Eben E. B. Bein (they)
@ebenbein.bsky.social
Climate Justice Educator. Facilitator. Multi-disciplinary artist. Living, organizing, creating, and interbeing on Massachusett Land.
Pretty cool. Boston Globe interview about No Contact. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/24/a... Happy pub day, and see some of you at @belmontbooks.bsky.social tomorrow!
Jenny Bartoy on her new anthology, ‘No Contact,’ and the complexities of family estrangement - The Boston Globe
In the new anthology out April 21, Jenny Bartoy curates a collection of essays as an exploration of how "estrangement is a form of grief," with works by Cheryl Strayed, Nick Flynn, and Deesha Philyaw....
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Eben E. B. Bein (they)@ebenbein.bsky.social · 5mo agoWriters on #estrangement at @belmontbooks.bsky.social on April 29th at 7pm. Editor @jennybartoy.bsky.social and Nicole Graev Lipson.
i am in possession of a very active and very homosexual imagination
Anyone know Rochak Agarwal(l)? He reached out a 2nd time about putting my poem on a bottle of Reed Diffusers he sells. Nothing bad happened the 1st time, but ... I do not like diffusers, so I didn't buy. I do not like scams. I do like cute collabs and gifting my art to others. Thoughts #poets?
The terrible climate rollbacks bill is on hold, thanks to the voices of grassroots organizations and people across Massachusetts. Read more about what was proposed, and why a broad coalition rallied to stop it: cleanwater.org/2025/11/17/h...
House Climate Bill is a Big Step Backwards – read our coalition op-ed
Coalition partners Cindy Luppi, Clean Water Action; Kyle Murray, Acadia Center; Caitlin Peale Sloan, Conservation Law Foundation; and John Walkey, GreenRoots jointly authored the following op-ed, publ...
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If anyone is wondering why Democrats look the same as Republicans to a lot of young people ... commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/hous... Thank you Cindy, Caitlin, Kyle, and John, for saying the thing. #mapoli
House climate bill is a big step backward - CommonWealth Beacon
At a moment when President Trump is dismantling federal climate policy, this bill would do the work for him. It would abandon our 2030 emissions targets, gut our most effective programs, and lock Mass...
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We carry versions of our people in us. How tricky it can be to sort our version of them from the real thing. Thank you @pacificalit.bsky.social, my therapist, and Internal Family Systems. #ifs www.pacificareview.com/issue-21-2/
Takes an ecosystem to raise a poem. Thanks @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, Mary Angelino, @yungwerther.bsky.social, Marisa Tirado, John Howard, Courtney Caldwell, the Quinobequin (Charles River), and its vociferous, eating, drinking, shitting inhabitants.
Tonight at 8EST! Come listen and/or read!
Eben E. B. Bein (they)@ebenbein.bsky.social · last yr.Want words in your ear Wednesday night? 🖌 Take me on your evening walk. Tune in on Zoom at 8PM with Penny Thieme and VALA Gallery (Visual Audio Literary Artists). If you like, stay and read at the open mic at 9PM🎤! RSVP here or DM for link: www.facebook.com/share/19R4Gg...
Want words in your ear Wednesday night? 🖌 Take me on your evening walk. Tune in on Zoom at 8PM with Penny Thieme and VALA Gallery (Visual Audio Literary Artists). If you like, stay and read at the open mic at 9PM🎤! RSVP here or DM for link: www.facebook.com/share/19R4Gg...
Come join me and some amazing poets in Brookline on Thursday! brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-0...
An Evening of Poetry: Love is For All of Us
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Eben E. B. Bein (they)@ebenbein.bsky.social · last yr.I first bumped into James' work through a Parker Palmer style Circle of Trust with at Hallelujah farm and I am so excited to read with him and Brad at the @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social on 6/5 at 7PM. What a way to kick off Pride Month! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
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Wild. So I just got 4 poems accepted in a batch, bringing my total to 70! independently published/forthcoming poems.
Me making the best decision of my life ... on the lawn of the same courthouse where the first same sex marriage happened in 2004. Gay marriage was not legalized across the country until 2015. Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social for publicly sharing these vows: www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
New issue is LIVE and IN FULL EFFECT. Feat. Miriam Akervall, @daynabateman.bsky.social, @ebenbein.bsky.social , @danielbrennanreads.bsky.social, Karan Kapoor, JP Kemmick, @poetryphone.bsky.social, Megan Snyder-Camp, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social, & Virginia Watts Be astonished: www.pacificareview.com
Pacifica Literary Review
Publishing online and in print since 2012. Based in the great northwest.
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Wow, congrats Eben!! It's great to revisit this poem!
Eben E. B. Bein (they)@ebenbein.bsky.social · last yr.A childhood backyard poem about extinction & The Avengers first published in @wildroofjournal.bsky.social paired with the layered printmaking, collage, and needlework of Karen McCarthy. Don’t miss the epigraph from my dear poet friend and housemate, Lulu Liu.
3 poem hanging on a public wall the 1st time, opening on May 1st from 6-7:30! Symbiosis exhibit at Arlington Center for the Arts pairs visual art & poetry from local creatives about community & change, from evolving family relationships to complex feelings about history & identity.
I am what you protected, the mechanism begin in utero, but I am also what I make myself... @mspicone.bsky.social, this tenuous atmosphere
Anyone have recording equipment I can borrow for my keynote next Wednesday?
If they each had a bird in hand they would open their hands. Obsessed with this line from "How to Live" in "Ragnarok at the Father-Daughter Dance" by @toddedillard.bsky.social, thanks @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for bringing me Todd's book.
