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In the Eye of the Elephant—my first full-length collection of poems—drops today, April 2! So grateful to @sixteenrivers.bsky.social for publishing! I feel like I’m a *real* poet now, whatever that means! To find out more, visit sixteenrivers.org. #PoetrySky #writing #nationalpoetrymonth
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Well-written essay from Anand Giridharadas, showing how power and influence corrupt completely, regardless of party or affiliation.
Gift article below:
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Gift article below:
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Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
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November 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Well-written essay from Anand Giridharadas, showing how power and influence corrupt completely, regardless of party or affiliation.
Gift article below:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Gift article below:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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Some kind of WONDERFUL is happening tonight, Nov. 20, in Berkeley! Poetry Flash is hosting a reading by poets Camille Norton and Rosa Lane: 7 pm at the Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Avenue. Come listen to these wild women get their poems on! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #PoetryFlash
November 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Some kind of WONDERFUL is happening tonight, Nov. 20, in Berkeley! Poetry Flash is hosting a reading by poets Camille Norton and Rosa Lane: 7 pm at the Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Avenue. Come listen to these wild women get their poems on! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #PoetryFlash
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We are enraptured with Camille Norton's poems. In millennial parlance, they are literary thirst traps: wild, allusive, down-to-the-bone funny, yet also dwelling places of grief & sorrow. Reading them, we want to laugh & cry all at once. Come hear Camille Norton's startling poems as she reads with
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
We are enraptured with Camille Norton's poems. In millennial parlance, they are literary thirst traps: wild, allusive, down-to-the-bone funny, yet also dwelling places of grief & sorrow. Reading them, we want to laugh & cry all at once. Come hear Camille Norton's startling poems as she reads with
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the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st St., Davis. It should be a blast!
Many thanks to Davis Poet Emerita Julia B. Levine, principal Marla Bowen, & Sixteen Rivers poet Murray Silverstein for greenlighting & making this chapbook series a go! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #Davis #poetnews
Many thanks to Davis Poet Emerita Julia B. Levine, principal Marla Bowen, & Sixteen Rivers poet Murray Silverstein for greenlighting & making this chapbook series a go! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #Davis #poetnews
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st St., Davis. It should be a blast!
Many thanks to Davis Poet Emerita Julia B. Levine, principal Marla Bowen, & Sixteen Rivers poet Murray Silverstein for greenlighting & making this chapbook series a go! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #Davis #poetnews
Many thanks to Davis Poet Emerita Julia B. Levine, principal Marla Bowen, & Sixteen Rivers poet Murray Silverstein for greenlighting & making this chapbook series a go! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #Davis #poetnews
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poet Rosa Lane this Thursday, November 20, 7 pm at The Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. Poem on! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetnews #Berkeley #PoetryFlash
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
poet Rosa Lane this Thursday, November 20, 7 pm at The Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. Poem on! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetnews #Berkeley #PoetryFlash
Important 🧵: Em Bee reporting from the front lines of teaching college writing. AI rolls through the classroom like an M4 Sherman Tank, destroying
any hope of cultivating an honest, playful, and creative academic environment. #AI #deathofcollegewriting
any hope of cultivating an honest, playful, and creative academic environment. #AI #deathofcollegewriting
I think some common advice about responding to AI writing is very well intentioned and predicated upon teaching 10-25 students / term and not 60-125. The advice is "just ignore it if you can't prove it, give them vague feedback, and keep going."
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Important 🧵: Em Bee reporting from the front lines of teaching college writing. AI rolls through the classroom like an M4 Sherman Tank, destroying
any hope of cultivating an honest, playful, and creative academic environment. #AI #deathofcollegewriting
any hope of cultivating an honest, playful, and creative academic environment. #AI #deathofcollegewriting
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The utter sad, sweet gorgeousness of D.A. Powell wrecks us every time. Check out his poem "Senescence" and see/feel it for yourself!
I have a new poem out. I thought it was coming out next week. A lot I know...
“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The utter sad, sweet gorgeousness of D.A. Powell wrecks us every time. Check out his poem "Senescence" and see/feel it for yourself!
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Something wicked this way comes. OpenAI/ChatGPT is some bonafide evil shit. A TechHydra that must be destroyed. It’s no surprise that this monster came of age during Trump times.
#AI #evil
#AI #evil
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Important & harrowing thread about the inhumane & criminal conditions in US deportation facilities, which are, let’s face it, concentration camps. 🧵
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Important & harrowing thread about the inhumane & criminal conditions in US deportation facilities, which are, let’s face it, concentration camps. 🧵
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With the world in upheaval & new horrors winging in every day, we can take solace in poetry & in knowing that these two fine souls, Joyce Jenkins & Richard Silberg, have ensured that poetry remains alive & flourishing in Northern California. Join us as we honor Poetry Flash this Saturday. Details👇.
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
With the world in upheaval & new horrors winging in every day, we can take solace in poetry & in knowing that these two fine souls, Joyce Jenkins & Richard Silberg, have ensured that poetry remains alive & flourishing in Northern California. Join us as we honor Poetry Flash this Saturday. Details👇.
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For over 50 years Poetry Flash has been the warp & woof of all things poetry in Northern California. Let's give Joyce, Richard, & the Flash a righteous HIGH-FIVE & HALLELUJAH! Come join us as we honor them this Saturday, Nov. 1st. Details below. #poetry #poetrysky #poetnews #writingcommunity
October 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
For over 50 years Poetry Flash has been the warp & woof of all things poetry in Northern California. Let's give Joyce, Richard, & the Flash a righteous HIGH-FIVE & HALLELUJAH! Come join us as we honor them this Saturday, Nov. 1st. Details below. #poetry #poetrysky #poetnews #writingcommunity
WOOF! This beautiful three-thousand mile dog rescue story wins the internet this month.
I am so flabbergasted & tearful & grateful & JUST REALLY EMOTIONAL over everything that’s happened around this so-special pup since this saga started on…good god, how was it only Wednesday morning?
That it has meant as much to so many of you fills me up to the brim.
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That it has meant as much to so many of you fills me up to the brim.
www.patreon.com/posts/142111...
Tiny Adds Up: Unshittification and The Pawshank Redemption | Catherynne M. Valente
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October 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
WOOF! This beautiful three-thousand mile dog rescue story wins the internet this month.
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I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.
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Call them mavericks, revolutionaries, visionaries, idealists, or poets with big hearts & big ideas: Joyce Jenkins & Richard Silberg have been changemakers in the world of Northern California poetry! We invite you to celebrate Joyce Richard, & Poetry Flash on Nov. 1! Details below. #poetry #poetrysky
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Call them mavericks, revolutionaries, visionaries, idealists, or poets with big hearts & big ideas: Joyce Jenkins & Richard Silberg have been changemakers in the world of Northern California poetry! We invite you to celebrate Joyce Richard, & Poetry Flash on Nov. 1! Details below. #poetry #poetrysky
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Heads up, Northern California poets! Do you have a manuscript waiting in the green room, raring to go? Sixteen Rivers Press is here for it! Details below, or go to: sixteenrivers.org/news-announc...
#poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #callformanuscripts #writingcommunity #writing
#poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #callformanuscripts #writingcommunity #writing
October 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Heads up, Northern California poets! Do you have a manuscript waiting in the green room, raring to go? Sixteen Rivers Press is here for it! Details below, or go to: sixteenrivers.org/news-announc...
#poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #callformanuscripts #writingcommunity #writing
#poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #callformanuscripts #writingcommunity #writing
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In the spirit of Billy Collin's poem, "The Lanyard," let's show our gratitude to Poetry Flash for being the "breathing body and . . . beating heart" of California's poetry community for 50 + years. Come celebrate Joyce & Richard on Nov. 1st! Details below. #poetrycommunity #poetnews #poetrysky
October 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In the spirit of Billy Collin's poem, "The Lanyard," let's show our gratitude to Poetry Flash for being the "breathing body and . . . beating heart" of California's poetry community for 50 + years. Come celebrate Joyce & Richard on Nov. 1st! Details below. #poetrycommunity #poetnews #poetrysky
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North Bay friends—on October 28, Timothy Williams' Poetry Salon will celebrate Dia de los Muertos with poems to honor the ancestors, & Sixteen Rivers poet Terry Ehret is a featured reader! Come listen & place a marigold & a memento on the ofrenda! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #SantaRosa
October 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
North Bay friends—on October 28, Timothy Williams' Poetry Salon will celebrate Dia de los Muertos with poems to honor the ancestors, & Sixteen Rivers poet Terry Ehret is a featured reader! Come listen & place a marigold & a memento on the ofrenda! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #SantaRosa
I’ve made up my mind to call it the “Shithole Ballroom.”
October 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I’ve made up my mind to call it the “Shithole Ballroom.”
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once again: believe these people when they tell you what they want to do
www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...
www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...
Steve Bannon Reveals ‘There’s a Plan’ for Third Trump Term
Bannon divulged that there are “many different alternatives” for securing a third term for Trump.
www.thedailybeast.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
once again: believe these people when they tell you what they want to do
www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...
www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...
The lives of West Coast poets have been made infinitely richer by Poetry Flash. Pass it on! #poetrysky #poetnews #writing #poetrycommunity
Soon, in a week and a half to be exact, Sixteen Rivers Presents will be honoring Poetry Flash & its founders, poets Joyce Jenkins & Richard Silberg. Come give Joyce & Richard the standing ovation they deserve! Sat., Nov. 1, 3-5:00 pm, Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley. Poem on! #poetry #poetrysky
October 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The lives of West Coast poets have been made infinitely richer by Poetry Flash. Pass it on! #poetrysky #poetnews #writing #poetrycommunity
I’ve always wondered how loyal, old-school Republicans handled the cognitive dissonance generated by the party’s full-scale embrace of MAGA. Turns out not very well. Former Republican operative Miles Bruner explains the heavy-duty compartmentalization & mental hoop-jumping he did in order to stay. 🤥
Trump's assault "would not have been possible without the thousands of consultants, aides, and politicos working behind the scenes to fully execute their systematic dismantling of American democratic norms."
Miles Bruner on leaving the Republican party: www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...
Miles Bruner on leaving the Republican party: www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...
My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party
Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.
www.thebulwark.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I’ve always wondered how loyal, old-school Republicans handled the cognitive dissonance generated by the party’s full-scale embrace of MAGA. Turns out not very well. Former Republican operative Miles Bruner explains the heavy-duty compartmentalization & mental hoop-jumping he did in order to stay. 🤥
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For your reading pleasure: Kim Addonizio's poem, "My Opera," from EXIT OPERA, her latest kick-ass collection of poetry. Addonizio is reading along with D.A. Powell at Sixteen Rivers' 26th Anniversary Fundraiser this Sunday! Details and registration info below. #poetry #poetrysky #poetnews #writing
October 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
For your reading pleasure: Kim Addonizio's poem, "My Opera," from EXIT OPERA, her latest kick-ass collection of poetry. Addonizio is reading along with D.A. Powell at Sixteen Rivers' 26th Anniversary Fundraiser this Sunday! Details and registration info below. #poetry #poetrysky #poetnews #writing