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karenmsteiger.bsky.social
Interests include poetry, dogs, libraries, and surviving breast cancer!
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Putting a list together of my various poetry publications, and so many of these online lit mags are defunct. What a massacre!

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

The single greatest thing about NYC is the ability to buy a piece of pizza, decide you're still hungry, then walk two doors down and get another piece of pizza.

Found out today I have three—count 'em, three!—poems coming out in Lamp Lit's Summer Issue! Their submission window is open until April 30th! lamplit.net/submission-g... #poetry

If you were wondering what Scooby Doo is in French, it's Scoubidou.

This #NationalLibraryWeek, when you donate $15 or more to the ALA Show Up for Our Libraries fund or your public library, you’ll receive an audiobook credit from Libro.fm! Details at: blog.libro.fm/libraryweek/ Thank you, @libro.fm!

A beautiful sketch of Helm's Deep that Tolkien drew.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Happy National Library Week! If you don't have a library card, go get one. If you have one, use it! Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections. Use it or lose it!

Tutoring anxiety: that I'm going to say something just totally wrong, such as the definition of a word, and my coworkers will overhear.

Hobbit Girl Spring is here. 😌🌿

Happy Birthday, @ericidle.bsky.social! I hope you find your grail today!

I used to use social media to relax and procrastinate, so it's confusing to me when I scroll through endless horrors every day now.