Brooklyn Poets
@brooklynpoets.bsky.social
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Making community and craft accessible to all, in Brooklyn & beyond.
https://brooklynpoets.org/
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: The love poem—for many of us, it was our portal into poetry. In this six-week, in-person workshop with
@ds-waldman.bsky.social
, we'll endeavor toward a more vast & surprising understanding of the love poem as a mode. Register by February 8!
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/e...
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In this five-week, online workshop with Keith S. Wilson, we'll discuss a new kind of visual poetry each week, break down what is happening in the poem and try out the forms ourselves.
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1 day ago
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In this six-week, online workshop with
@rosebudbenoni.bsky.social
, we'll examine how contemporary poets today are redefining the sonnet and write our own sonnets, including the double sonnet, the triple sonnet and finally, our own crown of sonnets.
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
2 days ago
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Join us for the launch of
@chiaradilello.bsky.social
's debut collection, Childless Millennial, on Friday, February 20 at 144 Montague Street and via Zoom! Doors will open at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7 PM. Ashna Ali will open for Di Lello. Book signing to follow.
buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...
3 days ago
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This two-session, generative online workshop with Emily Sernaker will be devoted to close-reading groundbreaking writers from the past—with generative writing prompts based on those readings tailored to help writers of the present.
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/d...
4 days ago
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I know of waterfalls, the long, golden tresses of little girls singing for men and death to thieves who dream of pillaging the treasures of a land — Our
#PoetoftheWeek
, Magdalena Arias Vásquez
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Magdalena Arias Vásquez — Brooklyn Poets
Brooklyn Poets Fellow
https://brooklynpoets.org/community/poet/magdalena-arias-vasquez
5 days ago
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Don’t miss your last chance to explore first books, the poetics of context and the love poem in these workshops with Gbenga Adesina,
@omotarajames.bsky.social
and
@ds-waldman.bsky.social
that have deadlines this week ⏳
brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
6 days ago
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Join us in congratulating our Brooklyn Poets Fellows for the winter 2026 season! 🎉 Congrats as well to our finalists! 👏👏
mailchi.mp/brooklynpoet...
7 days ago
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In this five-week, online workshop with b ferguson, we'll explore what revenge is, how it relates to systemic oppression and the planet and how it can be wielded as a craft tool on the page and in the world. Register:
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/r...
8 days ago
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In this six-week, online workshop with I.S. Jones, we'll tackle the fundamentals of versification and explore how rhythms in our common speech can be placed into metrical patterns as we explore the basics of meter, sound, structure and surprise. Link to register:
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...
8 days ago
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LAST CHANCE to register for this workshop with
@lhiton.bsky.social
! Sliding scale spots still available!
add a skeleton here at some point
9 days ago
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Explore the sonnet, blank verse, the apocalypse, interruption & the hometown with
@rosebudbenoni.bsky.social
,
@joshuamehigan.bsky.social
,
@lara-atallah.bsky.social
,
@robertwoodlynn.bsky.social
&
@geg2us.bsky.social
! We also now have limited sliding scale seats.
brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
11 days ago
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Join us on Friday, Feb. 13 for our next Yawp workshop & open mic led by
@lara-atallah.bsky.social
! Atallah will lead a workshop on apocalyptic poetry drawn from her upcoming five-week workshop, "In the Beginning There Was the End." Get tickets:
buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...
11 days ago
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In this six-week, in-person workshop with Anthony Thomas Lombardi, we'll navigate the synchronous orbit that both our grief and our gratitude follow, using essays from Ross Gay's book Inciting Joy to incite our own joy and harvest hope from our hardships. Link:
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12 days ago
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In this seven-week, generative online workshop with Omotara James, we’ll explore how context reveals meaning, locates the voice, and transforms the poem. Discover how the stories beneath your stories can expand what your poems are able to hold. Register:
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...
13 days ago
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Don’t miss your last chance to explore modernist poetry, the oracular, and the list poem in these workshops with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Lisa Hiton and dawn lonsinger that have deadlines this week ⏳ Learn more and register at:
brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
14 days ago
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In this six-week, generative online workshop with Gbenga Adesina, we’ll study the structures, forms, innovative experiments, styles and influence that make certain great first poetry books so unforgettable. Register:
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/f...
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The First Book Project — Brooklyn Poets
In this six-week, generative online workshop with Gbenga Adesina, we’ll study the structures, forms, innovative experiments, styles and influence that make certain great first poetry books so…
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/first-book-project
15 days ago
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Attention, revisers! In this seven-week, in-person workshop with Tara Skurtu, we'll comprehensively work through all the minute and macro parts of the revision process as we revise our poems to be the best they can be. Register:
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...
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Poetry Workshops — Brooklyn Poets
Build your poetic craft and community in our small, intensive workshops taught by award-winning poets, both online and in person at 144 Montague Street in historic Brooklyn Heights!
https://bit.ly/bkpworkshops
15 days ago
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đź”® In this five-week, generative, in-person workshop with Lisa Hiton, we'll engage with the poetics of exile, metaphysics, the elegiac, the epistolary, and the epigrammatic. đź”® Register at:
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16 days ago
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In this five-week, online workshop with Starr Davis, we’ll treat the poem as both declaration and discovery—a living document of voice, witness, and craft. We’ll study writers who transform testimony into art. Register:
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/w...
17 days ago
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Join us online on Feb. 8 for our first Craft Lab of the year: “Prosody and Its Decolonization” with Jay Deshpande. In this craft lab, we’ll take a more personal approach to prosody, exploring what it can mean to us and why. Sliding scale options between $25-$150!
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17 days ago
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Explore the risk of joy, writers from the past, the basics of verse, revenge & visual poetry with Anthony Thomas Lombardi, Emily Sernaker, I.S. Jones, b ferguson & Keith S. Wilson in these workshops starting in February & March! Register by January 31st to save $15.
brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
17 days ago
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The world doesn’t need more mango diaspora poetry, proclaims a viral tweet. I hit the block button. —Our
#PoetofTheWeek
, Ally Ang (@TheOceanisGay) Ally will be a featured reader for the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series on Friday, January 23rd!
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Ally Ang — Brooklyn Poets
Featured for Reading Series
https://brooklynpoets.org/community/poet/ally-ang
19 days ago
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The love poem. For many of us, it was our portal into poetry. In this six-week, in-person workshop with DS Waldman, we will endeavor toward a more vast and surprising understanding of the love poem as a mode. Register:
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/e...
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What Wears, What Endures: Expanding the Love Poem — Brooklyn Poets
In this six-week, in-person workshop with DS Waldman, we will endeavor toward a more vast and surprising understanding of the love poem as a mode. Through reading, writing and workshopping—we'll work…
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/expanding-the-love-poem
23 days ago
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In this seven-week, generative online workshop with Omotara James, we’ll explore how context reveals meaning, locates the voice, and transforms the poem. Register at:
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...
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The Poetics of Context: Form and Function — Brooklyn Poets
In this seven-week, generative online workshop with Omotara James, we’ll explore how context reveals meaning, locates the voice, and transforms the poem. Discover how the stories beneath your stories…
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/poetics-of-context
24 days ago
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Explore first books, context, the love poem, writing your truth and revision with Gbenga Adesina,
@omotarajames.bsky.social
, DS Waldman, Starr Davis and
@taraskurtu.bsky.social
in these workshops starting in February! Register by January 18th to save $25.
brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
25 days ago
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In this six-week, generative online workshop with Gbenga Adesina, we’ll study the structures, forms, innovative experiments, styles and influence that make certain great first poetry books so unforgettable.
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/f...
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The First Book Project — Brooklyn Poets
In this six-week, generative online workshop with Gbenga Adesina, we’ll study the structures, forms, innovative experiments, styles and influence that make certain great first poetry books so…
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/first-book-project
26 days ago
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I quench my thirst with libations, liquor spilled on club floors. An unknown offering. Pray to me at night, while other gods sleep. —Our
#PoetoftheWeek
, Ugochi Egonu
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Ugochi Egonu — Brooklyn Poets
Bed-Stuy
https://brooklynpoets.org/community/poet/ugochi-egonu
26 days ago
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In this five-week, generative in-person workshop with
@lhiton.bsky.social
we'll engage with the poetics of exile, metaphysics, the elegiac, the epistolary and the epigrammatic to deepen the poet’s relationship to obsession, grief and longing.
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Out of Time: Becoming the Oracle — Brooklyn Poets
In this five-week, generative in-person workshop with Lisa Hiton we'll engage with the poetics of exile, metaphysics, the elegiac, the epistolary and the epigrammatic to deepen the poet’s…
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/becoming-the-oracle
27 days ago
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In this five-week, in-person workshop w/ Kayla Schwab, we'll unpack our relationship "cringe culture" as we learn to embrace sincerity and break down the barriers that keep us from making our most sincere efforts to communicate both on and off the page. Register at
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I am Cringe, but I am Free: Sincerity in Poetry — Brooklyn Poets
In this five-week, in-person workshop with Kayla Schwab, we'll unpack our relationship "cringe culture" as we learn how to embrace sincerity and break down the barriers that keep us from making our…
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/sincerity-in-poetry
30 days ago
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Join us for our first Reading Series of the year at 144 Montague on Friday, January 23, featuring poets
@theoceanisgay.bsky.social
, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado & Emily Skillings! Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Get tickets at
buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...
about 1 month ago
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In this six-week, online workshop w/ dawn lonsinger, we'll enlist listing to inventory our worlds, catalogue our past, imagine our future, explore sameness & difference, divulge how much we need or want & endeavor toward coherence in an otherwise incoherent world.
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Inventorying Our Lives: Writing The List Poem — Brooklyn Poets
In this six-week, online workshop with dawn lonsinger, we'll enlist listing to inventory our worlds, catalogue our past, imagine our future, explore sameness and difference, divulge how much we need…
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/the-list-poem
about 1 month ago
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In this five-week, online workshop with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, we'll become acquainted with the school of Modernist poetry and consider how it might inform and inspire our own poetic practice. Register at
brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/i...
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Intro to Modernist Poetry — Brooklyn Poets
In this five-week, online workshop with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, we'll become acquainted with the school of Modernist poetry and consider how it might inform and inspire our own poetic practice.
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/intro-to-modernist-poetry
about 1 month ago
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Explore modernist poetry, sincerity, the oracular, prose, list poems and more in our first workshops of the season with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Kayla Schwab,
@lhiton.bsky.social
, Sam Cha and dawn lonsinger! Register by January 18th to save $25.
brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
about 1 month ago
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We’re open for winter workshop fellowship applications! Applications are due January 16 at 11:59 PM (US ET). We strongly encourage writers from historically underserved and marginalized communities to apply.
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Fellowships | Apply Now for Opportunities — Brooklyn Poets
Discover Brooklyn Poets' fellowships for aspiring poets from underserved communities. Apply to join our workshops and grow your writing skills.
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshops/fellowships
about 1 month ago
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Early registration is now open for our winter workshops, online and in-person, ft.
@omotarajames.bsky.social
,
@robertwoodlynn.bsky.social
,
@taraskurtu.bsky.social
& more! Through January 18, members save $40 and nonmembers save $25 on all workshops. Register at
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Poetry Workshops — Brooklyn Poets
Build your poetic craft and community in our small, intensive workshops taught by award-winning poets, both online and in person at 144 Montague Street in historic Brooklyn Heights!
https://brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
about 1 month ago
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Join us on Friday, January 9, for our first Yawp of the year (and our first Friday Yawp), featuring poet Wendy Xu! Xu will lead a workshop on “Impossible Forms.”
buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...
about 1 month ago
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LAST CHANCE: Get tickets for our Awards Gala ft. Patricia Smith, Kenny Bradley, Maria Rubio & Gurlie Myricks, Sam Cha, Disha Trivedi,
@recycledgiraffe.bsky.social
, Cornelius Eady,
@eugenialeigh.bsky.social
,
@milleroberman.bsky.social
&
@taraskurtu.bsky.social
.
brooklynpoets.org/support/awar...
2 months ago
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LAST CHANCE: Get tickets for our Awards Gala ft. Patricia Smith, Kenny Bradley, Maria Rubio & Gurlie Myricks, Sam Cha, Disha Trivedi,
@recycledgiraffe.bsky.social
, Cornelius Eady,
@eugenialeigh.bsky.social
,
@milleroberman.bsky.social
&
@taraskurtu.bsky.social
.
brooklynpoets.org/support/awar...
2 months ago
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ONE WEEK until our Awards Gala ft. Patricia Smith as honoree alongside award winners Maria Rubio & Gurlie Myricks, Sam Cha, Disha Trivedi,
@recycledgiraffe.bsky.social
, Cornelius Eady,
@eugenialeigh.bsky.social
,
@milleroberman.bsky.social
&
@taraskurtu.bsky.social
.
brooklynpoets.org/support/awar...
2 months ago
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It’s the FINAL DAY of our fundraising auction ft.
@gabriellebates.bsky.social
,
@chenchenwrites.bsky.social
, Ross Gay, Ariana Reines,
@cathylinhche.bsky.social
,
@taraskurtu.bsky.social
,
@joseolivarez.bsky.social
, Hala Alyan & more! Get your bids in by 10pm ET!
givebutter.com/c/bkp2025/au...
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Brooklyn Poets 2025 End of Year Fundraising Campaign
Help us continue cultivating community and access to poetry across the borough and beyond by supporting our end-of-year fundraising campaign today!
https://givebutter.com/c/bkp2025/auction
2 months ago
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Sang. Her illness rewrote the glass of her house with its books flush with English, a language not hers by birth. When she was younger, and alive, she handed down her first Shakespeare to my child hands. —Our
#PoetoftheWeek
, Disha Trivedi
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Disha Trivedi — Brooklyn Poets
Featured for 2025 Awards Gala
https://brooklynpoets.org/community/poet/disha-trivedi
3 months ago
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We're not saying we can predict the future, but we did plan on celebrating Patricia Smith long before
@nationalbook.bsky.social
crowned her this year’s poetry winner. Will you celebrate with us on December 7? Capacity is limited, get tickets at:
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2025 Awards Gala | Honoring Patricia Smith — Brooklyn Poets
Help us raise funds for our operations, including fellowships, workshops, readings and free programming while celebrating our honoree, award winners, and community members including Patricia Smith,…
https://brooklynpoets.org/support/awards-gala
3 months ago
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we were already in mourning cells bathed in fight or flight having lost everything to bits in battlefields of wind-rain clapping —Our
#PoetoftheWeek
, DorsĂa Smith Silva
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DorsĂa Smith Silva — Brooklyn Poets
Featured for Friday Night Open
https://brooklynpoets.org/community/poet/dorsia-smith-silva
3 months ago
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Join us on Monday, December 1, at 7 PM for the 2025 Yawp Poem of the Year Contest, featuring readings by the winners of Yawp Poem of the Month over the past year contending for our Yawp Poem of the Year Award—decided by audience vote!
buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...
3 months ago
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Our fundraising auction ft. poem feedback, consultations & more from poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Hala Alyan,
@gabriellebates.bsky.social
,
@cathylinhche.bsky.social
,
@chenchenwrites.bsky.social
, Ross Gay,
@joseolivarez.bsky.social
,
@taraskurtu.bsky.social
& more is live!
givebutter.com/c/bkp2025/au...
3 months ago
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“Poetry remakes the future…” – Alice Notley As we wrap up another year in a present insistent on being remade, we need your support to provide the tools poets need to take up their work. Donate to support our work today.
brooklynpoets.org/support/donate
3 months ago
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The Moon is my sister. All her light is second-handed. A letting scar, a cooing wound. My feet are ballrooms filled with gospel, my many organs conspiring to live. —Our
#PoetoftheWeek
, Jasmine Reid
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Jasmine Reid — Brooklyn Poets
Bed-Stuy
https://brooklynpoets.org/community/poet/jasmine-reid
3 months ago
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It's the LAST DAY to apply for our 2026 Mentorship Program with Jay Deshpande!
brooklynpoets.org/workshops/me...
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3 months ago
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Because the worst part of summer in New York City is the subway where the difference between hostility collected on the platform and barren cold in the car is so vicious —Our
#PoetoftheWeek
, Sullivan Summer
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Sullivan Summer — Brooklyn Poets
Featured Reader and Organizer of Adoptee Voices
https://brooklynpoets.org/community/poet/sullivan-summer
3 months ago
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