Jen Grace Stewart

if you're one to always wonder "what can Dems even do?!?!", go watch Navalny

youtu.be/ZF_HsKCWEHw?...

New poem up at the beautiful Radar Poetry!

www.radarpoetry.com/latitudes

You know it's unprecedented times when Millennials are voluntarily making phone calls.

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off?
ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off.

They do not log off.

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election.

She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

Thank you for sharing this. I’m still smarting from the most misogynistic evaluation comment I’ve ever received in my fall evals. This helps me to frame that student’s inappropriate expectations.

I will never give up longing.
I will let my hair stay long.

—Linda Gregg, from "Let Birds"

A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz

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A bunch of people dressed in construction clothes stand around, watching as a single person digs a hole. The person digging the hole is labeled “faculty.” The people standing around watching are labeled “director, human resources,” “VP, research, innovation, and economic development,” “director, innovation management,” “AVP, institutional research,” “AVP, academic planning,” “AVP, faculty development,” “associate dean,” “dean,” “VP, finance,” and “provost”. The caption reads: “Due to cutbacks, we will need to reduce the number of faculty.”

#AcademicSky

‘Paycheck to paycheck is not descriptive enough’: Workers struggle to survive on CU Boulder wages Elia Newsom is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and the sole breadwinner for his wife and 2-year-old daughter.

www.dailycamera.com/2024/11/22/p...

So we beat on, boys against the milkshake, borne back ceaselessly into the yard

‘Paycheck to paycheck is not descriptive enough’: Workers struggle to survive on CU Boulder wages Elia Newsom is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and the sole breadwinner for his wife and 2-year-old daughter.

www.dailycamera.com/2024/11/22/p...

Woodie Guthrie's guitar with the inscription: This machine kills fascists.

I’m going into this battle
And take my union gun
We’ll end this world of slavery
Before this battle’s won

All of you fascists bound to lose:
I said, all of you fascists bound to lose:
Yes sir, all of you fascists bound to lose:
You’re bound to lose! You fascists:
Bound to lose!

—Woodie Guthrie

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This essay by a 16 year old 💔 “I was flush with anger — but it was diluted by an even stronger feeling: defeat.”

We have ascended to Bluesky. Tell a friend.

All I can hear when I see this report is Robin Williams as Mr. Keating saying “Rip! Rip it out! Be gone Mr. J. Evans Pritchard!” This graph and dataset all too familiar to that X/Y axis poetry measurement nonsense.

Hello! Just moving over here from that other site. I teach Creative Writing in a community college outside Minneapolis. My debut memoir, Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage, comes out about a year from now. I’m originally from the Mississippi Delta. I love reading and writing about food. :)

All I can hear when I see this report is Robin Williams as Mr. Keating saying “Rip! Rip it out! Be gone Mr. J. Evans Pritchard!” This graph and dataset all too familiar to that X/Y axis poetry measurement nonsense.

“They were careless people . . . they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

if u are wondering about that red pin emoji here 📌

if u find a post u want to return to u can stick a pin in it by replying with the red pin emoji

then use @jaz.bsky.social's red pin feed which keeps track of your red pins

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!

Here! Thanks Kelli!

All the Bluesky advice threads are like when someone at a restaurant explains how “we do it a little differently here” and it’s just tapas

Thanks to @kalenski.bsky.social for this Colorado Starter Pack. Lotta good people here. Some scoundrels, too. bsky.app/starter-pack...

"Every woman I know has been storing anger for years in her body and it's starting to feel like bees are going to pour out of all of our mouths at the same time."

“How the rapid migration to Bluesky shows how rebel movements can outrun the Empire by constant regrouping: In this essay I will…”

Oh BLESS you.