John LaPine

when Chappell Roan said "you can kiss a hundred boys in bars"

that's praxis

You're gonna do great!!

A Gen Z cover band of the Killers called "The Unalivers"

Chappell Roan at the 2025 Grammys holding a notebook

How I think I look when I'm up on stage reading a poem about getting ghosted by another married man:

YouTube video by Discover the U.P. DISCOVERING | 4 Seasons of the U.P.

Some exquisite footage of this picturesque little peninsula 🥺🥲

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An Unstable Container by John LaPine by John LaPine 108 pages, softcover ISBN: 978-1-949344-10-3 release date: July 15, 2025* *Consolidated shipping: If an order with multiple items includes a pre-ordered item, all items will ship tog…

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An Unstable Container by John LaPine by John LaPine 108 pages, softcover ISBN: 978-1-949344-10-3 release date: July 15, 2025* *Consolidated shipping: If an order with multiple items includes a pre-ordered item, all items will ship tog…

Yo, @bullcitypress.com just let me that preorders for my essay chapbook are lookin' strong 💪🏾📕

Still don't have your copy? Link below! 👇🏾

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Are you a great fiction writer with one book published or under contract? (Or do you know one?) There's a sweet one-year gig open at UNC-- a 1/1 load w/ one public lecture, $40k: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/289...

a picture of a white sign with red lettering that reads “is it hot? does it look good? are you proud to serve it?” edited with overlays so it reads “is it about gay sex? does it mention your ex? are you proud to publish it?”

my poems:

Book cover for "An Unstable Container" by John LaPine shows an art installation of two figures falling

What up, blue folk, my chapbook of essays is now available for pre-order from @bullcitypress.com !! All of my blurbers told me they couldn't put it down, and I hope you enjoy it too!

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Our institution uses TurnItIn.

I also have been telling students on my syllabus that it's not my job to prove whether something is AI, but it's their responsibility to prove that they wrote it themselves, so to keep early drafts, notes or to be ready to share a document with version history

it’s me, a woman with two new poems in print

Top text: Thank you for sending us your work.

(Someone playing Subway Surfers)

Bottom text: Unfortunately, we're going to have to pass.

Garamond to make my poetry sound nicer.

Baskerville to make my prose sound nicer.

—memory, a "this I believe" essay, a letter to someone in your past.

Happy to share more!

—poetry, how we define it, what to expect, etc. and this leads into a writing exercise where they compose an ars poetica. Langston Hughes "Mother to Son" is also great for teaching extended metaphor.

I save CNF for the end, I tend to teach memoir style writing exercises: write about your first—

—but often misunderstood.

Most intro students struggle with poetry. They write rhyming poetry, because it's what they think poetry is. I often ask students to revise rhyme out or use internal rhyme. Get familiar with how chatGPT writes poetry. I start the poetry unit with a discussion of what is—

I find theme is the hardest thing to teach, especially since it hinges on characters and plot. Some intro students struggle with scene, so I start with a writing exercise where they need to spend 20 minutes writing a 1-minute scene. Remind your students that the most compelling villains arent evil—

@theplastickind.bsky.social interviewed me for my favorite literary magazine! Check out the last issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social for the year!! ❤️❤️❤️

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Strawman + who asked + AI generated profile picture + L + ratio

Silence, centrist.

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Ho-ly

Thank you! I'm just a CNF writer turned poet trying my hand at fiction 😅😅

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Who are we? A brand new lil online poetry journal, just trying to get some queer Midwestern poems into the world 😍

Subs are always open! We have a few spots left before we can launch our first ever issue! Send us those poemsssss!!!

I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small spider Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn't And she scared me And I smashed her I don't think I'm allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened.

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened."
—Nikki Giovanni 💔

#poem #poems #poetry

In case you missed it: I have a chapbook of essays coming out this summer! Get in on the ground floor, it's goin to the moon

Skyrim, in Retrospect ​ You and I used to laugh / for hours sending our level 70 Khajiit / slinking around the / low-lying plains / near Whiterun, shooting deer in / the ass / with seemingly infinite Iron Arrows, giggling at the irony / that the butt was a site / of birth, of exit / without entrance, ‘cause / really, what’s one more unclean thing / thrown into that / mass of muscle / and digestive sludge / it just makes no sense / to want to roll in the mud / to trade soft skin / for choking on boys’ body spray clouds / we know better / than anyone that men / are imperfect but I love it / and I know cis-men / are so good at thinking / they have the answers but this time, I’m sure / that I don’t want to marry / Ysolda for the hundredth fucking time; no I want to kiss / Redguard swordsmen with faded face tattoos / to hold hands with taut-muscled / elves who make sinister comments / to passersby but never to me; I want / souls that wish / they could once start a goddamn character by picking “Other” / would you think I was serious if I told you I want bodies / that look like yours and that don’t? How have we spent / ten years hopping from stone to stone / over this flowing part of me? / So many questions I never / beg you to ask—is it my fault / you don’t know enough? All those times / that we’d game / all day and my parents / would joke that we’d someday / get married then laugh-- all those times that I laughed too.

Zach Semel - "Skyrim, in Retrospect" in FreezeRay Poetry

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Masturbating to Greek Myths torrin a. greathouse I'm searching for porn with bodies like mine, but not made fetish-false idol for a stranger's violent desire. So, I'm masturbating to Greek myths & how they remind me of my chimera body. How almost every monster was just the best parts of other animals sewn together. Myth-a stitch threading together the best parts of woman & what I was given. I lie back against the sheets & Charybdis both this body's hungry mouths, let my fingers feel what wet wreckage, what good & greedy breaking these can make of any body. Name this sometimes-unwanted part of me-Hydra how you sever the head of a snake & it grows again & it grows again & it grows again, how this blood-hardened flesh reminds me of its presence. & in this myth woman is still born from the severance of man. But not how you were taught. My hands slur semen and seafoam into one word. A sound like birth & drowning. In myself & these sheets. Body breaking the water's surface. Mouth gasping for air

Stunning stunning stunning poem by @tagreathouse.bsky.social at @poetrydaily.bsky.social today.