'The past is never dead. It's not even past.'
– William Faulkner
#Writer

Radiohead, “Idioteque”
#music
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Diane Arbus, 42nd Street movie theater audience, N.Y.C., 1958
#photograghy

“Oh, must we dream our dreams
and have them, too?
And have we room
for one more folded sunset, still quite warm?

But surely it would have been a pity
not to have seen the trees along this road,
really exaggerated in their beauty”
- Elizabeth Bishop
#poetry

'full-frame visible, longed-for (wanted wanted wanted wanted) by some brief myriad
(who knows how long) (I know: not long) of infinite, enamored strangers’ eyes.' - A remarkable piece of writing by Joely Fitch at Moist Poetry Journal is on Bluesky 🏳️‍⚧️. jo...
#poetry
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Many thanks to The Yale Review for publishing this essay of mine. I hope you all will read it. ❤️

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'Pop culture is important to me, and it's clearly important to everyone else too.'

Kolleen's editor's letter:

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'The nothing is what scares people, but it's also
what brings them in, like vertigo drawing you to the floor' - Strong work by Liz DeGregorio at @drunkmonkeysweb. Pop Culture Issue. Liz DeGregorio @lizdegregorio.bsky.social she/her
#poetry

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In the midst of a sea of fonts that climb in my head like a Sesame Street alphabet episode, I’m currently haunted by one billboard in particular. There’s a lawyer that advertises all over Alabama & into Tennessee…

⁦Amy Barnes⁩ w/ a fabulous new column trampset.org/i-see-dead-fon…

✨COVER REVEAL✨

Introducing our next chapbook: TAKE ME HOME, a
mini-memoir by Bethany Jarmul! Coming June 25, you
can pre-order your copy now or plan ahead with our
next chap subscription: bellepointpress.com/products/take-…

I’ve got a poem about sex, death and Stevie Nicks in the amazing Pop Culture edition of Drunk Monkeys 🤩 🖤

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'The backyard sea took over her home. The plaster flaked, the fist of walls dissolved in the doorless depths. Her laptop was swallowed by a baby whale'

Tara Isabel Zambrano up at Flash Frog ❤️

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Thrilled to have a new poem out today in Drunk Monkeys's Pop Culture issue. Read here👇
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'Don’t you love creative women who make art from scraps, weave them like Athena at the loom, Judy Blume them into banned books, Keisha-Finnie them into henna looks...' - Great work by Dana Kinsey at
Drunk Monkeys. Dana Kinsey
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It's here, it's queer, it's pop, it's hot, it's cool, it rules the school. The annual Pop Culture issue is alive and we want you to read it here:

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'I write the way I imagine the botanist’s wife planting trees for her daughters—out of equal parts futility and love, with no expectation of anything in return.' YELLOW BAND Steve Edwards The Yale Review yalereview.org/article/steve-…

AHHH!!! I'm THRILLED to announce that my mini-memoir TAKE ME HOME is now available for preorder from Belle Point Press! I poured my heart & soul into this little book. It would mean the world to me if you would consider preordering it: bellepointpress.com/products/take-…

'The Poet--when he is writing--is a priest; the poem is a temple; epiphanies and communion take place within it.'

-- Denise Levertov, 'Origins of a Poem'

Congrats to Bethany Jarmul on TAKE ME HOME, out in June with Belle Point Press! I just pre-ordered & you should too! What a cover! 🩷

a recent poem + a writing prompt, via Moist Poetry Journal; / UCalgaryPress League of Canadian Poets TWUC Poetry Foundation #NationalPoetryMonth ;
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