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Candice M. Kelsey
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Grateful educator, fledgling poet, bumbling mother, proud cat lady, and language-obsessed woman running coast to coast with hair on fire.
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What’s that? More poetry? Can’t stop won’t stop with “There’s No Lowly Worm” by Candice M. Kelsey @feed-me-poetry.bsky.social exploring the fitction vs. reality of childhood. It’s in 83rd edition of the press is out 3/30. Don’t miss it. It’s magic.
And I am hooked in the throat Like a bass or a pike or trout in Lake Isabella.
March 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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March 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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You do not do, you do not do ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHj...
Sylvia Plath Reads 'Daddy'
YouTube video by mishima1970
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March 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Hey Waltz and JD, add me to the group chat too! 🤦🏻‍♀️
March 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Excited for #AWP25 — the sessions, readings, signings, and just all around attention to the only world I love, the worldof words. @rfpress.bsky.social @finishinglinepress.bsky.social @troublemakerfire.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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On today's Weekly Features:

Lyndon Carrier follows a river along her country, and Ankush Saikia transcends geographies and generations.

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March 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...
REFLECTIONS ON AI IN THE CLASSROOM: How We are Not Using Al in the Classroom By Sonja Drimmer & Christopher J. Nygren Premise Prompt engineering is a term that has become commonplace since the widespread availability of generative Al applications like ChatGPT. The idea is that the outputs of the large language models (LLMs) on which these applications are based are only as good as the prompts that are input: vague prompts result in equally vague outputs. And thus was born the race to train for careers in prompt engineering. Unfortunately, the bubble seems to have burst before even the first generation of students was trained for this career outcome. We were given a prompt as an invitation to participate in this newsletter: "How are you using Al in the classroom?" While we have accepted this invitation, we are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine—refusing the prompt.”
March 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Who are the five writers that made you?

Kimiko Hahn
Billy Collins
Kay Ryan
Linda Pastan
Sharon Olds
March 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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REPOST: In an essay, Ann Nguyen writes about how she found healing in her decades-long relationship with her Vietnamese mom and food.

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Perspective: Forgiving My Almond Mom
Did her mother make her attach her worth to her body just as my mother did to her body just as I am doing to mine?
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March 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Happy to share my conversation on Loblolly Press’ podcast open.substack.com/pub/loblolly...
Poetry as a Small Gesture: Finding Meaning in the Everyday
A conversation with poet Candice M. Kelsey on capturing fleeting moments, writing as an act of preservation, and the power of poetry to connect us to ourselves and each other.
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March 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 28
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.

ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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"I'm not playing cards."
February 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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I wrote this two years ago trying to process the horror; today I cannot process America. 🇺🇦
Blackout poem for the mass graves in Bucha, Ukraine
February 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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"Seeing queer people build their own happiness brick by brick no matter what the world thinks of them nourishes something in me."

For anyone in need, a gift link to @oliviawaite.com's list of queer historical romances:
15 Queer Historical Romance Books to Dive Into the Genre (Gift Article)
Our columnist recommends books featuring centuries of L.G.B.T.Q. love stories that defy tragedy, laugh in the face of shame and lean into unabashed joy.
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February 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Okay so this one always makes me cry.

Thank you @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Jesus at the Gay Bar He's here in the midst of it - right at the centre of the dance floor, robes hitched up to His knees to make it easy to spin. At some point in the evening a boy will touch the hem of His robe and beg to be healed, beg to be anything other than this; and He will reach His arms out, sweat-damp, and weary from dance. He'll cup this boy's face in His hand and say, my beautiful child there is nothing in this heart of yours that ever needs to be healed.
February 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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"...and would never notice the mist over his eyes as he speaks, and would never tell myself see? deep down he’s a sensitive guy,...."

This is an extraordinary piece of writing by @itssonoemi.bsky.social in @passagesnorth.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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If I Were My Sister by Noémi Scheiring-Oláh — Passages North
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February 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.
delaneyking.bsky.social Delaney King (She/Her/Ho Ho Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · Feb 24
Mark Hamill posting rebellious content in a battle against a dictator and his robotic sidekick is the most Star Wars shit ever.
February 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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There are no kings in America
we are not that kind of country.
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February 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Absolutely.
smathewss.bsky.social sarah thankam mathews @smathewss.bsky.social · Feb 19
this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am
February 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Exploring art, time, memory and consciousness in a poem/essay by UK poet William Atkins w/a #visualpoem by @rfredekenter.bsky.social for February New Works Project!

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A Poem by William Atkins
The oranges on the bar at Folies-Bergère Of all that people have said about The bar at Folies-Bergère, no one ever mentions the oranges. Firstly how they look more like tangerines, satsumas, or cle…
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February 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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& when the devil nears his end,
will he also rise like a fish?

—Seth Peterson
Sea Devil by Seth Peterson - Rattle: Poetry
<p>It was not curiosity so much as<br /> a calling that brought the fish<br /> paddling up through the gradient<br /> of ocean, the hideous yaw<br /> of her mouth opened as if<br /> in astonishment, e...
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February 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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February 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is the Toddfather himself, Todd Robinson. Join us live at 8pm ET—and BYOPoems about a memory you've never shared that includes dialogue!

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February 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Something I ponder each time I board the poetic train 🤍

From ALL SOULS by Saskia Hamilton.

@graywolfpress.bsky.social

#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
From ALL SOULS by Saskia Hamilton. Graywolf Press
February 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM