Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?
A Quiet Root
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"I was filling out the application to be a tycoon and I was being careful with my handwriting but then I got to the section on references and I wondered exactly who could speak best to my latent tycoon potential. A minute later I found myself on the phone with my mom."
Michael Bazzett
The Glacier Issue Three Winter 2024 THE FAVOR Sometimes as a favor, I dream other peoples’ dreams. I do it in their stead so they can sleep the sleep of dark silence, so they can take a crack…
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"The little god has grown, a little god no longer." From "Parenting Triolet" by Gabriel Fried
Gabriel Fried — Bennington Review
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"I OEDIPUS, Darth Vader, and Jesus Christ walk into a bar. We make a clever premise in the ooze." oceanstatereview.org/2025/04/05/a...
Adam Tavel, featured in the Ocean State Review - The Ocean State Review
I OEDIPUS on Fridays strip my anger off like mummy-wrap / and pitch it at the night, our dusty orchid wallpaper where / shadows are themselves the other half of us, in bed, inside my
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simultaneously one of the funniest and the most cutting poems I've read in ages, from Rebecca Hawkes in @phoebejournal.bsky.social
Birth Control - phoebe
Rebecca Hawkes “why suck the strap” why look at a sunset. why listen to your favourite song. why stop to smell the flowers. come on now – Tumblr user @bloodpups To live ethically in the present moment...
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Like a prepubescent tee-ball player, our piece for this week is short and hard-hitting. Get the breath knocked out of you by "Tests to Determine Whether Moonboy Has a Soul" from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-27-25/moon...
"I have buried myself in the hole of America, its plastic freedoms, elastic unfreeness—America, you have rendered me a corpse of delightful emptiness. You have plundered me of heft, ground the God in me to tin and clatter. God, the grind." lilypoetryreview.blog/poetry/immig...
Immigrant Duplex - Lily Poetry Review
by LAUREN K. ALLEYNE from Issue 12 … Continue readingImmigrant Duplex
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"I google it after they’re gone, alone in my classroom. But my phone isn’t working. My phone isn’t working because moments ago another country hacked our country’s grid and shut the whole thing down forever." From @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social
I Don’t Know What Wind Is by Chris Scott | New Flash Fiction Review
Approximately thirty seconds before dismissal, one of my first graders asks me what wind is. I freeze up, sixteen first grade faces watching me, they all suddenly want to know what wind is, right now,...
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Feeling grateful (also floored) to turn to a page in Poetry Magazine & find this poem I wrote, with all admiration, after Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes." Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.
"A week or so after passing a bill to make it easier to fire librarians, the Alabama House of Representatives passed another naming Little Bluestem the state grass." From @pamelamanasco.bsky.social in @identitytheory.bsky.social
Little Bluestem: A Poem by Pamela Manasco - Identity Theory
What should we tell our children about it?
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"I’m not going to do a thing today. Shoo-off the squirrels raising hell in the vegetables? Let ‘em at it. Re-read the last letter my father sent me? No can do. I died it in a fire." From Michael Martin in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social
Poetry | Needle by Michael Martin - The London Magazine
'I’m the way she likes anyone left behind — / undeserving, falling.' New poetry by Michael Martin.
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"they call us invasive opportunistic say we have wandered too far looking for water taken more than our share" a poem about feral hogs from Danielle Fleming in Pidgeonholes
You can ignore wild pigs all you want until you can’t ignore them
It’s just this time they got it rightI mean that’s what they saidfound the reason why some ofus go feralwhy […]
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"Ay, Count Sucks-Ass-ula, try hitting the pins next time.” Happy Friday, here's a flash about vampires who are very bad at bowling. @xraylitmag.bsky.social
BOWLING WITH DRACULA by Justin Gibson
The first thing we discovered was that vampires loved contracts. Well, no, sorry, I guess the first thing we discovered was the vampires themselves — that they’re real. We figured it out pretty quick,...
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"Love did this: the riot of it. Love for the smashing, the making, the breaking. Love for our country and the streets"
Breaking News: Barbie Eats Trump During Baltimore Pride Fest by Chrissy Stegman
What else was left for her to do? Giant in pink, her laughter clanging down Charles Street like bells rung wild to the dystopian melody. She was a blaze in glorious sequins. Swirls through the crow…
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Every thing you do, no matter how small, to remind people that the wannabe dictators are actually sad, scared, fallible little boys is helpful. The more we laugh at them, the less fearsome they are and the easier it is to wrest power back from them. Also? These messages are effing hilarious.
Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · last yr.Twelve of them! They got Zuck too
"Some years come at a price. Some marked down, on sale, tagged 'as is'. Some days line up like siblings against a wall, each waiting their turn to be smacked with a ruler." From Dorianne Laux's "The Weight of Days" in Post Road www.postroadmag.com/2024/01/09/4...
- Post Road Magazine
Four Poems Dorianne Laux Garage Band for my brother, Jack My brother had one, my boyfriend.Every man I have loved loved music.Each song a pearl threaded onto a necklaceI have worn all my life. I see t...
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“I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint… Carver gave me the face he makes on the back of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: an eyebrow-raised smirk that said, ‘give me your best shot.’” @martinezfjulian.bsky.social is back on hex with a wild tale about the student surpassing the teachers! ✍️😤
Gordon Lish by Julián Martinez
I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint. I didn’t know he’d be sitting in the kitchen when I busted into the apartment of my old creative writing professor, Gordon Lish. Carver gave me the face he makes on ...
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Issue 3 is here! 10 postcards with 10 poems by 10 amazing poets (Emma Bolden, Adam Clay, Jessica Cuello, Erin Dorney, Susan Leary, Erin Malone, Nora Nadjarian, Michael Robins, Diane Wald, and Jane Zwart). Order your copy at www.postcardlit.com/store today! Preorders and orders ship soon!
"Dear Thomas of Aquinas, spare me. Where to put the jack is on the jack, words plus pictogram for the verbally challenged." From James Wyshynski in @lascauxreview.bsky.social
On Doing Good | The Lascaux Review
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Really stoked to have a new poem in the spring issue of @theshorepoetry.bsky.social! I have long admired this journal, & I’m grateful to the editors for including me—& alongside so many poets I love! Happy World Poetry Day, too, friends! 💙 Read the issue here: www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-25
"Time is the only thing that passes. Gather up what small magics you can."
Issue 2 | Winter 2024 | What choice do I have anyway? - Hindman Settlement School
Untelling WHAT CHOICE DO I HAVE ANYWAY? Kari Gunter-Seymour Such a tired questionor slack-spined answer,wind whipping the parched grassinto a thrash of dried-up voices,a leap of grasshoppersmocking the cracked ground. As hot as it is, we may bein the coolest summerof the rest of our lives,a fate that lands jackbooted,a kick to the face,two black … Issue 2 | Winter 2024 | What choice do I have anyway? Read More »
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"I’ve only ever been here, in an eternity of Januarys. People have told me about other places, just never the roads leading in or out of those states, or about the bridges one might enter by." From Emily Light in @terrainorg.bsky.social
One Poem by Emily Light - Terrain.org
Emily Light's "Central Jersey Roads" is a wintry poem of solace and insight that bridges us to place, with audio.
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Just over a week left to apply to be a volunteer Fiction Reader for Okay Donkey! In this role, you'll read and vote "yes," "no," or "maybe" on up to 10 submissions per week. • Read what we publish: okaydonkeymag.com/flash/ • Apply by Friday, March 21: forms.gle/JPzvJMpKXf27GKXB8
Read this right now. Those fuckers can’t have your hope. By @mike3stars.bsky.social in Gastropoda. gastropodalitmag.wixsite.com/main/post/a-...
from "My New Year’s Resolution Is to Turn into a Refrigerator" by Harriet Prebble in takahē magazine www.takahe.org.nz/my-new-years...
The thing that everyone thinks is nuts, but I absolutely think would work: a presentation that looked like an Apple keynote product launch, but for all the cool shit that the government makes for people. Cancer treatments, national parks, space discoveries, free tax filing, cool new airports.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · 2y agoIf you were in Congress, what would you do for the State of the Union? What do you think Dems should do?