Kim Fahner

Hope for red wolves Full tree canopies and blooming goldenrod. Shifting bird sightings with migrating flocks. The thrum of cicadas, late sunsets, and lightning bugs.  The final remnants of summer are all around — and in ...

The Red Wolf Recovery Program has confirmed 4 wild litters on the Albemarle Peninsula this year, bringing 16 new pups into the world!

With only 18 known adults left in the wild, every birth is a vital step forward for this critically endangered species.

Read more: www.selc.org/news/hope-fo...

So apparently Trump has sent the National Guard to Washington in attempt to protect people from
ever seeing the Epstein files RS

A red and blue velvet tunic with gold embroidered lion and fleur-de-lis sits in a box. A white woman with brown hair sits behind it, smiling. She is wearing a light blue button up shirt.

Thank your local archivist and librarian.

I'm immensely grateful to the staff at @folger.edu for working to allow me to view and handle Edwin Booth's Richard III tunic yesterday. Textiles are such a beast to preserve and make accessible. Being able to spend time with this costume meant the world.

A photograph of the mid section of a 1940s peach silk tea gown showing the square neckline, long sleeves and lace inserts. The inserts decorate the neck, cuffs, waist and skirt

Back detail of the 1940s peach silk tea gown showing the pleats and gathers as well as the lace inserts at neck and waist. It has small covered buttons centre back of the neck

Full length view of the 1940s peach silk tea gown showing the lace inserts and pleats and drapes of the gown

Generally a tea gown describes an earlier period, the late 19th century liminal garment not worn out of the house but suitable for refreshments at home. This is a later version, a mid 1940s tea gown of peachy pink silk with cream lace inserts, V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

An illustration from Hare B&B. A coyote in an unconvincing rabbit costume drools as she thinks about barbecuing

Wishing a very happy birthday to the wonderful Bill Richardson!

If you and the kids could use a laugh, his books just can’t be beat. We don’t think we’ve ever laughed harder than when we first read HARE B&B!

www.runningthegoat.com

#KidLit

Isabella Rossellini (on IG) being chased by her chickens is my mood for today.

I think it would be great if we all stopped asking image generators to come up with text. Unless I'm grossly mistaken, this is not what they are designed to do, so proving they can't give correct answers is useless. Meanwhile, each query uses more energy, more water, all for clicks and likes.

In Memoriam: Joan Leishman January 17, 1958 – d. August 3, 2025 As a young reporter working for a local TV station, Joan was drawn to international affairs. She moved to Mexico City as a freelancer in 1985…

PEN Canada is heartbroken by the passing of Joan Leishman, a journalist and long-time advocate for refugee writers.

She was a stalwart member of the PEN family and an unstinting supporter of the Writers in Exile community.

Read more in a tribute on our website: pencanada.ca/news/in-memo...

And Then Came the Day | The Walrus Afterward, let’s go home and lay failure, longing, / and some lost cicada husks all belly up on the table

Happy to have a new poem in the summer reading issue of @thewalrus.ca . Thanks to @cstarnino.bsky.social for the editorial stewardship. thewalrus.ca/and-then-cam...

I am already get texts about the MOON 🌕 and it will be daylight for at least 3 or 4 more hours here.
We are on MOON alert.
The moon loves us all.
Go out & collect your biteen of love from her.

After nearly 24 years, NYC officials identify 3 more 9/11 victims Using advanced DNA-analysis techniques researchers in New York City identified three more victims of the 9/11 terror attacks that occurred nearly 24 years ago.

Using advanced DNA-analysis techniques researchers in New York City identified three more victims of the 9/11 terror attacks that occurred nearly 24 years ago.

yellow newtown apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1911

yellow newtown apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1911

“Poetry is not about language, but about what happens when language gets impossible.”
– Alice Oswald

NYC opens first publicly funded homeless shelter for transgender people Ace’s Place will offer 150 beds and services, including counseling, financial literacy workshops and a work-study program in the culinary arts.

9 Aug 25 -- NYC opens the country’s first city-funded shelter for transgender and gender-nonconforming people experiencing homelessness. Ace’s Place, in Queens, offers 150 beds & is a collaboration btwn the city and an LGBTQ+ nonprofit. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Keep writing that stupid book

Kim Fahner : Re: Wild Her, by Shannon Webb-Campbell Re: Wild Her , Shannon Webb-Campbell Book*hug, 2025       The tides of Shannon Webb-Campbell’s last poetry collection, Lunar Tides , con...

“Re: Wild Her is hopeful and empowers the reader to work through their own broken parts, encourages them to journey both outwards and inwards...” @kimfahner.bsky.social reviews Shannon Webb-Campbell's latest collection for @periodicities.bsky.social. periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/08/kim-...

This Is the News From TikTok When young adults use the social-media outlet to keep up with current events, what kind of information are they getting?

More than a third of young adults trust TikTok for their news, Amogh Dimri writes. The app’s news watchers insist that they can decipher what’s going on in the world, “even if they have to extrapolate facts from memes”:

Bleachflood - Ecotone 1. Every year the Year of the Weevil, Dead bees sprinkling the gravel, Honey and harvest laced with ricin, Muir Woods blazing, kyrie eleison. Withered

From “Bleachflood,” by Amit Majmudar in Ecotone 37 🌕

“Every year the Year of the Weevil, / Dead bees sprinkling the gravel, / Honey and harvest laced with ricin...”

Read the full poem (for free) + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/bleac... ‎

#Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove

We just witnessed Japan's hottest day in recorded history again: 41.8°C (107.2°F).

The longevity and intensity of this historic heatwave is hard to comprehend.

My new book of poetry, The Pollination Field, arrived. You can buy copies from your favourite bookstore or directly from Turnstone Press. ❤️🐝

www.turnstonepress.com/books/pollin...

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." -- Virginia Woolf

Pinhole Poetry runs a chapbook contest every year instead of the standard submission process. This year, our search runs from Aug 1 - Aug 31 2025. We are planning to publish nine titles (3 in Fall ’25, 3 in Spring ’26 & 3 in Summer ’26). Full guidelines found at:
pinholepoetry.ca/chapbook-contest/

Thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for publishing my review of Shannon Webb Campbell’s new book, Re: Wild Her, in the August issue of @periodicities.bsky.social.
@bookhugpress.bsky.social

The Aquacise Chronicles Or--how to keep a hip joint moving when it's pretty much stuck where it is

Here’s my new Substack article. It’s titled “The Aquacise Chronicles: or—how to keep a hip joint moving when it’s pretty much stuck where it is.”

You can subscribe to my Substack if you think it’d be cool to follow my weird meanderings about life.

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Born #onthisday in 1844, English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins. Celebrate with a read of our essay "The Krakatoa Sunsets" by Richard Hamblyn which explores a little-known series of letters that the poet sent in to the journal Nature: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #OTD

Voices of The Young Writers Committee — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide Meet the next generation of writers and activists speaking out on the issues that matter most. From the shrinking of civic space to highlighting freedom of expression as the bedrock of democracy, memb...

Meet the next generation speaking out for free expression.

From shrinking civic space to defending democracy, PEN International’s Young Writers Committee (@youngwriterspen.bsky.social) raises their voices with urgency and hope ⬇️

www.pen-international.org/committee-ne...

Indigenous consultation, Social media and language, Jasper wildfire legacy, Animals and death Podcast Episode · The Sunday Magazine · 2025-07-20 · 1h 40m

On the bigger meaning of consultation with Indigenous communities w Piya Chattopadhyay on CBC’s The Sunday Magazine podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

The Sea Slug Defying Biological Orthodoxy Symbiosis may be more important to evolution than scientists once thought.

A sea slug that appears to get all the food it needs for the rest of its life by way of photosynthesis changed Zoë Schlanger’s understanding of biology—and shows how our environment is constantly transforming us.

His name is Mohammad Al-Motawaq. He is 18 months old. And he is starving in Gaza Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.

Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.