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Gayle J. Greenlea
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American-Australian poet, novelist, muso, counselor for survivors of sexual & gender violence. Black Bough Poetry, Fevers of the Mind, Ice Floe Press, SAR, Kalonopia, Headline Poetry & Press, Rebelle, Wombwell Rainbow. #BLM #LGBTQIA #Climate #Disability
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The submission window is now open to 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲, and 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬.

Guidelines are on the site.

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November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
gjgreenlea.bsky.social
Epstein’s victims are now adults who have courageously stood up for themselves & others…Some seek answers. All seek justice. Many are bewildered about why no one came to their aid. They’ve spent decades speaking truth to a public more occupied w/ celebrity & wealth than the protection of children.
Megyn Kelly, dressed in a black top and leather skirt, stands next to Trump in his signature blue suit and long red tie. Trump gives a thumbs up.
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Trump is now hinting he may commute Ghislaine Maxwell’s trafficking conviction.

Meanwhile, Virginia Giuffre’s new 60 Minutes Australia interview is one of the most important things you can watch right now.
Trump is now hinting he may commute Ghislaine Maxwell’s trafficking conviction, while she continues to receive unusually privileged treatment in a so-called low-security facility. Meanwhile, Virginia ...
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November 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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zeteo.com
Trump Tries to Cover Up His Epstein Scandal With Wildly Corrupt Bullying

A Trump adviser tells Zeteo the Epstein scandal “really fucking pisses him off.” It’s only getting worse for the president, writes @swin24.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social.

Read now: zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...
Trump Tries to Cover Up His Epstein Scandal With Wildly Corrupt Bullying
A Trump adviser tells Zeteo the Epstein scandal “really fucking pisses him off.” It’s only getting worse for the president.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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"Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found"

Read what Epstein said about Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.
Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found
You can search and review the emails here. Read what Epstein said about Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
gjgreenlea.bsky.social
Megyn Kelly’s assertion that the sexual abuse of 15-year-old girls is somehow more acceptable than the abuse of eight-year-old girls is perverse and patently false. Sexual abuse is NEVER okay. It is the worst betrayal of trust imaginable; a crime of misogyny and unmitigated abuse of power.
Megyn Kelly is Wrong
November 15, 2025
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November 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Note from my notebook (2017).
I know I buy too many books but I like to think that lining the walls of my house with them warns off evil in some deeply important way.
September 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Enid, the surprising and eccentric owner of the brilliant Sound Records in Stroud, UK, has an encyclopaedic knowledge of jazz, soul, funk, ocean fish and wool.
Enid the cat on top of the Soul & Funk section in (the old, smaller) Sound Records in Stroud.
October 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
End of month, but just the start. Thanks to everyone who's made this launch matter.
@martinkennedyyates.bsky.social #ThisWilderness
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Book cover of This Wilderness & Other Concerns by Martin Kennedy Yates, published by The Broken Spine. The cover artwork depicts an urban canal or waterway running between old brick and industrial buildings, with graffiti on one wall and a dark, moody atmosphere. A quote from writer and poet Jonathan Davidson reads: “These poems are a pleasure both to encounter and to read.”
September 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
This Friday’s theme: #Mannequin. Frozen glamour. Object over voice. Write about being posed, silenced, moulded. Ideas: window displays, shop floor ghosts, plastic skin. Use Alt Text. Always tag #PoemsAbout so we can find and share your work.
A red, headless female mannequin torso stands against a moody blue and pink gradient background. In the top left corner is The Broken Spine logo, shaped like a black fountain pen nib with white text. The website @thebrokenspine.co.uk appears in white at the top right. At the bottom right, bold white text reads: "Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #MANNEQUIN".
September 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

#PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry
Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026
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October 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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One of the most quietly powerful presses out there, @epistemiclit.bsky.social, has been spotlighted for #IndieLitMagGala 2025.

Big thanks to Jennifer (@einetogi.bsky.social) for the heartfelt nomination—this one hit us deep.

Read the full feature here:
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#SmallPressLove
#IndieLitMagGala 2025 Spotlight: Epistemic Literary - The Broken Spine
This isn’t a competition. It’s a celebration.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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You don’t need a headshot.
You don’t need a filter.
You just need a voice.
#NotJustPretty
🗓 Oct 4 | 8pm GMT
🎟 Free to attend. Donations welcomed.
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@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
#WednesdayWIPs
#NotJustPretty: A Manifesto for Women Who Refuse to Be Flattened - The Broken Spine
Their Breasts Aren’t Perky Enough
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October 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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#NeverAgain is quite a recent expression, one that would have made any monarch or ploughboy laugh out loud in perhaps more honest times.
For #PoemsAbout
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September 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Showing my age for #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain

Huge thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for this wonderful prompt every week that keep us pushing words around.
(Alt Text on the image) #poetlife #poetrycommunity #PoemAltText #poetsofbluesky #poetrymatters #poetryforall
Protect and Survive By Dawn McLachlan I still remember what the underside of my school desk looked like Counting the pocks of dried gum to get through the drill and the sound of the siren four minute warning I wasn't sure I could spell everyone's name If I needed to write tags for their toes The leaflet didn't say How long would it take to lose my hair Or my teeth That winter I was jealous of the kids with thick coats That looked as they could hold back fallout If we laid down in ditches To wait for an all clear That might never come
September 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Happy Friday all. Here's a wee stream.of consciousness prose poem thingy for today's #poemsabout #neveragain for @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk it's meant to be breathless and fast. The lack of punctuation isn't a mistake. I'll check in later and read the others! Sorry it's so small
The Lie Never again will I purposely cut myself on shards of glass as I look through a mirror reflecting the light of the blue of your eyes and never again will I cradle my heart like a baby imagining the years ahead where you might love me. Never again will I lie in a bath or drive to work or stir pasta on the verge of tears while my heart sits at my feet and its all I can do not to try and swallow it back into the cavity I’ve carved in my own chest, and I promise never again to wonder where you are or what you are doing at nine, nine oh five, nine twenty, nine twenty one and so on till its dark and my nerves are stripped raw. Never again will I write, never-mind in a text when I want to write one hundred words and never again will I form the perfect speech only to go mute in your presence, because its better to know. Isn’t it? It’s better to know if never again is really never again! or if it’s never! again! Which is an entirely different thing and cuts the bullshit right out of the lie that is, never again.
September 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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#PoemsAbout #NeverAgain
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I will post either a reel or a link in the comments, in which I will say I don’t want to disparage or discount anyone’s service but I don’t like being in a society in which only those who wear uniforms and carry guns can be heroic.
CHANGING LENSES My Dad didn’t own one pair of jeans and I rarely even saw him in khakis. He did yard work in his army pants because they had extra pockets and they still fit into middle age. Younger me was embarrassed when my uncles and the other kids’ fathers narrated war stories or grimly griped of bodies bearing embedded shrapnel. Theirs was the stuff of family legends. My Dad reminisced about watching Willie Mays hit home runs at Ft. Eustis or feasting on cheap steak and beer at some Gasthaus or other while on leave. From what I gather, he passed a fluency test and spent the Korean War in Germany driving spies and informants around and running the officers’ club, where he had a side gig selling bootleg cigarettes. Once, I asked him, “So you were, what, Radar O’Reilly?” And he said, “I suppose so.” His buddy signed the wrong petition, got dropped from that cushy program, was sent to Korea, and didn’t return home the same man. Dad brought back a Leica camera and 7x35 Zeiss binoculars, which still work great. Once I told him my Uncle John had a pair of 10x50 service binoculars that he traded for with a German in WWII. Dad made a sour face and spat back, “Give me a break. Do you really think the infantry makes trades on the battlefield?” In retrospect, he was certainly no dope, but I’d never call my Dad a hero, especially in the decades when his drinking made our house a war zone of its own. Still, there is some solace in knowing his war souvenirs were bought with greenbacks and marks rather than bullets and blood.
September 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Hullo @alanparrywriter.co.uk and to #poemsabout #neveragain

Found this tricky, so it’s not quite fully on topic. Apologies.
Honestly I can’t feel war: it’s not that the undersea cables of my empathy have been clandestinely damaged or cut but I understand more those star-bursting cells firing hard their shrapnel-batteries of cancer; or that direct hit in the chest of a familial heart attack; any befuddled refugee seems less lost to me than someone close with wandering dementia. In truth, my only life-changing risk: were I to face that daily press of skin-shredding Ozempic. I feel so unversed to write any war, holding only unearned ink, my clean and bloodless paper.
September 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Hello, Poets. It’s good to join you on an important theme: #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain. Many thanks to @hool415.bsky.social for the invitation, and to @alanparry83.bsky.social and @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for hosting.
Recurrence Never Again. Words emaciated as immigrants laid end to end in bunk beds, chess pieces tightly muzzled in their coffer. Human cash cows held, then disappeared with no due process, to deserts and jungles not their home. We do not own the dreams ICEd by masked-men with guns, hearts squeezed small in Kevlar. Dreams cannot be barred or crushed like glass under hobnailed boots. They rise like ghosts to whisper forgotten smoke, “Never again. Never again.” – Gayle J. Greenlea Two photos: cramped bunk beds at Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” looking very similar to bunk beds at Auschwitz.
September 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Tomorrow is #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain
Dig deep. Write with precision.
This one demands more than feeling—it needs truth.
Tag your post + tag:
@alanparry83.bsky.social
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Then Read. Repost. Reply.
Prompts arrive Saturday: shorturl.at/oEXAM
A solemn military cemetery stretches into the distance under a grey, overcast sky. Rows of white marble crosses stand on green grass, evoking silence, sacrifice, and remembrance. Towering trees loom in the background, their dark silhouettes reinforcing the gravity of loss. The image speaks to war’s cost, collective mourning, and the enduring plea of “never again.” In the top right, white text reads: "@BrokenSpineArts.bsky.social" and "@AlanParry83.bsky.social." The bottom right corner states: "Read Repost Reply #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain." The Broken Spine logo, shaped like a black fountain pen nib, appears in the top left corner—underscoring poetry’s role in bearing witness.
September 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
"Voices... sometimes."
Still echoing down the canals of Birmingham.
@martinkennedyyates.bsky.social #ThisWilderness
www.amazon.co.uk/Wil...
Book cover of This Wilderness & Other Concerns by Martin Kennedy Yates, published by The Broken Spine. The cover artwork depicts an urban canal or waterway running between old brick and industrial buildings, with graffiti on one wall and a dark, moody atmosphere. A quote from writer and poet Jonathan Davidson reads: “These poems are a pleasure both to encounter and to read.”
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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By predicting the Nazi playbook used by MAGA-Russia to mythologize Kirk, it minimizes the utility of turning him into a martyr.

Knowing history can deflate the potency of their moves and allow pro-democracy factions to regain control of the narrative, ie truth.
September 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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I have really come around to the idea that art - all kinds - including street action, writing, music, satire, painting, music is more important now than it has been in awhile, but we have, sadly, allowed too much withering and it’s taking a long time to find its feet.
September 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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"We’re witnessing, in real-time, a profound consolidation of power & collusion among political & tech elites... wherein the tools and technologies that this industry has built... can now be deployed in service of an authoritarian regime" — @katie-drummond.bsky.social www.status.news/p/wired-kati...
WIRED for the Moment
In a conversation with Status, WIRED’s Katie Drummond argues that Silicon Valley is no longer just innovating new technology—it’s actively shaping American democracy.
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August 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM