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Mom. Doctoral Candidate. Teacher. Faculty Lecturer in Linguistics & Literacy Higher Ed. Poet - Published: in Canada & The United States. PaddlerPress / Texas Poetry. Songwriter. Dem. Ally. No DM’s.
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Artist: Vicki McGrath

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Artist: Vicki McGrath

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romantics are the new rebels. - bridgett devoue

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Someone please name their baby Wink we can’t let that name die.

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~ Langston Hughes I loved my friend

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Happy 72nd Birthday to Rick Moranis. Thank you for being the Canadian treasure that you are.

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The White House Twitter account just posted this following Van Hollen's meeting with a man that a US court has determined WAS wrongly deported and ordered to be returned. They are flaunting their complete disregard for the law and I hope it gets someone a contempt charge.

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Van Hollen: I should also just say, I mentioned the fake margarita, they actually wanted to have the meeting by the side of the pool in the hotel. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar. Which of course is a big, fat lie.

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Van Hollen details why he thinks the government of El Salvador is making a huge mistake in turning itself into a concentration camp for Trump

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Art at the ⁦‪Minnesota Landscape Arboretum‬⁩! #art

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Day 17 of National Poetry Month is this beautiful calendar of poetry and photography created by dear friend, Carrie Hoyt, paired with a lovely hand-sewn journal from @handsewnbooks.bsky.social! Thanks to you both for your kindness and light! “…as if whatever is / always is enough."

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"to find in the midst of hell / what isn't hell" From Katie Farris's book, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. Published by @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/farrisstanding #poem #books #writing

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Mary Ruefle

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National Poetry Month Day 18 —April 18, 2024 I was honored to have my poem - After Our Divorce Hearing, published in Vol 11. Echoes in @paddlerpress.bsky.social

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Same...💜

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Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt 🌼

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

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Good night, friends. 🌸

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"That town was my father’s life, & still is. If he felt cheated by it, by its fate for him, to bear that disappointment, he kept it secret." David Rivard www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42636/...

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I was so pleased to place it in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social that I forgot to share the piece! Goes without saying, there's loads of amazing stuff over there, as usual... maudlinhouse.net/garish-decor...

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Joy Harjo:

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~ Senator Cory Booker

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Sometimes, you really think you’re important to someone … then it turns out you’re not.

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~ Cheryl Strayed Dear Sugar 💙🫶🏻 Advice on Love and Life Tiny Beautiful Things

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Issue #4 is up now at publicschoolpoetry.com! Featuring poetry and essays by Alison Swan, Cela Xie, Dale Going, Gahl Liberzon, Jasmine An, John Popielaski, Kimberly Gibson Tran, Patricia Clark, Shou Jie Eng, and Thomas Lynch.

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Lately, the number of days where I just want to scream in the middle of cornfield have been increasing exponentially.

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If you're in a position to tell a co-worker that they're doing great work, please do so, it can make all the difference to their day, week, month, and career.

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National Poetry Month Day 17 ~ Sarah Russell If I Had Three Lives —I'd walk the beach at sunrise, find perfect shell spirals and study pockmarks water makes in sand. And I'd wonder sometimes if I'd ever find you.

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Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful. ~ Robert M. Drake

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From E.E. Cummings's book, Etcetera. #poetry #books #writing

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I have a poem from my forthcoming collection with @triohousepress.bsky.social in the new issue of South Dakota Review! Thanks to @artichokeheart.bsky.social for including me! A stellar issue on Day 16 of National Poetry Month, friends! Oh! & I love this poem’s little nod to Bhanu Kapil! 💙

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The best kind of humans are the ones who stay. ~ robert m drake

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"I know that each one of us travels to love alone, Alone to faith and to death. I know it. I’ve tried it. It doesn’t help. Let me come with you." --Yanis Ritsos tr. P. Green & B. Bardsley

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"If you are, as I am, a nomad, draw a border around me: make me your country." --Abdulla Pashew Tr fr Kurdish by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse

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Such a great explanation for the angst of not writing: “I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.” ― William Trevor

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#OtD 12 Apr 1934 workers at the Electric Auto-Lite company in Toledo, Ohio, went on strike. The Toledo Auto-Lite strike heavily involved unemployed workers and is one of the most important strikes in US labour history. Read its history in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/produc...

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i want more art. i want more conversation, constellations. i want more time with trees. i want more of my own heart. more pasta shapes! and the shapes of song! i want paintings so huge we have to build a new space. i want tiny paintings only baby pigeons can properly appreciate

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Paul Celan, Snow Part/Schneepart; tr. Pierre Joris

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thank you @frozenseapoetry.bsky.social for having me back in Issue Eight with this poem :)

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“Without community, there is no liberation.” ― Audre Lorde

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Carrie Bennett 💙 from THE MOUTH IS ALSO A COMPASS (Barrow Street Press) Day 15 - National Poetry Month

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National Poetry Month Day 16 For my sister -The Glass Alison P. Birch —it could have been any day but the sky was slightly blue and still and really quite beautiful

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Some people are looking to find the places you might break. Others are here to love you. You'll learn the difference. ~apb

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When you feed a street dog you know there is literally no better feeling than to see them eat.

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@jessicatarlov.bsky.social is almost at 100k followers. Repost this and get her there!!

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Romona Youngquist

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