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books & bends & mountains & healthcare poetsthatsweat.com
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"Dimond’s poetry is emotional, but it’s also playful in a way that we all need as the world weighs heavier each day it seems." I'm celebrating a pain-free 30 minute run this week by revisiting this very fun conversation I had with Malissa Rodenburg - thank you for reading <3
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Writers Who Run: An Interview with Tracy Dimond — Read & Run Tours
Malissa Rodenburg interviews poet Tracy Dimond in this Writers Who Run column.
https://lilac-dolphin-pcde.squarespace.com/blog/writers-who-run-an-interview-with-tracydimond
5 months ago
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Or, to quote my favorite Robert Frost lines, "It takes all sorts of in- and outdoor schooling / to get adapted to my kind of fooling."
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I'd say about 75% of the the time, I'm writing a poem where I'm waiting for someone to be "I see what you did there" and then we laugh together.
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I feel like someone is going to call the EAP for me because I am a middle-aged woman rolling into work blasting the new Olivia Rodrigo: & other poems.
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Baltimore Beat
10 days ago
From clown drag shows to literary readings to hiking groups, Baltimore has an ever-growing queer programming ecosystem
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From clown drag shows to literary readings to hiking groups, Baltimore has an ever-growing queer programming ecosystem
I came into my queerness in earnest during the beginning of the pandemic, and I still think that’s a bit of a shame. Details of my own wobbly and complicated relationship with gender notwithstanding,…
https://baltimorebeat.com/from-clown-drag-shows-to-literary-readings-to-hiking-groups-baltimore-has-an-ever-growing-queer-programming-ecosystem/
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Jen Benka
19 days ago
I'm honored to help share this news and shine a light on the important work being done by literary arts nonprofits to champion writers and reading.
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Nick Sturm
19 days ago
next round of Literary Arts Fund grants opens for application on June 8
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I am so proud of the CityLit Project team ❤
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Literary Arts Fund
19 days ago
The Literary Arts Fund is pleased to announce the recipients of its inaugural general operating grants, 40 nonprofit literary arts organizations and publishers spanning 19 states—from Alaska to Florida—that will receive a combined total of $7.7 million in unrestricted funds.
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Split Lip Magazine
19 days ago
Poetry reader
@arahko.bsky.social
is leaning into the sacred rage of Angry Girl Summer 🔥 Her reading list of poetry collections is published in
@cincinnatireview.bsky.social
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Red Emma’s
21 days ago
Happy pride!
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Baltimore Beat
21 days ago
Mera Kitchen’s new series serves up food as memory, migration, and inheritance
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Mera Kitchen’s new series serves up food as memory, migration, and inheritance
At Mera Kitchen Collective, food has always been more than something to eat. It is memory, migration, and an inheritance; a chronicle of the places that people have left and the loved ones, places,…
https://baltimorebeat.com/mera-kitchens-new-series-serves-up-food-as-memory-migration-and-inheritance/
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I learn a lot from my writing group…including that Joni Mitchell is still alive.
21 days ago
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I am Fiona Apple’s 1997 VMA speech. Anyway, here is a live performance of her that I watched three times on the treadmill this morning.
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I Want You To Love Me – Fiona Apple (Live at The New Yorker Festival 2020 HD)
YouTube video by Fiona Apple Rocks [FAN ACCOUNT]
https://youtu.be/Bpm1AeTVgWk?si=nGjW-x3b5HG5Twdc
27 days ago
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This was my takeaway from The Mandalorian and Grogu.
28 days ago
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Rebecca Solnit
29 days ago
This, always and every day and no matter what, THIS. Right now many things are terrible, they would be a lot more so were there not so many people doing so many things in in hope, in defiance, in solidarity.
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For Pride month, can straight people celebrate by walking faster?
about 1 month ago
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My autoimmune diseases see you
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about 1 month ago
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I like to say “no heroes”, but here I am being shocked by this take from my Polish queen of insane fiction.
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Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel.
In a recent interview (conducted and published in Polish), Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk admitted to using AI in her creative process. The writer Maks Sipowicz, who drew attention to the interv…
https://lithub.com/nobel-laureate-olga-tokarczuk-apparently-used-ai-to-write-her-latest-novel/
about 1 month ago
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Kind of thinking I should be adding collagen to my diet coke so I remember to take the collagen.
about 1 month ago
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All the comms newsletters that have been like "AI will transform your workflow & productivity" for the past 6 months are starting their "buy our service to see how AI is wrecking your strategy" messages.
about 2 months ago
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I don’t regularly check this app, but when I do, I read
@abbyhiggs.bsky.social
updates like a novel.
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about 2 months ago
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Charm City Art Spice
about 2 months ago
Leah and Rahne cordially invite you to the premiere of Leah & Rahne’s Micro Cinema Studio Weds May 13, 7-9pm If you’d like to show your work, let us know! Think of it as a video open mic of short shorts (<5 minutes)
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Stone Cold Jane Austen
about 2 months ago
Here’s what I eat in a day living with imposter syndrome…
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king
about 2 months ago
happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️
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I have talked to a lot of college students this semester, & last night I lived the drafting process I have described: reading through a few years of free writes & collaging 10 poems out of them.
about 2 months ago
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Longtail News
3 months ago
Feed: "Baltimore Fishbowl" By: Tracy Dimond on Wednesday, March 18, 2026
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Read This In the Morning Light: Q&A with Poet Elizabeth Hazen
Elizabeth Hazen talks about her latest poetry collection, "The Sky Will Hold," which will come out in April.
https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/read-this-in-the-morning-light-qa-with-poet-elizabeth-hazen/
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Why yes, I was searching the term “bat poop” today to verify I was spelling guano right for a poem about Carlsbad Cavern.
about 2 months ago
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The vet oncology center that did a bunch of testing for my sweet slug, Bella Swan, told me she was the third kitty with that name they had seen in a week. Which tells me I am one of a sea of millennial gals that is either obsessed with Kristen Stewart and/or vampires with an aging cat.
