Han VanderHart
@hanvanderhart.bsky.social
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021). Co-Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
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Han VanderHart
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· Oct 24
Cover of Larks, with photograph by Nicola Davison-Reed, forthcoming from Ohio University Press in April, 2025.
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www.ohioswallow.com/978082142591...
I was just making orange cranberry sauce…and when I went to where my usual recipe is (Rachael Ray’s) it said: add orange and zest to jar of cranberry sauce?! So I used another recipe. But what in the what, Rachael Ray. 🍊 (I added cardamom to the below recipe.)
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www.noracooks.com/cranberry-or...
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I was just making orange cranberry sauce…and when I went to where my usual recipe is (Rachael Ray’s) it said: add orange and zest to jar of cranberry sauce?! So I used another recipe. But what in the what, Rachael Ray. 🍊 (I added cardamom to the below recipe.)
www.noracooks.com/cranberry-or...
www.noracooks.com/cranberry-or...
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with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings […]
we are standing by the water thanking it
standing by the windows looking out
in our directions
W.S. Merwin
poets.org/poem/thanks
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings […]
we are standing by the water thanking it
standing by the windows looking out
in our directions
W.S. Merwin
poets.org/poem/thanks
Thanks
Listen
poets.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings […]
we are standing by the water thanking it
standing by the windows looking out
in our directions
W.S. Merwin
poets.org/poem/thanks
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings […]
we are standing by the water thanking it
standing by the windows looking out
in our directions
W.S. Merwin
poets.org/poem/thanks
“…we are reminded that what we love is also what renders us most vulnerable to heartbreak, because, after all, as Vanderhart writes, ‘the heart is muscle and sore.’”
Really grateful to Bridget Bell for this review of What Pecan Light in @nclitreview.bsky.social 🙏💙📚
Really grateful to Bridget Bell for this review of What Pecan Light in @nclitreview.bsky.social 🙏💙📚
North Carolina Literary Review Online Fall 2025
A literary review published online quarterly by East Carolina University and by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“…we are reminded that what we love is also what renders us most vulnerable to heartbreak, because, after all, as Vanderhart writes, ‘the heart is muscle and sore.’”
Really grateful to Bridget Bell for this review of What Pecan Light in @nclitreview.bsky.social 🙏💙📚
Really grateful to Bridget Bell for this review of What Pecan Light in @nclitreview.bsky.social 🙏💙📚
Reposted by Han VanderHart
Danniel Schoonebeek
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Danniel Schoonebeek
That is the surprise
That the kindness was not an affect, but a choice
And that kindness in its entirety is very freakish
And weird, the real kind.
Dorothea Lasky
That the kindness was not an affect, but a choice
And that kindness in its entirety is very freakish
And weird, the real kind.
Dorothea Lasky
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
That is the surprise
That the kindness was not an affect, but a choice
And that kindness in its entirety is very freakish
And weird, the real kind.
Dorothea Lasky
That the kindness was not an affect, but a choice
And that kindness in its entirety is very freakish
And weird, the real kind.
Dorothea Lasky
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THIS ⬇️
Have a cup of coffee. Read a book of poems. Your day will be better for it.
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
THIS ⬇️
Strange men who write bad poems
Tell me I disrupt their wives
Dorothea Lasky
Tell me I disrupt their wives
Dorothea Lasky
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Strange men who write bad poems
Tell me I disrupt their wives
Dorothea Lasky
Tell me I disrupt their wives
Dorothea Lasky
Have a cup of coffee. Read a book of poems. Your day will be better for it.
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Have a cup of coffee. Read a book of poems. Your day will be better for it.
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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revision is relentless. oh you thought these poems were done? so you submitted them to several journals? how silly. they will never be done.
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
revision is relentless. oh you thought these poems were done? so you submitted them to several journals? how silly. they will never be done.
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Repost with the last book you enjoyed, and we’ll enter you in a drawing for one of our new fall poetry titles! 🍂📚💙
We are thankful for our readers ❤️
riverriverbooks.org/store/
We are thankful for our readers ❤️
riverriverbooks.org/store/
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Repost with the last book you enjoyed, and we’ll enter you in a drawing for one of our new fall poetry titles! 🍂📚💙
We are thankful for our readers ❤️
riverriverbooks.org/store/
We are thankful for our readers ❤️
riverriverbooks.org/store/
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@renbolger.bsky.social and @hanvanderhart.bsky.social talk about their day jobs
AINT NO MONEY IN PUBLISHING YR OWN BOOKS OR STARTING A PRESS
IT’S LOVE OF ART AND BELIEF IN THE WORK
THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS PAY $17 FOR A BOOK
AINT NO MONEY IN PUBLISHING YR OWN BOOKS OR STARTING A PRESS
IT’S LOVE OF ART AND BELIEF IN THE WORK
THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS PAY $17 FOR A BOOK
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
@renbolger.bsky.social and @hanvanderhart.bsky.social talk about their day jobs
AINT NO MONEY IN PUBLISHING YR OWN BOOKS OR STARTING A PRESS
IT’S LOVE OF ART AND BELIEF IN THE WORK
THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS PAY $17 FOR A BOOK
AINT NO MONEY IN PUBLISHING YR OWN BOOKS OR STARTING A PRESS
IT’S LOVE OF ART AND BELIEF IN THE WORK
THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS PAY $17 FOR A BOOK
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literally a segment called “what do you do all day” where we talk about how you crowbar out time to write yr book while also having a day job
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
literally a segment called “what do you do all day” where we talk about how you crowbar out time to write yr book while also having a day job
10/10 recommend peacing out with your dog when your migraine comes on fast—just go, baby, go. And yes, take your meds.
