Rene Mullen's Avatar

Rene Mullen

@renemullen.bsky.social

Poet. Political Scientist. Editor. Mental health advocate. MMCS Governing Council Secretary.

87 Followers  |  66 Following  |  127 Posts  |  Joined: 28.06.2023  |  1.6907

Latest posts by renemullen.bsky.social on Bluesky

Book of Extraction: Poems with Teeth!

one of our first books, and most loved.
Adrian's lament for this teeth, and the price he's paid to keep them, keeps striking a nerve.

@adrianf.bsky.social
kithbooks.com/shop

06.08.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Get the book & get registered for the most epic Zoom book launch of the summer: @writesloud.bsky.social
@coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social
@anniejowrites.bsky.social
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social
@toddedillard.bsky.social

StanchionZine.com/shop

tinyurl.com/FirstKickingThenNot

28.07.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

I can't recall what I opened the fridge for but I can recite the 1st verse to Ice Ice Baby and Nightmare On My Street like it was 1994. I'm not proud of my accomplishments.

20.05.2025 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Got to do something with Z that I never got the chance to do with Dad: teach them to tie a tie.

11.05.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Poetry Lounge | Stratford Crier

my debut poetry column for the local paper is out today!

stratfordcrier.com/poetry-lounge/

26.04.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Once you are a grain of sand, you are forever known as simply the collective: sand.

13.04.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Growing old means learning the line for you is so much further over the line than you thought.

13.04.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Remember that part in The Monkey Wrench Gang where they throw beer cans out the jeep onto the road. I never understood that part til now.

13.04.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

✨ Happy National Poetry Month!✨

Tin House is celebrating with a new video every Friday of April. Today it's Chet'la Sebree, reading the poem Navel-Gazing from her forthcoming poetry collection πŸ’™BLUE OPENING (9/16/25).

Read more & preorder!
tinhouse.com/book/blue-op...

04.04.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Loved meeting y'all and getting another book from y'all!

30.03.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

My AWP poetry book pull is seriously obnoxious!

30.03.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

At AWP, none of the books I bought quite compare to this special gift from a friend. A smoothed over tumbler stone from their space. As soon as we parted, I had a moment. Such sweet humans in my life!

30.03.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
IHRAF Publishes β€” International Human Rights Art Movement The submission window for IHRAF Publishes 2022 remains open. We publish an ever-expanding collection of original works from up-and-coming writers who bring attention to social justice issues around th...

Get your copy of The Evolving Gaze, an anthology of writing on masculinity. It includes one of my pieces! So proud to be part of this collection! humanrightsartmovement.org/ihraf-publis...

29.03.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

It’s the final countdown!!!
#AWP Bookfair table #846!!! Most books $10 πŸ“šπŸ“šπŸ“š

#awp25
#AWP
#awp2025
#awpoffsite
#awpoffsiteevent
#awpoffsitereading
#literary
#literaryreading
#la
#losangeles
#california

29.03.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image Post image

Randolph is easily the most SoFried place outside SoFried. I love my MFA peeps

28.03.2025 05:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Going to my 1st AWP this year! What do I need to know? What tips can you share?

25.03.2025 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
.006 | Microreviews - Revolute Lit Read more

My 1st ever poetry collection review is available to read now! revolutelit.com/006-microrev...

20.03.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh look y'all… a way to contact Schumer despite the fact he's doing his slimy, wiggly best to dodge the american people:

SHARE WIDELY

these are schumer's chief of staff and legislative director… two of the most critical staff positions:

14.03.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1457    πŸ” 1006    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 6
Preview
Just Labor: Poems β€” Press 53 by Laura-Gray Street Silver Concho Poetry Series edited by Pamela Uschuk and William Pitt Root Publication date: March 27 at AWP (booth 1118) ISBN: 978-1-950413-96-6 9 Γ— 6 softcover,...

"In Just Labor, Laura-Gray Street explores the often-overlooked role of women and femininity in the historical struggle for dignity in work."

Forthcoming 3/27 @awpwriter.bsky.social #AWP2025, booth 1118

➑️ @elegystreet.bsky.social is a #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow.

www.press53.com/poetry-colle...

10.03.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I finally landed a job. The 1st ever job that actually uses my PoliSci degree! And requires suits and shit. And yes, I went out and bought said nice fitting suits and shit

12.03.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s over a 100 years after the great Jewish crusader for free speech, Emma Goldman, was deported from USA for her speaking out. Yet history repeats itself.

People shouldn’t be deported for speaking out.

People shouldn’t be deported for speaking out.

We mustn’t stay silent.

09.03.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 647    πŸ” 202    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

With NASA, not only did the American ppl buy innovations like GPS, ballpoint pens, batteries, water filters, it also spent money to ensure zero civilian interruption or harm. SpaceX gives no fucks beyond profits

07.03.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Z after watching the speech tonight "It's 8:30, I'm tired of this bullshit. I'm going to bed." This was right after the transgender hatred he spewed. Teaching them right, I think

05.03.2025 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Got my 1st manuscript rejection today.

04.03.2025 05:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
We Lived Happily During the War And when they bombed other people’s houses, we Β  protested but not enough, we opposed them but not Β  enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America Β  was falling: invisible house by invisible house by...

As fresh bombs detonate in Ukraine, it's hard not to recall this beautifully hauntingly accurate poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91413/...

04.03.2025 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you’re in LA - 12 pm at the Federal Building on Wilshire…

03.03.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 691    πŸ” 122    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Please readβ€”this is becoming serious!

01.03.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 10865    πŸ” 3060    πŸ’¬ 253    πŸ“Œ 345

We apologize to our Ukrainian supporters. We are embarrassed by how our president and vice president have behaved. We are fighting to redeem the soul of America. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

28.02.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 42408    πŸ” 6237    πŸ’¬ 513    πŸ“Œ 202
The Heritage DOGE Survey | The Heritage Foundation

Heritage has a DOGE survey Liberals should definitely not fill out the way they would fill out. Do not go and use a fake name and a bogus email address to hide your identity. That would ruin the survey results & be such a shame if the results were skewed secured.heritage.org/the-doge-sur...

28.02.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How would that make him money? I'll take "Trump wants to put adverts on the moon" on my bingo card!

27.02.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@renemullen is following 20 prominent accounts