I wrote about Trµmp's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, the trial of Mitsuye Endo, the example of Japanese American incarceration, pledging allegiance to war, the inherence of fascism, and my grandfather's Alien Enemy Wind-Up Doll™ @thebaffler.com: t.ly/n07l7

Nick Sturm on Alice Notley ("At Night the States") Close Readings · Episode

I talked with Nick Sturm (@nicksturm.bsky.social) about the brilliant Alice Notley, who died just three weeks ago, and her poem “At Night the States.”

“making life, not explaining anything”

I missed having these conversations.

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Join us at our AWP off-site readings!📚✨

On March 27, our event features WTAW Press stars:
✨ @anitafelicelli.bsky.social
✨ LIZ GREEN
✨ @menopunk.bsky.social
✨ STEPHANIE AUSTIN

Poetry Northwest's stars are: @billcarty.bsky.social, Kevin Craft, @katharinewhitcomb.bsky.social, and Nikia Chaney.

Fonograf Editions Poetry Reading at Common AREA Maintenance in Seattle, WA - Wednesday, March 19 - EverOut Seattle Join Fonograf Editions for an evening of poetry featuring Ari B. Cofer, Caitlin Roach, Aditi Machado, Esther Kondo Heller and Bill Carty. Fonograf Editions is a nonprofit press and literary record lab...

Tonight! @fonografeditions.bsky.social reading at Common Area Maintenance.

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The Button | Poetry Northwest Sometimes I think every second I spend writing would be better spent on something else.

Honored to have a new poem up at Poetry Northwest today. Many thanks to @billcarty.bsky.social and all the good PNW folks.

'In a dictatorship, metaphors can save you': The poetry of Ghayath Almadhoun The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism

"You could smell the fear everywhere. But under the Syrian regime, you could hide the real meaning behind your words with metaphors. Metaphors would save you," Almadhoun explains."

Ghayath Almadhoun (Action Books) on writing in a dictatorship:
www.middleeasteye.net/discover/met...

I have six HORSES up on Poetry Northwest right now. Here are two + a link. Thank you, Poetry Northwest! These poems are from a WIP called I AM THE HORSE. ✨
www.poetrynw.org/poetry/from-...

Colors (for S.D.) Sometimes I agreed with you to make you stop telling me things. I was a fist closed around a rock. For a long time nothing changed. It was like driving all day through Texas. But now I've stopped tearing the arm off the waiting-room chair, and sneaking back at night to fix it. And the change was like light moving through a prism, red turning to yellow, green to blue, and all by insensible degrees.

For a long time nothing changed.
It was like driving all day through Texas.

Jane Kenyon

The great Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social just won the National Book Award for Poetry, for Something about Living. You can get it @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social, where all proceeds go to HEAL Palestine, providing essential aid, healthcare, educational resources to Palestinian youth: t.ly/Sqvw2

Poetry Northwest Submission Manager Thank you for your interest in Poetry Northwest. After more than 60 years, we remain committed to publishing the best in contemporary poetry, especially work willing to take risks and push readers to ...

Poetry Northwest submissions, open for November. Send some poems!

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ferry door labeled “void”

haha yes absolutely

is it stephen dedalus?

smh only 3 likes for this gold. i guess that’s why they call it the blues(ky)