Kyla Houbolt

Emma group fights townhouse development to preserve mobile homes as long-term affordable housing • Asheville Watchdog Owning the land beneath their mobile home has given Laura Garcia and her husband the security to replace its ceilings, rebuild its exterior, add on a front porch and apply a fresh coat of light gray…

Asheville's Emma Neighborhood seeks to preserve mobile homes as long term affordable housing - opposes
townhome development.

Eleven Beers by Tom Snarsky Whenever Sid would drink, he would drink Eleven beers. This created some logistical Problems, including a bad stomach and no Driver’s license, but one advantage was the One beer left over from the twelve-pack: Sid would save the flimsy paperboard from One of the twelve-packs, slowly filling it with Survivors, though their survival was only Temporary. Then when it was filled up All the way Sid would go out to the lake, Drink eleven beers, and instead of saving One like usual he would open the last beer And pour it into the water, where the little Bluegill would be visibly confused in the Shallows. One time, driving home from the Lake, Sid didn’t notice the blue heron in the Right lane, standing, but since he’d swerved So far over the midline anyway the bird, Instead of being killed, flew safely away.

today is my birthday, and I couldn’t imagine a better way to celebrate than having a new poem out in Burial Magazine! infinite gratitude to Z. H. Gill for giving this one a beautiful home :) 🙏

Book fair flyer for December 11 at Co-Prosperity (3219 S Morgan St in Chicago)

Poetry reading flyer for December 11 at Co-Prosperity (3219 S Morgan St in Chicago)

A poetry reading AND a book fair?? All for a great cause?! 😍📚

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*And Central America

(Comments contain lists of countries in North America, Central America, and South America)

Referring to only the U. S. as “America” or only its citizens as “Americans” is a surefire sign that we’re still drinking the settler kool-aid.

shout it from the rooftops!

Current place of residence.

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Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do

The Birdlife of Kinsale The gulls are out at the Old Head Where the Lusitania went down, So we make do with rooks instead Among the tiered roofs of the town. The gulls are down among the fish, Raiding the trawlers at the quay; Crows strut among our spilt rubbish, Staring ferociously at the sea.

Derek Mahon, born on this day in 1941

Holiday Help, a project from Mrs. Fitzhugh Help me give my students clothing for our care closet and angel tree families and snacks for our snack bin. Three years ago, I added a snack bin to my classroom. Kids could take food as they needed...

This project is for angel tree families who haven’t been taken care of yet! We had several items not signed up for and we have so many needing help this year in our middle school. Rt? @pamwickham.bsky.social @burrowingowl.bsky.social @annedeuceofcups.bsky.social www.donorschoose.org/project/holi...

ode to the flute A man sings by opening his mouth a man sings by opening his lungs by turning himself into air a flute can be made of a man nothing is explained a flute lays on its side and prays a wind might enter it and make of it at least a small final song

Ross Gay

catalog of unabashed gratitude

#smallpoemsunday
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Sign reading "he sold you flowers and ICE took him."

seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

Tickled to discover one of the poems in here (I think it's the fourth one) is mine! Definitely wintry, but, Welsh? Okay.

Thanks to @jntod.bsky.social 🌹

Thanks for the mention! Nice surprise to see it! 🌹

Ooh! A culture maven, and so young!

Probably not but for some reason I got invited anyway. 😜

My folks were classical vocal musicians and I used to go around telling people that "rock is not music." But Sgt. Pepper (with some gentle peer persuasion) kicked the door wide open. I never got into the Stones, though.

POEM 285: "Flyer Taped to a Store Window…" by Sam Rasnake (@samrasnake.bsky.social)

"the mouth is a cavern with rock formations,
trails, and stream—the lips an eel—the chin
a block of granite chiseled to fit—the face"

stonecirclereview.com/flyer-taped/

#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

Essay I don't want to be a farmer but my mother was right I should never have tried to rise out of the proletariat

Today’s Featured Poem:

“Essay” by Bernadette Mayer from The Golden Book of Words published by @ndbooks.bsky.social

Read here:
poems.com/poem/essay/

😂

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.

Categories #smallpoemsunday

POEM 386: "Airport" by Dawn Macdonald (@yukondawn.bsky.social)

"A child’s parents know the Pope; they have an in
with Michelangelo. She swings between
the registers. She has the voice of a chandelier
in a box beneath the bed."

stonecirclereview.com/airport

#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

Greyscale image of 'The Footing', a walking-themed anthology published by Longbarrow Press

Past the cutlers, halfway over the Don
I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter
slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone,
cutting shingle.

'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com

As you should!

One fun thing about moving over to Bluesky is that I get to share older #poems to a new audience. I may not have just written this but it’s still one of my favorites I’ve written!

#poetry

DAILY RIFFS in the limited realm of the candle there are few choices, and who makes them? burn, melt, drip, or don't. I woke just as it started to rain so listened to that for a little while. exactitude sits on the day like a thick heavy hat, one that's a size too large and keeps falling down to cover the eyes. oh season! how long are you going to be? the game board is getting dusty but does anyone care? no. let's go outside. it's raining or isn't. animals are waking up. a bird has something to say.

For #SmallPoemSunday, here's "Daily Riffs", collected in *Becoming Altar*, available from asterismbooks.com

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