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Hannah Craig
@hrcraig.bsky.social
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writer • printmaker • Pittsburgh • she/her • latest poems in greensboro review, the dodge, nimrod, & saranac review • hrcraig.com
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I love so much Bearden...but the window in this one just makes it my absolute fave ("Susannah in Harlem")
February 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Cross out poem from Robert Hass’ “Metaphysics of Your Presence”
January 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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The most Pittsburgh of Pittsburgh days. This kind of morning. Tornado warning by nightfall.
Photo of a long, yellow Pittsburgh bridge in front of a city skyline. A cloudy sky is reflected perfectly in the still river.
November 21, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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Edward Jean Steichen, Nocturne—Orangerie Staircase, Versailles
Black/gray gum print image of a dark outdoor staircase with the tiniest peek of a well-lit Versailles building corner in the center of the image.
November 10, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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Black spray paint on gray brick reads “Vengeance is good for the soul”
October 24, 2023 at 12:46 PM
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Just have not been able to get this line of Audre Lorde's poem out of my head for the last few weeks..."a circle does not suffer/nor can it dream."
October 22, 2023 at 3:55 PM
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Volumes 1-20
Image of a row of red encyclopedias on a shelf.
October 12, 2023 at 4:46 PM
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Two Kevin Prufer poems in the Fall 2023 Georgia Review that are giving it all this morning. Not available online but can be purchased here: thegeorgiareview.com/shop/issues/...
October 9, 2023 at 3:12 PM
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Ohara Koson - "Crow on a Snowy Bough"

Early 20th century painter and woodblock printmaker who was part of the shin-hanga movement,
October 5, 2023 at 12:00 PM
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Hodaka Yoshida woodblock print "Watakushi no corekushon yori - shiroi ie (From My Collection - White House)"
Japanese woodblock print of a weathered white house against a delicate yellow sky fading to a lavender skyline.
October 4, 2023 at 5:17 PM
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I always wake up after an intense night of doing submissions ravenous to read some actual good poems. Reading Audre Lorde this morning...this snippet is from the close of her poem "Touring."
A selection of text from the poem "Touring" by Audre Lorde: "I leave poems behind me dropping them like dark seeds that I will never harvest that I will never mourn If they are destroyed they pay for a gift I have not accepted. Coming in and out of cities untouched by their magic I think without feeling this is what men do who try for some connection and fail and leave five dollars on the table."
October 3, 2023 at 1:01 PM
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Just finished "The Call of Paradise" by @majda.bsky.social out from Two Sylvias. Really love the musical references in this book (as in this snippet from "Under the Moon")

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Small section of the poem "Under the Moon" by Majda Gama, which begins "My twenties were trance-based. I worked on my moontan & listened to Underworld, to the Rabbit in the Moon."
October 2, 2023 at 5:22 PM
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I am so obsessed with Taylor Byas' "I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times." This book is so thoughtfully constructed, it's nuts.

Little snippet from "mother" that I've been rereading this morning.

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Snippet from Taylor Byas' poem "mother" which starts... "The first time motherfucker felt like anything it was my father calling my mother the name."
September 28, 2023 at 2:56 PM
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There's a lot to recommend the fine art of pottery.
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Artist-sculpted clay rendition of two hard-shell beef tacos, with plenty of yellow cheese, lying on their sides.
September 25, 2023 at 6:35 PM
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Absolutely enjoying Michael Dumanis’ “Collection” out from Four Way Books: fourwaybooks.com/site/creature/. Love these lines from “Squalor.”
September 20, 2023 at 1:22 PM
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Trying not to lose my shit while waiting for health news about our pup and reading Charles Wright because these poems always save me a little.
Text of Charles Wright's poem "Bedtime Story" from the Scar Tissue collection. The poem begins with these lines: "The generator hums like a distant ding an sich. It's early evening, and time, like the dog it is, is hungry for food And will be fed, don't doubt it, will be fed, my small one."
September 8, 2023 at 3:58 PM
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If you don’t have random pieces of cool looking slag all over your house, are you even a Pittsburgh mom?
Small piece of slag, a waste product from the steel-making process on a table. The limestone slag is gray with many small holes and craters.
September 6, 2023 at 6:23 PM
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Love the ironweed flowering all along the river in the Strip District #pittsburgh
September 1, 2023 at 5:44 PM
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Cesare Pavese (from "Two Poems for T") (trans Geoffrey Brock).
Text from Cesare Pavese's poem "Two Poems for T" "You also are love. Made of blood and earth like the others. You walk like one who won't stray far from your own front door. You watch like one who waits and doesn't see. You are aerth that aches and keeps silent. You have bursts and lapses, you have words--you walk and wait. Your blood is love -- that's all."
August 28, 2023 at 2:23 PM
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Only family member happy to be returning to our school year routine this morning...Scout loves a schedule, especially one that starts off with an early walk by the river.
Shaggy brown dog with hopeful expression.
August 28, 2023 at 2:00 PM
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Just finished Taylor Byas' "I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times" from Softskull Press and pretty much just totally flattened by how good it is.

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Photo of cover of Taylor Byas' book "I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times." On the cover, a yellow porthole opens on the image of a Chicago skyscraper.
August 27, 2023 at 5:02 PM
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Perfect August evening, watching Hamlet in the lap of Carrie Furnace.
August 25, 2023 at 3:02 AM
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Snippet from Jessica Q. Stark's "Impact Sport" in Buffalo Girl (BOA, 2023)
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Snippet of text from the poem, beginning: "The origins of the phrase 'go-go dancing' derives from the French a gogo meaning abundance, meaning galore, which links to the word la gogue, or a French word for joy. I don't know if I ever found happiness, shaking my ass over glass cups and faces going loss. But most nights in that mechanical suture I felt like air, maybe freer than a walk-in freezer, my time and movement in abundance, like no one could ever clock me in"
August 23, 2023 at 2:05 PM
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I don't know why, but August evenings always make me want to read Charles Wright.
Text of the poem "Bedtime Story" by Charles Wright, which begins: "The generator hums like a distant ding an sich. It's early evening, and time, like the dog it is, is hungry for food, And will be fed, don't doubt it, will be fed, my small one. The forest begins to gather its silences in. The meadow regroups and hunkers down for its cleft feet. Something is wringing the rag of sunlight inexorably out and hanging. Something is making the reeds bend and cover their heads."
August 22, 2023 at 1:07 AM
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Took the afternoon off to visit the Ruins Project, a multi-artist mosaic installation on the site of an abandoned coal mine.

https://www.sagermosaics.com/the-ruins-project
A mosaic of natural stone and yellow and red Italian glass (smalti) inset into an industrial metal ring.
August 21, 2023 at 9:10 PM