My poem, "Babylon's Daughter" is in the new issue of Mount Carmel Magazine. The issue is dedicated to St. John of the Cross, and my poem is a riff on John's riff of Psalm 137 💙 St. John's mentor was my girl, St. Teresa of Ávila. @carmelitespirit.bsky.social

Babylon’s Daughter » Mount Carmel Magazine

A riff on the riff of Psalm 137, “Super flumina Babylonis” by St. John of Cross This daughter who repays you, goes home happy.She dashes your harps against the rocks.She remembers to hang you,there on...

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This is uplifting—so much good stuff to read at @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy

Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley on the Surest Remedy for a Sunken Spirit and What Makes Life Worth Living

“There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others.”

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"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance... To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple." Arundhati Roy on the deepest measure of success: mailchi.mp/themarginali...

“I think I existed for a great amount of time in my life in a mode of silence, to the extent that I even convinced myself that silence was a form of protest,” Tran admitted. “But I’m 57, and I don’t want to do that anymore. I want to live. I want to exist.”—Truong Tran Interview: shorturl.at/bVroI

Living Halloween decoration out the back of my house.

Gotta get this anthology—and yes do find your way back to poetry @coastalpoet.bsky.social ❤️ September and October are always super-busy months and it’s easy to get swept up in all the activity and to skip introspection. Saying this for myself, too.

Jenevieve Carlyn@coastalpoet.bsky.social · last wk.

Taking a little break to find my way back to poetry and to revel in these autumn evenings that disappear too quickly. In the meantime, hope you enjoy the poems in here... six of my favorites from the anthology 🍂

Barton Smock

Una tarde de verano en el bulevar de Montparnasse. Pintada en París en 1912 por el artista checo Tavík František Šimon.

Dis/enchantment/ Anomie /Spectacle, a series. Today Laszlo Aranyi @rfredekenter.bsky.social @kennethmc.bsky.social @heavycloud.bsky.social @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social @amantineb.bsky.social @ljensenlampe.bsky.social

Friends, I have a new translation coming out in 2027 from El Martillo Press and let’s just say it’s a 180 from my St. Teresa book.💙📚

Goin’ back there tonight. youtube.com/watch?v=-sKU...

Mariah Carey - Can't Let Go (MTV Unplugged - HD Video)

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Greg Mulcahy Ice Floe! Check it out. @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app @mjseyesopened.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @kennethmc.bsky.social @amantineb.bsky.social @jpiudik.bsky.social @meetthepresses.bsky.social @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social @imogenreid.bsky.social @feversof.bsky.social

Hey friends—editor Andrew Doty @editwright.bsky.social and I are reprising our Webinar, “Taking Your Book From Thought to Bought.” Free, online, registration required. Hope you’ll join us! Tuesday November 3, 2026–a little break on Election Day USA. slcl.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=420...

Virtual Program: Publishing 101 - Taking Your Book from Thought to Bought

Presented by Andrew Doty, EditwrightLearn realistic, proven strategies for taking your book from idea to publication as book coach and editor Andrew Doty and author Dana Delibovi share the process the...

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Paul Klee - Growth of Plants, 1921 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Ange Mlinko

Hey Poets of Bluesky! Our fall issue comes out in November 2026. We have a slate of great poems lined up. You can still send poems, but please know they will be considered for 2027, since 2026 is full up. Submit 4-6 poems to our poetry editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social at dana.cablestreet@gmail.com.

La echo de menos ❤️

Universidad de Salamanca @usaloficial.bsky.social · 4w ago

La semana que viene arranca la #FeriaDeBienvenida de la USAL 🎉✨ Comenzamos el lunes por todo lo alto en Salamanca y continuaremos la ruta en Béjar, Zamora y Ávila. 📍 Conoce todos los servicios, asociaciones, actividades deportivas y colectivos que forman nuestra comunidad. 🧑‍🎓 👉 bienvenida.usal.es

Decided to check out Duolingo. What exactly is the point of this app locking people out of more learning until they pass a quiz? Like, what theory of language pedagogy is THAT?

turn your face again / toward me Frank Bidart

Happening now at Human Formation in the Digital Age: Dr. Mariele Courtois on “To Build a Human Heart: Hope for Designing Technologies toward Genuinely Human Ends”. lyceum.institute/new...

These Hopper painting of people by windows…there are emotions we can’t even name.💙

Edward Elderman@elderman.bsky.social · 4w ago

Edward Hopper “Morning Sun” Oil on Canvas

Sweet review!

Maria Popova@mariapopova.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Lighthouse Keeper – a tender illustrated meditation on what saves us www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/09/t...

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Philip K. Dick: A Documentary

Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Lothlorien for Poetry, Literature, Music, Film and Art

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Thank God it rained in eastern Missouri today!

Dis/enchantment/Anomie/Spectacle series continues @thejayestofzees.bsky.social art @rfredekenter.bsky.social All this autumn new features Check it out @roseknapp.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @ljensenlampe.bsky.social @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social @ashpoet.bsky.social @suzi00.bsky.social

tracing of cloud

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

Ecstatic to be part of this David Lynch anthology edited by John Wall Barger and forthcoming from @lsupress.bsky.social 🫀 lsupress.org/978080718850...

Fix Your Hearts or Die!

What happens when you ask contemporary poets to look into the cracked mirror of David Lynch’s work? Fix Your Hearts or Die! is an exuberant, eccentric coll...

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Swooning.

Arthur David Spota@adaspota.bsky.social · 2y ago

La Monte Young / The Theatre of Eternal Music (featuring John Cale on Viola) The Fire Is A Mirror (Live in New York City, December 1963) #LaMonteYoung #JohnCale La Monte Young, John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus MacLise, Terry Jennings and Marian Zazeela. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbgx...