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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · 10d

Today at Malaprops, Asheville, NC. If you're in the area, hope to see you there!

Flyer for fantastic reading happening today (Sun. 10/5) at Malaprops Bookstore in Asheville, NC. Readers: Nicole Farmer, Mildred K. Barya, Laura-Gray Street, and Narya Rose Deckard. If you're in the area, hope to see you there!

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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 16d

Little big widing queen and the three boars - here’s a link to today’s published #fatbearweek preview

www.ktoo.org/2025/09/29/f...

Fat Bear Week final four: a queen and the three boars

It's the semifinals of Fat Bear Week 2025, and everyone's eager to know who will be crowned the chubbiest.

www.ktoo.org

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · 20d

A bonanza of monarch cats, chrysalises, & butterflies this fall (a 5-day butterfly eclosing streak this past week). Solace in a chaotic world 🧡 #monarchs #butterflies #pollinators

A 14-photo collage of the yard's bonanza of monarch cats, chrysalises, and butterflies this fall--solace in a chaotic world!

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · 24d

Home on the James. Also, growing up, the Severn (Annapolis).

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · 24d

Many #BlackEarthInstitute Fellows involved with this 2nd anthology 📖 'Attached to the Living World.' Register for the event, or participate online, Oct 26, 2025, 4:30 PM MDT. Ann Fisher-Wirth, @elegystreet.bsky.social, Lauren Camp, Pam Uschuk & others www.collectedworksbookstore.com/events-1/att...

Attached to the Living World - A New Ecopoetry Anthology | CW Bookstore

The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative book of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment. Poets Elizabeth Jacobson, Sawnie Morris, Lauren Camp, Anne H. McDonell, and Pam Usch...

www.collectedworksbookstore.com

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · 26d

What an enormous loss for so many. The vertigo I’ve been having is real (#bppv), but it is exacerbated on so many levels by this dizzying loss. My heart goes out to all the amazing TUP editors and staff. 2/2

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · 26d

Among the many sadnesses in the world right now, this is one that hits particularly close to home. Trinity UP has been fantastic to work with through the processes of co-editing, with Ann Fisher-Wirth, The Ecopoetry Anthology and then Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology. 1/2

Trinity University closes the book on its esteemed publishing house

The highly regarded academic press affiliated with the private liberal arts college in San Antonio is closing, Trinity University confirmed Wednesday.

www.expressnews.com

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thank you @asleuki.bsky.social for the great conference that got me over there;

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · Aug 24

Home from Ireland but also partly still there.

Street / street sign on brick wall in Dublin. Sign reads Gray Street or Sraid an Ghraeigh in Irish

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · Jul 23

Goodnight, sandhill cranes--

photo of sunset over Cook Inlet, Homer, AK (sandhill cranes flying to roost in the distance)

photo of sandhill cranes flying over Cook Inlet at sunset to roost

close up of sandhill cranes flying over Cook Inlet at sunset to roost

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · Jul 19

I'm currently in Homer and devotedly watching these live cams!

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · Jul 19

Can't wait to listen to this!

Abena Ntoso @abenantoso.bsky.social · Jul 17

Excited to share episode 2 of Backlit, featuring Donnelle McGee and Synnika Lofton! We “waxed poetic” (pun intended) on music inspirations & growing as individuals and as a society. I would love to hear listeners’ thoughts—feel free to comment below! 📚💙 #writers #books #poets #podcast

Abena Ntoso - American Reverie: Inspiration, Conversation and Growth

Backlit Podcast with Abena Ntoso American Reverie: Inspiration, Conversation, and Growth

www.abenantoso.com

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · Jul 16

Join us if you can this Thursday, 6 pm AK, 10 pm ED time: Live from Storyknife July 2025 | Storyknife Writers Retreat share.google/cK0FdDkJ1cPk...

Event graphic for Live from Storyknife reading series featuring photos of the six writers in residence reading on July 17, 6 pm AK time, Zoom link at www Storyknife.org

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · Jun 30

Alaska

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thank you, Lesley!! I've been off social media for a spell, but this is so lovely to return to!

Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · Jun 6

Just finished two beautiful new collections bridging the 19th and 21st c, both transmuting scholarship into art. Congratulations @elegystreet.bsky.social & @rosalane145.bsky.social ! @tupelopress.bsky.social Press 53

Just Labor by Laura-Gray Street and Called Back by Rosa Lane

Poem Linthead Stomp by Laura-Gray Street

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · Jun 4

This is all so crazy! I'm so sorry it happened, but I'm delighted to see you here!!

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · Jun 4

Whaa??

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · Jun 4

It was an absolute delight talking with @abenantoso.bsky.social for her new podcast, Backlit. Abena is so smart and warm and insightful, and this podcast series is one to bookmark and keep coming back to. Thank you, Abena!!

Abena Ntoso @abenantoso.bsky.social · Jun 3

Excited to announce the debut of Backlit, a new literary #podcast featuring groundbreaking conversations with perspectives & possibilities for life & work. Thanks guest #poet @elegystreet.bsky.social for a great convo. Looking forward to many more wonderful discussions!
💙📚 #booksky #books #writer

Abena Ntoso - Backlit

About the Podcast

www.abenantoso.com

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · May 25

Beautiful & well earned!

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · May 21

Yesterday, MIT Technology Review published a first-of-its-kind look at AI’s energy use and the resulting climate impact. Here’s how our reporters waded through a mess of data and hidden variables to calculate all of it.

Everything you need to know about estimating AI’s energy and emissions burden

Here’s how MIT Technology Review waded through a mess of data and hidden variables to calculate the individual and collective energy demand from AI.

www.technologyreview.com

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · May 21

Congrats!!!

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Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social · May 19

Yes!

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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · May 8

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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · May 8

fascinating call for The New Material Ecopoetics: "experimental eco-poetry that engages with the possibilities of organic form. We welcome experiments with lyric, visual poetics, material poetries, and sound poetries." from @arcpoetry.bsky.social

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05/16/2025
Poems: The New Material Ecopoetics
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What does it mean to be a poet engaged with the physical material of the world around us? How does poetic form change in the encounter with other beings? How do we write collaboratively with—rather than about—nonhuman beings and ecologies?

For the Fall 2025 issue, Arc is seeking experimental eco-poetry that engages with the possibilities of organic form. We welcome experiments with lyric, visual poetics, material poetries, and sound poetries. Submissions should be previously unpublished poetry in English or translations of poetry into English (please confirm you have the appropriate rights and permissions to publish your translation). Submissions on this theme will be accepted until May 15, 2025.

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