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Jess Melilli-Hand (she/her)

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Poet, professor, pickle-lover *** Poems in Painted Bride Quarterly, Hunger Mountain, poemmemoirstory, the minnesota review, redactions, Doctor TJ Eckleburg Review, Limp Wrist, CALYX, etc (some been a min…need to submit…some as Jessica D. Hand)

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2024 Contingent Book List When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.

Our sixth annual list of books by historians working off the tenure track.

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Woohoo acceptance day! Zone 3!

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<3

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So glad you could get such a quick dx and treatment! I hope you can achieve and maintain remission!

Yeah, I wasn’t correctly diagnosed for over 7 years 🫤. I’m lucky to have amazing care since 2011, though, and to have made some improvements!

22.11.2024 01:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Also 43 with CRPS (since 2003)—so glad the blocks have helped so much! Were you diagnosed and treated within 6 months of injury? That often leads to better outcomes. Wishing you a low pain day 🥰

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Bleeding Stop bleeding said the knife.

If only you didn’t bleed said the knife I wouldn’t
have to do this.
I know said the cut I bleed too easily I hate
that I can’t help it I wish I were a knife like
you and didn’t have to bleed.

poets.org/poem/bleeding

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Black Boys Play the Classics by Toi Derricotte | Poetry Foundation The most popular “act” in

poetryfoundation.org/poems/42877/...

BLACK BOYS PLAY THE CLASSICS

#poetry by Toi Derricotte

18.10.2023 22:58 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

#EveningPrayer #poetry

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Thomas Lux.

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(Pls repost) Folks who majored in history, english, or something else “useless,”what was your first job out of school? What are you doing now? I know there are plenty of online resources about jobs but I’m trying to show my students that careers are often not straight lines.Thank you!!!!

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BA degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Creative Writing and Psychology. First job after graduating was waiting tables. Taught preschool awhile. MFA and PhD in Poetry/English from Georgia State University. Now I’m a tenured associate professor at the College of Coastal Georgia :)

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I second the Craig Santos Perez poem! I have one from many moons ago in Hunger Mountain: 13 Black Birds Looking at Away I can dig up if you’re interested:)

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Lovely, thanks!

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Ooooo how did I forget this one? Adding the my list. Thanks!

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Favorite poetry podcasts?

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www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

13.10.2023 22:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks!! Done! (From jessbian at bellsouth dot net)

13.10.2023 21:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My wife loves birds and has written some flute music to go with some of my poems—close enough? :)

13.10.2023 21:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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