Sara Majka
@saramajka.bsky.social
writer, i teach, i have an old home in providence, ri
36 hours in Providence...don't know how i missed this earlier!
36 Hours in Providence, R.I. (Gift Article)
One of the oldest cities in America makes for a laid-back weekend break.
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congrats to Mahreen Sohail who just visited us at RISD to talk about her lovely new book of stories, Small Scale Sinners, and now has been named to the Pen/Faulkner long list!
The PEN/Faulkner Award | The PEN/Faulkner Foundation
penfaulkner.org
lots going on and probably running isn't top of mind...but US is hosting the world cross country championships tomorrow and we have denied a lot of Ethiopian runners their Visas. Interesting to follow as we host the summer olympics and a lot of top running countries are on trump's travel ban list.
World Cross Country Champs rocked by visa rejections - US denies visas for 14 Ethiopian athletes
The general secretary of the Ethiopian Athletics federation told LetsRun.com at least 14 have been affected in total, mostly from the U20 ranks. As a result, Ethiopia has only entered one U20 man and ...
letsrun.com
I will be teaching a new virtual class this year for A Public Space on visualizing fiction. It's something I've wanted to teach for a long time. Happening Sundays, March 1, 2026 - April 12, 2026. apublicspace.org/academy/sara...
Untitled (flipped), by Marsden Hartley, early-mid 20th c, 📸 via @BlakeHHarris
This dream-like illustration is a detail from William Blake’s illustration to the 'Divine Comedy', Purgatorio XXVII, showing Dante and Statius sleeping with Virgil watching. Detail from Dante and Statius sleeping, William Blake, 1827. WA1918.3
Next week a stack of 900 books is going to arrive at The Map Center as part of my first ever book distribution deal. Cartographer Damien Saunder wrote "Maps on Vinyl" as a celebration of maps that appear on album cover art and the places that made the music. I'm so excited! Booksellers DM me.
tonight at RISD! Novel to Graphic Novel: The Craft of Adaptation. They will be talking about adapting Auster’s Trilogy, including City of Glass.
Novel to Graphic Novel: The Craft of Adaptation with Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli
Discover unique opportunities at! Find and attend events, browse and join organizations, and showcase your involvement.
involved.risd.edu
The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.
poetry happening tomorrow night on the RISD campus. if not for little league practice, would be sure to go... Free tickets, open to the public, sponsored by RISD/Rhode Island Center for the Book www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
An Evening with Hanif Abdurraqib
2025 Reading Across Rhode Island Author Hanif Abdurraqib
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Sign up: Rally for Working Class Needs Over Billionaire Greed this Sat at 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM across from the Tesla Dealership www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Rally for Working Class Needs Over Billionaire Greed · Mobilize
Register here: https://www.neari.org/advocating-for-change/action-center/take-action/rally-working-people Working people built America and we deserve a government that fights for us! Instead, Trump,...
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If you're in providence, contact your council member today. Contact info found below. If you don’t know which ward you are, you can find that here: pvdgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...
Members - Providence City Council
council.providenceri.gov
Sam Bell@samuelwbell.bsky.social · 2y agoWoah. The City Council is voting tonight for an unprecedented property tax hike. They're voting to support of Smiley's request to change state law to legalize an illegally large tax increase. If you have concerns, call or text your councilor right away.
As a homeowner, i had applied for a RI program funded by the Inflation Reduction Act—it was fed $ for electrification. Then program was paused re:trump and I wasn’t able to get aid. but I just got a call from the state that the program is being restarted. So some $ must being starting to flow again
Home Energy Rebate Programs | Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources
energy.ri.gov
I found the book angle on much of my discontent with my elected officials, and I went off. lithub.com/shilling-boo...
Shilling Books While Rome Burns: Why Politicians Need to Focus on Their Day Jobs
To some of his constituents, it may seem as though Chuck Schumer, the Minority Leader of the US Senate, has spent a bunch of time pontificating on Bluesky lately and not enough time taking decisive…
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VP Vance is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, VT.
Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter
JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in
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Telegraph’s podcast Ukraine: the Latest has to be the most thorough long running podcast i've listened to. here's the emergency podcast on today's trump/zelensky meeting
Ukraine: The Latest - the Telegraph’s most popular ever podcast
Every weekday our top journalists analyse the invasion from all angles and tell you what you need to know to stay updated
telegraph.co.uk
rhode island example #748 why we can’t have nice things
Ted Nesi@tednesi.bsky.social · 2y agoGov McKee liked some of what he heard from Stephen Miller at the White House: "Anytime you can cut down the bureaucracy and the timeframes and the regulation on the federal level, that helps the states. I thought that was good. ... And the president reinforced that"
RI Rep Seth Magaziner has been on top of this stuff, so i'm assuming this is the real thing and not a fundraiser. His office is gathering stories of Rhode Islanders affected by federal funding cuts. Seems super smart to tell specific stories about real people docs.google.com/forms/d/1qAi...
Have you been impacted by the federal funding cuts?
I want to hear directly from Rhode Islanders about how these careless decisions to freeze federal funding have impacted YOU and any worries YOU have about potential future cuts. Residents of Rhode Is...
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rally today in downtown providence. we were pretty proud of our sign
it's my last week of class and i really need to work this afternoon, but also am considering going to this instead. providence at the state house at noon. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Join RI Citizens & Demand Sen. Whitehouse + Reed Fight Back Against the Trump-Musk Funding Freeze · Indivisible
We are facing a crisis and we need all Members of Congress to fight back. Join your friends and neighbors in telling Senators Whitehouse and Reed that we demand they use every tool at their disposal t...
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why do politicians in other countries get to make such extraordinary film and literary references
Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2y agoExplaining to CNN the economic chaos that Donald Trump is about to unleash on his own people. We will never break or concede to an erratic thug who seems like Al Capone in his syphilitic phase trying to pull a shakedown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ZE...
@meredithshiner.com's assessment of the Democratic Party is sadly spot on (as is her suggested solution: Run against them!). The most direct way for us change the party is refuse to wait for our collectively turn to lead. newrepublic.com/article/1909...
