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Carlos A. Pittella
@pittella.bsky.social
latinx poet haunted by borders & bureaucracies ⊁ he.him ⊁ skying from Tiohtià:ke ⊁ linktr.ee/carlosapittella ALT pfp: buzzcut, polkadot, broken smile ALT banner: blueskyed Shiva meditating "Hum"
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, & I was #588,313! Basically, between a late Gen-Xer & an early Millennial... đŸ« 

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Beyond excited to become a Volunteer Librarian with @thestorygraph.com đŸ«¶ I've joined after Goodreads was sold (RIP) & I'm truly grateful for the StoryGraph community—a place NOT owned by the amazonic destroyer of bookstores! If you wanna share bookluv, my id: capittella

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The StoryGraph

We'll help you track your reading and choose your next book.

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CApittella.bsky.social

Here's some important rĂ©sumĂ© advice from @luaz.bsky.social@robmclennan.bsky.social. ps. I'm in a very chapbook mood lately (always 😎)

Appropriate Drowning Outfit (a poem by Kyla Houbolt)

I'm not sure how to turn this life into a resume.
I don't write that kind of poetry.
I do notice that the cloud
has a bone missing and
I can relate to that. I'll be honest
and say I have learned only one word
of heron language and it may be
that I made it up. It's easy for me to do that
and I hear people lie a lot in resumes
but I can't, not without vomiting the truth
later on. Which defeats the whole purpose.
Meanwhile is a word I use too often.
It's because so much else is also happening
all the time, and I keep noticing it.
For example, the way I continue to, impossibly,
live. Paying close attention
to the wrong things. The boneless cloud.
The inscrutable heron. The abuse of sound.
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CApittella.bsky.social

Love these poems by @martin65.bsky.social, especially their watery reflowing & rewriting, bringing us closer, closer 💙 "No. Strike that. Even here"

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🎡We are thrilled to announce that poet Paige Lewis will headline the second annual Poetry Carnival on 9/14! 🎡 Registration is FREE! Link in bio.

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LOelizott.bsky.social

I feel like more people need to read William Morris’s “Useful Work versus Useless Toil.” The drive to reduce all labor to a series of mindless tasks is soul destroying. Reclaiming labor as something that can be nourishing, that is the source of art and not its enemy.

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QDquinnanya.me

Finally unrolled the prints from @skeuomorph.bsky.social@elikaortega.bsky.social wonderful quote: "There is nothing more ephemeral than a website." Keep it handy for next time someone talks about websites as if they were forever-things!

A hand printed poster that reads "There is nothing more ephemeral than a website - Élika Ortega" with the logo for Skeumorph press (an old diskette) in the bottom left, and an old computer in a cabinet in the middle of the image. Ephemeral and Website are printed in red, the rest is in black.
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Carlos A. Pittella
@pittella.bsky.social
latinx poet haunted by borders & bureaucracies ⊁ he.him ⊁ skying from Tiohtià:ke ⊁ linktr.ee/carlosapittella ALT pfp: buzzcut, polkadot, broken smile ALT banner: blueskyed Shiva meditating "Hum"
288 followers309 following171 posts