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

Up late, sick, of course I'm looking at what I'd need to do to get a BA in Art. Or an MA in Sociology. Or maybe an MS in Criminal Justice?

a group of men are dancing with the words bye bye bye ALT: a group of men are dancing with the words bye bye bye

The relief of turning in the last paper for a graduate course that should have been great but was absolute trash. And as someone who teaches and evaluates uni courses, I dont make that accusation lightly. T-R-A-S-H.

a man in a white shirt and tie is saying so close . ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is saying so close .

Welp. My #poetry chapbook "Damnation Does Not Impress Us" was a semi-finalist with Nine Sylllables Press! Horseshoes and handgrenades, of course, but lovely to know it was enjoyed!!
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This should be front page news and the cover image of every newspaper and magazine, everywhere.

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This is MAGA USA.
Why aren't you reporting it?

You must have studied how historical fascism came to power, so why are you failing to call this out? Complicity, partnership, money or cowardice?

Curious - As a result of them turning to AI, or has it always been bad?

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If Amazon makes buying easier, you can grab my newest #poetry chapbook out of boats against the current press, Toothache in the Bone, there for a collection that focuses on chronic illness, grief, and the landscape of the body:
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Have you grabbed your copy of The Light Becomes Us? My most recent full-length #poetry collection, it covers the travails of a daughter from a blue-collar family, & all that entails in America. See sample poems & grab a copy here, or DM for a signed copy!
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YES. Bright side is I *almost* feel I've thought of enough scenarios that everything else is really just a permutation. When dad became a crackhead, I was all Law & Order mode--getting mom new bank accounts, new locks, restraining order, etc. "This is the abusive spouse scenario. *breaks out list*"

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

I pronounce it the same way. I have a lot of words I'd only ever read growing up, and unless I encounter them on tv or in conversation and get corrected, I've got some holdovers of mispronunciations I don't know are mispronunciations.

Tickled to learn my poem "A Sonnet for Nearly Lost Children" has been accepted by Crab Orchard Review, which has long been a goal publicaton outlet for me!
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Honored to have a #poem in @strangehorizons.bsky.social - a magazine I've long read, but never thought I'd have my name in! You should read them on the regular, the work they publish are feats of imagination!
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So, so excited and honored to be included among your writers! 💕😍

Speeding through Familiar Curves by Colleen S. Harris – Cider Press Review

I can’t remember if I shared this one, but this is my #poem “speeding through familiar curves,” published by Cider Press Review. It’s one of my personal favorites, and I hope you enjoy it!
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I have to read Paulo Coelho's The Zahir for class and it's like being forced to sit inside the mind of the most narcissistic guy in your MFA. Professor is trying to convince us it's the modern Odyssey. It is very much not.

YouTube video by journeyVEVO Journey - Don't Stop Believin' (Escape Tour 1981: Live In Houston)

everything today is terrible, so I bring you Steve Perry's angelic voice from 1981, in which all good things remain possible. You're welcome.
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Thalassophile After Visiting Exoplanet TOI 733 b the way a human girl moves after smoking two bowls, all syrup and swirl of smoke.

Aaah! I have a #poem up in @strangehorizons.bsky.social, the creme de la creme of scifi writing magazines. You can read "Thalassophile After Visiting Exoplanet TOI 733 b" at strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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That sounds lovely!

Lady Liberty's face watching all these shenanigans.

Thank you! ('01 here :) )

The Poets: Volume 10.2, Winter 2025 NEW: Click author’s NAME to jump to their section or SCROLL to read the issue in its entirety. WINTER 2025 CURATORBARABARA SABOL VENUS IN HEAT: CHARLES SHERMAN EDITORS’ CHOICE AWARD WIN…

Proud to see my #poem "Spivey's" (on an old late-night college hangout at @centrecollege.bsky.social) published in Sheila Na Gig online!
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My body has completely changed hemispheres on me. Apparently I can now only sleep between 8 AM and 2 PM. Highly inconvenient and impossible during the week.

The Bonebreaker by Colleen S. Harris - Abstract Mag TV Art: Abstract #4123 by Ellen June Wright

Proud to have my #poem "The Bonebreaker" up in Abstract Magazine!! I think it's one of my best to date. Go give it a read, it's short:
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THE POETRY THAT IS GOING TO MATTER AFTER YOU ARE DEAD Sylvia Plath is my favorite poet. She was not only a descendant of Modernism and the Romantics, she was a poet that cared about her own feelings so much that she cared about yours. She had some fucked-up shit happen in her life, but who cares about that? We all suffer and that has everything to do with poetics. Have you ever heard of Modernism? The Nazis called Modernism primitive and the work of the brutes. The only brutes on this earth are the dogs and those are the things that I love. Do you wonder what I am? You are reading the work of a great poet, possibly one of the greatest ones of your time. If I am standing in front of you right now, you are listening to the voice of one of the greatest poets of your time. Do you take time to analyze greatness? I don't think you should bother—you will never get it right. I am both a Modernist and a Roman-tic. All poetry that is good today is some combination of modernism, romanticism, ethics, and faith. Take note. All poetry that matters today has feelings in it. You can refute or deny this with your lack of them. You can wrestle against feelings and make funny words for it. Take a look in the mirror. You were born a child and you will die one, too. When you are in your grave all that you will be able to say is mommy. You are going to die you know and so am I. That's it. You were born to die. Take the things you say because you can't write poems and figure out how to write some. Go to the grocery store and buy some food. Sit alone by yourself and think of how it is, the way it really is. There are a million cells of fluid rushing in your veins. On earth a thousand rivers rush through. The only thing that keeps you contained is the faith God has in your every breath. When

We all suffer and that has everything to do with poetics. Have you ever heard of Modernism? The Nazis called Modernism primitive and the work of the brutes. The only brutes on this earth are the dogs and those are the things that I love.

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Perpetrating deanery.

I mean, I lived, so it's funny. Now.

That reminds me, I should write a poem about the year I set myself on fire with the Thanksgiving turkey and ended up browless, lashless, and with a crewcut...

This made my night!