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e·pon·y·mous | "murmurations" by Anthony Thomas Lombardi
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DeeSoul Carson: I just love birds in...
September 2026 Roundup
Hellooooooo poets of the internet! The summer ended and September went by in a flash! As the temperature cools down, I’m looking forward to spending more time with (way too long) to be read list. Still some time left in the year to beat my...
O, Grief!
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Vasvi Kejriwal: If you have a poem like that...
O, Aliveness!
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TW: This episode includes discussion of suic...
The O, Word? Sealey Challenge | Week 5
Helllllloooooo, poets of the internet! We’ve done it! With your support and encouragement, I have successfully completed another Sealey Challenge. A huge thank you to everyone that offered their thoughts, humor, and kind words during the ch...
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DeeSoul Carson | he/they | Stanford '21 | NYU MFA '24 | 2025 NEA Fellow | 2025 Lilly-Sargent Fellow | Free \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 | Sometimes I read things, sometimes I have thoughts about them
meditations on what it means to be alive right now: one poem, one visual, one thought at a time
poet, bookseller, gamer. steward of the interview series, Writers and Their Cherished Hobbies (WATCH)
just some rain-coated lover's puny brother.
Maya Williams (ey/they/she) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who served as Portland, Maine's seventh poet laureate for a 2021-2024 term.
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