@erindorney.bsky.social
Sober bi writer in Western NY Sarabande Books managing editor Former academic librarian Collage, zines Books: "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" (Autofocus), "I Am Not Famous Anymore: Poems after Shia LaBeouf" (Mason Jar Press) www.erindorney.com
Oh look, the 🇺🇸 military concludes over 40% of COVID infections lead to Long COVID, among a population sample that is all adults, & on average in better physical condition & younger than the national/global population.
www.amjmedsci.org/article/S000...
The number of people detained by ICE rose by an astonishing 58% (25,200) between 2025 and 2026; expanded immigration detention accounts for virtually all of the growth in mass incarceration since our last report. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...
It's time for
"Think of yourself heartbroken. Do you remember how hard it was to think of anything else?"
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“yeah dude, this IS beautiful.”
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It's time for
"...sometimes you’re sad because shit you can’t directly control sucks."
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"Giving into fond memories isn’t a sign of weakness; instead, it’s a way to keep someone alive."
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It's time for
"People roll their eyes at the glasses now, but if you were not there for the glasses you do not understand about the glasses."
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"Believe in your ability to grieve openly because you aren’t grieving alone."
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"I married a man who also saw Titanic more than once in the theater—a different theater, in a town not so far from mine."
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"...the more I returned to it the more I saw the parallels in my own relationship with my father."
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"Their loneliness comes down to perhaps a third, worse thing: the structure of marriage itself, an institution in which it’s totally possible for both parties to do their best and still end up failing."
!!!! This essay by Kathleen Rooney on Patty Loveless!
Erin McReynolds On Crash Test Dummies:
"But for Gen Xers, the only thing cooler than being cynical is liking something that nobody else seems to get—"
COOLNESS ❤️🔥 The Erins are coming for this @marchxness.bsky.social...
"Other people’s words create space to forge a separate self—one away from the story that everyone believes to be yours."
Erin Langner: Between the Lines of Mariah Carey’s “Without You" for @marchxness.bsky.social
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Really loved the structure of this one!
I recently moved back to my rural hometown. It's A Lot. 💗
Also loving all the librarians in this tourney!
"What must it be like to never get old, to never have to see the teenagers who raged with you turn puffy and saggy and sick at heart to have done nothing?"
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"There is only so much you can retrieve from the past." 🖤
Yes to Jennifer Gravley's liner notes on Nirvana:
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I LOVE YOUR ESSAY
"You can cancel all the shows. You don’t have to perform at all. You can want things. You can choose yourself."
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"I was terrified of what would come to me if I did lose my shit—rejection, obviously, but something else, too. Confirmation that I wasn’t worth a thing."
Oh my god this essay.
Snorted at this:
"...the eight-year long mistake that was my career in libraries and archives.
and again:
"I mostly wonder what my life would be like if my mother hadn’t believed bad things about me."
Mo Daviau on Cat Power is gonna be a doozy!
marchxness.com/1stround-cra...
Absolutely - and it echoes the situation, right? You think all is well and then you find out, suddenly, that a boundary has been crossed.
This essay about friendship is both lovely and powerful.
Silas Hansen on “Linger” by The Cranberries for @marchxness.bsky.social
Also loved this:
"Because when the door slams shut on the version of yourself, and you have to face what comes next, home is where you go to cry."
Whew this killed me in a bunch of different ways:
"They seem to believe that you can either stay at home or you can find your true self; you can't do both."
Christopher L. Keller on Wilco: marchxness.com/1stround-amo...
My parents also read my diary and it was almost insurmountable.
"It’s only within the last few years that I’ve started to write honestly and to correct the record, to let go of the shame that has burdened me since I was in my late teens."
💗 Nanette Donohue/Tori Amos: marchxness.com/1stround-amo...
The music video for Tori Amos's "Winter" is a mashup of a dELiA*s catalog & an Anne Geddes calendar.
Thanks for the share! That's definitely where this project came from - 2 writers in 1 house = lots of gift notebooks!
We've supplied classrooms, arts centers, and hundreds of passersby with these essential tools for keeping our collected thoughts off the internet and away from advertisers.
www.fearnolit.com/notebooked
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Send us that stash of unused notebooks, journals, and diaries, and we’ll connect them with youth and writers-to-be at pop-ups, book fairs, and other community gatherings. With each notebook, we include a writing utensil and a copy of the bestselling "How to Use Your Notebook" mini-zine.
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Fear No Lit is baaaaack 🫣
Writers! Are you often gifted notebooks that you NEVER use? Does buying a new notebook feel really good, even though letting it collect dust sucks? (Don’t lie—like a notebook, this is a safe space.)
Fear No Lit is here to help you unburden.
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"I’m past the geography of those boys..."
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"However, there are peripheral gifts in the photo album."
🙏🙏🙏 Seeing all of these iterations of Amy Barnes pleases me to no end.
My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t...
Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe