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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic. A joy to read.🔥🌱

Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · 6d

Delighted to be part of Uncharted Territories, a fantastic project from the Steamroller Group, in collaboration with The Hunterdon Museum and River Union Stage. Poets and printmakers in visual conversation. What a joy.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 25d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · Aug 30

Stephen is the greatest. 🔥

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · Aug 22

Delighted to have two translations of Susana Thénon's work in the latest issue of the Tahoma Literary Review. A gorgeous volume. Thanks so much to @jessicacuello.bsky.social and Jim G for including these poems. 🌿

tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

Two Poems by Susana Thénon, trans. from the Spanish by Karen Elizabeth Bishop - Tahoma Literary Review

from Unrelenting Age (1958) | from Edad sin tregua (1958) Advent Why does it never get to beour handsthe ones that rise up,the ones that proclaim the

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · Jun 27

Two new poems in the newest issue of @thelincolnreview.bsky.social. These are strange little poems. "le oiseau parts" fits great in the mouth; be sure to read it aloud. So glad this pair landed here. Thanks so much to editors & co. at The Lincoln Review. A beautiful gathering.

The Lincoln Review @thelincolnreview.bsky.social · Jun 27

🎙 ISSUE 6 IS NOW LIVE
Bold voices. Fresh perspectives. Timeless art.
Explore new poetry, fiction, essays, and visual work in our June 2025 issue.
🔗 Read now: www.lincolnreview.org
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#poetry #prose #art #journal #magazine

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · Jun 11

Peter Gizzi
Pretty Sweety
Here there are small animals foraging and content
Perhaps this is what's called
perhaps love is a small animal foraging
content entirely with its mouth there with the ant and the sun and fur
This is a strange view sunlight and furlight and a mouth
busy with nature
a mouth busy with its bloom
a mouth blooming loveliness

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · May 28

Thanks so much!

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · May 28

Can you add a link here to your writing about your discovery in the Peabody? Would love to read it. Thanks so much in advance...

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · May 23

"I crossed / deep on a level elsewhere and / sleigh-bells / bent down"

Three poems by 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵 𝗝. 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝗮𝘁 @sjane.bsky.social in the Spring 2025 issue

bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

#poetry #poetrycommunity

Vessels like stranded vessels. we trust a good elsewhere. and commit to uncertainties.

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · May 20

So, so sorry to hear this news...

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · May 20

necessary viewing

Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · May 20

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · May 20

Looking really forward to this! 🌿

Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · May 19

Fair is here! Out 29 May ❤️ 💙 💛

Blue original: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair/

Primary colours limited/indie edition: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair...

A blue book called Fair The Life Art of Translation readying atop a book shaped wall sculpture

The same book but in yellow blue and red colourway resting atop a braided rope hanging on a wall

Colourful books lined up on a shelf including the book Fair

Both colourways of the book lying flat on a white table viewed from above

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · Dec 15

As parents, we're supposed to remember the first time we did stuff with our kids, but the last time is equally as significant, if not more.

This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · May 12

Interesting report from the field. I can't say I'm surprised. But I can say I'm relieved...

Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · May 12

BEST SOCIAL MEDIA FOR POETRY?

Bluesky v Twitter/X

Both Norman MacCaig podcasts posted simultaneously.

39 interactions on Bluesky (3k followers)
v
9 interactions on Twitter/X (42k followers)

Bluesky again is a better place for connecting & interacting with poets and poetry.

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · May 12

"We should practice close reading because it is good to read for truth and beauty, and even better without the pressure to instrumentalize this goal for economic ends—a criterion, even a paragon, of human flourishing at least since Aristotle"

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · May 12

I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

What is Close Reading?

By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to transform postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?

www.thenation.com

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · May 4

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · May 3

Oh, Han, I'm so sorry to hear this. Sending all the love and care right now. 🌱

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · Apr 27

Some of my favourite independent bookstores for the occasion:

Chaucer's, Santa Barbara
Malaprop's, Asheville
Grolier's, Cambridge
Diesel, Oakland
Pegasus, Berkeley
Moe's, Berkeley
La Fuga, Sevilla
Book Culture, NYC
Book People, Austin
Armchair Books, Edinburgh
Farley's, New Hope

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · Apr 27

And on the plane! It's my go-to travel podcast! 🔥

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Apr 20

Stanley Kunitz

DAY OF FOREBODING

Great events are about to happen.
I have seen migratory birds
in unprecedented numbers
descend on the coastal plain,
picking the margins clean.
My bones are a family in their tent
huddled over a small fire
waiting for the uncertain signal
to resume the long march.

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · Apr 17

The Elegy Project + the Woodberry Poetry Room look very forward to hosting this event, with guest Peter Gizzi, next Tuesday! See you there!

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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · Apr 13

This lark 🔥

Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Apr 13

Today’s Featured Poem:

“Invocation” by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, from Larks, published by Ohio University Press.

Read here:
poems.com/poem/invocat...

Invocation

I do not know whether it is morning or mourning

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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · Apr 6

This is high art

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · Mar 19

"Sometimes the fragment is / a continent that floats, / a proposition, a bloodletting"

Three poems by 𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 @kebishop.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/three-by-karen-elizabeth-bishop.html

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i thought we were trees,
shrieking, dense, millenial. but no, we were hands,

we were ocean hands, blind,
fleeing, ignorant. unknowing we swept seawater into

speech, cleaving, the fugitive
madness settles, grief a feathered mouth, a mother

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