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Carolyn Ostrander

@clow.bsky.social

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Poet. Editor, The Comstock Review. Rhet/Comp & Historiography. Rural Studies. Linguistics. Multimodal/ Multilingual Acquisition. Disability/Deaf Studies. Educational Equity & Access. Best endorsement to date: my GP reports "Patient is a good historian"

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Carolyn Ostrander @clow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Curly-haired actor George Wendt as "Norm" in TV comedy "Cheers." He wears a tan suit with a white shirt and brown tie, and a black watchband on his left wrist. He leans on the bar with a full beer in a mug on a white napkin in front of him. He looks slightly skeptical at someone on his left.

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Carolyn Ostrander @clow.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

It was Pi day, so you know:

One uncut apple pie with golden brown crust pierced in a pattern of radiating lines and browned syrupy filling peeping through the holes and around the lower right part of the rim. The pie is in a yellow ceramic pie plate on a cutting board, sitting on a light and medium brown woven bamboo place mat with a gray cloth binding.

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Carolyn Ostrander @clow.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Weather forecasters may be in grave jeopardy in PA. If this isn't fortune telling, what is?

Black and white Winter country scene. Caption on the right reads "Here are the changes for a white Christmas in south-central Pennsylvania"

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Carolyn Ostrander @clow.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Clean air, clean water & health campaigns FTW. I cut my foot but got antibiotics & didn't die like my great-great-grandpa-in-law did. I didn't die as a child of smallpox or polio like some of my parents' classmates did pre-vax, nor of cholera, dysentery or typhoid from dirty water like these kids:

1 large and 4 small gravestones stand between a small footpath and a dense stand of trees with fern undergrowth in an abandoned cemetery. Leetonia, PA (ghost town and former lumbering camp 1880s-1920s) photo 2006

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Carolyn Ostrander @clow.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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Meme image: white-haired woman wearing beige sweater white pants, black and beige scarf and glasses stands in front of clippings arranged on a wall as a brown-haired women in a matching blue top and sweater gestures. Caption: "That's not how this works" above and "That's not how any of this works" below.

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Carolyn Ostrander @clow.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Something bright to go with your coffee

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Carolyn Ostrander @clow.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Title "The Small Black Hand of Fascism" At left, a skeletal black-gloved hand floats. Center: D J Trump's left-silhouetted head on a white collar & blue tie pedestal. Full photo: Trump's black suit merges into night-black background. Screenshot from Reuters photo; Crediting photo source with a QT

D. J. Trump in a left-facing silhouette against a black background, wearing a black suit, white-collared shirt and blue tie. Only the collar and tie, Trump's head, and the upraised black-gloved hand on the left (in front from Trump's perspective) are visible. The gloved hand is facing the camera and uplifted at a 45 degree angle so that it seems to float in front of him. The glove reflects narrow lines of light on the four fingers and thumb, giving it a skeletal appearance. Screenshot from a photo taken on Feb 19, 2025 and credited to Reuters. The photo accompanied an article in The Hindu on Feb 20, 2025. In the full photo Trump's black suit merges into the night-black background, creating the floating images described. Crediting photo source in the QT article

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Carolyn Ostrander @clow.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Don't let Halloween excitement TRICK you into missing out on submitting your Chapbook to the Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest! TREAT your best poetry to a chance at publication - Submissions end on October 31st, so don't delay! comstockreview.submittable.com/submit #poetrycontest #chapbook

Text: Don't let Halloween excitement TRICK you into missing out on submitting your Chapbook to the Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest!
TREAT your best poetry to a chance at publication -
Submissions end on October 31st, so don't delay!
https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit #poetrycontest #chapbook Image: cover art by artist Yolanda Tooley from The Comstock Review Fall/Winter 2009. collection of masks in grayscale on a black background

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