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Thank you @petrichorlit.bsky.social for the nomination 😍 You can read the nominated poem here: petrichormag.com/26-meredith-... (best read on desktop)

Hello! Here’s the first of some forthcoming updates—the Critical Circle is on! Send your application between today and June 15th. Time for discourse in July!

“being a human is so baseline sometimes. It’s just fuckin toast stuck in the toaster.” - gentian rhosa

I've a new piece up in Jet Fuel Review, a work of short fiction exploring medical misogyny, embodied anxiety, and the struggles of interpersonal intimacy throughout climate collapse. I'd love you for life if you gave it a read. Many thanks to the JFR team!!! www.jetfuelreview.com/meredith-mac...

the Vinted icon changed to a shade just ever so slightly darker and it’s driving me mad

growing up is realising that the better your activism & organising & advocacy work is for your CV, the less effective it is at changing the status quo of systemic oppression

Here is our nonfiction excerpt “On Engagement.” By Meredith Macleod Davidson.

That’s me! So honoured to have this piece up in the incredible @anthro-poetry.bsky.social !!! Thank you team 💜💜💜

Having led a team of admissions counsellors for 5 years in another life, & been an academic for longer, I’m here w. the annual pro bono offer of aid — essays, LORs, application fee funds — for folks from marginalised backgrounds applying to Master’s/PhDs abroad. Share, DM 🌸.

WHY DID I TWEET THIS IN MY SLEEP

what if speakeasy menus were just taco bars

genuinely nothing so special as Finnish sauna culture

love Finland and devastated to leave it - where else will a group of naked sweating people hear me out while I ramble incoherently for 20 minutes about the foreign critique of America through films such as The Apprentice and Civil War and meet me with something vaguely akin to sincerity?

"But when, after decades of respectful prodding, the condition one arrives at is reticent acceptance of genocide, is it not at least worth considering that you are not changing the system nearly as much as the system is changing you?"

magic dusk moments

hello from the forest today 🤍

🌀 you want to order a copy of @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social ( & read two poems by me! paired with unreal photography!) so badly 🌀

Don't forget, the new Abridged issue is now online! If you want a copy of the print edition, drop us a line. It's free plus postage and packaging.

Thank you @dustpoetry.bsky.social for sharing my odd love poem on Valentine’s Day - read at the link below 💜

A lovely Finnish aurora to add to the very gorgeous full moon clear night we’ve got goin’ here tonight 🤍

they found Refaat Alareer's body www.palestinechronicle.com/refaat-alare... rest in power, poet 🌹🙏🏾💜

poetry is life

this tree and i wrote a poem together today

desk on day one of residency month

In the middle of the upheaval, we have to do what we can with the conditions available. One does not engage in political struggle because one knows the outcome in advance, but because one refuses to accept the conditions of the present. - Arthur Asseraf, “The Algeria Analogy”

when u make eye contact with the dog waiting for its owner to finish breakfast in the Estonian cafe >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Such a joy to launch TANGERINE DREAM - the first crisp packet poetry publication - Wednesday night at The Glad Cafe in Glasgow. Thanks to @alasdairwatson.bsky.social for coming along & taking these wonderful photos which so perfectly captured the vibe 🧡🧡🧡

We call on academics to NOT renew their memberships to AHA, MLA, AWP or any other professional org that hasn’t taken a clear stance against Israel’s war crimes; to boycott their conferences; and donate your dues and fees to Palestinians here: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

Delighted to have a “joy” poem in this lovely issue of @dustpoetry.bsky.social - give this curation of ebullient, radical poems a read at the link below 💜 (love & thx to the wonderful editors!)

Just when I begin to feel acclimated to this country someone tells me some shit like “the tiffin is the thinking man’s rocky road” and I don’t even know what a tiffin is

This is doing wonders for me at the moment (MOTHERHOOD - Sheila Heti)

I reviewed Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s stunning new collection ‘Winter of Worship’ (out now with @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social ) for The Adroit Journal! Make sure to get yourself (& a friend) a copy of this excellent book of poems. You can read the review here: theadroitjournal.org/2025/01/07/a...

(this is a calculation) Swing Justice by Meredith MacLeod Davidson, a poet and writer from Virginia. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-...

I just donated a little bit to this campaign bringing e-sims to Gaza; they are critically low on funds atm. Please match my donation of $10 (or more if you can!) 💙

🚨 We are the only abortion fund open right now in the Southeast outside of Florida & we need help! We are being slammed w/requests &our budget just isn’t big enough to handle it. Anything you can contribute will help these callers get the abortion care they need. www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund

If you have a review copy of What Good Is Heaven & you're looking for a place to submit a review, here are some ideas! (* = they've published my work!) Southern Literary Review Southern Humanities Review* 32 Poems* Poetry Northwest* Heavy Feather Review* Barrelhouse* swamp pink

I LOVED @rayehendrix.bsky.social 's debut full-length collection WHAT GOOD IS HEAVEN, and I aaaalsssoo LOVED writing into that feeling!!! Check out my review of WHAT GOOD IS HEAVEN, out now in North American Review: northamericanreview.org/open-space/r...

one of my only ever love poems goes live in this issue 🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️

Been thinking a lot about this poem from Meredith MacLeod Davidson in the London Magazine thelondonmagazine.org/poetry-tyran...

Felt compelled to share this piece from the latest @brokenantlermag.bsky.social issue: Tomorrow a Cardinal Alights on My Shoulder, Meredith MacLeod Davidson www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-five-p...

"The Locks" from Meredith MacLeod Davidson, in the latest issue of petrichor. petrichormag.com/26-meredith-...

On November 28th PANK and American Poetry Journal declined all (my) outstanding submissions (from 2022-2023) without a message (& having ignored all status inquiries in the YEARS prior). I’d submitted prior to learning of their sketchiness that emerged around that time. Anyone else?

My heart is not peripheral to me. —June Jordan

On World AIDS Day, a reminder that already in the 1980s David Wojnarowicz was modeling the kind of fuck-you energy we're going to need in the coming years. He had no illusions the government was there to protect him, the people he loved & his community, and neither should we

someone passed me the joint at thanksgiving right as the sax solo in Aja hit I am so sorry

Anora (2024)

Steely Dan is great. Why do we as a society lie about that. I’m thankful for Steely Dan. America is a sick society. Denying Steely Dan supremacy. A sick nation. What a joke

This one closes tomorrow 🙏💜