Maegan Poland

Just found out my son is eligible to be a Canadian citizen 🎉🇨🇦🎉

I need to up my Skyrizi dose from once very eight weeks to once every four weeks but insurance said nope. Appeal in progress. Bracing for a big ole nope.

One good thing about getting older is that my notgiveafuckness has grown significantly. I’ll get on social media, see some dumbass talking about how writers don’t need to read, and I’ll keep scrolling, not even mad. Like, fuck you but with a chuckle, you know?

I am extremely not surprised that Walter Kirn is doing this.

Millions of people died!

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

This is a huge deal, and the number of people I see pooh-poohing this as just a loss to a supposedly elite group sucks. A) most of the jobs that disappeared were the working-class ones; B) bye bye not just to local coverage but to arts, sports, everything that’s not tech/biz/politics/opinion/advice

heck yes

The destruction of knowledge continues apace.

it rules that they're trying to make "grocery store chicken" into the new avocado toast

Here at UL we had the great fortune of hearing Layli Long Soldier read yesterday. I'm so grateful -- that in the midst of all the terrible news -- I could take a day to focus on the power of creativity to fight for a sense of humanity.

The porta potties are lining the streets. It's Mardi Gras season!

Oh my god!!! Michael Martin Shea's translation of Liliana Ponce (Theory of the Voice and Dream, @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social ) is a finalist for a Pen America award!!!!! The Pen award for Poetry in Translation!

Huge congratulations, my love!

Alt text: people in scrubs line a hospital hallway, heads bowed. A man in the foreground cradles his face in his hands. The line extends down the hallway and past what the photo can show.

senators aren't picking up. mailbox full for one of them.

do not close your eyes; do not pretend this is someone else's fight

The cover of Chloe n Clark’s EVERY GALAXY A CIRCLE

Chloe is the best and her new story collection slaps:

If initial reports are true, they shot someone who they'd wrestled to the ground. Potentially an observer. These agents must be arrested and brought to justice.

Sammmme

AMAZING NEWS!!! So excited to announce that my hybrid essay collection THE LUNATICS’ BALL is the runner-up for the Gournay Prize and will be published in the 21st Century Essay series by Mad Creek Books (the literary imprint of Ohio University Press) in 2027. My dream publisher!

fun fact! a great way to support authors w/out buying their books: request their book at your local library! it seriously helps

I submitted my portfolio!

By the labs, I'm flaring, so I took a double dose of my biologic (#crohns) and am waiting to see if my body still responds to the medication. I'll know in a few weeks. And my mid tenure review packet is due tomorrow. And I need to finish my syllabi...And the world has bigger problems. Hard to focus.

Gorgeous cover!

😂 Well, Cher and Britney Spears scored higher than me. So there's that.

Someone gave me a not great score on Goodreads but they scored Hemingway and Camus lower than me, so :::shrug:::

oh god no

Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his “gender ideology.” Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossf…

Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school.
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Took my kid to the library and checked out all the Margaret Wise Brown because I'm teaching The Upstairs House by Julia Fine and then I checked out an old fairy tale book to refresh my Snow White knowledge since I'm teaching part of The Madwoman in the Attic.

Story time is lesson prep now, kid!