Molly Spencer
@mspencerpoet.bsky.social
she/ her | poet, critic, editor, wonk | IF THE HOUSE (UWisc Press), HINGE (SIU Press), INVITATORY (2024, Parlor Press) | Solidly Gen X
I just C'mon The tool that gives you like 50-100 words when you're stuck is inside your skull!!!! Or maybe weed! Or a nice walk! Or literally anything else!
This lilac unleaves It falls from itself and hides its ancient shadow. I will die of such things. —Alejandra Piznarik
a woman is driving a car with the words `` ok we 'll go together '' on the dashboard .
Alt: a woman is driving a car with the words `` ok we 'll go together '' on the dashboard . The car drives over a cliff.
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ChefBruso 🌽🍿🍽️🎃🍁@brusowrites.bsky.social · last yr.If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
And a at least two generations that have never had to write file transfer protocol code to attach a document to an email 💀
Sara Lamie@saralamie.bsky.social · last yr.There's a whole generation who never got to experience the chronological feed. Or getting to the END of your feed (end of new posts). Or actually got to see friends' posts, or had a feed without ads or suggested content every other post.
"If I knew where poems came from, I would go there." -- Michael Longley.
me waiting for my students’ papers to roll in [checks notes] two days after the deadline
Gavin Newsom can f*ck all the way off
NBC News@nbcnews.com · last yr.Sen. Chris Van Hollen responds to Gov. Gavin Newsom's comments calling the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case a distraction, adding, “This is not about one man. If you deny the constitutional rights of one man, you threaten the constitutional rights for everybody."
Grateful to Brandon Yao for the chance to think about that poem I wrote titled "Little Time." ashberyland.com/2024/12/12/l...
“Little Time”: Five Questions with Alina Stefanescu
Alina Stefanescu is a present-day poet and writer born in Romania. She currently lives in Alabama with her spouse. She constantly involves herself in the literary community, participating in worksh…
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If this is legit, it’s 100% just a tactic to de facto cut Social Security benefits. These f*ckers.
WIRED@wired.com · last yr.SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.
You have spring semester, I have winter term. We are not the same.
I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
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What if I told you I also worked in a mini-lesson on iambic pentameter 💅
Molly Spencer@mspencerpoet.bsky.social · last yr.tryna get my students to love me by making a handout about methods for shape and elegance in writing, guys do u think it will work
tryna get my students to love me by making a handout about methods for shape and elegance in writing, guys do u think it will work
a woman in a hat is talking on a cell phone and says " oh yes , i am writing it all down " .
Alt: a woman in a hat is talking on a cell phone and says " oh yes , i am writing it all down " .
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There’s so much theory on Woolf, but where’s the anthology of essays like “Virginia Woolf Saved My Life in 1989” and “When I Threw Woolf’s ‘Lighthouse’ Across the Room” and such? Asking for me.
My writing advice is clear the ground first and don’t forget how much work this first part is and to rest after lorrrd
Seconded!
Susan L. Leary@susanlleary.bsky.social · 2y agoA poem from LARKS (winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize) by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social—such a beautiful and devastating collection filled with witness, grace, and resilience. I cannot recommend this collection enough. Will be sharing more. 💙
The pithiest description of the Dems at tonight’s joint address
Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · 2y agoFrowning while at the Brownshirt rally I’m attending so that people know I disagree with it
I’m old enough to remember the last time they did this
alexis simpson@amutepiggy.bsky.social · 2y ago"democrats plan to color coordinate to communicate opposition" is the biggest loser shit i've ever heard. School Spirit Week-ass action. "I do not give facebook my permission"-ass action. are they hitting themselves in the head with hammers at every DNC event