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In the fall, a group called Literary Portland for Palestine asked Portland Book Festival to divest from Wells Fargo sponsorship funding. They've since grown into a collective working to raise awareness. And because they're a literary organization, they're doing it with poems.
Literary Portland for Palestine Plans Readings, Still Asks Portland Book Fest To Divest
At Portland Book Festival, in November, you may have noticed an icon on t-shirts, posters, and social media of Literary Arts' red umbrella dropping bombs. The graphic read "Drop Wells Fargo" and "Lite...
www.portlandmercury.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:54 PM
In the fall, a group called Literary Portland for Palestine asked Portland Book Festival to divest from Wells Fargo sponsorship funding. They've since grown into a collective working to raise awareness. And because they're a literary organization, they're doing it with poems.
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Amazing to see Sara Gilmore's The Green Lives among the editors of The Yale Review's favorite cultural artifacts of 2025—a list of not just poetry books, but movies, TV shows, the whole gamut. The Green Lives is an event! Thank you, @yalereview.bsky.social
yalereview.org/article/favo...
yalereview.org/article/favo...
Our Favorite Cultural Artifacts of 2025
TYR ’s editors share their most meaningful cultural encounters of the year.
yalereview.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Amazing to see Sara Gilmore's The Green Lives among the editors of The Yale Review's favorite cultural artifacts of 2025—a list of not just poetry books, but movies, TV shows, the whole gamut. The Green Lives is an event! Thank you, @yalereview.bsky.social
yalereview.org/article/favo...
yalereview.org/article/favo...
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In “Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic,” Huda Fakhreddine examines place, time, and anti-colonial memory in Arabic literature, concluding that “A poem in itself is survival, and a poem written post-extermination is a victory.”
proteanmag.com/2025/04/26/p...
proteanmag.com/2025/04/26/p...
Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic • Protean Magazine
In "Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic," Huda Fakhreddine examines place, time, and anti-colonial memory in Arabic literature, concluding that "A poem in itself is survival, and a poem written...
proteanmag.com
April 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
In “Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic,” Huda Fakhreddine examines place, time, and anti-colonial memory in Arabic literature, concluding that “A poem in itself is survival, and a poem written post-extermination is a victory.”
proteanmag.com/2025/04/26/p...
proteanmag.com/2025/04/26/p...
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Here it is, the call for submissions for my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org! Please forward widely!⚡💕⚡💕⚡ Here's the link to the call: www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/other
August 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Here it is, the call for submissions for my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org! Please forward widely!⚡💕⚡💕⚡ Here's the link to the call: www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/other
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As recipients of Literary Arts' fellowship for publishers, we ask them to divest from genocide. Please sign and share. Free Palestine.
An Open Letter to the Portland Book Festival
We, the undersigned writers & literary organizations, many of whom have been a part of the Literary Arts ecosystem in some way—whether the Portland Book Festival, as finalists or winners of the…
lithub.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
As recipients of Literary Arts' fellowship for publishers, we ask them to divest from genocide. Please sign and share. Free Palestine.
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With your support, in April 2026 Fonograf Editions will publish Bird Watching & their First Three Books of Poems, a 230-page volume of the earliest works of the inimitable American poet, Cuthwulf Eileen Myles. Kickstarter with some great perks at kck.st/4lzQZuS
July 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
With your support, in April 2026 Fonograf Editions will publish Bird Watching & their First Three Books of Poems, a 230-page volume of the earliest works of the inimitable American poet, Cuthwulf Eileen Myles. Kickstarter with some great perks at kck.st/4lzQZuS
Portland folks, I'm doing this thing. Poetry in, ICE out ❤️🔥🧊
June 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Portland folks, I'm doing this thing. Poetry in, ICE out ❤️🔥🧊
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Today, a second conversation about the late Alice Notley. The brilliant poet and critic Joyelle McSweeney joined me to talk about grief and life in the underworld in Notley’s extraordinary epic The Descent of Alette. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Joyelle McSweeney on Alice Notley (The Descent of Alette)
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 06/11/2025 · 1h 41m
podcasts.apple.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today, a second conversation about the late Alice Notley. The brilliant poet and critic Joyelle McSweeney joined me to talk about grief and life in the underworld in Notley’s extraordinary epic The Descent of Alette. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Mur by Jean-Robert Alcindor
June 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Mur by Jean-Robert Alcindor
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wait jfc i'd never heard about this one before????
this is one of those things about this man: there is, was, so much depth. i have a close friend about whom another friend says: after decades, there is always something new to learn. always some further-away shine www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKew...
this is one of those things about this man: there is, was, so much depth. i have a close friend about whom another friend says: after decades, there is always something new to learn. always some further-away shine www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKew...
The Trinidad Cassette - Brian Wilson (1982)
YouTube video by Thump Stuff
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June 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
wait jfc i'd never heard about this one before????
this is one of those things about this man: there is, was, so much depth. i have a close friend about whom another friend says: after decades, there is always something new to learn. always some further-away shine www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKew...
this is one of those things about this man: there is, was, so much depth. i have a close friend about whom another friend says: after decades, there is always something new to learn. always some further-away shine www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKew...
God only knows what I'd be without you...
June 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
God only knows what I'd be without you...
Jean-Robert Alcindor | Swimming pool « Un soir d’été » | 2022
June 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Jean-Robert Alcindor | Swimming pool « Un soir d’été » | 2022
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Jaime Gil de Biedma’s IF ONLY FOR A MOMENT (I’LL NEVER BE YOUNG AGAIN) stages “poems committed to beauty and resistance, weaving together a politics filled with erotic charges…” —Alexis Almeida
From @fonografeditions.bsky.social & our #PrideMonth reading list:
fonografeditions.com/catalog/fono...
From @fonografeditions.bsky.social & our #PrideMonth reading list:
fonografeditions.com/catalog/fono...
FONO34 // Selected Poems of Jaime Gil de Biedma — If Only For a Moment (I’ll Never Be Young Again) (print; hardback book) – Fonograf Editions
This will only take a…
fonografeditions.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Jaime Gil de Biedma’s IF ONLY FOR A MOMENT (I’LL NEVER BE YOUNG AGAIN) stages “poems committed to beauty and resistance, weaving together a politics filled with erotic charges…” —Alexis Almeida
From @fonografeditions.bsky.social & our #PrideMonth reading list:
fonografeditions.com/catalog/fono...
From @fonografeditions.bsky.social & our #PrideMonth reading list:
fonografeditions.com/catalog/fono...
June 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The best collection of writing on Palestine I've ever seen ❤️🔥@parapraxismag.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The best collection of writing on Palestine I've ever seen ❤️🔥@parapraxismag.bsky.social
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Great to see Matt Broaddus' Deeper the Tropics reviewed by Lloyd Spencer Wallace @clereviewbooks.bsky.social
These Lit Particulars: On Matt Broaddus’ “Deeper the Tropics”
all the little objects and actions that dress the set of time in an often repetitive world.
clereviewofbooks.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Great to see Matt Broaddus' Deeper the Tropics reviewed by Lloyd Spencer Wallace @clereviewbooks.bsky.social
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Today’s Featured Poem:
“[stones stacked at the back]” by Justin Cox from Stock Pond, published by Bench Editions
Read here:
poems.com/poem/stones-...
“[stones stacked at the back]” by Justin Cox from Stock Pond, published by Bench Editions
Read here:
poems.com/poem/stones-...
[stones stacked at the back]
I thought "count every rock" and
you know, "one, one, and so on"
poems.com
June 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Today’s Featured Poem:
“[stones stacked at the back]” by Justin Cox from Stock Pond, published by Bench Editions
Read here:
poems.com/poem/stones-...
“[stones stacked at the back]” by Justin Cox from Stock Pond, published by Bench Editions
Read here:
poems.com/poem/stones-...
On Alice Coltrane at the Hammer Museum for Variable West
Monument Eternal: Alice Coltrane at the Hammer Museum
Read Monument Eternal: Alice Coltrane at the Hammer Museum on Variable West.
variablewest.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
On Alice Coltrane at the Hammer Museum for Variable West
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Join us for an Alice Notley celebration reading on June 14th at 7pm at Bishop & Wilde. Featured readers will read some of their favorite Alice Notley poems and time will be given to attendees to read their own favorite Notley works.
May 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Join us for an Alice Notley celebration reading on June 14th at 7pm at Bishop & Wilde. Featured readers will read some of their favorite Alice Notley poems and time will be given to attendees to read their own favorite Notley works.
The Jews mourn Sarah and Yaron. The poets mourn 14,000 starving Palestinian babies and Alice Notley. I am both, neither, and have no language with which to speak to or of myself. I mourn.
May 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The Jews mourn Sarah and Yaron. The poets mourn 14,000 starving Palestinian babies and Alice Notley. I am both, neither, and have no language with which to speak to or of myself. I mourn.
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Submissions are open! We are looking for contemporary trans writers working in hybrid for our new Calico collection. Find out more here: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
May 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Submissions are open! We are looking for contemporary trans writers working in hybrid for our new Calico collection. Find out more here: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
Alice Notley, 1945-2025, still alive
May 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Alice Notley, 1945-2025, still alive