From the University of New Orleans, Bayou Magazine announces its first-ever online issue! Poetry, fiction—even a play!—all available now for you to enjoy! Honored to have worked with Bayou's editorial team on producing this landmark publication. 🤩 bayoumagazine.org/issue-80/

Trampoline #30.10 is excited to have poems by Leslie Cairns, @julieeliselandry.com, and Margie Duncan. www.trampolinepoetry.com Take care.

Thank you, @trampolinepoetry.bsky.social, for publishing "Indistinguishable," a poem for @maudiemichelle.com. Maudie is an incredible poet—and an even cooler friend/sister/person-who-made-me-a-person! Please enjoy this story from the early days of our friendship. www.trampolinepoetry.com

Audi Locus is art! Poets, check it out!

Today on Glass! "morning as recognition : under every suit there is a body" by Steve Minnich! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

#Nolasky, don't sleep on Paulie's Deli on Oak St, and don't skip the dessert! The afogatto is holy shit so good.

Endless thanks to Vassar Review for this startling and exquisite collection exploring "Frame & Forgery"—and for including my poem "The House on Colbert Street" alongside so many fantastic works of writing and art! I'm hypnotized by this ethereal cover! vassar-review.vassarspaces.net/wp-content/u...

Critters! Don't forget that today is Free Comic Book Day

An excellent poem! 🏠 Page 54 in the PDF!

Thanks to Midway Journal for publishing my poem "PHOBIATA" in their latest issue! I am honored to be included in such an incredible collection of astounding writing! midwayjournal.com/phobiata/

A solid video from COGR explaining F&A costs and why cutting them endangers research and limits societal advancement.

Vote NO, New Orleans! #nolasky

Listening to Michael Cerveris and Oskar Eustis at the New Orleans Book Festival healed something in me that had broken. I am perpetually grateful for opportunities that allow me to listen to enthusiastic, dedicated voices who are championing art, theater, poetry, and purpose.

"Because you underline everything you read, and circle / the things you think are important, and put stars next / to the things you think I should think are important, / and write notes in the margins about all the people / you’re mad at and my name almost never appears there." —Matthew Olzmann

"National Science Foundation staffing cuts and proposed National Institutes of Health grant limits will combine to kneecap scientific research in the United States for a generation." www.wired.com/story/doge-w...

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

"...the mind can understand what the heart cannot endure, and [...] the imagination can find a linguistic shape for the structures of reality, even for those that are most tragic." —Helen Vendler, "Poems, Poets, Poetry"

Just made my daily calls to my reps. If you're nervous about talking to someone, you can leave voicemails in the early mornings, late evenings, or on weekends! Whatever else may be true, communicating your displeasure is better than *not* communicating your displeasure. 5calls.org

**NEW CALL** Demand your reps work to reverse the Trump admin's decision to cut NIH and NSF funding! These cuts will cause an immediate and massive funding shortfall at research institutions nationwide, forcing layoffs and jeopardizing critical scientific research. 🔥📞🔥 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...

"More and more, it's the obvious that turns mysterious on us." –Marianne Boruch, "Poetry's Over and Over"

As a phone-anxious introvert who once worked as a newspaper reporter making daily phone calls, I've learned that having a basic script for a call helps mitigate my anxiety. 5calls.org made calling my reps a breeze. The interface helped it feel like a game, despite the seriousness of our situation.

Daiquiris acquired, pizza and wings ordered, ready for the Tale Gate! #CriticalRole

LOUISIANA PEOPLE! I need you to call Senator Dr. Bill Cassidy, telling him to NOT confirm RFK Jr for Health Secretary. He’s a swing vote! It took 40 seconds of my time to call. I left a voicemail. His staff tallies the calls. He’s a vote that can be flipped: - he’s a doctor - pro-vaccine🧵

A morning of poetry submissions and household chores followed by an afternoon of drinking beer and looking at trees does not *combat* the panic and dread, by any means—but it doesn't make it worse!

🎉 We've been reviewed! 🎉 @julieeliselandry.bsky.social dives deep into the design, content, and vision of our inaugural issue, praising its balance between accessibility and cohesion, its design, and its powerful, hope-filled poetry. Read here: www.julieeliselandry.com/blog/jel-rev... #JELReviews

🌟 It’s live! 🌟 The inaugural issue of Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry is now available online! 🎉✨ Thank you to everyone who’s supported this journey. We're so excited to share this first issue with all of you.💛 📖✨Read the full issue today here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issue1

Someone please explain why I am always half an hour early for everything and then tell me how I can, you know, STOP?

Only 1 week until the release of the inaugural issue of Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry! 🎉✨ Get ready to explore a stunning collection of voices and verses.

Well that was a fun collective hallucination. #NOLAsky

Snow in New Orleans snow in New Orleans snow in New Orleans snow in New Orleans snow ❄️❄️❄️

Desperately in search of NOLA snow pics to reinforce my understanding of what I am seeing outside. Y'all. IT'S SNOWING!!!!! Like A LOT!!! No atom of me wants to be indoors. Every atom wants to *play*.

""Impromptu""

IT'S MULLIN TIME

Merry Happy here we go

I am astounded by the quality of the Wicked movie. Despite the incessant hyping, I was not prepared for it to be that genuinely good. Now I am compelled to be part of that incessant hype. It IS that good, y'all. Wow. 🎶 Wah-ow-ow-oooww. WOOOOOOWWW! 🎶

Hey y'all, especially Nola moots, my friends' apartment burned down right before Thanksgiving. They lost everything. If anyone can help 'em out, it's greatly appreciated. 2024 sucks. www.gofundme.com/f/help-alex-...

Today I'm thankful that none of this is real, thank god it was such a nightmare

Practicing writing in strict poetic structures helps you learn to be more deliberate, precise, and concise in your technical writing. 🧪

'How to Call in Sick with Depression' by Billie Sainwood Cover Art: 'Solstice' by M. E. Fuller

That feeling when you think your body is telling you to take a brief nap so you can focus on the work at hand but your body was actually telling you to teleport three hours into the future real quick because your body never cared about the work you fool bwahahaha that's your body

Hey, all. I've created this "starter pack" thingy so that we can get a list of local writers going, so we can find one another. Help give it a boost so we can add to it and find one another, and let us know if you need to be added! go.bsky.app/PcefFJc

Behold: My new candle

⭐️ bookish checkpoint ⭐️ 📚 Last book you read: The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón 📚 Current read: Vulgar Remedies by Anna Journey, Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree 📚 Last book added to tbr: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado 📚 Next anticipated read: Her Read by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

Not pictured: me standing on the bench of the electric keyboard I got five years ago when I thought I'd teach myself, you know, music, before leaping into poetry instead. Also not pictured: the poetic works I stepped away from to stand on a bench and take this photo. Pictured: brief moment of joy. 🦎

Sometimes when I don't leave my house, I wear my hair up and out of the way. Sometimes, in Critical Role Chaos Crew scrunchies—from which I pick the best character for the vibe or the task at hand. This has been a Beauregard Lionett weekend.

Old poem, new poem, borrowed poem, blue poem! FOUR POEMS (and a digital art GIF) out this week in three different journals! Absolutely delighted and honored to be published alongside the mind-blowingly talented makers in these issues. Check the links below for the full weird and wicked poems! AHH! 💀

Pre-gaming for the Silversun Pickups show has begun!

Help us protect #Louisiana #Libraries. If you haven't written a letter yet, please do. If you have, please share. #lalege Link Here: www.la-cac.org/contact-your...

I wanted to go in person, but the livestream will suffice! Cannot wait for this evening of poetry and science and art and wonder! www.themarginalian.org/the-universe...