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LMNL Presents an Evening with Four Writers and Authors at 12 Mile Limit

We're back with another reading at the wonderful Twelve Mile Limit featuring three local writers and one author from afar!

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From the University of New Orleans, Bayou Magazine announces its first-ever online issue! Poetry, fiction—even a play!—all available now for you to enjoy! Honored to have worked with Bayou's editorial team on producing this landmark publication. 🤩 bayoumagazine.org/issue-80/

Trampoline #30.10 is excited to have poems by Leslie Cairns, @julieeliselandry.com, and Margie Duncan. www.trampolinepoetry.com Take care.

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Thank you, @trampolinepoetry.bsky.social, for publishing "Indistinguishable," a poem for @maudiemichelle.com. Maudie is an incredible poet—and an even cooler friend/sister/person-who-made-me-a-person! Please enjoy this story from the early days of our friendship. www.trampolinepoetry.com

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Trampoline Poetry

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Audi Locus is art! Poets, check it out!

Audi Locus@audilocus.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are so honored to be ranked #6 on the @chillsubs.bsky.social Hidden Gem List! Thank you to our contributors and readers for recognizing our crisp blend of liminal and surreal poetry and art. Check out the full list and find your next favorite lit mag: www.chillsubs.com/lists/hidden...

Today on Glass! "morning as recognition : under every suit there is a body" by Steve Minnich! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

#Nolasky, don't sleep on Paulie's Deli on Oak St, and don't skip the dessert! The afogatto is holy shit so good.

Endless thanks to Vassar Review for this startling and exquisite collection exploring "Frame & Forgery"—and for including my poem "The House on Colbert Street" alongside so many fantastic works of writing and art! I'm hypnotized by this ethereal cover! vassar-review.vassarspaces.net/wp-content/u...

Critters! Don't forget that today is Free Comic Book Day

An excellent poem! 🏠 Page 54 in the PDF!

Maudie Bryant@maudiemichelle.com · last yr.

What happens when prophecy, attic, and isolation are the blueprints? My poem "Anxiety is a House" lives in Issue 46 of 3Elements Literary Review. 🏚️ Read it here: 3elementsreview.com/current-jour... #Poetry #MentalHealth #3ElementsReview #Anxiety

Thanks to Midway Journal for publishing my poem "PHOBIATA" in their latest issue! I am honored to be included in such an incredible collection of astounding writing! midwayjournal.com/phobiata/

A solid video from COGR explaining F&A costs and why cutting them endangers research and limits societal advancement.

Understanding the Real Costs of Research

(c) 2025. All Rights Reserved. For educational, non-commercial use only. Use with attribution. COGR Association of Public & Land-grant Universities (APLU) Association…

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Vote NO, New Orleans! #nolasky

Listening to Michael Cerveris and Oskar Eustis at the New Orleans Book Festival healed something in me that had broken. I am perpetually grateful for opportunities that allow me to listen to enthusiastic, dedicated voices who are championing art, theater, poetry, and purpose.

"Because you underline everything you read, and circle / the things you think are important, and put stars next / to the things you think I should think are important, / and write notes in the margins about all the people / you’re mad at and my name almost never appears there." —Matthew Olzmann

John Green reads "Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem"

YouTube video by Ours Poetica

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"National Science Foundation staffing cuts and proposed National Institutes of Health grant limits will combine to kneecap scientific research in the United States for a generation." www.wired.com/story/doge-w...

The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think

What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues

Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.

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"...the mind can understand what the heart cannot endure, and [...] the imagination can find a linguistic shape for the structures of reality, even for those that are most tragic." —Helen Vendler, "Poems, Poets, Poetry"

Just made my daily calls to my reps. If you're nervous about talking to someone, you can leave voicemails in the early mornings, late evenings, or on weekends! Whatever else may be true, communicating your displeasure is better than *not* communicating your displeasure. 5calls.org

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Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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**NEW CALL** Demand your reps work to reverse the Trump admin's decision to cut NIH and NSF funding! These cuts will cause an immediate and massive funding shortfall at research institutions nationwide, forcing layoffs and jeopardizing critical scientific research. 🔥📞🔥 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...

Save NIH and NSF Research Funding ⭑ 5 Calls

On February 7, the Trump administration moved to cut billions of dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science …

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"More and more, it's the obvious that turns mysterious on us." –Marianne Boruch, "Poetry's Over and Over"

As a phone-anxious introvert who once worked as a newspaper reporter making daily phone calls, I've learned that having a basic script for a call helps mitigate my anxiety. 5calls.org made calling my reps a breeze. The interface helped it feel like a game, despite the seriousness of our situation.

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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Daiquiris acquired, pizza and wings ordered, ready for the Tale Gate! #CriticalRole

LOUISIANA PEOPLE! I need you to call Senator Dr. Bill Cassidy, telling him to NOT confirm RFK Jr for Health Secretary. He’s a swing vote! It took 40 seconds of my time to call. I left a voicemail. His staff tallies the calls. He’s a vote that can be flipped: - he’s a doctor - pro-vaccine🧵

A morning of poetry submissions and household chores followed by an afternoon of drinking beer and looking at trees does not *combat* the panic and dread, by any means—but it doesn't make it worse!

🎉 We've been reviewed! 🎉 @julieeliselandry.bsky.social dives deep into the design, content, and vision of our inaugural issue, praising its balance between accessibility and cohesion, its design, and its powerful, hope-filled poetry. Read here: www.julieeliselandry.com/blog/jel-rev... #JELReviews

🌟 It’s live! 🌟 The inaugural issue of Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry is now available online! 🎉✨ Thank you to everyone who’s supported this journey. We're so excited to share this first issue with all of you.💛 📖✨Read the full issue today here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issue1

Someone please explain why I am always half an hour early for everything and then tell me how I can, you know, STOP?

Only 1 week until the release of the inaugural issue of Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry! 🎉✨ Get ready to explore a stunning collection of voices and verses.