HALSEY Literary Reader
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A semi-regular collection of words and pictures, HALSEY focuses on the art and science of living and what it means to be human: 30 poems, 10 photos, and 2 essays in every issue https://www.rockwoodpress.com/halsey
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I'm looking forward to reading next month with John Miller at Ernest and Hadley Booksellers in Tuscaloosa. Two Fernwood Press poets in one reading. @fernpub.bsky.social @enhbooks.bsky.social @johnmilleredu.bsky.social #tuscaloosa #poetryreading
January 26, 2026 at 9:41 PM
I'm looking forward to reading next month with John Miller at Ernest and Hadley Booksellers in Tuscaloosa. Two Fernwood Press poets in one reading. @fernpub.bsky.social @enhbooks.bsky.social @johnmilleredu.bsky.social #tuscaloosa #poetryreading
"these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind"
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
www.nature.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:32 PM
"these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind"
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January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
From "Chevrolet Tango" by Kurt Olsson:
Remember when men smoked pipes
toting around tiny tools to finesse the dottle
and the hollow chock, chock of meerschaum against glass,
Remember when men smoked pipes
toting around tiny tools to finesse the dottle
and the hollow chock, chock of meerschaum against glass,
January 26, 2026 at 9:17 PM
From "Chevrolet Tango" by Kurt Olsson:
Remember when men smoked pipes
toting around tiny tools to finesse the dottle
and the hollow chock, chock of meerschaum against glass,
Remember when men smoked pipes
toting around tiny tools to finesse the dottle
and the hollow chock, chock of meerschaum against glass,
In lyrical, kaleidoscopic prose, poet Emily Carlson excavates and examines the divergent narratives families tell about the stories that define them.
January 26, 2026 at 6:45 PM
In lyrical, kaleidoscopic prose, poet Emily Carlson excavates and examines the divergent narratives families tell about the stories that define them.
Spotting the Rise is a gorgeous collection, brimming with images of the natural beauty found along the banks of the author’s beloved Squannacook River.
January 26, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Spotting the Rise is a gorgeous collection, brimming with images of the natural beauty found along the banks of the author’s beloved Squannacook River.
These are narrative poems, observations of changes made in stillness, as if waiting for a tug on the line, maybe from the “brookie” that the speaker of one poem releases and then imagines in those waters for the rest of his childhood, “never telling/anyone what I knew was there.”
January 26, 2026 at 4:15 PM
These are narrative poems, observations of changes made in stillness, as if waiting for a tug on the line, maybe from the “brookie” that the speaker of one poem releases and then imagines in those waters for the rest of his childhood, “never telling/anyone what I knew was there.”
Absolutely stunningly beautiful
X-ray micro-tomography (micro-CT) image of a juvenile zebrafish. Credit to Prof. Keith Cheng Lab at Penn State University. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
January 25, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Absolutely stunningly beautiful
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The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Literary Poetry feat. @atlengthmag.bsky.social @theshorepoetry.bsky.social @halseyreader.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
Smart Search List of the Day
The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Literary Poetry feat. @atlengthmag.bsky.social @theshorepoetry.bsky.social @halseyreader.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/poetry/general-literary-poetry-DH0QaZx9
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January 25, 2026 at 1:06 PM
The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Literary Poetry feat. @atlengthmag.bsky.social @theshorepoetry.bsky.social @halseyreader.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
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Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
January 24, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
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The Senate Switch Board Number is: (202)224-3121.
We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding
We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning
We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The Senate Switch Board Number is: (202)224-3121.
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"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ...
"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 24, 2026 at 5:56 PM
"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ...
"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.
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So I watched the shooting video frame by frame and it looks like:
1) They were beating a struggling man with batons
2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back
3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away
4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back
1) They were beating a struggling man with batons
2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back
3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away
4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back
January 24, 2026 at 5:35 PM
So I watched the shooting video frame by frame and it looks like:
1) They were beating a struggling man with batons
2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back
3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away
4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back
1) They were beating a struggling man with batons
2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back
3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away
4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back
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ICE executed Alex Pretti. Anything else you’re told is a lie.
UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:
January 24, 2026 at 7:43 PM
ICE executed Alex Pretti. Anything else you’re told is a lie.
I honestly thought this place was permanently closed. What a happy little Saturday morning surprise. And the pretzel place is still there!
Mall walkers bring vintage vibes to Portland shopping center
Mall walkers bring vintage vibes to Portland shopping center
A sea of spandex and neon fills a Portland mall every Sunday morning as a group of walkers brings 1990s energy to the shopping center.
www.1011now.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:34 PM
I honestly thought this place was permanently closed. What a happy little Saturday morning surprise. And the pretzel place is still there!
A Room of One's Own
January 24, 2026 at 3:26 PM
A Room of One's Own
Experiences in nature help people feel less lonely!
Activities in natural environments as remedy to loneliness: The role of connectedness to nature and place attachment
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Activities in natural environments as remedy to loneliness: The role of connectedness to nature and place attachment
Loneliness constitutes an increasing social and public health concern, making it important to find effective strategies for prevention and alleviation…
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January 24, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Experiences in nature help people feel less lonely!
Books have power
I recieved a message from a reader confessing they masturbate reading my books.
I let them know that the whole goal of my books are the readers getting off to them.
So if you do read my books, there is a right and a wrong way.
It's much more fun being right.
I let them know that the whole goal of my books are the readers getting off to them.
So if you do read my books, there is a right and a wrong way.
It's much more fun being right.
January 23, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Books have power
What is "your" Newberry book? The one you read when you were little (or not so little), a book that changed you?
Mine was King of the Wind
Mine was King of the Wind
What is "your" Newbery book? The one you read when you were little (or not so little), and took into your soul?
Mine's The Perilous Gard.
Mine's The Perilous Gard.
January 23, 2026 at 10:49 PM
What is "your" Newberry book? The one you read when you were little (or not so little), a book that changed you?
Mine was King of the Wind
Mine was King of the Wind
Tell your pet's name in a gif
January 23, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Tell your pet's name in a gif
"an account of the difficulties a poet encounters in trying to reconcile the mechanics of craft with the the emotional impulse that pushes a poem into existence"
Four by Four #51
Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, For Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
www.richardjnewman.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:32 PM
"an account of the difficulties a poet encounters in trying to reconcile the mechanics of craft with the the emotional impulse that pushes a poem into existence"
"Phantom Child" by Michael N. Steffen:
You died at a clinic when your mother bled you
in a flimsy gown while I signed my co-consent,
and tonight, my unborn shadow, you died again
when I woke to an emptiness that enveloped
the pregnant body of my old remorse—
You died at a clinic when your mother bled you
in a flimsy gown while I signed my co-consent,
and tonight, my unborn shadow, you died again
when I woke to an emptiness that enveloped
the pregnant body of my old remorse—
January 23, 2026 at 9:17 PM
"Phantom Child" by Michael N. Steffen:
You died at a clinic when your mother bled you
in a flimsy gown while I signed my co-consent,
and tonight, my unborn shadow, you died again
when I woke to an emptiness that enveloped
the pregnant body of my old remorse—
You died at a clinic when your mother bled you
in a flimsy gown while I signed my co-consent,
and tonight, my unborn shadow, you died again
when I woke to an emptiness that enveloped
the pregnant body of my old remorse—