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Jessica Cuello
@jessicacuello.bsky.social
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Poet, public school teacher, editor,
translator, emerging essayist.

"I'm not a person who likes to trespass but sometimes you just find yourself over the line."

https://jessicacuello.com/
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My debut collection WHITE DOOR is out!!! 💃✨💃
Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social!
Link to order and more info in 🧵
DM for signed copies/to review 🙏💙
Watch this space for events/news 😊
three copies of white door on patterned upholstery fabric. cover image shows detail of Alternative Reality by Alan Sirulnikoff, photographer: logs floating on dark water and a white door among them. front and backside of bookmark on same surface. Front shows detail of book cover, centering the door among logs. title isn't shown. Backside has a poem from the book printed on it plus attributions: Horizons Traditions I keep take hold in this soil slowly— home grows fainter still until distant slopes briefly make me forget where I am, re-etch longing. yours truly (white woman, shoulder-length dark-blondish hair, glasses, dark green sweater, scarf with green and gray leafmotif) smiling into camera holding the book in front of her, white bookshelves along white walls in the background.
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...
Heavy rainfall floods the camps of displaced Palestinians in Gaza | CNN
Displaced Palestinians in Gaza woke up Friday morning to inches of water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall overnight left their shelters and belongings soaked with no way to dry them out.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
thrasherxy.bsky.social Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 22h
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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“Today’s poem speaks to how we track our days and how easy it is to get lost in the day’s rigamarole,” shares Ada Limón in today’s encore episode.

Read “Bruised Peaches” by @bronwentate.bsky.social: bit.ly/43jMJIq
An excerpt of “Bruised Peaches” by Bronwen Tate A headshot of Bronwen Tate
May 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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When does a poem become more than art?

Frontline workers writing pandemic haiku. Layli Long Soldier rewriting congressional resolutions.

YOUR HISTORICAL LOVELINESS asks what happens when poetry stops being about witness and becomes action itself.

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Book cover for ‘Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds’ by Wendy Xu. The book is part of the Poets on Poetry Series, published by the University of Michigan Press and edited by Derek Pollard. The cover image is a striking, full frame close-up photograph of a bronze sculpture of a man's head, angled to fill most of the page. The sculpture is highly dramatic: the man's face is contorted with intense emotion, and his mouth is wide open, as if shouting or screaming. The metal has a dark, mottled verdigris patina. All text is positioned across the lower third of the cover. The title, ‘YOUR HISTORICAL LOVELINESS KNOWS NO BOUNDS,’ and the author's name, WENDY XU, m are printed in light gray/off-white text. The subtitle, "FORM, FUTURITY, AND DOCUMENTARY DESIRE," is centered beneath the title and printed in a distinctive pale yellow text.
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Those of us who are SA survivors are used to the mass shrug in response to even the most overt evidence of horrific behavior. Epstein's crimes and the complicity of many influential figures involved have been known for decades (’05 to be exact). It's never mustered much interest or consequence.
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Jill Osier 🤎

Beautiful poem, beautiful poet.

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THEY'RE SAYING NOW THAT FEATHERS ARE MOSTLY LIGHT, THAT WINGS ARE MOSTLY NOT THERE But sometimes it's warm enough for the neighbor to stand in the field and brush out her horse's tail. She knows the sun slips through it. The horse, two-toned, is losing a winter coat, the day a world slipping through its own hands. Dusk will lead them out to a road that leads out of town, and she'll teach it how to walk this way, through shadow.
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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8 small translations of Tania Langlais' work up at the phenomenal LIT:

www.litmagazine.org/8-micro-poem...
text of poem excerpt at LIT
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Ghayath Almadhoun
excerpt from "I Have Brought You a Severed Hand"
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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“No sibling, no mother. Her / paws were dry magic beads. I touched them.”

bewitched by this poem. Feral, @jessicacuello.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Go Fund Me for the teacher who was kidnapped in front of children in her classroom today: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Donate to Help support our teacher illegally detained by ICE, organized by Erin Horetski
Our beloved teacher, who was not just an educator but a central part … Erin Horetski needs your support for Help support our teacher illegally detained by ICE
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November 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Don't miss today's episode with poet extraordinaire @robincostelewis.bsky.social about Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy. We look across her 3 books, across time from Ancient Greece to modern Alexandria, across her life and Cavafy's
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
Robin Coste Lewis : Archive of Desire - Tin House
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy began as a collaborative multidisciplinary project between the poet Robin Coste Lewis, the composer Vijay Iyer, the cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and ...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious.

Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%
Ex-Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth: ‘The headlines implied I was a token black hire’
Welteroth was just 29 when Anna Wintour made her editor-in-chief. Months later, the magazine shut down. What did she do next?
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January 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Comet A6 Lemmon's closest approach to the Sun is on November 8th, 2025. I took this image on October 29th showing a huge increase in activity around the core. A very zoomed in shot using a 16 inch telescope f/18, 7400mm focal length with Canon R6.

#astrophotography #astronomy #comets #cometlemmon
Comet Lemmon showing bow shocks at the green core and streamers of dust and gasses flowing behind it as it approaches the Sun.Taken with a 16 inch telescope.
November 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Friends, I’m honored to be the featured poet in the #newissue of #TheMissouriReview, a journal I’ve admired for decades. To read the rest of my poems + terrific work by #poets including #CampbellMcGrath & @kaicarlsonwee.bsky.social, consider buying the issue at
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October 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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STARTING SOON: Zohran Mamdani gives remarks about Islamophobia outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx
LIVE | Zohran Mamdani gives remarks on Islamophobia outside a mosque in the Bronx, NYC
YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY
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October 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
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October 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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When Israeli forces captured Jaffa in 1948, the municipal archives vanished, erasing Palestinians' legal proof of land ownership.

@philipmetres.bsky.social's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE shows how Arab poets have sought to preserve this disappeared history.

press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp...
Book cover for ‘Dispatches from the Land of Erasure: Essays and Conversations’ by Philip Metres. The cover features an abstract geometric composition of overlapping rectangular blocks in various colors including blues, reds, greens, yellows, purples, and browns against a light gray background. The blocks appear layered and fragmented, creating a mosaic-like pattern that suggests themes of fragmentation and reconstruction. The title and author name are displayed in clean, dark typography at the top of the cover.
October 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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👀 Jackie K. White and Simone Muench's poem "teeth-grinder, lace-cutter," part of a collaborative project, "The Alchemy of Ghosts,” wherein they "engage with the voices of the women associated with both the artistic and literary Surrealist movement, who have often been historically marginalized"
teeth-grinder, lace-cutter - Tahoma Literary Review
a Mansour and Tanning assemblage From cheap coffins, the dead blaze like stained glass in the gloom. Their airbrushed eyes of storms and logics, say Don’t
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October 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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We are open until October 31st (NOT 3 more days) sorry, I am a mess
jessicacuello.bsky.social Jessica Cuello @jessicacuello.bsky.social · Oct 13
We are open for submissions for 3 more days ✨✨✨💗
duotrope.com Duotrope @duotrope.com · Oct 9
Today's listing of the day is: Tahoma Literary Review (TLR) @tahomareview.bsky.social (fee-based) #WritingCommunity
October 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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We are open for submissions for 3 more days ✨✨✨💗
October 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM