feeling all the seasonal jingles and tingles at the chance to write about this for @marchxness.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=a2MZ...
Bad Religion - Christmas Songs (Full Album)
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Irene Cooper
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poem-maker/lover, fictionist, attemptress, editor; enthusiast in (de)spite; long live VA Press
Paging the @marchxness.bsky.social army, this is you-coded (now with correct quote-post!)
Brian Glavey@glavey.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’m contemplating a podcast episode about Deep Blue Something’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s and am looking for people with a story about maybe staying too long in a not-great relationship because maybe you liked the same movie or song etc? Let me know if this is you or someone you recall kind of liking.
The shattering new issue of #aboutplacejournal from @blackearthinst.bsky.social is live. I've got one in here, in humbling company, thanks to Issue editors: Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...
The Ground Beneath Us – About Place Journal
The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance is a bold and unflinching issue that centers place as a living force shaped by history, marked by power, and sustained through resistance.
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We're wrapping ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a cool breakdown review 💕Contributor @suburbanprairie.bsky.social’s book "Teen Queen Training" was reviewed by @icooper435.bsky.social for @eldiagram.bsky.social ✨ buff.ly/jZAGt7n
Ah hell, thank you @icooper435.bsky.social for such a fantastic (and so clever!) review of Teen Queen Training!!! I appreciate your time reading my work so, so much ❤️ thediagram.com/26_1/rev_mah...
DIAGRAM :: irene cooper on Kristine Langley Mahler
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DIAGRAM@eldiagram.bsky.social · 4mo agoDIAGRAM 26.1 thediagram.com/26_1/index.h...
"'Starálfur' is not prayer, but people respond": a new extracurricular by @icooper435.bsky.social on the glorious Sigur Ros: marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
If you're not on the substack you won't be the first one to know when, hypothetically or maybe not so much, a spot has opened up in this year's tournament on short notice. So maybe think about getting on there: open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
What Price Comfort: Irene Cooper on Sigur Ros’ “Starálfur” + a 90s Sadness Slot Opens Up!
"It doesn’t mean anything, but I feel something."
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Rejoice, @marchxness.bsky.social fans! The annual can't miss @martinseay.bsky.social essay has dropped! His # didn't come up this year but he's still bringin' it with this extracurricular to help you get ya game face on for March 1!
March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 7mo ago"I understood that much of the required Texas history curriculum I’d been subjected to in seventh grade consisted of outright bullshit; I also understood that bullshit itself played an important role in the state’s culture" @martinseay.bsky.social on Michael Fracasso: marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
"I am a terribly homesick person. The problem is that I’m homesick for so many places." Friday brings you one of our longtime fav Xnessers, @suburbanprairie.bsky.social, with a fresh extracurricular on the sadness of Tim McGraw's "Everywhere": marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
I feel a series of cleansing ugly cries coming on @marchxness.bsky.social #MarchSadness90sEdition
The Author’s Wife Is Also an Author: On the Fantasy and Reality of Writing and Partnership+https://www.pw.org/content/the_authors_wife_is_also_an_author_on_the_fantasy_and_reality_of_writing_and_partnership
Next to my fellow Spoon River Poetry Review spoonfuls chapbook prize winner Luke, I look like I’m spoiling for a fight
Still hanging outside the party on this platform, as it were. One of these musicians is my kid, whom I love and of whom I am proud
I’m anxious about promoting this one—please spare me the book ban jokes, it’s genuinely scary!—and am hoping so hard that I can get the word out. Everyone deserves to know about working class history, especially now!
long night moon, according to the infallible internet, is a Mohawk term for the full moon before solstice
Put solar and batteries on all the Post Offices. Have it serve as a community resilience hub during and after extreme events. Have it broadcast free neighborhood wifi. Every month release a new stamp with a cool animal on it.
Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 2y agoThe Post Office is a lifeline and essential service for rural and Tribal communities, and small businesses everywhere. It should be strengthened, invested in, modernized, and expanded to provide banking, resilience, and community services.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Jesus: it was then that I carried you
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 2y agoInterviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Journalist: it's called an em dash.
This: www.porcupineliterary.com/post/why-we-... By @jessicacuello.bsky.social on @porcupinelit.bsky.social
Why We Resented the Teacher Inservice Speaker Who Was Paid $30,000 for the Day
Jessica Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two CNY Book Awards, The 2016 Washington Prize, and more.
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As a teen, I needed poems that didn’t jabber to me about some dude on a horse but rather spoke to me from inside a prison cell, where a bird song was enough to imagine the world. Courage isn’t glory: it’s lonely and hard and as forsaken as an early Neko Case song.
For folks interested in teaching Larks, I made a short intro video—yes I’m in my bathrobe, yes I’ll wear real clothes to visit your class on zoom 📚💙 Let me know if you want to teach Larks! Also Larks is currently on 40% discount at Ohio with code SNOW along with all Ohio books! ❄️
Teach my book? Larks (Ohio University Press, April 2025) Themes: Southern, rural, myth, sisters, fairytales, art, farm and country. #poetry #poetrytok #teaching #teachersoftiktok #writersoftiktok #wri...
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Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 2y agosince the US v Skrmetti #SCOTUS case is this week, I thought I'd share this 🧵 of excerpts from my essay "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies" (no paywall). the essay provides... juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
We are open for subs! Flash fiction, CNF, poetry, and art and photography. Can't wait to see your wild, wooly, and brightly feathered creations! third-street-review.org/submissions/
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Third Street Review Literally On the Edge Located on the Pacific Ocean in the artists’ colony of Laguna Beach, California, Third Street Review lives on the edge, both literally and figuratively. Ca…
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Haiku attempting to express the feeling of returning to this platform after a few months absence: my toes grip the lip blue sky pool full of wild geese flapping beautifully (honk)
My first book What Pecan Light is on sale for $12 at @bullcitypress.com! Y’all this is the time to directly buy from small presses; it has been such a rough year for small presses with SPD closing, and everything else 💙📚📚
What Pecan Light by Han VanderHart (unsigned)
by Han VanderHart ships April 20, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-949344-35-6 Softcover, 55 pages.
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Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom? @transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:
Trans Journalists Association
Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their careers.
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Ask me how I know! bookshop.org/p/books/runa...
Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me a book by Erin Keane
From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell. In 1970, Erin Keane's mother ran away from home for the first time. She was...
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