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Tiny by Design. Bloof is a small press publishing poetry in paperback & handmade chapbooks. Hi Water offers hand-printed art & goods. // Our links: https://bloofbooks.com/links/
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Heyyyyyy, Maine! We’ll see you in Camden for the poetry festival book fair on May 17. Shanna will bring Bloof books & chapbooks + her own new artist’s book published by Black Square Editions. See ya there?

Jane Hirschfield is keynote & craft talk!

www.camdenfestivalofpoetry.org/2025-festiva...
Camden Poetry Festival email confirming we have secured a table for the bookfair on 5/17. Their logo floats in blue above a bookfair photo with people and book tables. A yellow box below contains the confirmation text.
May 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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A NaPoWriMo announcement graphic for Bloof Books poets on dark teal with pink, aqua, purple and magenta shapes decorating the edges and yellow text saying “The poets of Bloof have been invited to post drafts, doodles, revisions & creative undefinables to our blog all month, trying to meet the challenge Maureen Thorson first set herself many moons ago to write a poem a day in the month of April. We usually make a glorious mess. Stop by bloofbooks.com/blog to read along. See NaPoWroMo.net for more information. (NaPoWriMo stands for “national poetry writing month” even though it was a jokey personal challenge started thing by Maureen Thorson by her lonesome on her blog 20+ years ago not national at all, but now it’s global!)
April 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Tomorrow is April 1. You know what that means.

Who’s in?

Stop by the Bloof blog to see what we are slinging, every day in April.

See @maureenthorson.bsky.social ‘s website at napowrimo.net for the history of this Unofficial, Unsponsored, and Noncommercial poetry game.

#NaPoWriMo
Dark teal announcement graphic with pink, magenta, aqua, and purple shapes surrounding the text. It reads “Every day in April at the Bloof blog: NaPoWriMo. The poets of Bloof have been invited to post drafts, doodles, revisions & creative undefinables to our blog all month. We usually make a glorious mess. Stop by bloofbooks.com/blog to read along. See napowrimo.net for more information.
March 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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NaPoWriMo is in full swing on the Bloof blog. We’re on track to surpass 100 very fresh drafts today, day 8!

Here’s the directory of our participating poets. Click a name to see that poet’s drafts collected.

bloofbooks.com/2024/04/08/n...

#poetry #NaPoWriMo #NationalPoetryMonth
A multicolored graphic of abstract leaves. Large white text says April’s a mess. Smaller light green text below says #NaPoWriMo daily drafts at bloofbooks.com/blog.
April 8, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Hmm, yes, apparently we forgot we had an account here. But it’s not too late. The Bloof Books Warehouse Sale goes thru the end of the month!

#VirtualBookfair #BloofBooks #SmallPressPoetry
A muted photo of a bookshelf loaded with all the Bloof Books paperbacks serves as a backdrop for text that says BLOOF BOOKS WAREHOUSE SALE, all paperbacks $10 thru 2/29 or while supplies last. The text is aqua blue and yellow.
February 11, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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Really pretty day in Belfast at the art market. Everybody talking storm prep (which I’ll go home to do next myself). 🌪️⛈️
September 15, 2023 at 4:07 PM
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Next up! ROMANCE IN TWELVE LINES by Bruna Beber, translated from the Portuguese by Sarah Rebecca Kersley. Available for preorder now in our custom chapbook bundles. Standalone preorders and more details soon. Working on cover design now…
The title poem from the chapbook, “romance in twelve lines.” Here is the full text: how long before we see each other today how long before we see each other soon how long before we see each other every day how long before we see each other forever how long before we see each other on alternate days how long before we see each other from time to time how long before we see each other less and less how long before we don’t want to see each other how long before we never want to see each other again how long before we see each other and pretend we didn’t see each other how long before we see each other and don’t recognize each other how long before we see each other and don’t remember ever having met.
September 13, 2023 at 12:13 PM
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This is what this silly app looks like on iPad (the most accessible device for 🦻). I can get the window to turn vertical, but it won’t stick like that, and it’s not really much better even if it did stick.
A screenshot of my iPad with the Bluesky app open. The window is very small, floating in a vast black emptiness (the rest of my useable screen space). It’s also oriented sideways, so I can see only a few lines of the feed at a time.
August 31, 2023 at 12:28 PM
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September? How’d that happen?!

The Art Market + Farmers Market continues through September, every Friday morning, 9:00–1:00 at Waterfall Arts in beautiful Belfast, Maine.

Hi Water Press & Bloof Books are planning to be there September 1, 15, and 29.

Waterfall Arts
256 High Street
Belfast, ME
Announcement graphic with background photo of the Waterfall Arts lawn set up with artist tents, and people browsing on a sunny day. Overlaid text in white says 2023 Art Market, Fridays 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 37+ local artists and craftspeople, and the Belfast Farmers Market. Local food, local arts, and fun for all ages.
August 29, 2023 at 3:21 PM
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Oh hey I haven’t said it here yet. It’s ON DREAMS week at BloofBooks.com, which means $5 off Maureen Thorson’s new book of essays. Here’s what @natalieshapero.bsky.social says about them, and a little excerpt!
Natalie Shapero’s blurb for On Dreams by Maureen Thorson, which says, in part, “Thorson’s essays are adroit and aphoristic, resonant and recursive, and stealthily instructive in the ways of the world. …[A] telescopic window into a vast and fascinating mind.” Announcement graphic about the $5 off deal, which says “It’s On Dreams Week at BloofBooks.com! Get $5 off Maureen Thorson’s new book of essays. Enter 5OFFDREAMS at checkout.” To the right of the big eyeball (from the cover’s painting) are two small inset photos of Maureen and the front cover. A sample spread from the book, two pages in which Constantin Brancusi’s Bird in Space is discussed, among many other things, like how dreams made Mark Strand grumpy in an interview.
August 24, 2023 at 11:00 PM