Kathy Fagan
@kathyfagan.bsky.social
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Poet, prof, she/her. Books at @MilkweedEditions
@W.W.Norton
(forthcoming)
#resist
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our so-called christian govt giving more demonic energy every day
about 17 hours ago
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Take This Waltz by Federico García Lorca
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Take This Waltz by Federico García Lorca
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder, My mouth on the dew of your thighs
https://open.substack.com/pub/onlypoems/p/take-this-waltz-federico-garcia-lorca?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
3 days ago
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Really love this lush & surprising lyric on the Academy's Poem-a-Day today.
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Homecoming
One bridge and then another over the fisherman’s net / of steel water and high, secreting grasses.
https://poets.org/poem/homecoming-0?utm_source=The+Academy+of+American+Poets&utm_campaign=6e3d965e10-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_12_07_39_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c667c90d2e-367778771&mc_cid=6e3d965e10&mc_eid=70b5bfc1d2
4 days ago
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Thanks to
@onlypoemsmag.bsky.social
for running these poems from the forthcoming book & a super insightful interview. Thank you, Karan & Shannan!
www.onlypoems.net/poets/kathy-...
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Poet of the Week: Kathy Fagan — ONLY POEMS
Kathy Fagan’s seventh collection, The Unbecoming, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in Autumn 2026. Her 2022 collection, winner of PSA’s William Carlos Williams Poetry Prize, is Bad Hobby (Milkweed), av...
https://www.onlypoems.net/poets/kathy-fagan
14 days ago
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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed
about 1 month ago
Lamis asks for funds for a tent to shelter her three very young children. Before being displaced by bombing, she was in her 3rd year of dental school. Now she's fighting to keep her family alive during a genocide. Please share and support her campaign:
gofund.me/7b79d792
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Join this supportive poetry workshop 11/22. Zoom only. Register through Hudson Valley Writers Center. Would love to read your work!
about 2 months ago
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Thanks to
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
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@slowdownshow.org
for featuring my poem today.
#BadHobby
@milkweededitions.bsky.social
www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...
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www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Ohio State Bans Most Land Acknowledgments
The new policy is one of several in response to a state law that aims to eliminate any mention of diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/09/03/ohio-state-bans-most-land-acknowledgments
2 months ago
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Standing Together
3 months ago
Famine has now been officially declared in Gaza City, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). We know that this wasn’t inevitable but is a deliberate strategy of starvation by our government. (1/3)
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The Frost Place
3 months ago
Check out this blast from the past! Our wonderful 1985 poet-in-residence
@kathyfagan.bsky.social
sent us this photo of a poster from the summer she spent in Franconia. How cool!
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www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...
Make GFS accountable!
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EPA data shows high pollution risk ratings for site of Franklinton chemical leak
Following a July 14 chemical leak at GFS Chemicals, data shows the plant's pollution risk ratings have been much higher than industry averages.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/environment/2025/07/16/epa-gfs-chemicals-pollution-levels-are-higher-than-industry-averages/85213948007/
4 months ago
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such a good poem by keith wilson on poem-a-day
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there aren’t enough idioms about the stars
i think a good one would be:
https://poets.org/poem/there-arent-enough-idioms-about-stars?utm_source=The+Academy+of+American+Poets&utm_campaign=8321400b42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_12_07_39_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c667c90d2e-367793415&mc_cid=8321400b42&mc_eid=e7ee65a1aa
4 months ago
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Such lushness from Cameron Awkward-Rich in this
@poetryfoundation.bsky.social
reprint. 🌸
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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An Optimism
It is morning and the house is quiet, so quiet that I can, for the moment, set myself to wandering. I am saying the words, predictable as any key—when I was a child, when my mother, when the swarm of ...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1682796/an-optimism?utm_source=Poetry%20Foundation&utm_campaign=e686d2fdd5-NO_TITLE&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ff7136981c-e686d2fdd5-269569833&mc_cid=e686d2fdd5
4 months ago
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The Frost Place
6 months ago
Join our online poetry seminar, August 3-7! Read more:
frostplace.org/programs/poe...
#poetry
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Litbowl
5 months ago
Poem for Father's Day. From
@kathyfagan.bsky.social
book, Bad Hobby.
#poem
#books
#writing
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loved this poem on
poet.org
today, wow!
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https://poet.org
5 months ago
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still life with peony & pears
5 months ago
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸
6 months ago
NJ Rep Mendendez: "ICE brought 20 armed guards to intimidate the mayor. The president lied when he said ICE is going after criminals. ICE feels no weight of the law. They feel no restraint on what they should be doing. We saw that in broad daylight as they put their hands on 2 congresswomen."
