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Bonanni Comma John

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Poet. Winner of the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry for retrovirology (Pitt 2026). Editor of Cape Cod Review. Words in Gulf Coast, Foglifter, Electric Lit, & Michigan Quarterly Review. More here: www.johnbonanni.com

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I never actually cared about the men's U.S. hockey team tbh

26.02.2026 03:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bhanu Kapil

25.02.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We must protect Connor Storrie from that demon at all costs.

31.12.2025 19:52 πŸ‘ 234 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Made a list of first book contests for folx with a poetry collection forthcoming this year. If anyone wants it, feel free to DM me

31.12.2025 19:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

make 'what are you reading?' a normal question... akin to 'how are you?'

30.12.2025 18:20 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains"

30.12.2025 03:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Fugees The Score

Fugees The Score

28.12.2025 15:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
IF

Suppose we are a fragment?

A perfect night of immediacy
in vital places.

Up here I am the disguised flower
you are where it came from.

To allow the hidden.
So slowly. My body.

And wouldn’t you

begin
to make friends with it?

I can wait.

IF Suppose we are a fragment? A perfect night of immediacy in vital places. Up here I am the disguised flower you are where it came from. To allow the hidden. So slowly. My body. And wouldn’t you begin to make friends with it? I can wait.

Kathleen Fraser

28.12.2025 03:04 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Late to this party--love when a narrator's voice can carry the plot and keep the pages turning. Having worked with so many kids from this level of poverty, I'll attest to the broken system laid out here. This book is a masterpiece.

27.12.2025 20:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

nothing says christmas like a shitty hallmark movie with a dead parent and a family business on the brink of ruin

25.12.2025 20:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I actually never cared about nicki minaj tbh

22.12.2025 02:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

so refreshing to be on vacation and to finally reply to personal emails i should have replied to days ago

21.12.2025 22:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

if you don't want a book for the holidays, maybe don't be friends with me?

18.12.2025 22:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I never actually cared about liam neeson tbh

12.12.2025 00:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Preview
Heated Rivalry Soundtrack

I see--I know Spotify's evil, but I found one here: open.spotify.com/playlist/4FN...

06.12.2025 00:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If so, there better be some George Michael on there... and Rufus Wainwright.

06.12.2025 00:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
3.
A doughnut can’t roll
like a glass into the full moon
It is too doughy and sorry-eyed

3. A doughnut can’t roll like a glass into the full moon It is too doughy and sorry-eyed

Nina Iskrenko, trs. Forrest Gander & Joy Dworkin

01.12.2025 00:09 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

wrote an oped but tossed it to two newspapers (and not one) and now i feel a little guilty abt it... not sure why--it's fair game if they don't specify they're anti-simultaneous subs, right?

30.11.2025 18:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

only one more year until i can apply to macdowell again, lol

30.11.2025 15:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gary McDowell

29.11.2025 15:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Larry Levis

29.11.2025 15:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wonder if I'm the only one who has stopped (or at least grown highly suspect of) using most .gov sites in post-2024 research

29.11.2025 03:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You always have the best puns!

27.11.2025 13:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I learned it from watching you, Charlie Brown. I learned it from watching you!

25.11.2025 01:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come YouTube video by Rocksteady Freddie

Ugh, I was just listening to Jimmy Cliff yesterday! Rest in power, legend. youtu.be/7Znh0OM9jiA?...

25.11.2025 00:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
When it was all over, a sheep emerged from inside the house.
A cheer went up, for it was recognized that these are lousy times
to be living in, yet we do live in them:
We are the case.
And seven times seven ages later it would still be the truth in
appearances,
festive, eternal, misconstrued. Does anyone still want to play?

When it was all over, a sheep emerged from inside the house. A cheer went up, for it was recognized that these are lousy times to be living in, yet we do live in them: We are the case. And seven times seven ages later it would still be the truth in appearances, festive, eternal, misconstrued. Does anyone still want to play?

We are the case.

John Ashbery

22.11.2025 19:47 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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a woman in a white dress is standing on a balcony holding a piece of paper and a microphone . ALT: a woman in a white dress is standing on a balcony holding a piece of paper and a microphone .

Joan Collins tops the cake for me.

22.11.2025 02:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Most collosal disappointment of a celebrity bc of their Trump support? Go.

22.11.2025 02:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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hey remember that time I got rejected from princeton?

21.11.2025 22:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Stonewall by David Carter

20.11.2025 02:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0