2 months ago
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Charm City Art Spice
3 months ago
today's first song of the day is "l.i.v.e. n.o.w." by eze jackson
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L.I.V.E. N.O.W.
YouTube video by Eze Jackson
https://youtu.be/144y2WRNhw0?si=3Ou6dYi7fkIcwBze
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When visiting a group of MICA students, I was asked what I would do differently with EMOTION INDUSTRY now. I explained that I would write outside of the male gaze, which I am doing more of now, by framing my writing in geology.
3 months ago
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2 poem warning, 2 song warning - it crosses genre.
3 months ago
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Ok so the only positive thing that comes with a chronic illness that impacts my energy levels is the time change doesn’t really bother me. Another day, same fatigue!!
4 months ago
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Road my bike down in the rain to the convention center yet someone said YOUR HAIR LOOKS GREAT while walking in to AWP so anyway I am feeling good!!!
4 months ago
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If you are looking for local music to get hype for
#awp26
, make it Dapper Dan Midas’s BEAUTIFUL GOWNS album. It’s Baltimore club, alternative, dance, rap - SO GOOD.
4 months ago
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The morning birds are finally out again.
4 months ago
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Always Crashing
4 months ago
Readings by Joe Sacksteder Rachel Zavecz David Leo Rice /
@raviddice.bsky.social
Suzanne Gold Tracy Dimond Robert Kloss /
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Whitney Koo Erica Stern /
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MC Hyland Kate Wyer Jen Dary Performance by Luna Honey
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Always Crashing
4 months ago
Baltimore / Saturday, March 7th / 5-7pm Metro Gallery / 1700 N Charles St. Always Crashing /
@meeklingpress.bsky.social
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Stone Cold Jane Austen
over 2 years ago
“Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.”
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As Endometriosis Awareness Month approaches, this essay of mine published by
@yellowarrowpub.bsky.social
is the best way I can describe the experience being unheard as a patient.
www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/vignette/bla...
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Studying Weeds | Tracey Dimond — Yellow Arrow Publishing
Yellow Arrow Vignette | AWAKEN
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/vignette/blaze-2025-dimond-studying-weeds
4 months ago
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Since most platforms have implemented LLMs over the past year, the search function within them has been drunk. I am searching for a phrase in email & none of the words I typed are highlighted. Is there specific research on this? I’ve read about “enshittification” - this feels like part of that.
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Endometriosis should be a nationally recognized disability under the ADA.
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She filed a discrimination lawsuit for endometriosis. She won.
Cece Worley was refused accommodations in her workplace for symptoms of endometriosis, a common reproductive condition affecting 1 in 10 women.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2026/02/18/ada-workplace-discrimination-lawsuit-endometriosis-womens-health/88729714007/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAQEZMtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeMG1RogiNfx9UqcPM8nKzIV1Vj1d5GjiO8ME6ceUxohEx2S1-u4E_h2sn0Kc_aem_FNs_NfexYVoY88xElhRxmw
4 months ago
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UPDATE: I immediately put I LOVE YOU, BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS on hold at the library.
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4 months ago
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Why use AI when you can make a lamb stew for the first time.
4 months ago
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Barrelhouse
4 months ago
Writer Camp is open for applications! This year we'll be camping June 25-28 and Aug 5-Aug 9. Affordable, fun, supportive gathering for people who want to write and hang with other writers, and maybe watch some movies at night &maybe play laser tag if it's raining
www.barrelhousemag.com/writer-camp
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Barrelhouse Writer Camp — Barrelhouse
Barrelhouse Writer Camp is short, laid-back writing retreat in central Pennsylvania.
https://www.barrelhousemag.com/writer-camp
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Sherrilyn Ifill
4 months ago
STOP THE SAVE ACT. Call your Senators. 202-224-3121
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Taniel
5 months ago
if you're looking to learn about what are some of the lowest-hanging fruits in terms of local elections in places that directly help ICE, this is for you:
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil
5 months ago
I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101
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Finished a crossword last night & one of the words was “arid”, which I can’t stop thinking about now. It reminds me of Claire Vaye Watkins writing.
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"Dimond’s poetry is emotional, but it’s also playful in a way that we all need as the world weighs heavier each day it seems." I'm celebrating a pain-free 30 minute run this week by revisiting this very fun conversation I had with Malissa Rodenburg - thank you for reading <3
tinyurl.com/4k4t952d
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Writers Who Run: An Interview with Tracy Dimond — Read & Run Tours
Malissa Rodenburg interviews poet Tracy Dimond in this Writers Who Run column.
https://lilac-dolphin-pcde.squarespace.com/blog/writers-who-run-an-interview-with-tracydimond
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Dave Housley
5 months ago
When I was writing ALIENS ATTACK! I didn't think it was book about real life but here we are, under attack, so I guess even though there are zeppelin shaped UFOs shooting lasers at Troy and Lelaina from Reality Bites, this is a book about right now. Also on sale!
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