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Charlayn von Solms

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Artists and writers are now doomed to waylay the unwary on social media because the people who used to take a cut of our earnings in exchange for explaining how lives would be enriched by owning what we made, decided that making the artists do everything (except make a living) is far more efficient.

February 1, 2026 at 8:38 PM

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This comment by Nancy Mitchell captures a bit of what we lost when Ellen died.

February 2, 2026 at 1:21 PM

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Console yourself: Henry's always got it worsen you

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'Making it'

In which we make a start on 'savage & thoughtful / surviving Henry'

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January 26, 2026 at 5:09 PM

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Join NorCal poets in protesting ICE violence at the State Capitol Building on Friday, Feb 6, at 10am. Sponsored by Sixteen Rivers Press. #BlueskyProtest #NorthernCaliforniaPoets #ICEProtest #PoetryForJustice #ArtAgainstOppression #PoetsAgainstICE

January 25, 2026 at 7:51 PM

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Guess I'll spend the next three years quoting poems by Ilya Kaminsky

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January 25, 2026 at 3:24 AM

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Bonus question: Which country has 100% of the world's supply of Bjork??

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January 22, 2026 at 7:06 PM

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Violet Blue®

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"If up to one-third of people who contract Covid-19 also acquire some form of Long Covid, this is something quite a lot of authors are dealing with." #AuthorSky #BookSky #LongCovid

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Will There Ever Be Another You is a vivid and arresting portrait of a mind in rapid decline, that is so entertaining partly because we know the end of this true story is not a tragedy. For many others with Long Covid there is no such restorative arc. Most authors who contract the disabling condition won’t write an exceptional book about it—because of what Lockwood says about it being taboo subject matter, because the world so obviously has little desire to hear about how Covid-19 continues to affect people, or because their cognition is so dramatically affected they can no longer do the work required to shape their story into something the rest of us can read. Instead there will just be silence, a gap where a great book could have been.

From: Canary in the Coal Mine: Long Covid in Fiction

January 21, 2026 at 2:49 AM

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I have ordered the Library of Congress number (a little belatedly) for Afterimages, my upcoming book, and hope to be able to share the cover soon.

Kid, book, press work, teaching; punctuated by periodic illness, weird world events and U.S. freakiness; a lot of chocolate gets me thru the latter

January 20, 2026 at 3:19 AM

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Movies Silently

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Daddy Long Legs performs in Winsor McCay's BUG VAUDEVILLE

January 15, 2026 at 1:40 PM

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Happy to have a poem from the upcoming book (Afterimages) in New Verse Review this month. Thanks so much to NVR editors Steven Knepper, Mary Grace Mangano, and D.A. Cooper!

www.newversereview.com/issue-3-1--w...

New Verse Review Issue 3.1: Winter 2026

The winter 2026 issue of New Verse Review, featuring Stephen Kampa, Katie Dozier, Ange Mlinko, Sarah Cortez, Lesley Wheeler, Andrew Hudgins, and Robert Morgan.

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January 15, 2026 at 5:45 PM

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There are still pockets of professionalism in the federal government. Gift link.

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Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

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January 14, 2026 at 1:11 AM

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Alt National Park Service

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San Francisco’s Ocean Beach!

January 10, 2026 at 10:57 PM

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Sixteen Rivers Press

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A dark, national déjà vu is upon us. Perhaps the darkness never left. Certainly, it seems we are at a tipping point in our democracy. In 2018 we published an anthology of poems: America We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistancee and Resilience. This collection still sings true today. #poetrycommunity

America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience

Publication date: September 4, 2018ISBN: 978-1-939639-16-5Perfect-bound paperback; 224 pages Selected by Sixteen Rivers Press Foreword by Camille T. Dungy This anthology, born in response to the 2016...

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January 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM

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Well on the upside today, turns out my kid has lice.

January 9, 2026 at 8:42 AM

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While watching perp walks and things explode in Venezuela, this also happened--on Christmas Eve, in a basement, behind a sign reading "Beware of Leopard!!!"

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The Meaning of a Postmark Has Changed

A December USPS rule alters how mailing deadlines are determined

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January 4, 2026 at 5:01 PM

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Sixteen Rivers Press

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Hey-o, Northern California poets! It's raining! It's pouring—what better time to polish your manuscript and submit to our awesome press? Think about it! 🙂 #callforsubmissions #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity

January 4, 2026 at 1:20 AM

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🔵 Blue Man in Red OK 💙

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MAGAts will be very very busy attending these incredible performances by these outstanding superstars!

January 3, 2026 at 3:38 AM

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A sad, hard read. Nick Kristof's article goes to questions of what we value, of what kind of country we want this to be. Feels like hard times of 100 years ago never quite went away. Gift link.

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