#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Name the colors in your piece. Imagine you are standing in the scene / moment and name the colors you see. Come up with at least three names for each color.

Final prep for tonight! Hope you can join us! I'm reading my poem in the anthology and two related poems from my new poetry collection due out early 2026! Register for tonight: www.eventbrite.com/e/wwph-antho...

#MovieKid reviews Predators (2010) with @profhansnoel.bsky.social See if you agree with his review: www.youtube.com/@movies4all6...

I brought Charlotte Taylor Fryar's Potomac Fever down to Foundry Branch (a tributary of the Potomac River in Rock Creek Park)! The author, in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller, will join us over at @brownbaglit.bsky.social on Monday, November 17, 12 - 1 pm EST). www.brownbaglit.com/events

#Moviekid reviews AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem with @profhansnoel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@movies4all6...

Don't miss the Super Early Bird Rate for the @wirobooks.bsky.social Conference! (I'm volunteering again on the planning committee and will be on a panel, too! Hope to see you there!) Register: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket... Learn more: www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/page/the-202...

“Finger tracing the terrain, you hold me through autumn’s loss of color.” —Chloé Yelena Miller, “Pop Rivet” @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social

#MovieKid reviews Alien Vs. Predator with @profhansnoel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@movies4all6...

Join us virtually on November 17th to hear Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller discussing how she used historical research and environmental observation to reveal hidden histories within a specific place in Potomac Fever. Thank you to Brown Bag Lit for hosting this event!

Next up at Brown Bag Lit: Charlotte Taylor Fryar in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller co-sponsored by @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social Register: www.brownbaglit.com/events

#MovieKid reviews Predator 2! with @profhansnoel.bsky.social What do you think of his rankings? www.youtube.com/shorts/JSEW8...

#MovieKid reviews Predator! with @profhansnoel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@movies4all6...

I'm excited to be reading here - join us! We invite you to the second iteration of Taking Heart: DC Writers on Courage, organized by the DC/MD chapter of Writers for Democratic Action. We will gather in the unique Dupont Underground art space (beneath Dupont Circle) on Sunday, November 16 at 2 p.m.

We sent out our November Brown Bag Lit news! If you're not on our mailing list, DM me and I'll add you! mailchi.mp/dbeaa6270997...

#RandomWritingPrompt: Is there a recipe that defines your character or you? Would you go so far as to ask to have it placed on a gravestone? Write the recipe, describe the taste and write about the preparation of the dish and the celebration in which the dish is enjoyed! www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

#MovieKid reviews Stand by Me with @profhansnoel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@movies4all6...

#MovieKid reviews Halloween for ... Halloween! Last day of #HorrorOctober! Check out his reviews here: www.youtube.com/@movies4all6... with @profhansnoel.bsky.social

This is tonight! Hope you can join us! register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ekphrastic...

#MovieKid reviews The Lost Boys this #HorrorOctober! with @profhansnoel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@movies4all6...

I shared some upcoming news in my occasional email. If you're not on my list, let me know if you'd like to be added! mailchi.mp/b5c4d13d3f2b...

#MovieKid continues with the original #HorrorOctober movies with today's review of Frankenstein! with @profhansnoel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@movies4all6...

#MovieKid reviews The Invisible Man for his continued #HorrorOctober movie reviews! with @profhansnoel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@movies4all6...

Very excited for our next @brownbaglit.bsky.social event!

'Tis the Halloween season! For today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit, write a list of ten real or new (made-up) Halloween names. For example, I'm loving the "Warty Goblin" pumpkins! Then, see if you can work them into a short story, essay or poem.

#MovieKid continues with #HorrorOctober this 206th day of reviews! Today he reviews A Nightmare on Elm Street www.youtube.com/@movies4all6... with @profhansnoel.bsky.social

Thank you to Naomi Thiers for her review of Jessica Simon’s poetry collection, Built of All I Shape and Name (Kelsay Books) in Brown Bag Lit’s Milk Journal! www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal?...

#MovieKid reviews The Thing for today's #HorrorOctober review! www.youtube.com/@movies4all6... with @profhansnoel.bsky.social

DMV friends: One week from today I'll be reading poems in response to art by women artists alongside other writers sharing their work in response to art, too. I hope you can join us! It should be a wonderful, interdisciplinary event hosted by IA&A at Hillyer and The Inner Loop. link below -

#MovieKid continues with the It saga by reviewing It: Chapter 2 today. Check out his #HorrorOctober reviews here: www.youtube.com/@movies4all6... with @profhansnoel.bsky.social

#MovieKid reviews It: Chapter 1 www.youtube.com/@movies4all6... with @profhansnoel.bsky.social

I am very excited to stream the FILM PREMIERE of Baby Book this Sat. at 8 pm EST! Thank you to Lauren Spavelko for first setting some poems from Viable (Lily Poetry Review Books) to music and Nicole Asel and Madeline Harvey with Machmer Media for creating these films.

#MovieKid continues to review #HorrorOctober films! Today's review is of Scream 2. Have you watched the Scream movies? Do you agree with his ratings? with @profhansnoel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@movies4all6...

Today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Ekphrastic writing is writing in response to art. While the Smithsonian museums are closed during the shutdown, their websites and open access materials remain available. Choose something that catches your eye and write in response to it.

#MovieKid starts off the week with a review of Scream (his 201st review!) www.youtube.com/@movies4all6... with @profhansnoel.bsky.social

Join me in wishing a very happy birthday to @brownbaglit.bsky.social co-founder @shastagrant.bsky.social! Here we are on a (break from :-) a writing retreat in 2014 in Indianapolis!

Mailed off a signed copy of Viable (Lily Poetry Review Books) today! Let me know if you'd like to buy a signed copy from me! lilypoetryreview.blog/lily-poetry-...

Congratulations to #MovieKid on his 200th movie review!! Today for #HorrorOctober he reviews The Black Phone. Check out his reviews here: www.youtube.com/@movies4all6... with @profhansnoel.bsky.social

Hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social tomorrow -

I look forward to presenting poems from Viable (Lily Poetry Review Books) and thoughts tomorrow (Friday) at the Virtual Global Symposium on Pregnancy Loss. (I will go on from 4:10 – 5 pm EST over zoom.) Join us (it's free and on Zoom!) uml.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#RandomWritingPrompt: There are many different kinds of languages, including constructed languages (like Esperanto.) Imagine your own constructed language and write either a word or two and its definition (in your language :-) or a sentence in your constructed language and the translation.

#MovieKid reviews Totally Killer for his 199th review! Happy #HorrorOctober! I thought this movie was so much fun and (rightfully) made fun of, um, us in the 80's and what we thought/how we acted. with @profhansnoel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@movies4all6...

#MovieKid reviews Child Play! with @profhansnoel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@movies4all6...

Thank you to @bookbent.bsky.social for visiting today to discuss her debut novel, The Belles, and all about her publishing path with @shastagrant.bsky.social! If you missed it, you can catch up with the recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KPz...

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#MovieKid reviews Friday the 13th Part 2 for #HorrorOctober! www.youtube.com/@movies4all6... with @profhansnoel.bsky.social

Excited that @brownbaglit.bsky.social will be hosting @bookbent.bsky.social tomorrow at noon EST to discuss her debut novel, The Belles (Simon & Schuster). The novel - dark academia - is hauntingly creepy. Don't take it on your walk in the woods. Better yet, don't go into the woods.

#MovieKid reviews Friday the 13th (1980 film) as his 196th movie review! Happy #HorrorOctober! www.youtube.com/@movies4all6... with @profhansnoel.bsky.social

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What are you reading for Banned Books Week? more here: bannedbooksweek.org Last year Brown Bag Lit hosted three experts to discuss: Against Book Banning: Protecting Freedom of Speech in America You can watch here and check out the resources shared in the description: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDw...