"I know what you call what that takes all of you, emitting nothing what-for the squall of your demise. But how do you escape what light cannot." [In Ypsilanti, Michigan, Shattering My Dolly Parton] + 3 by @ediemeade.bsky.social in @acrossthemargin.bsky.social acrossthemargin.com/four-poems-b...

Four Poems by Edie Meade — Across The Margin

Four Poems by Edie Meade — Across The Margin

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"... couldn’t we just leave, couldn’t we, couldn’t we just, just go home, just slink home, slither home and ..." @ediemeade.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/urgent-care/ pitheadchapel.com/urgent-care/

Urgent Care

Edie Meade My son gripped his left index finger in a coil of righthand fingers so anyone in the urgent care waiting room could see the punctures go purple before their eyes drifted onto me, the mot…

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These four poems by Edie Meade linger in parking lots, dark apartments, motel rooms, and rubble, all the beautiful/hideous doorways where contradictions interlock: acrossthemargin.com/four-poems-b... #poems #poetry @ediemeade.bsky.social

Four Poems by Edie Meade — Across The Margin

Four Poems by Edie Meade — Across The Margin

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I have not been killed on the escalators or TUBE TRAINS. I have not been drowned in the Thames. I have not been run over by a bus.

Good September morning. I have a prose poem in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social, which is a towering dream of mine come true! The poem's called "Urgent Care." pitheadchapel.com/urgent-care/

Urgent Care

Edie Meade My son gripped his left index finger in a coil of righthand fingers so anyone in the urgent care waiting room could see the punctures go purple before their eyes drifted onto me, the mot…

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Here's round 2 of Stone Circle's new series, now simply called "Three Poems." I wanted more flexibility to describe how the poems are related. It includes work by Lynne Ellis, Edie Meade (@ediemeade.bsky.social), and Paula (Brown@azpaula.bsky.social). Enjoy! stonecirclereview.com/collections/...

Every time something like this happens and there isn’t an outcry about it, we move a little bit further on the Overton window.

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗@cvcev.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 WARNING: As of Monday, wearing a mask at a protest is a criminal offence in England & Wales. This is now the law. 🧵 on what this means for Clinically Vulnerable people... 1/ #ProtectVulnerableProtesters

Getting my fangs out at the beach.

Maybe someone else will find this of use. Increasingly feeling harassed and violated by AI in my email and browser, I wanted to see what I could do about it. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

How to Tell Google's AI Features to Leave You Alone, Once and for All

You aren't doomed to using Google's AI services across your devices for the rest of your life.

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He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? 🖤

Scavenged wisdom.

I read this intentionally slowly to grapple with the weight of the content and the beauty of the language and how the latter supported the former. Truly, one of the best, most stunning books I’ve ever read. Probably the best. It’s an example of what art, particularly the novel, can aspire to.

Rachel Abbey McCafferty@ramccafferty.bsky.social · 5mo ago

There is some art that just becomes part of how you see and move through the world. I’m only partway through “Beloved” and it is already clear that it’s one of those books for me.

it's all liminal

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 4mo ago

I have bought so so so many books on the basis of Bluesky.

Send me stuff!!!

Variant Literature@variantlit.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Variant Literature is excited to announce the inaugural Variant Lit Poetry Prize! Winners will receive a cash prize and be published online in a special Variant Poetry Prize folio, with an introduction from guest judge @toddedillard.bsky.social. Subs open May 15! variantlit.com/announcing-t...

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Everlee Has Disappeared

Everlee Wihongi was transferred by ICE to the notorious "Camp East Montana" at Fort Bliss, Texas. Then she disappeared.

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"Mom breaks her other hip. Lungs hold clots like berries in an apron, and nurses dig for dehydrated veins. It’s never the same nurse, never the same vein." From "Nightfall," a prose poem about being a daughter far away. #mothersday #poetry gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

New poem, The Toothache, in Louisiana Literature

I Go Back to May 1973 by Mary Keating in ONE ART: a journal of poetry oneartpoetry.com/2026/05/08/i...

I Go Back to May 1973 by Mary Keating

I Go Back to May 1973 To the night I crashed and see myself, a long tender lily unaware of her grace as she’s about to get into a Mustang to leave a party with someone she barely knows because her …

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Working on our new album... it's been almost a year since we released "I Dissolve," but it feels so much longer. Funny how an album a year is actually cookin' if you're making it from scratch, writing, playing, recording it all for real. #art #music #indie music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Oxbow Estate: I Dissolve (full album)

Listen to The Oxbow Estate: I Dissolve (full album) on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

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“… Someday I’ll be a plant dying. I’ll draw myself up tall and brave, keep a stiff upper-limb, kiss the woollyworms goodnight for the season. Goodbye a while, damselflies! Bon voyage! …” @ediemeade.bsky.social in @louisianalit.bsky.social www.louisianaliterature.org/how-plants-d...

Also, artificial intelligence isn't "wrestling" with anything. That is the problem, the lack of problem. Moral dilemmas are for human beings. Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.

Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

Richard Dawkins: *looking at a mirror* there's a man trapped in there!

Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 5mo ago

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

God help me but I made a video to talk about two things I hate

The flower moon has many colors, but you must look for them. Choose one and find a stem, pick it free. Care for it where you are. Listen to how the flower sings, Di di di. Sing back to the flower, La la la. Look at the moon, your color is there, too. #65 is live! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

I have three prose poems in the flower moon (May) issue 65 of Gone Lawn! I am so grateful to editors Owen Wyke and Amy Cipolla Barnes for including me in this beautiful publication. @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap42

I am so proud to have five poems in the new print issue of @louisianalit.bsky.social. Here is one of them: www.louisianaliterature.org/how-plants-d...

New retirement plan just dropped.

“Did I forget them from the very day they fell silent? So much has happened since last fall.” Doves by @ediemeade.bsky.social in Belladonna’s Garden (p. 52 of the doc) drive.google.com/file/d/1oWfc...