🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

Can you also include some Dead Good Poets (and their Literary Societies)? See the Alliance of Literary Societies website for details of societies that work to celebrate the poems and prose of their writers and poets: allianceofliterarysocieties.wordpress.com

After a break, I've started adding to my 7th UK Poets list. Look in my Starter Packs for all 6 lists (see comments)+ to find 900 poets based in the UK. You can browse or follow all on each list so it makes it easier to find people. + link to the thread of above poets bsky.app/starter-pack...

If you're a cis woman and want to add support for the trans + community, please consider signing this. If you're not a woman but want to support, please share this with people. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Please join @janecornwell.bsky.social and me for the launch of my new #Poetry collection, "Held Inside the Folds of Time." Sunday, October 19. 1 PM Easter, 6 PM GMT. #NewBook

Thanks, Hannah -- v. v. delighted to have yours among them!

Celebrating 10 years of publications -- 2022!!! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com @hannahl1n.bsky.social &more!

So proud to have brought this pamphlet out with the wonderful @vpresslit.bsky.social alongside such wonderful poets. Cheering all of their books on too.

If you live near Wells (Somerset) it would be lovely to see you at Wells Fountain poets on Monday (1st September) where I am reading with Tom Sastry. 7pm at the King's Head. wellsfountainpoets.wordpress.com

Always lovely to have a poem replay. Thanks so much. This poem will be in my new pamphlet The Gods of Misrule, due out soon from Stoat Books.

Here is a little interview about grief and writing poetry.

This. www.yourparty.uk/statement

I'm delighted that @atriumpoetry.bsky.social have accepted one of my poems which will be published in November. I've had a long break from submissions so it feels good to have an acceptance from one of my favourite magazines. Thanks @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social

Signed this today. Just awful to think you need to sign a petition against a concentration camp! www.thepetitionsite.com/983/564/587/...

A wonderful opportunity to hear 3 amazing poets launch their new books @ninearchespress.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social and Erica Hesketh. Get tickets before 6pm today.

This is tonight! Still time to grab a ticket. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fen-speak-...

e(i's 2026 BOTN! 🤩 Sharon Denmark, J.L. Moultrie, Daniel Sheen, James Diaz, Christiana Doucette, @dwakaun-known.bsky.social, August Ryan, @djwolfinsohn.bsky.social, & @hannahl1n.bsky.social ! #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #indiemag #indielit #indiepress #litmag

So proud to be included in the nominations. Looking forward to reading my fellow nominees again.

I can see why - great poem..... and a great ending! 🍾🥂

Well that's a nice surprise! the engine(idling have nominated a poem of mine they published last November for Best of the Net. And they sent me a badge: Link to poem in comments. xx

Thanks so much @benbanyard.bsky.social There is a List 7 too now. Hope the starter packs help people find each other. There's also a newsfeed you can pin to your home page to follow posts from people within those lists which @lukejohnemmett.co.uk made & updates regularly: bsky.app/profile/luke...

Terrific poet and curator of definitive #poetry starter packs @hannahl1n.bsky.social deserves a #lifttothesky

I've just come across this wonderful poem by @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social So many great lines and avenues to explore.

Today, in celebration of the No Kings protests yesterday, it's the time to share this wonderful poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89062/... 'America, I Sing You Back' By Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

When I woke yesterday to the horrid news of the shootings, I was very worried for America. Now, there's real hope that the people will succeed in opposing and replacing this regime. Over 12 million is the 3.5% of the population that signifies this is possible, now. Keep going everyone. Inspiring!

NEW: In the last few hours, Minnesota authorities warned people against attending protests, with a killer on the loose. This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. DEFIANCE. 👏 #NoKings #50501Movement (📸 Daviss)

'People Have the Power' 'Use Your Voice'. Brought tears watching protest videos today! So impressed by the courage of people of US today, 5.5 mill & rising, marching even when reps are murdered, injured, roughed up, disrespected & their neighbours, including children, kidnapped. Solidarity & love!

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

🌻 Greta Thunberg being released... the internetWorld is gunna explode on this one c'mon lets make this interview statement Famous!!

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

3 poems for you today because the results of the Charles Causley Competition are in. I don't always agree with judges but all 3 of the winning poems are wonderful & worth your time. Congratulations all of you @carlosaglive.bsky.social and esp @blossoms21.bsky.social for your winning poem:

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

I've taken a few months off posting favourite poems because I've moved twice but then I came across this tonight and it's time to start sharing again. What an amazing poem! www.theshorepoetry.org/dana-wall-th...

Hey @mubashariqbal.com please add: go.bsky.app/4pyhGYA Thanks so much.

My UK Poets List 6 is now full so I'll be starting List 7 soon! Look in my Starter Packs for all 6 lists to find 900 poets based in the UK. You can browse or follow all on each list so it makes it easier to find people. Also will copy links in comments here too. go.bsky.app/7AjfazE

Today, I have a poem published by The Prose Poem in their new 'Word' issue. The poem was shortlisted in their last competition where several of my poems did well. The Mr Green poems are a series where Mr Green mutates into different characters. I, hope you like it. theprosepoem.com/mr-green-thi...

So fascinating! Cleverly written too! 👏✨💠

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Loved it 😊

Today, I have a poem published by The Prose Poem in their new 'Word' issue. The poem was shortlisted in their last competition where several of my poems did well. The Mr Green poems are a series where Mr Green mutates into different characters. I, hope you like it. theprosepoem.com/mr-green-thi...

I'm encouraged to see that the Quakers are continuing to support women's rights. As a cis woman, the attack on trans people has made me feel a lot less safe. Human rights only mean that if they are for all of us. We are in this together.

Anyone?

Alice Notley

400,000 people turned out to protest the Genocide in Palestine by Israel in London today. But the Media won't mention it. Peaceful Protest has been reduced to pointless protest that can be completely ignored, but it makes people feel like they are doing something.

LONDON: Massive Palestine solidarity protest today

Exciting news to share. My 2nd pamphlet,The Gods of Misrule, will be part of a series of five pamphlets Stoat Books will publish in Sept. It felt like the right time to put together some of my political poems (the personal is political but, now more than ever, the political is personal, I feel).

Exciting news to share. My 2nd pamphlet,The Gods of Misrule, will be part of a series of five pamphlets Stoat Books will publish in Sept. It felt like the right time to put together some of my political poems (the personal is political but, now more than ever, the political is personal, I feel).

Please let children in schools and FE colleges know about this peace poetry prize calling for poems of Hope. sites.exeter.ac.uk/pgceenglish/...

One of 42 Labour MPs to break ranks and say they cannot support the government's benefits cuts, Paula Barker says Treasury orthodoxy cannot dictate policy at the expense of constituents www.bigissue.com/opinion/dwp-...