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author of CALLING A WOLF A WOLF / Purdue professor / rep'd by

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  1. 3 hours ago

    Telemarketer: Hello Mr. Akbar, how are you today? Me: Sooner or later / everyone donates something. Telemarketer: Oh, excellent! Me: I ate a heart. I turned my head. She looked at me as if I were the last living thing on earth. And as I was, I kept eating. Telemarketer: ...

    what if every time a telemarketer called me i started reciting mary ruefle poems
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    12 hours ago

    My poem Heliocentric is up at !

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  3. 4 hours ago

    Compelling case made here. Spoilers: it was (maybe, probably) Pence—

    The just published an anonymous op-ed from a "senior administration official." I'd like to posit a guess as to who wrote it. Getting my on began with a single word that jumped out at me...
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    11 hours ago

    Ahhhh!!!!!!! Can’t wait. My first time in ! November issue here I come. Also, this stellar lineup 🙌🏾🎉💫👏🏾 is beyond amazing.

    Lucia Perillo, , , Frank Sherlock, Natalie Shapero, Laura Kasischke, , Tom Sleigh, Martín Espada, Justice Ameer, Jane Wong, many others scheduled for November issue of - subscribe now!
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  5. 4 hours ago

    I unofficially and off the record love this practice.

    Replying to @kaysarahsera
    Totally agree, but... when a poet comes to my college I low key borrow their book from the library and have them sign it. , for example, wrote a sweet note in Wolf to an unnamed future reader. Now when I see it on the shelf it's like waiting for a piñata to burst open.
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  6. 4 hours ago

    Nkosi Nkululeko

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  7. 4 hours ago

    from Sri Swami Satchidananda’s LIVING GITA

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    6 hours ago

    "or could unfurl/ my clit like a pollen basket passed// from a honeybee’s hind legs/ to the hive" this poem forever. It is a true astonishment.

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    Sep 4

    ocean vuong always has the poems for my most calm kinds of rapture, even after the last few months (from “Notebook Fragments”)

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  10. 5 hours ago

    I used to work at Trader Joe’s too. Showing up at 4am to unload trucks & stock shelves & then being cogent & kind w customers as they arrived hours later was exponentially more demanding than anything my current jobs ask of me. Nothing but admiration & gratitude for Geoffrey—

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    "Every job is worthwhile." Former 'Cosby Show' actor Geoffrey Owens speaks out over job-shaming incident
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  11. 5 hours ago

    “My body’s work to break the world / into bricks and sticks / has turned inward.” - Max Ritvo

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    7 hours ago

    Finally picked up poetry collection. Can’t wait to use this as a resource when my students read Mango Street. I feel like his poems are my life growing up with Mexican parents.

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    6 hours ago

    "With all the uncertainty I deliberately write into, it’s important to me to get the sentences pretty solid."

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    6 hours ago

    Today I photographed myself, unmarried. I pulled a silver tine off the back of the moon, so there’s no return policy left for the moon. What a wall over me made of silk which was once money itself.

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  15. 6 hours ago

    Marwa Helal

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  16. 7 hours ago

    This bit of beauty by TC Tolbert, courtesy of

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    12 hours ago

    Divedapper Poetry Carnival returns Saturday at ! Ross Gay, Tarfia Faizullah and Nicole Sealey are your headliners, and founder is sure to be on the scene:

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    12 hours ago

    Tomorrow!! Come through nyc

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    13 hours ago

    Mail day! What a bounty!

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  20. 13 hours ago

    “Oh every animal / knows when something is wrong. // Of this sweet, tender feeling, I was wrong, / and I was right, and I was wrong.”

    ✨🌸 poem-a-day 🌸✨ right now: coffee, sun, gratitude. mil gracias a & .
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