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Find inspiration from Yeats, Clifton, Dickinson, and Rumi in our Divining Poets oracle decks.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined April 2016
There was a Muscovy duck I called Donna. She had been a farmyard duck but didn’t lay any eggs and was a loner. I cradled her for hours and sang to her. … When I walked, I walked like Donna. I wasn’t imitating her. She walked like me. https://t.co/t6xPYySAVc
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No holds barred in Sallie Bingham’s final work. All the humor and humanity and mastery of a lifetime of people watching and storytelling. https://t.co/rTC4hmi7lN
#salliebingham #newfiction #consortiumbooks
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Hear Sallie Bingham on her new story collection, HOW DADDY LOST HIS EAR. These outrageous tales of a womanizing cowboy and his mixed raced extended family turn the myth of the old West on its head. https://t.co/QN7a5OyebH
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No kings here! From «Animalia Utopia» in John Kinsella’s new collection APORIA, just out. https://t.co/t6xPYySAVc
#johnkinsella #ecopoetry #poetrycommunity #consortiumbooks
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We are deeply saddened by the loss of our author and inspiration Sallie Bingham. We are also proud to carry her voice forward with a collection of new, outrageous, award-winning stories:
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[ODD BIRDS & FAT CATS] reminds us that our other-than-human kin will speak to us if we have ears to hear. [T]he ability to talk to animals—is now made accessible again . . .” https://t.co/r1hL3lvKaS
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Assistant editor Jasmin Pittman reviews five new...
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“Nothing alive cannot be altered.” #graceschulman #BornOnThisDay
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Today's Featured Poem: "Meteor" by Grace Schulman, from Again, the Dawn, published by Turtle Point (@TurtlePPress). Read here: https://t.co/5NDodiLyvg
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I look on the eighteen short stories in my forthcoming book How Daddy Lost His Ear and Other Stories as a miracle I will never entirely understand—or need to, but here's a stab at it. "It's Coming!": https://t.co/jC1bNPBz04
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THE holiday book for your favorite beasts ! 🦜🐝🤷♂️🤷🏿♀️🐳🐿️ “How lucky for the world…. Love the text, love the pics.” —Patricia Marx ODD BIRDS & FAT CATS by Peter Wortsman and Aurelie Bernard Wortsman https://t.co/ep9mvgp53o
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Inspiring holiday reading. https://t.co/T2xmbgqoRG
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Check out Taken by the Shawnee - "A masterpiece of women's frontier experience!" --KATHY SCHULZ, author of The Underground Railroad in Ohio "This is an amazing book, and I couldn't stop reading it."...
Where did her courage come from, this white woman who’d only known the limitations and hardships and prejudices of eighteenth-century colonial life in Virginia? "Taken by the Shawnee": https://t.co/vaGg9V9wBp
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The animals are on the loose! https://t.co/kZ7ACTKhZ9
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🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶 I am very grateful to have been included in this extraordinary new anthology edited by the poet John Kinsella. Thank you everyone at @TurtlePPress Please see this link: https://t.co/7WjV0s90mr🐒🦅🦉🦇🐺🐴🫎🫏🦄🐝🪱🐛🦋🐌🐞🐜🦂🐍🪰🪲🐢🦟🦎🪳🦖🐅🦀🦤🦜🦔🐁🦩
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I know of only one pie-dish beetle actively pursuing a longer life but there may have been and probably are still others [...] forthcoming in APORIA by John Kinsella https://t.co/9CyTCo4qrT
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is a collection searching for logic where logic is hard to find or maybe can't be found. From the death of the poet's father, to considering the complex, troubled, and often distressing relationship...
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HBD #RobertMapplethorpe ! "Patti Smith used to come to the Dakota with Robert Mapplethorpe for tea. One night Charles and I attended an event at Gotham Book Mart for William Burroughs. I managed to snap a few photos, but it was very crowded . . . " https://t.co/jcdGEIiHGS
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Come see our latest wares—and us!—at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, 9/29, from 10 to 6. Hot off the press are these mid-‘60s Poem Poster postcards with art by Charles Henri Ford. @BKBF #charleshenriford #indratamang #romyashby #poemposters #surrealism
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Join us tomorrow night at @greenlightbklyn for the Annual Brooklyn Indie Party, featuring @nodearmagazine, @onestorymag, @POWkidsbooks, @powerHouseBooks, @RadixMedia, @thesongcave, @TurtlePPress, @uglyducklingprs, @WendysSubway & 20 other indie publishers:
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Today's Featured Poet: Diane Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College. Her latest books are Home is the Road, Wandering the Land, Shaping the Spirit (Broadleaf Books, 2022), Psalm to Whom(e) (Turtle Point Press, 2023), and Quadrille (Wipf & Stock, 2024).
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I go to those places of the other world. To bring back my own. Belonging to nothing otherwise. The Savior a deer to me. #dianeglancy #PoetrySavesLives
Today's Featured Poem: "50 Miles West of Abilene Texas November 7 2020" by Diane Glancy, from Psalm to Who(me), published by @TurtlePPress. Read here: https://t.co/wSdBiZss1S
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"Vices should be public." —#CharlesHenriFord "I love this book."—#EdmundWhite "Invaluable."—#DebbieHarry A young Nepalese man’s relationship with "the father of American #surrealism" changes the course of his life. https://t.co/214HhV7jET
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Native history lovers, women adventurers, riveting frontier story readers, this is THE book for your holiday reading! At #Bookshop and wherever you buy books: https://t.co/T2xmbgqoRG
#salliebingham #turtlepointpress #shawnee @BNbuzz #SummerReading
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Check out Taken by the Shawnee - "A masterpiece of women's frontier experience!" --KATHY SCHULZ, author of The Underground Railroad in Ohio "This is an amazing book, and I couldn't stop reading it."...
My latest #book Taken by the Shawnee is out now from @turtleppress "“This is an amazing book... I couldn’t stop reading it.” — Joan Silber “...every page of this astounding story electrifies.” — Joan Frank “... a compelling portrait of womanhood in this era." — @KirkusReviews
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