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Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021). Co-Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Oct 24

Cover of Larks, with photograph by Nicola Davison-Reed, forthcoming from Ohio University Press in April, 2025.

www.ohioswallow.com/978082142591...

Book covers featuring black and white photograph: wooden floor, spare wooden table, stack of four cameras, floating sheet white curtain. Delicate white title font.

Larks
Poems

Han VanderHart
Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Selected by Chanda Feldman

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 7h

“The long file of mule trains and metal” A poem by Peter Gizzi.

UNTITLED AMHERST SPECTER

a sound of open ground having been taken

now a silver wisp winking on the roof

silver imp waving from a long shaft ago

I am a leaf storm night

I have seen the long file of mule trains and metal

the cavalry

these sounds we live within speaking to you now

sir, I was a soldier in these woods

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 7h

October humidity
Like a heart-red tower light,
now bright, now not so bright.

Autumn night at the end of the world.

Charles Wright, from The Sestets

We Hope That Love Calls Us, but Sometimes We're Not So Sure

No wind-sighs. And rain-splatter heaves up over the mountains, and dies out.
October humidity
Like a heart-red tower light,
now bright, now not so bright.
Autumn night at the end of the world.
In its innermost corridors,
all damp and all light are gone, and love, too.
Amber does not remember the pine.

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 15h

He went BACK AND FORTH until he and ChatGPT came up with the Shakespearean brilliance of “Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you”?!

Where is the labor. The labor. Omg.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 17h

The Paris Review unlocked the Krasznahorkai interview! Grab a fresh cup and get comfy—here’s the free link: mailchi.mp/theparisrevi...
#booksky #amreading

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 17h

Resharing this one-line poem by Czesław Miłosz for #smallpoemsunday

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 2d

Czesław Miłosz

On the need to draw boundaries
Wretched and dishonest was the sea.

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19h

Your reminder that boundaries are for you, not others. 💙

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19h

I have to turn off comments from folks I don’t follow when I post texts from Ginsberg or Pound, like—yes, in point of fact, I have read their biographies, and more. It’s Dr. VanderHart. 🙃

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 19h

Jon Boisvert

#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

TRANSPLANT
Father receives another transplant today.
This time, it's a beehive. It feels good to drink the rain, he says, & better to eat the Aowers. He's been in the meadow for hours now, getting so big & brave.

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19h

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19h

hits different in the age of AI / LLMs

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19h

Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading #sigh

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
And this looseness and blowsiness is not anything as simple and scandalous as abrupt and disordered syntax.
It concerns the relation of expression to meaning.
Abrupt and disordered syntax can be at times very honest, and an elaborately constructed sentence can be at times merely an elaborate camouflage.

From ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, Gregory ❤️‍🩹 I’m glad it was on its way. I’m glad she wanted that for you.

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19h

I think that’s best care scenario? Haha. Having a mother who would care! 😉

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19h

The real poetry prize is not the NBA is not the Nobel or the Pulitzer or the NBCC or whatever it’s did you stop in the middle of your kitchen and read a poem aloud to someone you love.

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 20h

Kyla your poemmmm. 😍🙏 Fresh AF. Omg. Have already ordered your book. Can’t wait. 🎉🎉🎉

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 3d

#Poetry -- The preorder page for Becoming Altar has been expanded and updated to include more about me, and a swell poem. Check it out! And @unionherald.bsky.social many thanks for the blurb.
asterismbooks.com/product/beco...

Cover image of Becoming Alter, a blue field with yellow type. Also showing the spine of the book, with white type.

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Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 1d

I've stopped reading pieces by other Americans at this point, at least non-immigrants who don't have any direct experience with radical regime change or economic collapse. Was happy to see this essay published by the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t

Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.

www.theatlantic.com

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 1d

Everything that we've known, and come to count on,
has fled the world.

Charles Wright, from Sestets 🍂

Our Days Are Political, but Birds Are Something Else

Tenth month of the year.
Fallen leaves taste bitter. And grass.
Everything that we've known, and come to count on,
has fled the world.
Their bones crack in the west wind.
Where are the deeds we're taught to cling to?
How I regret having missed them,
and their mirrored pieces of heaven.
Like egrets, they rise in the clear sky,
their shadows like distance on the firred hills.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.