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Brett Stuckel
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Neurocabin (Spuyten Duyvil, forthcoming)
Preorder: https://www.spuytenduyvil.net/Neurocabin.html
Latest: Magnets and Ladders
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Bethlehem, PA / he / AKA VH / ?-scar club
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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · Jun 30
Thanks for sharing this, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social!
splitlipthemag.bsky.social Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Jun 29
The publications just keep coming for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY! Contributor @brettstuckel.com published a summer micro chapbook with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social. Check it out: buff.ly/XHKRxKI
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Bought REEF MIND - a novella by @hazelzorn.bsky.social at Sorcery and Scripts bookstore in Bethlehem, PA.
November 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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“stand on the shore and blast your brass”:
mrbullbull.bsky.social MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 1d
"Your body is a dead and rusty brass section. French-horn shoulders and cornet forearms, tuba torso, your head a trumpet that cannot sing of how you’ve come to be this funky metal. When you speak, it’s all screeching off-pitch." @jennystalter.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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W.S. Merwin

poets.org/poem/thanks
we go on saying thank you thank you with the animals dying around us our lost feelings we are saying thank you with the forests falling faster than the minutes of our lives we are saying thank you with the words going out like cells of a brain with the cities growing over us we are saying thank you faster and faster with nobody listening we are saying thank you we are saying thank you and waving dark though it is
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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My new collection of #poetry is out now! www.wayfarerbookstore.com/product/subh...
March 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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London Literature Festival, Global Crip Poetry Celebration, Versus Versus anthology reading feat. Rachael Boast, Levent Beskardes, Khairani Barokka, Hàn Mặc Tử, Andy Jackson, Lateef McLeod, Chisom Okafor, and GN Saibaba. 25/Oct/25, captioned.
Rachael Boast: Versus Versus – Live Stream
YouTube video by Southbank Centre
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November 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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"As disabled oracles, we continue to build and create on the knowledge and dreams of our ancestors. They left their mark on the planet as will we...Know that we are in this together collectively and that our brilliance as oracles will not be denied."
by Alice Wong in "The Last Disabled Oracle"
RIP
The Last Disabled Oracle – Assembly for the Future – BLEED 2020
In this Assembly for the Future, First Speaker Alice Wong offers a tale from 2029 in which the Last Disabled Oracle shares the wisdom of her ancestors.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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The prior post's quote is by Ellen Samuels ehlastigirl.bsky.social in "Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time." Apologies, new post pending. Link to Samuels' essay is below. dsq-sds.org/article/id/1...
Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time
In this creative nonfiction essay, the author reflects on how 'crip time' has operated in their life, not only as a form of liberation, but also as a site of loss and alienation.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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“Crip time is time travel. Disability and illness have the power to extract us from linear, progressive time…Some of us contend with the impairments of old age while still young; some of us are treated like children no matter how old we get.” Alice Wong RIP disabilityvisibilityproject.com/about/?amp
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The Disability Visibility Project is an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture. What does the DVP do? Believes that disabled narratives matter …
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November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)
The Lampshade At the gates of heaven they said let's review: six snails eaten, but no burning buildings entered to save a child, a puppy, a mother's music box. You splashed into a dozen rivers, but many more you saw and never touched, never thought to touch. And yet, you spent most of your life working on this one species of looking. You'd see a wooden door and make a face from its knots and whorls. You'd find a dead cardinal and would wonder if the dead forget the color red first. Mostly we were impressed with this hat you made one night out of a lampshade. Your toddler laughed so hard he nearly lost his voice. After finishing his bedtime, you turned to go, and he told you to stay. We liked how he pulled an imaginary string dangling out of your nose. How you shut your eyes afterwards and lay perfectly motionless beside him. For years your son believed light is something you become. It's waiting, there, under your skin.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Solid lineup, see you there:
mollyakin.bsky.social Molly Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 16d
Very much looking forward to reading with @janehuffman.bsky.social and Patrick Donnelly virtually on 11/20, 7pm EST. Hosted by the wonderful @poetmercurio.bsky.social: bit.ly/HospiceBookL...
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Thankful to be published again in Magnets and Ladders.
This edition has work by Joan McNerney, @rriekki.bsky.social, and so many more. Here's "Late Reflection" from my upcoming poetry book Neurocabin:
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MAGNETS AND LADDERS / Fall/Winter 2025-2026 edition of Magnets and Ladders
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October 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Just ordered, looking forward to it!
georgia2newengland.bsky.social Georgia San Li @georgia2newengland.bsky.social · Jun 30
I am thrilled to have Periodic Elements launch in Aug '25! Special thanks to @https://ozhardwick.co.uk/,
@davekingwriter.bsky.social, @amandaquaid.bsky.social @markwunderlich.bsky.social for their support of this manuscript! gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/period...
#benningtonwritingseminars
October 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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No Kings march in Bethlehem, PA, filling blocks to the horizon.
Photo of No Kings march in Bethlehem, PA. A crowd of people with costumes and signs march toward us. They fill the wide road, heading toward the downtown. The oncoming crowd stretches many blocks west to the horizon.
October 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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☀️ We may have taken some time off this summer, but the Split Lip FAM never stops producing work! Check out the Summer/Early Fall Roundup of FAM accomplishments!🍁

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Sun filters through a clearing of fall foliage
October 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Clutch:
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October 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Essential:
bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · Oct 2
Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets (ed. @rachaelboast.bsky.social) is a @poetrydayuk.bsky.social Book Group recommendation for #NationalPoetryDay this year.
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This National Poetry Day panel shows the cover of Rachael Boast's anthology Versus Versus surrounded by a pink circle and set on a cream background. The text reads 'Profoud, Urgent, and incredibly timely', and 'A celebration of diversity - from poetic forms to experiences'.
October 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Thank you to Knee Brace Press for publishing my new poem, "38, No Coffee"!
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38, No Coffee – Knee Brace Press
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September 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Happy first day of autumn, fam! 🍁 If you're looking for a cozy fall read, we've got you covered. Our SEPTEMBER ISSUE is out now and we're obsessed with every piece. buff.ly/YsISzCT
September 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other – to disturb, even – is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to – painful as it may be at times – is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
September 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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September 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Today's the last day to preorder "Hospice" before 9/26 pub date. Preorders are 15% off the list price.
mollyakin.bsky.social Molly Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · Jul 23
“In these poems, the reader sojourns across a defamiliarized world, acutely described with a Dickinsonian economy and cataloged, freshly, by Akin’s fine-toothed aesthetic.” Such generous words about "Hospice" from @janehuffman.bsky.social.

Preorder: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/hosp...
Hospice by Molly Akin – NWVS #186 – Finishing Line Press
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August 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Thanks for the share, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social!
splitlipthemag.bsky.social Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Aug 28
"was it a Siberian gulag / inquiry table, / a year trapped on one of those / feisty islands?"

Contributor @brettstuckel.com's poem "What the Guy Sitting Next to Me at the Bar Said to the Cancerous Side of my Head" was published in @rogueagent.bsky.social! Read it here: buff.ly/pPvdJSV
Photograph of two half-empty pint glasses on a bar
August 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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THE TENTH FALL OF MOSES by Obinna Okwesili is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
August 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM