“As a very small child in the Nixon years, even I was tired. // But there’s ironic satisfaction to be found in Carole King’s ‘It’s Too Late’ being number one the week you were born.” — @joannapenncooper.bsky.social, “The Itinerant Girl’s Guide to Self-Hypnosis”

More new chapbooks from Ethel to check out: Celebrity Ghost, my book of drawings/comics; and About Ethel, by and about Ethel!!

And number 2 in original art that sums up today… (this one thanks to @joannapenncooper.bsky.social)

Synchronicity still exists

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

Guess Hulu didn’t pay for the pro Zoom.

I have no words.

Etel Adnan: *Poetry reaches the unsaid, and leaves it unsaid.*

every few hours i think about how the nea just completely capitulated immediately while other agencies, including those that fund businesses, haven’t, and it makes me furious all over again

In a world of endless heartbreak, we bring you work that's full of heart. Welcome to Split Lip’s February issue. Thank you so much for spending time with our contributors' beautiful art & words.

Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

In troubling times, people experiencing high stress or crippling anxiety deal with it in different ways. Some have a therapist, some have a deep breathing exercise & some even have a personal mantra. I have a Mabel.

Happy Valentine's Day, especially to anyone who might identify with one of the letters in LGBTQ, particularly the day after someone Trumpy stripped the letter T and then the letter Q from the National Park Service website for Stonewall in New York City.

Jill Kitchen’s poem “in a parallel universe, there is nothing i cannot do” uses a gorgeous cascade of language to open a portal into a different state of being. Here she shares just one thing about the piece: https://buff.ly/41bnV5t

“men’s gazes would sometimes linger on her for a moment, curious. At times, the daughter’s own gaze rested half a step inside herself, her eyes down and to the right, like those Pre-Raphaelite women.” — @joannapenncooper.bsky.social, “The Itinerant Girl’s Guide to Self-Hypnosis”

@joannapenncooper.bsky.social I read your post on substack this am and found both the lead-in and the essay great. My amazing doctor’s research will be cut by our govt research funding because she studies women, and they’ve banned the word “women.” joannapenncooper.substack.com/p/i-send-you...

In 2004, I interviewed for a teaching position. The principal asked me how many kids I had. I answered. He asked if I was planning to have more —said he couldn’t afford to have another teacher out on maternity leave. This is why women need protections, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Pete Hegseth admitted to the Senate that he paid $50,000 (!!!) to silence a "Jane Doe" who accused him of rape. But at his hearing last week, he said he was “falsely accused." More questions than answers. We can't rush his vote and trust him with our national security.

Whatever happens, you are not alone. olgalautman.substack.com/p/resisting-...

I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

From a new Substack post. Link in comments!

And the winner of the SmokeLong Workshop Prize 2024 is Beth Sherman, with "Mud Pies", written in A SmokeLong Summer 2024 and published in Eucalyptus Lit in October 2024: www.eucalyptuslit.com/issue-five-n... @bsherm36.bsky.social ⭐

What can I say, other than write letters! They lift someone’s day in untold ways. #MondayMotivation ☺️💌☀️

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Elizabeth Cotten, folk/blues music pioneer, was born on this day in 1895. She taught herself to play the guitar and banjo as a child. She was left-handed but she played a guitar for a right-hander, meaning she played everything upside down. A little thread!

Speaking of vaccines... (Dateline 2019) h/t @texastribune.org www.texastribune.org/2019/08/12/t...

The victims of Jan 6th should be on TV every day. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...

My Annual Reminder to Myself that I Actually Love Poetry (Part II): in 2024, I posted 366 poems by 126 authors, from 145 magazines, 149 books, and 68 presses. Here they are (along with author, magazine, book, and press links): simeonberry.com/poem-recomme...

Mister Rogers never misses

One of the hardest classes I took in college was Sociology of Immigration, because we had to look up all these diagrams and all the required forms, and remember what they were. It felt impossible. And that was kind of the point.

More new chapbooks from Ethel to check out: Celebrity Ghost, my book of drawings/comics; and About Ethel, by and about Ethel!!

Got this chapbook by Todd Colby & @joannapenncooper.bsky.social at @quimbysbookstore.bsky.social today & it is so funny and alive!

Last night over a hundred of us chose to write in the dark glow of Audre Lorde’s love. Here is our medicinal solstice poem: www.alexispauline.com/now/2024/12/...

Nice article.

Lettering samples with ink and gouache 😎

2024 Headline of the Year nominee (January)

With our winter pop-up taking glorious shape, here's the lowdown on our spring sub call - opening 1st February (link in comments). We're opening our recycling bin for REPRINTS for this one so start having a root aboot in your pubs lists 🦝 🧵1/2

"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."

L'Humanité du 19 décembre : Gisèle Pelicot, merci madame 📰 humanite.fr

just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

“I was guiding him through the canyon of lights, which were an antidote to grief, as was Nicholson Baker himself" From Catherine Barnett’s, “Nicholson Baker and I,” one of our most-read poems of the year.

Suburban kids with biblical names

Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire.