Katherine Meehan
@kmeehan.bsky.social
📖Dame Julie Andrews' Botched Vocal Cord Surgery (Two Rivers Press, 2023) 🔮PhD research: tarot ekphrasis 🎤Co-organiser of Reading Poets' Cafe https://www.katherine-meehan.com
From Broken Sleep Books - We are open for poetry pamphlet/chapbook submissions until 30th November. @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social #poetry #writingopps www.brokensleepbooks.com
Welcome | Broken Sleep Books
A working-class indie publisher putting access to the arts at the forefront of what we do. Authors include J H Prynne, Gillian Clarke, Fiona Benson, Luke Kennard, Andre Bagoo, Andrew McMillan, Pádraig...
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ok I dropped the ball and I don't know what the hot new #poetry journals are anymore. recommendations please!!! 🙏
You can make a change 📢 Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training by signing this open letter ✒️ authr.uk/sp40 #MakeitFair #MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing
Have reached the “making insane diagrams in canva” stage of phd journey.
a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .
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Thanks to this I found a book review my dad wrote in 1996 where he writes about a subject adjacent to my PhD topic only his academic prose is so much better than mine and now I am in a doom spiral because I thought I was the smart one THANKS META
Michael Livingston@michaellivingston.com · last yr.Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Happy Unsuccessful National Poetry Competition Entry Day to all those who celebrate 🙏🏻
These are my weekend plans. What are your weekend plans? (CAConrad, While Standing in Line for Death)
I’m getting a divorce and I’ve really enjoyed using ‘I’m getting a divorce’ as an excuse not to do things, and when I have finished having a divorce, I think I might miss it.
Devastated I can’t go to this - it looks so fun! 😈
South Street Arts Centre@southstreetarts.bsky.social · last yr.A theatre treat for fans of choose-your-own-adventure style storytelling! 'Faust' by Seth Kriebel & Zoe Bouras is a new version of a very old story, an interactive twist on the classic tale of the infamous doctor and his deal with the devil, here Thu 15 May.
Join us tomorrow night! I'll be hosting guest poet Yousif M. Qasmiyeh + open mic YES THAT'S RIGHT VALENTINE'S DAY POETRY OPEN MIC - ONLINE! I'll be reading something angsty to kick things off 💃 #poetryopenmic #poets
South Street Arts Centre@southstreetarts.bsky.social · last yr.#ICYMI this week's Friday evening Poets' Cafe session will be ONLINE! No need to brave the cold, you can enjoy scintillating stanzas and vibrant verse in the comfort of your own home, via Zoom⚡ Find out more & book at whatsonreading.com/poets-cafe-o... #rdguk #poetry
Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
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Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.
![Hi, my name is [NAME], I'm a constituent in [ZIP CODE]. I'm calling because I saw that [TERRIBLE THING] is happening. I think this is appalling. [PERSONAL STORY, if you have one.] I want you to do everything you can to stop this. I will remember your actions when I cast my next vote. Thank you.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hwmmdl5nok26w3zhmg2d3fvt/bafkreigihtf5o2suhsnecpwijziyhsmxflvzzogbjre2okvstqagg6bw6y)
On the one one hand, political moaning on the internet changes nothing, on the other hand, these are not political problems - they are moral problems and Elon Musk is an extremely evil person so why not call a thing what it is?
CAConrad, from ‘Ancient Technologies of Poetry and Ritual’
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Deb Chachra@debcha.bsky.social · 2y agoOccasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
This holiday season, let’s normalise not entering freezing water at dawn.
A Podcast for Palestine 🇵🇸 the fundraising episode of Eat the Storms is now available on most podcast platforms @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social is an award-winning bilingual poet and children’s author from Cork. Funds go to childrennotnumbers.org Our GoFundMe page is: gofund.me/553c2548
This Saturday Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast, is hosting a special funding episode A Podcast for Palestine 🇵🇸 All funds will go to www.childrennotnumbers.org This is the list of writers, so far, taking part, more to be added before Saturday We now also have a GoFundMe page gofund.me/553c2548
Saturday 7 December A special episode A Podcast for Palestine 🇵🇸 This will be a fundraising episode Details coming soon
⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed. If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath. 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
Storyville Books Bookshop UK
Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.
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Help I have this extremely annoying cat & she won’t let me read John Ashbery
I keep putting something about "the feeling of seeing cats on the internet" into a #poem and then taking it out. one day I will find a home for this feeling!
