annie raab

The blood of Christ is now officially Malort

Sometimes life is annoying but then I remember showing Amy Hempel this tweet after workshop once and both of us laughing.

New essay on the ‘stack about art and beauty and media and monkin’

annieraab.substack.com/p/monkmaxxin...

A poem for the coming spring

Visual-erasure poem entitled "Cult Awakening," left and right panels with black-and-white background images featuring "lady liberty" besieged by historical forces. Text begins: a stirring / outburst / , bearing / their antagonism / split / into / popular factions.

Visual-erasure poem entitled "Cult Awakening," left and right panels with black-and-white background images featuring colonial-era icons shattered and mutilated by historical forces. Text begins: feeling in / lines, affected the / witness.

Happy to see this stretch of "the r/ver" in TIMBER 15.1.

With lots of cool work by @bhutong.bsky.social, @roxgom.bsky.social, @annieraab.bsky.social, @enchilada89.bsky.social, and many others. Check out the full lineup here: timberjournal.org

The 7 person orgy in a hotel room while a child sits in a soundproof box designed to look like a spaceship episode of Nathan For You should be sent into space as a communication from earth to the aliens.

Working (only in my mind) on an essay called “I Gave Up Academia to Find My Wild Side and Never Looked Back”

I know I need to produce some shareable work soon but I’m so much happier writing without the pressure to publish

I wish I could hang out with my mom at this age

writing has been really fun these days because, for what I'm working on, I need to basically induce insanity.

this is such as great idea! cool way to keep a record

I genuinely do not understand why we should care at all about the US national debt

Not a mother, not a career woman, but a secret third thing

I too remember discovering indie alternative and it all seemed so new and fresh compared to everything else. Really a great and too brief time in ones life

So sweet the local DJ who spends every weekday from 2-6pm playing the pixies and modest mouse and popping in every other song to say this is Milwaukee’s new music station

What happened in the world to produce so many coffee shops with absolutely zero charm? Not even the plants are real anymore

something we learned in the group chat today is that we all secretly want to be the kind of woman who can confidently pull off a pixie cut

So a really cool thing has happened—I just signed on as a Poetry Editor-at-Large for Texas Review Press today! This means I’ll have full freedom to acquire one poetry book a year and to edit one-on-one with the author throughout the whole process. I’m so so excited.

Some of those little free libraries should have cigarettes

Monthly Art Guide: It’s Not Just About the Holidays Harleys as art, a great sale of local artists and lots of verbiage from Allis Art Museum.

This will be my last roundup for Urban Milwaukee. I have the itch to write bolder criticism going forward, some of which is exercised in the Charles Allis writeup here.

urbanmilwaukee.com/2024/12/03/m...

Happy Wrapped season. Oh, your top artist was Mozart? Are you a baby in the womb??

Today I saw the guy in the car behind me clearly mouth the words “What would Joan Didion do? Who the fuck is Joan Didion?”
(I have a what would Joan Didion do bumper sticker)

“Don’t let anyone stand between you and your dreams” well my dream is to be a modern Diogenes so actually I need a wall of people to stand firmly between me and my dream

first glass of wine in 3 months and I’m trippin…righteous gemstones dialogue sounds like it was written by AI

Now that I will soon be employed I want one of those crazy new manicures

Help! I'm in a book slump! ISO: a fun experimental jaunt; a thick winter classic; a writer I've never heard of with a great debut. Small presses preferred!

Trying to pick my Bluesky persona

How much do you think is “buy happiness” money but not “mo problems” money?

artist/writers 🤝 experimental lit pubs

anything of this nature is *extremely my thing*

timberjournal.org/archive/inst...

I was saving this for December, but maybe starting it during the first snowfall is just as acceptable