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Poet. Professor. Appalachian. Southern. Anglican. Poems in The Windhover, Ekstasis Mag, Thimble Lit Mag, Door is a Jar, Red Branch Review, Clayjar Review, and more--with work upcoming in The MacGuffin and The Christian Century.
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We're entering the six months of suffering before the sweet freedom of fall
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Mine has a second birthday coming up on June 26th.
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Gorgeous 🤎 that final couplet is breathtaking.
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Ghibli films are so life- affirming 🤎
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Gullah is so beautiful ❤️
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My boys 🥹
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J Journal and 7th Circle Pyrite. I usually share work over on my Instagram and link it on my website. 😄
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How delightful!
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Ah, an hit skeet
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Norton is indie?
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This is quite welcome after a long string of "no"s earlier in the month 😅
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That was a good day.
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I'm so sorry.
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You had me at "God- haunted American South"
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I got like 5 nos this week. 3 in one day.
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Get AI out of the humanities, at least. I'm sure it's got STEM applications, but STEM isn't my area so I won't speak to that. Humanities are for humans. It's in the name. The fact that every industry is pushing AI use is indicative of what a insidiously anti-human era we're in.
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It's true.
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I'm so sorry.
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Please report back!
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Edgar Allan Poe:
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That's the face of a man seriously questioning his life choices
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Exactly. I'd argue that a majority of our best-known poets were likely autistic.
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Oh no, a hit skeet
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Oh same
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Seriously, if he knew anything about autistic folks or poetry, he would know that literary arts, and poetry circles especially, are (I'd argue mostly) populated by folks on the spectrum.