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Evalyn Lee

@evalynlee.bsky.social

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Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · Dec 14

#Gratitude to @wildroofjournal.bsky.social for publishing & discussing my #poem ‘I Read A Lot’ in #Issue15. A #poetry highlight for me. What a brilliant team of #editors. Highly recommend them to the #BlueSky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting

Evalyn Lee’s poem ‘ I Read A Lot’

I READ A LOT

about war. Why? Blame the journalists.

We are living a dead way of seeing.

Can I intrude on your interruption

to say conflict is an orphan factory?

Let’s exchange the gift of trespass

under a blooming arbor between

cascades of empty bird feeders.

Can I help you? Oh, it’s you.

Goodbye. Time passes into history

at the tidal mouth of a river we do not

cross as a sun rises on the horizon

of our choices. Death brings me here

to talk to you. None of us will get out

of here alive. The war will leave us where

it finds us. Birds will jump fish

fly. A leaf will roll over on its stem

to put its back to face the wind.

I don’t know what to say.

Cover of Wild Roof Journal Issue 15 July 2022. An image of a mountain drawn in luminous green lines against a dark sky with a constellation of stars.

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 39m

Oh I would love to take this course! Sounds amazing!

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 4d

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d

"One of the most striking examples of news media solidarity we've seen this year." — @brianstelter.bsky.social

I'd say THE most striking. It's not only the solidarity among those who have covered the Pentagon, but their vow to continue the work amid a mood of despair.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/m...

Journalists turn in press passes as Pentagon clamps down on access in ‘unprecedented’ move | CNN Business

A flyer with the words “journalism is not a crime” appeared Tuesday on the wall outside the “Correspondents’ Corridor” where journalists operate at the Pentagon.

www.cnn.com

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bikesloveanddonuts.bsky.social @bikesloveanddonuts.bsky.social · 3d

100%!! Dress as ridiculous, as possible, find the weird joy - Show everyone that we are #PEACEFULLY protesting for our rights, saying #NoKings, and standing against this fascist regime! #Resist #2025Protests #StandTogether

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face

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PJ McIlvaine @pjmacwriter.bsky.social · 3d

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 4d

You usually have to be signed up to our newsletter to read it. However, this week is too important, and I wanted to share it more broadly.

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Thank You — and Some Honesty

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. But also a release & and an indicator that change is coming.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 6d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 7d

You are so fab!!

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 7d

#Love & #Gratitude to @richardnskinner.bsky.social #poet & #editor of #14Magazine for including my poem ‘I Didn’t Think You Meant It’ in series 2, Issue 6

A picture of Vanguard Edition magazine on a shelf with sea shells and dawn light

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 7d

Here's a short story by László Krasznahorkai that you can read for free thanks to @yalereview.bsky.social - An Angel Passed Above US, translated by John Batki yalereview.org/article/kras...

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 7d

Couldn’t be happier that the Nobel has gone to Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Back in 2012 I tried to astroturf a movement claiming him as the Next Big Thjng but it didn’t take off because he’s too difficult www.theguardian.com/books/2012/j...

Why is New York's literary crowd suddenly in thrall to Hungarian fiction? | Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru: The highly educated aspiring writers of New York are looking beyond the English-speaking world for their reading fixes. It must be a sign of the times

www.theguardian.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement

The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time

www.theguardian.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 7d

Painting created by Mavis Oultram c.1968, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital in Surrey where she was compelled to live.
This is one of six surviving works by her, all of which feature motifs of spirals & eyes.
No biographical information is currently known to us

A watercolour painting of multiple human eyes of various colours surrounded in scrolling spirals in dark grey on a greenish blue background suggesting water

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 7d

Just love the #poetry & teaching of #poet @janeburn.bsky.social You will too!

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 7d

Asking people to pay for goods would kill the shoplifting industry ...

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 10d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 10d

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 9d

I've been thinking about this ever since I read it... and I think there's some deep truth to this. COVID as well broke our connection with reality, but decades of pretending the climate wasn't shifting laid the foundation for delusion-as-cope at large.

Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club · Aug 25

I wrote about how climate change might be behind our acceptance of politicians that lie to us, chatbots that hallucinate, the general unravelling of consensus reality—and what we do about it.
www.solarshades.club/p/how-climat...

How Climate Broke Reality

We can't agree on what's true. Is it because the truth about the planet is too inconvenient?

www.solarshades.club

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 9d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 14d

When news organizations decide to engage in advocacy, they’re actually very good at it, said @trevortimm.bsky.social at @columbiajournalism.bsky.social, urging media outlets to speak out on 200+ journalists killed in Gaza.

“The mass killing of journalists … seems like a great place to start.”

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 14d

A #poem to read on #NationalPoetryDay #LoveAfterLove by #DerekWalcott

Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 14d

Love like a Poet! Happy National Poetry Day!

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