Ellen Austin-Li
@ellenaustinli.bsky.social
poet, friend, mother, lover Debut full-length poetry collection, INCIDENTAL POLLEN, can be preordered through Madville Publishing: https://madvillepublishing.com/product/incidental-pollen/
If you're in Cincy on August 4th, stop into Urban Artifact in Northside for some great poetry! Our featured poets are Matt Farley (host of Peripatetic Poets at Muse Cafe) & Samantha Renee Ratcliffe (recent UK Poetry MFA grad and founder of the Hill Writers Collective in KY). We'll have an open mic!
August 4th at Poetry at Artifact: Come in to Urban Artifact to hear our featured poets, @Matt Farley & @Samantha Renee Ratcliffe, and stay for the open mic!
Next up at Poetry at Artifact: Elena Estella Green & Lynne Schmidt. If you’re in Cincy on July 7th, come on in the Urban Artifact. We’ll have an open mic, too!
Shout out to Aaron Parnas, who has been working to save many of the DOJ files the administration is trying to delete.
🔥 @repcohen.bsky.social : “Don’t tell me, John Roberts, The Supreme Court is not political. It is an arm of the White House. 🇺🇸 is being destroyed from within 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” #Memphis #JimCrow #RacistRedistricting
Junot Díaz on “Lord of the Flies.” Gotta read it.
Opinion | We’ve Become Too Savage for ‘Lord of the Flies’
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The headline in my Sunday paper: What Do You Call Someone Who Taxes You to Pay His Lackeys? A King.
Opinion | There’s a Way to Stop Trump’s I.R.S. Slush Fund
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Poetry at Artifact: June 2nd at Urban Artifact in Cincy’s Northside, poets @bonnie-pfoot.bsky.social & @joniemcintire.bsky.social feature! Bring a poem to share in the open mic! Bonnie Proudfoot will read from INCOMER (Shadelandhouse) & Jonie McIntire hosts Uncloistered Poetry in Toledo!
Our June 2nd featured poets at Urban Artifact in Cincy: Bonnie Proudfoot & Jonie McIntire! @bonnie-pfoot.bsky.social will read from her new collection INCOMER (Shadelandhouse Modern Press) & @joniemcintire.bsky.social is the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Lucas County, OH. We'll have an open mic, too!
Poetry fans: If you're in the Cincy area on Tuesday night, come to Urban Artifact for our open mic night! Now, more than ever, we need to raise our voices!
When the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran started two months ago, online accounts linked to Tehran tried building sympathy with defiant and emotional appeals. Then, as the war dragged on, Iran shifted tactics. It began circulating short animated videos that scorched President Trump with biting satire.
Iran’s Meme War Against Trump Ushers In a Future of ‘Slopaganda’
The country’s propaganda apparatus has harnessed artificial intelligence tools to reach a global online audience primed for irony, irreverence and trolling.
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Poets: If you’re in the Cincy area on May 5th, come on in to Urban Artifact for our open mic night! Share some new poems written during National Poetry Month, or some more tried & true. We want to hear from you! ⭐️Poetry at Artifact⭐️
Such a thrill to have two sonnets in one of my favorite online literary sites today, Vic Populi. Thanks to Michael Simms for believing in this work! These sonnets will appear in my 2027 heroic crown from Milk & Cake Press. voxpopulisphere.com/2026/04/11/e...
Ellen Austin-Li: Blushing & Rising
The kaleidoscope spins shards of shifting glass, and I emerge wearing this hot pink sweat- shirt with zippers. Come inside where it’s wet and I’m alive, fire eyes.
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Last night’s TRIBUTARIA reading at Poetry at Artifact was 🔥! Poets, visual artists, & musicians gathered thanks to anthology editors Sherry Cook Stanforth, Cincy Poet Laureate Richard Hague, & Michael Thompson. Thanks to Urban Artifact & Radio Artifact for the best venue, & the poets who read!
Fast approaching! If you’re in the Cincy area on April 7th, come to Urban Artifact to hear a line-up of contributors to the TRIBUTARIA anthology (Dos Madres Press), with visual art & some river songs from Tangled Roots. POETRY AT ARTIFACT!
Poetry at Artifact's April 7th National Poetry Month event will feature readings from contributors to the TRIBUTARIA anthology (Dos Madres Press) and (perhaps) some river songs from Tangled Roots. Check out our upcoming 2026 features! 🔥🔥
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.
Cincy/NKY poetry people: Come out for our April 7th National Poetry Month feature! We'll have a line-up of contributors reading from the TRIBUTARIA anthology from Dos Madres Press. Tangled Roots may play some river-inspired tunes. We'll have an open mic, too, so come on out to Urban Artifact!
If you haven't already watched this American Conversation with @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @frost.house.gov on the Epstein files, it's an important and informative one. youtu.be/10eOgwc53qM?...
The Epstein Files Coverup With Representative Maxwell Frost
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Next up at Poetry at Artifact: Our April 7th National Poetry Month event with contributors from the TRIBUTARIA anthology (editors Sherry Cook Stanforth, Richard Hague, & Michael Thompson, from @Dos Madres Press)! We’ll have our usual open mic, and some TANGLED ROOTS river music.
This Tuesday, March 3rd, at Urban Artifact in Cincy. Our featured poets—Donelle Dreese, Karen George, Nancy Jentsch, & Taunja Thomson—will read from DESIRE IS A FIELD (Shanti Arts). There’s an open mic, too! #PoetryatArtifact
Mark Warner: "I saw no intelligence that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike against the United States. None."
Really enjoying @oneart.bsky.social's anthology of very short poems! oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/22/i...
In a Nutshell: an anthology of micropoems
IN A NUTSHELL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MICROPOEMS Julia Caroline Knowlton, Guest Editor Mark Danowsky, ONE ART Editor ~ 2026 ~ ~~~ Editor’s Note: It has been a privilege to curate this anthology of very sh…
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We're inching closer to our March 3rd Poetry at Artifact event in Cincinnati! Come hear featured readers Donelle Dreese, Karen George, Nancy Jentsch, & Taunja Thomson share work from their collaborative collection, DELIGHT IS A FIELD (Shanti Arts). There's an open mic, too, so bring a poem to share!
March 4th at Urban Artifact in Cincy: Featured poets Karen George, Donelle Dreese, Nancy Jentsch, & Taunja Thomson will read from their collaborative collection, Delight is a Field (Ashanti Arts). Come in! There’s an open mic! #PoetryatArtifact
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
