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Jared Beloff
@readinstead.bsky.social
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teacher, poet, father, husband | WHO WILL CRADLE YOUR HEAD (ELJ 2023) | Ed. POETS OF QUEENS 2 | EIC of @porcupinelit.bksy.social | Co-Founder of monthly reading series and poetry community get togethers, @notatawp.bsky.social

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Brad, go primary Schumer! We are with you!
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Schumer saying I voted
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for the Senate Brad Lander for the Senate
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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In case you want AOC for 2028.
"Brad Lander for the Senate" in a Zohran Mamdani style poster
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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When are the primaries?
Zohran Mamdani style sign of blue background and gold letters: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for the Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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So I appreciate his work and books, but it is strange that he is claiming a "we" here while living in self chosen exile / expatriation.
Timothy Snyder post stating "this is not the country we should be" in response to news about ICE detention center abuses.
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Meanwhile Paramount streaming new Mel Gibson film? Yet another dangerous conflation of antiZionism with antisemitism to suppress speech.
Picture of an avowed antisemite and asshole Mel Gibson and the headline "Mel Gibson horror monster summer finally sets streaming release date"
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Enjoying this action/memoir/ecology/anthropology book about fire suppression and how megafires are handled.
When it all Burns by Jordan Thomas
November 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Somewhere in Philly or perhaps Queens, there's a Phillies fan who has been thinking about how the Blue Jays deserved heartbreak in the 7th game since 1993.
Joe Carter celebrates a walk off WS winning homerun whole Mitch Williams looks down at the ground in shame.
November 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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New York, turn out and end Cuomo's career. Turn out and begin a different kind of politics for our city. Let's show the Democratic Establishment who we are and what we stand for.
Queens votes early sticker and a Zohran for New York City button.
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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A visual of what it feels like trying to become a poet again
Comic panels of Dr Manhattan reassembling from the Watchmen
October 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Had a lovely time reading with these spectacular poets!
Me, a hand gesturing poet probably talking about lox. Jason Schneiderman reading a long poem that blew me away. Yerra Sugarman reading from Aunt Bird Jared Harél (the other Jared)
October 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Just so we are clear, she looks like a goddess (literally) in the hand me down.
A 9yo in a greco-roman goddess dress.
October 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Prepping for 9yo birthday party...
Happy Birthday Banner with Derpy (a blue tiger) grinning.
October 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I will be in Brooklyn on Wednesday for Poetry of Peculiar Joys, a reading and panel hosted by @jaredharel.bsky.social alongside poets @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social Yerra Bergman, Lynn Melnick and Jason Schneiderman. Come see us at 6:30pm. Register here:

www.theneighborhoodbk.org/extra-events...
Sukkot in the Neighborhood presents Poetry of Peculiar Joys: Elegy, Memory, and Epiphany Headshot and short bios of all the poets.
October 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Nine!
My little one is nine! Beautiful girl eith arms raised in triumph in front of Challah French toast with a single candle.
October 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Weekend with the girls watching Brooklyn FC (they prefer Gotham FC).
Two gorgeous girls with their Dad in a near empty stadium watching soccer. Two gorgeous girls making silly faces with their Dad in a near empty stadium watching soccer.
September 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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I spent the past year trying to publish this and the MS it is in and no one wanted it but I would like you all to read it. 2/2
Rosh Hashanah 5785 On Rosh Hashanah, we wait for the shofar to sound. The blast, it is said, serves as a wake up call: Consider your faults, and mend what has been broken: My father asks me about my students, the weather, Israel’s recent bombings. The blast, it is said, serves as a wake up call: Consider your responsibility, mundane as clouds forming. I try to tell him about my students that weathered Israel’s recent bombings— Beirut, a city of smoke, a braid over charred bodies: Our responsibility. Mundane as clouds forming, I try to tell him there are ashes on our hands. My mother asks how to spell Beirut, a city of smoke, a braid over charred bodies. Our daughter breathes and I listen through the wall: signs of life. There are ashes on our hands. My mother asks how to spell banality before covering her ears. The only sound the wind my daughter breathes and I listen. Through the wall signs of life scratch at the surface, words. You are unwilling to bear this banality. Before covering her ears, the only sound, the wind. My mouth forms the prayers. I am unsure of blessings which only scratch at the surface, words we are unwilling to bear this Rosh Hashanah, as we wait for the shofar to sound its blast.
September 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Two happy girls at Chappel Roan concert
September 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Everyone else v me...

Not pictured, me singing along with the girls.
Chappel Roan high kicking on stage in an ornate burgundy dress and high heel boots. The husband from the painting American Gothic, grim faced and bespectacled.
September 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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We must not hold our tongues.
Collage art, a roughly drawn American flag as backdrop, a protest with police in riot gear make up the dark silhouette of Trump's head. The words Hold Your Tongue surround him. Titled The Artificial State.
September 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I've seen everything now: two golden retrievers in track pants unironically.
September 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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It has finally happened...@mitchnobis.bsky.social and I are one person now (on NAWP's Zoom)
An image of Mitch smirking and my name as the user profile for NAWP Zoom...
September 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Please come see @majda.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social Julia Kolchinsky read their new books for @notatawp.bsky.social on Tuesday, September 9th at 7pm.

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nawp-a-rea...
September 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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If you live in North / Central Jersey, come see me on September 27th at 7pm at duCret Center of Art, 1030 Central Ave, Plainfield, NJ
September 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM