Decapitation Strike
Preserving America from Trump's Appointments
"Each of Trump's proposed appointments is a surprise. It is comforting to think that he is simply a vengeful old man, lashing out. This is unlikely. He and Musk and Putin have been talking for years. The whole idea of his campaign was that this time he had a plan"
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The timely memory of these lines from Arthur Smith’s poem “Here”: “I have no thoughts, and I long for / Nothing, other / Than being party to the light, / Which has come a long way to be here, / If only for a moment, / Married to shadows.” What poem shook you today?
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YouTube video by FromTheFishouse
A Reading by Poet Gerald Stern
Do yourself a favor and watch this tonight instead of whatever Netflix thriller or reality show. This is true drama and the illumination of the real.
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Suddenly I have over 100 followers? Are you all real or bots? Or both? How can I tell?
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Writing poems
Maybe i just need to love myself myself and
Anyway
I’m working on it
June Jordan (& moving to bluesky) mood today.
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Roughly 400 Books Removed From Wilson County School Libraries
District removes books including ‘The Bluest Eye,’ ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and Dr. Seuss’ ‘Wacky Wednesday’ to comply with state law
Nearly 400 books removed from school libraries in one Tennessee county. Based on my skim of the list, most of them appear to be books by women, authors of color, &/or LGBTQ+ authors.
www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
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Multi award-winning poet /screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Winner HoHx2, Waltham Forest & FofHCS | Second Shelley Memorial & N2tS 2024 | Nominations BoNx2, Forward Prize & Children's Bafta
Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Poetry and prose in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Dodge, ZYZZYVA, Arts & Letters, LIT Magazine, Thimble, and elsewhere.
Writer w FOMO. CLOSER (Regal House). SURVIVAL TIPS: STORIES (Propeller). THE LOCAL NEWS (Spiegel & Grau). www.miriamgershow.com
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Wrangling “100 Notable Small Press Books 2025” into existence. #100smallpress
Poet. Teacher. Rara Avis (Four Way Books 2024). SDSU MFA.
Poet, Professor, Animal Advocate and Rescuer
poet, writer, editor, teacher, interested in all things books. He/him.
www.jeremymichaelreed.com
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Author of SPLICE OF LIFE: A MEMOIR IN 13 FILM GENRES, poetry coll. INSTRUCTIONS BETWEEN TAKEOFF AND LANDING, & more. EIC: @villaineralit.bsky.social. Genre is a construct. Opinions mine. He/him. https://charles-jensen.com
poet, author of Girl in a Bear Suit (Elixir Press 2024) and Disambiguation (Salamander/Suffolk U 2024). Program and Outreach Coordinator at Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College #binders
Poet, Boymom &
Asst. Teaching Professor @ CU Boulder
Book: Madonna, Complex @wipfandstock
Chap: Latch @riverglassbooks
Recent Poems: @westtrestle @amethyst review @psaltery&lyre
Writer of poems + small fiction | The Girl with the Black Lipstick (novella-in-flash, Black Lawrence Press, July 25) | Order from BLP at https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-girl-with-the-black-lipstick/
Poet. Educator. Person most likely to be stealing your magnolia flowers.
Poet, business journalist, family person, Unity type, cat lady
Poet & teacher. Author of NO SMALL COMFORT (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) & RIVER BOUND (C&R Press, 2014). He/him.
https://www.briansimoneaupoet.com
(she/they) Biracial Nisei. Poet and writer. Editor. EIC South Dakota Review. Lover of cats and mollusks.
Poet
marthasilano.net
@marthasilano
Maybe the Saddest Thing & Silencer @eccobooks. Former Harvard @RadInstitute Fellow & @NEAarts Fellow. @uofmemphis MFA Prof. Boxing fanatic. Human as all get-out.
Author: This Is How the Bone Sings & The Dead Wrestler Elegies. Co-author: Slash / Slash, Poetry: Writers Guide & Anthology. Writing teacher. he/him/dad
https://linktr.ee/toddkaneko
Poet and cultural critic. I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World, The People’s Project.
A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose
Edited by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
https://www.whaleroadreview.com/
