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The Notebooks Collective @notebookscltv.bsky.social · 17d
Just one week until our last event of 2025! Please join us when we welcome @nicolecallihan.bsky.social & @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social to The Notebooks Collective. The event is free - register to receive the link! We'll see you on 11/11.
Nicole Callihan & Zoë Ryder White
Longtime poetry collaborators, Zoë Ryder White and Nicole Callihan will read from their collaborative works and discuss their process. The two began collaborating in 1999 and have two published…
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aprilist.bsky.social
Listening to @nicolecallihan.bsky.social & @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social read their collaborative work is so cool. So inspiring! (I know I'm biased but this @notebookscltv.bsky.social event is so dope.)
Nicole and Zoe reading from a shared document. Alternating interwoven Golden Shovel poems.
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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workshops4gaza.bsky.social
new workshop!

"Radical Imaginaries for Black Girl Liberation" with Morgan Holloman on December 10th, online on zoom. Benefits the Sameer Project's Refaat Alareer camp.

www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/rad...
workshops for gaza Radical Imaginaries for Black Girl Liberation Morgan Holloman December 10 6:30-8:30 EST on zoom
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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fascicles.bsky.social
Honored to have been named the new Poet Laureate of Brookline, MA. Looking forward to celebrating this new post w/ past laureates at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social tonight. Our "Changing of the Bard" reading starts at 7! 🥳

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The Changing of the Bard: Brookline Poets Laureate celebrate Allison Adair
EDIT: Please note that due to extenuating circumstances, Judith Steinbergh is not able to join us.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
notebookscltv.bsky.social
Just one week until our last event of 2025! Please join us when we welcome @nicolecallihan.bsky.social & @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social to The Notebooks Collective. The event is free - register to receive the link! We'll see you on 11/11.
Nicole Callihan & Zoë Ryder White
Longtime poetry collaborators, Zoë Ryder White and Nicole Callihan will read from their collaborative works and discuss their process. The two began collaborating in 1999 and have two published…
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November 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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leahumansky.bsky.social
Later this month!
ditmaslit.bsky.social Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · 18d
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 11/19! We’re excited to welcome readers @leahumansky.bsky.social, Laura Venita Green, @deenaelg.bsky.social, and Eve M. Kahn. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
notebookscltv.bsky.social
November 11 at 7:30 PM will be the last event of the year for us! Don't miss Nicole Callihan and Zoe Ryder White for a creator-collaborator poet extravaganza. The event is free to join - just RSVP to get the link! #poetry #collaboration
In Conversation: Nicole Callihan & Zoë Ryder White
Longtime poetry collaborators, Zoë Ryder White and Nicole Callihan will read from their collaborative works and discuss their process. The two began collaborating in 1999 and have two published…
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October 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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taylorbyas.bsky.social
Very very excited for this!!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
gendeguzman.bsky.social Genevieve DeGuzman 🐸🐤🕺🏻🪩 @gendeguzman.bsky.social · 25d
🚨 📙 My forthcoming book has a cover! I hear dynamite gets lit once you start reading. 🧨

The one-and-only @taylorbyas.bsky.social was my editor and @simonemuenchie.bsky.social brought me into the @jacklegpress.bsky.social fold. ✨

Goes boom on 3.16.2026. More info coming soon!
Cover art for Karaoke at the End of the World, a debut poetry collection by Genevieve DeGuzman, out from JackLeg Press in March 2026. Cover is an illustration of a lit stick of dynamite and rays of light emanating around it with frenetic energy. Pink and orange and beige yellow. Pre-order details coming soon.
October 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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megkearney.bsky.social
What a generous & insightful review of my new book by @carlenemgadapee.bsky.social ! www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alm...
“Magical, Mathematical, Intricate, and Seductive”: Carlene Gadapee’s review of CARDIAC THRILL by Meg Kearney — BIRCH BARK EDITING
Cardiac Thrill Meg Kearney Green Linden Press, 2025 22 pp. The term “cardiac thrill” is a medical one, referring to a palpable vibration felt most often over the precordium (chest wall over the hear...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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leahumansky.bsky.social
I'm judging the midway journal poetry contest. More below.
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October 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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amorak.bsky.social
Jennifer Martelli —
The book of poems Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree, by Jennifer Martelli Rooms My little office has two windows, and the one above my cluttered desk looks out, east, down my street, Ruby Ave. I'm half listening to two poets read on Zoom. They are in squares and I fill in the squares of the Sunday crosword puzzle. Still, I'm hearing a rhythm, or their rhythms travel the cold blue cyberspace, hit and thrum the hammer and anvil in my ear. It stays light now, after five. The snow we had this week won't last with the extra minutes of sun. If I walked down my street, I'd hit one pond and then a beach. The poets talk about politics now, in conversation, in poetry. Do politics belong in a poem? The more famous writer says she writes what she writes, what comes to her. The chat turns to Ana Mendieta, pushed out a window by her husband. So, how do we mourn her? Does forgiveness belong in art? Does love? Women wept ar her art exhibit: wept like a chorus for her un-answered-for death. I'm not saying clearly what I need to say. Outside, a small icicle falls past my window.
October 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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leahumansky.bsky.social
Thank you to the editors of @northamerreview.bsky.social for saying yes to this ars poetica of mine from my new mms of ars poeticas. This one owes a debt to @slowdownshow.org and Major Jackson.
October 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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jessicacuello.bsky.social
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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notebookscltv.bsky.social
Tomorrow night! Hope to see you!
October 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Tomorrow night! Hope to see you!
October 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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taylorbyas.bsky.social
😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️
nocturnalxlight.bsky.social Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · Oct 19
@taylorbyas.bsky.social you have written something deep-wrenching and stunning. RESTING BITCH FACE is thematically tight, brutally honest, and intentional in its tenderness, its carving out and knowing. I keep marking it up, pen in hand, with wows & damns at powerful lines.

Favorite poems below ⬇️
The poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE by Taylor Byas. The cover image shows two identical, mirrored profiles of a Black woman. Her skin is glowing. Her eyes are peering into the soul of the other her. One for each mirrored side, her hands are positioned tenderly and contemplatively, so softly, under her chin. Black nail polish gleans from her half-opened palms facing us. The mirror image hands overlap.
October 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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ellenaustinli.bsky.social
Cincy/NKY poetry fans: Come out to Urban Artifact on November 4th to hear our fabulous features, @rosalane145.bsky.social & Stephen Haven! They'll be visiting from Maine, so let's give them a warm welcome! As always, we'll have an open mic.
October 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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tahomareview.bsky.social
👀 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
notebookscltv.bsky.social
ICYMI: a wonderful conversation between @jessejohnson.bsky.social & @tylermpoetry.bsky.social about their books, "Mettlework" and "Bomb Cloud" -- poet-memoirists, they spoke to the differences in genre, writing styles, and those brilliant moments of discovery. #poetry #memoir
In Conversation: Jessica E. Johnson & Tyler Mills
YouTube video by The Notebooks Collective
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October 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.

We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”
Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D'Angelo...
Who gets to live a "long" life in America?
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October 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
In my head is a circle farm.

Selma Asotić
Monologue for a second date Mostly, I stare at the ceiling and think about how much I don’t want to die. I have a head. In my head is a circle farm. A woman waves from a burning roof. There’s also falling from sixth-floor balconies, windshields, suicide bombers, stairs, my eyeballs smeared against the windshield, safety pins, shawls caught in car wheels, knots, snowdrops. I have a head. In my head is a stomach full of butterflies. The butterflies are often sharks and they want out. I let them out. They trip on the threshold and smash their teeth. I have a head. Inside is a living room. A suicide bomber’s watching syndicated comedy. My head plays only reruns, cleaner ads, wet floors, skulls cracked open. Nothing after that. All dark, all air chastising its emptiness into the thought of you. I squeeze my eyeballs shut and think of you. I think of you in as many ways as the rains falls.
October 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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slowdownshow.org
“When I got divorced, I remember the mixed feelings," says host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in episode 1374. "The future is unwritten, and we get to decide what the story will be. We get to choose what comes next."

Read “The Terror of New Love!" by Tiana Clark: bit.ly/4n9JuuJ
October 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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leahumansky.bsky.social
A new poem of mine is live now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social in the ALIEN edition. It's a part of a manuscript of ars poeticas I'm working on. Thank you to everyone at LARB. This poem is for my friend Dante Di Stefano.
Leah Umansky’s “Ars Poetica: The Thing Is …” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Leah Umansky offers a treatise on living among nature, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
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October 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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jessicacuello.bsky.social
We are open for submissions for 3 more days ✨✨✨💗
October 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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jasonbcrawford.bsky.social
Books are officially here
October 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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backtoallen.bsky.social
Oct. 21st! Come celebrate Iain Haley Pollock's exceptional new collection with us!
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October 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM