Irene Cooper

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

I look forward to that—lush and sparse, a true lament

I feel a series of cleansing ugly cries coming on @marchxness.bsky.social
#MarchSadness90sEdition

#MarchSadness90sEdition

The Author’s Wife Is Also an Author: On the Fantasy and Reality of Writing and Partnership+https://www.pw.org/content/the_authors_wife_is_also_an_author_on_the_fantasy_and_reality_of_writing_and_partnership

Next to my fellow Spoon River Poetry Review spoonfuls chapbook prize winner Luke, I look like I’m spoiling for a fight

Still hanging outside the party on this platform, as it were. One of these musicians is my kid, whom I love and of whom I am proud

Yes to this

I’m anxious about promoting this one—please spare me the book ban jokes, it’s genuinely scary!—and am hoping so hard that I can get the word out. Everyone deserves to know about working class history, especially now!

YouTube video by JonBatisteVEVO Jon Batiste - FREEDOM

#SkyFundathon

Jon Batiste - Freedom

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long night moon, good night we had a dog; and then dogs; and then no dogs; and then dog; and then no dog; and now dog the backyard grew a patio and a playset and a garden and a sandbox and shed those things before a shed rose up and from which sometimes floats music after the sun goes down and did before, too which is not to say that everything, but everything, is cyclical the moon pulls away from the earth at a rate of 1.5 inches a year; in 50 billion years, only half the planet will be able to see it tidal friction causes lunar recession; an effect is that the days get longer eventually the earth will exist in endless summer today, the shortest and darkest of the year, marks the onset of winter, and the re-emergence of light, which is not to say tomorrow won’t be dark things come back around, they do but that is not to say they won’t be, they can’t be, changed in the revolution

long night moon, according to the infallible internet, is a Mohawk term for the full moon before solstice

Put solar and batteries on all the Post Offices. Have it serve as a community resilience hub during and after extreme events. Have it broadcast free neighborhood wifi. Every month release a new stamp with a cool animal on it.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Jesus: it was then that I carried you

Why We Resented the Teacher Inservice Speaker Who Was Paid $30,000 for the Day Jessica Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two CNY Book Awards, The 2016 Washington Prize, and more.

This: www.porcupineliterary.com/post/why-we-...

By @jessicacuello.bsky.social on @porcupinelit.bsky.social

As a teen, I needed poems that didn’t jabber to me about some dude on a horse but rather spoke to me from inside a prison cell, where a bird song was enough to imagine the world. Courage isn’t glory: it’s lonely and hard and as forsaken as an early Neko Case song.

Teach my book? Larks (Ohio University Press, April 2025) Themes: Southern, rural, myth, sisters, fairytales, art, farm and country. #poetry #poetrytok #teaching #teachersoftiktok #writersoftiktok #wri... TikTok video by HanVHart

For folks interested in teaching Larks, I made a short intro video—yes I’m in my bathrobe, yes I’ll wear real clothes to visit your class on zoom 📚💙 Let me know if you want to teach Larks!

Also Larks is currently on 40% discount at Ohio with code SNOW along with all Ohio books! ❄️

ICYMI

My kids were sure I made Catholicism up so I told them I made up Disneyland too

Goat standing atop a brick wall

Photo of artist in square with head covered in flowers surrounded by pigeons (photo credit Claude Cahun)

Submissions Third Street Review Literally On the Edge Located on the Pacific Ocean in the artists’ colony of Laguna Beach, California, Third Street Review lives on the edge, both literally and figuratively. Ca…

We are open for subs! Flash fiction, CNF, poetry, and art and photography. Can't wait to see your wild, wooly, and brightly feathered creations!
third-street-review.org/submissions/

Haiku attempting to express the feeling of returning to this platform after a few months absence:

my toes grip the lip
blue sky pool full of wild geese
flapping beautifully

(honk)

What Pecan Light by Han VanderHart (unsigned) by Han VanderHart ships April 20, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-949344-35-6 Softcover, 55 pages.

My first book What Pecan Light is on sale for $12 at @bullcitypress.com! Y’all this is the time to directly buy from small presses; it has been such a rough year for small presses with SPD closing, and everything else 💙📚📚

Trans Journalists Association Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their careers.

Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom?

@transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:

Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me a book by Erin Keane From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell. In 1970, Erin Keane's mother ran away from home for the first time. She was...

Ask me how I know! bookshop.org/p/books/runa...

Call your senator to block the arms sale to Israel today.
Leave a message. If you can't think of what to say, try: "Hi, this is Satan. You are serving me like a champ in Gaza." Here's a PDF list of phone numbers for every US senator.

www.senate.gov/general/reso...

Support Moist Moist Poetry Journal is a community-run arts project without institutional affiliation: our readers are our support, and we grow from the ground. Our costs include our website hosting fees, design,…

Hi lovelies—something I have been working on is how to pay reviewers at @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social; the goal is to pay all artists we publish.

So you can support Moist here, AND in return receive one of our cool new stickers in the mail:

moistpoetryjournal.com/support-moist/

It’s hard to think about love lately, but it's also the only thing worth thinking about. @honeyliterary.bsky.social, which centers marginalized writers & artists, is open for subs til 12/16. As Valentines Editor, I'd love to see any form of artistic expression touching on all types of love. ♥️

Hi, I do this and am interested in the work of others who do too

Doubleback Review publishes prose and poetry that was previously published in now-defunct journals: http://www.doublebackreview.com