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Me: Not sure I can keep going times are tough for real *eats lunch* Me: Being alive is its own reward, drawing breath such a beautiful privilege

@midwesternskirt.bsky.social K. Weber is such a great poet to work with! I highly recommend getting involved in her donated words projects, and I hope you enjoy my little piece!

Sometimes I really think I have undiagnosed ADHD, like how I'm dealing with trauma by screwing around with my LinkedIn, a new author website, and a FB author page at 1:40 in the morning.

Look what just arrived!

Clean Margins is now available for you to purchase on the Kelsay Books site and Amazon in both paperback and eBook editions. It's a nice short read featuring exploding frogs, missing brains, black holes, raccoons and some cancer (but nothing too dire). www.amazon.com/Clean-Margin...

I absolutely love this solidarity! I have been heartbroken over administrative changes at IU, particularly the dismantling of their foreign language programs.

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know. findmeatherapist.org

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

She's the best of us! 🙏🙏🙏

Brighton Park Gas Station Worker Cheered After Giving Out Supplies To Protesters Tear-Gassed By Feds: ‘We Have To Be Human’ #BlockClubChicago

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

It's Istanbul not

At the end of the day, don't we all just want to go on bookstore crawls, bakery crawls, library crawls, and museum crawls?

it was the stupidest of times; it was the worst of times

This is a great publication to be in...go ahead and submit!

So excited to give you this sneak peek! More info soon!

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On Aug. 2nd at 2 p.m., I will be joining several other local poets at the Oliva Gallery (3816 W. Armitage) to read 3 short poems on the theme of "Luminosity" to accompany their new exhibit. If you're in the Chicago area, come join me for an afternoon of poetry and art!

So proud to have two pieces in this issue!

I've got two poems in the debut issue of Lamp Lit! Check out this fantastic publication, all the great writing and artwork, and start planning your submission for the next issue! Lamplit.net

Getting a lot of the doomers here on the 4th of July. Just a reminder that on the original 4th of July, a king had already sent an army to occupy Boston, the signers of the Declaration had good reason to believe they would be hanged, and it would be another five years before Americans won the war.

William De Morgan

This was such a shock to hear today.

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Appreciation post for this little guy in our manuscript of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica. He's been holding up this annotation in the margin for more than 500 years!! 💪 Not all heroes wear capes... some wear tunics. (Trinity College MS R.7.3)

Just clicked "send" on my Clean Margins manuscript! Can't wait for you all to read it... but there's more proofing to do first!

Why in the year of our Lord 2025 are dental x-rays still like being in a Marilyn Manson video? I can't bite down on this thing you put in my mouth because it's the size of a small SUV!

FUN FACT: Helen Hunt is a stage name, her given name is The Iliad

Why do so many Americans not have empathy for anyone? Do they think this makes them look cool? It makes them look weak.

Update to bird crapping on my head: I just won $15 on an instant lottery ticket, so everything you've heard about it being good luck is true. They never said it was going to be a LOT of good luck.

A bird crapped on my head at the zoo this evening! I'm told it is a sign of good luck. Questionable.

The Ministry show tonight was just a delight... everything I needed it to be. I love the synthpop stuff unapologetically! Ending the show with @chrisconnelly.com singing "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" was the perfect dopamine hit.

I took my very first author photo today. This involved the artful application of what is, to me, an insane amount of makeup. Sometimes I'll do a little cc cream, eyeshadow, and lipstick. I had no idea. When the MUA was done with me, I had a different lip shape and full brows. I was stunned!

The dog in my profile pic chewed up the end of my laptop charger for my work computer, rendering it nonfunctional, and she doesn't feel bad about it at all.

Putting a list together of my various poetry publications, and so many of these online lit mags are defunct. What a massacre!

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

The single greatest thing about NYC is the ability to buy a piece of pizza, decide you're still hungry, then walk two doors down and get another piece of pizza.

Found out today I have three—count 'em, three!—poems coming out in Lamp Lit's Summer Issue! Their submission window is open until April 30th! lamplit.net/submission-g... #poetry

If you were wondering what Scooby Doo is in French, it's Scoubidou.

This #NationalLibraryWeek, when you donate $15 or more to the ALA Show Up for Our Libraries fund or your public library, you’ll receive an audiobook credit from Libro.fm! Details at: blog.libro.fm/libraryweek/ Thank you, @libro.fm!

A beautiful sketch of Helm's Deep that Tolkien drew.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Happy National Library Week! If you don't have a library card, go get one. If you have one, use it! Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections. Use it or lose it!