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Brian Czyzyk
@bczyzykwrites.bsky.social
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Poet | PhD Candidate | Editor-in-Chief of American Literary Review | Mitten Man in Cowboy Country | Words in Poetry Magazine, Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, and more | he/him 💖💜💙
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So grateful to have my poem, "Chewing the Green," included in this gorgeous issue of @creamcityreview.bsky.social! 🌱
October 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The New Yorker called YouTube "JSTOR for people who watch too much TV" and... no lies detected 🤣
June 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Alice Notley passed away Monday night in Paris, where I'm writing from. This will come as a shock to many, but she was battling a number of maladies in recent months, and things had gotten difficult rapidly. Her work is out there. Please feel free to spread the word.
May 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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elnorterecuerda.bsky.social
This is so incredibly urgent to address right now, and will probably be the most ignored until it’s too late.
bcmerchant.bsky.social Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · May 12
This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.

from @404media.co

www.404media.co/republicans-...
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para6 graph (2), no State or political subdivision thereof 7 may enforce any law or regulation regulating artifi8 cial intelligence models, artificial intelligence sys9 tems, or automated decision systems during the 10- 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment 11 of this Act.
May 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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hanvanderhart.bsky.social
Sometimes death is invisible, especially when we laugh.

—Martha Silano

@acrebooks.bsky.social
Shared by @acrebooks on Instagram University of Cincinnati DEATH POEM by Martha Silano Death is the one-day-alive mayfly clinging to a watering can. When the grass turns brown, how can I not think of death? In my heart, death lives like a mama raccoon with her two young. We haven't figured out a way to undo death. Death awaits the pigeon on a roof, says the Cooper's hawk. It's not cool to mention corpse beetles when there's a death. Did you know there's a death's head hawkmoth? A scrub jay squawks death, death, death! Dragonflies and death: they live about six months. Eating is for sure some kind of elaborate death feast. Sometimes death is invisible, especially when we laugh. Our planet: one big tribute concert to death. Death be not proud, says John Donne, but death is proud, I think. Everything ends up being an ode to death. From TERMINA SURREAL, forthcoming September 2 from Acre Books
May 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
bczyzykwrites.bsky.social
Got a poem in this gorgeous issue of South Carolina Review! Sorry to any Hoosiers for this Michigander's depiction of Indiana. I do miss it sometimes.
Title: "Lafayette, Indiana" by: Brian Czyzyk Poem: I say “home,” but what I mean is the building in which I live. The walls were cracked when I moved in, and once a cricket scrambled up from my shower drain. I am thankful for snow-bright winter, for my beloved, who holds me when I shiver, but yesterday I watched a man chuck a paper coffee cup against a diner’s front while a trash can waited five steps to his left. The river slugs its brown along. What used to be glacier now breeds fish without gills, ducks with lead-heavy bones. Styrofoam chokes the city drains, while spiders feel safe only in the corners ... (continued from previous page) ... of my home. And Lord, I don’t want to kill them, but each day I wake with red pips patterned across my elbows. Every day, I’m reminded, is packed with tiny violences— pigeons peck at cigarette butts, kids with clear plastic backpacks are shuttled into school by troops of teachers. Every house I pass seems to slump, each side raised like shoulders mid-shrug. What can you call this time other than a screech of notes from shattered vinyl? I press my lips to my beloved’s ear and taste the throat of a Coke bottle. I can picture the plots where the future will stash our bodies—the upturned dirt veined with plastic shreds, the earth weeping beads of glass. Cover of The South Carolina Review, Spring 2025 Volume 57, Issue 2, depicting thick, colorful lines that resemble both spools of yarn and roses in shades of pink, green, and yellow, on backgrounds of various solid colors including orange, pale blue, forest green, and hot pink. A rose-like wheel of yellow, green, and pink paint on a hot pink background next to South Carolina Review Volume 57.2's list of contributors
May 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Poetry lost the wonderful Martha Silano this week. From her book “The One We Call Ours”
May 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Loved the insight here
May 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Unfortunately, BOA is among those nonprofits whose NEA grant was rescinded over the weekend. We will still press on to publish new books, but now is the time to purchase a book or make a donation to support our mission. The NEA was our single largest funder.  We are so grateful for your support.
May 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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This note was too long for BlueSky but anyone up for a panel or need an extra hand for your panel at #awp26 let me know
May 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Absolutely thrilled that this ridiculous, weird, goofy poem of mine found a home in this gorgeous issue of Fairy Tale Review and that I get to share space with absolutely amazing writers like Aimee Bender and Sabrina Orah Mark!!
April 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Today's Feature:

In honor of National Poetry Month, we present our fourth feature of Reader's Write Back, in which our readers share their favorite Poetry Daily poems with us.

Read here:
poems.com/features/wha...
Our Readers on Poems from Poetry Daily
“Between the Night & Its Music” by A.B. Spellman invokes a deep consideration of the connections between people and music. Whenever I read this poem, I am reminded of all the stages and complexities t...
poems.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
bczyzykwrites.bsky.social
Got to share my thoughts on Emily Van Kley's haunting poem, "Vital Signs," for
@poetrydaily.bsky.social 's "What Sparks Poetry" feature: poems.com/.../our-read...

This poem has stuck with me ever since I first encountered it 7 years ago. Check out "Vital Signs" here: poems.com/poem/vital-signs
April 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
bczyzykwrites.bsky.social
Working as Managing Editor for American Literary Review has been one of the most exciting things for me. I'm so thrilled to share our Spring Issue and all the fantastic work inside!

You can read ALR's Spring 2025 issue here:
americanliteraryreview.com/2025/04/15/s...
Spring 2025
Spring 2025 2025 ALR AWARDS Lauren Barbato, The Great Renunciation (fiction,
americanliteraryreview.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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As the U.S. revokes hundreds of visas to suppress activism, Kaveh Akbar writes beautifully and the pervasive fear--and the need to protect the rights of the most vulnerable. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
What Will You Do?
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
www.thenation.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
bczyzykwrites.bsky.social
I'll be at AWP with American Literary Review next week! Table T1048 if you want to say hi!
March 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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It's World Poetry Day, and we're revisiting 'It's About Time', a poem by Michael Bazzett from our February / March 2024 issue.
March 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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If I have any credibility or goodwill among you, please please please read this.

REVIVING THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY AND LIFTING THE MORATORIUM ON FEDERAL EXECUTIONS, applying to “aliens, who traverse our borders and remain in the United States without legal status.”
www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...
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February 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
bczyzykwrites.bsky.social
Things are dismal right now, but one glimmer of joy I've had is a poem of mine that was rejected 55 times just got accepted!!
February 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.
January 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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“I have so much debt. / I am forever in the wettest red.”

“BBHMM” by Tiana Clark from I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood

#poetry #poetrysky #BlueSkyPoetry #writingcommunity #poetsofBlueSky
January 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Just learned it's Song's 30th anniversary this year. Was lucky enough to have been gifted this magical book and have been revisiting it over and over. Brigit Pegeen Kelly was a marvel.

"Our endless lust for spectacle to rouse / The stupored sight."
January 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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poetrydaily.bsky.social
Today’s Featured Poem:

“Good Riddance” by @deesoulpoetry.com, from Issue 100 of @agnimagazine.bsky.social.

Read here:
poems.com/poem/good-ri...
Good Riddance – Poetry Daily
poems.com
January 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
bczyzykwrites.bsky.social
Love that my students now have AI built right into Word for them 🙃 Thanks, Copilot.
January 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Kind of a silly generalization, but who would you describe as "a poet of the Image?" Or, who are poets/poems with images you can't get out of your head?
January 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM