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Brian A. Salmons

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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. - Kant

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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When grief walks our way, it feels a lot like the incisive imagery in this short poem from Justin Karcher, paired with "I'll Believe in Anything" by Wolf Parade. 🖤 www.major7mag.com/post/i-ll-be... @justinkarcher.bsky.social
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"I'll Believe in Anything" • Wolf Parade (by Justin Karcher)
If I could brush my memory clean, I believe you would be the only thing that would remain.
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Did an impromptu impression of The Fonz for my son, but I referred to him as "The Foz" and sounded like Rodney Dangerfield. Did that without even tryin', y'all. #wockawockawocka
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Fozzie Bear Performing Stand-Up Comedy
ALT: Fozzie Bear Performing Stand-Up Comedy
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Federica Silvi's "Polyester Bride" is a powerful snapshot of couch-surfing to rock bottom, and one lost soul coming to righteous defense of another. 🖤 www.major7mag.com/post/polyest... @edgwareviabank
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"Polyester Bride" • Liz Phair (by Federica Silvi)
Between one lost creature and another, it makes no difference.
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What if national parks didn't preserve the myth of American innocence, but actually told the truth about American empire? -- Craig Santos Perez
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"As she plays, I make-believe a nation / where all this is a public good, non-rivalrous / and inclusive. A nation where housing, / government, and food are no longer privatized." -- Craig Santos Perez
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Christie Chapman's "Do It Again" takes us to a lurid striptease in a hotel room, a private moment between an older man and a young woman who takes control of possibility, pulling desire across the gap of a generation. www.major7mag.com/post/do-it-a...
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“Do It Again” • Steely Dan (by Christie Chapman)
I might be a pretend stripper but I know about striptease.
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New poem up at @onefallreview.bsky.social thanks @mcdolan.bsky.social ! Anybody like WWF wrestling? The Tiananmen Square protests? Both in one poem?
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One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Free writing prompt: Write a series of expletive laced haikus about your dad recording M*A*S*H reruns over your bootleg Halloween Havoc VHS.
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Now playing: Volume 26 ten writers for you to enjoy xo www.major7mag.com/post/literar...
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Literary Mixtape Volume 26
On acts of resistance.
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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"'Starálfur' is not prayer, but people respond": a new extracurricular by @icooper435.bsky.social on the glorious Sigur Ros: marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Learn more than you wanted, in my new extracurricular essay at @marchxness.bsky.social
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
“Damn man stop interrupting me I’m trying to tell a story here! So she reappears dressed in scrubs y’know like Comet-green nurse garb” Isaac Offski’s “Natural Disasters” • Unwound is a hell of a lot of fun to read. Find it in Volume 25. www.major7mag.com/post/by-isaa...
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"Natural Disasters" • Unwound (by Isaac Offski)
Damn man stop interrupting me I’m trying to tell a story here!
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
five albums, five stories. happy holidays, kids! feat. stories by @mallorysmart.bsky.social, @aaronburch.bsky.social, Daniel O. Bailey, @parkeryoung.bsky.social, @badguybirnie.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...
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Friday Five: December 26, 2025
Fives and Faves.
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
"... fear of heights has nothing to do with the distance from the ground or tall buildings,... it’s about our own human urge to fall when we get that far up, the knowledge that we could plummet, we could go, if we wanted. When I think about Spencer, I wonder why I didn’t choose to fall with him,..."
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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
New substack with news on the hardcopies of the anthology, @meganc.bsky.social's Best Movies of 2025 list, and a new extracurricular by @katprow.bsky.social on Crystal Waters! open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
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Katrina Prow on Crystal Waters & End of Year
La da dee la dee da
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
“i believe in things like ‘the universe’ hope that doesn’t turn you off” @romyewing.bsky.social returns to M7 with a self-portrait of a poem in “Nothing Better” • The Postal Service. Now playing in Volume 25. www.major7mag.com/post/nothing...
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"Nothing Better" • The Postal Service (by Romy Rhoads Ewing)
i am only detail-oriented in pursuit of ruining myself
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Your Friday Five for Dec - five albums, five stories. feat. Tyler Dempsey, Naomi Skwarna, Madeeha Hashmi, D.T. Robbins, Franz Jørgen Neumann www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...
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Friday Five: December 12, 2025
Fives and Faves.
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
“Rest your head on the back of your palms, and breathe deep that rainwater earth.” Marco Visciolaccio meditates on disappointing your mother while traversing the Yalu River, bordering China and North Korea, in "You Are My Sunshine" • Gene Autry. In Volume 25! www.major7mag.com/post/you-are...
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"You Are My Sunshine" • Gene Autry (by Marco Visciolaccio)
It’s a drinking song, you reply, which is the honest-to-God, massaged truth.
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
something new - your M7 Friday Five five albums, five stories (one fav!) www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...
