The Bridge

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Our featured #mentors this week are Danniel Schoonebeek (@dschoonebeek) & Elizabeth Guthrie!

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his name is Johnny I think you’d alike him I keep picturing
you both drinking risky together god that’d be the worst
actually but any way I tell him all about you and how you

—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Trudy Sugawa Hodnefield.

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Our featured #mentors this week are Diannely Antigua (@nellfell13) & Wo Chan (@illustriouspear)!

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Look. In the kinder
fallow of spring, the trees

grow green. Not forever green, not envious,

—Our Poet of the Week, Loisa Fenichell.

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[The Bridge @PoetsBridge]

Our featured #mentors this week are Lynn Melnick & Danny Rivera!

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Somewhere a bee is dancing
in total darkness, to a viewership of sixty thousand
other, comprehending bees

—Out #PoetoftheWeek, RK Fauth (@rk_fauth). This Friday 8/29, she will be a featured poet along with Safia Jama at our Friday Night Open.

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Our featured #mentors this week are Tyler Thier & Sarah M. Sala!

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He screenshots the poem before clambering
out of the Jeep to aim at the youths throwing stones,
most of which are likely repurposed rubble from bombed buildings

—#PoetoftheWeek @YouKnowFargo reads his feature poem "An American Writes a Poem,"
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Our featured #mentors this week are @RosebudBenOni & @caesarah_!

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Our featured #mentors this week are Gala Mukomolova & Tarik Dobbs!

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I have forged an island
atop your absence. Each day I wake
closer to sea level.

—Poet of the Week Maria Gray reads her feature poem, "Sea Level"

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Our featured #mentors this week are Joanna C. Valente & @danielbarnummm!

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You’ll take my [ voice | story | memory ]
And weave it with others
To create a loosely woven map

—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Rebecca Yeong Ae Mzengi Corey.

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Our featured #mentors this week are Chiwan Choi & Rebecca Teich!

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Our featured #mentors this week are Starr Davis (@starrdavispoet) & Sasha Debevec-McKenney (@sashadm)!

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Our featured #mentors this week are Brandon Amico & Timothy Liu!

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Our featured #mentors this week are Raena Shirali & @JuanCamilloGarz!

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We talk about people like they
could be separate from us. This life vs.

that one, what is mine and what is yours.

—Our #PoetoftheWeek, @ElizabethSpenst

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Our featured #mentors this week are Ashna Ali & @JihyunYunPoetry!

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Our featured #mentors this week are Cynthia Manick (@cmanick) & Denver Butson!

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