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Zoeglossia fosters and promotes the work of poets with disabilities through publishing, residencies, readings, and an annual retreat.
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Call for Disabled Poets! Apply to become a Zoeglossia 2023 fellow. Submissions are open from December 15th to February 15th 2023. Looking to build community and grow in a diverse cohort? Come thru.
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It’s a new year but applications are still open for our 2023 Zoeglossia Fellowship! We can’t wait to receive your submissions and meet you all in the future.
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In her keynote talk, Kathi Wolfe called on all of us to be aware of the ableist metaphors commonly found in poetry: blindness, deafness, paralysis, etc.
Ableism is a failure of imagination. Challenge yourself to find fresh alternatives to problematic cliches!
#Zoeglossia2019
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Zoeglossia has been made aware of the situation concerning Gaia Thomas’s GoFundMe campaign.
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Our deadline is today! Come join us at Zoeglossia if you're a disabled poet age 21+ who is interested in building community among a diverse cohort of writers. Our faculty includes: Kay Ulanday Barrett, JJJJerome Ellis, Khairani Barokka (Okka), ire'ne lara silva, and Urayoán Noel
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Come kick it with us at
@HugoHouse
to celebrate disability poetry. Our brilliant line up includes:
@RaymondAntrobus
, Ilya Kaminsky
@ilya_poet
, Saleem Hue Penny
@huedotart
, Khadijah Queen
@authorKQ
, and L. Lamar Wilson. 3/11/23 from 6:30pm-8:30pm. See:
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Here is a peek into our incredible faculty, JJJJJerome Ellis, Kay Ulanday Barrett, and keynote speaker L.Lamar Wilson, who have graciously extended their time and talent, to share their wisdom for our 2023 Zoeglossia Fellowship Retreat! Apply now:
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"What does it mean to queer our own disabilities?"
- Raymond Luczak,
@zoeglossia
June 2022 PotW Guest Curator
join Kristen Ringman (
@KristenRingman
), Arthur Durkee, Raymond Luczak (
@deafwoof
) as they explore the intertwinement of identity & sensuality & dis/ability.
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Excited to announce faculty for our annual fellowship retreat for disabled poets: Kay Ulanday Barrett, Khairani Barokka (Okka), JJJJerome Ellis, Urayoán Noel, and keynote: L. Lamar Wilson. We look forward to sharing space. Applications due Feb. 15th:
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“the whole point of poetics is for us to see the world differently” - Ilya Kaminsky
@ilya_poet
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Open Letter to AWP on Decision to Host a “Mask Optional” 2023 Conference:
"Requiring masking at AWP is a meaningful display of solidarity with the disability community."
Sign petition by Alyssa Harad to request AWP to require masks. Public health and safety are priorities for ALL Conference & Bookfair attendees:
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Sage Ravenwood’s “Schwarzkopf Reality” is Zoeglossia’s POTW: “I wore removal history in my hair, / braided down my back, fisted in a trap.” Read the full poem here:
@sageravenwood
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In just a week, this group of poets will come together in San Antonio, TX for the first annual Zoeglossia Retreat! Over the next few days, we'll be introducing our 2019 fellows to the Twitterverse. Congrats!
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At this morning's round-table we discussed the ways our disabilities inform our poetics. Disability allows for unique engagement with text: mishearing leads to wordplay, movement is inscribed upon the page, sound might guide the poem's shape
#Zoeglossia2019
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This month, we will be highlighting Black folks who have played key roles in Black Disability History (which is Black History). Today: Audre Lorde, contributor to the Black Arts Movement, organizer, cultural worker, and poet. Read or listen to 'For Assata'
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“what must I do to be saved from myself now?” - L.Lamar Wilson opening the evening tonight
@HugoHouse
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Welcome to
@Zoeglossia
Poem of the Week Series!
The theme for August 2022 is:
CRIP GRAMMARS & THE FULLNESS OF "SILENCE"
Guest Curator:
#HeidiAndreaRestrepoRhodes
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Khadijah Queen sharing a STUNNING poem about the ignoring of an ever present pandemic at
@HugoHouse
this evening, we wish we could type it all out here right now but so needed.
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Alert Alert: Zoeglossia Poem of the Week Series: "Uncertainty, Intrusive Thoughts, and Dis/Embodiment in OCD Poetics" Curation by: Raye Hendrix (
@_rayehendrix
)
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Sign petition by Alyssa Harad to request AWP to require masks. Public health and safety are priorities for ALL Conference & Bookfair attendees:
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“there are no hymns for deaf boys but who can tell we are deaf without speaking to us” -
@RaymondAntrobus
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16 Disabled Poets have been chosen as part of our 2023 fellows class at Zoeglossia. This was an incredibly difficult decision as we had 178 applications. We are so excited to welcome this new cohort to our community
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“you gotta bring everything you are into the poem” -
@RaymondAntrobus
answering an audience question
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“If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully" - Maya Angelou: memoirist, cultural worker, poet, singer, dancer, producer, actress, director, and extraordinary human.
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Naomi Ortiz (
@thinkfreestyle
) is a writer, poet, facilitator & visual artist whose work focuses on self-care for activists, disability justice & intersectionality. Read about her new book at the link below! 💖
#Zoeglossia2019
#selfcare
#activism
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Call for Disabled Poets: Apply to become a Zoeglossia Fellow today. Part of our fellowship includes our virtual retreat where disabled poets are able to convene safely. Our applications close February 15th! .
Excited to announce faculty for our annual fellowship retreat for disabled poets: Kay Ulanday Barrett, Khairani Barokka (Okka), JJJJerome Ellis, Urayoán Noel, and keynote: L. Lamar Wilson. We look forward to sharing space. Applications due Feb. 15th:
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“Funny this thing they do, / Set a fire then say they almost burned alive.” Zoeglossia’s POTW for September 25 -- “I Wanna Talk About the White Women Now” by Walela Nehanda at
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“If / you close your eyes you will find me resting my / head on the garden of your chest.” From Nathan Spoon’s, “Ask Me Later,” Zoeglossia’s Poem of the Week.
@npspoon
is also our guest curator this month!
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Zoeglossia received the 2022 Poetry Award Grant. Congratulations to all!
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Happy Black History Month from Zoeglossia. A reminder that Black History extends beyond a single month. We must consistently celebrate Black disabled poets who have been foundational in shaping disability poetics of past, present, and future.
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Elizabeth Theriot (
@elizavacious
) is a queer poet from Louisiana. She finished her MFA from
@UAEnglish
this year & lives in Tuscaloosa, where she volunteers with
@YellowFund
. You can check out 2 of her recent poems in
@avelvetgiant
!
#Zoeglossia2019
#EDS
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Stephanie Heit is a poet, dancer, & teacher of somatic writing, Contemplative Dance Practice, and Kundalini Yoga. Check out her collection THE COLOR SHE GAVE GRAVITY from
@the_OS_
!
#Zoeglossia2019
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Shout out to Zoeglossia 2022 Fellow Arianna Monet as Split This Rock's POTW.
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Excited about
@RickyRayPoet
holding an open submission for a slot in
@zoeglossia
February curation.
I'm editing Zoeglossia's poem-of-the-week series for February & holding an open submission call to deaf/disabled poets for 1 of the slots. Accepting 30 submissions for consideration. Submit via form or DM for alternative method. Pays $100. Please retweet!
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Zoeglossia Blog Post: "What Cultural Allyship Means: On the Origins of the Exhibit 'Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer,'" from Kenny Fries.
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Zoeglossia Receives Poetry Fund Grant for Second Year in a Row
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From Pinka PopsicKle's beautiful POTW “After after”: “I learnt—to ride a bike, kiss a boy, break open poems and pain like a pomegranate spilling secrets, jewels and blue bloodstains”
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Check out
@zoeglossia
co-founder
@Bartlettpoet
From “The Hindrances of a Householder” on
@PoetryFound
Poem of the Day!
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@deafwoof
is the author and editor of 22 books, including "Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman" (Squares & Rebels) and "Flannelwood" (2019), which you can (and should!) pre-order from
@RedHenPress
🌲
#Zoeglossia2019
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Welcome to March 2022 Poem of the Week! Guest Curator ELLEN SMITH (
@breezely1462
) invited JILL KHOURY (
@sundaygray
) + EMILIO RODGRIGUEZ + JASON IRWIN to reflect with her on "tethering".
via
@huedotart
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"It is also inaccurate to suggest that not masking is in the interest of our community as suggested by the following: “There are many disabilities and conditions that make wearing a mask for long periods difficult. AWP supports providing everyone the ability to choose what is...
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Zoeglossia's September Poem of the Week Series: Webs of Longing and Love curated by
@GaiaCThomas
featuring Christine Robbins,
@AvaCCipri
, and Elizabeth Meade:
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“ you have to see your tools and not be ashamed of that” -L.Lamar on being a disabled poet and bringing disability to the forefront
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“While falling asleep, I hear a knock in the closet.” From Gaia Thomas’ “Avez vous déjà vu un rossignol chanter?” Zoeglossia’s POTW for Oct 17.
@GaiaCThomas
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"we face the double standard of extending care to the public (i.e., individually masking) while receiving little structural support in return (i.e., universal masking). "
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@ShikshaWrites
@_rayehendrix
Thank you for your contribution! We appreciated your writing so much <3
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@genevieve_arlie
is a dog lover and tree hugger from CA and a PhD student in English–CW at the University of Georgia.
Check out her poem from the
@NatBrut
Chronic Resilience Folio, "ACUTE EFFECTS OF CHRONIC HEROISM"
#Zoeglossia2019
#ChronicFatigue
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We are so pleased and honored to have such an incredibly talented, kind, and wonderful cohort, to read in full visit:
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"... to be hashtag blessed and say you love us and say so ..." from
@mailbykite
's "dedication," Zoeglossia's Poem of the Week:
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"Indeed the disabled artists and movement workers of Sins Invalid aptly noted: 'Disability justice is a vision and practice of what is yet to be, a map that we create with our ancestors and our great-grandchildren onward.'"
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Khairani Barokka (
@mailbykite
) is a research fellow
@UAL
and is Zoeglossia's first Fall 2020 Poet of the Week. Learn more about her at and buy her book "Indigenous Species"
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“My private skills/ get damp with company. Moist/interlocuter, come/ sweeten my name." Welcome to our latest September Poem of the Week, “imagine distinct from anticipate” by
@zoeglossia
Fellow Leslie McIntosh.
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“a sunbeam swallows the ocean. every monarch is sunk by the light” - From sometimes maggie rogers is the only thing that makes sense
by Arianna Monet
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"best for their individual needs while respecting the need for community care.”
On the contrary, opting out of masking has never been an option for many disabled and chronically ill people. Essentially, when we choose to engage in arts and cultural activities..."
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“Every day I thank the Earth
for ruining my body
that I might know something
of the ruin we inflict upon hers.”
From Aches, A Quartet by Ricky Ray
@RickyRayPoet
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"AWP’s February 9th statement to 'strongly recommend' masking is not sufficient to protect conference attendees, particularly our community of disabled, chronically ill, and immunocompromised literary arts professionals."
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*Audio Description*
A pulsing synth-pop rhythm, w/pining lyrics: "... & i've been searching for someone like you/ i've been waiting all my life for this moment/ ready for love/ ready for this..." The track "Ready for Love" (by Sara Nielsen & Mikaela Balk) is Canva app stock audio
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"Never let fear grab your dreams ... " - Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson, presenting poetry as a tool for engaging, inspiring, and uplifting communities
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"We urge our fellow members of the Poetry Coalition to embody the resilience and resistance of the disabled community that we collectively celebrated last year."
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And also purchase the latest -- ROPE -- by
@NineArchesPress
-
Khairani Barokka (
@mailbykite
) is a research fellow
@UAL
and is Zoeglossia's first Fall 2020 Poet of the Week. Learn more about her at and buy her book "Indigenous Species"
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"...where song is found as embodied form that breaks free of the confines of the requisite legibility of the word. In these poems, we are intimate with what lies beyond the enclosures of ableist grammar, skin, time, and subjectivity...
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From the Curatorial Statement
"These poems gather with each other to insist that to be non-speaking, whether in the long or short term, isn’t to be inarticulate: in the speechlessness, there is still articulation (still and still), a spillage of signs...
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Our fellow
@zstoller4
currently serves as the Content Developer for Splat and Poetry Editor for
@CleaverMagazine
. Check out her recent poem "As I carry the ringshadow / you carry the ring" in The Penn Review!
#Zoeglossia2019
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"I envy a mother who is not traumatized every time her child walks out the door" from Kimberly Jae's "Simulation or that time I saw Quason Turner in my Son's Eyes."
@zoeglossia
's POTW.
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Our fellow
@GaiaCThomas
is an MFA candidate at
@MillsCollege
. Her chapbook ALOFT ALIGHT is available through
@AntiQftr
-- "Poison and medicine, the sound of wind from the cracked open window, trying to swim."
#Zoeglossia2019
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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Travis Chi Wing Lau, Ellen McGrath Smith, and Lateef McLeod – will represent Zoeglossia
@DodgePoetryFest
at 2 pm EST on 10/31/20
#DPF2020
. More:
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Take time today to read or listen to Ode to Plastic Cups by Naomi Ortiz (
@thinkfreestyle
) as part of our October Poem of the Week series:
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@MrSLightbown
is a spoken word artist who’s performed at the Everyman Theatre in in Liverpool & the Poetry Café and Rich Mix in London. Check out Stephen’s first collection, ONLY AIR, published this March by
@BurningEyeBooks
!
#Zoeglossia2019
#spokenword
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Again to sign petition, click here:
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Viktoria Valenzuela (
@ViktoriaValenz
) is a CNF poet human rights activist, & a CW + social justice graduate student at Our Lady of the Lake University. Valenzuela is an educator, a Macondista, & the organizer of 100 Thousand Poets for Change San Antonio.
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Check out September's Poem of the Week
@Zoeglossia
. Crip cash & resisting the commodification of disability identities, curated by
@hue_art
with
@itsWalela
, Leslie McIntosh, Pinka PopsicKle, & Kimberly Jae.
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TONIGHT: Poet Laureate of San Antonio (2020-2023), Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, will perform and present on poetry as a tool for engaging, inspiring, and uplifting communities. 7 p.m. EST. Email zoeglossia
@gmail
.com for the Zoom link.
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A Small Disunified Theory by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes from our Disability Poetics series with
@PoetryFound
. Over time, we will share fellows and faculty who have been featured in this meaningful curation
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We are excited about the 4 poets appearing in this month's curation:
1) heidi andrea restrepo rhodes (Aug. 1)
2) JJJJJerome Ellis
@jjjjjeromeellis
(Aug.8)
3)
#HannahEmerson
(Aug. 15)
4)
#TalaKhanmalek
(Aug. 22)
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Incredible event featuring Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson at 7 p.m. EST on Wednesday, November 11. Email Zoeglossia
@gmail
.com for the Zoom link!
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“There are seven alternate universes where the tree flourishes, left to its own devices” - from Another Life by Frances Klein
@fklein907
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Ricky Ray (
@RickyRayPoet
) took the time and effort to create a beautiful curation entitled Swarms of Grace: On the Poetic Gifts of Day, Tyler, Klein, and Monet for our March Poem of the Week series.
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October Poem of the Week is available now! Curated by Jessica Suzanne Stokes
@obscenespleen
entitled Flows of Disability: Some Tails Of Crip Survival. Read more:
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Ravens of Merry Green Land (After Nick Cave and PJ Harvey’s duet “Henry Lee” from Murder Ballad) by
@AvaCCipri
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Co-founders of Zoeglossia, an organization for poets and writers who identify as having disabilities, include
@CLVoisine
and former
@NMSU
visiting professor Shiela Black.
#ElevateCreativity
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A huge THANK YOU to Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson for joining Zoeglossia today for an inspiring performance and discussion about the role of poetry in our local communities!
Learn more about her work at:
Follow her on Instagram:
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Statement from the Board: A Reaction to Recent Internal Events
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“The weeds flowered at me / and the flaky rock was so right / to the touch, I didn’t miss a geode.” From Christopher Phelps’ “Little Earth.” Zoeglossia's POTW for October 24.
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Deadline to submit is today! (2/15 by 11:59 pm PST). If you are a disabled poet age 21+ don't forget to get your application in for our fellowship and virtual retreat.
Call for Disabled Poets! Apply to become a Zoeglossia 2023 fellow. Submissions are open from December 15th to February 15th 2023. Looking to build community and grow in a diverse cohort? Come thru.
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Still time to register and attend our
#DPF2020
session at 2 p.m. EST. Join the
@DodgePoetryFest
here:
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"...We earth and creature ourselves into an abundances of yeses."
*Video Description: A 10-slide, 2min 51sec video. Slide 1-4 are summarizzed above. Slide 5-8 authors/titles. Slides 9-10 logo/contact info. Ambient music by
@huedotart
layered throughout*
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