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Adrian Dallas Frandle

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Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Reader. Gaymer. Former chef. Occasional pebble. Lives in a rosette of mullein. MFA in Poetry (Randolph). Gay af. words -> http://adriandallas.com

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · Jan 21

My poem in the new Poet Lore arrived!

Thanks @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social & @eaholla.bsky.social for curating the gorgeous folio + issue!

Poet Lore Volume 119 1/2

The title text is framed in a circle with vibrant painted colors

ADRIAN DALLAS FRANDLE
HOMO-MITHRAICS
(pain(t] on plaster; unknown Roman artist
c. 3rd C. A.D.)
Consumed by each other's lack Of uneasy light, what if we kissed Under the tauroctony? You be Sol And I'll be Mithras — we will be Each other's Zodiac bloodletting.
Let the ravens shovel sullen stars
In our crescent cracked mouths, And we'll share in the scorpion's stingclean feast. Unmake me
Like the hollow bull of twilight.
Hallowed earth, we crush in the tussle Of our sky-struggle. Night into day, Let loose the sacred world, lost in our godliness. Brilliant daylight,
Dazzles that first step outside The cave of denial. Wingless, We fall together, up, entangled.
Our horns become sticky With sky, having gored out
Our hearts with sun-sharpened eyes.

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Michael Todd Cohen @michaeltoddcohen.bsky.social · 13h

Cruisin.'...

black and white illustration of a male figure standing in the forest waving

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 14h

available for readings & the like!

Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 1d

officially registered for AWP - see y’all in Baltimore! 😻

Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 15h

“Don’t lick the bricks!”

a real statement said in this house

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 17h

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day with queer planty IndigiLit!

ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our ALOCASIA has unfurled a new leaf! And we're so proud!

It's our first all-Indigenous issue! This is a showcase of the work of 20 writers from around the world, curated by our guest editors Yasmine Bolden, tripp j Crouse, and Sarah Clark. We hope you are as delighted by it as we are

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Alocasia leaf background. Text reads "Plantcestors: The Indigenous Issue"

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 16h

We’re excited to announce that magazine submissions for poetry and prose open October 21st!

Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 4d

Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!

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Noemi Press @noemipress.bsky.social · 17h

Submissions are still open for the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize! Get your manuscript in by Wednesday October 15th!

Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 1d

👀 3 DAYS LEFT! Deadline for entries: end of this Wednesday 15 October 👀

$2000
US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social
UK publication with Out-Spoken Press

Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 18h

rude awakening

cc: @michaeltoddcohen.bsky.social

Mikey, the tawny chihuahua, looks startled while laying on a gray blankey

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 18h

My only question after watching "Bring Her Back" is where did Sally Hawkins get that video? Is there a Ritual Craft Ebay where you can mail order it with the subtitles like that?

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 18h

if you want to support a nanticoke who makes little magazines this indigenous peoples day, here are the little magazines i make

www.ANMLY.org — intl art & lit that's never boring
www.beestungmag.com — non-binary, two-spirit, & genderqueer writing
www.ALOCASIA.org — a journal of queer planty writing

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 21h

Act so there is no use in a center.

-- Gertrude Stein

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 21h

bittersweet when I derisively call my dog “Old Man” and then his look replies as a mirror.

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Sarah Alice @bandytstamp.bsky.social · 4d

the owlishness of certain people

Heather Christle, from PAPER CROWN

Beset by a Disk of Radiating Feathers

Barn owl, crossing the air over the road, dangerous softness of the owl allowing
silent approach, favorite bird of Minerva,
feeding on mice and small birds, fern owl,
horned owl, how can I get one, a lady
or person rambling a long way into
the night, long tufted or mottle-tufted,
neighbor to the one cat, never have seen
one relaxing, not a falcon, an owlet,
the owlishness of certain people,
reputed wisdom of, on a small green
bag of potato chips, snowy owl,
a tamed owl goes hunting and relinquishes
all that he kills, tawny owl, they say
the Owle was a Bakers daughter, well known
by its doleful hoot, what does an ow's egg
look like, where are we going to live

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 22h

“am I wasting my time writing?”

youtube.com/shorts/a41OV...

Pasta bead crochet bag

YouTube video by Gracie Simpson

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Bryan Harvey @bryanharvey.bsky.social · 22h

Monday morning bryan-s-harvey.medium.com/airport-beer...

Airport Beers with Mitch Nobis and his poetry in ‘The Size of the Horizon, Or, I Explained…

Airport Beers is an interview series. The following is an interview between Bryan Harvey and writer Mitch Nobis. Mitch’s book The Size of…

bryan-s-harvey.medium.com

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 22h

dreaming with Jacob today

Jose Ribera's painting "The Dream of Jacob" shows a friar in brown robe asleep on a cliffside as the heavens open above his sleeping head (showing his ladder)

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 1d

Tommy Orange, the Cheyenne and Arapaho author of There There and Wandering Stars, has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, one of the highest honors in the arts.

redpopnews.com/wandering-st...

#macarhurfellowship #MacArthurFoundation #redpopnews #tommyorange

Wandering Stars Align: Tommy Orange Named A 2025 MacArthur Fellow

When the MacArthur Foundation announced its 2025 Fellows, one name carried through Native communities like a spark. Tommy Orange, the Cheyenne and Arapaho author from Oakland, was named one of this ye...

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 1d

“the liminal space community”

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Michael Todd Cohen @michaeltoddcohen.bsky.social · 1d

today's sketches (H/T Bob Mizer 🏳️‍🌈)

sketches of five hands featuring alternately knuckles or thumbs; a hand-drawn label reads: knuckles plus thumbs.

pencil sketch of two hands clasped over a person's lower back; another, larger hand in foreground is blurred with erasure marks.

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Amie Souza Reilly @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social · 1d

still hard for me to not be awkward when people say nice things

here is my bff saying nice things about the nice things Irene Cooper wrote about H/A for in the Los Angeles Review 🥰

Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with most of this glowing review of @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social's excellent book "Human/Animal" EXCEPT that I think it would make a better prestige drama for HBO rather than Netflix slop.

In all seriousness: read the review and read the book:

losangelesreview.org/human-animal...

Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly Review by Irene Cooper - The Los Angeles Review

Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly Review by Irene Cooper Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Publication Date: 4/22/2025 ISBN: 9781771126809 Pages: Illustrated | 194 page...

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 1d

officially registered for AWP - see y’all in Baltimore! 😻

Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 1d

page 623. 😞.

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 1d

Third and final day of raising money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social begins at 9 AM PT on www.twitch.tv/tamoorh. Playing Metal Gear Delta start to finish.

Donate here: www.twitch.tv/charity/tamoorh

Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 6d

This week I’m going to raise money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social to help Palestinians in need.

On Fri I'll start & finish Metal Gear Solid, MGS2 on Sat, Delta on Sun. It'll be 9 AM PT each day on www.twitch.tv/tamoorh.

Fundraiser is live on my Twitch. Please share if you can!

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 1d

you’re en vogue!

Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 1d

micro poem from within a manuscript of longer poems:

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday

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