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Dorsey Craft
@dorseycraft.bsky.social
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Poet. A Brief History of Accidental Inventions (TRP, 2026). Plunder (Bauhan, 2020). Poems in Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Narrative, Pleiades, Ploughshares. Agni Assistant Poetry Editor. Lecturer at UNF. Dreamboat Poetry Series Co-organizer.
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Dorsey Craft @dorseycraft.bsky.social · May 18
News! Thrilled to announce that my second collection, A Brief History of Accidental Inventions, will be published my Texas Review Press in Fall of 2026! Can’t wait to share it with y’all.
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"Give me the purple spill
of euphony, soggy and throbbing. Salt me.
Sort me. Separate the water from the smoke."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
When my dad says my poetry is pornographic by @dorseycraft.bsky.social (2025 @adroitjournal.bsky.social) theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The Victoria Ratliff show on ACC Network when?
March 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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✍️ AGNI at #AWP25 ✍️

👉 Reviews editor & assistant poetry editor @rmennies.bsky.social — The Personal Is Always Political — 1:45pm — buff.ly/v0aau6E

👉 Assistant poetry editor @izineh.bsky.social — The Politics of Imagining: Poetry as Social Practice — 3:20pm — buff.ly/bmrIBrz
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March 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
March 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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kennedytcooper.bsky.social
If you fell for "drag queen storytime is bad for kids" for even one minute, shame on you, the people who tricked you are gonna take away your child's education and then force them to work at age 12 in an unsafe factory overnight where people lose limbs regularly
March 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Just saw a teen waiting for the school bus flip off a passing cyber truck—thank you tiny anger angel
March 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Are you unable to attend AWP? Are you filled with the usual sense of FOMO reading everyone's "where I'll be" posters? Come join us at Not at AWP (NAWP!) for our third annual open mic!! This Thursday at 7:30PM EST

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Find us at NAWP: an ostritch yells NAWP into the blue (sky) and in the orange frame are fictious panels for Parenting as a Poet: How to Write through a Shitstorm, a Virtual Salon: fighting FOMO with Puns. AND our very real online reading at NAWP online.
March 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Jacksonville locals! Come on out for this 🔥 reading this week.
Red poster featuring Dorothy Chan's newest book, Reign Supreme, and Avni Vyas
March 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Literally told a girl I need jean shorts for dressier occasions and she understood because it’s Florida.
February 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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lmao oh no, when you google bird flu this is one of the top images. The face on the chicken is killing me.
A chicken looks into the void, surrounded by viral particles. The virus is superimposed on the bird. It's both... threatening, but also, kinda looks like the chicken did LSD and is having the craziest night ever at the flu rave.
February 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Pay attention to the newly accelerated war on porn.
If you are not already, pay attention to increasing attacks on porn even if porn is something you do not care for. The attacks, architected and carried out by zealots, are intended to broaden the classification of "porn" to include all sorts of speech determined "subversive" by zealots. This is what has drawn me to this community and fight. I'm not a porn super fan. "Obscenity" is long where this battle has been fought and sex workers are on the front lines of that fight. *Their* free speech battle is one you benefit from, fellow artists. Don't get me wrong! I don't mean to distance myself from love and appreciation for smut, subversive art, literature, trash and more. I am a true fan of all of the above (in no small part because I also know and appreciate its role in the history of this struggle). But one should not feel they have to be a fan to appreciate what this fight means for the freedom of speech (especially speech including queer and feminist perspectives, which have often been grouped together as "subversive" and "dangerous" texts in the name of state censorship).
January 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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My poem "Obedience" from Adroit Journal
text of poem "Obedience" in Adroit Journal text of poem "Obedience" in Adroit Journal text of poem "Obedience" in Adroit Journal + black and white photo of author
February 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Attention poets! Time is running out on our January submissions window. For details about how to send your work for consideration, visit www.acre-books.com. 📚🖊️✉️
Acre Books call for submissions in poetry. Billboard sign reads January 1st to 31st Acre logo in white at the top of the page
January 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Natalie Shapero (from The Adroit Journal)
My Hair Is My Thing by Natalie Shapero The symphony’s out of money again, and no wonder: all those violins, the twisted strands and sponges—who could not think of torture? Last week I read a novel about a man so awful that when he died I wept because it was fiction. I wanted it to be real so that he could really die. I wanted you to die also, and to be feted with a lengthy, organza-filled funeral, so that I could make a big show of blowing it off. I decided to go out and get a tattoo of your funeral with me not there, but apparently it’s illegal here to tattoo a person who’s crying. The trend now is to be interred with beloved possessions: pearl-trimmed gun, gold watch, whatever you’ve got. Some people recoil at the waste of it, but not me. These contused little objects of wealth—they’re disgusting. I just pray we have earth and shovels enough. I pray we have bodies enough to bury them all.
January 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Monday Markets and Jobs for Writers courtesy of Erika Dreifus
Markets and Jobs for Writers - Erika Dreifus
Weekly supplement to the monthly newsletter.
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December 16, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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Grading finals and AI has made me feel completely differently about students who make a lot of grammar errors. I was never a stickler, but now I’m like, thank you, you are a hero in your humanity.
December 15, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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If you love and miss Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social oh do we have good things in store for you at @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social 🎙️📚 💙 #poetry #podcast
Rachel Mennies’ second book of poetry THE NAOMI LETTERS (BOA, 2021) held up in morning light, windows and hardwood behind, philodendron revolution, cat in a cat tree
December 15, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Amiri Baraka ♥️
December 15, 2024 at 4:46 AM
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It's hard to "move on" from a book that is so tethered to my mother's memory and the ongoing nature of my grief for her loss. Much gratitude to Cody Stetzel for this recent, smart review on BUFFALO GIRL for Salamander, and for keeping me there today.

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Online Exclusive: Review of Buffalo Girl by Jessica Q. Stark – Salamander Magazine
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December 13, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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So grateful to @brandonyoung.bsky.social for including my poem “Suburbs” in the new issue of Quarterly West! Check out the whole issue here: www.quarterlywest.com/issue-113
Issue 113 — Quarterly West
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December 13, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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Quarterly West issue 113 is now live! This is my last issue as the senior poetry editor, and as always this issue is no short of stunning. Read work from @chenchenwrites.bsky.social @aeheelee.bsky.social @jordanhamel.bsky.social @dorseycraft.bsky.social and more!

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Issue 113 — Quarterly West
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December 13, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Applications for our 2025 Poets in Pajamas virtual reading series are open through December 31st! poetsinpajamas.wordpress.com/call-for-rea...
December 10, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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Victoria Chang

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December 7, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Hub City Press is pleased to announce that @paradiselaust.bsky.social will judge the tenth biennial New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize. The prize will now award an increased advance of $1,500 and publication to the winner. Submissions open on January 1, 2025. www.hubcity.org/news/derrick...
Derrick Austin will judge tenth New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize | Hub City Writers Project
Hub City Press is pleased to announce that Derrick Austin will judge the tenth biennial New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize. The contest will award $1,500 and publication to the winner. Submissions ...
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December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Give us your poems!
miriamcalleja.bsky.social Miriam Calleja (She/Her) @miriamcalleja.bsky.social · Dec 1
Last day to submit ur #poetry manuscript to Brick Road Poetry Press. I'll be judging & looking for poetry that moves me, leaves me with questions. We want great poetry out in the world. @hmcotton.bsky.social will design! Winner gets $1000 & 25 copies.
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Contest — Brick Road Poetry Press
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December 1, 2024 at 8:24 PM