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
10/10 recommend peacing out with your dog when your migraine comes on fast—just go, baby, go. And yes, take your meds.
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Episode 81 with Nicole Cooley (Of Form and Flood, the Documentation of Grief, and Poetry That Violates Rules)
Read: “Mother Water Ash” (Poets.org)
poets.org/poem/mother-...
Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/2fb8d4c8
#poetry 💙📚🎙️
Read: “Mother Water Ash” (Poets.org)
poets.org/poem/mother-...
Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/2fb8d4c8
#poetry 💙📚🎙️
![Image of White House in a flood
Text:
from "Mother Water Ash"
I...] is it any wonder I've followed
her advice
to subtract myself Good daughter always
till I'm not
Nicole Cooley](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mexnbfjn7yqdsnr76bggh5m/bafkreifr55jxgp7lg3yowkc4nucsjtnqmoludr4j47gdphnulzavkzdu7i@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Episode 81 with Nicole Cooley (Of Form and Flood, the Documentation of Grief, and Poetry That Violates Rules)
Read: “Mother Water Ash” (Poets.org)
poets.org/poem/mother-...
Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/2fb8d4c8
#poetry 💙📚🎙️
Read: “Mother Water Ash” (Poets.org)
poets.org/poem/mother-...
Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/2fb8d4c8
#poetry 💙📚🎙️
Slept in AND talked with a dear friend on the phone 🥹🙏💗 Drove child to friend meet up. Now, to work!
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Slept in AND talked with a dear friend on the phone 🥹🙏💗 Drove child to friend meet up. Now, to work!
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Lawrence Stephen Lowry, Ships Near Cumberland Coast, 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135624
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135624
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Lawrence Stephen Lowry, Ships Near Cumberland Coast, 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135624
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135624
Reposting for the Tuesday morning crowd because oh—I love this love poem by @burgi.bsky.social, which is also an ekphrastic poem, also an ars poetica, and also speaks to long relationships and devotion ❤️📚
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Reposting for the Tuesday morning crowd because oh—I love this love poem by @burgi.bsky.social, which is also an ekphrastic poem, also an ars poetica, and also speaks to long relationships and devotion ❤️📚
Reposted by Han VanderHart
Thank you @hanvanderhart.bsky.social 🙏💙💙💙
Also, if any of you would like to get a signed copy or a review copy feel free to DM. 🙂💙
Also, if any of you would like to get a signed copy or a review copy feel free to DM. 🙂💙
So pleased to have come home to @burgi.bsky.social’s White Door in the mail today! ❤️📚
“Simone Weil wrote that unmixed attention is prayer, and this collection streams with the light of attention and language that feels to me holy.”
—Han VanderHart, author of Larks
Find your copy here:
“Simone Weil wrote that unmixed attention is prayer, and this collection streams with the light of attention and language that feels to me holy.”
—Han VanderHart, author of Larks
Find your copy here:
018: White Door by Burgi Zenhaeusern — Carbonation Press
www.carbonationpress.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Thank you @hanvanderhart.bsky.social 🙏💙💙💙
Also, if any of you would like to get a signed copy or a review copy feel free to DM. 🙂💙
Also, if any of you would like to get a signed copy or a review copy feel free to DM. 🙂💙
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Cosplayed Scrooge today and I think it worked.
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Cosplayed Scrooge today and I think it worked.
When I get home from work I am going to faceplant into a pumpkin pie and there I shall remain
no, I don’t like pumpkin pie
yes, it sounds like a soft landing place
no, I don’t like pumpkin pie
yes, it sounds like a soft landing place
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
When I get home from work I am going to faceplant into a pumpkin pie and there I shall remain
no, I don’t like pumpkin pie
yes, it sounds like a soft landing place
no, I don’t like pumpkin pie
yes, it sounds like a soft landing place
I have never seen a contemporary poem that borrowed language from a peer’s poem that was BETTER than the original poem—I think it’s the plagiarizing from a contemporary move, rather than stealing from the distant dead, which is the pro move (read Eliot’s Tradition & the Individual Talent, etc).
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I have never seen a contemporary poem that borrowed language from a peer’s poem that was BETTER than the original poem—I think it’s the plagiarizing from a contemporary move, rather than stealing from the distant dead, which is the pro move (read Eliot’s Tradition & the Individual Talent, etc).
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"Poetry helps us to say, oh, there are things I know that I haven’t learned. There are instincts or intuitions that arise for me that prove to be quite practical and useful." —Tracy K. Smith lithub.com/tracy-k-smit...
Tracy K. Smith on the Spiritual and the Poetic
First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, …
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November 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"Poetry helps us to say, oh, there are things I know that I haven’t learned. There are instincts or intuitions that arise for me that prove to be quite practical and useful." —Tracy K. Smith lithub.com/tracy-k-smit...
And you, what did you pay to enter this world?
—Benjamin Garcia, with many voltas this morning 🥰
—Benjamin Garcia, with many voltas this morning 🥰
Egg Tooth
Ears are the eyes on the sides of your head. / Memory lives here, between these apostrophes.
poets.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
And you, what did you pay to enter this world?
—Benjamin Garcia, with many voltas this morning 🥰
—Benjamin Garcia, with many voltas this morning 🥰