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Friday Five: December 5, 2025
New experiment on Fives and Favs.
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This is so incredible and beautiful and sad. I love it.
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Really liked the poem 'Terminal Felicity' by @cubistoctopus.bsky.social in the latest @miraclemonocle.bsky.social ... "She whispers like the wind once whispered: / In the end, / you are the end— / the lisp before the longest dusk..."
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
“Get back out there. Pull the ghosts from the 8-track.” Scott Laudati brings us a heartfelt ode to a childhood hero in “Common Knowledge” • Conor Oberst. Read it in Volume 25. www.major7mag.com/post/common-...
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"Common Knowledge" • Connor Oberst (by Scott Laudati)
Get back out there. Pull the ghosts from the 8-track.
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Fun Book Person @alexmiller77.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
make @misternagel.bsky.social famous open.substack.com/pub/littleen...
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Very Important People
an essay by Mike Nagel
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Hey, share this with all your friends. Submissions to Major 7th Magazine are open until January 1st. Have a flash piece or poem inspired by a song? Send it to us. www.major7mag.com/submit
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
hi lovers, volume 25 is live xo www.major7mag.com/post/literar...
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Literary Mixtape Volume 25
On self-discipline.
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"...we've all had those feelings that would never hold up in a court of law. But they keep our nights sleepless anyway, because at the root of those feelings, there is a sadness so intense that it defies reason..." Beautiful phrasing of the axiom that emotions don't have to make sense to be valid.
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"When Facebook came along, offering Gen X a 24-hour class reunion, we intersected again; by then, he had styled himself with a Buddhist title, looking for meaning there. It still seemed ill defined, uncertain, like he continued to be searching for words and just not being able to find them."
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
"Then suddenly you sit up straight in the middle of a random mid-August Wednesday night."
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"Everyone has a Dave. Some version of him is trying to lodge himself in your bones as we speak." now playing: "The Joker" • Steve Miller Band (by @mallorysmart.bsky.social) www.major7mag.com/post/the-jok...
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"The Joker" • Steve Miller Band (by Mallory Smart)
Just proof that we were there.
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"What matters is that I can still feel it, twenty years later, true as a sore throat." now playing: "San Dimas High School Football Rules" • The Ataris (by @amy-e-casey.bsky.social ) www.major7mag.com/post/san-dim...
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"San Dimas High School Football Rules" • The Ataris (by Amy E. Casey)
What matters is that I can still feel it, twenty years later, true as a sore throat.
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Reading back to get inspiration for my upcoming extracurricular at @marchrly.bsky.social and found @coriwinrock.bsky.social's essay on Hole. Rly enjoyed this! marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
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THE GAMES — March Second Chanceness
Games begin and end at 9am AZ time.
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Ancient Rome. I know. Boring. I thought so too until we systematically learned about each period, ruler, & I understood how much happened, how fascinating it was...NOT in some smug decline of civilization manosphere sense...but just for its own sake. BTW I was an Anthro major. So, can't use that.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 31/07/2025
During debate on a congressional stock trading ban introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley, Sen. Ron Johnson, one of the richest members of Congress worth an estimated $55 million, said the bill would “make it very unattractive for people to step up to the plate and run for office.”
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Ron Johnson, Worth $40M, Says Stock Trading Ban Would Make It “Unattractive” to Be in Congress
Sen. Ron Johnson is one of the richest members of Congress, with a net worth of tens of millions of dollars.
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Pumped that my extracurricular pitch for @marchxness.bsky.social was given the green light. It's going to bite! (like in a good way)
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Pleased with the latest (final?) draft of a poem I'm writing for @metmuseum.org open call for Fall 2025 issue of Metaphrastics, for ekphrastic poems on items in their Arms and Armor collection. Might even write a couple more before the Sept 15 deadline. www.metphrastics.com/submit
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Submit — Metphrastics
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I'll be spinning this a lot in the coming months. Join in! Marchxness is so much fun, and interactive.
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Awesome new poem by my friend @mariness.bsky.social
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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
So here is your 64 lottery picks with their song choices updated as they come in. Congratulations to those who got lucky in the lottery this year! Those who didn't: pitch us EXTRACURRICULARS! We start running essays in September/October. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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March Sadness 90s Edition Lottery and Draft doc with Longlist
March Sadness 90s Edition Lottery and Draft doc with Longlist If yr name is drawn, we'll send you an email (and put it on the bsky). You've got 24 hours to get back to us with your pick (we're askin...
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 17/09/2023
human endeavor clumsily betrays humanity - from "Japan", Anthony Hecht
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
After yrs of thinking I'm 'not ready', 'not good enough', 'have not written enough', I decided yesterday it's time to sub out a chapbook. I've got 24 pages/poems assembled. The ones I still like after sometimes yrs of revision. What's your advice to a virgin chapbook subber?
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