I'm grateful to @johnleeclark for selecting this poem for the @POETSorg Poem-a-Day series. July is #DisabilityPrideMonth. Please help me celebrate and share this poem as I travel to spend the rest of the week at @AmherstCollege and the @DickinsonMuseum.
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Our very first issue and our most recent! How times have changed! Check out the brand new summer volume, featuring poetry from Mary Oliver, Maggie Smith, and more! Excerpts available: southernhumanitiesreview.com… #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #fiction #litmag #nonfiction
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It’s official publication day for my newest full-length poetry collection, It’s Important I Remember! Thank you to @northwesternup for their belief in this expansive and provocative work. I’m excited to let its meanings and power compound with my earlier books. ✊🏾
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Cultural Autism Studies at Yale (CASY) welcomes Nathan Spoon on Tuesday, December 2, 3-4 p.m. EST (2 p.m. CST, 12 p.m. PST, 8 p.m. GMT). There is no cost to attend, and international participants are welcome. RSVP by joining our free Meetup group online at tinyurl.com/2vxc67m8
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"The goal of the #Israeli government is abundantly clear. As we continue to witness the destruction of Palestinians in #Gaza, the commission finds it is genocide," @UN Commission of Inquiry chair Navi Pillay told reporters in Geneva today.
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The final nail in the coffin of genocide denial: UN Commission of Inquiry concludes on reasonable grounds that Israel have committed and is continuing to commit the following actus reus of genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
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i'm thrilled The Importance of Being Feeble-Minded is making it's way to library shelves and to learn how happy @SUPress is with sales so far. deeply grateful to everyone who has picked up a copy so far!
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Review: Everything Was in The Throat of The World: On Jaia Hamid Bashir’s Desire/Halves. "In Desire/Halves, the alluring and unruly ways of memory imbue the speaker with the logic of one who has been torn and cleaved..." Read here: poetrynw.org/everything-was-… #pdnews
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Today's Feature: In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Nathan Spoon on β€œThe Three Trees at Hudimesnil” Read here: poems.com/features/what-spar…
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Get lost among the leaves in "Welcome Back" by @npspoon Read more poetry from SHR 57.4: southernhumanitiesreview.com… #litmag #writingcommunity #poetry
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april is poetry month and autism acceptance month. i'm an autistic poet and pleased to share the per-order link to my new book! press.syr.edu/supressbooks/8…
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Listen to the trees' tales in "To Earth" by @npspoon Explore more poetry from our winter issue: southernhumanitiesreview.com… #litmag #writingcommunity #poetry
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All i need right now is someone to hug me and to tell me that this is going to end rn.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. β€”Elizabeth Barrett Browning, born #OTD in 1806 poets.org/poem/how-do-i-love…
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Autistic people often struggle with decision-making, and I want to talk about why... because discovering the research behind this blew my mind.
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Today's Featured Poem: An excerpt of the poem "Selections from A Spiritual Admonition" by Salim Barakat, trans. by Huda J. Fakhreddine, from The Universe, All at Once: Selected Poems, published by Seagull Books (@seagullbooks). Read here: poems.com/poem/selections-fr…
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Join our friends @Workshops4Gaza for their third online poetry reading featuring Sarah Ghazal Ali, George Abraham, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Cindy Juyoung Ok. The reading will be followed by a short moderated discussion and Q and A. Can't wait to see you there!
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πŸ•―οΈ 29 January 2025: One year since the murder of Hind Rajab. We carry her name with pain, hope and an unyielding determination to seek justiceβ€”for her and for all the victims of the Gaza genocide. Hind will never be forgotten. Read Hind's Story ⬇️ bit.ly/40BG62F
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i want to live in the tiniest, coziest cabin, inside a bubble resting atop a flower. who's with me?
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Congratulations to Carl Phillips for being a National Book Critics Circle poetry finalist. ICYMI here is our deep dive into his latest book together. A highlight for me from last year Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/carl-ph… @bookcritics @fsgbooks @PoetryFound @POETSorg
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i hate writing that is more about the writer’s capacity for cleverness and erudition than about a reader’s capacity for compassion and transformation
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