Poetry exchange in the elevator:
Neighbor: Oh, you're a poet? Really? So, like, a famous one?
Me: Um, no, I'm not famous. But I am a poet!
Neighbor: Oh well. Sorry about that. Better luck next time. {Leaves}
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Writer type; preoccupied with the human condition.
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Congratulations to James Morrow and David Ebenbach (), whose respective #shortstories, "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down" and "Limbo," from SHAPERS OF WORLDS VOLUME III, were named to Tangent Online's 2022 Recommended Reading List. tangentonline.com/news/tangent-o
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ICYMI: The first in a new series of guests posts from Tachyon creatives on our blog. Tac Talks with , author of HOW TO MARS and What’s Left to Us by Evening -bit.ly/3D3NYir
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ICYMI: The first in a new series of guests posts from Tachyon creatives on our blog. Tac Talks with , author of HOW TO MARS and What’s Left to Us by Evening -bit.ly/3D3NYir
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Instead of just carrying out catastrophically bad ideas, what if we saw sci-fi as an opportunity to test those ideas first?
A few of my thoughts, up on the blog!
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I can’t wait for Sunday!
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Looking forward to the first Poetrio of the year on Sunday at 4! Join us online for readings from Merle Bachman, @debenbach, and Richard Tillinghast. More info and registration here: malaprops.com/node/46451
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A poem published in JAMA Network Open by my friend (on my bday to boot!) I love it when my various worlds collide.
Rah, David!
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From the archives, “The Ultimate and Decisive “Is Poetry Dead?” Article!” by . ✨
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One thing I learned this year is that socks can actually be great holiday gifts
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. asked its fall readers to answer the question “What is the relationship between #Judaism or #Jewish culture and your #poetry?” Here are their (our) answers!
yetzirahpoets.org/yetzirahs-big-
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If garbage could produce even more garbagey garbage, would be the garbage of that garbage's garbage.
Organics have been identified by on Mars! Some of these carbon-based molecules are used as the building block of life. Their presence adds to the story of the planet’s habitability, increasing the available ingredients needed for biology: go.nasa.gov/3uTj5c1
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Humor as a kind of resilience in the face of grief—moving, uplifting, and sweetly funny essay by
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So everyone right now is paying an AI to see what they would look like if they were characters in some kind of cyberpunk dystopia. It just makes me wonder: is there a mirror shortage or something?
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This is going to be a great season!
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Excited to be part of this season's Booktails, along with @GivhanJenn, @etran3, @debenbach, @mjseidlinger, and @lionesstales. @ReineDugas & Heather Fowler are two of the best podcasters/mixologists in the bookcast biz!
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This is a charming story! A guy who snuck into countless events over a lifetime.
Thank you!
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Replying to @LoebDavon
Highly recommend this new one (and all his others) from the eloquent, funny, brave, humane @debenbach.
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I've been reading books with basketball in them all my life and just read the best one. Dr. J's move is at the center of it, and it's just as astonishing as that. Thanks to Ross Gay for a book to practice life with. (And thanks to for the tip!)
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Republicans should be forced to carry Kanye West to term, even if it endangers the life of the party
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I am honored!
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We are thrilled to announce our nominees for the @PushcartPrize! Mazel Tov to @JaneRLaForge, Gail Newman, @stewjayf, @lauragoldin, Margaret Dornaus, and @debenbach! Thank you for entrusting us with your work.
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I (37 m) don't want my wife having her blind friend over for dinner. They've sent voice recordings back and forth for years, even after we got married! Now he's supposed to come over, and I feel threatened, not to mention worried we'll share an epiphanic moment of intimacy. AITA?
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Is it tacky to get COVID (for the first time) like two-plus years after it was first trending?
p.s. So far, yucky but not scary. Thankfully, by now my body is 60% water, 30% vaccine/booster.*
*plus 10% ineffable longing.
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This was a lovely conversation. If you're interested in community-building among writers in general, and Jewish writers in particular, check it out!
bit.ly/3GBDTMl
#writingcommunity #writing #jewish #jewishwriters #poetry #jewishpoetry
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This was such a lovely conversation!
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If you weren't able to attend @JewishBook's Writers' Conference, you can now watch "Not for myself alone: Creating & Sustaining Jewish Literary communities" and enjoy the wisdom of Richard Chess, Hila Ratzabi, & David Ebenbach.
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So...Twitter is still here, then?
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From plague to joy in four poems....
I'm honored that Sean Murphy of included work from my new poetry collection, What's Left to Us by Evening, in the latest issue of Movable Type!
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Well, I mastodonned, and can be found at
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Very grateful to be this week’s featured poet at the incredible , a new community and database of Jewish poets. Thanks for creating this space. And for lifting up my poem “Prayer Before Turning on the News” first published in .
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"I will not look away.
Promise me
you won't either."
Our featured poet this week is Hila Ratzabi, Director of @Ritualwell and author of THERE ARE STILL WOODS, an elegy to the earth and a call to action. Read her poems and find a link to her new book here: linktr.ee/yetzirahpoets
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So, if we're not safe in there... behind closed doors... where they say they want us... we have no choice but to fight to make it safe everywhere, for all LGBT people.
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Looks like I missed my chance to join writing.exchange on Mastodon, but if any of you are members and you'd like to invite me, I'll say yes!
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