Maria Nazos
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Poems in @newyorker.com. #writer #poet #translator. Order PULSE: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo265676906.html.
Catherine Jagoe recommends memoirs about wild swimming by Amy Liptrot, Sophie Pierce, Megan Hayes, and more. buff.ly/G8pr1d0
On Women and The Water Cure: Nine Memoirs About Wild Swimming
“Wild swimming” is a term coined by British nature writer Roger Deakin in his cult classic Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain (1999), about his year swimming outdoors all over the UK. A …
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A new review of PULSE is out in @chironreview.bsky.social. 🖤 The reviewer calls the voice “fearless, urgent, and unforgettable,” with a “bar-stain voice, raw and unvarnished.” Really grateful for this one. #Poetry #PULSEpoetry
“To live & to write is to desire & suffer, but that doesn’t mean we should entrap ourselves in the starving artist persona...” My interview with @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social just dropped. Thank you, @rsdeeren.bsky.social! Read it: chireviewofbooks.com/2026/08/12/o.... #Poetry #PULSE
Chicago Review of Books@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 2w ago"As resilient humans, we pick kindness, but for kindness to survive, we can’t cancel out cruelty. Canceling out cruelty is denial." @rsdeeren.bsky.social's interview with @marianazos.bsky.social on "Year of Valentines" (@omnidawn.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/08/12/o...
7 years ago today my wife & I got married on the most beautiful (& maybe also sweatiest) day of my life. every year I reread this Katie Ford poem that was part of our ceremony and I feel lucky & grateful anew for “what I can know and admit to knowing,”—happy anniversary Kristi, I love you so much :)
LIVE NOW! UNSAFE Join @slamble1.bsky.social and @deanspade.bsky.social for an urgent discussion on the pernicious role of the politics of fear and exclusion in the anti-trans backlash and beyond. Stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEHz...
UNSAFE: S. Lamble and Dean Spade on the Anti-Trans Backlash
Join S. Lamble and Dean Spade for an urgent discussion on the pernicious role of the politics of fear and exclusion in the anti-trans backlash and…
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What a kickass surprise: earlier this year, @libraryjournal.bsky.social included PULSE in its PrePub Alert, w/extraordinary #poets I've long admired & dreamed of sharing ANY page with, let alone this one. 📚 Now, w/the book out from @omnidawn.bsky.social, it’s lovely to look back. #poetry
Many medical and nursing schools do not teach abortion care—but independent clinics do. As they shutter nationwide, it’s creating a medical workforce crisis.
Who Will Train the Next Generation of Abortion Providers?
Many medical and nursing schools do not teach abortion care; independent clinics do. They’re closing nationwide, creating a medical workforce crisis.
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above/ground press author spotlight #35 : Jason Heroux , celebrating his fourth title through above/ground press, / @pw.org @poetslaureate.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...
How does one man become so prolific. I literally do one interview a month if I’m lucky and I feel like John Grisham.
rob mclennan@robmclennan.bsky.social · 3w agonewly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Laura Kerr : What is a poem? / @sedserio.com ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/08/laur...
More great #SealeyChallenge reads: If you've read them, I'd love to hear what stayed with you. Give the authors some love and a follow if you haven't already. 📚 #poetry #poets
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Melanie Marttila : My Mother Joins the Resistance, by Richard Harrison / @melaniemarttila.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @writersguildab.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/08/mela...
Melanie Marttila : My Mother Joins the Resistance, by Richard Harrison
My Mother Joins the Resistance , Richard Harrison Wolsak & Wynn, 2026 Richard Harrison’s My Mother Joins the Resistance is a med...
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August means the #SealeyChallenge! 📚 If you're looking for #poetry to read this month, consider PULSE. I have copies ready to sign! PM me if you'd like one ($19.95 + shipping). If you read PULSE for the #SealeyChallenge, please tag me & use #PulseByMariaNazos. 💙 @omnidawn.bsky.social Can't wait!
Speaking of Kandala... Come do the #SealeyChallenge with me and one of my finest students, Kandala Singh. Join her and Kinjal Sethia's worthy cause. Support great #poets, including her and those that she'll bring to your inbox. Info below.
Southeast Review@southeastreview.bsky.social · last yr.A brief but grounded poem, Kandala Singh’s, Four Seasons, Chicago offers an acute understanding of place, assembly, and wholeness. Singh has been featured in Eclectia, Frontier Poetry, Hindustan Times, and more. www.southeastreview.org/single-post/... #poetry #litmag #southeastreview #writer
Ticking down…⏰ Register here: app.gopassage.com/events/omnid.... #poetry #poem
Omnidawn Spring '26 Book Launch | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.
Quiet Lightning is pleased to host a virtual event with Omnidawn Publishing for their seasonal launch of new titles, for which each author will read from their work. Hosted by QL director Evan Karp.**...
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Cadet Bone Spurs Family Has Never Served In The Military 🪖, Going Back At Least 5 Generations.......(capecodtimes)
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
I always thought Bill Ursel supported women writers and was kind—I didn’t know he also writes thoughtful reviews. Being told your #poetry has Lilith vibes is among the best compliments. Here’s Bill’s review of PULSE: www.billursel.com/poetry-revie.... #PoetryCommunity #PoetryBooks
I keep forgetting, THIS is really what it’s all about. Not the hokey-pokey. (Sorry, I had to.) Not the awards, publications, or prizes. But PEOPLE show up who have loved you, seen you, and made you feel worthy enough to make your voice heard again and again—even when you were afraid to use it.
What is your favorite poem about/on/reminiscing poete maudit Arthur Rimbaud? Asking for a friend
Epstein survivor Dani Bensky delivered a forceful rebuke of Acting Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, accusing him of prioritizing meetings with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell over outreach to victims.
