Prayer by Johanna Caton in ONE ART: a journal of poetry oneartpoetry.com/2026/10/08/p...

Prayer by Johanna Caton

Prayer A silver morning, a shore cool and widening, I watch the lowering tide, waves skim, slide a whisper, a murmur, a hostess, a curled hand: Come in, out, hospitality of sea and sand. Learn agai…

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My new novel is out a week from today — tough timing because of the election & uh, you know, the world. With book reviews an extinct species, it's hard to get the word out. So tell your friends! Meanwhile, I've started the next one, folkish horror set in a bog at a remote Maine hunting camp. Onward!

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Orion occupies a space at the intersection of literature and nature like no other publication. Help fund the reporting, research, and editing that turns an idea into a story online or in print. A gift from you today will be used to craft the stories of tomorrow. 🌱 orionmagazine.org/donate-fall/

Drew gets to bookstore owners in this thread but I can speak to how pervasive this has been in the book world. So many privileged people who just can't see the only thing the other side uses "common ground" for is to bury the people they don't believe have a right to exist.

Drew Broussard@drewsof.bsky.social · 6d ago

Genuinely have to assume, at this point, that the people suggesting this crock of shit have never felt endangered in their lives (they are almost always straight white men, after all) but more so they lack the imagination or empathy to consider that others might have and might still.

Join us in supporting banned and challenged books this #BannedBooksWeek 📚 Use code BBW26 to get 15% off select banned and challenged titles now through October 18. See the full list: bookshop.org/info/banned-... Expires 10/18/26. Discount off list prices, excludes ebooks.

Today is the FINAL DAY of ONE ART’s Fall Fundraiser! We’ve now reached 66.2% of the overall goal. I'll be thrilled if we reach 70%! oneartpoetry.com/2026/09/30/t...

Today is the FINAL DAY of ONE ART’s Fall Fundraiser!

Last Day !! ~ September 30th ~ The last couple days have been BIG!! We received 14.4% of our goal in just two days (!!) partly thanks to one especially generous donor. We’ve now reached 66.2% of th…

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We need urgent action to address hunger. You can help by voting to elect lawmakers who support policies that ensure everyone has enough to eat and live a happy, healthy life. That starts with making sure you're registered to vote. Visit Vote.org today!

Somehow, in the chaos of moving across country, I’ve been fortunate to have poetry published at One Art and upcoming in other journals. Maintaining a submission practice is never easy, and during a move, was not ideal. oneartpoetry.com/2026/05/29/l...

Left Turn by Kevin J. Fellows

Left Turn Ever since the accident, I refuse to make left-hand turns. It’s always my fault. The oncoming: unseen, speeding to strike me; retribution against my presence, spins me against the world, …

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You can currently get a digital copy of *Empty Lots* for less than a cup of Saturday morning coffee, almost as cheap as the free flotsam texts one can sometimes find in an actual empty lot. But what you really want is a beautiful hardcover from your nearest indie shop: www.amazon.com/Natural-Hist...

A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places - Kindle edition by Brown, Christopher. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places.

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Yesterday, the Senate Agriculture Committee moved a farm bill proposal forward. Food banks are already feeling the strain of high prices, & TEFAP food is down 30% amid rising need. We're urging Congress to keep reinforcing SNAP and TEFAP. Full statement: bit.ly/472XssN

Bumping these threads again because there is even more AI malarky going around today. Protect your one wild & precious mind; read a book

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

Deep engagement with books is one of (maybe the) best ways to inoculate your mind against our (almost aggressively) toxic intellectual environment. So, we've been doing these micro-courses on BlueSky to help with that engagement. Look for the next one on Friday morning!!!

If you want to understand what's what re generative AI, follow @doctorow.pluralistic.net and read his book The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, along with Enshitification. No one is doing a better job of analysis and critical thinking on the subject.

The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry's poetic antidote to despair, animated www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/12/w...

The Peace of Wild Things: Wendell Berry’s Poetic Antidote to Despair, Animated

On where to seek refuge from the forethought of grief.

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"...it stunts the development of artistic integrity and the very discernment we need to grasp quality—two of our most valuable assets as creatives."

"Gen AI not only scrapes the work of those who sacrifice energy, income, even their relationships to make their work sharp enough to go public, but also disables users’ discernment and robs them of the capacity to hone their skills." 🔥🔥🔥

Brand new essay at Thoughts From the Writer's Desk at Ruadán Books: L.E. Daniels gives an insightful editor's perspective on the impact gen AI is having on writers and their craft. ruadanbooks.com/an-editor-on...

ONE ART’s Top 10 Most-Read Poets of August 2026 Lindsay Ratcliffe John Amen Donna Hilbert Tsaulina Malazonia [Translated by Sallomeja Sandroschvili] Lisa Badner Elisabeth Weiss John Dorsey Bruce Morton Mirabella Mitchell Lucy De Maio oneartpoetry.com/2026/09/01/o...

ONE ART’s Top 10 Most-Read Poets of August 2026

~ ONE ART’s Top 10 Most-Read Poets of August 2026 ~ Lindsay Ratcliffe John Amen Donna Hilbert Tsaulina Malazonia [Translated by Sallomeja Sandroschvili] Lisa Badner Elisabeth Weiss John Dorsey Bruc…

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Literally: A Grocery Store of Onyx & Hot and Windy For publication: A Store of Onyx and Scorch

Adregem ཐིཋྀ@adregem.bsky.social · last mo.

This was on the writingcirclejerk subreddit and some of the replies 🤣🤣🤣 Henceforth the Moth King shall be named “An Antique Store of Peridot and Stifling Humidity” #Writing #WritingCommunity

With nearly 48 million people facing hunger across the country, the strain on the food assistance system is real. Lawmakers can strengthen nutrition programs to help people facing hunger keep nutritious food on their tables. 🖊️ Take action: bit.ly/3SNbBa9

Per CBS News: losing SNAP can also mean losing free school meals. According to the article, up to 18.3M students nationwide could be affected this year. Get the facts on SNAP: FeedingAmerica.org/SnapFacts

Yes, notes to self everywhere, and often me talking to myself in the third-person because I'm more the reader/editor and less the writer. Not, however during the conception/drafting phase. Then it's all me the writer.

Matt Bell@mdbell79.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I do this too! My planning documents are full of me talking to myself. My marginal notes in my manuscripts are often collaborative: "What are we going to do about this chapter opening?" or "Let's see if we can cut this scene in half." The many selves needed to write a book are always kept talking.

I can't memorialize John Crowley like others whose words I've read and shared here since his passing. But I found this old post about Little, Big I wrote in 2009 which pretty well sums up what his work means to me: mossyskull.com/hm/building-...

Building Blocks and Knitting Needles: Little, Big Again | The Mossy Skull

I'm having one of those afternoons where everything I'm made of seems to come apart and lie there spread out on the carpet for me to rummage through like plastic pieces from three dozen different buil...

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The ‘let it rest’ phase for a novel in progress is dangerous for me. If I don’t allow it to sit long enough I miss issues that need fixing. If I wait too long I want to re-write the entire novel. Sometimes that’s what’s needed. Other times, the novel is sound and just needs to have issues addressed.

"Why is that watermelon there?" (quote might not be exact, but true fan will still know.)

Karlito P@litop12.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

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A short thread. When I was looking for literary models, I found John Crowley and his collection, & Go Like This. I read that book slowly, often rereading a story. The stories were lush, often dense, and strayed down detours. Writing short stories that way went against everything I’d been taught.

I first read this in 2000 but it's still a great essay, with links to JC's work for the Boston Review.

Genre Trouble

Why can’t critics take John Crowley seriously?

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BOTD - Wendell Berry

If you go by ‘social media language’ it seems that ‘complete meltdown’ is anything past mild perturbation. Or bemused discomfiture.