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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · 8d

I am in awe and gratitude for every page. I am made more ready to hold everything.

Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Sep 12

Don't miss bangers from @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social's Karan Kapoor and editor I appreciate Miriam Akervall in the issue.

Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Sep 12

We carry versions of our people in us. How tricky it can be to sort our version of them from the real thing.

Thank you @pacificalit.bsky.social, my therapist, and Internal Family Systems. #ifs

www.pacificareview.com/issue-21-2/

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NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · Sep 3

POW! It's NAWP time!

A promo graphic with author photos, and it says:
A NAWP Reading
Majda Gama
Julia Kolchinsky
Alina Stefanescu

Hosted by Jared Beloff
September 9, 2025
7:00-8:00 PM EST

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Sep 2

Takes an ecosystem to raise a poem. Thanks @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, Mary Angelino, @yungwerther.bsky.social, Marisa Tirado, John Howard, Courtney Caldwell, the Quinobequin (Charles River), and its vociferous, eating, drinking, shitting inhabitants.

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Aug 20

Tonight at 8EST! Come listen and/or read!

Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Aug 16

Want words in your ear Wednesday night? 🖌

Take me on your evening walk. Tune in on Zoom at 8PM with Penny Thieme and VALA Gallery (Visual Audio Literary Artists). If you like, stay and read at the open mic at 9PM🎤!

RSVP here or DM for link:
www.facebook.com/share/19R4Gg...

Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Aug 16

Want words in your ear Wednesday night? 🖌

Take me on your evening walk. Tune in on Zoom at 8PM with Penny Thieme and VALA Gallery (Visual Audio Literary Artists). If you like, stay and read at the open mic at 9PM🎤!

RSVP here or DM for link:
www.facebook.com/share/19R4Gg...

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Jun 21

#freemahmoudkhalil #freepalestine Thank you, @mosababutoha.bsky.social.

www.columbiajournal.org/articles/fou...

“Poetry makes nothing happen”—an Auden quote out of context, with a grain of truth. We must do more than art right now. We must return again and again to our connections with people who persist in the face of being starved, bombed, shot, trapped, occupied. We must tend these connections in the streets, in our homes, in difficult conversations with decision-makers, and in our own hearts.

And art also has its place in this moment. Last fall, in a completely packed and sweaty Harvard Bookstore, the words of Mosab Abu Tohah reopened my heart. He and many other Palestinian writers can help us orient to and confront our reality. Let’s be in conversation with them.

Let’s harness the power of words. May they allow all of us, from centers and peripheries, to slowly grow
a shared vision for living together on our one Earth.

Aracelis Girmay says,

“& so to tenderness I add my action.”

Free Mahmoud Khalil. Free Palestine.

...throw pillow

is for placing over
the mouth

after calling your representative
again,

for contemplating what we sent
& didn't ...

from "Throw pillow"
full poem in The Columbia Journal

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Jun 21

#freemahmoudkhalil #freepalestine

It’s the day after summer solstice. In my new neighborhood, hundreds of bands are playing music on their porches. And I am just not able to be here.

Watching my country fund, arm, and abet genocide has sucked something out of my soul. No words can touch even the edge of the horror.

But being silent feels even worse.

And so I try imperfectly to say what I believe:

None of us will be free until the people of Palestine are also free. May we resist every justification for occupation, starvation, and slaughter like our own humanity is at stake because it is.

A year ago, I submitted some non-Gaza-related poems to the Columbia Journal, a publication run by MFA students at the Columbia University School of the Arts. Then, a lot went down, including that the Trump administration accused Palestinian advocate and Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil of being a "national security threat" and the university administration capitulated to his arrest and detainment without charge. A few months later, I received an acceptance note in my inbox.

Unsure what to do, I reached out to the student editors to learn about their curation duties and efforts to hold up artful and timely political expression. I asked them to take a small risk with me. They agreed to add one more poem.

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Jun 3

Come join me and some amazing poets in Brookline on Thursday!

brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-0...

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · May 31

Nearly 18k cis women have signed this petition. If you are cis and haven't signed it already and support the trans+ community, please sign and share this.

If you are trans, remember you are supported; however, the transphobes try to make it look. Please share this.

www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

Sign the Petition

Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

www.change.org

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Jun 2

Lmfao

Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · May 30

Wild. So I just got 4 poems accepted in a batch, bringing my total to 70! independently published/forthcoming poems.

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · May 11

I first bumped into James' work through a Parker Palmer style Circle of Trust with at Hallelujah farm and I am so excited to read with him and Brad at the @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social on 6/5 at 7PM. What a way to kick off Pride Month!

RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · May 11

Thank you also to the incredible James Crews and his husband Brad Peacock for holding up these words in their new anthology "LOVE IS FOR ALL OF US: poems of tenderness and belonging from the lgbtq+ community and friends" with truly charming art from @lisacongdon.bsky.social

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · May 11

Me making the best decision of my life ... on the lawn of the same courthouse where the first same sex marriage happened in 2004. Gay marriage was not legalized across the country until 2015.

Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social for publicly sharing these vows:

www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...

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pacificalit.bsky.social @pacificalit.bsky.social · May 8

New issue is LIVE and IN FULL EFFECT. Feat. Miriam Akervall, @daynabateman.bsky.social, @ebenbein.bsky.social , @danielbrennanreads.bsky.social, Karan Kapoor, JP Kemmick, @poetryphone.bsky.social, Megan Snyder-Camp, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social, & Virginia Watts

Be astonished: www.pacificareview.com

Pacifica Literary Review

Publishing online and in print since 2012. Based in the great northwest.

www.pacificareview.com

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Apr 27

This Thursday!

Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Apr 20

3 poem hanging on a public wall the 1st time, opening on May 1st from 6-7:30!

Symbiosis exhibit at Arlington Center for the Arts pairs visual art & poetry from local creatives about community & change, from evolving family relationships to complex feelings about history & identity.

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Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social · Apr 21

Wow, congrats Eben!! It's great to revisit this poem!

Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Apr 20

A childhood backyard poem about extinction & The Avengers first published in @wildroofjournal.bsky.social paired with the layered printmaking, collage, and needlework of Karen McCarthy. Don’t miss the epigraph from my dear poet friend and housemate, Lulu Liu.

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Apr 20

A childhood backyard poem about extinction & The Avengers first published in @wildroofjournal.bsky.social paired with the layered printmaking, collage, and needlework of Karen McCarthy. Don’t miss the epigraph from my dear poet friend and housemate, Lulu Liu.

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Apr 20

A poem remixing Robin Wall Kimmerer’s essay on the Common Plantain, “White Man’s Footprint”. Paired with the Frida Kahlo-inspired art of Missy Arellano.

A time-traveling family history poem paired with the embroidery of Malden-based Anna Thai, first published in @pigeonpagesnyc.bsky.social.

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Apr 20

3 poem hanging on a public wall the 1st time, opening on May 1st from 6-7:30!

Symbiosis exhibit at Arlington Center for the Arts pairs visual art & poetry from local creatives about community & change, from evolving family relationships to complex feelings about history & identity.

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Apr 14

I was stuck on the angles of those stars, the cheap flow of dark shapes unsticking themselves from the firmament ...

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Eben E. B. Bein (they) @ebenbein.bsky.social · Apr 14

I am what you protected,
the mechanism begin in utero, but I am also
what I make myself...

@mspicone.bsky.social, this tenuous atmosphere

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