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Queer Poet & Writer. PhD. Widow/Suicide Loss Survivor. YOUR DAZZLING DEATH (Knopf, 2024).
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Cable Street
9 days ago
We published this fascinating review of “Your Dazzling Death”—the book by Cass Donish
@cassdonish.bsky.social
reviewed by Jeannine Pitas
@janinalapapita.bsky.social
💙📚Neat twist: Pitas translated a book by the poet Marosa di Giorgio that inspired Donish’s work.
cablestreet.org/issue-10-tab...
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Translating Grief - Cable Street
Your Dazzling Death by Cass Donish and its connection to Marosa di Giorgio’s Historial de las violetas About three years ago, I received an email with what seemed an unusual request. Acclaimed US poet...
https://cablestreet.org/issue-10-table-of-contents/remarkable-reads/translating-grief/
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The Slowdown
25 days ago
"Today’s poem articulates grief in a way I admire so deeply," host Maggie Smith shares in today's episode of The Slowdown, number 1413. Read “On Proliferation” by
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— from their book YOUR DAZZLING DEATH — and our full episode transcript:
bit.ly/3YweJGB
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Workshops4Gaza
4 months ago
New to ouronline bookstore. All proceeds donated to the Sameer Project’s medical campaign:
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[W4G] Berger, Dan: Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
University of North Carolina Press, paperback Publication Date: March 15, 2016 Publisher Marketing:In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activi...
https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-berger-dan-captive-nation-black-prison-organizing-in-the-civil-rights-era
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Anna Vangala Jones
6 months ago
need a writing residency in an enchanted diner with magical coffee & cigarettes that aren’t bad for you
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George Monbiot
6 months ago
Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.
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Sean Thomas Dougherty
7 months ago
Lots of good work in the new Diode, including new poems by Andrew Robin, Aaron Caycedo-Kimura. Mellissa Fite Johnson, Cass Donish and Ephraim Scott Summers and much more.
diodepoetry.com
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volume 18 number 2
diode poetry journal : volume 18 number 2
http://diodepoetry.com/
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Rabih Alameddine
9 months ago
You, Emblazoned by Cass Donish
www.divasofverse.com/2025/04/you-...
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You, Emblazoned by Cass Donish
You, Emblazoned for Kelly Caldwell (1988–2020) Yet your voice was here — just there-here in our house, shining ...
http://www.divasofverse.com/2025/04/you-emblazoned-by-cass-donish.html
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William Shakespeare
6 months ago
The evil that men do lives after them
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I need to start coming here more often! Hello! Some big news today—I’m so so honored to be named a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award 💜💜💜 & in such good company of present & past finalists & winners 🌈🕯️✨
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Celeste Ng
11 months ago
Okay, I cannot recommend
5calls.org
enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
https://5calls.org/
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Stephanie Powell
about 1 year ago
Best books of 2024! *Cass Donish *Bernardine Evaristo *Scott Preston *Yael van der Wouden *Megan Nolan *Ruthvika Rao *Kate Foster *Isabella Hammad
#booknerd
#bookish
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Chantal James
about 1 year ago
I may need mutual aid soon because I gave others mutual aid, but I don’t regret that because their needs were going unmet & I had the capacity to contribute at that time, & if resources need to be redistributed to me because I redistributed resources, that’s the point of mutual aid.
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Alexander Chee
about 1 year ago
Support your local academic libraries, which are already being targeted for reduction or removal by campus administrators.
truthout.org/articles/fac...
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Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize
As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.
https://truthout.org/articles/facing-cuts-likely-to-worsen-under-trump-academic-librarians-urgently-organize/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0Zc491s7cOMwNkKmmzcgWzK4jNe5zWc79Ji2N9BxTCId-zQ0Alsk4y4OE_aem_kBJa4MEj_lUo8dAbAF_dNA
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Reading in Kansas City on September 23 with the lovely Ruth Williams!
over 2 years ago
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Could "carecore" be a genre? I want it to be.
over 2 years ago
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Barrelhouse
over 2 years ago
Reminder that we are currently open for submissions for a new online issue on LATINX MONSTERS, guest edited by our friend Ofelia Montelongo. Fiction, poetry, nonfiction. We pay $50, no sub fee. We'd like this to run in late Oct. so we're moving quickly on it. Full details:
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Barrelhouse - Latine Monsters Issue
Thanks for submitting your work to Barrelhouse! Before you proceed, a note about open and closed categories. If you don't see the category that fits your work, we're not open for that thing. We keep...
https://barrelhouse.submittable.com/submit/271895/latine-monsters-issue
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Ilana Masad
over 2 years ago
the bar is so low that whenever a cis man is actually really lovely i'm delighted, as if i've found a rare gem
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Jesse Lee Kercheval
over 2 years ago
Our talk yesterday at the Universidad de Chile Austral about Flores raras, our anthology of 55 Uruguayan women poets born between 1783 and 1939!
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Dr. Han VanderHart
over 2 years ago
“…we all overflow; we all feel in abundance of something, but sometimes it’s just the emptiness: vacant page, busy signal, radio static, implacable repeat rut where the tone arm reaches across a spinning vinyl record to play it again…” —Erika Meitner, from Useful Junk (BOA, 2022) #poetry
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Alexander Chee
over 2 years ago
“Are you surprised” political discourse makes it seem like the point of politics is whether one is sufficiently cynical and not whether one is defending the rights or policies in danger—a stance which only supports the status quo.
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Surprise lilies, Lycoris squamigera, popping up all over town after the storms. Also known as resurrection lilies or naked ladies. #FlowerReport from Columbia, Missouri 🌷
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Mattilda B Sycamore
over 2 years ago
“When my hand hits the keyboard I’m lying.” —Eileen Myles, FOR NOW
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Back home in Columbia, MO after getting to teach with these amazings in Ohio for a week.
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