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rieseralex.bsky.social

Poetry. Fiction. MFA @ USF. Dr @ UCSD. EMANCIPATOR (New Fraktur Press).

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Feb reads so far: -All the King's Men -The Dispossessed -Jurassic Park -The Andromeda Strain -On Writing, Conversations With Ursula K LeGuin -The ICPRESS file -Parable of the Sower -A Song For A New Day -Thank You For Smoking -Origins of Story: On Writing For Children Next up:

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Wicked song along in drag was a blast

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Fun announcement! A press called @brokenspinearts.bsky.social is doing an interesting anthology on cityscapes at night and they will be publishing my poem "Incarnations" in that collection. I can't wait to see it in print!

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Haven't heard this for a while and on this listen I can't help but hear the Paul Simon influence. youtu.be/G2Q7pPoh1gs?...

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Next book 📖 on craft.

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Anyone else experience that 4/5 the way through a good book anxiety? The reassuring slab of pages is dwindling and I'll soon have to give up my anticipation and curiosity and settle into the fact it will end.

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Found our Coraline film release official.... Beach ball?

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He who braves this company does not valuate any guffaws

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Netflix: will you watch a 6 hour movie? Me: what? No. Netflix: what if we called it a "miniseries," in 6 episodes? Me: yes ok.

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This wonderful thing arrived From @tinhouse.bsky.social tonight

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This Arizona Statehood Day, I’d like to share the full blurb of my upcoming collection from Alberto Rios, poet laureate of Arizona: THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES, out April 29th from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social

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Underdog story ✅ Deaf culture ✅ Local author ✅

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"The way he writes provides a unique ambience - poems are almost inhabitable, like a house you can step into vaguely aware that someone else has just left by another door. Do yourself a favor and open a new door. Forget the errors of your ways and read" srjoshi3.wixsite.com/the-prague-r...

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Went to a party where everyone was wearing those silly cone birthday hats but they were all in grayscale and everyone was dressed in business attire and I can't stop thinking that I dreamed the whole thing.

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Your natural pheromones are used to attract a partner. Coconut shampoo, apricot face wash, citrus and bergamot body wash, + Ocean breeze deodorant: "yeah your natural pheromones!"

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Freight conductor passing residential area at 4 am: "You know what this horn is feeling neglected right about NOW!"

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Yeah, partying all night is cool and all, but have you guys tried drinking water and some light stretching?

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I can count on one hand the science fiction books I've felt compelled to return to for 3rd or 4th reads, but Sarah Pinsker's A Song for A New Day is one of them. The value of art after the collapse of society seems extra relevant these days.

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