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Erin Coughlin Hollowell
6 months ago
This is a gift. Please listen. Thank you,
@marthasilano.bsky.social
and all the people who made this. This is what poetry is meant to do.
on.soundcloud.com/XTmZu7ri42aS...
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Martha Silano | Once
Strangers on the streets of Seattle and New York read Martha Silano's poem
https://on.soundcloud.com/XTmZu7ri42aSB5aD9
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Nikita Gill
6 months ago
Oh this hurt. By the brilliant Tess Gallagher.
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Natalie Solmer
6 months ago
Martha Silano in The Indianapolis Review Winter Issue 2025. Read the full poem here
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Poetry Daily
7 months ago
Today's Feature: In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Readers Write Back, and in honor of National Poetry Month, we've asked our readers to tell us about poems from Poetry Daily that have inspired them. Read here:
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Our Readers on Poems from <em>Poetry Daily</em>
A collection of our readers' responses to their favorite poems from our archive.
https://poems.com/features/what-sparks-poetry/our-readers-on-our-poems/
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Claire Wahmanholm
10 months ago
I'll be honest, 2024 was one of my roughest years in memory, so getting this call last month was a tremendous gift and honor ❤️ I hope programs like this--that celebrate art + science together, as both feel increasingly precarious--will continue into this future
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ANNOUNCING THE 2025 SCIENCE + LITERATURE SELECTED TITLES
The National Book Foundation (NBF) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today announced selected titles for the fourth year of the Science + Literature program, made possible by a three-year, $525,000 r...
https://www.nationalbook.org/announcing-the-2025-science-literature-titles/
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil
11 months ago
Knockout all your holiday shopping (free gift wrap too!) with helping indie bookstores like
squarebooks.com
. Bonus— I’ll calligraph any name you want too— just be sure to include that info in the “notes” section when you order. Indie booksellers are the heartbeat of any town!
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Grant Clauser
7 months ago
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Get To Know Nature
7 months ago
A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker demonstrating some impressive camouflage. I heard it tapping away well before I saw it.
#birds
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Poetry Daily
7 months ago
Today's Featured Poem: "Stony Sleep" by Dan Albergotti, from Candy, published by LSU Press. Read here:
poems.com/poem/stony-s...
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Stony Sleep
We huddled together in the waning sunlight and pulled a blanket of ash up to our chins.
https://poems.com/poem/stony-sleep/
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Atena O. Danner
7 months ago
“Once you learn to write, you are forever freeing someone else.” — Tayari Jones, Black Words Are Black Wealth
#AWP25
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Sean Thomas Dougherty
8 months ago
One from Not All Saints, winner of the 2019 Bitter Oleander Poetry Prize. "I am not trying to say anything I fear except now it is the dog days of summer where we eat & sweat, & inside my chest is a church wall, somewhere to pray,"
www.versedaily.org/2020/thesing...
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https://www.versedaily.org/2020/thesingingwreckofus.shtml
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River River Books
8 months ago
Our
#AWP25
coupon code is live for folks dreaming of book sales and wandering the bookfair aisles…simply enter AWP25 at checkout to receive 25% off our poetry titles, and have them shipped to you 🌊 🌊📚💙
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Could it really be a mushroom, the false morel, causes ALS? Sheeeet, it's so likely I ate some of those over the years. Also, painters and mechanics have a higher risk ~
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@theatlantic.com
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An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps
In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/als-outbreak-montchavin-mystery/682096/
8 months ago
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Han VanderHart
8 months ago
Authors sharing new publications: post links and alt text! 💙💙💙 We want to read your things, we really do. 📚
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Sarabande Books
8 months ago
ANNOUNCING a new essay collection by
@tracibrimhall.bsky.social
, THE GRIEF ARTIST, coming fall 2026! Get excited!! 💫
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pumpkin spice Toddé
8 months ago
I think if someone invented the sestina today they would be murdered
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pumpkin spice Toddé
8 months ago
who are the five traumas that made you a confessional poet
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SarahJSloat
8 months ago
Happy beginning of spring, I guess. Almost done with my re-read of "Swann's Way," the James Grieve translation, and you can bet I will be doing a new flower collage with the blooms inside. Funny and kind of wonderful how different translations don't align on flower names.
