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Paul Hlava Ceballos
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Author of banana [ ], winner of AWP Prize & PSA 1st Book Award. Finalist for Kate Tufts & National Book Critics. Editor Seattle Met, CantoMundista, echocardiographer
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emmdubb16.bsky.social
Happy Happy Pub Day to Feminine Morbidity!!!

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November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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maureenthorson.bsky.social
“In benediction over nun-like hills.” A poem by Claude McKay.
The Tropics in New York BY CLAUDE MCKAY Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root, Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit, Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs, Set in the window, bringing memories Of fruit-trees laden by low-singing rills, And dewy dawns, and mystical blue skies In benediction over nun-like hills. My eyes grew dimn, and I could no more gaze; A wave of longing through my body swept, And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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gaiajane.bsky.social
Lynn Xu, from Debts & Lessons
#poetry
For Vladimir Mayakovsky War winding down Street through our trenches Strong and naked— Listen! If it's any consolation I'll be dead soon / you can always pay Somebody the Devil follows Day and night he is afraid To be alone / wearing me around Like a necklace Sets down his helmet As I raise my fist this bug I'd squashed Now turns to face me in the night Mother / do you sing? Don't let us poets fool you— Our laboratories equipped only With illusion Pity us Fill your eyes with chandeliers Cross the bridge to join the crowd
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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kar-rue.bsky.social
Lust (I) by @natashaoladokun.bsky.social
From @yalereview.bsky.social
Natasha Oladokun: "Lust (I)"
A poem by Natasha Oladokun: "A useless want: All outlet and no plug,"
yalereview.org
January 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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davidnaimon.bsky.social
Don't miss today's episode with poet extraordinaire @robincostelewis.bsky.social about Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy. We look across her 3 books, across time from Ancient Greece to modern Alexandria, across her life and Cavafy's
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Robin Coste Lewis : Archive of Desire - Tin House
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy began as a collaborative multidisciplinary project between the poet Robin Coste Lewis, the composer Vijay Iyer, the cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and ...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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poetrydaily.bsky.social
Today's Featured Poem:

"7:28 PM: above the river the bridge the bridge" by Abi Pollokoff from Night Myths •• Before the Body published by @redhenpress.bsky.social

Read here:
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7:28 PM: above the river the bridge the bridge
& then there's a bee in the hand:
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October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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kjavadizadeh.bsky.social
I’m so sad to hear that the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt has died. I knew her only slightly. When her friend Louise Glück died, two years ago, she and I spoke on my podcast about fate, and loss, and poetry. I think about that conversation all the time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Ellen Bryant Voigt on Louise Glück (
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 11/10/2023 · 1h 5m
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October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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bookshop.org
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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chenchenwrites.bsky.social
My therapist tells me that I need to work on holding onto myself. This is my first therapist. I don’t know what she means. I thought that having myself was not supposed to take any effort.

—Yanyi, from The Year of Blue Water

thinking about this little (vast!) prose poem again
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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byajlee.myatproto.social
Congrats to @cathylinhche.bsky.social , who is a National Book Award finalist ❤️

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76th National Book Awards
76th National Book Awards - Longlist Announcements
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October 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.

Please Use it and SHARE!

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Federal Action Reporting Form
Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start
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October 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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erinlmccoy.bsky.social
Join me for the official launch of my debut poetry collection, WRECKS, in Seattle this Friday!
October 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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noemipress.bsky.social
Happy pub day to Wrecks, the debut poetry collection by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social , available on the Noemi website!

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October 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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charlesjensen.bsky.social
I love a ghazal so much, and this new one by @dujietahat.bsky.social is a stunner. poets.org/poem/all-ame...
All-American Ghazal
On our first date, I admit I haven’t left since arriving to this country.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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davidnaimon.bsky.social
Excited to share this conversation with @dianaarterian.bsky.social about her new poetry collection AGRIPPINA THE YOUNGER (@nupress.bsky.social) & her upcoming co-translation SMOKE DRIFTS (@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social) of the remarkable Afghan poet Nadia Anjuman

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Diana Arterian : Agrippina the Younger & Smoke Drifts - Tin House
As an artist, how does one dive into the wreck of an archive, a canon, a shared collective memory, a history—one filled with silenced voices, distorted accounts, erasures and elisions—on behalf of tho...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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jkass99.bsky.social
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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eraldo.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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litbowl.bsky.social
From @elaineequi.bsky.social' book, Out of the Blank.

