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ayeletpoet.bsky.social
Ayelet Amittay
@ayeletpoet.bsky.social
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The Eating Knife (Fernwood Press '25). She/her. Poet and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. ayeletpoet.com.
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brothercasas.bsky.social
Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks.

@violetblue.bsky.social thought you may want to boost.

covid-long.com
Johns Hopkins COVID Long Study
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is conducting research about the COVID-19 pandemic. Participate in this one-time, 10-15 minute survey.
covid-long.com
May 19, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
Some people use their antizionism as a cover for antisemitism.

Some antizionists are not, do not.

Some Zionists are antisemitic.

Many Jews critique the actions of the Israeli government from a place of Jewish values.
May 2, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
Hag Pesach sameach, all.

Collective liberation or it’s not freedom.

Next year in peace and justice.
April 22, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Adrienne Rich
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?— You yourself must change it.— what would it feel like to know your country was changing?— You yourself must change it.— Though your life felt arduous new and unmapped and strange what would it mean to stand on the first page of the end of despair?
April 18, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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seagoatscreams.bsky.social
Dear hearts despairing: the incomparable Joy Harjo has a message for you.
Even if you can't believe it right now (like I mostly can't) read it with me tonight?

(From 'How We Became Human')

#poetry
A poem in a book. The beautiful corpse of a real monarch butterfly is laid below the text, deep orange wings spread. Two pinkish human fingertips peep the bottom margin as if the butterfly has lifted from a human branch. Text: ANYTHING THAT MATTERS Anything that matters is here. Anything that will continue to matter in the next several thousand years will continue to be here. Approaching in the distance is the child you were some years ago. See her laughing as she chases a white butterfly.
April 11, 2024 at 9:58 AM
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hels.bsky.social
If you want a kid in your life to have a H*rry P*tter-esque reading experience without supporting a shitty shitbag I recommend the book Wizard’s Hall by Jane Yolen, which was published 6 years before the first HP book and has exactly the same plot
April 10, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
The children being starved and bombed in Gaza are not Hamas.

Just as:

The children slain by Hamas were not Bibi and his Kahanists.

Just as:

The children murdered in their classrooms are not Trump and the Proud Boys.

Fucking hell people, get it the fuck together.
February 16, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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hexliterary.bsky.social
We REOPEN at MIDNIGHT on 1/8! Can’t wait to read your lil creepers 🕷️👹⚡️
January 6, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
“One idea in particular haunts me, and I cannot push it away,” Mosab Abu Toha wrote in late October. “Will I, too, become a statistic on the news?”
Israeli Forces Reportedly Detain a New Yorker Contributor
Mosab Abu Toha is an award-winning poet and a father of three who lives in Gaza. His current whereabouts are unknown.
www.newyorker.com
November 21, 2023 at 5:11 AM
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hanvanderhart.bsky.social
Happy to announce that for the foreseeable future I will only be accepting AI interpretations of scripture.
Al created image from the phrase, "Jesus flipping over the tables in the temple." Features Jesus the Child of God doing a righteous backflip over red table-clothed banquet table inside the temple.
September 22, 2023 at 1:03 PM
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alextretbar.bsky.social
Places open for subs today:

AGNI
River Teeth
The Kenyon Review
The Cincinnati Review
New England Review
The Southern Review
The Yale Review
Bellevue Literary Review
September 1, 2023 at 5:11 PM
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rnflex.bsky.social
Jesus lord I haven't seen this much COVID since early 2022 over the last two days of clinical shifts we're getting a positive test about 40% of the time
August 25, 2023 at 7:26 PM
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pandatheist.bsky.social
Freedom House by KB Brookins is fantastic 💖🙌
EVERY BUILDING IN EAST AUSTIN IS A GHOST There isn't much that I know about this place, except that every building is a ghost. Traveling, I find home in bathrooms, buildings, people--yet here it sits in the sick of willful ignorance. You see that bodega? It used to be a family tire shop. You visit that coffee spot? It was made with rubbish of a 70-year-old home. There's a scarcity of love built into all the asphalt. Preservation depends on what is considered good. The city natives know still spills in cracked corners of my local Whole Foods. I'm expected to unsee that resurrection. Does no one else see mummies lost here? The local paper's business section is an obituary. We'll be building on top of your memory now. I don't know much about place, except that history is epistolary & fresh paint is sometimes mixed with blood. Heaven be a Rosewood Park Juneteenth. Hell be a rent increase by property tax.
August 25, 2023 at 5:37 PM
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darbyprice.bsky.social
“But this is not a poem. This is a/ billboard for frozen green peas.” When I tell you I could NOT love Anne Carson any more 😩
Text of Anne Carson’s “Short Talk on Pain”: Lawns and fields and hills and wide old velvet sleeves, green things. They stretch, fold, roll away, unfurl and calm the eye. Look lush in paintings. Battles are fought on greens. Or you could spread a meal and sup. How secretly they lie, floors of distant forests. Next comes the grave, in many a poem about green. But this is not a poem. This is a billboard for frozen green peas. Frozen green peas are good for pain.
August 25, 2023 at 4:02 PM
ayeletpoet.bsky.social
So excited to have a poem up in gulf coast about Hanson and my father: gulfcoastmag.org/online/karao...
August 24, 2023 at 5:46 PM
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brodyparrish.bsky.social
“His finger pushes spectacles. He’s troubled by my wonder.
All the daisies I have chained around my neck. He pulls them up…”
Thorazine at 10:00 a.m. by Brody Parrish Craig | Poetry Magazine
Nobody told the river _run from what you’re made of_.
www.poetryfoundation.org
August 21, 2023 at 8:49 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
If you’re a poet coming in from Twitter reply here and tag the poets who’ve also joined, let’s rebuild!
July 6, 2023 at 4:15 PM
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vcmyers.bsky.social
Lit journals here so far (all .bsky.social):

barrelhouse
cincinnatireview
cottonxenomorph
dreampop
epochliterary
havehadhas
icefloepress
louisianalit
okaydonkey
pinkplastichouse
psalteryandlyre
rustandmoth
smokelong
stonecirclereview
tbq
theoffingmag
therumpus
thebaffler
uncannymagazine
zyzzyva
August 18, 2023 at 10:25 PM
ayeletpoet.bsky.social
Thinking of William Stafford.
August 19, 2023 at 11:39 PM
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kathyfish.bsky.social
I so want this place to succeed. Let's make it happen, lit community!
August 19, 2023 at 12:01 AM
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nicolechung.bsky.social
Novelist Madeline Miller on her experience with Long Covid: "the truth is that however immortal we feel, we are all just one infection away from a new life." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/09/madeline-miller-long-covid-post-pandemic/
Opinion | Long covid has derailed my life. Make no mistake: It could yours, too.
No matter how immortal we feel, we are all — still — at risk of developing crushing, life-altering symptoms.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 9, 2023 at 2:06 PM
ayeletpoet.bsky.social
Curious to learn how people are thinking about this space and how to use it. I think I will try to incorporate what I loved best about the old site-- sharing poems and writing shout outs.
August 4, 2023 at 6:49 PM