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Samuel Day Wharton

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(re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades some books / some music / some wine / some dogs / some politics Sacramento CA

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 18d

Friends, find a few recent poems by me here:

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Also, stay tuned for more coming in the fall & early next year!

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1d

For your Tuesday
We Lived Happily During the War
~ ILYA KAMINSKY
—And when they bombed other people's houses, we protested
but not enough, we opposed them but not enough.

We Lived Happily During the War
BY ILYA KAMINSKY
And when they bombed other people's houses, we
protested
but not enough, we opposed them but not
enough. I was
in my bed, around my bed America
was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house.
I took a chair outside and watched the sun.
In the sixth month
of a disastrous reign in the house of money
in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war.

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 11h

None of these people have your best interests in mind

Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 21h

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

www.latimes.com

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 12h

Had never heard of Selma Asotic, so thank you @tomsnarsky.bsky.social . This poem is amazing.

Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 15h

In my head is a circle farm.

Selma Asotić

Monologue for a second date

Mostly, I stare at the ceiling and think
about how much I don’t want to die. I have a head.
In my head is a circle farm. A woman waves
from a burning roof. There’s also falling
from sixth-floor balconies, windshields,
suicide bombers, stairs, my eyeballs smeared
against the windshield, safety pins, shawls
caught in car wheels, knots, snowdrops.
I have a head. In my head is a stomach
full of butterflies. The butterflies are often sharks
and they want out. I let them out.
They trip on the threshold and smash their teeth.
I have a head. Inside is a living room. A suicide bomber’s
watching syndicated comedy. My head plays
only reruns, cleaner ads, wet floors,
skulls cracked open. Nothing after that. All dark, all
air chastising its emptiness into the thought of you.
I squeeze my eyeballs shut
and think of you. I think of you
in as many ways as the rains falls.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 12h

Amazing cover. Not that I'm judging the book or anything...

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 12h

Oh. Oh...

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Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social · 17h

WHEW! What else can we say about this stunner of a poem by Crystal AC Salas? Read it in our latest here:

kenyonreview.org/piece/sequoi...

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Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · 16h

you know that dude just wants to go to heaven to build a hotel and maybe offer the angels a slight discount

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 13h

& you know it's the same people who don't replace the paper towels or toilet paper of they use the last of it...

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 14h

History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. It never uses assonance but it does utilise pathetic fallacy. It will never make use of enjambment, but it will, occasionally, be alliterative. It doesn't use iambic pentameter but it does deploy chiasmus. It doesn't use synecdoche but it does use ellipsis

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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 1d

“…You can feel it slide

under and lightly prick your fingertips
when your palm grazes it as you walk by. Echoes of a voice...”

From “A letter from mucous” by Zackary Jarrell in ISSUE 27!

Zackary Jarrell "A letter from mucous" — THE SHORE

POETRY

www.theshorepoetry.org

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 1d

"...This
heat won’t let me clean my head. The
brother-heat pulling me under, this swamped-in-
prehistoric-like-thinking
but present in burning."

—Curtis Emery & Laura Wetherington

anmly.org/ap40/curtis-...

Curtis Emery & Laura Wetherington – ANMLY

anmly.org

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 1d

"like i said it didn’t really matter that we still hadn’t even had sex, so we undressed each other for the first time and we let the water run over us, hot and stinging our brownskin red"

—n.l. rivera

beestungmag.com/issue16/one-...

One Poem by n.l. rivera – beestung

beestungmag.com

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Villain Era 🖤🔪 @villaineralit.bsky.social · 22h

Keli Osborn has some choice words we can't repeat here for the driver running a red light, today at Villain Era!

Curses by Keli Osborn

Yesterday’s crumbs on the counter annoyed me. I swore under my breath, swept them into a pile with the back of my hand. Tonight, muddy boot prints sneered by the back door. I gave as good as I got. Tomorrow? Another driver will run a red light, and I’ll mutter profanities before stepping into the crosswalk. When my mother grew testier with age, I blamed menopause…

villaineralit.com

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 23h

new dystopian poem out today

much love to @bruisermag.com !!

BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 1d

Poison will one day be appointed king.
In Coupon Country, you can find anything.

COUPON COUNTRY by @neonpajamas.bsky.social

www.bruisermag.com/niespodziany...

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 20h

: to field a knowing across
this nigh-impossible,

, instability, , like a prelude,

made finally , stable

Epithalamium, a consortium — @robmclennan.bsky.social

Epithalamium, a consortium — rob mclennan

Never in our selves, but beyond. Rosmarie Waldrop, Blindsight (1998) Marriage: a portin the storm or the storm, enough to…

minorliteratures.com

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Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 18h

Jason Shinder

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 18h

#sacramento
#wine

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 18h

👀

www.newsweek.com/readerschoic...

Best Wine Bar 2026

Vote for the best wine bar chosen by our panelists and Newsweek editors.

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LM Myers 🌻🌻🌻 @lenimo.bsky.social · 19h

Always a good time to think about who benefits from deregulating what kinds of investments can be purchased in a 401k

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/m...

The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929?

www.nytimes.com

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 20h

Oof

theonion.com/political-pr...

Political Profile: Russell Vought

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and a key architect of the ultra-conservative Project 2025, made waves recently by advocating for mass federal layoffs during the govern...

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Martin Seay @martinseay.bsky.social · 20h

Do you like cities? Do you think they're miraculous instances of collective creativity, not despite but because of the fact that they always involve complex & improvisatory negotiations among dissimilar individuals? Would you like to explain that to kids? Allow me to recommend LEAF TOWN FOREVER:

Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 1d

It's publication day for LEAF TOWN FOREVER, the picture book I co-wrote with my sister @bethrooney.bsky.social, illustrated by Betsy Bowen & published by @uminnpress.bsky.social! See you at one of our upcoming events, & in the meantime, add to cart! www.leaftownforever.com/news-and-event

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 20h

Y'all ready for this?

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 20h

Issue 7 will drop tomorrow afternoon!🖤

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 23h

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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X-R-A-Y Literary Press @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 1d

Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social introduces Logan Berry's new book 'Doom is the House Without a Door' !!

writing as architecture + emily dickinson + "a visual and verbal fantasia of money, meat, and misery" + a good playlist to listen to

click the link !

xraylitmag.com/doom-is-the-...

'DOOM IS THE HOUSE WITHOUT A DOOR' BY LOGAN BERRY: AN INTRODUCTION by Kathleen Rooney

Introduction for Logan for his Reading from ‘Doom Is the House Without a Door’ at Comfort Station on Saturday, August 16, 2025 –Kathleen Rooney Book launch playlist: DOOM UNLEASHED Logan Berry’s lat...

xraylitmag.com

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s poem is selected by Farnaz Fatemi as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.

“Emplumada” appeared in Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes, published by University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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