Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie

Colleen Harris — Does It Have Pockets It Begins This Way

SO PROUD - my #poem "It Begins This Way" is out at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social! To see it published in an outlet I love reading feels like coming home 🏠 Thank you, Camille & DIHP team!
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The dildo store is out here doing more than Mayor of Minneapolis yet again. @smittenkittenmn.bsky.social has secured a match of up to $250K in Rental Relief Funds from the Wilson Foundation. Donate & share! LFG!!! ❤️‍🔥

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Talk about DEI.

Man, hyperfocus is wild. I think I might have accidentally written most of a decent scholarly article on Victorian literature and the gaze tonight. Whoops?

Proud to have my #poem "I Think My Sister is Secretly a Horse" in @northamerreview.bsky.social's Open Spaces!
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So if this deal goes through, one MAGA-allied family will own:

Oracle
TikTok
CBS
Paramount
Warner Brothers
CNN

Trump will have his sticky, ketchup-covered little fingers in every facet of how Americans get their news.

Jean-Paul Sartre hated stickiness. He was fundamentally anti-honey. Yet he had a beautiful way of describing how subject and object come together through touch, a discovery of "something like a flesh of objects..."

You do good, unimpeachable work!

Thanks, that means a lot coming from you!

It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...

I need to create a database of all the ways I'm discovering schools and libraries undercutting their state's Freedom to Read laws. We knew it would happen and we know it's happening, but the methods by which it's being done are fucking wild.

Book banners will ban books, law or not.

I wish. I'm in TX, my representatives arent representatives at all.

There are rumors of rampant outbreaks of measles & other diseases in current facilities where the overcrowding is intentional & has been a 'passive' way to kill people for a long time. The current facilities are intended to break down their physical and mental health, if not outright cause death.

WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS TO BE SO INSIGNIFICANT (part one) by Emma Bolden Last night I woke a fever, 2 a.m., I worried how to tell you what I can and can’t consume. My stomach turns me. If I write for forty days and forty nights, will I get to the bottom of me, a lake drained of its drink, a fish white-lipped there, gasping? Outside of my window and even at nighttide the azaleas slouch, indecent, fawning off their fuchsia threads against a broad swath of gray. In the dark I am invisible like a loom of stripped wires sparking behind a wall. I have nothing more to say to you because I have no you to say a thing to. A warped reel of birdsong whirls up my throat. By this age I wanted

to know the body as an object exquisite, jewel-cut and gold-set, a beautiful treasure beneath smooth hair. Now I am a table saw trying to be elegant, trying to know the world by dividing it, piece by piece. At night I lay down in the long bed and shiver up to the wild profusion of my own hair. Into the dark I set loose a flock of syllables. I watch every word’s winging, bright- beaked, luminous. I should’ve clipped them gone.

i'm so excited to have a poem in the latest issue of Radar Poetry. if you head to the website you can hear me read it, and the issue is a beauty--AND there's a stunning poem by @wordperv.bsky.social there, too!

www.radarpoetry.com/privilege

Just to make this abundantly clear:

The Olympics disqualified a Ukrainian athlete for using his helmet to honor his fellow Ukrainian athletes who have died in this ongoing war. No political propaganda, they say, as they sell straight up Nazi propaganda from the Hitler era Olympics, under their “heritage collection.” 😤😠🤬

Oooh! i currently have a piece under consideration for the Rhysling. And yes, I have one I'd love to put in for the Hugo, (though i doubt it'd be competitive)

every single librarian on this site whether they work primarily with academics or the public or practitioners has had to patiently explain — while their expertise is questioned — that hardly anything is digitized, actually.

Louisiana Supreme Court allows local librarian's defamation lawsuit against Michael Lunsford to proceed - Livingston Parish News The Louisiana Supreme Court has unanimously rejected an attempt by Michael Lunsford and Citizens for a New Louisiana to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by Livingston Parish school librarian Amanda ...

Great news for @librarianjones.com: “The appellate court said Jones has a right to argue that the comments ‘were knowingly false or made with reckless disregard of the truth, and caused Ms. Jones injury, including harm to her reputation, contempt, ridicule, anxiety, and emotional distress.’”

The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived (broader than only literary).

Details at the link below:

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#writingcommunity

As a translator of poetry, I agree. AI can NEVER capture the nuance of sentiment & meaning contained in poetry. As Heaney famously said, poets channel feeling into words. And as another poet I admire has said, poets summon meaning from elsewhere. It’s a transfer of ineffable energy no AI could grasp

The latest on ICE in Minnesota Live updates on ICE enforcement in Minnesota, with the latest developments and links to deeper reporting as events unfold.

ICE is not winding down in Minnesota. They are, in fact, winding up. www.mprnews.org/live-updates

And our politicians are doing nothing. @governorwalz.mn.gov @ltgovflanagan.mn.gov @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov @mccollum.house.gov @angiecraigmn.bsky.social

Ed Krassenstein

Minnesota police announce the arrest of ICE and Homeland Security Backgrounder Rashad Johnson of Maple Grove on charges related to underage sex trafficking.

The Trump administration allowed him to have a high security clearance.

The sickness runs deep!

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Yep. I couldn't bring myself to 'heart' react to this, but absolutely.

Yep, as soon as they started to go masked. The fact that they're bold enough to say shit like that on camera with impunity means they KNOW they're getting away with heinous things. We'll find out eventually, but not in time to save people.

Seriously. If they're cosplaying their violent military fantasies, you know there are even more horrible things hapening that we haven' t seen yet, and it's already awful.

The absolute fuck

Favorite #LOTR line: "You *will* suffer me."
What's yours?

Unpopular opinion: higher ed studio arts programs could absolutely grow enrollment if they offered their 4-hour classes outside of the 8a-5p window.

Struck by the mad desire to buy a Bob Ross DVD and hit Michael's up for oils, brushes, and canvas just to try to make something beautiful, while also knowing deep down I have the artistic skills of a 14-week old forgotten potato.