deborah poe
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poet, #booksky mind, reader, book artist, random outburster—author of Our Parenthetical Ontology, Elements, Between Worlds, Hélène, the last will be stone too, keep. deborahpoe.com [she/they]
join us tonight (5-7pm PST) for the 3rd of 4 readings to celebrate the recently published 'Winter in America (Still'—in which contemporary poets, writers, & artists respond to, in poet Adrienne Rich’s words, a "country moving closer to its own truth and dread.”
Congrats 2026 National Book Award longlisters for POETRY! Victoria Chang, Carolina Ebeid!!!! Brenda Hillman, Richie Hofmann, Fady Joudah, Layli Long Soldier, Jonah Mixon-Webster, Jake Rose, Jake Skeets, and Susan Stewart www.nationalbook.org/longlist-for...
Longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Poetry - National Book Foundation
The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Poetry Find the New Yorker announcement here. The National Book Foundation today announced the Longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Poetry with The New Yorker. The Finalists in all five categories will be revealed on Tuesday, October 6 with the New York Times; Winners will be announced live at the 77th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner on Wednesday, November 18, 2026. For more information and to register to watch the livestream, please visit nationalbook.org/awards. Four of the ten poets are past honorees for the National Book Award for Poetry: Victoria Chang was Longlisted in 2020 for Obit, Brenda Hillman was Longlisted in 2013 for Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, Fady Joudah was a Finalist in 2024 for […], and Layli Long Soldier was a Finalist in 2017 for WHEREAS. Four of this year’s Longlisted titles come from … Continue reading "Longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Poetry"
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anti-fascism, for one. "they are terrified of this movement we are building in Texas" www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE...
Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
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Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 4w agoIf you haven’t watched Jimmy Kimmel’s interview from last night, you should. The FCC and this administration are constantly trying to squash the resistance, but the resistance always finds a way around them. They can keep trying to silence people. It isn’t working. Tomorrow there will be more of us!
have a piece in this anthology—alongside so many beloved poets—Marcella Durand, Dan Beachy-Quick, Joy Harjo, Nathaniel Mackey, Laura Mullen, Kazim Ali, Gillian Conoley, Elizabeth Robinson, Uche Nduka, KPrevallet, Wang Ping, Frankie Rollins, Susan Schultz & so many others listed here & not.
Sarah Lindenbaum@franceswolfreston.bsky.social · last mo.I'm excited to share that I have a poem in the Winter in America (Still volume, which examines the aftermath of the 2024 election. You can order it here if you're interested: www.winterinamerica.org
much more to say but for now rest in peace, Dolly. forever in my heart. My Tennessee Mountain Home share.google/MowW7id4UoLV... See less
What a legend, what a loss. I cannot think about Dolly Parton without also thinking of what and who she inspired, including this poem by my dear, dear friend @poebot.bsky.social: "Two-Stepping to Dolly Parton's 'Jolene'" drunkenboat.dtc-wsuv.org/db8/panlitpo...
Drunken Boat | 8 | 2006 Edition
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Their assets are frozen, construction is suspended, and their deal is under investigation for fraud. SMITE!
Bless The Albanians Who Stopped Jared And Ivanka
Dear Humans,
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love everything about this, friends, including the prompt to do some list-based play/thinking on priorities for the rest of the month. will share if you do. waves east @hmwendt.bsky.social
Holly M. Wendt@hmwendt.bsky.social · 2mo agoA Juggled List & A Prompt of Your Own hmwendt.beehiiv.com/p/a-juggled-... New Loomings today, with a list-based writing prompt, yarn, & multiple book recommendations (dark academia! the underbelly of luxury tourism! Euripedes! the best food descriptions to ever happen in fiction [iykyk]!).
Stop talking about reforming ICE. Stop mealy-mouthed performative “concern.” These people need to go to jail for their litany of crimes and human rights abuses and that should be the moderate position.
Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2mo agoA Third Immigrant Detained at Delaney Hall Dies After Medical Emergency www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/n...
An anonymous person is on their 11th day of hunger strike in the notorious Tacoma, Washington ICE concentration camp, according to a new press release from @laresistencianw.bsky.social. The camp is run by GEO Group and the hunger striker has missed 33 meals. Their only demand is to be deported.
makes me so happy @robmclennan.bsky.social & @hassensaker.bsky.social / you connected in Ottawa. coming from @adelaideblair.bsky.social’s Manifesto Destiny book event tonight where I read my asymmetric empathy anti-derangement manifesto—”avoid the spin, empathy warriors.” waving easterly. ♥️
— Juan Carlos Rodriguez Romero • Justin Bryant Nelson • Carlos Jimenez • Jose Garcia-Sorto • Carlitos Ricardo Parias • Phillip M. Brown • Marimar Martinez • Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez • Francisco Longoria • Jose Mendez-Chavez • Ruben Ray Martinez
Joan Sebastian Guerrero • Lorenzo Salgado Araujo • Clemente Lara-Hernandez • Eduardo Cruz Garcia • Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez • Alex Jeffrey Pretti • William Eduardo Moran Carballo • Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis • Luis Nino-Moncada • Renee Good • Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins — #abolishICE
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
votolatino.bsky.social@votolatino.bsky.social · 3mo agoICE fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a Houston enforcement operation. His family says he was a hardworking father on his way to work. This is a deadly pattern at DHS: no transparency, no oversight, no accountability. We demand an independent investigation.
Cape Verde is the size of Kansas City. I promise you there’s hardly a person in that country that doesn’t personally know at least one player on that team. Can you imagine how proud they must be of them?
Maybe it's time to rethink the whole Supreme Court thing.
I know there is a place where I can trust that I am not alone in my head… and I am actually in community with others on this vast shore of poetry. A place that is not landlocked inside the logic of language, but in continual movement along the rivers of feeling. poetshouse.org/interview-la...
Layli Long Soldier on the Vast Shores of Poetry: An Interview
Long Soldier speaks about visual resonance, her forthcoming book, and her appreciation for community in New York City and among poets.
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post – Texas Highway therapy Albuquerque to Taus for Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros at the Harwood because art, mother truckers. to the tune of on.soundcloud.com/41y8j7No4FxY...
Hypnotic Chill Garten - Techno Picknick
Chiller Hypnotic Techno Garden Session Lean back and enjoy the warmth of the sun while hypnotic grooves and smooth, rolling rhythms drift through the garden. Surrounded by green grass, colorful flowe
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“Defeating…nationalist vision of America requires…more than small-bore politics & slogans about 'affordability.' It requires a bigger & better story...a full-throated declaration of what we liberals think the [US] is—& should be—instead.” www.meditationsinanemergency.com/winners-and-...
Winners and Losers: A Hell of a Week in the US of A
There is no more one-sentence-fits-all opening in literature than Dickens's "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times," and this is a review of a lot of the winning and losing over the past...
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meanwhile, for my day job, I am using Copilot a lot. I just decided to address as Audre, after Audre Lorde. this delights me. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” [waves from Texas]
I met Larry Campbell, a Swinomish elder, scholar, and teacher, during a project on sea level rise and coastal communities. A scholarship fund has been created in his honor to support Indigenous students. Please share or donate: connect.clickandpledge.com/Organization...
The SeaDoc Society
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