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River River Books
8 months ago
Find your copy of Pastoral, 1994, which contains so many elegies for American life, here:
riverriverbooks.org/store/Pastor...
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Han VanderHart
9 months ago
Oh hey guess who decided to show up. 💌
www.ohioswallow.com/978082142591...
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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦
8 months ago
When your government cracks down on higher education, it should sound alarm bells. Fun fact: 21% of Americans are illiterate. 54% are at or below sixth grade level. While China’s literacy rate is 97%
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
8 months ago
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
8 months ago
Things It Is Possible To Do: 1. Love people/community & critique their choices. 2. Critique people/community without character assassinations. 3. Accept critiques of choices/actions as an invitation to grow. 4. Create boundaries with people/community without causing harm. 5. Change your mind/stance
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I meant to type “Cosmos and cats are my security blankets” and it changed to “Cosmos and cats are my sexier Oct.” Hope you all have sexier Octs!! (Is there any way to stop the madness?)
8 months ago
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Whale Road Review
8 months ago
Issue 38 features work by
@jpdancingbear.bsky.social
@devminor.bsky.social
@medenkuyatt.bsky.social
and many more wonderful writers!
www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-38/
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Issue 38
Spring 2025 Poetry & Short Prose Ceremony for a Friend Leaving TownEmily Rose Cole The Year of the Crane FlyJ. P. Dancing Bear Glass Animal CollectionSuzy Eynon My High School Teacher Tells Me …
https://www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-38/
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Wendy Wisner
12 months ago
Wanted to introduce myself. I'm a poet and health journalist. My third book, The New Life, just came out with Cornerstone Press. As the mom of queer kid and a lover of humanity, I've been super depressed/terrified these past few days. Hoping to find some light in the literary community here.
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danielle weisberg
8 months ago
I know I’ve been screaming about this forever but the Department of Education is why kids with disabilities go to school. Without federal funding, schools do not have the means nor requirements to tend to kids with disabilities. This also removes the ability for all kids to have equitable schooling.
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Omg, can this be real or have I gone to heaven? After 50 years of being a published poet, my poems are up at
poets.org
!
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Home
Home The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.
https://poets.org
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@grinnellcollege.bsky.social
did a story about this gal whose favorite poem is the one she hasn’t yet written!
alumni.grinnell.edu/news/martha-...
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Martha Silano ’83 - Grinnell College
Diagnosed with ALS in 2023, Seattle poet Martha Silano ’83 continuously immerses herself in reading, research, and of course, writing.
https://alumni.grinnell.edu/news/martha-silano-83
8 months ago
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Jill Kitchen
10 months ago
Dreams do come true. The amazing team at
@splitlipthemag.bsky.social
chose my poem "in a parallel universe, there is nothing i cannot do" for this month's issue. I am still pinching myself. Thank you so much to the brilliant editors & readers.
splitlipthemag.com/poetry/0125/...
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Crazy shit going on in our country.
#understatement
8 months ago
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Black Earth Institute
8 months ago
"In Just Labor, Laura-Gray Street explores the often-overlooked role of women and femininity in the historical struggle for dignity in work." Forthcoming 3/27
@awpwriter.bsky.social
#AWP2025
, booth 1118 ➡️
@elegystreet.bsky.social
is a
#BlackEarthInstitute
Fellow.
www.press53.com/poetry-colle...
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Just Labor: Poems — Press 53
by Laura-Gray Street Silver Concho Poetry Series edited by Pamela Uschuk and William Pitt Root Publication date: March 27 at AWP (booth 1118) ISBN: 978-1-950413-96-6 9 × 6 softcover,...
https://www.press53.com/poetry-collections/just-labor-poems
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Well, this sure is making my day! Thanks to
@acrebooks.bsky.social
(publisher of TERMINAL SURREAL, 09-02-2025), &
@suzannematson.bsky.social
for making this special feature happen!
www.postroadmag.com/2025/03/02/s...
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- Post Road Magazine
Six Poemsby Martha Silano When I’m on the Bed called death, I hopeto be thinking aboutthe texture of the bucatiniat Campiello, how they seated usin the bar by the pizza cooks, but when we asked to sit...
https://www.postroadmag.com/2025/03/02/six-poems-by-martha-silano/
8 months ago
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Suzanne Matson
8 months ago
We’re so honored to be featuring six Martha Silano poems in a POST ROAD web exclusive!
www.postroadmag.com/2025/03/02/s...
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- Post Road Magazine
Six Poemsby Martha Silano When I’m on the Bed called death, I hopeto be thinking aboutthe texture of the bucatiniat Campiello, how they seated usin the bar by the pizza cooks, but when we asked to sit...
https://www.postroadmag.com/2025/03/02/six-poems-by-martha-silano/
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Ann E Michael
8 months ago
I'll be reading in Lambertville, NJ this Thursday, with Grant Clauser, Douglas Piccinnini, and Paul Ilechko.
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Aaron Rupar
8 months ago
We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap
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Brandel France de Bravo
8 months ago
Today's the official pub day for my new book of poems, Locomotive Cathedral (Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska Press). The portrait of René ("my crow") is by Bill Smith.
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Cody Walker
9 months ago
Happy to announce our 2025 Bear River Writers' Conference faculty! Hope to see some of you in Northern Michigan in late August . . .
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Acre Books
8 months ago
Now through March 14, our pandemic releases are discounted! Details below.
#booksky
#sale
#amreading
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Alina Stefanescu
12 months ago
Dear humans, Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to
@sarabandebooks.bsky.social
and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
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My Heresies, Alina Stefanescu — SARABANDE BOOKS
Pre-order only. Available April 2025. Behold My Heresies : the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, b...
https://www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p/my-heresies-alina-stefanescu
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Leah Umansky
12 months ago
Eternally grateful for this review of OF TYRANT over at Publishers Weekly. Link in bio
#oftyrant
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Bonnie Jo Campbell
8 months ago
Reading to my donkeys Martha Silano's poem, On the Outside.
@marthasilano.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/shorts/jbmOh...
Forgive me for being off at the beginning, but the husb doesn't want to record me again, so I hope it's okay.
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Martha Silano's poem "On the Outside" with Donkeys #donkey #poetrylovers #poetry #Marthasilano
YouTube video by Bonnie Jo Campbell
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jbmOhR1WRsg
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Susan Blackwell Ramsey
over 1 year ago
“… us: opposite of stilted, … tourmaline and topaz, main-squeezing quartz, or let’s math it: tight quarters equal high-frequency vibrations.” Swoon.
#SealeyChallenge
Day 4. Martha Silano, Reckless Lively.
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A Quiet Root
over 1 year ago
"What can I say? I make a pretty bad cadaver? That it will take turning me into ash or compost to get me to stop obsessing about the next thing on my list?" Martha Silano is a gem, so much humor and heart.
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Martha Silano: I’m Not So Good at Corpse Pose
We’ve just woken from the dead, having been in deep rest, when she rouses us with a clanging bell
https://voxpopulisphere.com/2024/01/29/martha-silano-im-not-so-good-at-corpse-pose/
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11 months ago
Powerful poem "Self-Elegies" By Martha Silano
#poetry
#poem
#poems
#poets
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Self-Elegies
I wouldn’t press myself into a grief box, but I will confess I’m happiest under a sleeping sky, love the darkness like I loved to run through old-growth Doug firs and cedars. It’s the never-leaving pa...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1626393/self-elegies?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR15JE2pJFGsuNEroVB48dmNVRZEUIiwqID0y5e8E0oJJc56F7Ohv711lYE_aem_T6CCoOcl7FRr1kAc1a59vw
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David Graham
11 months ago
If you've got 14 minutes, you *should* watch this video, "Poetry is Not a Luxury," with Martha Silano and her wonderful poems and bright spirit.
vimeo.com/1033914328/f...
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Poetry is not a Luxury featuring Martha Silano
Martha Silano v9.1
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Alina Stefanescu
over 4 years ago
"but it was the single rose bud from the yard’s way back he placed in a small blue vase that won her over and over. Theirs was a language with a grammar and syntax I could not parse, key words omitted, place-holdered." - @marthasilano
https://coupletpoetry.com/martha-silano/
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Martha Silano – Couplet Poetry
https://coupletpoetry.com/martha-silano/
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The Management of This Cinema Welcomes You
over 1 year ago
𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝗜 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 by Martha Silano a box of frogs arrived one day at our front door, special delivery? My dad had ordered them. Laboratory frogs, he called them. Said they were ours; we could let them loose in a kiddie pool in the basement;
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