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Norb Aikin

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2x Writing.com Best Poetry Collection Quill Award winner and blogger. 3x published author. Former child. Hemmed up by JGM. #BillsMafia #Sabres #LGM #NDIrish Don't mind me; I hate everything. Norbaikin.com/blog

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Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social · 3d

Looking for a way to welcome autumn? How about some #poetry? #writingcommunity #poems #authors

Signed copies: www.norbaikin.com/blog/product...

Amazon/Kindle Unlimited: www.amazon.com/World-Design...

A perfect and profound autumn poetry read!!
World By Design by Norb Aikin
Free verse poems
Metaphysical
Life, mental health, grief, and wonder
Profound and provocative
Avg. Rating: 4.9/5 stars

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Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social · 16h

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/13 Reagan - The Exorcist
Killer Mike, "Reagan"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIq...

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 13h

Authors shouldn’t need day jobs

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Bearded Book Beast @beardedbookbeast.bsky.social · 13h

Check out my LIVE Chat with J. Cornelius if you missed it today! It was a blast🔥💪
#booksky #indie #books #interview #podcast #darkfantasy
youtube.com/live/-FhMQns...

Live Chat with Author J. Cornelius (Beast Friends Forever #102)

YouTube video by The Bearded Book Beast

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Bookish Spotlight 📚 @bookishspotlight.bsky.social · 12h

#NEWRELEASE
With easy-to-understand explanations and bright pictures, children will learn about the amazing work #SurgicalTechnologists do to keep patients safe and healthy.
✨ mybook.to/Icanbeasur...
GET YOUR COPY!

#EducationalBooks #childrensbooks #amreading #paperback #YA

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Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social · 12h

Poetry News→

theconversation.com/a-white-poet...

#PoetrySky #PoetryNews

A white poet and a Sioux doctor fell in love after Wounded Knee – racism and sexism would drive them apart

Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman’s 19th-century interracial marriage made them a media sensation. But tensions over gender, race and identity ultimately proved too hard to overcome.

theconversation.com

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teachercat*BW* @teachercat.bsky.social · 14h

#vss365 #undertone
#haiku

Coffee

Bitter liquid hug,
undertone of desperation
sip, survive, repeat.

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sassafrasgirl @sassafrasgirl.bsky.social · 1d

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Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social · 13h

Fun Fact: I once had neighbors upstairs from me, a married couple named Jack and Diane.

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 17h

"One way to go about practicing extreme brevity, is to take inspiration from the poets."

I love the inspiration by @kathyfish.bsky.social in this awesome October newsletter! 💙💙💙

Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 21h

My October newsletter is live and I'd love for you to read it! 💙The Fleeting, Electric Moment: Ginsberg's American Sentence open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

The Fleeting Moment: Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence

the ultra micro

open.substack.com

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 16h

This made my, like, week at least, so sharing this here.

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if you’re a fantasy lover and need recs that you haven’t heard about a billion times on tiktok HERE THEY ARE @Orbit Books US #fantasy #booktok #fyp #books #bookrecommendations

TikTok video by book bear🧸📚

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Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social · 16h

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/13 Reagan - The Exorcist
Killer Mike, "Reagan"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIq...

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve donated my article, “Take Me by the Hand: How the Danse Macabre Became Real,” to help raise funds for Into the Dark. 🌑

It’s available exclusively to Kickstarter backers. Even $1 helps bring this dark fantasy anthology to life.

Only 1 week left to join us! www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

a drawing of a skeleton and a woman

ALT: a drawing of a skeleton and a woman

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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 18h

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day is an act of resistance

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Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social · 3d

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Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social · 1d

Mash up bands:

Bloodhound Gang Of Four

Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Mash up bands:

ABBAth

Kathryn @littlemisspedantic.bsky.social · 2d

Mash up bands:

The Twilight Sad Lovers and Giants

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Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social · 1d

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/12 The Tall Man - Phantasm
Phantom Planet, "The Guest"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hrx...

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Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social · 1d

He would be, if he hadn't lucked into McD and Beane. I'd hate to imagine what the last few years would've been like without them.

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Eeva Lancaster 🌸 The Book Khaleesi @eevalancaster.bsky.social · 1d

#BookManagement
Professional and polished—every book we manage reflects the expertise and passion we pour into making it the best it can be.
✍️ Visit us at thebookkhaleesi.com
Just WRITE and leave the rest to us.

#authorservices #authors #writingcommunity #thebookkhaleesi #bookdesign

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Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social · 1d

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/12 The Tall Man - Phantasm
Phantom Planet, "The Guest"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hrx...

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Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social · 1d

Mash up bands:

Bloodhound Gang Of Four

Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Mash up bands:

ABBAth

Kathryn @littlemisspedantic.bsky.social · 2d

Mash up bands:

The Twilight Sad Lovers and Giants

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Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social · 2d

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/11 Root Woman - Apostle
The Roots, "The Next Movement"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm7X...

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Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social · 2d

An anti-vax Ramones parody called "RFK Took My Baby Away".

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MK Alexander @smartreads.bsky.social · 2d

🛸 Pioneer Sun… LATEST RELEASE
#Scifi #Wallops #NASA #JPL #Goddard #KU #Amazon
📚💙 Firmly rooted in the present…

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBLJGWW5

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NewJukeboxCafe 🇨🇦 📎 @newjukeboxcafe.bsky.social · 3d

#Music #NewJukeboxCafe

John Lodge was a pioneering force of British rock’s most underrated band
Michael Hann

The late musician helped steer the Moody Blues into an exciting and groundbreaking new era of psychedelia

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

John Lodge was a pioneering force of British rock’s most underrated band

The late musician helped steer the Moody Blues into an exciting and groundbreaking new era of psychedelia

www.theguardian.com

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Chris S. Dixon -Writer @chriswriter.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the kind repost Shanna, glad to reciprocate. In all humility, they're all good 5* reads, across many genres.☺️

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