Thank you @therumpus.net for publishing this poem! I’ve loved your mag for a long time so it makes me so happy this slightly salty defense of literature is in your pages.

The Rumpus@therumpus.net · 7mo ago

"That’s what literature does. Puts a word / on your tongue and lets you speak it. / It’s soft power, you fools." From "Decline of the Humanities," one of two new poems by @rwillsit.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/ZrT2in2

Thank you Adroit editors for publishing this poem. It’s a hard one, but I’m grateful to Ada Limon’s poem Downhearted for the lattice work that helped me write this.

Ruth Williams

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Couple of poems in The Southern Review’s winter issue. Take a listen to me and mine and others. Might as well be my cat on the cover! on.soundcloud.com/3Z7as2j8SSMa...

TSR Winter 2025 Audio Gallery

https://www.thesouthernreview.org/issues/detail/Winter-2025/271/ Ring in the new year with the winter issue of The Southern Review. You can take a stand against the passage of time in a new story by

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My book Flatlands is one of these titles. Poetry on sale and a good cause? What’s not to love?

Black Lawrence Press@blacklawrence.bsky.social · 2y ago

For Women's History Month, we are featuring titles that address women's experiences. These titles are on sale for 25% off until March 31st. And for each copy that is sold from this roster, we will donate $1 to the National Women's Law Center. blacklawrencepress.com/sale/

“She let me touch them one by one.” This is a beautiful poem.

I just started reading The Valley. The form used in these poems feels exactly right. I hardly ever let my poem’s lines have space within them, but Rodriguez’s poems are inspiring me.

Lisa Stice@lisasticepoet.bsky.social · 2y ago

Jan 7: Esteban Rodríguez - author of several poetry collections including 'Lotería' (Texas Review Press), 'Limbolandia' @flowersongpress.bsky.social, 'Before the Earth Devours Us' @splitlippress.com, 'The Valley' @sundresspub.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9b8... #poetry #poetrycommunity

I am a Febos fan. But esp. love this meditation on time and beauty and growing older. “I want the face I had before I ever smoked a cigarette. I want the face I had before I ever broke my heart. I want the face I had before I knew it was beautiful. I would know what to do with it now.”

Melissa Febos@melissafebos.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wrote a little essay about aging, social media, beauty, mortality, and the truth about snail mucin, for @yalereview.bsky.social yalereview.org/article/meli...

This feels very likely. Zuck with tape over his laptop camera likely.

Mike Drucker@mikedrucker.bsky.social · 2y ago

the rich people pushing AI on everything are going to be the same rich people who will brag they can afford to send their kids to a school with human teachers

The end of a long relationship is a mix of tragedy and terror. Blame on all sides. Thank you Jet Fuel Review for taking this sad one. www.jetfuelreview.com

This portrait makes me wonder what would happen if my cat and I switched eyes. Most likely we’d both become seers.

Cats of Yore@catsofyore.bsky.social · 2y ago

Portrait by Leon Herbo (1850-1907). www.catherinelarosepoesiaearte.com/2021/09/leon...

I can vouch that Suite for Barbara Loden (Leger’s trilogy is so good) and The Taiga Syndrome are amazing. They are lyrical but also conceptual but also challenging but also also. I love books of this ilk.

Dorothy, a publishing project@dorothyproject.bsky.social · 2y ago

Psst: just in time for the buying of bookish gifts to give, there's a week-long sale on this Dorothy "starter pack" bundle at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social! Sale ends Nov. 28. www.nyrb.com/products/dor...

It was a draining day, so I keep thinking about the man who said as I passed by him running in the park “there’s a turtle crossing the road up ahead…watch out!” I didn’t see the turtle, but boy did I look for it. I looked for it so hard I almost saw it.

Wrote some poems, some thoughts, call them jots for a pinned spot. www.ruthcwilliams.com

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I took this photo at the Roosevelt el stop in Chicago. Within a minute, I noticed 2 other people take a picture of the sunset as they came on to the platform. It’s beautiful that we all saw it and it’s beautiful that we all recorded it for no other reason than it was beautiful and we saw it.