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Deirdre Lockwood
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Poet & fiction writer, oceanography PhD & occasional container-ship rider. Author of AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR (2025, Cornerstone Press). she/her deirdrelockwood.com
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Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · Jul 16
I'm thrilled to share that my debut poetry collection, AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR, is now available for preorder from Cornerstone Press (for 20% off through Sept. 15): tinyurl.com/yyyjdk9y
Deirdre Lockwood stands outside with trees in the background holding a copy of the book An Introduction to Error. Cover of the book An Introduction to Error. It includes a print by Eunice Kim showing four black circles filled with white dots, three in an organized grid and one only part visible, seeming to float up off the page. Below the image is the text: An Introduction to Error Poems Deirdre Lockwood
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Hey Seattle voters. The mayor's race may come down to a slim margin of votes, so check TODAY to make sure your signature was validated and ballot was counted. There are easy steps to correct things if your ballot was rejected: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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I loved working on this story about UW undergrad Leo Diaz's work in Yijie Geng's lab. They are studying how pesticides influence autism, and how a chemical naturally produced in our gut might have promise as a future treatment.
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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guyoron.net
We are just one day out from the Seattle local elections! Only 17.6% of King County voters and just under 20% of Seattle voters have returned their ballots. So far, only 1 in 17 young gen Z voters have voted, compared to more than 1 in 3 boomers. Don't forget to vote if you are eligible and want to.
Chart shows only 17.6% of voters have turned in their ballots chart shows boomers voting much more than young gen z
November 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I address the first scandal of my political life—Momgate.
October 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
About | Literary Arts Fund
The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
literaryartsfund.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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just no
robertcruickshank.com Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · Sep 25
At tonight’s Seattle school board meeting, director Liza Rankin is calling for a resumption of the mass school closure process that the district abandoned last year in the face of widespread public opposition. This isn’t a surprise. I wrote last month about her determination to force austerity:
Op-Ed: Closing Seattle Schools Is Still a Bad Idea » The Urbanist
# Last week school board director Liza Rankin wrote a memo to her colleagues suggesting a major new round of austerity for the Seattle Public Schools that could revive a plan to close numerous schools...
www.theurbanist.org
September 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Thanks so much to @lynnelamberg.bsky.social and @sciencewriters.org for featuring my chronicle of trial and error in creating AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR and finding a wonderful publisher in Cornerstone Press. Also a glimpse of the many books that inspired mine. 🙏🏻📚 www.nasw.org/member_artic...
A bookshelf of books with their spines visible, with text beneath reading: Deirdre Lockwood—An Introduction to Error: Poems “I used to follow parcels of water around the ocean,” Deirdre Lockwood reports in her poem, “My Chemistry.” She divides her first book of poetry An Introduction to Error into four sections: Materials, Methods, Results, & Discussion. A self-described “observationalist,” she offers meditations on research and life: “detecting what is or trying to write it down and not get too seasick along the way.” A photo of books with the spines visible. Titles include Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss, Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Gluck, Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith, Tributaries by Laura Da', Time is Always Now by Rebecca Starks, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, Psalms by April Bernard, Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson, Selected Poems by Gabriel Zaid, Praise by Robert Hass, Tape for the Turn of the Year by A.R. Ammons, Obit by Victoria Chang, Ghost in a Red Hat by Rosanna Warren, Information Desk by Robyn Schiff, Deepstep Come Shining by C.D. Wright, Blackbird Bye Bye by April Bernard, Collected Poems 1937-1971 by John Berryman, Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz, Rooms are Never Finished by Agha Shahid Ali, The Nerve by Glyn Maxwell, The Periodic Table by Primo Levi.
September 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Join us tonight! 🎉
deirdrelockwood.bsky.social Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · Sep 4
I'm so excited to be launching my debut poetry collection, AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR, in conversation with the brilliant Sarah DeWeerdt! Come out and join us at Elliott Bay Book Co. on Sept. 18 at 7 pm. Cosponsored by @nswa.bsky.social. www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47800
On a green background there are images of two women (Deirdre and Sarah) and a cover image of the book An Introduction to Error. Text on the graphic reads: Elliott Bay Book Company | Deirdre Lockwood w/ Sarah DeWeerdt | Thursday 9/18 7 pm
September 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR is out today from Cornerstone Press! Join me in celebrating mistakes and uncertainty. 🙈Thanks a million to Eunice Kim for the beautiful cover art, Rosanna Warren, and everyone who has supported this book making its sidewinding way into the world. ❤️
Cover of the book An Introduction to Error lying at an angle on a wood table. It includes a print by Eunice Kim showing four black circles filled with white dots, three in an organized grid and one only part visible, seeming to float up off the page. Below the image is the text: An Introduction to Error Poems Deirdre Lockwood Text: "A brainy, passionate, wildly original book; a primer for surviving, with love and courage, on a threatened planet." -Rosanna Warren, author of Hindsight
September 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"
September 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26085894-25a169-order/
September 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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spokanerising.com
Some good news: *everyone* is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in Washington State, and it *will* be covered by your insurance!
September 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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andyengelson.bsky.social
"So yes, the governors of the west, of Washington, Oregon, and California, will take up the efficacy of science."
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 4
"You're a charlatan. That's what you are." -- Cantwell to RFK Jr
September 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
deirdrelockwood.bsky.social
I'm so excited to be launching my debut poetry collection, AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR, in conversation with the brilliant Sarah DeWeerdt! Come out and join us at Elliott Bay Book Co. on Sept. 18 at 7 pm. Cosponsored by @nswa.bsky.social. www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47800
On a green background there are images of two women (Deirdre and Sarah) and a cover image of the book An Introduction to Error. Text on the graphic reads: Elliott Bay Book Company | Deirdre Lockwood w/ Sarah DeWeerdt | Thursday 9/18 7 pm
September 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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No one would be confused about what's happening if you saw it in another country. No one.
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 22
Let's keep focused on the broader pattern here. I've outlined it in six bullet points below. Viewed all in one place, it's quite ominous:

