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Perfect poem for right now by one of the greatest ever.

one of my favs!

Amazing poem from the great Justin Phillip Reed ⚡

Congratulations @clairedederer.bsky.social!!!

Your chance to learn how to create a compelling oral history with one of the greats!

YESSSSSS!!!

‘One of Us’ Review: This Group Is No Sideshow In Dan Chaon’s novel, a pair of psychically gifted twins find a home, of sorts, among a crew of circus freaks.

The Wall Street Journal has some reservations, but ultimately succumbs to mine charms~~

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Craft Seminar: How to Write About Goodness and Happiness with Anna Clark — The Shipman Agency 1 Session: Sunday, October 12 2:00-4:00pm ET Anna Clark Goodness and happiness are difficult to write about in more than a glancing way, as if writers believe they are not real or multidimensional...

COMING UP: I'm teaching this one-session online class on Sunday, October 12, and I'd love for you to join!

"This craft seminar will explore what is possible when we take the light as seriously as the dark."

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.

When Israeli forces captured Jaffa in 1948, the municipal archives vanished, erasing Palestinians' legal proof of land ownership.

@philipmetres.bsky.social's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE shows how Arab poets have sought to preserve this disappeared history.

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What would also be awesome is permanent fixed locations where folks can dispose of electronics - one in every neighborhood - and DSNY picks them up regularly and disposes of them safely. Possible?

I finally found a way to cry. Fairyland is a powerful evocation of the early days of the AIDS Pandemic, and I loved it. As Alysia’s writing teacher at the New School in 2000, and as someone who knew her father, I know the story well. The film let me see it all over again.

YouTube video by The Daily Show Kevin Nguyen - “Mỹ Documents: A Novel” | The Daily Show

@knguyen.bsky.social, author of the novel MY DOCUMENTS, on @thedailyshow.com ✨
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Yes, the exact question JESUS would ask!!

Meditations in an Emergency By Cameron Awkward-Rich I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside. I ride the train, walk among the buildings, men in Monday suits. The flight of doves, the city of tents beneath the underpass, the huddled mass, old women hawking roses, & children all of them, break my heart. There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind. Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming. Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

‘Lorde offered a politics that dealt in the realities of survival as well as the necessity of defiance: she refused to give ground to white feminists or to a Black nationalism that assumed women’s subservience.’

@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

One thousand times this. Life changing in that I can have a life and a job and they are not in conflict with each other.

Queen 💔

Sitting at a bar after teaching my class on writing from the world's myths & stories, catching up on today's events, thinking about ancient world graffiti and how lots of it is just people saying essentially, FUCK. In both 'yep, I fucked here' ways & 'fuck, I hate everything' ways.

Book Launch for Rabih Alameddine’s The True True Story of Raja the Gullible - Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice September 30, 2025 7:00PM ET

If you're in DC tomorrow, the Lannan Center is hosting a book launch at 7pm, which obviously, will be the coolest event in the universe.
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While the reader thinks they're simply listening to someone talk, they're absorbing an entire fictional world. It seems difficult at first, but in truth this is one of the easiest ways to create a story—even for complete beginners! Read more and register: www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

Master Class: The Physics of Character with Michael Zapata — The Shipman Agency 1 Session: Wednesday, December 3 6:30-8:30pm ET Michael Zapata This master class is taught by award winning novelist and editor Michael Zapata, author of T he Lost Book of Adana Moreau, Best ...

Register here! www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/mast...

As both resources and examples, we will pull from a wide range of fictional material including the short stories When We Nearly Young by Mavis Gallant and Atomito by Liliana Colanzi, the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, and the film The Exterminating Angel by Luis Buńuel.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert "Mandatory Viewing For Anyone Who Cares About Our Planet" - Jeremy Strong On His New Documentary

Jeremy Strong name checks our client Katie Farris's poem, Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World. Read the poem here www.versedaily.org/2022/whywrit...

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YouTube video by BREAK OUT PICTURES BLUE ROAD - THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY | TRAILER | IN CINEMAS JANUARY 31

Can we get BLUE ROAD: THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY streaming in the US please?? JFC I need this!!

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How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps) Last Sunday I spent hours at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a too rare occasion for me to pull myself away from the internet for an entire afternoon. As I looked around at the crowd on their way to pa…

My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...

The people who turn art into profit don't put artists first.

Fox+Friends drunk ass weekend host gonna tell Generals how to General 😜

If there's one thing that's saved my sanity over last few months its watching the WNBA. I'm gonna watch some more games tonight and I'm living for it, even tho my NY Liberty didn't make the finals.

Given the success of the league and the amazing players giving it their all, PAY THEM REAL MONEY.

SAM Talks | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | Seattle Art Museum

Yes, get ready for the book launch for TERRY DACTYL on Saturday, October 25th, 3 pm at the Seattle Art Museum!!!🎉🎉🎉 Books will be on sale from Elliott Bay Book Company 2 weeks in advance of the official pub date!! Don't forget to wear a mask, let's take care of one another💕Can't wait to see you!💐

Upcoming opportunity to work with our INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS anthology co-editor @khadijahqueen.com !

( Do you have your copy of INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS? fc2.org/anthologies/... )