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Millicent Borges Accardi

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NEA Poetry fellow| CantoMundo |Fulbright | Calif Arts Council | Author of 4 poetry books includ Quarantine Highway (FlowerSong), Thru a Grainy Landscape, Only More So (Salmon) #Portuguese #poetrycommunity #Binders https://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you to editor Anthony Frame for featuring my poem, "Nothing Sentimental" in Glass: A Journal of Poetry today There is an audio of my reading of the poem as well.
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Millicent Borges Accardi | Nothing Sentimental | Glass: A Journal of Poetry

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i was looking for a link and came across this Atticus interview I did with the wonderful Irish novelist Evelyn Conlon in 2023, What is Your Dream Residency? atticusreview.org/what-is-your...

What is Your Dream Residency?

Millicent Borges Accardi interviews with Evelyn Conlon,

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks--

Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · 12d

It does seem to be that way-- the glory days of being able to chat with people you barely know now seems vaguely strange. Even posting food photos seems odd when it used to feel normal.

Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · 14d

Bluesky! I like the idea of you, and I found many writer friends I had misplaced when Twitter collapsed. . .but I never find myself lingering, scrolling, reading, finding interesting things here. I WANT to make this my home-- what am I missing?

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · 20d

Me feeling the autumn in the air

Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks to the editors of Slipstream for including my poem "Still and Just" in Slipstream 45

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · 25d

"For Peixoto, poetry is the medium that allows us to slow down, reflect, and gather the threads that constitute our being." from Irene Marques' review of José Luís Peixoto's poetry book Homecoming, translated by Hugo dos Santos (Arquipélago Press, 2024) worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

The Self Is a Book Made of Expanded Memories: José Luís Peixoto’s Homecoming, by Irene Marques

Irene Marques reviews José Luís Peixoto’s new book of poems called Homecoming, translated by Hugo dos Santos (Arquipélago Press, 2024).

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Sep 24

In my latest interview, Stephen Rebello kindly agreed to answer questions about his new book, Criss-Cross: The Making of Hitchcock’s Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train (2025). Join him on Sept 27th in Pasadena for a book signing portuguese-american-journal.com/stephen-rebe...

| Stephen Rebello | A Storyteller of Film, Secrets, Intrigue, and Suspense – InterviewPortuguese American Journal

By Millicent Borges Accardi When we last interviewed* Portuguese-American writer Stephen Rebello, the movie Hitchcock, adapted for film from Rebello’s wonderful book, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making o...

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Sep 16

Congrats to all of the latest Barbara Deming Poetry grant winners. I was honored to have been a past Money for Women recipient. Special congratulations to my AWP Mentee Nina Peláez

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Awards — BARBARA DEMING MEMORIAL FUND, INC

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Sep 14

Interview with João Pedro Porto
A. In Latin countries, necessity compels us to be rebellious and call for revolution from time to time. Anything else would be complacency and a gateway to rigid, devoid, and absolutist affairs. portuguese-american-journal.com/joao-pedro-p...

| João Pedro Porto | Combining experimental form with existential paradoxes – InterviewPortuguese American Journal

By Carolina Matos, Editor João Pedro Porto, born in the Azores in 1984, has established himself as one of the most distinctive contemporary voices in Portuguese literature. A novelist, poet, and psych...

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes 1930s allpoetry.com/Let-America-...

Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry

Comments & analysis: Let America be America again. / Let it be the dream it used to be.

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Sep 3

Millicent Borges Accardi | Nothing Sentimental | Glass: A Journal of Poetry

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Sep 1

No one is united and all things are untied. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ey5...

The World's a Mess, It's in My Kiss

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Aug 31

It's awful. People are being taken by force from the streets, from courts, from churches, from schools, from workplaces and sent "somewhere" with no access to an attorney, family, friends, or a phone. Anyone can be disappeared into the ocean or to a prison in Uganda, never to be heard from again.

Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Aug 23

I am sorry. . . .it has been awful news all around

Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Aug 22

More bad news on the arts front,
Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program. Due to circumstances beyond our control and beyond the control of our 2025-2026 admitted fellows, we are unable to consider the following disciplines: Film and Video, Music, Playwriting, Poetry, and Visual Arts.

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Aug 22

Earlier this year, the Republicans cut the Fulbright program, stranding writers, artists and professors in foreign countries, who had left lives in the US to carry out amazing long-term creative and research fellowships. Poof! They were cut off.

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Aug 22

So much for the NEA. . . That is awful news. The NEA is cancelled. . . That grant changed my life. Everything good in America is being destroyed.

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thanks Cordite editors for featuring my poem! cordite.org.au/poetry/nothe...
A Shoe, a Scarf, a Thimble Full of Faith
– “ Border Tryptich,” Norma Cantú

Outside, the hate copied and cropped
in reverse as if people were trying
to put together a construct by sorting out. . .

A Shoe, a Scarf, a Thimble Full of Faith

– “ Border Tryptich,” Norma Cantú Outside, the hate copied and cropped in reverse as if people were trying to put together a construct by sorting out a manufactured cross, struggling over a wall an…

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Aug 13

Come join in Casa da Saudade: Tertúlia da Casa
A tertúlia is a social gathering where people come together to build community through discussion and intellectual exchange. Tertúlia da Casa on GoogleMeet Saturdays 12 - 1:00 PM (Boston time):
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Meet

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Aug 9

Just rec'd my contributor copy of the new Pessoa anthology where I am honored (and in shock) to have a poem alongside the likes of Ginsberg, Billy Collins, and Kay Ryan.
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In the Footsteps of a Shadow | MadHat Press

Praise for In the Footsteps of a ShadowThis lush florilegium of poetic evocations, variations, and inquiries is a beautiful testament to how far and fru...

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Aug 8

CALL FOR PROPOSALS critical librarianship and AI-- Critical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Librarianship, an edited volume to be published by Litwin Books/Library Juice Press. sites.google.com/view/critlib...

Crit Lib AI Book - Call for Proposals

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Aug 5

Poet and CantoMundo founder CARMEN TAFOLLA is featured on "LEGUIZAMO DOES AMERICA in San Antonio " airing this Sunday!

CARMEN TAFOLLA in the literary world, and SHELLY LARES in the Tejano music industry are featured.
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John Leguizamo films in San Antonio for season 2 of ‘Leguizamo Does America’

John Leguizamo was seen in Market Square and is currently working on a show called "Leguizamo Does America" A six-part series.

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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · Aug 5

It is about learning but the silly double points and "games" have kept me involved every day for the past six years-- so I am grateful for the that and that it is free! I just hate working so hard and not getting the winner winner chicken dinner.