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Eve Luckring~
Writer and Visual Artist; Poetry Reader
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thetenderbetween @thetenderbetween.bsky.social · Oct 23
Thank you, Tom!💛
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luaz.bsky.social Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 5d
How to Make a Poem Better:

1. Add a giraffe

2. Ice Cream truck duel

3. Slug riot

4. Etc.
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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susanlleary.bsky.social Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 6d
Eve Luckring 💙

from SIGNAL TO NOISE (Ornithopter Press)

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SCATTERED : in my mother's ashes : some sort of daughter : with an unreliable sense of direction
November 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Thanks so much, Susan!
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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nicksturm.bsky.social Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · Oct 14
Alice Notley 🖤
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Looking forward to this, Susan!!!
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Thank you, rob~~Enjoyed spending time with your “clever interview questions” !
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Let’s give her a few more…
loisbeckett.bsky.social Lois Beckett @loisbeckett.bsky.social · Oct 18
Charlottesville finally took down its Confederate monuments in 2021.

The statue of Robert E. Lee was melted down.

The statue of Stonewall Jackson was given to artist Kara Walker.

This is what she did with it:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments
The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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What is it going to take?
evanlgeorge.bsky.social Evan George @evanlgeorge.bsky.social · 24d
Great to see attention to this from @sammyroth.bsky.social. We surveyed 610 LA Times stories from Jan-Feb and found that only 13-15% of stories included a mention of “climate change” or “global warming” during those two months. Full survey is here: law.ucla.edu/news/missed-...
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Love this project!!
elegyproject.bsky.social The Elegy Project @elegyproject.bsky.social · Oct 2
The Elegy Project on National Poetry Day. Natasha Trethewey's "Myth" shows up streetside in Montreal.
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Thrilled about this news!
November 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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dreaming language
cities dreaming
jacobwren.bsky.social Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 23d
"It was amazing to imagine your city was a novel, and that for you to walk around within it meant that you were in language, you were in a thinking text. I had been placed inside of something dreaming, its citizens dreaming, the novels we had all written dreaming."
- Renee Gladman, Houses of Ravicka
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Halloween Hauntings!
An excerpt from my new book, Signal to Noise
#hearingspirits
www.ornithopterpress.com/store/p26/SI...
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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sedserio.com Laura Kerr @sedserio.com · 26d
forms-of-speaking
October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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jacobwren.bsky.social Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · Oct 20
"We are so accustomed to the old opposition of reason versus passion, spirit versus life, that the idea of passionate thinking, in which thinking and aliveness become one, takes us somewhat aback."
- Hannah Arendt
October 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The public library saved me as a kid and still is one of the places I treasure most.
If you’re in the area Saturday afternoon:
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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“…the designs of Providence are inscrutable…”
October 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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“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.”
tomsnarsky.bsky.social Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Oct 14
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 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Honored by these words from @ctsalazar.bsky.social about Signal to Noise 🙏🏼
October 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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As always, Fanny Howe 🤲🏼
davthorne.bsky.social davthorne.bsky.social @davthorne.bsky.social · Jul 10
Fanny Howe, here and elsewhere
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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maureenthorson.bsky.social Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · Oct 22
“There is no anthem or flag only a letter.” A poem by Kristen Case.
THE INVISIBLE COUNTRY OF REMADE DESIRE In the invisible country of remade desire there is no anthem or flag only a letter in a worn envelope passed between citizens; this gesture is at once a declaration of statehood and the cross- ing of its borders. In this state there is no eye cream with or without 24K gold. The letter is written on onionskin in faded ink, typed on mimeograph paper, minutely sealed in a miniature envelope, scratched onto a leaf. It says “I long to be with you in any open space.”
October 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Thank you, Tom!💛
October 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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So lucky to have Tom Snarsky as a reader!
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Oct 21
Eve Luckring, from Signal to Noise
POROUS : a mystic : in doubt : not unlike a cloud : sopped up with Large Language Models
October 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Oct 12
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)

here’s one by Emma Winsor Wood, from Preferred Internal Landscape (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social)
Judgment Call In the book I'm reading, a woman wakes up every morning and asks herself: What will I do to make myself happy today? I decide to stop reading the book.
October 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Of Absence
Linda Gregg

#Smallpoemsunday

Of absence. Of things broken.
To see if the moon is a mouth.
To see if I am what it wants.
October 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM