Anna Lena

The submission window is now open to 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲, and 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬.

Guidelines are on the site.

Link in bio.

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Photo of a black and white shorthaired cat with green eyes lying on a plush light blue blanket. Her face has an adorable little grinchy expression.

This is Her Royal Highness. She is the sweetest lady with the cutest little grinchy face! She was found as a pregnant stray, and when her own kitten didn't make it she very lovingly raised some orphaned kittens as her own. Adoptable in Burlington, VT! www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...

We need to teach books BECAUSE students are so distracted. Sustained silent reading is the skill we're meant to be teaching!

The cover of a book on a background of leaves and abstract text. The text on the cover reads Might Could / Anna Lena Phillips Bell / Winner of the Twentieth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Title and author are set in an elegant serifed typeface in a very dark green. In the center of the cover is a sculpture by Amber Cowan, a stylized terrarium all of glass, including leaves, strawberries, and a small Boyd's glass fox beneath a glass dome.

Might Could has a cover! Designed by the lovely Philip Hoy, with artwork by Amber Cowan. Thanks to Waywiser Books—can't wait to share this book with y'all. ❤
www.waywiserbooks.org/coming-soon

It’s almost crunch time. Next week Peers will vote for or against swift bricks. To help swifts, please email steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk who are crucial to the decision. Ask them to SAVE OUR SWIFTS ‼️put SWIFT BRICKS in the subject line 🙏

Black cover with grey-toned montage of photos and drawings, surrealist in spirit

Back cover: 1 perplex other people... I infect them also with the perplexity I feel myself: as if to echo Socrates' words, David Spittle's poems make us look for what, inside language, we did not necessarily know we were looking for. In each poem, precariously poised as Spittle is between syntactical newness and each free act of the mind, he purges us of our anticipation of what • the creative act is. Thus, in the same manner as John Ashbery, whose poetry came to him in fits and starts and by indirec-tion', Spittle's poetry reveals itself behind the multiple (and mostly involuntary) disguises that reality for him, from one poem to the next, takes on. Hence we find a poet writing always amid the struggle of birth and re-birth, identity and non-identity, a poetry testing itself perilously at the frontiers of both verbal experiment and perception.

Poem 1 from ‘All Particles and Waves’ sequence A three-legged dog barks In a falling storm A three-legged dog barks Unheard in the vault Undeterred and biting In a falling storm Of feathers A three-legged dog barks As all around Is softly exploding

If you break open the dry stems of certain plants /
you will find a snoozing grub.

from All Particles and Waves

By David Spittle from @blackheraldpress.bsky.social

No screeners for this issue, folks. I’ll be reading and responding to every poetry submission.

If you identify as disabled, please submit!

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.

Image Attesting to Horrors of Slavery Reportedly Ordered Removed by Trump The famous 19th-century photograph of a formerly enslaved man is reproduced at the Fort Pulaski National Monument, a Civil War battle site in Georgia.

Trump officials reportedly ordered the removal of “The Scourged Back” (1863), a famous image of a formerly enslaved man, from a national monument in Georgia where the US Army toppled a Confederate garrison during the Civil War.

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

For 2 years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, not one Palestinian voice has been featured on NBC, ABC or CNN’s Sunday shows.

@ahjohnson.bsky.social writes about how the U.S. media has debated Palestinians’ annihilation without letting a single Palestinian speak.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

A student in my publishing course is interested in researching book pulping and book recycling. Do we know any work or introductory material in this area?

(Work on remainders, print runs, supply chain, raw materials all relevant, too.)

Copper Canyon Anthology Spotlights Poets in Palestine Translated and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor and guest edited by Jorie Graham, You Must Live compiles recent work from 30 poets living in Gaza and the West Bank. The challenges of…

Translated and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor and guest edited by Jorie Graham, You Must Live compiles recent work from 30 poets living in Gaza and the West Bank. The challenges of publishing it were immense.

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Your help are an investment in rebuild a woman and an architect My name is Alaa, and I hold a Master’s degree in Architecture.

When we talk about fundraising for people in Gaza it is about survival, it is about getting out of the worst circumstances. We rarely discuss their dreams, hope, for rebuilding? What lives will be lived if the bombs were to stop falling tomorrow? Alaa is asking for support for her future

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.

a lot of people don’t realize what a gift it is to receive.

just to be receptive to what others have to offer. to what others bring into relation.

that too is generosity in action.

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

After The Alphabets I am trying to decipher the language of insects they are the tongues of the future their vocabularies describe buildings as food they can depict dark water and the veins of trees they can convey what they do not know and what is known at a distance and what nobody knows they have terms for making music with the legs they can recount changing in a sleep like death they can sing with wings the speakers are their own meaning in a grammar without horizons they are wholly articulate they are never important they are everything

From ‘The Rain In The Trees’ (1987)
—W.S. Merwin

#poetry #poem #poems

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

CBP Flew Drones to Help ICE 50 Times in Last Year The drone flight log data, which stretches from March 2024 to March 2025, shows CBP flying its drones to support ICE and other agencies. CBP maintains multiple Predator drones and flew them over the r...

“CBP has never stopped operating its drones on behalf of other federal, state, and local agencies, including ICE,” EFF’s @jenlynch.bsky.social told @404media.co. “In fact, the program has expanded exponentially since EFF first reported on it in 2012.”

I need money to buy gloves so that I never need again to touch it, money. I need gloves to separate my hands from dollars. Also from other hands when they hand me money, handling others' money, others' hands, disgusting. And cold, or hot, and lotion. To regulate mine own hands' temperatures, gloves. To buy them, money. (Line breaks too long to indicate accurately here)

Yes, here's how to start a book ⚡⚡

@sophiadahlin.bsky.social GLOVE MONEY (Nightboat Books)

Climate change ‘beyond scientific dispute,’ National Academies report says The report is a sharp rebuttal to a recent Trump administration's report, and Republicans have already targeted the report as “a blatant partisan act.”

It’s official (again): Climate change is real, it’s caused by us, and it’s dangerous

The science isn’t new

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

So if I understand it, the mere words “from the river to the sea” are definitely a call to genocide against Israel, while Israel actively blocking a Palestinian state, building 700K illegal settlements, & committing actual genocide of the Palestinian people is not.🤔

The vile & deadly hypocrisy.