Martha Silano
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This is a gift. Please listen. Thank you, @marthasilano.bsky.social and all the people who made this. This is what poetry is meant to do.
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Martha Silano | Once
Strangers on the streets of Seattle and New York read Martha Silano's poem
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May 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This is a gift. Please listen. Thank you, @marthasilano.bsky.social and all the people who made this. This is what poetry is meant to do.
on.soundcloud.com/XTmZu7ri42aS...
on.soundcloud.com/XTmZu7ri42aS...
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Oh this hurt. By the brilliant Tess Gallagher.
April 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Oh this hurt. By the brilliant Tess Gallagher.
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Martha Silano in The Indianapolis Review Winter Issue 2025. Read the full poem here theindianapolisreview.com/my-nineteen-...
April 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Martha Silano in The Indianapolis Review Winter Issue 2025. Read the full poem here theindianapolisreview.com/my-nineteen-...
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Today's Feature:
In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Readers Write Back, and in honor of National Poetry Month, we've asked our readers to tell us about poems from Poetry Daily that have inspired them.
Read here:
poems.com/features/wha...
In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Readers Write Back, and in honor of National Poetry Month, we've asked our readers to tell us about poems from Poetry Daily that have inspired them.
Read here:
poems.com/features/wha...
Our Readers on Poems from <em>Poetry Daily</em>
A collection of our readers' responses to their favorite poems from our archive.
poems.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Today's Feature:
In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Readers Write Back, and in honor of National Poetry Month, we've asked our readers to tell us about poems from Poetry Daily that have inspired them.
Read here:
poems.com/features/wha...
In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Readers Write Back, and in honor of National Poetry Month, we've asked our readers to tell us about poems from Poetry Daily that have inspired them.
Read here:
poems.com/features/wha...
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I'll be honest, 2024 was one of my roughest years in memory, so getting this call last month was a tremendous gift and honor ❤️ I hope programs like this--that celebrate art + science together, as both feel increasingly precarious--will continue into this future
www.nationalbook.org/announcing-t...
www.nationalbook.org/announcing-t...
ANNOUNCING THE 2025 SCIENCE + LITERATURE SELECTED TITLES
The National Book Foundation (NBF) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today announced selected titles for the fourth year of the Science + Literature program, made possible by a three-year, $525,000 r...
www.nationalbook.org
January 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I'll be honest, 2024 was one of my roughest years in memory, so getting this call last month was a tremendous gift and honor ❤️ I hope programs like this--that celebrate art + science together, as both feel increasingly precarious--will continue into this future
www.nationalbook.org/announcing-t...
www.nationalbook.org/announcing-t...
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Knockout all your holiday shopping (free gift wrap too!) with helping indie bookstores like squarebooks.com. Bonus— I’ll calligraph any name you want too— just be sure to include that info in the “notes” section when you order. Indie booksellers are the heartbeat of any town!
November 30, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Knockout all your holiday shopping (free gift wrap too!) with helping indie bookstores like squarebooks.com. Bonus— I’ll calligraph any name you want too— just be sure to include that info in the “notes” section when you order. Indie booksellers are the heartbeat of any town!
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Today's Featured Poem:
"Stony Sleep" by Dan Albergotti, from Candy, published by LSU Press.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/stony-s...
"Stony Sleep" by Dan Albergotti, from Candy, published by LSU Press.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/stony-s...
Stony Sleep
We huddled together in the waning sunlight
and pulled a blanket of ash up to our chins.
poems.com
April 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Today's Featured Poem:
"Stony Sleep" by Dan Albergotti, from Candy, published by LSU Press.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/stony-s...
"Stony Sleep" by Dan Albergotti, from Candy, published by LSU Press.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/stony-s...
Wtff
President Trump is moving to curb the independence of the Smithsonian Institution, saying he wants to make into a “symbol of inspiration and American greatness.”
Trump Orders Smithsonian to Promote ‘American Greatness’ in Executive Order
The president complained in an executive order that the Smithsonian had advanced “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Wtff
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One from Not All Saints, winner of the 2019 Bitter Oleander Poetry Prize.
"I am not trying to say anything I fear
except now it is the dog days of summer
where we eat & sweat, & inside my chest
is a church wall, somewhere to pray,"
www.versedaily.org/2020/thesing...
"I am not trying to say anything I fear
except now it is the dog days of summer
where we eat & sweat, & inside my chest
is a church wall, somewhere to pray,"
www.versedaily.org/2020/thesing...
www.versedaily.org
March 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
One from Not All Saints, winner of the 2019 Bitter Oleander Poetry Prize.
