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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Welcome fall with poetry, connection, and cosmic vibes—hosted by Norwalk Poet Laureate Katherine E. Schneider. Sept 27 @ 6:30pm!

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jul 22

✨YOU’RE INVITED! Sat., 9/27 at Art Monster Studio, hosted by Norwalk Poet Laureate Katie Schneider. 🌟🎤 Stick around for limited walk-in-only open mic! 🎟️ Register FREE (space limited—so move fast!). Link in comments. ✨ Light refreshments served + Spacecat Brewery nx door for pre/post-show gatherings!

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 30

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Posting a daily poem for Pride Month has been fun, and for our grand finale, here is a video I hope you will enjoy -- Denice Frohman performing "Dear Straight People." 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #Pride #poetrycommunity
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Denice Frohman - Dear Straight People

YouTube video by Button Poetry

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 29

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ On this penultimate day of Pride Month, here’s a double! -- “Pitcher” and “The Base Stealer” by Robert Francis, whom Robert Frost called “of all the great neglected poets, the greatest.” 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #Pride #poetrycommunity

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 28

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Pride Month! Here is "Duplex" by Jericho Brown, from THE TRADITION (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social sky.social‬, 2019). 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍�#Pridemonth20252#Pride20252#pridemontht#Prided#poetrycommunityty https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/the-tradition-by-jericho-brown/

Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 26

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Month Poems. Here is "Fly" by Richie Hofmann, from SECOND EMPIRE (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, 2015). 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #Pridemonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetrycommunity
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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 25

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When Men Bow Down by R. Nemo Hill | Dos Madres Press

“the journeys of R. Nemo Hill are not just through places like Bali, Thailand, New York and San Francisco, but through awareness itself, which is always death-limned. These poems are essential…

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 25

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Month Poems. When I'm enjoying the green of summer, this poem comes to mind: "Sonnet to Green," from R. Nemo Hill's WHEN MEN BOW DOWN (Dos Madres Press, 2012). 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetrycommunity

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 24

It’s hawt today.

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 24

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NASTY WOMEN POETS: AN UNAPOLOGETIC ANTHOLOGY OF SUBVERSIVE VERSE - Lost Horse Press

This timely collection of poems speaks not just to the current political climate and the man who is responsible for its title, but to the stereotypes and expectations women have faced dating back to E...

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 24

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Month Poems. Here is "Playing Poker While Female," by Liz Ahl, from NASTY WOMEN POETS: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017). Editors: Grace Bauer & Julie Kane. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈
#PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetrycommunity

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 23

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Poems. In 1918, at age 25, Wilfred Owen was killed in action -- a week before the war's end. He gave us this haunting war poem, "Dulce et Decorum Est." 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈
#PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetrycommunity

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 22

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Month continues! It was great to hear River Vetter read this at the @poetrybythesea.bsky.social Conference. Here is "Poem In Which My Fake Dick Sets Off Airport Security," which first appeared in Vagabond City Literary Journal. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 21

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Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 21

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride! From Kay Ryan (U.S. Poet Laureate 2008-2010), we have "We're Building the Ship as We Sail It," which first appeared in the June 2006 issue of Poetry. It's also in THE BEST OF IT: New & Selected Poems. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 20

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Super Gay Poems — Harvard University Press

A major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more. ...

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 20

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Pride Friday! Here's Ruth Vanita's "Mermaid" from SUPER GAY POEMS by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social
Stephanie Burt. Check out the pms & her essays on each! We were delighted to hear her Keynote at the @poetrybythesea.bsky.social Conference.🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 19

"What is Juneteenth and Why Does it Matter: A Short History | Journey to American Democracy" a video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 19

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride Month. Here's a recent poem from Rickey Laurentiis @rckylrnts.bsky.social, "Trans Loneliness." You can hear her read it at the link, & see her notes. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 17

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Pride Month. Here is a stunner from @davidgroff.bsky.social. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈
#PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 17

Thank you! (I wondered if folks would notice them, especially because some of the anagrams are mosaic rhymes. Good eye!)

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thanks, Marc!

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thank you to @markdanowsky.bsky.social &
@eboninthehedges.bsky.social at @oneart.bsky.social
for the opportunity to contribute to the conversation.
#plagiarism #poetry #poetrycommunity

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 15

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ A Pride Month poem for Father's Day. Here is James Crews' "Telling My Father. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈
#PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #pridemonth #Pride #poetry

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Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · Jun 14

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Pride Month Poems: Here's "Cremello Horse" by Keetje Kuipers 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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#PrideMonth2025 #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #Pride #poetry

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