@bartonsmock

He/Him, poet, father. Most works are self published, are pay what you want. Full-length 'Wasp, gasp.' (2023, Incunabula)

 columbus, ohio
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Joined June 2011
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I have all the words that have gone missing to say that I am thankful for being in the August 2021 run of Poem-A-Day at poets.org as guest edited by Kazim Ali poets.org/poem/soonisms

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Home The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.

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El Norte Recuerda@Vanessid16h
The middle class is an imperial construction, propped up by exploited global south labor to sell the working class cheap goods at artificially low cost. It’s literally an anti-communist illusion: the lie of financial security and comfort that prevents working class solidarity.
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Everyone thinks they are middle class until they lose their job
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BEFOREGRIEF Only after Eve loses the child does Adam find God
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propublica.org/article/mail-…

Ballot Rejections Soared in Rural Counties After USPS Reduced Mail Service

A ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from the agency’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas. Counties that voted for Trump in 2024...

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Boots Riley
@BootsRileyOct 25
Let's get her a supporting actress nomination for I Love Boosters.
✨m@minareadssOct 25
uplifting naomi ackie
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words toward Marylyn Tan’s ‘Unclench’ (The Glass Chapbook series, 2026)

UnclenchMarylyn TanThe Glass Chapbook Series 2026 Time can’t find its way out. Marylyn Tan is a poet whose verse wounds longing as a thing untaught in pop-up anatomy classes. If Tan’s previous work…

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Unclench Marylyn Tan The Glass Chapbook Series 2026 Time can’t find its way out. Marylyn Tan is a poet whose verse wounds longing as a thing untaught in pop-up anatomy classes. If Tan’s previous work Gaze Back found that the abyss never changes its password,
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then Unclench digs a hole for the glass eye’s ghosted vision. Appetite is a spell the stomach learns might it unteach the body. Desire is a creature that switches gardens to improvise god. Normalization a food that tricks the child into an upbringing made of wax.
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Tan knows that the interior stretches its own imprecise radar over skins touch will only hear of. Listening, here, can throw its voice.
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In early 2023 my insides failed me for no reason and I lost mind and weight and watched this and I still think it's the reason I woke up in July 2023 all better
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I post A LOT. My Substack subscribers about to bounce.
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Hovah76
@hovah76Oct 23
From day ONE they disrespected Angel Reese. From day ONE they tried to erase Angel’s existence. From day ONE they tried to erase Angel’s impact on the WNBA. Angel had more than 17 major brand deals BEFORE the 2024 WNBA draft. In 2023, Angel was the #1 NIL earner in the COUNTRY for Women’s Basketball players. Caitlin Clark surpassed her in 2024, but Angel was still an absolute SUPERstar. They told her that she was a nobody. ————————————————— NOW she is the best player from the 2024 WNBA Draft. She has an international fan base that spans from the United States to Europe. She was the biggest star and the fan favorite on the U.S.A. Women’s World Cup team. They told her that she was nothing from the day of the 2024 WNBA draft. THEIR words: The white girl was the only player that mattered in the 2024 WNBA Draft:
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Hovah76
@hovah76Oct 23
Game 3 of the 2026 WNBA Finals averaged 1.71 MILLION viewers, making it the MOST WATCHED Game 3 in WNBA Finals HISTORY!! The Angel Reese effect! 💪🏾🔥🏀
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Laila Al-Arian@LailaAlarianOct 23
Notice how many of those who dissected the language of anti genocide protesters will say nothing about this racist bile
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7km sunset run (I play my music extra loud when i run at sunset to drown out the sаndmоnkеy call to prayer)
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Adam Johnson@adamjohnsonCHIOct 23
NYT interviews a grand total of four (4) Palestinians, and cites zero polls, to spread liberal zionist propaganda that the Israeli elections matter, in any significant way, to Palestinians (they don’t). Israeli media, once again, is far more honest
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Ilhan Omar
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The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar. Maybe you should focus on what your VP’s real name is.
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