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Bonnie Proudfoot

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I'm a poet, fiction writer, avid reader and occasional book reviewer, glass artist and aspiring blues harmonica player. My 2020 novel, Goshen Road (OU Swallow Press) was long-listed for the PEN/Hemingway and was named the WCONA Book of the Year.

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April 1, 2025 Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social
“Let’s get in good trouble.

“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”

According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.

02.04.2025 07:11 👍 3553 🔁 597 💬 49 📌 29
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ONE ART’s Top 25 Most-Read Poets of 2024 ONE ART’s Top 25 Most-Read Poets of 2024 Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Betsy Mars Donna Hilbert Abby E. Murray Robbi Nester Julie Weiss john compton Tina Barry Timothy Green Kim Addonizio Andrea Potos …

ONE ART’s Top 25 Most-Read Poets of 2024 oneartpoetry.com/2025/01/10/o...

10.01.2025 18:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Goshen Road with Author Bonnie Proudfoot Originally scheduled for this date and time,

Wheeling friends, I will be in your neck of the woods! www.ohiocountylibrary.org/calendar/gos...

08.01.2025 16:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AN AUTHOR’S LAMENT The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

In her @NewVerseNews.bsky.social #poem Lynn Hess describes an author’s love of letters and offers “An Author’s Lament” for what is happening to many if them. newversenews.blogspot.com/2024/11/an-a... #PoetsOnBlueSky

21.11.2024 10:18 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Percival Everett, Author of ‘James,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.”

Congratulations to Percival Everett and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/b...

21.11.2024 12:21 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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On December 15th, let's drive the darkness away with the incredible poetry of David Baker and Susana Case. 6pm est over Zoom

Open mic follows our features. To sign up for open mic: www.signupgenius.com/go/4090A48AE...

Be sure to register for the Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

16.11.2024 11:32 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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HAPPY MOTHMAN DAY! I am thrilled to be included in this groovy zine conceived and produced by the marvelous Will Kelley Woolfitt! Order one: tenpennybooks.square.site/product/moth...

15.11.2024 18:24 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Orwell's Roses

16.11.2024 03:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Text of poem While Everything Else Was Falling Apart, by Ada Limón.

Text of poem While Everything Else Was Falling Apart, by Ada Limón.

The incomparable Ada Limón in the December issue of Poetry magazine. While Everything Else Was Falling Apart. #poetry

13.11.2024 22:22 👍 83 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 3
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Can we do a POET Roll Call to see who's all here?

#poetrycommunity Drop a note, reshare, etc.--let's see who's here!

12.11.2024 23:39 👍 540 🔁 172 💬 477 📌 18
Jon Stewart on Trump’s Win and What’s Next w/ Heather Cox Richardson | The Weekly Show
Jon Stewart on Trump’s Win and What’s Next w/ Heather Cox Richardson | The Weekly Show YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

If you haven’t yet, you really should listen to @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social with @hcrichardson.bsky.social on where we go from here after the election. youtu.be/D7cKOaBdFWo?...

15.11.2024 14:29 👍 393 🔁 107 💬 18 📌 4

Both of these just shine!

15.11.2024 16:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Good times helping Darren Demaree launch his 23rd (yes, you heard me right) collection of poetry!

15.11.2024 14:29 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Biden backs controversial road through Alaska wildlife refuge The question of whether to allow a road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, a vast wild area in southwest Alaska, has vexed policymakers for decades.

Why is Biden doing this now?? I don't get it. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

14.11.2024 13:23 👍 79 🔁 18 💬 14 📌 7
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"Qasida for Abdel Wahab Yousif" by Philip Metres from "Fugitive/Refuge" published by Copper Canyon Press

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21.10.2024 15:41 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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ONE EYE, ALWAYS The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

And so, with Paula J. Lambert in her @NewVerseNews #poem, we keep “One Eye, Always” open. newversenews.blogspot.com/2024/09/one-...

30.09.2024 10:33 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
11/14/24 — Featured Poets: Betsy Mars, Jane Zwart, Hayden Saunier
11/14/24 — Featured Poets: Betsy Mars, Jane Zwart, Hayden Saunier YouTube video by ONE ART: a journal of poetry

The recording from yesterday's ONE ART reading featuring Betsy Mars, Jane Zwart, and Hayden Saunier is now available on YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3C7...

15.11.2024 14:36 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Stillness by Bonnie Proudfoot Editor’s Note: This poem perfectly illuminates the fragility of mortality.

Thought I would post a poem of mine, featured today by Autumn Sky autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2024/11/15/s...

15.11.2024 15:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0