Hill’s first book with the title Blood Ties & Brown Liquor and a painting of a store front and Main Street perhaps in Georgia. The text of the poem Words Like Rivers
February 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Feb 10: F. Douglas Brown’s zero to three. Poems. Fatherhood, life. #blackhistorymonth #fdouglasbrown #poetry #books #cavecanem
The cover of F Douglas Brown’s poetry collection zero to three. A Black father is tossing or catching a black child who’s in the air The first two stanzas of the poem Dear Defiance by F Douglas Brown
February 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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For yesterday, Feb 9, a novel I’ve just read, Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah. He won the Nobel in literature a few years back. A good read. Set around WW1 in Africa. #blackhistorymonth #abdulrazakgurnah #nobel #books #reading
The cover of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novel Afterlife. Featuring his name and a painting of a black person in a stylized fashion Still shot of Kendrick Lamar doing his halftime show at the Super Bowl, smiling
February 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Tying a few flies today. Elk hair caddis (I use deer hair) size #14 #elkhaircaddis #springiscoming #smallfish #trout #sierras #flies #flytying
A styrofoam cup with freshly ties flies hooked to the edge to dry. Around the cup is the mess of a fly tier’s desk
February 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Feb 8 Black History month. A play. Fences was on Broadway for the first time when I lived briefly in Manhattan. Met August Wilson in Seattle in 2001. Great writer.
The cover of the play Fences The page at the front of the print copy of Fences listing the cast of the first Broadway production
February 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Feb 7, Black History month. Poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths. This book rocks. Amazing language work in here. Go get it! #blackhistorymonth #rachelelizagriffiths #poems #books
Cover of the poetry collection Mule & Pear by Rachel Eliza Griffiths The beginning of the poem Mercy Does Not Mean Thank You
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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For Feb 6, Black History month do you like nature? The natural world? Get Camille Dungy’s anthology Black Nature. This is an amazing anthology. Thx you Camille!
Cover of the poetry anthology Black Nature. By Camille Dungy A page of poetry, Cyrus Caswell’s poem The Hummingbird
February 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM