A Quiet Root
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Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?
September 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?
"I was filling out the application to be a tycoon and I was being
careful with my handwriting but then I got to the section
on references and I wondered exactly who could speak best
to my latent tycoon potential. A minute later I found myself
on the phone with my mom."
careful with my handwriting but then I got to the section
on references and I wondered exactly who could speak best
to my latent tycoon potential. A minute later I found myself
on the phone with my mom."
Michael Bazzett
The Glacier Issue Three Winter 2024 THE FAVOR Sometimes as a favor, I dream other peoples’ dreams. I do it in their stead so they can sleep the sleep of dark silence, so they can take a crack…
theglacierjournal.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"I was filling out the application to be a tycoon and I was being
careful with my handwriting but then I got to the section
on references and I wondered exactly who could speak best
to my latent tycoon potential. A minute later I found myself
on the phone with my mom."
careful with my handwriting but then I got to the section
on references and I wondered exactly who could speak best
to my latent tycoon potential. A minute later I found myself
on the phone with my mom."
"The little god has grown, a little god
no longer."
From "Parenting Triolet" by Gabriel Fried
no longer."
From "Parenting Triolet" by Gabriel Fried
Gabriel Fried — Bennington Review
www.benningtonreview.org
July 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"The little god has grown, a little god
no longer."
From "Parenting Triolet" by Gabriel Fried
no longer."
From "Parenting Triolet" by Gabriel Fried
July 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"I OEDIPUS, Darth Vader, and Jesus Christ walk into a bar. We
make a clever premise in the ooze."
oceanstatereview.org/2025/04/05/a...
make a clever premise in the ooze."
oceanstatereview.org/2025/04/05/a...
Adam Tavel, featured in the Ocean State Review - The Ocean State Review
I OEDIPUS on Fridays strip my anger off like mummy-wrap / and pitch it at the night, our dusty orchid wallpaper where / shadows are themselves the other half of us, in bed, inside my
oceanstatereview.org
June 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"I OEDIPUS, Darth Vader, and Jesus Christ walk into a bar. We
make a clever premise in the ooze."
oceanstatereview.org/2025/04/05/a...
make a clever premise in the ooze."
oceanstatereview.org/2025/04/05/a...
simultaneously one of the funniest and the most cutting poems I've read in ages, from Rebecca Hawkes in @phoebejournal.bsky.social
Birth Control - phoebe
Rebecca Hawkes “why suck the strap” why look at a sunset. why listen to your favourite song. why stop to smell the flowers. come on now – Tumblr user @bloodpups To live ethically in the present moment...
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May 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
simultaneously one of the funniest and the most cutting poems I've read in ages, from Rebecca Hawkes in @phoebejournal.bsky.social
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Like a prepubescent tee-ball player, our piece for this week is short and hard-hitting. Get the breath knocked out of you by "Tests to Determine Whether Moonboy Has a Soul" from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-27-25/moon...
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-27-25/moon...
May 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Like a prepubescent tee-ball player, our piece for this week is short and hard-hitting. Get the breath knocked out of you by "Tests to Determine Whether Moonboy Has a Soul" from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-27-25/moon...
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-27-25/moon...
From Julia Ross in The 2River View www.2river.org/2RView/29_3/...
May 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
From Julia Ross in The 2River View www.2river.org/2RView/29_3/...
"I have buried myself in the hole
of America, its plastic freedoms,
elastic unfreeness—America,
you have rendered me a corpse of delightful
emptiness. You have plundered me of heft,
ground the God in me to tin and clatter.
God, the grind."
lilypoetryreview.blog/poetry/immig...
of America, its plastic freedoms,
elastic unfreeness—America,
you have rendered me a corpse of delightful
emptiness. You have plundered me of heft,
ground the God in me to tin and clatter.
God, the grind."
lilypoetryreview.blog/poetry/immig...
Immigrant Duplex - Lily Poetry Review
by LAUREN K. ALLEYNE from Issue 12 … Continue readingImmigrant Duplex
lilypoetryreview.blog
May 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"I have buried myself in the hole
of America, its plastic freedoms,
elastic unfreeness—America,
you have rendered me a corpse of delightful
emptiness. You have plundered me of heft,
ground the God in me to tin and clatter.
God, the grind."
lilypoetryreview.blog/poetry/immig...
of America, its plastic freedoms,
elastic unfreeness—America,
you have rendered me a corpse of delightful
emptiness. You have plundered me of heft,
ground the God in me to tin and clatter.
God, the grind."
lilypoetryreview.blog/poetry/immig...
"I google it after they’re gone, alone in my classroom. But my phone isn’t working. My phone isn’t working because moments ago another country hacked our country’s grid and shut the whole thing down forever."
From @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social
From @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social
I Don’t Know What Wind Is by Chris Scott | New Flash Fiction Review
Approximately thirty seconds before dismissal, one of my first graders asks me what wind is. I freeze up, sixteen first grade faces watching me, they all suddenly want to know what wind is, right now,...
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May 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"I google it after they’re gone, alone in my classroom. But my phone isn’t working. My phone isn’t working because moments ago another country hacked our country’s grid and shut the whole thing down forever."
From @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social
From @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social
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Feeling grateful (also floored) to turn to a page in Poetry Magazine & find this poem I wrote, with all admiration, after Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes."
Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.
Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.
May 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Feeling grateful (also floored) to turn to a page in Poetry Magazine & find this poem I wrote, with all admiration, after Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes."
Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.
Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.
"A week or so after passing a bill to make it easier
to fire librarians, the Alabama House of Representatives
passed another naming Little Bluestem the state grass."
From @pamelamanasco.bsky.social in @identitytheory.bsky.social
to fire librarians, the Alabama House of Representatives
passed another naming Little Bluestem the state grass."
From @pamelamanasco.bsky.social in @identitytheory.bsky.social
Little Bluestem: A Poem by Pamela Manasco - Identity Theory
What should we tell our children about it?
www.identitytheory.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"A week or so after passing a bill to make it easier
to fire librarians, the Alabama House of Representatives
passed another naming Little Bluestem the state grass."
From @pamelamanasco.bsky.social in @identitytheory.bsky.social
to fire librarians, the Alabama House of Representatives
passed another naming Little Bluestem the state grass."
From @pamelamanasco.bsky.social in @identitytheory.bsky.social
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"I’m not going to do a thing today.
Shoo-off the squirrels raising hell in the vegetables?
Let ‘em at it.
Re-read the last letter my father sent me?
No can do. I died it in a fire."
From Michael Martin in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social
Shoo-off the squirrels raising hell in the vegetables?
Let ‘em at it.
Re-read the last letter my father sent me?
No can do. I died it in a fire."
From Michael Martin in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social
Poetry | Needle by Michael Martin - The London Magazine
'I’m the way she likes anyone left behind — / undeserving, falling.' New poetry by Michael Martin.
thelondonmagazine.org
May 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"I’m not going to do a thing today.
Shoo-off the squirrels raising hell in the vegetables?
Let ‘em at it.
Re-read the last letter my father sent me?
No can do. I died it in a fire."
From Michael Martin in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social
Shoo-off the squirrels raising hell in the vegetables?
Let ‘em at it.
Re-read the last letter my father sent me?
No can do. I died it in a fire."
From Michael Martin in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social
"they call us invasive opportunistic
say we have wandered too far looking for water
taken more than our share"
a poem about feral hogs from Danielle Fleming in Pidgeonholes
say we have wandered too far looking for water
taken more than our share"
a poem about feral hogs from Danielle Fleming in Pidgeonholes
You can ignore wild pigs all you want until you can’t ignore them
It’s just this time they got it rightI mean that’s what they saidfound the reason why some ofus go feralwhy […]
pidgeonholes.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"they call us invasive opportunistic
say we have wandered too far looking for water
taken more than our share"
a poem about feral hogs from Danielle Fleming in Pidgeonholes
say we have wandered too far looking for water
taken more than our share"
a poem about feral hogs from Danielle Fleming in Pidgeonholes
"Ay, Count Sucks-Ass-ula, try hitting the pins next time.” Happy Friday, here's a flash about vampires who are very bad at bowling. @xraylitmag.bsky.social
BOWLING WITH DRACULA by Justin Gibson
The first thing we discovered was that vampires loved contracts. Well, no, sorry, I guess the first thing we discovered was the vampires themselves — that they’re real. We figured it out pretty quick,...
xraylitmag.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Ay, Count Sucks-Ass-ula, try hitting the pins next time.” Happy Friday, here's a flash about vampires who are very bad at bowling. @xraylitmag.bsky.social
"Love did this: the riot of it. Love
for the smashing, the making,
the breaking. Love
for our country and the streets"
for the smashing, the making,
the breaking. Love
for our country and the streets"
Breaking News: Barbie Eats Trump During Baltimore Pride Fest by Chrissy Stegman
What else was left for her to do? Giant in pink, her laughter clanging down Charles Street like bells rung wild to the dystopian melody. She was a blaze in glorious sequins. Swirls through the crow…
okaydonkeymag.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
"Love did this: the riot of it. Love
for the smashing, the making,
the breaking. Love
for our country and the streets"
for the smashing, the making,
the breaking. Love
for our country and the streets"
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Every thing you do, no matter how small, to remind people that the wannabe dictators are actually sad, scared, fallible little boys is helpful. The more we laugh at them, the less fearsome they are and the easier it is to wrest power back from them.
Also? These messages are effing hilarious.
Also? These messages are effing hilarious.
Twelve of them! They got Zuck too
Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg voices
Crosswalk buttons along the mid-Peninsula appear to have been hacked, so that when pressed, voices professing to be Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk begin speaking.
www.paloaltoonline.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Every thing you do, no matter how small, to remind people that the wannabe dictators are actually sad, scared, fallible little boys is helpful. The more we laugh at them, the less fearsome they are and the easier it is to wrest power back from them.
Also? These messages are effing hilarious.
Also? These messages are effing hilarious.
"Some years come at a price.
Some marked down, on sale, tagged
'as is'. Some days line up like siblings
against a wall, each waiting their turn
to be smacked with a ruler."
From Dorianne Laux's "The Weight of Days" in Post Road www.postroadmag.com/2024/01/09/4...
Some marked down, on sale, tagged
'as is'. Some days line up like siblings
against a wall, each waiting their turn
to be smacked with a ruler."
From Dorianne Laux's "The Weight of Days" in Post Road www.postroadmag.com/2024/01/09/4...
- Post Road Magazine
Four Poems Dorianne Laux Garage Band for my brother, Jack My brother had one, my boyfriend.Every man I have loved loved music.Each song a pearl threaded onto a necklaceI have worn all my life. I see t...
www.postroadmag.com
April 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"Some years come at a price.
Some marked down, on sale, tagged
'as is'. Some days line up like siblings
against a wall, each waiting their turn
to be smacked with a ruler."
From Dorianne Laux's "The Weight of Days" in Post Road www.postroadmag.com/2024/01/09/4...
Some marked down, on sale, tagged
'as is'. Some days line up like siblings
against a wall, each waiting their turn
to be smacked with a ruler."
From Dorianne Laux's "The Weight of Days" in Post Road www.postroadmag.com/2024/01/09/4...
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“I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint… Carver gave me the face he makes on the back of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: an eyebrow-raised smirk that said, ‘give me your best shot.’”
@martinezfjulian.bsky.social is back on hex with a wild tale about the student surpassing the teachers! ✍️😤
@martinezfjulian.bsky.social is back on hex with a wild tale about the student surpassing the teachers! ✍️😤
Gordon Lish by Julián Martinez
I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint. I didn’t know he’d be sitting in the kitchen when I busted into the apartment of my old creative writing professor, Gordon Lish. Carver gave me the face he makes on ...
hexliterary.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint… Carver gave me the face he makes on the back of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: an eyebrow-raised smirk that said, ‘give me your best shot.’”
@martinezfjulian.bsky.social is back on hex with a wild tale about the student surpassing the teachers! ✍️😤
@martinezfjulian.bsky.social is back on hex with a wild tale about the student surpassing the teachers! ✍️😤
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Issue 3 is here! 10 postcards with 10 poems by 10 amazing poets (Emma Bolden, Adam Clay, Jessica Cuello, Erin Dorney, Susan Leary, Erin Malone, Nora Nadjarian, Michael Robins, Diane Wald, and Jane Zwart). Order your copy at www.postcardlit.com/store today! Preorders and orders ship soon!
March 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Issue 3 is here! 10 postcards with 10 poems by 10 amazing poets (Emma Bolden, Adam Clay, Jessica Cuello, Erin Dorney, Susan Leary, Erin Malone, Nora Nadjarian, Michael Robins, Diane Wald, and Jane Zwart). Order your copy at www.postcardlit.com/store today! Preorders and orders ship soon!
"Dear Thomas of Aquinas, spare me. Where to put
the jack is on the jack, words plus pictogram
for the verbally challenged."
From James Wyshynski in @lascauxreview.bsky.social
the jack is on the jack, words plus pictogram
for the verbally challenged."
From James Wyshynski in @lascauxreview.bsky.social
On Doing Good | The Lascaux Review
lascauxreview.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Dear Thomas of Aquinas, spare me. Where to put
the jack is on the jack, words plus pictogram
for the verbally challenged."
From James Wyshynski in @lascauxreview.bsky.social
the jack is on the jack, words plus pictogram
for the verbally challenged."
From James Wyshynski in @lascauxreview.bsky.social
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Really stoked to have a new poem in the spring issue of @theshorepoetry.bsky.social! I have long admired this journal, & I’m grateful to the editors for including me—& alongside so many poets I love! Happy World Poetry Day, too, friends! 💙
Read the issue here: www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-25
Read the issue here: www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-25
March 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Really stoked to have a new poem in the spring issue of @theshorepoetry.bsky.social! I have long admired this journal, & I’m grateful to the editors for including me—& alongside so many poets I love! Happy World Poetry Day, too, friends! 💙
Read the issue here: www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-25
Read the issue here: www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-25
"Time is the only thing that passes.
Gather up what small magics you can."
Gather up what small magics you can."
Issue 2 | Winter 2024 | What choice do I have anyway? - Hindman Settlement School
Untelling WHAT CHOICE DO I HAVE ANYWAY? Kari Gunter-Seymour Such a tired questionor slack-spined answer,wind whipping the parched grassinto a thrash of dried-up voices,a leap of grasshoppersmocking the cracked ground. As hot as it is, we may bein the coolest summerof the rest of our lives,a fate that lands jackbooted,a kick to the face,two black … Issue 2 | Winter 2024 | What choice do I have anyway? Read More »
hindman.org
March 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Time is the only thing that passes.
Gather up what small magics you can."
Gather up what small magics you can."
"I’ve only ever been here, in an eternity of Januarys.
People have told me about other places,
just never the roads leading in or out
of those states, or about the bridges
one might enter by."
From Emily Light in @terrainorg.bsky.social
People have told me about other places,
just never the roads leading in or out
of those states, or about the bridges
one might enter by."
From Emily Light in @terrainorg.bsky.social
One Poem by Emily Light - Terrain.org
Emily Light's "Central Jersey Roads" is a wintry poem of solace and insight that bridges us to place, with audio.
www.terrain.org
March 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"I’ve only ever been here, in an eternity of Januarys.
People have told me about other places,
just never the roads leading in or out
of those states, or about the bridges
one might enter by."
From Emily Light in @terrainorg.bsky.social
People have told me about other places,
just never the roads leading in or out
of those states, or about the bridges
one might enter by."
From Emily Light in @terrainorg.bsky.social