Chelsea Dingman, "Microchimerism" @chelsdingman.bsky.social

Taught John Balaban’s great poem “A Finger” to my students this morning. I can’t think of a poem that captures the immediate, terrible aftermath of living through the events of September 11th more movingly. Here it is: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152030...

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

We go on. We do not turn back. The world becomes so small we can fit it into a handshake, into a glance cast across the room, a finger raised to the lips. Everyone’s fingers are crossed behind their backs. ‘Then the Fog’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Everyone who's alive should be reading Essex Hemphill "Who dares to tell us we are poor and powerless? We keep treasure any king would count as dear."

Last day of summer and reflecting on the grim weather, this came to mind. The worst that could happen me today is that I got a little bit wet. This is weather on a different scale. 'Katrina' by Patricia Smith, from Blood Dazzler #poetry #poemoftheday

The grasses are light brown and ocean comes in long shimmering lines under the fleet from last night which dozes now in the early morning from "September" by Joanne Kyger buff.ly/2BU7N9S

Bhanu Kapil

Ellen Bryant Voigt

For TERMINAL SURREAL's video trailer, we're creating a chorus of voices reflecting #MarthaSilano's influence. To participate, record yourself reading Silano's “Death Poem” w/a voice memo/recorder app on your phone & email us at [email protected] for where to text the file. Due: Fri., Aug 22.

—D. Nurkse

"It was starlike, the small, reflective slug crouched in its own echolucent shine." #TodaysPoem #poetry ER S/P GSW by Paul Hlava Ceballos (@paulhlava.bsky.social‬) (2023 Academy of American Poets) tinyurl.com/yancmncz

Hi poetry reviewers, writers, readers: here’s a document I made of paying reviews markets. Holler at me if you see something that needs to be updated/deleted/added! 🙏 I would appreciate it. Would love this to be a community resource for freelance writers to be paid for their criticism.

"It's like a PhD in every field!" "Can it reliably do college-level work, such as accurately identifying and summarizing pertinent information?" "No." "So what is really does is sound like an expert to people who aren't experts in that field?" "Yeah! That's what everyone wants, right?"

Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it

Larissa Szporluk

For @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Day #11 The Brush (2024) by Eliana Hernandez-Pachon, Columbian poet. A striking narrative long poem, documenting a rural atrocity through different POV: witnesses, investigators, victims & nature itself. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social

Lucie Brock-Broido

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Audre Lorde, from “Difference and Survival”

Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.

Audre Lorde

Chloe Honum 💙 from THE LANTERN ROOM (Tupelo Press) “The stars come out; / in what tense they shine, I’ve never been clear.” Day 8 - #SealeyChallenge @tupelopress.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

Malena Mörling

Dean Young 💙 from BENDER: NEW & SELECTED POEMS (Copper Canyon Press) “Even the wind contradicts itself. // Nothing can be fixed.” Day 7 - #SealeyChallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

Moon Bo Young translated by Hedgie Choi @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social

More from Steven Espada Dawson 💙 “Brian went outside / and left forever…” in LATE TO THE SEARCH PARTY

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry." #ReadPoetry #SealeyChallenge buff.ly/1dT0kCg

Zbigniew Herbert, trs. the Carpenters

It's Women in Translation Month. 🙌 Today we're celebrating Claire Bourhis-Mariotti's book, Wanted! A Nation!, that UGA Press published in 2023 with the generous support of Sarah Mills Hodge Fund and Université Paris 8 (Laboratoire TransCrit). https://www.ugapress.org/9780820362700/wanted-a-nation/

Fady Joudah

This year's Best of the Net Anthology (@sundresspub.bsky.social) is live! Congratulations to everyone who had their work selected for inclusion! Many thanks to my fellow editors, genre coordinators, readers, and interns that helped make this year happen. bestofthenetanthology.com

For #day5 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Fanny Howe's final work, SECOND CHILDHOOD. Reflective journey of multipage epic dream poems i.e. "Progress" / & short works incl. "The Garden". Faith, aging & children's consciousness, attention to associative spaces of image & line @graywolfpress.bsky.social

On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima…

Rereading Heather Christle’s THE TREES THE TREES as part of the Sealey Challenge and this poem always hits me where I live. #sealeychallenge @heatherchristle.bsky.social

Day 6 of the #sealeychallenge August 6th- A Geography that Does Not Hurt Us, Carla Sofia Ferreira This collection from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social plays with form and poetic structure in such fascinating ways

Erika Meitner, “Invitation to Tender” from Useful Junk (BOA Editions, 2022) #sealeychallenge #thesealeychallenge

Etel Adnan, from Shifting the Silence

I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't   you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write —W.S. Merwin, from “Berryman”

Michael Burkard

From Mary Oliver's book, Devotions: bookshop.org/a/862/9780399563263 #poem #booksky #writing

##TheSealeyChallenge Day 5: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's SOMETHING ABOUT LIVING, cover & 2 poems from this beautiful collection. @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

Hala Alyan

Happy Women in Translation Month to all who celebrate 💞 Explore some of our favorite works by women in translation, including books by Annie Ernaux, Jacqueline Harpman, Neige Sinno, Nadia Terranova, Ivana Bodrozić, Liliana Corobca, and more. www.sevenstories.com/blogs/385-ce...

Steven Espada Dawson ♥️ from LATE TO THE SEARCH PARTY (Scribner) Day 4 - #SealeyChallenge @stevenespadaw.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

Day #3 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social read the new torrin a. greathouse book DEED. Intensely propulsive inquiries into trans self/sex work, language, patriarchy, clients/police, sexuality & oppression; a writer w/chops & labyrinthine music - exquisite visions, sculpted lines & politics/poetic.

Nancy Miller Gomez ♥️ from INCONSOLABLE OBJECTS (YesYes Books) Day 3 - #SealeyChallenge @nancyland.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

“I managed to pass the course… but I realized that I couldn’t remember the last time I had written an essay by myself, which was my favorite activity. This was the catalyst for me to stop using the app.”

@sealeychallenge.bsky.social catch up posts... Day One: Slip by @nicolecallihan.bsky.social

From Cameron Awkward-Rich's book, Dispatch: bookshop.org/a/862/9780892555031 #poem #books #writing