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Gale Marie Thompson
@thegalester.bsky.social
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Author of: Mountain Amnesia (CLP Colorado State University), Helen or my Hunger (@yesyesbooks), Soldier On (@tupelopress)
👩🏼‍🏫 Assoc. Professor
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Sunday recs: I'm reading @thegalester.bsky.social's collection MOUNTAIN AMNESIA & it's astonishing. (I can't remember who pointed me toward it, but thank you!)

We all need poems more than ever—if you don't have it already, you should pick up this book &/or tell your library to carry it.
April 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
Kind of sucks that we didn't at least get a Roaring Twenties before what's about to come
January 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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mondoab.bsky.social
Sagan was a prophet.
January 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
thegalester.bsky.social
Y’all get ready for this!!!
yesyesbooks.bsky.social YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · Jan 21
So happy to share your first look at Strange Flowers by Bryan Byrdlong!!! Cover art by Nick Cave. Cover design by @albanfischer.bsky.social This magnificent debut releases in late March and preorder is up now at www.yesyesbooks.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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So happy to share your first look at Strange Flowers by Bryan Byrdlong!!! Cover art by Nick Cave. Cover design by @albanfischer.bsky.social This magnificent debut releases in late March and preorder is up now at www.yesyesbooks.com
January 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
thegalester.bsky.social
We know the end is near when the gods finally arrive.

from “Pattern of Behavior,” in MOUNTAIN AMNESIA

Written in 2016-2017. Feels like yesterday.
January 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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tashacoryell.bsky.social
I can’t believe every day is going to be this stupid now
January 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
thegalester.bsky.social
Me cleaning the litter box:
chenchenwrites.bsky.social Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · Jan 13
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?

—Robert Hayden, from "Those Winter Sundays"
January 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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chenchenwrites.bsky.social
Lord, there are so many fires, so many words, in my heart. It's going to take something I can't even imagine, to put them all out.

—Mary Oliver, from "More Evidence"
January 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
thegalester.bsky.social
Okay now that I’ve learned to follow back on this app, it’s over for y’all.
January 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
thegalester.bsky.social
Back on the Blue Sky train? Let’s have a party.
November 13, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Spotlight series #102 : Gale Marie Thompson
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Spotlight series #102 : Gale Marie Thompson
Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month.
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October 7, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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"What it means, however, for Thompson to be unsettling the conventions around Helen is arguably the book’s biggest ambition."

from my goodreads review of Gale Marie Thompson's Helen or My Hunger
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Kent Shaw’s review of Helen Or My Hunger
The book openly struggles with the mythic image built around women, how a woman can feel beholden to that image, the cultural sign evoked by this image, and what seems to be a lifetime where the poet ...
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March 12, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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Spotlight series #102 : Gale Marie Thompson
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Spotlight series #102 : Gale Marie Thompson
The one hundred and second in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, ...
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October 15, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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guitarjoshuaphd.bsky.social
Cannot be happier to celebrate creative writing superstar Gale Marie Thompson for earning tenure at Young Harris College! So well deserved and I am so proud of you friend! If you have not checked out the poetry of Dr. Gale Thompson, I highly recommend! : galemariethompson.com. #humanities
April 25, 2024 at 2:45 AM
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Gale Marie Thompson, Mountain Amnesia: Poems / @thegalester.bsky.social
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December 31, 2023 at 2:54 PM
thegalester.bsky.social
Huge thank you to rob mclennan for this beautiful and thoughtful review of Mountain Amnesia! “There’s such an unflinching sharpness to these poems, and Thompson’s is a fierce and precise first-person lyric of violence, dark survival and a weighted grief.” 😳❤️
December 31, 2023 at 11:05 PM
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🙏🏼❤️
robmclennan.bsky.social rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Dec 18
Morning, morning, coffee shop;
December 18, 2023 at 2:58 PM
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viktorwinetrout.bsky.social
[God creating pigeons]

Make them pace back and forth like a lawyer
November 25, 2023 at 4:01 AM