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Millie Tullis

@millietullis.bsky.social

she/they / poet / EIC Psaltery & Lyre / educator / researcher / folklorist / https://millietullis.com/

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09.02.2026 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

A poem from my forthcoming chapbook, Pelican's Daughter (Concrete Wolf Press) is up on the Psaltery & Lyre site today. Many thanks, @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social and @millietullis.bsky.social!

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Ah, thank you!!

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These Saints Are Stones Check out These Saints Are Stones - <p>In Millie Tullis's new poetry collection, <i>These Saints are Stones</i>, a faithless daughter is haunted by her third-great-grandmother, Martha, a woman who mar...

Friends, "These Saints are Stones," my first full-length, comes out in two months, and you can now preorder!

AND, please let me know if you're willing to write a book review, interview, podcast chat, or anything else to help get the word out! 🧑

16.01.2026 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Sarah!!

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These Saints Are Stones Check out These Saints Are Stones - <p>In Millie Tullis's new poetry collection, <i>These Saints are Stones</i>, a faithless daughter is haunted by her third-great-grandmother, Martha, a woman who mar...

Friends, "These Saints are Stones," my first full-length, comes out in two months, and you can now preorder!

AND, please let me know if you're willing to write a book review, interview, podcast chat, or anything else to help get the word out! 🧑

16.01.2026 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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This Animal By what do I feel she is a woman rat

Today's Featured Poem:

"This Animal" by Aracelis Girmay from Green of All Heads published by Boa Editions, Ltd.

Read here:
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The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles by Lisa Thornton

"I still look for milkweed. In the ditches on the side of the road and around the base of telephone poles."

"The Silk Inside a Milkweed Plant Can Carry the Seeds for Miles" by Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social

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Essay I don't want to be a farmer but my mother was right I should never have tried to rise out of the proletariat

"I guess I'll never be a farmer now"

"Essay" by Bernadette Mayer up today on @poetrydaily.bsky.social

poems.com/poem/essay/

23.11.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Could anyone please help with either or these? I’m really hoping to make this goal today. Grateful for any help. #MutualAid #HelpSky

14.10.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Act so there is no use in a center.

-- Gertrude Stein

13.10.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And what a COVER!

14.10.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love love this story πŸ’š

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a photo of seaweed, golden green, wet and forked. [excerpt: Under the featherlike Desmarestia viridis, Horatia had dashed off: 'Found between the tide-marks. A foxy colour, soon green when kept from water. Thus exposed, it becomes soft and slippery, but becomes itself again when dry. I believe it is my favorite.']

a photo of seaweed, golden green, wet and forked. [excerpt: Under the featherlike Desmarestia viridis, Horatia had dashed off: 'Found between the tide-marks. A foxy colour, soon green when kept from water. Thus exposed, it becomes soft and slippery, but becomes itself again when dry. I believe it is my favorite.']

if you’re in the mood to read my short story about the mystification of love and seaweed, here’s "Call Us Not Weeds," published at Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social

with special thanks to EIC Millie Tullis @millietullis.bsky.social

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Two Poems by MillieΒ Tullis My Director Once, my high school band director threw a metal music stand across the room. Not at any particular student,but not away from us either. My director loved teaching symphony, hated the marching band. The band director my director replacedβ€”β€”who had loved marching band almost above all elseβ€”stepped down after marrying an 18-year-old former student. The year before that, &hellip;

Millie Tullis can't tell you a thing about her band director's class or the lessons they learned there, today at Villain Era!

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Sundress Announces the Release of Delicate Machinery: Poems on Survival & Healing - Sundress Publications Sundress Publications announces the release of Delicate Machinery: Poems on Survival & Healing, edited by Erin Elizabeth Smith. Here, thirty-three authors share their experiences with sexual trauma, e...

The link in your post isn't working for me, but this link does work for me: www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/07...

29.07.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!!!

01.08.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am so moved to have my poem, "housesitting for a stranger in spring," featured in DELICATE MACHINERY, alongside so so many poets I admire. You can download and read the entire anthology for free! Here: www.sundresspublications.com/.../delicate...

29.07.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Really need help, having a rotten day, and really would like not to have to worry about this. If you can help, please do.

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21.05.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I love Justin’s work! Thank you for your lovely review ❀️

28.04.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Gratitude to editors @millietullis.bsky.social and
@megmcdermott92@bsky.social a
@psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for giving space to this review of Justin Lacour's marvelous chapbook, LITTLE MOTORS: SOME LOVE LETTERS.

25.04.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed!! ❀️

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The Fly by Sally O’Brien

"They say the mind of a saint is like a room / where flies wander in"

"The Fly" by @sallyohbrien.bsky.social

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Find us at NAWP: an ostritch yells NAWP into the blue (sky) and in the orange frame are fictious panels for Parenting as a Poet: How to Write through a Shitstorm, a Virtual Salon: fighting FOMO with Puns. AND our very real online reading at NAWP online.

Find us at NAWP: an ostritch yells NAWP into the blue (sky) and in the orange frame are fictious panels for Parenting as a Poet: How to Write through a Shitstorm, a Virtual Salon: fighting FOMO with Puns. AND our very real online reading at NAWP online.

Are you unable to attend AWP? Are you filled with the usual sense of FOMO reading everyone's "where I'll be" posters? Come join us at Not at AWP (NAWP!) for our third annual open mic!! This Thursday at 7:30PM EST

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Home | Porcupine Literary Porcupine Literary is a journal by and for teachers.

Writers over at @porcupinelit.bsky.social are currently being targeted by the MAGA crowd.

Read and share the work of teachers. We can use all the support we can get!

Teachers, send us your work. We will take good care of you.

www.porcupineliterary.com

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Thanks for the shoutout!

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Friday Links: Poets, Friends, and Cranks Edition "The National Anthem vampires at the blood. / I am a uniform. Not brusque. I bray" Gwendolyn Brooks, "Riders To The Blood-Red Wrath"

Friday Links is UP! Featuring @ellereeve.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @millietullis.bsky.social @toley.bsky.social and MORE!

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