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Laura DeHart Young 💙🌈
@lauradehartyoung.bsky.social
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Author of 8 books, short stories, published poems. lauradehartyoung.com
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“In the process of struggling together...we expand and enlarge our very notion of freedom.” — Angela Davis

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November 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Glitterland, by Alexis Hall

Richly detailed with striking imagery, this romance between a posh bipolar writer and a working class would-be-model "glitter pirate" is full of warmth, wit, and compassion. Simple and beautifully told.

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November 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Fourth printing!
Thank you for keeping Love on the Line alive and climbing.
Haven’t read this Alaskan romance yet? Time to catch up. ❄️📘
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November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Queer books are alive and well despite efforts to ban them! 🙌🏼
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November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Always be thankful for the freedom to read!
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November 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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This Thanksgiving, skip the family drama (well most of it) and pass around some quiet, queer heartbreak instead.
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Books to read after turkey and pie.
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November 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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🎃🕸️ No tricks—just burnt toast and tender truths.🍞✨ Burnt Toast and Benedictions — my new poetry chapbook published by Bottlecap Press.

Link to purchase:
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October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Just burnt toast and tender truths.
My new poetry chapbook is out now.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Thank to everyone who’s supported my new chapbook Burnt Toast and Benedictions! 💛
If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, please check it out. 💙📚 #poet #poetry 🌈📚 #booksky #books

BURNT TOAST AND BENEDICTIONS — available from Bottlecap Press.
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Burnt Toast and Benedictions, by Laura DeHart Young
Poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Burnt Toast and Benedictions is a tender, unflinching meditation on the fractures of domestic life—where humor and heartbreak share intimate spaces...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I'm so excited to announce my brand new chapbook with Bottlecap Press!

Burnt Toast and Benedictions is a chapbook about quiet love and the stubborn tenderness it takes to stay.

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Bottlecap Features
Bottlecap Features is an ongoing multi-genre chapbook series that began in April, 2021. It is used to publish poetry, fiction, mixed media, music, and more. Our goal is to publish at least one chapboo...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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It’s here!

My new poetry chapbook Burnt Toast and Benedictions is now live from @BottlecapPress.

Ten poems about burnt toast, dead flies in beer and the strange holiness of domestic life—grief and humor, love and rupture, all in the same room.
💙📚 #booksky #poetry

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Burnt Toast and Benedictions, by Laura DeHart Young
Poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Burnt Toast and Benedictions is a tender, unflinching meditation on the fractures of domestic life—where humor and heartbreak share intimate spaces...
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October 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Just published in Book of Matches, Issue 15! online.fliphtml5.com/qoqiq/pdvr/#...

🪓 “Heads Up, Paris!” is my ode to the French Revolution—with flying carrots, mini guillotines, and more dark humor even the French would love!
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September 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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New poetry coming 9/1 in Book of Matches Literary Magazine. 💙📚
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Poetry being published 9/1 in Book of Matched
August 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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It’s Friday! Time to relax! Enjoy an award-winning literary site: The Raven’s Perch, an international literary and visual arts magazine publishing poets and authors daily from around the world. @theravensperch.bsky.social

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August 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Read my latest poetry, “Five Feet of You” published by The Raven’s Perch.

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FIVE FEET OF YOU BY LAURA DEHART YOUNG - The RavensPerch
Our marriage of selves always worked— even in 1981, when no one would call it a marriage. Still, it felt secure without a court decree or piece of paper embossed. It never felt flimsy, impossible. It ...
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August 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Don't forget to take your favorite books, short stories, and poetry on summer vacations still to come! 😊📚💙 #booksky #poetry #books #reading #summer #vacation

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August 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social,

Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,

Your fan, Mar🐫
July 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.
July 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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TrashLight Press is a fun way to spend quiet moments reading loud words-a beautifully curated collection of art, poetry, fiction and more. Check them out. We all need something feral in our lives! trashlightpress.com #poetry #fiction #writers #readers #art @trashlightpress.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Today is “Right to Read Day.”Fight censorship and unite against book bans! Support your local library and ala.org. #booksky #reading #readingcommunity #authorsofbluesky #writingcommunity #freedom 💙📚
April 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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As Trump tanks the economy, he knows he and his billionaire buddies will be fine no matter what.

If you and your family have more to lose, make sure your member of Congress hears from you.

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Dow Drops 1,600 In Biggest Wipeout Since 2020 After Trump’s Tariffs Shock The double-digit tariff hikes rippled through world markets and economists are warning that the risk of recession is climbing.
April 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Protect our libraries! April 7 is “Right to Read Day.” Vote no against local book bans and support the American Library Association at ala.org. #booksky #books #reading #readingcommunity #writers #poets 📚💙
April 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Let's hear it for the sandhill crane 🪶🐦 migration happening now on Nebraska’s Platte River - because, well, it's something beautiful to celebrate and we need more beautiful right now. 💙 #nature #sandhillcranes #birds
March 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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March 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Ukraine is a sovereign nation under attack from an invading adversary. I stand with President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine. #ukraine #freedom
March 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM