Julie Kane
@juliekanepoet.bsky.social
National Poetry Series winner, Fulbright Scholar, Louisiana Poet Laureate, Best American Poet. Just out is Naked Ladies: New and Selected Poems (LSU Press, 2025).
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Old Maid, we whispered, like the card game where the loser gets stuck with the singleton queen.
—Julie Kane
—Julie Kane
Old Maid: A PechaKucha by Julie Kane - Rattle: Poetry
She was our father’s only sister. Being Irish and the eldest child and only daughter, she was doomed to take care of her invalid mother. Old Maid, we whispered, like the card game where the loser gets...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Old Maid, we whispered, like the card game where the loser gets stuck with the singleton queen.
—Julie Kane
—Julie Kane
One of the greats. RIP.
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard who won Oscar for Shakesepeare In Love screenplay dies www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard who won Oscar dies peacefully at home
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, who won an Oscar for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, has 'died peacefully at home'.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
One of the greats. RIP.
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Scientists decode secret language of non-human intelligence beneath Earth's oceans
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Scientists decode secret language of non-human intelligence in oceans
Scientists have solved the puzzle of an 'alien-like Morse code' being produced by creatures living in oceans around the world.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Scientists decode secret language of non-human intelligence beneath Earth's oceans
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Full story: buff.ly/c8c5e2j
A leading contemporary poetry critic’s book on Taylor Swift!
Publication day for Taylor's Version! I'm so happy for my baby and for all the work @hachetteus.bsky.social & @johnmurrays.bsky.social did to bring her out into the world. Consider an order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/steph...
Taylor’s Version
“With unfailing lucidity, empathy, and wit” (Greil Marcus), a preeminent Harvard professor and poetry expert explains the artistry—and the celebrity—...
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October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A leading contemporary poetry critic’s book on Taylor Swift!
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Right now, there's no way to post a book from Europe to the U.S. with any guarantee that it will arrive safely and without extra charges. A big blow for the likes of me, but also for small publishers who were already struggling enough before this extra stumbling block.
September 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Right now, there's no way to post a book from Europe to the U.S. with any guarantee that it will arrive safely and without extra charges. A big blow for the likes of me, but also for small publishers who were already struggling enough before this extra stumbling block.
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Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.
September 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.
So, roving packs of rabid dogs to look forward to, courtesy of RFK…
"nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism"
Rabies increasing in the USA
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Rabies increasing in the USA
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
'They would never have known:' New warnings about rabies outbreaks as cases rise in the U.S.
The CDC's rabies team says it's tracking 15 different likely outbreaks from New York to Oregon.
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September 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
So, roving packs of rabid dogs to look forward to, courtesy of RFK…
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I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs
Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this) and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself.
August 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
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In French, it simply means a summary,
which limits what it can and can’t convey
despite my padding and hyperbole.
—Rob Ingraham
which limits what it can and can’t convey
despite my padding and hyperbole.
—Rob Ingraham
Résumé by Rob Ingraham - Rattle: Poetry
In French, it simply means a summary, which limits what it can and can’t convey despite my padding and hyperbole. […]
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August 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
In French, it simply means a summary,
which limits what it can and can’t convey
despite my padding and hyperbole.
—Rob Ingraham
which limits what it can and can’t convey
despite my padding and hyperbole.
—Rob Ingraham
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Remembering Linda Pastan
“in the pure blue
of insight”
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
#poetry
“in the pure blue
of insight”
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
#poetry
August 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Remembering Linda Pastan
“in the pure blue
of insight”
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
#poetry
“in the pure blue
of insight”
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
#poetry
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“Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you’ve got to burn away all the peripherals.”
-Silvia Plath
#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
-Silvia Plath
#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
August 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you’ve got to burn away all the peripherals.”
-Silvia Plath
#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
-Silvia Plath
#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
And she got pregnant with twins by #3 while still married to #1.
The woman petitioning SCOTUS to overturn marriage equality in the name of the sanctity of marriage is on her fourth husband.
August 13, 2025 at 5:39 AM
And she got pregnant with twins by #3 while still married to #1.
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A second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroad workers has been uncovered in Pennsylvania – victims of cholera, violence, and anti-immigrant hate in 1832.
Their story is finally being unearthed. buff.ly/w07gTAD
By William E. Watson, Immaculata University
Their story is finally being unearthed. buff.ly/w07gTAD
By William E. Watson, Immaculata University
Historian uncovers evidence of second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders in Pennsylvania who suffered from cholera, violence and xenophobia
Researchers have discovered a second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders in Chester County, Pa.
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August 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroad workers has been uncovered in Pennsylvania – victims of cholera, violence, and anti-immigrant hate in 1832.
Their story is finally being unearthed. buff.ly/w07gTAD
By William E. Watson, Immaculata University
Their story is finally being unearthed. buff.ly/w07gTAD
By William E. Watson, Immaculata University
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Men often wanted Joni Mitchell to be a wife, a muse, a siren, or a star. Instead they got a genius.
Joni Mitchell’s Openhearted Heroism
She made the best music of her generation by falling in love, over and over, while defending her sense of self.
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July 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Men often wanted Joni Mitchell to be a wife, a muse, a siren, or a star. Instead they got a genius.
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We are paying dearly for the absence of civics education.
July 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We are paying dearly for the absence of civics education.
Best of all, this arborist has rescued 100 cats from trees.
A Maryland arborist reflects on winding up in the middle of Trump’s meandering WH lawn presser about Iran, Jay Powell, etc.
“I had no clue who he was talking about," said Tattersall. "I was basically just there as a fly on the wall waiting for him to wrap it up & then we could get back to work."
“I had no clue who he was talking about," said Tattersall. "I was basically just there as a fly on the wall waiting for him to wrap it up & then we could get back to work."
A Tree Trimmer’s Front-Row Seat to Trump’s Impromptu Iran Remarks
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June 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Best of all, this arborist has rescued 100 cats from trees.
My Fulbright was one of the greatest experiences of my life. This breaks my heart.
The dozen board members of the Fulbright program that promotes international educational exchanges resigned on Wednesday because of what they said was political interference by the Trump administration in their operations.
Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference
The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.
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June 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My Fulbright was one of the greatest experiences of my life. This breaks my heart.
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They better not forget to include the Kennedy Center in the in memoriam. #TonyAwards #Tonys2025
June 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
They better not forget to include the Kennedy Center in the in memoriam. #TonyAwards #Tonys2025
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I wrote “Smothering Villanelle” with poetry queens Beth Gylys & Denise Duhamel. It’s a contoured villanelle using Julie Kane & Erica Reid’s “The Double Image Redux.” Thank you, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social & @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social.
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poems
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poems
June 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I wrote “Smothering Villanelle” with poetry queens Beth Gylys & Denise Duhamel. It’s a contoured villanelle using Julie Kane & Erica Reid’s “The Double Image Redux.” Thank you, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social & @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social.
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poems
#poetrysky #poetrynews #poems
The birth of the blurb!
To remember, too: Whitman’s use of a line out of Emerson’s famous letter (“I greet you at the beginning of a great career.” —R. W. Emerson) on the spine of the 1856 edition of _Leaves of Grass_ (smartly designed by Whitman to “go into any reasonable pocket”) is at the origin of the cover blurb.
June 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The birth of the blurb!
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Sometimes rude people will ask if I’m pregnant because I’m not drinking at parties and I’m like ew god no, I’m an alcoholic.
May 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Sometimes rude people will ask if I’m pregnant because I’m not drinking at parties and I’m like ew god no, I’m an alcoholic.
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There’s no such thing as having too many books!
Until you move. When it’s time to move, then it’s too many books.
Until you move. When it’s time to move, then it’s too many books.
May 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
There’s no such thing as having too many books!
Until you move. When it’s time to move, then it’s too many books.
Until you move. When it’s time to move, then it’s too many books.
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“It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve... I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”
― Georgia O'Keefe
― Georgia O'Keefe
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
“It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve... I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”
― Georgia O'Keefe
― Georgia O'Keefe
Ack!!
"Let's give our paint some lovely evocative colour names!"
Are you effin' kidding me?
Are you effin' kidding me?
May 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Ack!!