Thanks to Poetry Northwest and Shriram Sivaramakrishnan for this interview with @utopiaminus.bsky.social on 13 Questions for the Next Economy! Read the full interview here: www.poetrynw.org/interview-th...
Susan Briante
@utopiaminus.bsky.social
poet, educator, translator author of Defacing the Monument, Utopia Minus, Pioneers in the Study of Motion and The Market Wonders.
Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: @utopiaminus.bsky.social on her poem, "Further Exercises" from 13 Questions for the Next Economy published by @noemipress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/further...
Further Exercises
Write a poem that binds you and your reader as tightly as the zip ties encircling protestors’ wrists. Use empathy, compassion, complicity.
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Thank you @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @essaydaily.bsky.social for letting me share my list for resistance!
Ander Monson@angermonsoon.bsky.social · last mo."List the birds native to your state and the birds that arrive for a season. Diagram the placement of all the nests...Start a list of people killed by ICE since 2024" @utopiaminus.bsky.social in today's @essaydaily.bsky.social L*ST: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/susa...
“We don’t need permission from a rich person to do this work.” @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strikers who are now worker-owners of @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social, a cooperative newsroom covering the communities corporate media leaves behind.
Former Strikers Start Cooperative News Organization
Following firings from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, workers and community members came together to create the Pittsburgh Progress.
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Wrecks by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social, Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social, and 13 Questions for the Next Economy by @utopiaminus.bsky.social are now all available as ebooks on the Noemi website!
Picking 23rd @utopiaminus.bsky.social selects a true banger, The Pretenders, 2000 Miles (1984): www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEyG...
Pretenders - 2000 Miles (Official Music Video) [HD]
YouTube video by RHINO
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Looking forward to reading with @uamfa.bsky.social's @raquefella.bsky.social and Katarina Ivanov Prado at Tucson's bar crisol on Friday July 24 @ 7 pm
New at PB: @catgander.bsky.social & Stefania Heim introduce their new anthology on Muriel Rukeyser, featuring contributions from Daniel Borzutsky, Susan Briante, Erika Meitner, Philip Metres, Deborah Paredez, Khadijah Queen, Solmaz Sharif, Nomi Stone, and more.
To Reach Beyond Ourselves Is Key to Our Survival - Public Books
“We wanted to make a book that began to answer the questions Muriel Rukeyser asked. We wanted to make a book that continued to ask the questions she asked, of ourselves, of each other.”
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Poems should evidence some degree of control, but poets should be a little volatile. The poem is a high-risk investment, a long-term commitment. Like a big dirty city, it should make you feel a little uncomfortable. Susan Briante, @noemipress.bsky.social
This is such an incredible new collection from @noemipress.bsky.social, and brings together books that are out of print! 🙏💙
Thanks to Serena Chopra for including Defacing the Monument by @utopiaminus.bsky.social in her annotated reading list for The Annotated Nightstand, curated by Noemi editor @dianaarterian.bsky.social for @literaryhub.bsky.social Read here: lithub.com/the-annotate...
"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...
Serena Chopra’s TBR includes work by Susan Briante, Sappho, Christopher Marmolejo and more.
The Annotated Nightstand: What Serena Chopra is Reading Right Now
“Our tongues tie trying / to articulate the knot,” writes Serena Chopra in her simultaneously tender and exacting new collection A Catalog of Future Mercies. When she writes, later, “I pry this int…
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In a two-way interview with poets @utopiaminus.bsky.social and @raquefella.bsky.social, they discuss their poetry collections that interrogate what we inherit from complicated legacies—both published in 2025 by @noemipress.bsky.social.
BOMB Magazine | Susan Briante and Raquel Gutiérrez
Two poetry collections that interrogate what we inherit from complicated legacies.
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Two poetry collections that interrogate what we inherit from complicated legacies. Interview between authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social (13 Questions for the Next Economy) and @raquefella.bsky.social (Southwest Reconstruction) for BOMB Magazine: bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
Congratulations to 13 QUESTIONS FOR THE NEXT ECONOMY: NEW & SELECTED WORKS by Susan Briante, published by @noemipress.bsky.social, a finalist for the 2026 Firecracker Award in Poetry! www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...
Wherein Susan Briante reads from 13 QUESTIONS FOR THE NEXT ECONOMY (Noemi Press), a Finalist for the 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award for Poetry! youtu.be/tNaEifbW-6o Cc: @noemipress.bsky.social
2025 BIG OTHER Book Award Finalist Susan Briante Reads from 13 QUESTIONS FOR THE NEXT ECONOMY
YouTube video by Big Other
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differences 36.2–3 is out now — edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, "Lyric beyond Containment" features essays from Jacques Khalip, David Marriott, Andrea Brady, Amy De'Ath, Whitney DeVos, Jan Mieszkowski, Ren Ellis Neyra, Susan Briante, more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
Congrats to @utopiaminus.bsky.social for being named as a finalist for the 2026 Firecracker Award in Poetry for 13 Questions for the Next Economy!!!!
Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP)@clmporg.bsky.social · 5mo agoCongratulations to the finalists of the 2026 Firecracker Award in Poetry! www.clmp.org/programs-opp...
Big Noemi news! Congratulations to authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social and @erinlmccoy.bsky.social, who were chosen as finalists for the @bigothermag book award! Read the full list of finalists here: bigother.com/2026/05/05/a...
Shout out to 13 Questions for the Next Economy by @utopiaminus.bsky.social for making Itasca's top 10 titles for February 2026!
We're excited to announce our collaborative offsite reading at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse on Saturday, March 7th at 8PM! Free to attend!
We've got an exciting series of readings coming up this month! First, catch @utopiaminus.bsky.social this Thursday February 12th at @franciskiteclub at 7pm
Mark your calendars! Noemi authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social and @raquefella.bsky.social are reading alongside Gabrielle Civil and Taneum Bambrick at North Figueroa Bookshop on Thursday, February 26th!
Brilliant artist, and a typically brilliant post and suggestion
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 9mo agoDavid Wojnarowicz, "Four Elements," 1990, from collection of the Walker Art Center, which is closed today as part of today's general strike in Minneapolis. I'm nominating the detail at right as prime candidate for new anti-ICE iconography walkerart.org/collections/...
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.
Today's Featured Poem: "13 Questions for the Next Economy" by @utopiaminus.bsky.social from 13 Questions for the Next Economy published by @noemipress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/13-ques...
13 Questions for the Next Economy
Spark of dry grass, Russian thistle in flames, or butterflies bobbing as if pulled by unseen strings through the alleyway.
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Read "What Comes After Us" from 13 Questions for the Next Economy by @utopiaminus.bsky.social along with Susan's thoughts on the poem for "In Their Own Words" with @poetrysociety.org Check out the full feature here: poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...
