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Burgi Zenhaeusern
@burgi.bsky.social
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Loves books. Writes poems.
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For everything else, incl. WHITE DOOR order link: https://linktr.ee/burgitree
PS: DM for signed/review copies

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 29d
My debut collection WHITE DOOR is out!!! 💃✨💃
Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social!
Link to order and more info in 🧵
DM for signed copies/to review 🙏💙
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three copies of white door on patterned upholstery fabric. cover image shows detail of Alternative Reality by Alan Sirulnikoff, photographer: logs floating on dark water and a white door among them. front and backside of bookmark on same surface. Front shows detail of book cover, centering the door among logs. title isn't shown. Backside has a poem from the book printed on it plus attributions: Horizons Traditions I keep take hold in this soil slowly— home grows fainter still until distant slopes briefly make me forget where I am, re-etch longing. yours truly (white woman, shoulder-length dark-blondish hair, glasses, dark green sweater, scarf with green and gray leafmotif) smiling into camera holding the book in front of her, white bookshelves along white walls in the background.
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This was wonderful! There'll be a recording, too 💙
Thank you @smartishpace.bsky.social & Bird in Hand Café & Books!! 💙📚☕️💙
smartishpace.bsky.social Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social · 1d
💥 Sunday Dec. 14th 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at Bird in Hand with @iamragesparkle.bsky.social & @burgi.bsky.social & includes the best open mic in town so bring a poem to read!

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #creativewriting #openmic #SmartishPace #poets #poet #poems #books
December 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Make yourselves a gift and get Classic Crimes by @sjane.bsky.social! If you already love her Hotel Almighty you won't want to miss this book. 📚💙
sjane.bsky.social SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 16h
One of my visual poems from "Classic Crimes," done with embroidery. I didn't promote my book, which came out late May, because of some awful personal stuff that hopefully someday will end. ANYWAY, if you're so inclined & buy my book I will happily send you a collage postcard to thank you. You pick.
Any yet coolness, and seeming unconcern...
December 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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🧶: #smallpoemsunday
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Skein I love the word labyrinth. The Y always surprises me. Her arms raised, tiny princess of yarn.
December 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Ellen Bass:
December 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Suffragists didn't just march. They baked, held bake sales and sold cookbooks to raise money for the cause of equality. n.pr/4iVE4TV
The cookies that fueled votes for women
Suffragists didn't just march. They baked, held bake sales and sold cookbooks to raise money for the cause of equality.
n.pr
December 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Excited to share this conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her remarkable new novel DISCIPLINE. A book about language, silence, complicity, solidarity and so much more
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline - Tin House
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s new novel Discipline is set in Sydney, Australia in 2021 during Ramadan. Discipline follows two Palestinians there, one in media and one in academia, where each has to confront qu...
tinhouse.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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smartishpace.bsky.social
💥 Sunday Dec. 14th 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at Bird in Hand with @iamragesparkle.bsky.social & @burgi.bsky.social & includes the best open mic in town so bring a poem to read!

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #creativewriting #openmic #SmartishPace #poets #poet #poems #books
December 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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POEM 291: "November Sky, Slow Plane Leaving" by Matt Uhler (@matt-uhler.bsky.social)

"That’s when I remembered that without love
or this truant’s memory and saddled heart
whose gallop has slowed to a trot,
there is no such thing as separation."

stonecirclereview.com/november-sky/

#Poem #Poetry
December 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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So much of rewriting is waking up your verbs, my God.
December 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Choose your writing adventure from our newest slate of virtual writing workshops Jan-Feb 2026! Join us to explore modern fairy tales, what makes a poem a poem, how poets can conduct language as symphony, blues poetry & revising to uncover your poem's hidden heartbeat. Learn more: bit.ly/4i3UBEK
Split This Rock’s red logo at the top. Over a black background, a bold white heading: "Upcoming Virtual Poetry Workshops." Below, five ticket-shaped boxes with virtual workshop dates, titles, and facilitator names. Workshop schedule: Jan. 14 with Jorrell Watkins, Jan. 22 with Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, Feb. 11 with Khadijah Queen, Feb. 19 with Hanif Abdurraqib, Feb. 25 with Ra Avis. At the bottom is a website icon with a URL: splitthisrock.org.
December 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The sheer relief of this ruling freeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia, which of course homeland security calls, “naked judicial activism.“ What an embarrassing combination of words. I hope Kilmar reveals everything about CECOT and within the rot of the US immigration system. May history judge us harshly.
December 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank

Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.

www.972mag.com/sebastia-arc...
Israel preparing largest ever ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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My weekend read: this lovely new book of poems by @burgi.bsky.social, just right for a winter's rainy day.
December 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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"There are names they never let bloom: not in maps, not in marrow— / cartographies erased by teeth, tongues chewed into hollow."

There's a new poem, "Ghazal for the Dispossessed Republics" by Avril Shakira Villar on the Adi site! Art by Larissa Ribeiro.

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/gha...
Ghazal for the Dispossessed Republics
There are names they never let bloom: not in maps, not in marrow—cartographies erased by teeth, tongues chewed into hollow.My grandfather spat fire in a dialect they jailed. He taught meto write freed...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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“when you ask your love for something, make it small”

/ new poem I’m so pleased to have arriving in mailboxes 🩷
Giant rose lily and below it the poem text: Han VanderHart Desert Hearts, 1985 Dir. Donna Deitch flying backwards down the highway blue shirt knotted at the waist when desire hunts she says: I'm interested casino. bath. dance. the soft bisexual lighting at Pyramid Lake kissing through an open car window in the rain when you ask your love for something, make it small: not for all their life, but, from the train: "...forty more minutes with you." Published in poetry magazine Jan/feb 2026
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Preorders are here!✨✨✨

Why did I translate this book? The rhythm of her grief echoed my own. I heard it in my head. 🐎🐎🐎 It's a book-length poem about Virginia Woolf's last day🌊🌊🌊
While Percival Fell - Preorder — Tiger Bark Press
Release date: February 1, 2026. Preorders are now open! Get free US shipping through January 8th, by using discount code PERCIVAL at checkout. While Pervcival Fell is a remarkable, enigmatic, ...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Subscribe today, and get tomorrow’s episode with @fklein907.bsky.social in your queue first thing:

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#poetry #podcast 📚💜🎙️
I DO MY BEST WRITING WHEN I'M REALLY READING. FRANCES KLEIN, EP 82
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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COVER REVEAL! Good morning & afternoon to Preeti Vangani’s Fifty Mothers, design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social 📚💙✨

Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Image: bright blue cover with dark haired, red dancers and gold title lettering Design by Alban Fischer FIFTY MOTHERS POEMS PREETI VANGANI
December 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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As newsrooms shutter and paywalls rise elsewhere, public media delivers critical, unbiased reporting without fear or favor. That's the promise of a free press in a democracy.

Click here to support the network of voices that keeps our public conversation honest and informed: n.pr/4pCcFIx
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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What if I choose one sin per day:
mayonnaise or murder

Kyla Houbolt

@luaz.bsky.social
Becoming Altar New and Selected Poems Kyla Houbolt a bright blue and gold book of poems from subpress and rose lilies on my counter Apropos the Latest What if I choose one sin per day: mayonnaise or murder, or a tiny lie, depending on factors. So far I have not had the factors for murder but I'm keeping a list. Flattery is easier but leaves a residue. Murder tempts me with its completeness. A poem by Kyla Houbolt
December 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I liked to be strange and I was. But that's a lie. I'd just want and want.
And Grandma said: wanting wanting wanting wanting wanting.

Jennifer Martelli
St. Cocaine of Lines, St. Anisette, St. Marijuana, St. Horse My mother owned a cauldron so rusted, nothing could live in it. Sometimes, I swore, I could feel the sharp tips of the orange crescent moon. Back then, my favorite Beatle was George, best color, black, best day Wednesday. I liked to be strange and I was. But that's a lie. I'd just want and want. And Grandma said: wanting wanting wanting wanting wanting. Once, in the farms, I picked up a long willow stick and immediately it transformed into a garter snake. Nixon was the President. Even now, I question the symmetry of his name, the heart of cross. In the golden church I sat tonight, I watched a sweet young girl itch— delicious nod, her long arms like the ivory saint with the plate of eyes, her crown of lit candles. I want to read illuminated mysteries: I want to read about the woman saints, the drunk ones, the wrecked and wasted. Once, in the farms near my ranch house, I dug down to rutted earth for clay. I could mold small figures with the soft gray mud, bake them hard in the sun. A poem by Jennifer Martelli, published in Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree (2024)
December 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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💐The countdown is on! 💐MORE FLOWERS releases with @triohousepress.org in less than 60 days, so thank you in advance for your patience with all my little reminders, and please consider pre-ordering at the link. I am super excited to share these poems!

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December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Robert Bly:
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Already VERY excited about this, and now starting to get a bit nervous 😬😊
Next Sunday, people!!

But, seriously now, I'm looking forward to reading alongside @iamragesparkle.bsky.social at the Birds in Hand Café & Bookstore

@smartishpace.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM