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First time doing this, but -- here's our BOTN nominations for 2026! If you haven't given any of these wonderful pieces a read, you should check them out :)
"I start drawing the spiral on the back of my hand in crusty ballpoint pen, refreshing it whenever it fades, so when the aliens come back they'll know right away who to trust."
"Spirals" by @narwhallington.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD:
Itโs a great day to send us your โจchapbook manuscript!โจ
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 31, 2025 Blood Moon Katherine Oung I have dreams of war but only dreams. Come morning my body turns, kinetic. Trying to catch up with the sky. Window left open; itโs rattling. Dogwood carcass, American robin. Chest split open by red light.
Happy Halloween, from us, and Katherine Oung, and the blood moon!!
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https://www.havehashad.com/ll0sy
I donโt know how to write this; another month in his quicksand palm, where I lie freely, or would if I could. I think of summerโs end, of my grandmother teaching my mother to dry figs in the sun, and me sitting by the window wishing literature would die or kill me or both. I didnโt understand then that pistols arenโt loaded with words. It doesnโt matter. The sand exfoliates my pores and crystalizes on my eyelashes.
"Perhaps in the distance waves sweep across the sand, or someone walks barefoot on the floor above. "
A poem by ๐ก๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ฬ๐ปฬ๐ถ๐ด๐ฎโ (transl. ๐ ๐ฒ๐ด ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ) in the Fall 2025 issue
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#poetry #poetrycommunity #translation
The entire point of doing reviews is for us, the scholars, to THINK and read, and write and learn at the same time.
Why are we devaluing all of that in academia?
Shameful piece.
Psst: ๐
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to the utterly spectacular Emily Van Duyne about her research on the legendary poet, Sylvia Plath.
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LOVING SYLVIA PLATH by Emily Van Duyne appeared on @readbookpage.bsky.social's list of 12 best biographies of 2024.
Available now wherever books are sold.
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A scene from Seinfeld where George Constanza says โI've been suffering for the past 30 years up to and including yesterday.โ to Jerry
the millennial experience of living in America
The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin
I would love some recommendations for ecologically and environmentally-focused poems, poets, and collections! Anyone got anything for me?
โif youโre interestedโ is such great phrasing ๐ of course!
yeet | interjection | used to express surprise, approval, or excited enthusiasm
A tan fluffy corgi-Pomeranian cross sleeping on a purple text blanket. She looks so serene.
May this pup bring you good luck
man me neither ๐ Iโm here and Iโm no more witty than I was there! but Iโm pissed! so thereโs that
THIS (some of) IS WHAT CLERGY ARE TO DO NOW
(video at link)
You don't cozy up to power
You speak prophetic truth to those who have power when you have the mic
You use your voice and position to demand moral reckoning, safety, care, love, protection.
YOU. TAKE. RISKS.
It's your damn job.
Text of Wendy Cope's poem "The Orange"
the world feels impossibly heavy for all *the reasons* and a few more, but there's always Wendy Cope's lovely poem
IN THE MORNING, BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS The sky is open all the way. Workers upright on the line like spokes. I know there is a river somewhere, lit, fragrant, golden mist, all that, whose irrepressible birds canโt believe their luck this morning and every morning. I let them riot in my mind a few minutes more before the news comes.
Molly Brodak
Over the course of the year, I looked through hundreds of poetry books to write my monthly roundups for @literaryhub.bsky.social. It was immensely rewarding and pleasurable and time-consuming. I approached each book I reviewed as a conundrum to be transformed into a reflection of some kernel
Looking to do more poetry book reviews in 2025! If youโve recently had a book published or have one forthcoming in the new year, please drop it in the replies! Iโd love to consider your work and will reach out for an ARC if I think itโs a good fit! ๐ฅฐ๐
"It's not a test, you say, but
what would you do with me
as a worm, as a single ice cube,
an escaping gas, a fleck of glitter
on your thumb. I know it's hard."
โค๏ธโ๐ฅโค๏ธโ๐ฅ today from Ashley Varela
https://www.havehashad.com/w58nc
We lived in the house of poetry, which was also the house of love and grief; the house of solitude and art; the house of Janeโs depression and my cancers and Janeโs leukemia.
Donald Hall
In "Interrogating the โAfrican troupeโ: The construction of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese consumption of K-pop videos," Xu and Wilson analyze Chinese K-pop fan responses to โRica Rica.โ Read their analysis now:
