Stephen Energia Gifford-Bell

From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book,
The Trees Witness Everything: bit.ly/treeswitness

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It was a wonderful reading with so many great people! Glad I could join and see what Stanchion is all about. Andrew Huffman has been telling me great things!

Your Best and Brightest | Tali Beckwith-Cohen We run clubs, we start projects, we advocate for ourselves and for fellow students. We have watched the most documented genocide in history play out, have watched our international friends be targeted...

“We are what makes Barnard, and you have chosen to abandon us.” New online: a speech by Tali Beckwith-Cohen, written for a disciplinary conduct meeting at Barnard College, where she was charged for participating in anti-ICE demonstrations.
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Submissions will open for one full hour, so insofar as you're racing, you're doing so against the clock rather than each other. BUT. We're HAD, so we gotta mix it up. Let's make that hour middle of the night! (At least for me here on the east coast. And, really most of us in the US.) Y'all gotta stay up late, or wake up early, or wake up in the middle of the night just to prove to us you love us, or be international (I hope this time works for the international skullers?). Which is all to say... Submissions will be Thursday, April 24, 4am – 5am ET. A few specifics: No theme 600 words max Any/all genre ok For poems and reeeeal short stuff, you can send two, but make 'em short! You (probably, hopefully) know the deal.I am going to try to get through as many as possible, as fast as possible, but its a timed call rather than quantity so I have no idea how many I'll get, so getting through everything might spill over into the next day or two... or longer? We'll see!

🚨🚨 Submission Call Time! 🚨🚨

We're going to be open for submissions for ONE HOUR... late tonight/early tomorrow morning!

shoutout the night owls, the early risers, but maybe most of all, the int'l peeps!

this link will be live between 4am and 5am ET

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I would love to see some of you here! I love the poems in this workshop, and I've been told that previous, much shorter versions of it have yielded some published poems by attendees. Only $35 for 3 hours of discussion, notes, prompts, and generative work.

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An ANMLY team member became unhoused last December. He's finally secured a safe place to live, but needs help with his security deposit

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sometimes, I just want to see if I can
still be the poet who hangs the rhyme
on the rims of their lines, rather than
twisting the beats in breaths primed
to express the peel, the oils like a man
I don't want to see most of the time

Oh I really like this idea of the lines as cocktails and the different rhymes as different garnishes

Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their job loss.

The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...

Is there still space left if I share it?

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I have a p(r)o(bl)em

Oh, you can't spell problem without poem

Always a joy to see @landrewhuffman.bsky.social pieces out in the world. They showed me this piece of few months back and it wows me just as much today!
I think I've at least partly been writing towards this piece since I read it. Andrew is one of those friends I think I'm often writing towards!

the desolation of "gone /" and what reads to me as the soft comfort of "/ where I will go." really feel to be like two gravitational forces tugging on each other across that space

Wow, both sides of that break work incredibly. Like in the truth of this grief, they carry the weight of two planets

Thought I was going to write a short little poem tonight and wrote a long little poem

Lol if drive-thru closed is implying what I think it's implying

"all I’m looking for is a little piece of that worship you practice in the little hours"

Dreams that definitely would have been nightmares as a kid are some of my favorite dreams as an adult

Growing up I used to have plenty of nightmares. Those dreams never really stopped but now they feel more like watching a suspense movie.

Amusement parks and fairs are two of the most common settings for my dreams. I can think of maybe a dozen or so amusement park dreams in the last couple months.

I think that vibe is often a bit forlorn but that could be more the feeling of waking up and wanting to be back in the park.

Sending love! The painting on the urn and the way the penny is framed are beautiful.

Sometimes being a creative writing prof is writing stuff like “Really loved this image!” Or “Keep going with this for a few more lines” to things like murder scenes 😂

I love to see my love's books find their way two different corners! I love Jimena and love libraries! Hoping it finds its way to many more!

Most of my poems want to be ghost stories lately.

Ghost stories. Ghost messages. Ghost parties. Ghost symposiums

A little less than a month until this reading!

I need to resist reducing my mom to her death--both in my writing and my memory, which go hand in hand.

I regret to report that I've broken my streak of going to sleep roughly the same time as my partner