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸
6 months ago
Question: from Rep Mendendez’s story, it sounds like they were still waiting 1.5 hours in order to BEGIN their tour of the ICE detention center when the Mayor was arrested outside. Did they ever get to tour the facility? Was this a calculated distraction to prevent them from touring the facility?
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israelpalestinenews.org/the-starvati...
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The Starvation of Gaza: Israel ramps up its terror campaign.
American Conservative: Nothing has entered Gaza for over 50 days. Charity kitchens warn they're days away from closing. Two million people are on the brink.
https://israelpalestinenews.org/the-starvation-of-gaza/
6 months ago
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Loving this poem today in Narrative by
@sandysolomon.bsky.social
www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems...
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Shrug | Narrative Magazine
Shrug by Sandy Solomon — Minna and her hus...
https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems-week-2025/poem-week/shrug-sandy-solomon?uid=202076&m=3c1312356bcf3d5bf5a6eabc34650716&d=1745852795
7 months ago
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7 months ago
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Tr@mp & B@kele won’t release wrongly deported man from Maryland. We can charge them with kidnapping now, right?
7 months ago
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Passover 5785/2025: Next Year in Liberation - JVP
As we gather for Passover this year, the despair and overwhelm we feel is palpable. We gather the strength to keep fighting by rooting ourselves in Jewish tradition.
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7 months ago
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Unpaid Low Life
7 months ago
good grief...
www.wosu.org/politics-gov...
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Multiple Columbus speaking events canceled for doctor who treated Palestinian bomb victims
Oxford University's Dr. Nick Maynard was supposed to speak about how Israel's bombing of Gaza is also an attack on healthcare workers there.
https://www.wosu.org/politics-government/2025-04-08/multiple-columbus-speaking-events-canceled-for-doctor-who-treated-palestinian-bomb-victims?fbclid=IwY2xjawJic2hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHnSK_ioAexsR1JmD0xbQmp-vdzBfXBCr2qEoGVAwbCJjqSvcakieD6QmvJx2_aem_DyadefvSAscsxOkgMkuWQQ
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I just signed on. Hope you're interested, too.
cc4democracy.com/2025-cards/c...
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Card 7: Postcards to Congress — Card Campaign For Democracy
https://cc4democracy.com/2025-cards/card-7-postcards-to-congress
7 months ago
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American Library Association
7 months ago
Thursday, April 10, is Take Action for Libraries Day. This year, with federal library funding under threat, we’re calling on advocates everywhere to Show Up
#ForOurLibraries
and urge Congress to protect vital federal support for libraries and the communities they serve.
www.ala.org/conferencese...
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The Frost Place
7 months ago
We are so thrilled to share the news about
@kathyfagan.bsky.social
returning to teach for TFP!
mailchi.mp/328725bb9c2c...
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Meet Kathy Fagan
We are delighted to have Kathy Fagan, TFP's 9th Poet-in-Residence, join this summer's Poetry Seminar faculty.
https://mailchi.mp/328725bb9c2c/kathyfagan2025
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WTF?
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
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Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained, activists say
Activists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military.
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/oscar-winning-palestinian-director-is-attacked-by-jewish-settlers-and-arrested-activists-say/
8 months ago
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Workshop limited to 10. Sign-ups now for May 3rd class at
www.writerscenter.org/event-detail...
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Truth: A Poet’s Raw Material with Kathy Fagan (via Zoom) | HVWC
Our workshop today is based on the premise that poets, in telling their truth, weave narrative and lyric, the personal and political, autobiography and history in their poems and hybrid works.
https://www.writerscenter.org/event-details/truth-a-poets-raw-material-with-kathy-fagan-via-zoom
8 months ago
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Terry L. Kennedy
8 months ago
I was a cobbler in the house of the Gods. It took a lot of anonymous people to make the mountain what it was. I did not make swords, axes, or bolts of lightning. I stretched leather until it fit comfortably on the feet of the divine from "Olympus" by Matthew Olzmann
poets.org/poem/olympus
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign:
sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...
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Block Donald Trump’s Attempts to Abolish the Department of Education
Public education in this country is under attack. And Trump has already made clear his intentions to undermine public education even further at every turn—including the extreme proposal to completely ...
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/block-donald-trump-s-attempts-to-abolish-the-department-of-education?source=bluesky-share-button&utm_source=bluesky&share=140dc4ae-f71c-462c-a055-64485f8add15
8 months ago
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love this poem by
@majda.bsky.social
today on
@poetrydaily.bsky.social
poems.com/poem/nasa-ro...
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NASA Rover Falls Silent
My cat's second eyelid films slowly over one eye as a vast dust storm envelops Mars.
https://poems.com/poem/nasa-rover-falls-silent/?utm_source=PD+General+Email+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=7c4258572c-PD_NL_DONALD_REVELL_2020_03_31_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b494a3846d-7c4258572c-389814876
8 months ago
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Bezos is redirecting the Opinion section of WaPo toward "personal liberty & free markets." That means billionaires billionairing. Potentially cool, if billionaires actually cared about our planet & its inhabitants. Burn them down. Economic blackout Friday--Amazon blackout every day. We can do this.
9 months ago
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such a great book❤️🔥
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9 months ago
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my valentine’s gift from P❣️
#woodyguthrie
9 months ago
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Verse Daily
9 months ago
Today's poem is "Planned Community" by Kathy Fagan from The Adroit Journal Subscribe and you'll hear the poet from your inbox!
www.versedaily.org/2025/planned...
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Such a great poem by
#BarbaraRas
on
#TheSlowdown
today. I've taught it for years & weep every time.
www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...
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1293: Washing the Elephant by Barbara Ras
Today’s poem is Washing the Elephant by Barbara Ras.
https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025/02/12/1293-washing-the-elephant-by-barbara-ras
9 months ago
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Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻
9 months ago
This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake
web.archive.org/web/20231206...
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NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA
Lee esta historia en español aquí
https://web.archive.org/web/20231206220911/https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-intern-found-hope-in-the-moon-2/
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Social Security Works
9 months ago
Call your members of Congress at 202-224-3121. Tell them to do everything in their power to stop unelected billionaire Elon Musk from stealing our Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid!
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Beth Popp Berman
9 months ago
The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.
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Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy
If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/personal-discretion-over-the-treasurys-payments-system-means-the-end-of-democracy/
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Jorie Graham
9 months ago
Watch “2073” streaming on prime & elsewhere. It’s a complete account of what is happening.
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
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‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy
The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/15/asif-kapadia-2073-amy-winehouse-senna-maradona-trump
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This whole issue is amazing, thanks,
#adroitjournal❣️
theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
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Issue Fifty-Two: Kathy Fagan - The Adroit Journal
Kathy Fagan’s sixth poetry collection, winner of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Prize, is Bad Hobby (Milkweed Editions, 2022), available in print and audio. Sycamore (Milkweed, 2017) was a finalis...
https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-two/kathy-fagan/
9 months ago
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oh how i love this beauty by
#catherinebowman
today
#poets.org
poets.org/poem/pears?u...
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Pears
Just three days into autumn in this forgotten garden the branches so beast-laden and heavy with beast-pear that they bow almost to the ground offering up a be-jeweled lair
https://poets.org/poem/pears?utm_source=The+Academy+of+American+Poets&utm_campaign=ed4e942003-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_12_07_39_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c667c90d2e-367793415&mc_cid=ed4e942003
9 months ago
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Jason Koebler
9 months ago
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
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A great line-up of poets reading for the new issue of Adroit tomorrow 1/28 at 8 pm EST, register here & I'll see you then.
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-adroit...
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The Adroit Journal Issue 52 Release Reading
Join us for a virtual celebration of The Adroit Journal's 52nd issue release with readings from talented writers!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-adroit-journal-issue-52-release-reading-tickets-1219526008119?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
10 months ago
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The Ohio State University Press
10 months ago
ARCs available now! Reviewers can email
[email protected]
ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
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At the Park on the Edge of the Country: Poems
Poems that map the intricacies of memory, immigration, and belonging through the experiences of one Mexican American family in the rural American South.
https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814259368.html
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Peace everywhere to everyone in 2025. TY for this poem,
#SuharMuradi
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poets.org/poem/all-i-c...
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All I can see is nothing
All I can see is nothing / Fields of // Hollow / The O that escapes
https://poets.org/poem/all-i-can-see-nothing?utm_source=The+Academy+of+American+Poets&utm_campaign=66e345d871-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_12_07_39_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c667c90d2e-367793415&mc_cid=66e345d871&mc_eid=e7ee65a1aa
10 months ago
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Peace
11 months ago
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2 more, in the print issue of @poetrynw 💚💜
11 months ago
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