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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The blood of Christ is now officially Malort

annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Sometimes life is annoying but then I remember showing Amy Hempel this tweet after workshop once and both of us laughing.

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

New essay on the ‘stack about art and beauty and media and monkin’ annieraab.substack.com/p/monkmaxxin...

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A poem for the coming spring

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Happy to see this stretch of "the r/ver" in TIMBER 15.1. With lots of cool work by @bhutong.bsky.social, @roxgom.bsky.social, @annieraab.bsky.social, @enchilada89.bsky.social, and many others. Check out the full lineup here: timberjournal.org

Visual-erasure poem entitled "Cult Awakening," left and right panels with black-and-white background images featuring "lady liberty" besieged by historical forces. Text begins: a stirring / outburst / , bearing / their antagonism / split / into / popular factions.

Visual-erasure poem entitled "Cult Awakening," left and right panels with black-and-white background images featuring colonial-era icons shattered and mutilated by historical forces. Text begins: feeling in / lines, affected the / witness.

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The 7 person orgy in a hotel room while a child sits in a soundproof box designed to look like a spaceship episode of Nathan For You should be sent into space as a communication from earth to the aliens.

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Working (only in my mind) on an essay called “I Gave Up Academia to Find My Wild Side and Never Looked Back”

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I know I need to produce some shareable work soon but I’m so much happier writing without the pressure to publish

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I wish I could hang out with my mom at this age

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

writing has been really fun these days because, for what I'm working on, I need to basically induce insanity.

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

this is such as great idea! cool way to keep a record

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I genuinely do not understand why we should care at all about the US national debt

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Not a mother, not a career woman, but a secret third thing

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I too remember discovering indie alternative and it all seemed so new and fresh compared to everything else. Really a great and too brief time in ones life

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

So sweet the local DJ who spends every weekday from 2-6pm playing the pixies and modest mouse and popping in every other song to say this is Milwaukee’s new music station

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

What happened in the world to produce so many coffee shops with absolutely zero charm? Not even the plants are real anymore

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

something we learned in the group chat today is that we all secretly want to be the kind of woman who can confidently pull off a pixie cut

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

So a really cool thing has happened—I just signed on as a Poetry Editor-at-Large for Texas Review Press today! This means I’ll have full freedom to acquire one poetry book a year and to edit one-on-one with the author throughout the whole process. I’m so so excited.

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Some of those little free libraries should have cigarettes

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This will be my last roundup for Urban Milwaukee. I have the itch to write bolder criticism going forward, some of which is exercised in the Charles Allis writeup here. urbanmilwaukee.com/2024/12/03/m...

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Monthly Art Guide: It’s Not Just About the Holidays

Harleys as art, a great sale of local artists and lots of verbiage from Allis Art Museum.

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Happy Wrapped season. Oh, your top artist was Mozart? Are you a baby in the womb??

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Today I saw the guy in the car behind me clearly mouth the words “What would Joan Didion do? Who the fuck is Joan Didion?” (I have a what would Joan Didion do bumper sticker)

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

“Don’t let anyone stand between you and your dreams” well my dream is to be a modern Diogenes so actually I need a wall of people to stand firmly between me and my dream

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

first glass of wine in 3 months and I’m trippin…righteous gemstones dialogue sounds like it was written by AI

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Now that I will soon be employed I want one of those crazy new manicures

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Help! I'm in a book slump! ISO: a fun experimental jaunt; a thick winter classic; a writer I've never heard of with a great debut. Small presses preferred!

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Trying to pick my Bluesky persona

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

How much do you think is “buy happiness” money but not “mo problems” money?

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I was saving this for December, but maybe starting it during the first snowfall is just as acceptable

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Johnny from MALEDICTIS @maledictis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I hope this finds the right people: I want to follow musicians (especially strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, keyboards, and choral). I want to follow people from anywhere. I’m in Milwaukee. I really love hearing from people who are PASSIONATE about anything! What are YOU passionate about?

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a man in a leather jacket is talking about something

ALT: a man in a leather jacket is talking about something

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

when babies do something impressive or for the first time and it gets a bunch of praise I say, totally serious, “I can do that.” It lands about half the time.

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I know right? I thought we wouldn't have to do this again

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Here's a couple examples. If you are an emerging, submerging, or clamoring writer, maybe we should work together. Message me :)

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Oh yes—I also do book reviews! Send me your small press novels and collections, and I’ll do my best to review it for other small presses and local outlets. Let’s support, revive, and thrive!

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Follow me if you believe in preserving art and beauty in an era of billionaire-run algorithms and endless content slop. I write essays and art criticism and the occasional story, usually from and about the Midwest. Looking for my people!

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Instead of being an insufferable grouch who’s been ruined by the Other Place, maybe I should be a good citizen here. Who should I follow and what makes this place worthwhile? Count on my follow-backs!

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annie raab @annieraab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I said I wouldn't sign up for any more social media but here I am.

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