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Sarah Alice @bandytstamp.bsky.social · 5d

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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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 2d

Curious how other people might answer this question

(borrowed from W. S. Graham)

Wesleyan University Press @weslpress.bsky.social · 7d

Join Heather Christle for a craft talk and reading: “What is Language Using Us For?” at Sarah Lawrence College on October 16th. We hope to see you there!

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 2d

"It’s a form of resistance that requires us to put aside ego, and the need for personal gratification, to become a node in a living network of care, support, and defense."

More than anything else I hope the legacy of this moment will be organized care everywhere

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 2d

Going back and forth between
listening to podcasts about the Spanish Civil War
and holding a kitten
and reading about large language models
and holding a kitten
and writing about universities' capitulation to the loyalty oath during the red scare
and holding a kitten...

thank you, kitten.

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 6d

Wrote about Vanessa Bell--Modernist artist (and Virginia Woolf's sister)--and the various kinds of host one can be, with a little light antifascism on the side.

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 6d

"Both Woolf and her older sister, Vanessa Bell, knew well the dangers of becoming stuck in that role, forever passing tea and buns about the room, never speaking beyond decorum’s limits."

— @heatherchristle.bsky.social essay on Bloomsbury artist Vanessa Bell

www.thebeliever.net/vanessa-bell...

Vanessa Bell Is Not at Home - Believer Magazine

In Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway, which celebrated its centennial in May, the title character remembers a friend mocking her years before; the young Clarissa had the makings, jeered Peter Walsh...

www.thebeliever.net

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 17d

...where "outside monitors have heard accounts of shortages of clean drinking water, chronic sleep deprivation and kids struggling for hygiene supplies and prompt medical attention)

also teaches Sunday school.

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 17d

TIL that the CEO of Core Civic

(the private detentions company who runs the only known ICE facility holding families...

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 17d

It's here!

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century between covers, between Marx's Capital Vol 1 and Lacey's Biography of X

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 18d

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district.
The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps."
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

ICE detains Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts

Iowa's largest school district had "no confirmed information" on why ICE detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent since 2023.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 18d

accidentally ordered a dinner that matches my book

plate stacked with watermelon tomato and feta next to a pink drink and a copy of PAPER CROWN with flamingos on the cover

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 18d

One tech company's slogan is NEVER WONDER and another is literally called PANOPTO and in conclusion I have no words or expect that to soon be the case.

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 19d

seriously. The Big Dumb Algorithm can be bent as much by a twenty-second "loved it" as an eight-page screed.

Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 19d

Just a reminder that if you enjoy a book, please leave a quick review on Amazon or Bookshop dot org, or wherever. Even if it's only a sentence, it really, really helps get the word out to other readers.

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 19d

NYC TONIGHGHT

BRAVE, UNBODIED SCHEME
EDWIN TORRES, HEATHER CHRISTLE, JAMES SHERRY, JOEY DE JESUS, and WENDY XU
SEP 26 @ 6:30PM
SEAPORT
McNALLY
JACKSON
BOOKS

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 20d

Interesting! That seems to have a negative tone though, and I'm hoping for something more neutral. (Akin to "smell" rather than "stench" or "perfume.") Also seems like it's applied mostly sense of death as imminent? I'm thinking that, as a body is always in space, so too is it always in mortality...

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 20d

Yeah, I'm looking for something more internal

Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 20d

perhaps! How commonly used is the word, would you say?

Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 20d

Seeking a term akin to proprioception but for the sense of one's mortality; does such a thing exist?

(I swear I am so fun to talk to.)

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Scare-a Werewolfthing @never.horse · 21d

Let me tell you, the number of times where having For Grace After a Party by Frank O'Hara memorized has come in handy is less than five but it sure is more than zero.

Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 24d

If you memorize a poem you will have it with you in an emergency.

You could add that to your list.

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 21d

Whole lotta words this year

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NPR @npr.org · 22d

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

n.pr

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 22d

Sidenote: please don't be shy about saying hello! I love signing books and just talking with people, learning more of everyone's worlds and minds.

Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 22d

It's feeling more and more important to be able to gather together in physical space, hope I get to see some of you!

9/26 NYC (McNally Jackson Seaport)
10/4 ATL (Decatur Book Festival)
10/16 Sarah Lawrence
10/30 Hollins University