Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉
@clbpoetry.bsky.social
✊🏽 Unapologetically Black poet + writer. From 🇺🇸…living in 🇨🇦 #dualcitizen #immigrant Author of 5 chapbooks 📕📗📘📙📔 Collage ✂️ ✨NEW✨Chapbook: Melodies of the Oppressed (@the-ethelzine.bsky.social, 2026) Available NOW (see pinned) 📌 FREE Palestine 🇵🇸
RIP Nickel 2015-2026 💔 There’s no easy way to say goodbye to your first pet. It’s hard to find the right words to express this pain. So instead we’ll say thanks for the beautiful memories, you’ll always live in our hearts. Thank you for being the best good boy. 💔 #LongLiveNickel🇺🇸🇨🇦
Taking a break from social media. Peace & blessings.
Anxiously awaiting the results of ******** ******* grant 🙏🏽
A member of the Order of Canada just bought my chapbook I need a moment.
Ledance James's Post-Game Handshake
ALT: Ledance James's Post-Game Handshake
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Knicks and Spurs needs to go to 7. I want the Spurs to win. I’m a Philly guy which means never NYC. I wouldn’t ask someone from Detroit to root for Cleveland in anything. Nor someone from Toronto to root for Montréal or Ottawa.
I will revel in delight when the credit system ends and companies like Equifax fold and go out of business.
This gave me chills. Thank you brother Marshawn. And thank you sister Sherrilyn Hill for putting this on my radar. 🔥✊🏽
Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · 3mo agoFeeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
I’m almost at 1,000 days and I’ll be writing an essay about it.
Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉@clbpoetry.bsky.social · 4mo ago
Palestinians voted on Saturday in the first elections held in part of Gaza in more than two decades, while tens of thousands of Palestinians cast ballots in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. https://to.pbs.org/3OKJ3fh
Palestinians vote in the first Gaza elections held in more than 20 years
Palestinians voted on Saturday in the first elections held in part of Gaza in more than two decades, while tens of thousands of Palestinians cast ballots in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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"In the 1950s, the Iowa Writers Workshop received funding from the CIA to push a writing style that centered the emotional life of the individual while decentering the social and political forces that shape human behavior." lithub.com/the-craft-ch...
The Craft Challenges of Writing Political Fiction
In the 1950s, the Iowa Writers Workshop received funding from the CIA to push a writing style that centered the emotional life of the individual while decentering the social and political forces th…
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I promised you an early draft. Here ya go. Pistons in 6 in '26, baby.
Wanna know what it’s like to work in marketing? I just deleted 647 videos from my phone.
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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉@clbpoetry.bsky.social · 4mo agoToday I’m making my visual arts debut with @universityoflou.bsky.social’s own @miraclemonocle.bsky.social Magazine! You can check out my collages “Food for Thought,” “Harmony with the Natural World,” and my artist’s statement here: miraclemonocle.com/articles/foo...
Our friends in Gaza have been paying a heavy price since bluesky libs latest round of attacking Palestinians. Hammam has not gotten any donations on days and could really use our support.
Calvinball Congress@emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 4mo agoHammam is a dear friend to many of us on here. His family is struggling greatly right now, most of all his brother Abood, who is facing leg amputation after an Israeli shell left his leg broken, with shrapnel still inside. Please take a second today and share: chuffed.org/project/1580...
Today I’m making my visual arts debut with @universityoflou.bsky.social’s own @miraclemonocle.bsky.social Magazine! You can check out my collages “Food for Thought,” “Harmony with the Natural World,” and my artist’s statement here: miraclemonocle.com/articles/foo...
Collages - Miracle Monocle
Food for Thought Harmony with the Natural World Artist's Statement: These two works were birthed out of Februllage 2026, a month-long exercise for
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Submit flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, & experimental writing in under 405 words, 5 lines, or 4 pages for your chance to win cash prizes & publication & join the #ExpoFam. Submissions are open for Ashley C. Lanuza’s Flash 405: “Saudade” thru 5/10: tinyurl.com/FlashSaudade
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?
Just finished reading Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for the first time.
Apparently playing a song over and over is a sign of neurodivergence 🤷🏽♂️ well my gifted ass has been running back Brick After Brick by Stove God Cooks for almost 12 hours today and it’s not even out yet….
The min I find a scissors ✂️ flash tatt I’m grabbing it