Published by @coffeehousepress.bsky.social

#poem #booksky #writing
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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nicksturm.bsky.social
Fast-forward from 1980 to 2025--NEA now eviscerated--& The Poetry Foundation is, since 2021, in effect operating as a poetry-focused NEA Literature Program. It's new Sustainable Futures Grant program awarded +$3 million to 12 lit orgs over a 3-year term.

www.poetryfoundation.org/grants/susta...
October 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
paulhlava.bsky.social
“I have spent / the currency of my body / clawing
my way out / of the blood-dark dirt /
that birthed me”

Super excited for these poems @theoceanisgay.bsky.social in @seattlemet.com.web.brid.gy

I love this and am excited for the new book, Let the Moon Wobble!

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A drawing of a person holding scissors and the words, “Three Poems by Ally Ang”
October 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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j-tkelly.bsky.social
This is the Brigit Pegeen Kelly poem that I love.
poets.org/poem/leaving
The Leaving Brigit Pegeen Kelly My father said I could not do it, but all night I picked the peaches. The orchard was still, the canals ran steadily. I was a girl then, my chest its own walled garden. How many ladders to gather an orchard? I had only one and a long patience with lit hands and the looking of the stars which moved right through me the way the water moved through the canals with a voice that seemed to speak of this moonless gathering and those who had gathered before me. I put the peaches in the pond’s cold water, all night up the ladder and down, all night my hands twisting fruit as if I were entering a thousand doors, all night my back a straight road to the sky. And then out of its own goodness, out of the far fields of the stars, the morning came, and inside me was the stillness a bell possesses just after it has been rung, before the metal begins to long again for the clapper’s stroke. The light came over the orchard. The canals were silver and then were not. and the pond was—I could see as I laid the last peach in the water—full of fish and eyes.
October 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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jbakernyc.bsky.social
Quick signature: Tell Trump and U.S. Senators RFK Jr. should be fired! #FireRFK action.momsrising.org/sign/fireRFK...
Tell Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "You're fired!"
Since becoming U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken dangerous steps to sow vaccine mistrust and also to take away people’s access to lif...
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September 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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deirdrelockwood.bsky.social
Join us tonight! 🎉
deirdrelockwood.bsky.social Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social · Sep 4
I'm so excited to be launching my debut poetry collection, AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR, in conversation with the brilliant Sarah DeWeerdt! Come out and join us at Elliott Bay Book Co. on Sept. 18 at 7 pm. Cosponsored by @nswa.bsky.social. www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47800
On a green background there are images of two women (Deirdre and Sarah) and a cover image of the book An Introduction to Error. Text on the graphic reads: Elliott Bay Book Company | Deirdre Lockwood w/ Sarah DeWeerdt | Thursday 9/18 7 pm
September 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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coryoldweiler.bsky.social
Despite the often dark subject matter, it’s always a joy to dive into Patricia Lockwood’s enchantingly agile mind. Thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social and the Globe for the chance to write about Lovkwood’s latest, WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU:
What happens when illness robs a writer of her words? - The Boston Globe
A lengthy bout of COVID at the start of the pandemic robbed Patricia Lockwood of the facility with words that engenders her strength, her sense of self.
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September 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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ethelbaraona.bsky.social
I've shared this before but posting it again because it's such a beautiful text that is always worth reading more than once.

"Maps" comes from the pages of 'A Map to the Door of No Return' by Dionne Brand— one of my favourite books ever (along with 'Ordinary Notes' by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social)
Photo of a page of the book 'A Map to the Door of No Return,' by Dionne Brand. The text I'm refering is 'Maps' and it goes: “The rufous hummingbird travels five thousand miles from summer home to winter home and back. This hummingbird can fit into the palm of a hand. Its body defies the known physics of energy and flight. It knew its way before all known map-makers. It is a bird whose origins and paths are the blood of its small body. It is a bird whose desire to find its way depends on drops of nectar from flowers.”
September 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM