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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 16d

You kept telling us. We kept looking in the wrong place. Thanks for your persistence. The ghost of last year's contest that has been haunting our website has now been exercised. Sincere apologies for that inconvenience. You can now visit HoCoPoLitSo.org for a no-ghosts go at entering the contest.

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 22d

Are you the next Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize winner? We are looking forward to seeing your work!

For all you need to know and to enter, visit:

hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 20d

Ross Gay comes to Columbia on November 7th.

HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 20d

Tickets, just $25. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · 28d

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Sep 24

America likes to be the best at things. These days it’s living up to that stature, being the best at being stupid.

Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Sep 22

The morals of corporate America are non existent. Profit over everything. And this isn’t even an important example. Use your imagination and scale up.

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Sep 17

Two opportunities to see Safia Elhillo -- author of the acclaimed Bright Red Fruit -- for #FREE tomorrow on the campus of Howard Community College.

12:30 p.m. Monteabaro Hall & streamed via Vimeo (link below).
6:00 p.m. Monteabaro Hall

All you need to know:
www.howardcc.edu/discover/art...

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Sep 16

That day we look around and find we are all human.

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Sep 12

There's a book festival in Baltimore tomorrow.

baltimorebookfest.com/full-stage-s...

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Sep 5

New season of Wilde Readings launches Tuesday evening at Columbia's fantastic independent bookstore, Queen Takes Book (6955 Oakland Mills Rd E, Columbia, MD 21045). Featured readers and open mic. Starts at 7. We'd love to see you there.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Sep 5

Let's just call it by its full name, shall we: The Department of War on America, Peace, and Humanity. Who wants a peace prize only to go renaming things such? Nothing but a madman and his gathering of sycophant crusaders. We are in for it, folks.

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · Sep 4

In our latest issue, poet and essayist Molly McCully Brown unpacks the value of a creative writing degree, “Think of it in early readers accumulated: The one you’ll e-mail for the next thirty years with your earliest drafts and subject headings like ‘This may be very bad.’” at.pw.org/ValueOfADegree

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · Aug 13

Held annually in loving memory of HoCoPoLitSo’s co-founder, the 2025 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize submission window is now open.

hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · Aug 11

“There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Aug 11

The pause and preen of a hummingbird, and then the explosion back into its hummingbird self.

Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Aug 11

Just saw Paul Revere galloping through the streets of Washington DC screaming out a warning to its citizens, "The Red Coats are coming! The Red Coats are coming...." after King Bozo's morning bloviation.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Jul 20

Watching America go nuts over the Cold Play & ignore daily atrocities this very country is participant in, well, that’s all anyone needs to know about US right now. We have transformed into a cohort of monsters supporting opportunist & powerhungry madmen. America, get your head out of Trump’s ass.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Jul 16

humidity and heat—
quiet as their shadows, crows
rising from a cornfield

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Jul 4

In Hate we trust.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Jul 1

Wanting the same kind of @bsky.app attention as the catbird, a Carolina wren lands under my chair to chirp his case. A mocking bird takes them all on. Cooler air prevails, today, and the birds are on it.

Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Jul 1

That sounds a conversation not to miss, you and Abbott. Hopefully, I won't. And then there's the notion of a mystery writer casually walking the history of all their murders through the TSA, ho-hum, distracting away with jewelry. #fancydangerous

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Jul 1

Summer suet feeder and the catbird meows and meows to keep all away. Or maybe it is just the feral joy of having this other personality inside a cage of feathers. Meow. Meow. It's a noisy boast, but the suet and the morning seem to be his, a slant of sun pointing this out.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Jun 30

Oh, good grief. "Reading in public – not cool. Or at least “performative reading”, as it’s been dubbed on social media, is worthy of ridicule." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Is it OK to read Infinite Jest in public? Why the internet hates ‘performative reading’

Posts mocking strangers for cracking open classics have become popular. So where are we supposed to read them?

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Jun 27

Weatherchange and birdsong through the open windows.

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Tim Singleton @timsingleton122.bsky.social · Jun 27

The way an oscillating fan bullies the humidity this way, then that, this way, then that.