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Millie Tullis

@millietullis.bsky.social

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

378 Followers  |  278 Following  |  39 Posts  |  Joined: 16.09.2023  |  2.3337

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Good afternoon:

Can anyone please help me make this goal by this evening? I still need $200 for bills. PayPal and Venmo are in the quote tweet below. Thanks so much.

15.10.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    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

14.10.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 887    πŸ” 484    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 37

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

13.10.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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13.10.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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, …

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

26.09.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

03.06.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!! ❀️

31.03.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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31.03.2025 11:19 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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

www.eventbrite.com/e/nawps-thir...

24.03.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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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

15.03.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks for the shoutout!

04.03.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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28.02.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Everything you guys do β€” @megmcdermott92.bsky.social and @millietullis.bsky.social and @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social β€” is so beautiful, it lifts me right out of my sadness. Need you more than ever πŸ’™πŸ“š

04.02.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Literary Arts | South Arts The Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Literary Arts support, acknowledge, and celebrate writers in our nine-state region with $80,000 in awards. The genre for the 2025 cycle is Poetry.

Southern poets! Apply and share the call:
www.southarts.org/grants-oppor...

14.01.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThis machine, work of her hands”: An Interview with Carolyn Oliver on β€œThe Alcestis Machine” Interviewed by Millie Tullis

"My mind works like a β€˜what-if’ generating machine, so often I find myself bubbling over, like Strega Nona’s pasta pot, with recalled details and odd scraps of language....”

Carolyn Oliver talks to @millietullis.bsky.social about "The Alcestis Machine"

psalteryandlyre.org?p=6137

03.01.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A tapestry of gaps and the role of the body: a conversation with Megan McDermott and Millie Tullis | Poetry Medicine for the Soul Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share and examine their work, produced and moderated by John Gillespie. Episode 6 features Megan McDermott and Millie Tullis. Megan reads β€œ...

(If you like that poem, I talk a lot about it in a podcast episode I recorded with @millietullis.bsky.social & the lovely folks at Poetry: Medicine for the Soul!)

poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/episodes/meg...

31.12.2024 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Louise GlΓΌck β™₯️

19.12.2024 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Regence Blue Cross of Utah is denying chemotherapy to my friend, Raven Haymond. She is scheduled to receive Perjecta, which is the standard of care for HER2+ targeted cancers next week

You can call the ethics hotline: (888) 384-3577

email: eco@cambiahealth.com

We are also seeking media contacts

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Chilean Navel Orange on Top of Cup as Divine Word by Laura Reece Hogan

"I cradled it on the gentian blue lip / of the mug, resting my eyes on brightness."

Laura Reece Hogan's "Chilean Navel Orange on Top of Cup as Divine Word."

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16.12.2024 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI look; morning to night I am never done with looking.”

Mary Oliver, β€œWhere Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?”

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Rest as Currency by Lauren Camp

"It could be looser: only one / earth smell and the next."

"Rest as Currency" by Lauren Camp

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09.12.2024 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

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