We're excited to announce the 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows: Xochi Quetzali Cartland, Fatima Jafar, Noel Munguia-Moreno, Shaina Phenix, and Tariq Thompson! 🎉 Learn more about this year's brilliant cohort: https://bit.ly/4coV2rx

Poetry Foundation Announces the 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

Honoring extraordinary young poets with more than $145,000 in prizes

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New Books Network’s poetry podcast is a wide-reaching collection of new poetry and books about poetry. There’s something in here for everyone. #poetry #poetrypodcasts

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Snail is probably my favourite secondary F&T character.

Frog and Toad Bot@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 5d ago

“Snail,” said Frog, “please take this letter to Toad’s house and put it in his mailbox.”

If there’s a “criticism is biography” school in poetry, there’s a “poetry podcast is autobiography” school. Helena de Groot hosts this charming series of discussions with contemporary poets. Not a craft podcast so much as an exploration of a version of the poetic mindset. #poetry #poetrypodcasts

“There,” said Toad. “Now my day is all written down.”

Write a book about writing for mystery (artistic, not whodunnit): a tough mission, one not quite completed here. (This is a problem with several of the books in the “The Art of…” series.) I don’t know that I’ll be any more mysterious after this. Still, readable. #booksky #tinybookreviews

Fuck me. Fuck us all, really. The fact that somebody invented a machine to cut the spines off of books to scan them is a hate crime aimed at anyone who speaks a language.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 7d ago

There's a video of the machine cutting open books, including clearly old and rare books, and it feels so violent. We do not have to accept this shit.

rob mclennan@robmclennan.bsky.social · 7d ago

amused to see this @zoewhittall.bsky.social post appear via facebook, posted by some author i don't follow (but appearing as a 'suggested follow' (and i do agree wholeheartedly with Whittall's post, by the way,

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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"Now that their characters are nominally free, the least we can do is understand what it cost." Ellen O’Connell Whittet on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple and Mildred Benson’s Nancy Drew's entry into the public domain. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/women-detectives-oconnell-whittet/

Who Owns Women Detectives? | Los Angeles Review of Books

Now that Miss Marple and Nancy Drew’s early novels are entering the public domain, what comes next for them?

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What I like about this podcast is that it’s about poems, rather than being mostly about poets. (Some podcasts seem to think that nobody is interested in poetry, but they might be interested in some gushing about poets.) Not shy, very entertaining. #poetrypodcasts @rattlepoetry.bsky.social

The Poetry Space_

Books Podcast · Updated Weekly · Join hosts Katie Dozier and Timothy Green for The Poetry Space_, a weekly poetry podcast featuring lively, free-wheeling discussions on poems, poetry craft, and the wr...

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I have been thinking on this and I find it so hard to answer! #booksky @irishlittimes.bsky.social

Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 3w ago

Look what came in the mail today!! @pjrobichaud.bsky.social #booksky #storiesofthestones Can’t wait to dig in!!

This seems like it’s a quiet-part-loud type of thing. But no: when universities line up to become defence contractors while the humanities are being starved out, that’s just everyday fascism that, in 2026, nobody thinks they should be embarrassed about.

Boost for skills and research as 35 universities across the UK partner in new defence alliance

A new Defence Universities Alliance with 35 UK universities will help strengthen defence research, build critical skills and support the UK's future defence capability.

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This book is full of allusions and references (classicial, biblical, Shakespearean), juxtapositions, and abstruseness. In other words, it's a good poet's poetry book, or a good academic's poetry book, which I don't mean as any insult. #tinybookreviews #poetry #canlit @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social

Devotional Forensics

Winner, Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Prize Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize With dazzling wit and brittle tenderness, multi-award-winning poet Joseph Kidney catches all in his hig...

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Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass

I try not to post much about medicine here, but this concept is too stupid not to respond to. Cancer is in no respect a toxin disposal mechanism. It is the result of genetic errors that create malfunctioning cells. I hope David Wolfe is held responsible for every gullible dimwit he kills.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea@jonathanstea.bsky.social · 4w ago

Science literacy involves learning just enough about cancer to understand that cancer is not in fact trying to heal you no matter the pseudoscience promoted in the alternative medicine community.

Paul Muldoon is the best rhymer in English poetry today. Fight me. I’ll clarify what I mean: he’s great at inventive rhyme that doesn’t punch you in the head so much as to become sing song, or children’s verse (not that there’s anything wrong with that), or something resembling a pop song (ditto).

It occurred to me that I post poems without comment. But when I do readings, I sometimes add a few words of explanation: This is about the London Underground, which is a wonder of engineering and of effort to create a public good. It’s also often gross and weird and disorienting. But not always.

Paul Moorehead@paulmoorehead.bsky.social · last mo.

I have a new poem in the latest issue of @pinholepoetry.bsky.social #poetry #canlit #poemsaboutsubways

Perhaps my favourite Muldoon so far. So inventive, so personal. I can’t think of another poet so unafraid of vocabulary, yet so natural with it. The language play is acrobatic, never ostentatious. And the cover’s great. (So many poetry books have terrible covers.) #poetry #booksky #tinybookreviews

Horse Latitudes

The title of Horse Latitudes, Paul Muldoon's tenth collection of poetry, refers to those areas thirty degrees north and south of the equator where sailing sh...

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A very interesting read. Although firmly in the (somewhat strange, I always find) “criticism is biography” camp. @lrb.co.uk #poetry

Seamus Perry · The poet slams his door: Likeable Michael Longley

Michael Longley, who was all too familiar with protracted writer’s block, often spoke of precariousness in the sense...

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I have a new poem in the latest issue of @pinholepoetry.bsky.social #poetry #canlit #poemsaboutsubways

Issue 5.2 · P I N H O L E • P O E T R Y

We’re so pleased to present our eighteenth issue, a collection of poems around the theme of subways, subtext, undercurrents and all that lives underneath. It features the work of twenty-three poets an...

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Waiting for Chinese food with Paul Muldoon and a Coke. #poetry #irishpoetry

The Irish Writers Centre is delighted to announce its 12th consecutive year of residencies with Cill Rialaig. Spend 10 days writing in Cill Rialaig, locally known as “the edge of the world.” For more details and all the information you need on how to apply: irishwriterscentre.ie/.../cill-ria...