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Another dude with fancy notions. Poet, essayist, lit critic. Teach at Augsburg U & MN Prisons 📚: MY WEIGHT IN WATER (Spiegel & Grau, 2026), WORLDLY THINGS (Milkweed Ed., 2021). Lit agent: Nordlyset; booking agent: Blue Flower Arts. Saint Paul MN
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EVERGREEN CONVERSATION WITH MOM Act I, scene 1: Mom: 85, dressed nicely at home (no plans to leave her house). Son: 56, off to work, wearing light gray jeans & a long-sleeve two-hues blue shirt. Mom: “Aren’t you teaching today?” Son: “I am; tonight.” Mom: “Is THAT what you’re wearing?” SCENE

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Writers of BlueSky. Going to AWP. Any hot hotel tips?

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A little TikTok video I made with my current list of daily reminders. It’s part of my strategy to stay grounded during all this chaos. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2ydRhBF/

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NEW BASEMENT LAB PROJECT: 1. Invent better (every last bit easy to extract) peanut butter jar; 2. Sell it to every peanut butter manufacturer; 3. Make exorbitant profit. 4. Become benevolent plutocrat; 5. Run the government. (main goal: easier acces to peanut butter)

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MAGA morality: Put thousands of federal employees on leave, cut aid that sustains countless lives, demonize your opponents, and then enjoy the suffering of your enemies. But then - when one DOGE worker is fired for vicious racism -say, "Where's the grace and mercy in this country?"

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A poem I wrote about my favorite tree, loving what you cannot name, and my patient wife (a horticulturist). Thanks to Sierra magazine and its Poetry Editor Aimee Nezhukumatathil. (best viewed on computer screen) www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-...

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Poet friends and poetry lovers: can you recommend poems that are about anger or express anger? One example that comes to mind for me is June Jordan’s POEM ABOUT MY RIGHTS. Thanks for and ideas.

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The opposite of: diversity is homogeneity equity is prejudice or bias inclusion is exclusion or removal Let’s see MAGA resegregation for what it is: an effort to exclude everyone who isn’t white, male, straight, and Christian, a biased system, an ugly appeal to prejudice, a return to Jim Crow.

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Elon Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter but only $290 million for the legislative branch and the most powerful role in our government. I feel sick. His illegal coup is possible because of many things, but I especially blame the SCOTUS for that awful Citizens United case.

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I’m from Kansas City, and my AFC allegiance is clear. At the same time, could a person blame a person for wondering if some kind of Faustian bargain was made?

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It’s Madison Keys!

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On a recent walk at the Eastside YMCA in Saint Paul, Minnesota (the state capital).

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I highly recommend this latest A.R. Moxon essay. Read it. Share it. Please.

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Our house was built in 1913, and the windows can be a little drafty. I joke that at least we’ll never be overcome by carbon monoxide. Anyway, here’s me, during a recent cold snap, with a warming blanket on my legs, while watching either THE PITT or ON CALL.

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

Here a side-to-side comparison between Hitler and Musk and their salute... you decide if this isn't a nazi salute

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“Trump supporter Snoop Dogg…” - me, from now on

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If Minnesota were already Canada, I could still watch my Tik Tok videos, eh. 😔

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Is a raid a raid if you announce it? These Trump years will lead to real harm to millions. Not to dismiss that in any way. And it seems like the goal (at least in part) is theater. Mostly let businesses continue to benefit from inexpensive / captive labor, but give the base a show.

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I am at the maturation stage where I DEFINITELY need DETAILED recaps of a streaming show with any kind of gap between seasons. (this is inspired by Severance)

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Just a heads up for peeps, if you bought a Neil Gaiman audiobook from Audible, they are allowing refunds for them with no questions asked and no matter how long ago you bought them. I don’t even have an active subscription and they gave me credits back for two titles purchased in 2020.

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facts

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Me: “Too late to start another movie?” Karen: “It’s 7:30…” (To be clear, that means “no, not too late” (not even for us.)) [However you celebrate, have a safe, wonderful, and mildly humorous new year’s eve.]

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Canada’s Annual Hair Freezing Contest Announces Its Winners And The Hairstyles Look Too Cool 🥶🥶 (Coffee Loves on Facebook) 1/n

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We can be helpful. We can devote our lives to service. We can build things. We can be constant and faithful in our love and in our daily discipline. We can be earnest but imperfect then have a radiant second half. We can leave the planet better than we found it. We can. We should. RIP Jimmy Carter.

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Trump: I’m gonna close the Dept of Education. Vivek: American culture doesn’t prioritize education. Musk: if you need school, you’ve already lost. Also Musk: I needed highly-skilled workers coming in on H-1B visas. MAGA: yeah, close the Dept of Ed (but keep favoring me for big-money jobs!)

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