heathenderr.bsky.social
@heathenderr.bsky.social
Poet, 5 books, most recently Thrust (Lexi Rudnitsky Prize, Persea Books, 2018) and Outskirts(University of Akron Press, 2022).
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And I made an amazing discovery. When you go searching for your identity. When you write about yourself and your struggle. When you begin a journey of identity for liberation, you find yourself and others who have been vanished too or who have hidden their eyes from themselves.
Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez
July 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
And I made an amazing discovery. When you go searching for your identity. When you write about yourself and your struggle. When you begin a journey of identity for liberation, you find yourself and others who have been vanished too or who have hidden their eyes from themselves.
Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez
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Monthly reminder: Stone Circle Review reads year-round and publishes weekly. Send one poem (no themes, no fees) and hear back in within 28 days. Link in bio. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Poems
May 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Monthly reminder: Stone Circle Review reads year-round and publishes weekly. Send one poem (no themes, no fees) and hear back in within 28 days. Link in bio. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Poems
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ode to that little recharge hug toddlers give you after they fall but are totally ok
February 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
ode to that little recharge hug toddlers give you after they fall but are totally ok
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“You say you’re not going to make the same mistakes your parents made. But I didn’t realize how many other mistakes were available.”
– Sharon Olds
– Sharon Olds
February 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“You say you’re not going to make the same mistakes your parents made. But I didn’t realize how many other mistakes were available.”
– Sharon Olds
– Sharon Olds
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The poems in this book are so deft, so layered, so beautiful. You won't be able to get them out of your head, and you won't want to. I know that I'll be returning to @akwenstrup.bsky.social's work again and again. It's brilliant! Get yourself a copy, pronto!
February 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The poems in this book are so deft, so layered, so beautiful. You won't be able to get them out of your head, and you won't want to. I know that I'll be returning to @akwenstrup.bsky.social's work again and again. It's brilliant! Get yourself a copy, pronto!
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Cool to see the print edition of the starred review from Kirkus for my essay collection, The Body Is A Temporary Gathering Place.
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February 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Cool to see the print edition of the starred review from Kirkus for my essay collection, The Body Is A Temporary Gathering Place.
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/the-...
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/the-...
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“The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.”
- Arundhati Roy
- Arundhati Roy
February 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
“The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.”
- Arundhati Roy
- Arundhati Roy
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my book came out when the lockdowns started. I barely promoted it. Then when the protests began I continued to stay silent. I felt small and insignificant and unworthy. I’ve since heard several people say they needed my poems. Please. Don’t keep your art from those who need it. Especially not now.
If you're wondering whether you should promote your book or your latest publication now with all the chaos, the answer is yes. We need your words. We need to flood the channels with art and literature. So go for it, friends.
February 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
my book came out when the lockdowns started. I barely promoted it. Then when the protests began I continued to stay silent. I felt small and insignificant and unworthy. I’ve since heard several people say they needed my poems. Please. Don’t keep your art from those who need it. Especially not now.
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newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Han VanderHart : Three poems / @hanvanderhart.bsky.social ;
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Han VanderHart : Three poems
The Lily Crucifix (c1450) Godshill Parish Church, Isle of Wight Christ crucified on his mother’s flower. What is wit...
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February 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Han VanderHart : Three poems / @hanvanderhart.bsky.social ;
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All a poem is is an emotionally disturbing structure made of words.
-- X.J. Kennedy
-- X.J. Kennedy
January 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
All a poem is is an emotionally disturbing structure made of words.
-- X.J. Kennedy
-- X.J. Kennedy
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A lot of folks have great resources circulating—adding ours to the mix. Here's ACLU of Virginia's Know Your Rights / What To Do If Stopped By Police or ICE, translated in English, Spanish, French, Dari & Pashto, plus Va. immigration legal services orgs & contact info: www.acluva.org/en/know-your...
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Immigrants Stopped By Police or ICE
If you are not a U.S. citizen and are stopped or questioned by the police or ICE, you should:Remain silent.Remain calm.Say “no” when asked to search.Never show false documents.Never lie about being a
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January 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A lot of folks have great resources circulating—adding ours to the mix. Here's ACLU of Virginia's Know Your Rights / What To Do If Stopped By Police or ICE, translated in English, Spanish, French, Dari & Pashto, plus Va. immigration legal services orgs & contact info: www.acluva.org/en/know-your...
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I got Ann Patchett’s annotated Bel Canto for Christmas & I wish there were more books w author annotations!! It’s her own handwritten notes looking back at the book 30 years later or so. I love that she still writes things like “Ack! This is terrible” or “too many adverbs” in between “lovely.”
January 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I got Ann Patchett’s annotated Bel Canto for Christmas & I wish there were more books w author annotations!! It’s her own handwritten notes looking back at the book 30 years later or so. I love that she still writes things like “Ack! This is terrible” or “too many adverbs” in between “lovely.”
Helloooo… this site is weird like I’m a ghost. Hellooooooo?
January 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Helloooo… this site is weird like I’m a ghost. Hellooooooo?
Sarajevo, 2005
January 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Sarajevo, 2005
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One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
January 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
“The memory is a living thing—it too is in transit. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and lives—the old and young, the past and present, the living and the dead.” —from One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty
January 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“The memory is a living thing—it too is in transit. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins, and lives—the old and young, the past and present, the living and the dead.” —from One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty
“Home is about the earth. Whether the earth open up to you. Whether it pull you down so close the space between you and it melt and y’all one and it beats like your heart. Same time.” —Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
January 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“Home is about the earth. Whether the earth open up to you. Whether it pull you down so close the space between you and it melt and y’all one and it beats like your heart. Same time.” —Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
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"A thin sauce of ideology covered lewdness, greed, sadism, and fathomless lust for power..." - Friedrich Reck writing about the rise of Hitler in 'Diary of a Man in Despair,' a book that's a grim portrait of its time and a chilling glimpse of ours.
January 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"A thin sauce of ideology covered lewdness, greed, sadism, and fathomless lust for power..." - Friedrich Reck writing about the rise of Hitler in 'Diary of a Man in Despair,' a book that's a grim portrait of its time and a chilling glimpse of ours.
“But it’s your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.” —Gilead by Marilyn Robinson
January 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
“But it’s your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.” —Gilead by Marilyn Robinson