Susan Briante

We're excited to announce our collaborative offsite reading at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse on Saturday, March 7th at 8PM! Free to attend!

We've got an exciting series of readings coming up this month!

First, catch @utopiaminus.bsky.social this Thursday February 12th at @franciskiteclub at 7pm

Mark your calendars! Noemi authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social and @raquefella.bsky.social are reading alongside Gabrielle Civil and Taneum Bambrick at North Figueroa Bookshop on Thursday, February 26th!

Brilliant artist, and a typically brilliant post and suggestion

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.

Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”

Really listen to it.

13 Questions for the Next Economy Spark of dry grass, Russian thistle in flames, or butterflies bobbing as if pulled by unseen strings                      through the alleyway.

Today's Featured Poem:

"13 Questions for the Next Economy" by
@utopiaminus.bsky.social from 13 Questions for the Next Economy published by @noemipress.bsky.social

Read here:
poems.com/poem/13-ques...

Read this. Then read it again.

Read "What Comes After Us" from 13 Questions for the Next Economy by @utopiaminus.bsky.social along with Susan's thoughts on the poem for "In Their Own Words" with @poetrysociety.org

Check out the full feature here: poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...

"Watching Reservation Dogs, easily one of my favorite television shows of the past ten years, makes me think about audience"

Dec 13 @essaydaily.bsky.social features @utopiaminus.bsky.social on the great Reservation Dogs: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

Yellow flier with black writing

Hey ATX, come out tonight and hear some poems! Alienated Majesty books at 7 pm

Group photo from the Noemi Fest reading last night!

From front to back: @utopiaminus.bsky.social , @faridmatuk.bsky.social , @sargzem.bsky.social , @jdpluecker.bsky.social , @dianaarterian.bsky.social , Claire Hong, and @raquefella.bsky.social

Thanks again to Wave Archive for hosting!

Noemi reading TONIGHT at 7PM at Wave Archive in Tucson!

Featuring Poetry Editor @dianaarterian.bsky.social,
Executive Director @sargzem.bsky.social, and authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social, @raquefella.bsky.social, @jdpluecker.bsky.social, Claire Hong, and @faridmatuk.bsky.social

Book cover for ‘Dispatches from the Land of Erasure: Essays and Conversations’ by Philip Metres. The cover features an abstract geometric composition of overlapping rectangular blocks in various colors including blues, reds, greens, yellows, purples, and browns against a light gray background. The blocks appear layered and fragmented, creating a mosaic-like pattern that suggests themes of fragmentation and reconstruction. The title and author name are displayed in clean, dark typography at the top of the cover.

Can you document trauma without exploiting it?

@utopiaminus.bsky.social warns that the “representation of violence can produce its own kind of violence.”

In @philipmetres.bsky.social’s DISPATCHES, poets debate what documentary poetry can and can’t do for justice – and whether writing is enough.

So @eldiagram.bsky.social made broadsides for @richard-siken.bsky.social, @mathiassvalina.bsky.social, @joshriedel.bsky.social, and Thomas Dai for their recent @uapoetrycenter.bsky.social readings. We have some left; if you want to buy em here you go: thediagram.com/merch/produc...

Happy pub day to 13 Questions for the Next Economy by @utopiaminus.bsky.social!

This visionary collection, from the author of the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus prize winning Defacing the Monument, weaves together selections from her four previous books with arresting new poems and visuals.

-From Susan Briante's (@utopiaminus.bsky.social) 13 Questions for the Next Economy

Out October 14th!

“Inhabiting the Poem.” Seven Poetry Collections to Read This October “What was the work the poet was demanding of me? It was to inhabit the poem, to live willingly in its world.” Those sentences were written by my late teacher Helen Vendler, and arrive in the second…

On @literaryhub.bsky.social, Christopher Spaide reflects on the words of his teacher Helen Vendler, whose final essays appear in a new LOA volume. The goal, he writes, is not to look for the easy-to-grasp features of a poem, but “to strive to inhabit every poem in all its standoffish singularity.”

Thanks to Chris Spaide and @literaryhub.bsky.social for featuring the upcoming collection 13 Questions for the Next Economy by @utopiaminus.bsky.social in Seven Poetry Collections to Read This October!

Read the full article here: lithub.com/inhabiting-t...

Terrain.org - Online Environmental Magazine of Literature and Place Terrain.org is an online environmental magazine of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, editorials, interviews, reviews, Unsprawl case studies, and art since 1998.

"In a Sufi proverb, the bear must deal with 20 obstacles,
each one of them involves pears
because the bear adores pears."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
October 1 —- The Dow Closes Down 9509 by Susan Briante (@utopiaminus.bsky.social) (2014 Terrain.org) www.terrain.org/2014/poetry/...

If you're in Portland, go take some video of how nothing is going on there.

Document that Trump is invading for no reason.

Did you see your friend's book at the store? Email them a pic! See them cited? Email them (esp. as aggregators fail to catch many citations)! Did a scholar mention their work! Email them! Did a student use their work in a paper? Email! Did a professor teach their work? Email! Email! All the time!!!

13 Questions for the Next Economy by Susan Briante is available for preorder on the Noemi website now! This visionary collection weaves together selections from her four previous books with arresting new poems and visuals.

Order today!

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chocolate cake milkshake

Might save a life.

FDA Office of Minority Health is gone.

If anyone is documenting the pages going missing, I have a small database. I will not be taking it on long-term but am using it right now and am willing to hand it off to a relevant group. Pages as simple as Women in the Federal Workforce have gone missing.

We, the daughters and sons of Tuskegee Airmen will continue to teach their important role in our collective history. Trump's "order" is racist trash. 🗑️My dad was an Airman and I'll be damned if they erase him and his fellows.

Calling all community defenders, advocates, and impacted community members! 🗣️

Join us on 1/29 for a FREE webinar to learn how to protect yourself and your community in the face of potential immigration enforcement.

Learn more and register: secure.nationalimmigrationproject.org/np/clients/n...

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.

An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.