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Poet, Writer Disturbing audiences since 1969 @wildly.uncomfortable www.wildlyuncomfortable.com
A photo of a brick house and tree surrounded by fog.
Want more poetry? Contributor @bettysueblue.bsky.social published a prose poem from her new book THERE IS NEWS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER (launching Feb 2026 from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social) in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social: buff.ly/DbCZShE
21.10.2025 15:35 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
a poem, a story, an essay or two and a new review of the book of sentences;
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Fellow authors, it's over. I've officially been replaced by AI.
Woke up today with my inbox full of messages from readers ft. screenshots of ChatGPT (& other genAIs) replicating my trademark writing style with a simple prompt.
13y of writing professionally & a modest success erased in a moment.๐๐๐
Baek Sehee, a South Korean author who wrote the best-selling memoir โI Want to Die, but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki,โ died on Thursday at 35. Her frank conversations about therapy and mental health helped her become a cultural phenomenon in her home country and beyond.
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โI get why the mountain stream had such appeal, and in the summer of 1896 must have felt breathless. A run to the pines, dripping icicles, orgies and orgies of men. And by poverty, driven, and long beards. California. Itinerants.
"Oh desire, oh desperate need, oh the run from what could only be worse if kept / stagnant by inertia"
A poem by ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ in the Fall 2025 issue
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100 Years Ago, Fictional Londoners Looked Up. They Saw Our Present Day. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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August news: shorturl.at/8SafG
#MattHoward wins @asleuki.bsky.social Prize; #KatrinaPorteous is #LaurelPrize Finalist; #KrisJohnson & @marjorielotfi.bsky.social on #MichaelMurphyPrize Longlist; @theguardian.com review for #VersusVersus; #GillianAllnutt made @rsliterature.bsky.social Fellow; & more!
read more at www.wildlyuncomfortable.com www.tiktok.com/@wildlyuncom...
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When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, nowโs the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
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The Seductions of A.I. for the Writerโs Mind www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
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#ClipOfTheDay: Marilyn Chin reads from her sixth poetry collection, Sage (Norton, 2023), and answers questions about the public role of the modern poet and her references to ancient traditions and pop culture in this 2023 virtual installment of the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writersโ Series. at.pw.org/Sage
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#ClipOfTheDay: In this Lambda Literary video, Rob Macaisa Colgate reads โHistory of Display,โ which appears in his debut poetry collection, Hardly Creatures (Tin House Books). at.pw.org/HistoryOfDisplay
19.04.2025 00:01 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Todayโs Featured Poet:
Ed Steck is a writer and artist living in Pittsburgh, PA. His books include A Place Beyond Shame (Wonder), An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (UDP), and others. He is a co-owner of Fungus Books and Records in Pittsburgh.
@pkeough1.bsky.social on "The Passion of Pedro Almodรณvar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films" (@columbiaup.bsky.social) Though lapsing at times into hagiography and muddled synopsizing, James Millerโs study of filmmaker Pedro Almodรณvar is a bracing reminder of the greatness of this world-class artist.
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Today's Featured Poet:
Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre, 2024); Inside the Storm I Want toTouch the Tremble(University of Utah Press, 2022), winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry; and three chapbooks.
This is going to be brilliant!
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NEW POEM #224: "Weโve All Been There" by Erik Kennedy (@erikkennedy.com)
"I stored my plan for world peace
safely in my coat pocket,
and then I washed the coat."
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to be read by & in conversation with David Naimon is a dream. what a generous mind, and what a gift for literature this show is! iโve long loved Between the Covers; grateful to join this archive of moving conversations ๐
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Sharing the amazing cover for THIS IS HOW I FIGHT by @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social now available to pre-order. So line up your copy of this bold #poetry book of gods and monsters, of danger and unknowing, and of kindness as a radical act.
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Artwork: Ali White
Today's Featured Poem:
"Stony Sleep" by Dan Albergotti, from Candy, published by LSU Press.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/stony-s...
Variant issue 20 poetry: Kissing in America by Parker Logan Not Today by Julie Weiss On Craft by Erica Dawson The Water Cycle by Para Vadhahong Five oโclock Shadow in Philly by Allen Means Beyond the Frost by Richard Jordan Cooking Lesson by Shira Haus Golden by Aekta Khubchandani Softening Gravity by McCaela Prentice How to be the Mother of a Missing Daughter by Mara Lee Grayson The New Testament by Michael Agubiade
Happy Poetry Month!
Check out our issue 20 poetry:
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Today's Featured Poem:
"The River" by Pascale Petit (@pascalepetit.bsky.social), from Issue 10 of Poetry London (@poetrylondon.bsky.social).
Read here:
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