"I am not trying to say anything I fear
except now it is the dog days of summer
where we eat & sweat, & inside my chest
is a church wall, somewhere to pray,"
www.versedaily.org/2020/thesing...
"I am not trying to say anything I fear
except now it is the dog days of summer
where we eat & sweat, & inside my chest
is a church wall, somewhere to pray,"
www.versedaily.org/2020/thesing...
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Our #AWP25 coupon code is live for folks dreaming of book sales and wandering the bookfair aisles…simply enter AWP25 at checkout to receive 25% off our poetry titles, and have them shipped to you 🌊 🌊📚💙
March 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Our #AWP25 coupon code is live for folks dreaming of book sales and wandering the bookfair aisles…simply enter AWP25 at checkout to receive 25% off our poetry titles, and have them shipped to you 🌊 🌊📚💙
Could it really be a mushroom, the false morel, causes ALS? Sheeeet, it's so likely I ate some of those over the years. Also, painters and mechanics have a higher risk ~ www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... @theatlantic.com
An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps
In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Could it really be a mushroom, the false morel, causes ALS? Sheeeet, it's so likely I ate some of those over the years. Also, painters and mechanics have a higher risk ~ www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... @theatlantic.com
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Authors sharing new publications: post links and alt text! 💙💙💙
We want to read your things, we really do. 📚
We want to read your things, we really do. 📚
March 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Authors sharing new publications: post links and alt text! 💙💙💙
We want to read your things, we really do. 📚
We want to read your things, we really do. 📚
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ANNOUNCING a new essay collection by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social , THE GRIEF ARTIST, coming fall 2026! Get excited!! 💫
March 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
ANNOUNCING a new essay collection by @tracibrimhall.bsky.social , THE GRIEF ARTIST, coming fall 2026! Get excited!! 💫
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I think if someone invented the sestina today they would be murdered
March 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I think if someone invented the sestina today they would be murdered
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who are the five traumas that made you a confessional poet
March 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
who are the five traumas that made you a confessional poet
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Happy beginning of spring, I guess.
Almost done with my re-read of "Swann's Way," the James Grieve translation, and you can bet I will be doing a new flower collage with the blooms inside. Funny and kind of wonderful how different translations don't align on flower names.
Almost done with my re-read of "Swann's Way," the James Grieve translation, and you can bet I will be doing a new flower collage with the blooms inside. Funny and kind of wonderful how different translations don't align on flower names.
March 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Happy beginning of spring, I guess.
Almost done with my re-read of "Swann's Way," the James Grieve translation, and you can bet I will be doing a new flower collage with the blooms inside. Funny and kind of wonderful how different translations don't align on flower names.
Almost done with my re-read of "Swann's Way," the James Grieve translation, and you can bet I will be doing a new flower collage with the blooms inside. Funny and kind of wonderful how different translations don't align on flower names.
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Find your copy of Pastoral, 1994, which contains so many elegies for American life, here: riverriverbooks.org/store/Pastor...
March 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Find your copy of Pastoral, 1994, which contains so many elegies for American life, here: riverriverbooks.org/store/Pastor...
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February 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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When your government cracks down on higher education, it should sound alarm bells.
Fun fact: 21% of Americans are illiterate.
54% are at or below sixth grade level.
While China’s literacy rate is 97%
Fun fact: 21% of Americans are illiterate.
54% are at or below sixth grade level.
While China’s literacy rate is 97%
March 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
When your government cracks down on higher education, it should sound alarm bells.
Fun fact: 21% of Americans are illiterate.
54% are at or below sixth grade level.
While China’s literacy rate is 97%
Fun fact: 21% of Americans are illiterate.
54% are at or below sixth grade level.
While China’s literacy rate is 97%
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Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
March 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
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Things It Is Possible To Do:
1. Love people/community & critique their choices.
2. Critique people/community without character assassinations.
3. Accept critiques of choices/actions as an invitation to grow.
4. Create boundaries with people/community without causing harm.
5. Change your mind/stance
1. Love people/community & critique their choices.
2. Critique people/community without character assassinations.
3. Accept critiques of choices/actions as an invitation to grow.
4. Create boundaries with people/community without causing harm.
5. Change your mind/stance
March 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Things It Is Possible To Do:
1. Love people/community & critique their choices.
2. Critique people/community without character assassinations.
3. Accept critiques of choices/actions as an invitation to grow.
4. Create boundaries with people/community without causing harm.
5. Change your mind/stance
1. Love people/community & critique their choices.
2. Critique people/community without character assassinations.
3. Accept critiques of choices/actions as an invitation to grow.
4. Create boundaries with people/community without causing harm.
5. Change your mind/stance