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I have a poem in the new issue of A-Minor Magazine aminormagazine.com/2026/05/31/w... #brainattack

warbler

by Melissa Eleftherion those nights i wokenot knowing where i wasi could be anyone in the dark deciduouson the back of a malemy underparts streaked i had crashed the partygraffiti splayed melike an…

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Got my copy of @apoetlibrarian.bsky.social's new book in the mail this morning. Going to re-read it over some ginger tea.

Some good news today: Juliana Spahr (Ars Poeticas, poetry) and Yiyun Li (Things in Nature Merely Grow, Nonfiction) both won the Pulitzer! 🤘🩷🤘

Check out these three cool erasure #poems by Melissa Eleftherion in @villaineralit.bsky.social, drawn from the text of Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews! Here's a sample: Why I sound a morning soft The wind scraped crevices We sin g a death villaineralit.com/2026/03/17/t...

Three Poems by Melissa Eleftherion

suture # 285 [Erasure Poem] Source text: Andrews, VC. Flowers in the Attic. pg. 285. Simon Pulse, 2009. making dresses I tear the bodiceA little-girl scream To crush the devilMy hollowMy round I ro…

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I’m grateful to Lisa Marie Basile for publishing 2 of my dark persona poems in Luna Luna. Hope you eat the four seeds & break free too.. www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-...

'In the doom tunnel' — poetry by Melissa Eleftherion

my myth I ate the four seeds that kept me tethered - a bridge, a gold watch I shed the battle cry landscape I reckoned with my doom agent My automatic clock, my heart on the grid Layers of skin...

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Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "the waves" by Melissa Eleftherion (@apoetlibrarian.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/the-waves/

the waves

by Melissa Eleftherion   ecologies in the rolling fog, how light mutes here everything vulnerable & beholding limpets cling fierce to their rocks to their special little scars, appear themselves as ...

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I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children

Lately I’ve been calling my House rep and screaming about one zillion things, and maybe you have too. But today I want to talk about one thing in particular you should add to your list: H.R. 7661 i…

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Being on a self-imposed DIY writing retreat during both AWP and WW III is very distracting. Any tips?

I think it’s time for a revolution of gorgons

My college-age son’s parting words to me last night “Good night & FUCK ICE”

diane di prima REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #14

Chicago has opened its first food pantry inside a public library. blockclubchi.co/49TjbEH

some above/ground press author activity: Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Melissa Eleftherion, Orchid Tierney, Juliet Cook, Isabel Sobral Campos, Benjamin Niespodziany + Stan Rogal, / @orchidtierney.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/09/some...

Prop 50 for dummies: It’s the X to block the 2 OOs your opponent threw down in Tic-Tac-Toe

5 minutes. That's all it takes to start fighting book bans. It's #LetFreedomReadDay. We're asking you to do at least one thing today to fight censorship. Then keep doing it! bit.ly/LetFreedomReadDay We're stronger TOGETHER. #CensorshipIsSo1984 #BannedBooksWeek

That part of Mouth for War where he talks about “hairspray to hold raw energy”

A library patron grabbed me by the tiny hole in my cardigan - “You have a hole!” #librarianlife

It’s 10pm. Do you know where the Epstein files are?

My heart, my hermit crab essay. So much late 80s metal in my queer desire

Re: Covid vax ban, they have backed down before in the face of pushback on medical issues. This requires outcry from the public and electeds. Use @5calls.org and @resist.bot to contact your reps. Here is a script. I'm focusing on "most vulnerable" as those move the narrative the easiest.

Alt CDC (they/them)@altcdc.altgov.info · 12mo ago

We have been following the rumors of the COVID vax being entirely banned. We think this rumor is very likely true.

Got another flat tire & am reminded of how much easier my life was when I rode a bike to work everyday!

Mini midlife crisis number 6 is buying yourself stickers and an LL Cool J cd for your birthday

martial law is trending, y’all

Writing linear sentences is such a struggle for me. All these characters moving through rooms. How do novelists do this?

I love Kamala Harris & would vote for her again

The best library staff meetings include Storytime 📚📚

“In the fields, the bodies burning As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to mankind Poisoning their brainwashed minds” I wish this weren’t still so fucking relevant. Rip Ozzy

My teenage son called me at work instead of texting so I worried something was wrong. He just wanted to talk about Ozzy dying 😭 Rip 💖 Bark at the Moon got me through middle school