Leslie Adrienne Miller

@slipfast.bsky.social

Poet/Author. Graywolf Press/Carnegie Mellon University Press. Professor Emerita. Perpetual student of light. lesliemillerpoet.com

“We were just trying to get him medication… But he was already gone.” Last week, the internationally renowned Indigenous chef Sean Sherman told us that federal agents detained one of his employees on his way to work. By the next day, he said, his employee was out of Minnesota—and in Texas.

ANOTHER ANGLE. This man was NOT brandishing a firearm. He was holding his phone. He then put his body between ICE thugs and woman. He was then sprayed with a chemical agent, tackled, disarmed, and executed. Plain as day. DO NOT let them tell you otherwise.

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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science

These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

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"We buy into some version of the intentional fallacy: the notion that art is about having a clear-cut intention and then confidently executing same. The actual process, in my experience, is much more mysterious and more of a pain in the ass to discuss truthfully." ~ George Saunders

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Congratulations to the poetry finalists: Oliver Baez Bendorf, Anne Carson, Jennifer Chang, Dawn Lundy Martin, & Carl Phillips; & our poetry nominee for the Leonard first book award, Cindy Juyoung Ok. I'm honored to emcee the finalists reading March 19; our ceremony is 3/20. @bookcritics.bsky.social

Covers of the nominated books: An Authentic Life; Consider the Rooster; Scattered Snows, to the North; Instructions for the Lovers; and Wrong Norma.

This "thought experiment" from George Saunders has been on my mind often of late: "Is it possible that we have come to feel responsible for too much, for everything, even things outside of our control, and that this makes us feel like gods who have been unfairly disempowered?"

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