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Lauren Camp's forthcoming book 'Is Is Enough' (2026) "begins in heritage and harmony then breaks apart into the strange world and tautly stretched emotions that accompany dementia."
➡️ Camp is a #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow.
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➡️ Camp is a #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow.
www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...
Is Is Enough
Is Is Enough begins in heritage and harmony then breaks apart into the strange world and tautly stretched emotions that accompany dementia. The collection fl...
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November 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Lauren Camp's forthcoming book 'Is Is Enough' (2026) "begins in heritage and harmony then breaks apart into the strange world and tautly stretched emotions that accompany dementia."
➡️ Camp is a #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow.
www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...
➡️ Camp is a #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow.
www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...
We are targets for the Devils work—fertile women, queer men, Black and brown people, the usual suspects and yet, he’s uneasy.
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- Patricia Spears Jones, #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow & New York State Poet (2023-2025) @pksj51.bsky.social
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- Patricia Spears Jones, #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow & New York State Poet (2023-2025) @pksj51.bsky.social
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Patricia Spears Jones: The Devil’s Wife looks at America to understand the necessity of wordsmiths
Yes, the Devil is making quite a mess of America, and here I am swabbing yet another wound and offering up unanswered prayers. Our names are on fire.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We are targets for the Devils work—fertile women, queer men, Black and brown people, the usual suspects and yet, he’s uneasy.
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- Patricia Spears Jones, #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow & New York State Poet (2023-2025) @pksj51.bsky.social
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- Patricia Spears Jones, #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow & New York State Poet (2023-2025) @pksj51.bsky.social
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Let light be your oracle.
Do not be afraid of darkness,
for the long cold nights
makes the short days sing.
#apprenticetolight
Do not be afraid of darkness,
for the long cold nights
makes the short days sing.
#apprenticetolight
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Let light be your oracle.
Do not be afraid of darkness,
for the long cold nights
makes the short days sing.
#apprenticetolight
Do not be afraid of darkness,
for the long cold nights
makes the short days sing.
#apprenticetolight
"The tide is turning. The story is changing. The roles reversing." Read Brenda Peterson's latest piece about presidential positioning and the late disgraced financier. "What has been released in the American psyche is Trump’s true character," she says. bsp808.medium.com/trump-and-th...
Trump and the Epstein Files: Not a Victim, a Perpetrator
www.BrendaPetersonBooks.com
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November 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
"The tide is turning. The story is changing. The roles reversing." Read Brenda Peterson's latest piece about presidential positioning and the late disgraced financier. "What has been released in the American psyche is Trump’s true character," she says. bsp808.medium.com/trump-and-th...
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For we who were raised in sexually abusive, patriarchal—and often white!—environments during those years, take my word for it—what is happening about #Epstein right now is not just about the victims. #maxwell #nubile #sexualabuse #feminism #adolescence
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Epstein and My Inner Nubile Child
An Explanation for My Younger Women Friends
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November 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
For we who were raised in sexually abusive, patriarchal—and often white!—environments during those years, take my word for it—what is happening about #Epstein right now is not just about the victims. #maxwell #nubile #sexualabuse #feminism #adolescence
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Wasima Khan is an emerging writer and jurist from the Netherlands. She worked as a law lecturer, a legislative lawyer for the Dutch government, and an investigative journalist. She is currently working on her literary debut. Read her full poem in the latest issue of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.
A woman behind glass
asked me if I loved freedom.
I said yes,
but not the kind
that comes with a barcode.
Freedom here
is a performance:
a hymn sung off-key
by men in suits
who have never been hungry.
From 'The Document' by Wasima Khan
#Poetry #LitMag
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asked me if I loved freedom.
I said yes,
but not the kind
that comes with a barcode.
Freedom here
is a performance:
a hymn sung off-key
by men in suits
who have never been hungry.
From 'The Document' by Wasima Khan
#Poetry #LitMag
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
November 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Wasima Khan is an emerging writer and jurist from the Netherlands. She worked as a law lecturer, a legislative lawyer for the Dutch government, and an investigative journalist. She is currently working on her literary debut. Read her full poem in the latest issue of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.
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DON'T MISS THIS FABULOUS READING FROM TAKING LIBERTIES: WRITINGS OF RESISTANCE AT TUCSON'S HISTORIC Y THEATER ON NOVEMBER 18 FROM 5-7 P.M. SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA'S POETRY CENTER! FREE TO THE PUBLIC. ANTHOLOGIES WILL BE ON SALE.
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
DON'T MISS THIS FABULOUS READING FROM TAKING LIBERTIES: WRITINGS OF RESISTANCE AT TUCSON'S HISTORIC Y THEATER ON NOVEMBER 18 FROM 5-7 P.M. SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA'S POETRY CENTER! FREE TO THE PUBLIC. ANTHOLOGIES WILL BE ON SALE.
🎉 Congratulations to our 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social
nominees! Explore the nominated works from the 'On Freedom' and 'Careful/Care-full Collaboration' issues of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.
#Poetry #Prose #PushcartPrize
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nominees! Explore the nominated works from the 'On Freedom' and 'Careful/Care-full Collaboration' issues of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.
#Poetry #Prose #PushcartPrize
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Pushcart Prize Nominees
From the Careful/Care-full Collaboration issue
Chai is Resilience by Zorian A. Chakraborty (prose)
as the fence now runs / I stand in the place by Erica M. Breen (poetry)
AI by Jeremy Jacob Perez an...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
🎉 Congratulations to our 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social
nominees! Explore the nominated works from the 'On Freedom' and 'Careful/Care-full Collaboration' issues of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.
#Poetry #Prose #PushcartPrize
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nominees! Explore the nominated works from the 'On Freedom' and 'Careful/Care-full Collaboration' issues of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.
#Poetry #Prose #PushcartPrize
blackearthinstitute.org/pushcart-pri...
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WE HAD A GREAT NIGHT AT DIXON PLACE.
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
WE HAD A GREAT NIGHT AT DIXON PLACE.
Crafting a Documentary Poetics of Resistance in the Shadow of State Violence: Teresa Dzieglewicz, author of Something Small of How to See a River, for @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
➡️ Dzieglewicz is a #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow.
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➡️ Dzieglewicz is a #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow.
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Crafting a Documentary Poetics of Resistance in the Shadow of State Violence
On. Off. On. Off. I flicked the light switches. Stared at the flush of the toilet. Traced the exposed brick stairwell, and let the dust dress my finger, like my home was the moon. There are no poet…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Crafting a Documentary Poetics of Resistance in the Shadow of State Violence: Teresa Dzieglewicz, author of Something Small of How to See a River, for @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
➡️ Dzieglewicz is a #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow.
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➡️ Dzieglewicz is a #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow.
lithub.com/crafting-a-d...
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November’s mid-morning moon has advice for you.
#apprenticetolight
#apprenticetolight
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
November’s mid-morning moon has advice for you.
#apprenticetolight
#apprenticetolight
Animals are the first responders to climate change. What can they teach us? Read the latest post 'Survival Tips from Animals,' by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Brenda Peterson. #ClimateChange
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Survival Tips from Animals
Animals are the first responders to climate change. What can they teach us?
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November 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Animals are the first responders to climate change. What can they teach us? Read the latest post 'Survival Tips from Animals,' by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Brenda Peterson. #ClimateChange
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I love this experimental review on "this abattoir is a college" by Joel Chace in Word for/Word. Thanks Joel for your lovely words for my words. wordforword.info/vol45/Chace....
Word For/Word: A Journal of New Writing (Issue 45, Fall 2025)
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November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I love this experimental review on "this abattoir is a college" by Joel Chace in Word for/Word. Thanks Joel for your lovely words for my words. wordforword.info/vol45/Chace....
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The pictures were taken on astronomical Samhain in 2023 when I was in Ireland - one is the poignant hand of a bog body found in Clonycavan and the other haws still bright on a rainy day.
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The pictures were taken on astronomical Samhain in 2023 when I was in Ireland - one is the poignant hand of a bog body found in Clonycavan and the other haws still bright on a rainy day.
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Today is astronomical Samhain for 2025. The midpoint between Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice. As we feather back through the years, I bet we would find that all of our ancestors paid attention to these days that were marked by the increase or decrease of light.
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Today is astronomical Samhain for 2025. The midpoint between Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice. As we feather back through the years, I bet we would find that all of our ancestors paid attention to these days that were marked by the increase or decrease of light.
We are excited to announce the @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees from the “Careful/Care-full Collaboration” issue of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.
🎉 Congratulations and best of luck to these incredible nominees!
🎉 Congratulations and best of luck to these incredible nominees!
Announcing our Pushcart Prize nominees:
✒️Erica M. Breen’s “as the fence now runs (1948 quit claim deed)” & “(2023 reflections) I stand in the place"
✒️Jeremy Jacob Perez & Joan Cambridge Mayfield’s “AI”
✒️Zorian A. Chakraborty's "Chai is Resilience"
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✒️Erica M. Breen’s “as the fence now runs (1948 quit claim deed)” & “(2023 reflections) I stand in the place"
✒️Jeremy Jacob Perez & Joan Cambridge Mayfield’s “AI”
✒️Zorian A. Chakraborty's "Chai is Resilience"
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...
aboutplacejournal.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM
We are excited to announce the @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees from the “Careful/Care-full Collaboration” issue of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.
🎉 Congratulations and best of luck to these incredible nominees!
🎉 Congratulations and best of luck to these incredible nominees!
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Thank you Eric Shoemaker for this beautiful review on my book. You really capture my despair of higher education! rhinopoetry.org/reviews/orch...
REVIEWS — RHINO — This Abattoir is a College by Orchid Tierney - Reviewed by Robert Eric Shoemaker
There are facts we know about systems of higher education, whether we admit them or justify them. Is the modern university “a collage or a college,” a palimpsest of paperwork, nesting dolls of committ...
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November 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Thank you Eric Shoemaker for this beautiful review on my book. You really capture my despair of higher education! rhinopoetry.org/reviews/orch...
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Grateful to add some poetry to the amalgam of film and live music put together by Michael Walsh at Bunnell Street Arts Center last night.
November 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Grateful to add some poetry to the amalgam of film and live music put together by Michael Walsh at Bunnell Street Arts Center last night.
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November 11 is also book launch for my chapbook, The Devil's Wife Considers from The Song Cave.
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
November 11 is also book launch for my chapbook, The Devil's Wife Considers from The Song Cave.
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I put on my great aunt Jessie's carnelian necklace to watch. Jessie started running for office (first, for alderman) on the Socialist ticket before women even had the vote. She kept running as a Socialist for 20 years! How ecstatic she would be about this!! #mayorMamdani #JessieWallaceHughan
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I put on my great aunt Jessie's carnelian necklace to watch. Jessie started running for office (first, for alderman) on the Socialist ticket before women even had the vote. She kept running as a Socialist for 20 years! How ecstatic she would be about this!! #mayorMamdani #JessieWallaceHughan
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As we think about freedom in times of great change, especially during the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, J.W.M. Morgan looks into the perspective of historical figures to understand their personal motives for fighting for freedom.
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J.W.M. Morgan – On Freedom – About Place Journal
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November 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
As we think about freedom in times of great change, especially during the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, J.W.M. Morgan looks into the perspective of historical figures to understand their personal motives for fighting for freedom.
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...
Their words nervous, their sinews redefining.
Life goes in a blink.
They were all clenched back to parents.
Without embellishment, they were saved.
From 'Small Mariners'
by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp @commonmag.bsky.social.
#Poetry
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Life goes in a blink.
They were all clenched back to parents.
Without embellishment, they were saved.
From 'Small Mariners'
by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp @commonmag.bsky.social.
#Poetry
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Small Mariners
LAUREN CAMP <br> What is it like to be found? All these years on, I’ve never before been / to the edge of this rocky square state. I drive 41 through aura and wither / and slip into Golden then ou...
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November 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Their words nervous, their sinews redefining.
Life goes in a blink.
They were all clenched back to parents.
Without embellishment, they were saved.
From 'Small Mariners'
by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp @commonmag.bsky.social.
#Poetry
www.thecommononline.org/small-marine...
Life goes in a blink.
They were all clenched back to parents.
Without embellishment, they were saved.
From 'Small Mariners'
by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp @commonmag.bsky.social.
#Poetry
www.thecommononline.org/small-marine...
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Rabbit. Rabbit.
November 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Rabbit. Rabbit.
"Even though Americans criticize rigid caste systems and privilege in other countries, America has its own rich ruling class. Greed in this century is not a deadly sin — it’s a business plan."
-Brenda Peterson, #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow
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-Brenda Peterson, #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow
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Pathology of Privilege: Trump as Once and Future King
By Brenda Peterson
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October 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"Even though Americans criticize rigid caste systems and privilege in other countries, America has its own rich ruling class. Greed in this century is not a deadly sin — it’s a business plan."
-Brenda Peterson, #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow
bsp808.medium.com/pathology-of...
-Brenda Peterson, #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow
bsp808.medium.com/pathology-of...