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Rebecca Hawkes: bitchy damsel, beefy eel, haggard sylph. NZ poet: author of Meat Lovers, king simp for poems at Sweet Mammalian. Words in Palette, Glass, Cordite, & suchlike
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Surprisingly nice day for a stream-wade
October 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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New form I've been playing with in the new issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social

Repetitions anchored in erasures, a sort of void ghazal... And this one a love letter to the little wood I went to all the time in Ann Arbor, all orbweaver webs & vernal pools & trillium ephemerals

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October 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Lil contrapuntal out with Cordite poetry journal last month, featuring Lactarius mushrooms (this one is edible!) & the horrors of fanmade Pokémon fusions (Milfing is Miltank + Koffing, on which I had to make an explanatory slideshow when I read this for our MFA program's sponsor, see attached)
September 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Last thing I'll make in the States for a while! Oil painting on wood, finished as a Leo's birthday gift before I head home to Aotearoa 🦁
August 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Michigan winters are for the lovers... and the Pokedex remains an excellent source of negs for your fellow 90s kids...... thanks Hera & @thespinoff.bsky.social for having me ❄️ 🐎 🔥

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July 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Beasts of humidity
June 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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ConConclave this conclave that why is nobody talking about the announcement of the jack-in-the-pulpit in the woods
Jack-in-the-pulpit in sunlit woods Jack-in-the-pulpit in sunlit woods Jack-in-the-pulpit in sunlit woods Jack-in-the-pulpit in sunlit woods
May 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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We're open for submissions at Sweet Mammalian! Full guidelines here: www.sweetmammalian.com/submissions
April 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Nawlins bound from frigid Michigan! See you soon for the New Orleans Poetry Festival - I'll be roundtabling with some fave poets about the works of Tina Darragh and new printing of her Mutant Solidarities from Blue Bag Press ⚠️☢️⚠️
April 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Good Boy . jpeg
A life sized cardboard cut-out of a huntaway dog from a Tux ad in my parents' living room,.that looks exactly like our """"retired""""" farm dog Stanley
March 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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New fire from Anthony DiCarlo on @havehashad.com ❤️‍🔥🔔🐚

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March 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Poet prom face brought to you by the $4 Shrek Puss in Boots eyeshadow palette from TJ Maxx
February 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Gutters of Ann Arbor
February 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Received feedback on my poems again 😔
Screenshot from Severance of Mr Milkshake's performance review, the first complaint being "uses too many big words"
February 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Giddy to have a bitter little ditty in the latest issue of the New Delta Review 🕯️ 🔥 🌬️

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POEM TO BE READ IN A BACKLESS HALTERNECK DRESS WITH A LINGERING ODOR OF BURNT HAIR Rebecca Hawkes Idiot!!!!! That is not your wife (the moon) it’s a plastic bag stuck in a tree. It’s a biblically accurate pickup truck overtaking at impossible speed. Gun to your head how many kinds of cloud could you name right now? A hawk banqueting on roadkill flares its wings over the possum carcass, not meaning to flee but to defend its catch from the oncoming headlights. It’s the third time at this bar tonight I’ve held my hair against the candle at our table til it catches light. As I blow dark that sizzling wisp, the flame goes with it. Dumb ghosts drifting mutely from the wick. I keep saying I don’t even need a face. Let the hard robot of your body hate what it hates. "Immortality" sounds lousy to me. What doesn’t kill you presumably makes you wish it would. Today to be healthy I ate a purple wildberry fresh from the vine, assuming it would be a grape. It wasn’t that. I spat for my life. Bitter biter better go down swallowing. Gargle all the moonshine. Somebody is always trying to lead me to water. I’m just here for the free drinks. Volume 15.1, winter 25 Rebecca Hawkes
February 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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It's good to be drawing again! Missing my home-birds so here's a kōtare and a tūī 🕊️🔥🌀
A monochrome illustration of a kōtare and a tūī in flight against a backdrop of dark swirls and white flames, with parrot tulips peeking over the edges of the frame
January 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Walking on water (Huron River frozen over)
Selfie with quail hair taken on the ice Man in red and black checked Swanndri jacket walking on a frozen river, with a pier to the right in the distance A view downstream of footprints on the frozen river heading under a bridge View upstream showing an island now accessible by walking on the ice
January 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Lovely to see this poem in Palette is still making its way in the world, especially through the @literaryhub.bsky.social annual list!!!!! Thanks Karyna for the kind words 🕊️ 💖🌱

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December 19, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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*Charlie xcx everything is romantic voice* eBay jacket with a broken zip
December 15, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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There's a lot to love in this issue - I was especially captured by new work from young poet Sophie Rae-Jordan 🐠

"an emotion is a fish-eye lens
in free-hand I draw the horizon
it drapes off the side of the paper"

More from Sophie and others online at: turbinekapohau.org.nz
December 13, 2024 at 5:38 AM
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Two poems in the 2024 issue of Turbine | Kapohau!!

One of these arose from a barista mishearing my name as "Ruby", which happens a lot in America with my kiwi vowels, and was not as startling as the party where I introduced myself as Becca to someone who did a double take and said "BIGOT??"
December 13, 2024 at 5:32 AM
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Chuffed to hear Frank Skinner discuss my book on his poetry podcast this week! What a gift to be read so thoughtfully - he delivers a beautiful close read of these two poems from Meat Lovers, on rural daughterhood and being unpopular at pony club 🐎🪐🐄

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November 24, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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A fellow mushroom forager spotted in Ann Arbor
November 24, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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I had the most splendid time attending Dan's workshop at Kenyon this June - among the ghost pipes, campus fawns, rainbow light and silken cirrus of those wide Ohio skies
November 21, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Airini Beautrais is a river-forward author in Aotearoa, with many poems to and for the Whanganui like these two of protest and of reverence

Flow: overland.org.au/previous-iss...

Pākaitore: www.bestnewzealandpoems.org.nz/past-issues/...
November 21, 2024 at 7:13 PM