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Kersten Christianson

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Poet, Moon Gazer, Raven Watcher, Way-Finder, Northern Trekker, Teacher. Curating the House of Nostalgia (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2020).

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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 39 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

This week in the poetry blogs with @emmalee1.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @johnglenday.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3
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Happy Canada Day from this Alaskan.

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Print featuring a stylised owl looking outwards with multicoloured flowering plants eminating from the bird, against a white background

Print featuring a stylised owl looking outwards with multicoloured flowering plants eminating from the bird, against a white background

Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak rose to prominence in the 1950s with her experimental printmaking and is one of many indigenous women artists who have employed the medium to create intriguing and important artworks #ReframingWomenPrintnakers

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Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

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Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Be gay do crow stuff

#pridemonth #pridecrows

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Dispatch from the Front We call them invasive species now, but they didn’t ask to be brought here and planted ‘for wildlife,’ the multiflora roses, Amur honeysuckles, Russian olives, Japanese barberries&…

From Dave Bonta: Dispatch from the Front woodrat.vianegativa.us/2025/05/04/d...

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That kinda weekend.

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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 16 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @grimalkingerry.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @kerstenak.bsky.social @rmhaines.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/04/poet...

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Tariffs by Gary Soto Tariffs Neruda, fill your ears with the sound of the sea And stay home. Chopin, close the lid of your piano— Lay on the couch, hands on your playable ribs. Koko, famed gorilla, eat your apple And k…

Tariffs by Gary Soto oneartpoetry.com/2025/04/21/t...

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Easter & the Golden Eggs of Writing I’m not much the Easter celebrator, but I do appreciate this day. The sun shines across my desk, starburst daffodils shimmy in the wind out in the garden – I don’t have the heart …
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When the editing calls for a red pen.

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Who would’ve thought we’d be living these books out? We are in perilous times.

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An oeuvre d'oeufs by Tom Gauld

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Missing the Sunday morning sunshine vibes.

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HOW TO TRIUMPH LIKE A GIRL I like the lady horses best, how they make it all look easy, like running 40 miles per hour is as fun as taking a nap, or grass. I like their lady horse swagger, after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up! But mainly, let's be honest, I like that they're ladies. As if this big dangerous animal is also a part of me, that somewhere inside the delicate skin of my body, there pumps an 8-pound female horse heart,. giant with power, heavy with blood. Don't you want to believe it? Don't you want to lift my shirt and see the huge beating genius machine that thinks, no, it knows, it's going to come in first.

HOW TO TRIUMPH LIKE A GIRL I like the lady horses best, how they make it all look easy, like running 40 miles per hour is as fun as taking a nap, or grass. I like their lady horse swagger, after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up! But mainly, let's be honest, I like that they're ladies. As if this big dangerous animal is also a part of me, that somewhere inside the delicate skin of my body, there pumps an 8-pound female horse heart,. giant with power, heavy with blood. Don't you want to believe it? Don't you want to lift my shirt and see the huge beating genius machine that thinks, no, it knows, it's going to come in first.

Happy International Women's Day from Ada Limon

08.03.2025 14:53 — 👍 5857    🔁 920    💬 79    📌 46
Poet Vivian Faith Prescott holds up her (my) poetry book on a beach in southeast Alaska. Brown and white border collie lies on beach in background.

Poet Vivian Faith Prescott holds up her (my) poetry book on a beach in southeast Alaska. Brown and white border collie lies on beach in background.

Cover of poetry book Old Woman With Berries in Her Lap depicts a snowy field in shadows and the frame of a Sami lavvu (tent).

Cover of poetry book Old Woman With Berries in Her Lap depicts a snowy field in shadows and the frame of a Sami lavvu (tent).

International Women’s Day! Support women’s poetry—Old Woman With Berries in Her Lap. 📕 upcolorado.com/university-o...

#AlaskanPoet #womenpoets #poetsofbluesky #AlaskaBlueSky #Alaska #poetry #Internationalwomensday #AlaskaSky #SamiDiaspora

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Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at HR@opm.gov.

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I Feel Lucky Mary Chapin Carpenter · Come On Come On · Song · 1992

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R U feeling lucky? 🍀🙂

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Spring 2025 Door is a Jar is a print and digital literary magazine of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, drama and artwork. Our publication focuses on writing that is accessible for all readers.

Issue 34 Spring 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine is available for pre-order. Our next issue features the creative works of 50 contributors from all around the world.

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#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews #writingcommunity

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Andrew Bird - Left Handed Kisses (ft. Fiona Apple) [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
YouTube video by andrewbirdmusic Andrew Bird - Left Handed Kisses (ft. Fiona Apple) [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Yes! This one?

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I’m a poet, of course I’m writing lines during staff meetings.

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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

Doge or Douche?

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I love this.

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