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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.comβ¦
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #fiction #litmag #nonfiction
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Itβs official publication day for my newest full-length poetry collection, Itβs Important I Remember! Thank you to @northwesternup for their belief in this expansive and provocative work. Iβm excited to let its meanings and power compound with my earlier books. βπΎοΏΌ
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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 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
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!
ALT image of listings for The Importance of Being Feeble-Minded in the Stanford and Princeton library catalogs
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Review: Everything Was in The Throat of The World: On Jaia Hamid Bashirβs 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-β¦
#pdnews
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Today's Feature:
In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Nathan Spoon on βThe Three Trees at Hudimesnilβ
Read here:
poems.com/features/what-sparβ¦
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Get lost among the leaves in "Welcome Back" by @npspoon
Read more poetry from SHR 57.4: southernhumanitiesreview.comβ¦
#litmag #writingcommunity #poetry
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/8β¦
ALT screen image of pre-order page for my new collection: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/8662/importance-of-being-feeble-minded-the/
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Listen to the trees' tales in "To Earth" by @npspoon
Explore more poetry from our winter issue: southernhumanitiesreview.comβ¦
#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.
βElizabeth Barrett Browning, born #OTD in 1806
poets.org/poem/how-do-i-loveβ¦
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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-frβ¦
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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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π―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 justiceβfor her and for all the victims of the Gaza genocide.
Hind will never be forgotten.
Read Hind's Story β¬οΈ
bit.ly/40BG62F
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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-phβ¦
@bookcritics @fsgbooks @PoetryFound @POETSorg
