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ebenbein.bsky.social
Eben E. B. Bein (they)
@ebenbein.bsky.social
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Poet. Teacher-Turned-Youth-Climate-Justice-Advocate. Renaissance person. Chapbook: bit.ly/CharacterFlaws.
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We carry versions of our people in us. How tricky it can be to sort our version of them from the real thing.

Thank you @pacificalit.bsky.social, my therapist, and Internal Family Systems. #ifs

www.pacificareview.com/issue-21-2/
September 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Takes an ecosystem to raise a poem. Thanks @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, Mary Angelino, @yungwerther.bsky.social, Marisa Tirado, John Howard, Courtney Caldwell, the Quinobequin (Charles River), and its vociferous, eating, drinking, shitting inhabitants.
September 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Want words in your ear Wednesday night? 🖌

Take me on your evening walk. Tune in on Zoom at 8PM with Penny Thieme and VALA Gallery (Visual Audio Literary Artists). If you like, stay and read at the open mic at 9PM🎤!

RSVP here or DM for link:
www.facebook.com/share/19R4Gg...
August 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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#freemahmoudkhalil #freepalestine Thank you, @mosababutoha.bsky.social.

www.columbiajournal.org/articles/fou...
“Poetry makes nothing happen”—an Auden quote out of context, with a grain of truth. We must do more than art right now. We must return again and again to our connections with people who persist in the face of being starved, bombed, shot, trapped, occupied. We must tend these connections in the streets, in our homes, in difficult conversations with decision-makers, and in our own hearts. And art also has its place in this moment. Last fall, in a completely packed and sweaty Harvard Bookstore, the words of Mosab Abu Tohah reopened my heart. He and many other Palestinian writers can help us orient to and confront our reality. Let’s be in conversation with them. Let’s harness the power of words. May they allow all of us, from centers and peripheries, to slowly grow a shared vision for living together on our one Earth. Aracelis Girmay says, “& so to tenderness I add my action.” Free Mahmoud Khalil. Free Palestine. ...throw pillow   is for placing over the mouth   after calling your representative again,   for contemplating what we sent & didn't ... from "Throw pillow" full poem in The Columbia Journal
June 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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#freemahmoudkhalil #freepalestine
It’s the day after summer solstice. In my new neighborhood, hundreds of bands are playing music on their porches. And I am just not able to be here. Watching my country fund, arm, and abet genocide has sucked something out of my soul. No words can touch even the edge of the horror. But being silent feels even worse. And so I try imperfectly to say what I believe: None of us will be free until the people of Palestine are also free. May we resist every justification for occupation, starvation, and slaughter like our own humanity is at stake because it is. A year ago, I submitted some non-Gaza-related poems to the Columbia Journal, a publication run by MFA students at the Columbia University School of the Arts. Then, a lot went down, including that the Trump administration accused Palestinian advocate and Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil of being a "national security threat" and the university administration capitulated to his arrest and detainment without charge. A few months later, I received an acceptance note in my inbox. Unsure what to do, I reached out to the student editors to learn about their curation duties and efforts to hold up artful and timely political expression. I asked them to take a small risk with me. They agreed to add one more poem.
June 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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I first bumped into James' work through a Parker Palmer style Circle of Trust with at Hallelujah farm and I am so excited to read with him and Brad at the @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social on 6/5 at 7PM. What a way to kick off Pride Month!

RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
May 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Thank you also to the incredible James Crews and his husband Brad Peacock for holding up these words in their new anthology "LOVE IS FOR ALL OF US: poems of tenderness and belonging from the lgbtq+ community and friends" with truly charming art from @lisacongdon.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Me making the best decision of my life ... on the lawn of the same courthouse where the first same sex marriage happened in 2004. Gay marriage was not legalized across the country until 2015.

Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social for publicly sharing these vows:

www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
May 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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A childhood backyard poem about extinction & The Avengers first published in @wildroofjournal.bsky.social paired with the layered printmaking, collage, and needlework of Karen McCarthy. Don’t miss the epigraph from my dear poet friend and housemate, Lulu Liu.
April 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A poem remixing Robin Wall Kimmerer’s essay on the Common Plantain, “White Man’s Footprint”. Paired with the Frida Kahlo-inspired art of Missy Arellano.

A time-traveling family history poem paired with the embroidery of Malden-based Anna Thai, first published in @pigeonpagesnyc.bsky.social.
April 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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3 poem hanging on a public wall the 1st time, opening on May 1st from 6-7:30!

Symbiosis exhibit at Arlington Center for the Arts pairs visual art & poetry from local creatives about community & change, from evolving family relationships to complex feelings about history & identity.
April 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Anyone have recording equipment I can borrow for my keynote next Wednesday?
April 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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My @awpwriter.bsky.social haul.

@queerloveproject.bsky.social @redividermag.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @cmariefuhrman.bsky.social
@mspicone.bsky.social
April 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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#handsoff Boston
April 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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"Stop being one person" relays @nickolebrown.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Swing by to grab a book from me and Jennifer Case at booth 323 with @terrainorg.bsky.social #awp2025
March 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Come get some flaws at #awp2025 at 11am on Thursday at @terrainorg.bsky.social's booth (323).
March 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Thanks @sonorareview.bsky.social for sharing this:

sonorareview.com/2025/01/31/m...

@adriennemareebrown.bsky.social, This is us, Dickens, Plath and Joplin are all in there, along with my Chickadees and Sad Girls. Thanks for being my artistic community!
February 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Come read poetry with me at the Robbins Library on Pawtucket Land (Arlington, MA) on Feb 18th at 7PM.

Myself and another headliner will read for 30min, followed by a 30min open mic. Arrive by 6:45 if you want to sign up to read.

Wanna read? Have requests? Reply in thread!
January 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Thank you South Carolina Review for sharing my second "disintegration" poem titled "Mother's Day" in their Fall 2024 Issue.

The writing in this issue is so powerful, y'all. Grateful to share pages with so many breathtaking writers and the beautiful painting of Mason Engler.
December 14, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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Thank you to the connective tissue of the writing world as it manifests in Melissa Anderson and Nikki Ummel. These tireless, behind-the-scenes movers celebrated my work @whaleroadreview and @lmnlarts.

Also, my face and the Abenaki shoreline at Pemaquid Point for pleasure and algorithm purposes.
September 24, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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Miss you, Karla.
September 13, 2024 at 5:25 AM
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Celebrate "Character Flaws" with me & friends!

Join VIRTUALLY, IN-PERSON at the Lilypad, or both! On gift economy. DM for links or to reserve seats.

#poetry #relationships #love #funny #queer
July 7, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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An honor to go live with Bear Review:
www.bearreview.com/10-2/eben-eb...

Particular gratitude to Nikki Ummel, to Jenny George for an epigraph & title, WritingXWriters for the Fellowship to write this, & to Chickadee Collective's Abby Finklestein for sharp darting edits & affirmations.
May 15, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Grateful to offer my first keynote (+ panel discussion) for #EarthDay at Northfield Mount Hermon School. Thank you to my convo partners, @NMHEcoleaders, and the writers whose words I wove with mine: @parkerjpalmer @adriennemareebrown Layli Long Soldier & Mary Oliver

#poetry #climatechange
April 29, 2024 at 4:26 AM