Chiara Di Lello
@chiaradilello.bsky.social
For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet. A poet is Atlantic and lion in one. (Woolf)
Pinned
Humans! Pre-orders are open for my chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL. Read more about it and grab your copy here:
www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/chil...
@gameoverbooks.bsky.social
www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/chil...
@gameoverbooks.bsky.social
This is incredible reporting on the broken system(s) seeking to serve unhoused New Yorkers in psychiatric crisis. Detailed, thorough, and humane.
The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net cannot reliably get a homeless person in psychiatric crisis out of the subway and into a hospital bed, a Streetsblog investigation by @ndhapple.bsky.social has found.
'Treated and Streeted': How The City's Safety Net Fails Homeless People in the Subway - Streetsblog New York City
The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net cannot reliably get a homeless person in psychiatric crisis out of the subway and into a hospital bed, a Streetsblog investigation has found.
buff.ly
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is incredible reporting on the broken system(s) seeking to serve unhoused New Yorkers in psychiatric crisis. Detailed, thorough, and humane.
Eminem has a grandchild and I've lived to see the retirement of two different ways of paying a subway fare.
Damn.
Damn.
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Eminem has a grandchild and I've lived to see the retirement of two different ways of paying a subway fare.
Damn.
Damn.
Much like an otter, my idea of a special occasion meal is oysters. Lots and lots of oysters.
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Much like an otter, my idea of a special occasion meal is oysters. Lots and lots of oysters.
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"they never taught in history class
how to hold massacre
in the same hand as home"
my Thanksgiving offering to you is this poem, pubbed a couple years back in the wonderful @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
www.whaleroadreview.com/di-lello/
how to hold massacre
in the same hand as home"
my Thanksgiving offering to you is this poem, pubbed a couple years back in the wonderful @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
www.whaleroadreview.com/di-lello/
poem on unceded land
here is the block quilt patternwhere the river stitches New Hampshire to Vermont: and they call me sweetie where I go for coffeeat the combination arts collective / caféand there’s live bait in the…
www.whaleroadreview.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"they never taught in history class
how to hold massacre
in the same hand as home"
my Thanksgiving offering to you is this poem, pubbed a couple years back in the wonderful @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
www.whaleroadreview.com/di-lello/
how to hold massacre
in the same hand as home"
my Thanksgiving offering to you is this poem, pubbed a couple years back in the wonderful @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
www.whaleroadreview.com/di-lello/
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There are almost as many survival fundraisers from Americans in my timeline as there are from Palestinians. I'm not saying this to shame you, I just really want Americans to understand the imperial boomerang. What they do to others they'll eventually do to you.
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
There are almost as many survival fundraisers from Americans in my timeline as there are from Palestinians. I'm not saying this to shame you, I just really want Americans to understand the imperial boomerang. What they do to others they'll eventually do to you.
"they never taught in history class
how to hold massacre
in the same hand as home"
my Thanksgiving offering to you is this poem, pubbed a couple years back in the wonderful @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
www.whaleroadreview.com/di-lello/
how to hold massacre
in the same hand as home"
my Thanksgiving offering to you is this poem, pubbed a couple years back in the wonderful @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
www.whaleroadreview.com/di-lello/
poem on unceded land
here is the block quilt patternwhere the river stitches New Hampshire to Vermont: and they call me sweetie where I go for coffeeat the combination arts collective / caféand there’s live bait in the…
www.whaleroadreview.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"they never taught in history class
how to hold massacre
in the same hand as home"
my Thanksgiving offering to you is this poem, pubbed a couple years back in the wonderful @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
www.whaleroadreview.com/di-lello/
how to hold massacre
in the same hand as home"
my Thanksgiving offering to you is this poem, pubbed a couple years back in the wonderful @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
www.whaleroadreview.com/di-lello/
Cosmic Tantrum by Sarah Lyn Rogers is so good! @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014793...
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014793...
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Cosmic Tantrum by Sarah Lyn Rogers is so good! @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014793...
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014793...
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my star wars take is that if you call the first three movies 'episodes 4-6' then u are an apostate and will never see heaven
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
my star wars take is that if you call the first three movies 'episodes 4-6' then u are an apostate and will never see heaven
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PSA for poets: AWP prices go up TOMORROW. If you are, like me, on team Don't Give Em A Dime More Than You Have To, get that registration done tonight!
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
PSA for poets: AWP prices go up TOMORROW. If you are, like me, on team Don't Give Em A Dime More Than You Have To, get that registration done tonight!
PSA for poets: AWP prices go up TOMORROW. If you are, like me, on team Don't Give Em A Dime More Than You Have To, get that registration done tonight!
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
PSA for poets: AWP prices go up TOMORROW. If you are, like me, on team Don't Give Em A Dime More Than You Have To, get that registration done tonight!
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Every literary festival or theatre should condemn this, but as Sonia says, they won’t. They will cowardly disguise themselves by saying it’s “politics” and that they aren’t “political”. The storming of the National Theatre of Palestine is a crime not only on Palestinians, but on Palestinian art.
I can’t wait for PEN to comment on the Israeli intelligence forces storming the Palestinian National Theatre in Jerusalem and threatening the whole cast of the children’s performance and the audience if they didn’t leave in five minutes.
Because they won’t.
Because they won’t.
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Every literary festival or theatre should condemn this, but as Sonia says, they won’t. They will cowardly disguise themselves by saying it’s “politics” and that they aren’t “political”. The storming of the National Theatre of Palestine is a crime not only on Palestinians, but on Palestinian art.
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It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
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The presenter at this training suggested folks stop in at local businesses with “Immigrants Welcome” signs & offer this (or similar) more useful & forceful alternative. Something small you can do when you have a bit of time. I am.
Printable signs here: www.ojrc.info/kyr
Printable signs here: www.ojrc.info/kyr
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The presenter at this training suggested folks stop in at local businesses with “Immigrants Welcome” signs & offer this (or similar) more useful & forceful alternative. Something small you can do when you have a bit of time. I am.
Printable signs here: www.ojrc.info/kyr
Printable signs here: www.ojrc.info/kyr
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“How many of my brothers and my sisters / will they kill / before I teach myself / retaliation?”
— June Jordan
— June Jordan
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“How many of my brothers and my sisters / will they kill / before I teach myself / retaliation?”
— June Jordan
— June Jordan
The more I learn, the louder I repeat that pregnancy is metal as fuck.
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The more I learn, the louder I repeat that pregnancy is metal as fuck.
We've entered the particularly bleak segment of the "holiday" season when companies scream at us to BUY BUY CONSUME while at the exact same moment, organizations beg for a few dollars to support things like libraries. Food and shelter. The arts. Actual human thriving. It's depressing as hell.
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
We've entered the particularly bleak segment of the "holiday" season when companies scream at us to BUY BUY CONSUME while at the exact same moment, organizations beg for a few dollars to support things like libraries. Food and shelter. The arts. Actual human thriving. It's depressing as hell.
now accepting volunteers to yell at me (via text or gif) to go work on manuscript edits please and thank you
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
now accepting volunteers to yell at me (via text or gif) to go work on manuscript edits please and thank you
This, THIS is how I want to talk to everyone about their AI use. I am a hater. There is no reason to be polite. This is an insult to life itself. I am embarrassed for you.
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This, THIS is how I want to talk to everyone about their AI use. I am a hater. There is no reason to be polite. This is an insult to life itself. I am embarrassed for you.
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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Durham, North Carolina: ICE and border patrol are pulling over random people (my wife who is as white as it gets and grew up 15 miles from Kristi Noem's house) and surrounding their cars looking for anybody they can disappear off the street. Film them and tell them to fuck off. They are cowards.
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Durham, North Carolina: ICE and border patrol are pulling over random people (my wife who is as white as it gets and grew up 15 miles from Kristi Noem's house) and surrounding their cars looking for anybody they can disappear off the street. Film them and tell them to fuck off. They are cowards.
I love teaching afterschool poetry bc I can do whatever the heck I want and often that just means sharing some of my all time faves with this sweet and wacky bunch of 3rd to 5th graders. Day one I started them with "Recuerdo" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, just to enjoy the rhythm and story.
November 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I love teaching afterschool poetry bc I can do whatever the heck I want and often that just means sharing some of my all time faves with this sweet and wacky bunch of 3rd to 5th graders. Day one I started them with "Recuerdo" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, just to enjoy the rhythm and story.
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Once again, the rapaciousness of capital is making us all stupider.
November 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Once again, the rapaciousness of capital is making us all stupider.
yo @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social thank you for curating these picks for @sundresspub.bsky.social. this is weeks late but I'm cleaning out my inbox and got to read this poem by mandy shunnarah that I think I would have missed otherwise so THANK U
November 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
yo @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social thank you for curating these picks for @sundresspub.bsky.social. this is weeks late but I'm cleaning out my inbox and got to read this poem by mandy shunnarah that I think I would have missed otherwise so THANK U
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Sadly, there has been a drop in support to the campaigns listed on lifeline4gaza.com. Palestinians in #Gaza are facing a harsh winter amidst a genocide without any aid besides what they can raise in their survival campaigns. Please share to help uplift their appeals.
Another way in which you can support lifeline4gaza.com is by printing the flyers available on the website and passing them around in your community. This project that supports several survival campaigns for Palestinians in #Gaza depends on all of us to keep moving. Please do what you can to help.
November 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Sadly, there has been a drop in support to the campaigns listed on lifeline4gaza.com. Palestinians in #Gaza are facing a harsh winter amidst a genocide without any aid besides what they can raise in their survival campaigns. Please share to help uplift their appeals.
Humans! Pre-orders are open for my chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL. Read more about it and grab your copy here:
www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/chil...
@gameoverbooks.bsky.social
www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/chil...
@gameoverbooks.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Humans! Pre-orders are open for my chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL. Read more about it and grab your copy here:
www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/chil...
@gameoverbooks.bsky.social
www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/chil...
@gameoverbooks.bsky.social
Just wondering: does it still count as "setting boundaries" if I want to do it with the percussive force of a bazooka and the heat of one thousand fiery suns?
a cartoon character with blue hair and a white shirt
Alt: Dragonball Z going super saiyan
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Just wondering: does it still count as "setting boundaries" if I want to do it with the percussive force of a bazooka and the heat of one thousand fiery suns?