Austin Allen
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If I were elected comptroller, my inaugural speech would start, "Well, well, well. I guess you people just couldn't comptrol yourselves."
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Happy 2026...?
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Timothy Snyder
12 days ago
People are dying inside American concentration camps right now.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
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Exclusive: 911 calls from migrant detention center highlight dire conditions
About 90 emergency 911 calls have been made from the Camp East Montana immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, during the 15 weeks since it opened.
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2025/12/20/911-calls-from-camp-east-montana-detention-center-highlight-dire-conditions/87792917007/
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The New York Times
13 days ago
“I carried him on my back. It took seven days.” A camp in eastern Chad is now home to more than 100,000 refugees of Sudan’s civil war, and is a key destination for those fleeing El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State. Resources are strained as the number of newly displaced people increases.
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Escape From the Abyss: Surviving the Atrocities in El Fasher
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/world/africa/sudan-el-fasher-refugees-chad.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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This reading's going to be excellent - mark your calendar:
www.folger.edu/whats-on/the...
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The 2026 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/the-2026-anthony-hecht-poetry-prize-reading/
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"Verse was a special illness of the ear"
www.babelmatrix.org/works/en/Aud...
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Babel Web Anthology :: Auden, W. H.: Rimbaud
https://www.babelmatrix.org/works/en/Auden,_W._H.-1907/Rimbaud
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"We write to you today as concerned poets, educators, and members of the poetry community, regarding the Poetry Foundation's intent to lay off longtime staff members Shoshana Olidort and Maggie Queeney...we strongly urge [PF] to reverse its decision and retain them."
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12/15/2025 No Layoffs at the Poetry Foundation
December 15, 2025 To the Senior Leadership of the Poetry Foundation: We write to you today as concerned poets, educators, and members of the poetry community, regarding the Poetry Foundation’s inte...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KirFdt0SKOLu3g5ZBCAd7nlAyQo6WlyYAvGRqFePi_0/edit?tab=t.0
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Anna Lena
2 months ago
Might Could has a cover! Designed by the lovely Philip Hoy, with artwork by Amber Cowan. Thanks to Waywiser Books—can't wait to share this book with y'all. ❤
www.waywiserbooks.org/coming-soon
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
23 days ago
The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Gift-giving season is here. Do you know someone who enjoys poetry? Typography? Travel? Saudade? French cosmology? Limestone statues in labyrinths? Gondolas? Rendezvous? This book might be for them:
www.powells.com/book/the-tra...
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The Travels of Blad J. Garamond: In Search of Geneviève Sans-Serif | Powell's Books
The Travels of Blad J. Garamond: In Search of Geneviève Sans-Serif is a novel in verse and a swashbuckling saga in the grand old style. It chronicles the feverish romantic entanglements of three frien...
https://www.powells.com/book/the-travels-of-blad-j-garamond-in-search-of-genevieve-sans-serif-9781939574411?condition=New
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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation
about 1 month ago
"Carried her unprotesting out the door. Kicked back the casket-stand. But it can't hold her, That stuff and satin aiming to enfold her, The lid's contrition nor the bolts before." Gwendolyn Brooks died 25 years ago on this day.
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Gwendolyn Brooks - "the rites for Cousin Vit"
Carried her unprotesting out the door.
https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/the-rites-for-cousin-vit
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Katherine Robinson
11 months ago
One of my
#Shetland
stories, set at the height of Shetland's arctic whaling. About a whaling marriage, the winter solstice, and trowies (Shetland trolls). Thank you so much to
@northamerreview.bsky.social
for publishing this one.
northamericanreview.org/open-space/f...
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Hollow Hills | North American Review
https://northamericanreview.org/open-space/fiction-katherine-robinson
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Ben Fletcher-Watson
about 1 month ago
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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"Autumn eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends."
www.artofeurope.com/celan/cel2.htm
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Celan - Corona
https://www.artofeurope.com/celan/cel2.htm
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"To push an idea through a rhyme-pattern feels like straining fruit through muslin, and it often emerges refined, sharpened and about 50 per cent lighter." —
@dharmabam.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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A. E. Stallings
about 1 month ago
Adversarial poems!
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Poets & Writers
about 1 month ago
A round of applause for the 2025
#NBAwards
winner in Poetry: Patricia Smith for The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems.
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Nimrod Journal
about 2 months ago
If you weren’t able to join us for the 2025 Literary Prize presentation, you can view it here. An inspiring double reading! Our thanks to our winners and judges, including
@talianeffson.bsky.social
,
@nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social
, and
@randallmann.bsky.social
!
youtube.com/watch?v=r53p...
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2025 Nimrod Literary Awards Reading
YouTube video by Nimrod International Journal
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r53pG1GIfFw
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It's an honor to have 2 poems in this month's issue of Poetry magazine. Thanks to the Poetry editors for featuring them, and providing the opportunity to record them. "Arrival in Montpellier":
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"The Last Catalogue":
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
about 2 months ago
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Nimrod Journal
about 2 months ago
Please join us on Friday, November 14, at 2pm CST, to celebrate and hear the winners of NIMROD’s annual literary awards, Michael Lavers and Talia Neffson, with judges Randall Mann and Nancy Jooyoun Kim. Zoom address in post below.
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The New Yorker
about 2 months ago
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Attention: this exists
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBkm...
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Helena Bonham Carter: This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams
YouTube video by Pan Macmillan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBkmq4NNYbc
about 2 months ago
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Derrick Austin
5 months ago
Wild that there aren’t more Tennessee Williams revivals considering how miserably hot life will be now. We are all of us sweaty and slightly unwell
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Don Paterson
3 months ago
Wrote something on Harrison & class. Also scansion. But remember the first rule of Foot Club.
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Tony Harrison's 'Study'
Don Paterson on the best room
https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/tony-harrisons-study?r=yya9e&utm_medium=ios
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Bad Lilies
about 2 months ago
'Dissent at the Temple of Gemini' by
@austinwriting.bsky.social
badlilies.uk/austin-allen-2
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Eric McHenry
about 2 months ago
As long as I’ve got my laptop and summer breaks, no urban legend is safe.
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Gone Fishin’ - The American Scholar
Could two famous rivermen really have met their end while grappling giant fish in a Kansas river?
https://theamericanscholar.org/gone-fishin/
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“But for him it was not an important failure”
about 2 months ago
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Alina Stefanescu
2 months ago
"Through his mode of life...Diogenes exposes himself absolutely to domination, to murder. He can be crushed like a snail is crushed underfoot. He can be broken, reduced to pieces. He can be exiled and tortured. But he cannot be governed." Catherine Malabou on Diogenes. No notes.
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A. E. Stallings
2 months ago
Doing this soon:
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Grateful to
@kathryngray.bsky.social
and
@andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social
for including my narrative poem "Dissent at the Temple of Gemini" in the new issue of Bad Lilies. Enjoy, and please do yourself the favor of reading the full issue!
www.badlilies.uk/austin-allen-2
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Austin Allen — Bad Lilies
A poem by Austin Allen
https://www.badlilies.uk/austin-allen-2
2 months ago
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If you're eagerly seeking a copy of The Travels of Blad J. Garamond: In Search of Geneviève Sans-Serif (and I know you are), why not try Powell's Books? Special thanks to the good folks at
@powells.bsky.social
for helping ensure the "è" rendered correctly!
www.powells.com/book/the-tra...
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The Hecht Prize contest is open through Dec. 1. Poets, send your manuscripts!
www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...
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Eric McHenry
3 months ago
Sonnet in The London Magazine!
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Brendan Nyhan
3 months ago
Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game. That's why universities and law firms and nonprofits can't let themselves be picked off one by one.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
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Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/opinion/trump-universities-compact-civil-society.html
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Eric McHenry
3 months ago
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Today marks the official launch of my new poetry confection, THE TRAVELS OF BLAD J. GARAMOND:
www.measurepress.com/measure/cata...
3 months ago
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Shane McCrae
5 months ago
It's nice to be reminded that the iambic pentameter line is one of the most beautiful things to have ever existed.
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I have a new book coming out next month. It's called THE TRAVELS OF BLAD J. GARAMOND, it's a comic romance (a com-rom?), and it's available for preorder:
www.measurepress.com/measure/cata...
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Measure Press :: The Travels of Blad J. Garamond
https://www.measurepress.com/measure/catalog/books/travels-blad-j-garamond
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Paisley Rekdal
4 months ago
I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
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Opinion | How I Ran Afoul of the Air Force Academy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/opinion/poet-air-force-academy-cancellation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kk8.lED8.CTLOWPvxy6L0&smid=url-share
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V. Penelope Pelizzon
4 months ago
Waywiser Books, the 501(3)(c) US-based successor to the UK's venerable Waywiser Press, is now running the 21st Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, to be judged by A.E. Stallings. Deadline December 1, 2025. We want to read your poems!
www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...
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The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize — Waywiser Books
https://www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-hecht-poetry-prize
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Writerfolk: the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize contest opens tomorrow. Poets with no more than one published full-length collection are eligible. A. E. Stallings will be this year's judge. Send your work!
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Back for a spell.
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