Check out our picks from Colleen Harris (@warmaiden.bsky.social) and Makena Metz.

Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP)@clmporg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Pick a weekend read (or several) from the lit mags in our #DisabilityPride reading list! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

My #poetry chapbook Speeding Through Familiar Curves won the Apogee poetry chapbook award, and will be coming out in summer 2027 from April Gloaming Publishing!!! #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 www.instagram.com/p/Dd2MZgcpvF...

@firstbitepress.bsky.social is less than $300 from meeting the goal for my fine press limited edition of #poems, Babylon Songs. Pick up a hand-printed poem with custom linocut? Each piece is a work of art! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir... #poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 #criplib

Babylon Songs - Limited Edition Letterpress Poetry Book

Babylon Songs is a fine press, hand printed poetry collection written by Colleen S. Harris with illustrations by Sandie Levent.

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Congressman demands answers on Trump DOJ’s election monitors after troubling hire exposed

The letter marks a direct congressional response to Democracy Docket’s investigation, which found last week that David Levin appears to have joined DOJ’s Civil Rights Division and was seen alongside a...

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Again, this is newsworthy, but only because it shows (1) the deeply unpopular President of the United States is badly out of touch with the actual concerns of voters and (2) he is also quite fucking insane.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump says he might change the names of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans next

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

I'm glad to see this from the Globe. ICE is leaning into the "secret" part of secret police because they know they are unpopular and they also think that people won't pay attention when their abductions happen away from white people.

ICE is still detaining people out in the streets — but in quieter ways - The Boston Globe

Immigration arrests by ICE are ramping up in Massachusetts and across the country, even if the activity is garnering fewer explosive headlines than previously.

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My poem "Inflammation as Girl" out of @phillychapbook.bsky.social is featured by the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses Disability Pride Month list! CLMP Link: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi... Poem: phillychapbookreview.org/five-poems-b... #poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 #criplib

A Reading List for Disability Pride Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

We asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in honor of Disability Pride Month, observed ann...

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Honored to have finished my 1st week as the new dean of Meriam Library at CSU Chico, affectionately known as Chico State. Best of all worlds - an incredibly dedicated library team, dedicated students, a beautiful campus, and a wonderful city. It feels like home 🥰

Been quiet as things have been busy - accepted a new job! I'll start as the new dean of Meriam Library at CalState Chico on July 1. Really excited to join their passionate and talented team, and wishing my current folks the best with the amazing things they're building.

Carl Fredricksen: Adventure Is Out There!

ALT: Carl Fredricksen: Adventure Is Out There!

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Watching reactors listen to their first Billy Joel songs, and as a spectator it brings me the same kind of pure joy as when I saw my inland friends see the ocean for the first time.

Peanuts Gang: Charlie Brown, Linus & Snoopy Winter Dance

ALT: Peanuts Gang: Charlie Brown, Linus & Snoopy Winter Dance

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Woot! My paper "Class Performance, Anxiety, and the Violence of Social Illusion in Hitchcock and Contemporary Film" was accepted for presentation at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association summer conference!

a man with a mustache wearing a blue jacket and scarf

ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a blue jacket and scarf

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Not sleeping lately, high inflammation. But productive - I've drafted 2 books (1 on lyric, one on literary criticism/feminist critical theory) & proposed them to university presses, wrote 6 articles out of them submitted to various journals, & 1 article out of my PhD dissertation submitted #writing

I have severe IBD, and I just saw a meme that said "Girls who poop vs BITCHES that SHIT" and I am HOWLING with laughter

Doc: "Make sure you report any hypomania so we can correct it" Me: [writing a new monograph and an MA thesis and starting a new poetry collection and full of ideas again] "Yeah, no, never heard of it"

My #poems "Pain Scale" and "Chronic Illness Logic" have been accepted for publication by @anodynemag.bsky.social ! I am so, so excited. #booksky @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #criplit 📝 ☁️📚

SO PROUD - my #poem "It Begins This Way" is out at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social! To see it published in an outlet I love reading feels like coming home 🏠 Thank you, Camille & DIHP team! www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/colle... #poetry 💙📚 #booksky @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 📝 ☁️📚

Colleen Harris — Does It Have Pockets

It Begins This Way

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The dildo store is out here doing more than Mayor of Minneapolis yet again. @smittenkittenmn.bsky.social has secured a match of up to $250K in Rental Relief Funds from the Wilson Foundation. Donate & share! LFG!!! ❤️‍🔥 www.gofundme.com/f/smitten-ki...

Donate to SMITTEN KITTEN X NHN RENTAL RELIEF FUND, organized by Anne Lehman

TLDR; SMITTEN KITTEN FINALLY HAS A WAY TO TAKE ONLINE DONATIONS FOR RENTAL ASSI… Anne Lehman needs your support for SMITTEN KITTEN X NHN RENTAL RELIEF FUND

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Man, hyperfocus is wild. I think I might have accidentally written most of a decent scholarly article on Victorian literature and the gaze tonight. Whoops?

Proud to have my #poem "I Think My Sister is Secretly a Horse" in @northamerreview.bsky.social's Open Spaces! northamericanreview.org/open-space/2... #poetry 💙📚 #booksky ☁️📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 📝

So if this deal goes through, one MAGA-allied family will own: Oracle TikTok CBS Paramount Warner Brothers CNN Trump will have his sticky, ketchup-covered little fingers in every facet of how Americans get their news.

Jean-Paul Sartre hated stickiness. He was fundamentally anti-honey. Yet he had a beautiful way of describing how subject and object come together through touch, a discovery of "something like a flesh of objects..."

You do good, unimpeachable work! Thanks, that means a lot coming from you!

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 8mo ago

This is an all-timer in headlines where the use of the passive voice obscures a VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM with the basic premise of the story

It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 8mo ago

BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance says the Trump administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns.

I need to create a database of all the ways I'm discovering schools and libraries undercutting their state's Freedom to Read laws. We knew it would happen and we know it's happening, but the methods by which it's being done are fucking wild. Book banners will ban books, law or not.

i'm so excited to have a poem in the latest issue of Radar Poetry. if you head to the website you can hear me read it, and the issue is a beauty--AND there's a stunning poem by @wordperv.bsky.social there, too! www.radarpoetry.com/privilege

Just to make this abundantly clear:

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8mo ago

This is the best write up I’ve seen about the whole Ring Super Bowl commercial/backlash/Flock divorce, with the added context of a thorough interview with Simonoff. I appreciate how Nilay Patel presses Simonoff on a lot of his claims about Ring.

The Olympics disqualified a Ukrainian athlete for using his helmet to honor his fellow Ukrainian athletes who have died in this ongoing war. No political propaganda, they say, as they sell straight up Nazi propaganda from the Hitler era Olympics, under their “heritage collection.” 😤😠🤬

every single librarian on this site whether they work primarily with academics or the public or practitioners has had to patiently explain — while their expertise is questioned — that hardly anything is digitized, actually.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 8mo ago

A lot of people really don’t realize that there is a vast amount of information out there that is not online and plausibly never will be, or can’t be.

Great news for @librarianjones.com: “The appellate court said Jones has a right to argue that the comments ‘were knowingly false or made with reckless disregard of the truth, and caused Ms. Jones injury, including harm to her reputation, contempt, ridicule, anxiety, and emotional distress.’”

Louisiana Supreme Court allows local librarian's defamation lawsuit against Michael Lunsford to proceed - Livingston Parish News

The Louisiana Supreme Court has unanimously rejected an attempt by Michael Lunsford and Citizens for a New Louisiana to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by Livingston Parish school librarian Amanda ...

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