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Dec 4, 2020

Join

@JimBehrle

on Saturday, December 12 at noon EST for a march on Poets House's Poetry Path in Battery Park City! Meet at 10 River Terrace for live readings and speeches—or support online by posting protest poems! Tag

and use the hashtag #WhosePoemsOurPoems. t.co/znu5cpxa34

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, and

for sharing this powerful piece holding Poets House accountable to co-founder Stanley Kunitz's assertion that “the American myth belongs to politics and power, not to poetry.” #WhosePoemsOurPoems

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"In this moment, this time of crisis, when the wealthy are growing wealthier, while the economy tanks, I, as a poet in 2020, recognize the tyrants of America are the careless rich. Courage insists on poets bringing out our poems to topple them." @EJMCADAMS brooklynrail.org/2020/11/poetry

E.J. McAdams is a poet and artist, exploring language and mark-making in the urban environment using procedures and improvisation with found and natural materials. He has published five chapbooks,...

Dec 6, 2020

It's important that we keep these conversations going as a community. We are only as humane as we expect the organizations we accept money from to be. #WhosePoemsOurPoems

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damaged book worker

@damagedbookwrkr

Dec 5, 2020

Have you seen or experienced worker abuse and mistreatment in publishing, bookselling, literary nonprofits, or adjacent industries? Would you like to issue a public message, seek support, or offer solidarity, but fear retaliation? Send a secure message at bit.ly/LitWorkers

damaged book worker

@damagedbookwrkr

Dec 9, 2020

Small Press Distribution wants the public to believe that they immediately “remedied” their staff-wide wage theft & illegal pay structure with an “internal audit” in January. This is false. (1/4)

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Molly B. Gross

@Mollybgross

Dec 9, 2020

“We can start by siding with the staff and bringing the fight to the front door of Poets House, to make it Poets’ House. The next protest is December 12th at noon, in front of Poets House.” -

E.J. McAdams is a poet and artist, exploring language and mark-making in the urban environment using procedures and improvisation with found and natural materials. He has published five chapbooks,...

Airea D. Matthews

@aireadee

That we live in a time rife with black influence and yet one dips into the colonizer’s canonical reserve to draw influence speaks volumes. A whole ass mouthful, actually.

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Thanks

and

Poets please consider coming out thisSaturday, live or virtually, to protest for

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"For almost 30 years, as a dedicated member and supporter of the organization, I’ve allowed myself to entertain the idea that this is indeed a house by and for poets." EJ McAdams on the firing of Poets House staff brooklynrail.org/2020/11/poetry

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NMASS Workers Center

@NMASSwc

In another part of our district... an entire staff fired. Punished for trying to organize a healthier work place where workers have a say and where workers have control. Another example of the failure of top-down “solutions”. Listen to workers ... they know what is best.

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Dec 4, 2020

Join @JimBehrle on Saturday, December 12 at noon EST for a march on Poets House's Poetry Path in Battery Park City! Meet at 10 River Terrace for live readings and speeches—or support online by posting protest poems! Tag @phstaff and use the hashtag #WhosePoemsOurPoems. t.co/znu5cpxa34

This is the take:

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Nikki Wallschlaeger

@nikkimwalls

What happens when this log is removed? It speaks volumes that someone with a career like hers, in a Nobel Prize speech, is saying this. She's giving herself away here. It's a political move meant to drum up animosity among white poets towards POC poets.

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Robert Sullivan

@RESullivanJr

"Poets House without poets / is a hole in the ground," writes

@EJMCADAMS

. And, well, you know what a hole in the ground is. . . . re: Musings on the Apostrophe

E.J. McAdams is a poet and artist, exploring language and mark-making in the urban environment using procedures and improvisation with found and natural materials. He has published five chapbooks,...

The Authors Guild

@AuthorsGuild

More than 200 poets, translators, artists, editors, and scholars have signed an open letter to the NYC nonprofit, Poets House, which suspended operations and fired its staff last month.

Over 200 Literary Figures Sign Open Letter to Poets House Leadership After Abrupt Layoffs

Poets, writers, and artists are calling on the nonprofit’s board to “reconsider and reverse the firings” and “commit to dignified working conditions.”

E. J. McAdams

@EJMCADAMS

I wrote this piece about why I went out to protest

that fired the

trying to unionize. Thanks to

@wystandoll

, it is up at The Brooklyn Rail. Consider coming out on Saturday to support the staff. #WhosePoemsOurPoems

E.J. McAdams is a poet and artist, exploring language and mark-making in the urban environment using procedures and improvisation with found and natural materials. He has published five chapbooks,...

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Proud to announce we’ve won voluntary recognition from @VersoBooks. Excited to join our colleagues in organizing for #BookWorkerPower!

The Brooklyn Rail

@TheBrooklynRail

"Every house will be owned by the careless rich if our Poets House is owned by the careless rich... Poets House is now a house with no foundation. Poets House is now a house with no roof. Poets House is now a house with no poets so no better than a hole in the ground."

E.J. McAdams is a poet and artist, exploring language and mark-making in the urban environment using procedures and improvisation with found and natural materials. He has published five chapbooks,...

Maria Lisella

@MariaLisella

A Library Alone Is Not a Poets House – The Brooklyn Rail ⁦

@POETSorg

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@poetswritersinc

⁩ #whosepoemourpoems ⁦

⁩ #support #poets #writers #colleagues #union #busting? #management ? Who’s talking 2 ⁦

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E.J. McAdams is a poet and artist, exploring language and mark-making in the urban environment using procedures and improvisation with found and natural materials. He has published five chapbooks,...

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Looking forward to reading this.... Here's E.J. and

@JimBehrle

protesting outside Poets House, with some documentary filmmakers.

Anselm Berrigan

@wystandoll

E.J. McAdams on protesting the firing of the staff at Poets House:

E.J. McAdams is a poet and artist, exploring language and mark-making in the urban environment using procedures and improvisation with found and natural materials. He has published five chapbooks,...

Thanks

, and

for sharing this powerful piece holding Poets House accountable to co-founder Stanley Kunitz's assertion that “the American myth belongs to politics and power, not to poetry.” #WhosePoemsOurPoems

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E.J. McAdams is a poet and artist, exploring language and mark-making in the urban environment using procedures and improvisation with found and natural materials. He has published five chapbooks,...

cyrée jarelle

@cyreejarelle

imagine winning the nobel prize and thinking “🤔 how can i use this to resurrect some minstrel poems?”

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jess c. mccollum

@JessieMcCol

Open letter of poets' responses to the Poets House closure, very cool and very good!

Over 200 Literary Figures Sign Open Letter to Poets House Leadership After Abrupt Layoffs

Poets, writers, and artists are calling on the nonprofit’s board to “reconsider and reverse the firings” and “commit to dignified working conditions.”

White supremacy, rather than being an aberration, is a function of wealth in poetry. The fact that Glück felt comfortable saying this in her public acceptance speech for the highest award in literature proves this.

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Harris Feinsod

@feinsod

In which Louise Glück professes to the world that the "intimate, private voice" of her lyric poems stems from her unreconstructed, girlhood appreciation for the plangent longing of minstrel songs and Black persona poems. Where's the lyric shame when you need it? twitter.com/mongibeddu/sta…

Book Workers Union

@book_workers

This is harrowing, but we encourage everyone to read it in full. Solidarity with all damaged book workers whose labor, passion, and creativity are regularly exploited by this industry.

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damaged book worker

@damagedbookwrkr

Dec 2, 2020

Small Press Distribution exploited & abused me for two years. I was underpaid by over $4,000. I was paid less than minimum wage. I was retaliated against until I was forced from my job and pressured to stay silent. Instead, I submit the truth. damagedbookworker.medium.com/terrorized-by-

Maria Lisella

@MariaLisella

#culture #whosepoemsourpoems

Glad to be among those who #signed on - #space for more #writers

@JimmyVanBramer

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Poetry's Finest Sign Letter in Support of Poets… | Poetry Foundation #whosepoemsourporms ⁦@phstaff⁩ #support ⁦@poetshouse⁩ #staff all #laid off without #notice #Union #busting??? poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2020/1

Maria Lisella

@MariaLisella

Poetry's Finest Sign Letter in Support of Poets… | Poetry Foundation #whosepoemsourporms ⁦

⁩ #support ⁦

Over 200 Poets Sign Letter in Support of Poets… | Poetry Foundation

⁩ #staff all #laid off without #notice #Union #busting???

poetryfoundation.org

At Hyperallergic, Valentina Di Liscia writes that a letter to the board of Poets House asking leadership to reconsider firing staff, to address workplace dysfunction, and to provide more transparency...

Thank you,

, for covering

's Open Letter to Poets House in support of former staff on Harriet!

poetryfoundation.org

Over 200 Poets Sign Letter in Support of Poets… | Poetry Foundation

Notice which poets aren't commenting publicly on labor abuses within the poetry community. Their silence speaks volumes about their relationship to power and how they think of poetry workers.

AAWW Union

@aawwunion

This Saturday 12/12 at noon there will be another action in support of

— a march starting at

along the Poets Path that runs through Battery Park City. To join the digital picket, tweet your support with the hashtag #WhosePoemsOurPoems! Spread the word ✊

Scott Alves Barton, MrOkra@mastodon.world

@MrOkra

Over 200 Literary Figures Sign Open Letter to Poets House: "...reconsider and reverse the firings” and “commit to dignified working conditions” as well as offer clarity on the rationale behind the closure and layoffs — which to some remains murky.

Over 200 Literary Figures Sign Open Letter to Poets House Leadership After Abrupt Layoffs

Poets, writers, and artists are calling on the nonprofit’s board to “reconsider and reverse the firings” and “commit to dignified working conditions.”

Christine Corcos

@LpcProf

Over 200 Literary Figures Sign Open Letter to Poets House Leadership After Abrupt Layoffs

Over 200 Literary Figures Sign Open Letter to Poets House Leadership After Abrupt Layoffs

Poets, writers, and artists are calling on the nonprofit’s board to “reconsider and reverse the firings” and “commit to dignified working conditions.”

Robin Pogrebin

@rpogrebin

Over 200 Literary Figures Sign Open Letter to Poets House Leadership After Abrupt Layoffs

Over 200 Literary Figures Sign Open Letter to Poets House Leadership After Abrupt Layoffs

Poets, writers, and artists are calling on the nonprofit’s board to “reconsider and reverse the firings” and “commit to dignified working conditions.”

Emma Brumage-Kilcourse

@ebkwriter

side note: there is no "...unless they didn't know" attached here. If they didn't know, it usually shows a profound disconnect from poets with less status.

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Notice which poets aren't commenting publicly on labor abuses within the poetry community. Their silence speaks volumes about their relationship to power and how they think of poetry workers.

Notice which poets aren't commenting publicly on labor abuses within the poetry community. Their silence speaks volumes about their relationship to power and how they think of poetry workers.

GuerrillaGirlsOnTour

@GuerrillaGsOT

Dec 6, 2020

Over 200 Literary Figures Sign Open Letter to Poets House Leadership After Abrupt Layoffs