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The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social · 5h

Our 2025 special issue, Animalia, features new poetry from Terrence Abrahams, @summ.bsky.social, Javeria Hasnain, EJ Kneifel, Elizabeth Mudenyo, Bahar Orang, @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social, and Sennah Yee. Their work, and the rest of the issue, is live now:

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 3h

and here's a snippet of what she said when i asked about the angels

While the creative practices of the “Divine” and “Oracle” sections involved my awareness and intention, the angels came as a surprise! In Deluge, I have a poem called “Angel” that was the first “night poem” I ever wrote, though I didn’t have a name for that process at the time. The poem begins: “After a month of asking, suddenly, a voice.” There’s been this need in me for many years now, as long as I can remember, for something beyond to speak to me, and I am listening for it all the time. I remember feeling very silly as a child, standing next to the ocean waiting for some sign, a single word. To tell me what? I didn’t know. I don’t know. But I knew to hear it would change me. And so I kept returning to the places that felt, to me, sacred—the sea, the night, the page. That desire for a voice to tell me something is at the core of this book. And angels are messengers—that’s the root of the word, in most of the languages that speak of them. My original notions of a voice visiting me came from my faith, in the form of angels.

In Islam, angels are a bit more present, more commonplace, than in Christianity; I mean, we believe there are angels assigned to always be with us. And they’re important—it’s one of the six pillars of faith, belief in angels, second only to belief in God! In Islam, angels are not so antiquated. You might encounter one going about your day, and you wouldn’t be considered crazy. I’m sure their presence in the poems comes from these concurrent associations in my subconscious mind: angels as symbols of faith, of writing, of messages, and of madness. Angels are also made of light, and this is a book interested in shadow, and in opposites. They are figures of reason and the mind. They can only ever follow rules.

summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 3h

loved this book dearly - leila's work means a lot to me & so i knew i would likely resonate with Wildness but my goodness. cried over so many of the poems, felt my approach to my own work sharpening as i spent time with the book over & over again. here's my favorite 👼

Angels

I didn't expect angels, but
they kept coming. A flicker
in the street's margin of shadow.
A mote of gold particulate
pirouetting by the window.
I asked them can you tell me--am I good?
but they had little authority.
Useless, really, angels--all aureate
mist and feathers and superegatory
patience. But I can't abandon them
to terrestrial cruelty. When they arrive, newly
individual and foolish, I
pour them cool water from a pitcher, I offer
blackberries and white cheese. Needless
though they are, on bright mornings
when they stay sleeping (like children, their faces
I decide are mine)--I keep the curtains closed
against the obliterated sky.

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 4h

spoke with leila chatti about her new collection for @adimagazine.bsky.social 💙

On Making Work into Play: Leila Chatti on Wildness Before Something Sublime

In Winter 2022, I was lucky enough to be part of Leila Chatti’s Tin House workshop for poetry. At the end of our one-on-one session, she told me she wasn’t sure if she could conceive of a book for her...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

🎥 Video | The funeral of journalist Saleh Al-Jaafrawi, laid to rest after being killed last night in Gaza City.

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 1d

if you want to support a nanticoke who makes little magazines this indigenous peoples day, here are the little magazines i make

www.ANMLY.org — intl art & lit that's never boring
www.beestungmag.com — non-binary, two-spirit, & genderqueer writing
www.ALOCASIA.org — a journal of queer planty writing

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 2d

439 signature to 10,000. please keep sharing!

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 3d

We really really need all hands on deck to get Tarek’s mitigation letter to the judge with 10,000 signatures by Monday. Please circulate offline and here, and sign!

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Sign the Petition

FREE TAREK BAZROUK NOW! NO MORE JAIL TIME! SIGN HIS MITIGATION LETTER!

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!!

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 3d

love Jane sm

Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 4d

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Thank you @sannawani.bsky.social and @ex-puritan.bsky.social for including “Unit 100” in the Animalia special issue. So honoured to among these other creaturely works.

Unit 100

Read Jane Shi's poem "Unit 100" in The Ex-Puritan’s special issue Animalia, then check out the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 3d

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰💞💞💞💞💞

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 4d

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<3 @summ.bsky.social

"THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" and "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING"

Read Summer Farah's poems "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" and "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" in The Ex-Puritan's special issue Animalia, then check out the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 4d

part of a series from THE HUNGERING YEARS; pre-order will be up in a few weeks so u can see how it ends 💪

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 4d

I have two poems in the ANIMALIA folio edited by @sannawani.bsky.social at @ex-puritan.bsky.social 🐦 ex-puritan.ca/the-birds-ar...

"THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" and "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING"

Read Summer Farah's poems "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" and "THE BIRDS ARE CALLING" in The Ex-Puritan's special issue Animalia, then check out the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 6d

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), “Untitled (Celestial Fantasy with Tamara Toumanova)” (early 1940s), collage and tempera on paperboard, 96.8 x 125.7 cm.

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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 23d

my mom is out of the halfway house and needs some cash to get on her feet in her new living situation. she already has a job. for those who don’t know, she got out of jail pretty recently and was facing deportation this summer. the goal is $2000.

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 23d

just sent one out about the end of dawson's creek, contrasting it with riverdale, substack.com/home/post/p-... :)

the end of dawson's creek sucks

long live riverdale!

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 23d

in between assignments for school i have been sending out newsletters more often, most of the time about the old teen dramas i am watching :) substack.com/@eveningconv...

Summer | Substack

poet, gamer, girl on the edge. currently putting all of my energy & potential into supernatural 🍉🇵🇸 summerfarah.com

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 23d

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 25d

love sending my book to people who have never reviewed poetry...my book will be different

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 25d

Yayy congratulations!!!!! Really looking forward to this!

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 25d

here's another one of the poems :) theseventhwave.org/publication/...

the angels are falling - Seventh Wave

"My recklessness can fit on one hand: the divine is reserved for the thumb."

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 25d

here's one of the poems :) poets.org/poem/after-m...

After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural

I understand, I tell her,

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 25d

still looking for reviewers/interviewers/other-forms-of-coverage for my debut poetry collection THE HUNGERING YEARS 💜🍃 please reach out (summerfarah.com) ‼️

Summer Farah

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 28d

💜 thank you!

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shovda @shovda.bsky.social · 29d

To all my poets and Legend of Zelda lovers, if you want a book of poetry that breathes LoZ, consider "I could die today and live again" by @summ.bsky.social

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i could die today and live again — Summer Farah — Game Over Books

I could die today and live again is inspired by the realm of The Legend of Zelda . Giving voice to non-player characters and blurring the boundaries of game-world and real-world, Summer Farah’s poem...

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