newrepublic.com/article/1994...
August 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I never met Steve Gilbert, but I wish I had -- the stories of his incredible toxicology research, outreach and advocacy (plus winemaking and winetasting clubs!) are legendary. It was inspiring to work on this memoriam piece. deohs.washington.edu/hsm-blog/mem...
In Memoriam: Steven Gilbert
DEOHS community reflects on a treasured toxicology colleague, science communicator and public health advocate
deohs.washington.edu
August 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Joanne Kyger
NOT YET Not tomorrow night but the night after tomorrow Not tomorrow but the night after tomorrow Then the moon will be full Then the moon will be full
August 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Offering health care for pets helps their humans too, according to a new study led by DEOHS's Center for One Health Research.
@wsuvetmed.bsky.social @uwsph.bsky.social deohs.washington.edu/hsm-blog/off...
Offering health care for pets helps their humans too
Integrating human and animal health care increases access to services for unhoused youth, according to new study from DEOHS’s Center for One Health Research
deohs.washington.edu
August 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com last night: "We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country."
August 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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uwdeohs.bsky.social
It was “win-win” research for shellfish & crop farmers. Then the USDA canceled it.
DEOHS faculty Sarah Collier's project helped shellfish farmers find a market for seaweed that smothers their oyster & geoduck harvests by testing it as fertilizer. @uwnews.uw.edu
deohs.washington.edu/hsm-blog/vid...
August 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Over the weekend, we received the sad news that two of our @realchangenews.bsky.social vendors were detained by ICE at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. Real Change is mobilizing quickly to provide assistance to the vendors and their loved ones. www.realchangenews.org/support-ice-...
Support for ICE Detainees | Real Change
"This is not merely an unfortunate incident; it is a calculated act of cruelty and intimidation that goes against the very fabric of our mission and our city's values," said Krystal Marx, Executive Director of Real Change.
www.realchangenews.org
August 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Seattle folks, please vote by tomorrow! This is a critical primary, a chance to elect much more progressive folks to lead our city. I'm supporting:
✨Katie Wilson for Mayor
✨Erika Evans for City Attorney
✨Dionne Foster and ✨Alexis Mercedes Rinck for City Council
www.thestranger.com/stranger-ele...
The Stranger's Primary Election Voting Guide
The Stranger's 2025 Primary Election Voters Guide
www.thestranger.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Good Saturday morning—pour yourself a cup of coffee, and have a poem by @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social 💜☕️
August 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Season of salmonberry then currant
raspberry
thimbleberry cherry almost
blackberry

—Deirdre Lockwood, with a new #SummerRiot beauty this morning!

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“Porosity” by Deirdre Lockwood
Season of salmonberry then currantraspberry thimbleberry cherry almostblackberryof ants in the kitchenof napping while she napswriting undercoverthe blanket naked (its crimson sleeve whirling in th…
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August 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM