I haven't posted in ages. HI BLUESKY! Here's my with my Paris besties. xox

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet. But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

Hello and very many thanks to @themassreview.bsky.social My poem "Emergency"--on a fraught trip to a Parisian hospital--is online now :

I have a new poem in The Massachusetts Review !! a piece called "Emergency" about a very creepy evening at an eye hospital in Paris. Many thanks to the very excellent @themassreview.bsky.social

Diane Seuss working her genius in Blackbird:

I just got permanent residency !!

No Kings at la Bastille, Paris

No Kings Paris

I have a new website!! and I'd love to know what you think : marypeelen.com Many thanks to the very excellent digital designer/editor/poet @kristindsanders.bsky.social

LOS ANGELES 💙

I keep rereading this poem by Jane Zwart, finding amazement each time. Every peach / a geode. @poetryfoundation.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social

RIP Martha Silano, fine poet. You will be remembered.

Astrophysicist Joan Feynman was born #OTD in 1927. She explained the origin of auroras, discovered that coronal mass ejections could be identified by the amount of helium in the solar wind, and elucidated the structure of Earth's magnetosphere. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ Image: Charles Hirshberg

#OnThisDay in 1942, Bainbridge Island's Japanese American residents, the first to be incarcerated under Executive Order 9066, were removed from their homes. historylink.org/File/8277

Vive la France.

Lettre de l’ambassade américaine aux entreprises françaises : « Les leçons de probité ont longtemps constitué un excellent business pour les Etats-Unis »

Certains de ces organes ont Une tendance naturelle de ne Plus vouloir leurs propensions. from Poème du stérilet by Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to @fionalarkin.bsky.social on her UK National Poetry Competition win. Richly deserved for a fine, affecting poem. bit.ly/41Tsq3K

Wow: this poem. "Pentimento" by Jenny Molberg on Verse Daily today. @jennymolberg.bsky.social www.versedaily.org/2025/pentime...?

Czarlink

The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later. guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...

Appel pour un accueil des chercheurs américains : « Notre devoir en Europe est de réagir collectivement et de proposer des solutions »

They don't want women to vote.

Call for Applications: Editor-in-Chief, European Journal for Philosophy of Science. Editorship begins 1 September 2025 (negotiable) & renewable term of 4 years. Submit applications to the secretary of @epsaphilsci.bsky.social M. Amine Mansour at [email protected]. Deadline is 15 May 2025. #philsci

Poets and writers: this is a true story. I received a 686-day acceptance for a poem today.

"People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization and the Paris agreement on climate change, deletes datasets that do not fit with its ideology, refuses to pay adequate overhead to universities--

BREAKING: German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius brutally shreds J.D. Vance for his utterly shameful speech attacking Europe at the Munich Security Conference: "This is unacceptable." This is a historic takedown of an American vice president...

🖤🖤🖤 Jimmy Carter 🖤🖤🖤

Mathematical physicist Cécile DeWitt-Morette was born #OTD in 1922. She made foundational contributions to Feynman functional integrals, organized the first American conference on general relativity (important for gravitational waves), and started the Les Houches Summer School. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 (1/n)

🖤 Nikki Giovanni 🖤

Rainy night in Paris #Paris

I just visited that other site and checked out a post from a leading Democrat. The top twenty comments were from accounts I had muted already for being trolls. There isn't much need to go there for US content anymore, it seems.

Visual Culture and Surveillance conference in Paris in June--submit your paper proposal! www.afeccav.org/youre-gonna-...

A million thanks to Verse Daily for featuring my poem "Tool-Using Animals" from Colorado Review !! @versedaily.bsky.social @coloradoreview.bsky.social

Today I'm thankful for literature. It matters, now more than ever. Please consider giving to 🌟Alaska Quarterly Review🌟 journal of exceptional poetry, essays and fiction.

A million thanks to Verse Daily for featuring my poem "Tool-Using Animals" from Colorado Review !! @versedaily.bsky.social @coloradoreview.bsky.social

Yippee! The new Alaska Quarterly Review contains my lyric essay "Have You Ever Given Your Sister a Snowman?" along with tons of amazing writing! Thank you to my friends Dustin and J for allowing me to interview them. Thank you to Ron Spatz and everyone at AQR! Here are pages 1-3 of 14!

🌟 Please join me in supporting Alaska Quarterly Review 🌟 ✨ Donate Here (www.aqreview.org/donate) ✨ #AlaskaQuarterlyReview #SupportArt #LiteraryLegacy

www.cortlandreview.com/issue-93/mar... I'm so very happy to have a new poem "On the Permanence of Objects" in The Cortland Review. With many thanks to @sharalessley.bsky.social and the editors at TCR.

Exactly five years ago: #poetry "I don’t try to reconcile the contradictions of quantum physics; instead I celebrate in its strange magic." @gizem-karaali.bsky.social chats with poet @ohmary.bsky.social (QUANTUM HERESIES, Glass Lyre Press), today on the blog! theadroitjournal.org/2019/11/18/p...

www.cortlandreview.com/issue-93/mar... I'm so very happy to have a new poem "On the Permanence of Objects" in The Cortland Review. With many thanks to @sharalessley.bsky.social and the editors at TCR.

My writing advice is to steep yourself in wonderful writing—that is how water becomes wonderful tea. 🍵

It is such an honor to have a reading with some of my newer work featured on Alaska Quarterly Review's channel. It premieres today, but if this blustery day isn't good for you, it'll be there whenever you've a moment. I hope that my words find a home with you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExoM...

Dear POETS, where are you these days? I used to see you on Twitter but not so much around here. Please do say hello...? #poetry #poetrytwitter #poetrycommnity #writer