Lisa Bellamy
@lisalbellamy.bsky.social
Reader - Writer - Writers Studio teacher - www.lisabellamypoet.com
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum we can accept from a democratic nominee. We need tribunals, prison time and beyond.
"Global Emissions Rose into the Atmosphere like Emissions Rising into the Atmosphere" by Chris Watkins - www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/global-emi...
Global Emissions Rose into the Atmosphere like Emissions Rising into the Atmosphere by Chris Watkins
"I give up on metaphor and simile."
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A good time to re-read Becoming by Michelle Obama & appreciate this profoundly accomplished, smart, courageous First Lady. bookshop.org/p/books/beco...
Becoming
Check out Becoming - <b>Now in paperback—the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States, featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from...
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"So this very much looks like a deliberate war crime. It's an attack I fear the USA will regret for a long time. It is no different than Al-Qaeda deliberately targeting civilians. If the US gets attacked in return, it will only be served what seems to be official American policy on a cold plate."
War Crimes Seem To Be Official US Policy Now
We Will Rue The Day
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30 women jailed at the GEO Group-operated Delaney Hall have joined a hunger strike to demand the firing of a guard they say is sexually assaulting detainees: www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
Women at Delaney Hall demand firing of a guard they say is sexually assaulting detainees
About 30 women detainees announced they were joining the action after advocates say many of the men who had launched the strike were transferred out of the Newark facility.
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so it takes one half of basketball to wash his terrible vibes away? we can work with that
Writers Studio Poetry for Everyone starts July 15 - 6-week live, unrecorded Google Meet class. Using Writers Studio exercise-based method, the class also covers basic poetic craft. 7:30 - 9:30 pm Eastern time. Open to all, beginners warmly welcomed - courses.writerstudio.com/courses/onli...
The Writers Studio Online Poetry for Everyone - Summer 2026
The Writers Studio--founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz--offers advanced poetry classes. This class taught by poet Lisa Bellamy features weekly assignments that introduce students to...
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Given fascist contraction of American religion definitions by Department of Defense, I offer this new book as required reading for all - bookshop.org/p/books/reli...
Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History
A New History
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Soon we may be in the part of Fahrenheit 451 where writers will need to walk in the trees & recite passages from our favorite books & lawyers & activitists will need to recite scrubbed indictments & so forth. Print everything out. Keep hard copies of everything.
The extensive table of contents for Magnifica Humanitas is itself astonishing. A roadmap to sanity.
Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran
"Unless you really, really, really have to…don’t f- with the Persians." gregolear.substack.com/p/historical...
Historical Parallels: The End of Valerian's War
A lesson from third-century Rome that Donald Trump didn't bother to learn—to our collective peril.
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Yes. Our country is incapable of managing its affairs & needs guardianship.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 4mo agoThe rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh
The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic. Boy, did they screw up.
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
Thank you, Black Sunflowers Poetry Press. My new chapbook, Bee Frequency, will come out this year.
Just to recap: Russia is currently helping Iranian forces try to kill US troops. In response, Trump is… lifting sanctions on Russia and threatening to pull out of NATO, which are the #1 and #2 items on Putin’s wishlist
The federal government is basically controlled & run by suicidal school shooters.
I tend to be polite. I perform obligatory passing smiles. I hold doors open for any stranger behind me. I feign sociability and tolerate humanity in small doses. But when it comes to ACTUAL friendship, there is one question that must be asked 1st: "WHO DID YOU FUCKING VOTE FOR?"
"Do we really have to go through?" groaned the hobbit. "Yes you do!" said the wizard, "If you want to get to the other side. You must either go through or give up your quest."
Thank you. Massachuetts Review editors. for including "What's Going to Happen" in the new spring issue. Looking forward to reading everyone's work when the print copy arrives. massreview.org
The Massachusetts Review
A quarterly of literature, the arts, and public affairs
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