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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

From a former RA: If you suspect any of your residents are potential trans students, no you don't. Your job is ensuring a safe residential experience. Fucking act like it.

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Jen Stein Hauptmann @dexlira.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This is what we lost my dad to. Good news about research. Infuriating that the administration wants to shut down cancer research.

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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

As a former scientist, I can confirm this. People make big sacrifices to be researchers — years of school and very low pay. You are usually poor for at least a decade. Also, most science can't be done without expensive equipment. You can't just set up a cancer research lab in your spare bedroom.

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

hey i have a poem in the new issue of LETTERS that's about hope and belief and believe it or not, eggs, if you'd like to take a look. www.lettersjournal.com/i-tell-mysel...

I Tell Myself the Beloved Can Be the Self
and I try to believe it, too, the way I try to believe
in most things that are beautiful and therefore impossible

to have faith in, like believing the robin eggs will be
whole as sky beneath their overturned nest, like believing

the mother bird will always return as long as I don’t
touch her nestlings. I wing out both arms in the nest

of my bed. I feel every space like the freedom
that flight is: not without fear, not without the recognition

of a world disappearing, too far away to squint and see.
I tell myself I too deserve beauty, even if my tongue bitters

its taste. I tell myself to keep telling myself that if
living alone is a shell of a life, an egg takes that shape

because it’s the strongest, that I can be gentle enough
not to break what I, after all, give myself to carry.

by Emma Bolden

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Lacey N. Dunham (she/her) @bookbent.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The most horrifying slide from today’s National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) organization grant webinar, imo

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

thank god we still have pets at least

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A lot of chronic illness is post viral. People are healthy until they get flu, mono, covid etc It only takes one infection to upend your life & leave you with severe disabilities RFK Jr says he wants to end chronic illness epidemic & yet will make avoiding viruses harder Get boosted. Wear a mask.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Molly Brodak

IN THE MORNING, BEFORE
ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS

The sky is open
all the way.

Workers upright on the line
like spokes.

I know there is a river somewhere,
lit, fragrant, golden mist, all that,

whose irrepressible birds
can’t believe their luck this morning
and every morning.

I let them riot
in my mind a few minutes more
before the news comes.

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Jen Stein Hauptmann @dexlira.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Made in Reston is a local organization that hands out supplies and needs for our unhoused and vulnerable neighbors in Reston, VA. Please consider donating vital cold weather supplies or sharing this so other people with the means might. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Check out my list on Amazon

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Jen Stein Hauptmann @dexlira.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Yeah. It’s hard because my family is on FB but lately I’ve been using it less and less.

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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I saw this on TikTok but I had to go see it for myself. The White House website, translated into Spanish—gone. And they’ve replaced the Home button with the words “Go Home.” www.whitehouse.gov/es/

The White House website translated into Spanish has been taken offline, and the home button replaced with the words “go home.“

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Jen Stein Hauptmann @dexlira.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I should start using BlueSky more. George agrees. Right now the world is just so overwhelming. It’s hard to feel connected to things.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Write that book. Send that story. Query that agent. Ask for that blurb. Maybe it doesn’t work out, but there’s a chance it will, and that chance—however small you think it is—is all you need.

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Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you don't know this poet, you should. He died too early and I have carried this poem with me since his death in 2001. I believe everyone should know it... those last 2 lines. From Rooms Are Never Finished by Agha Shahid Ali.

Stationery
by Agha Shahid Ali

The moon did not become the sun.
It just fell on the desert
in great sheets, reams
of silver handmade by you.
The night is your cottage industry now,
the day is your brisk emporium.
The world is full of paper.

Write to me.

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

thinking about this W.S. Merwin poem (“Rain Light”)

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 17/11/2024

fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things: 1) "nah, I'm not doing that" 2) "nah, you're not doing that" a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one

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Jen Stein Hauptmann @dexlira.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I would like to join the poets of Bluesky party, please. As would @rogueagent.bsky.social (so if you don’t follow RA give us a follow!)

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Jen Stein Hauptmann @dexlira.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I just got here. Well no I opened an account long ago but am only just using it now. Asst editor at Rogue Agent.

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!

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SJ Groenewegen @sjgroenewegen.co.uk · 14/11/2024

Please use alt text for all images you’re posting.

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Rogue Agent Journal @rogueagent.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Rogue Agent is looking for your best embodiment poems for upcoming issues. We'd especially like to invite POC, disabled writers, LGBTQ+ writers, and any other writers from marginalized communities to submit. Hope to see your work! www.rogueagentjournal.com#issue106-sec...

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RogueAgent

Welcome to Rogue Agent, a Journal for poetry and art that inhabits the body.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Just an observation, but… There are more men named Paul on this year’s Booker Prize shortlist than there are women or people of colour.

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Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Which of your fave journals & indie presses have made their way over to the other side? Boost them here?

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

keep seeing these outfit of the day posts on my IG feed and I want to do a chronic pain version, like “today I could not manage pants but styled this chic nightshirt with a sloth on it, designer Targét.”

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

"like i said it didn’t really matter that we still hadn’t even had sex, so we undressed each other for the first time and we let the water run over us, hot and stinging our brownskin red" —n.l. rivera

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One Poem by n.l. rivera – beestung

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Rogue Agent Journal @rogueagent.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Send us your work! We want your viscera, the places you ache, your embodied poetry and artwork. www.rogueagentjournal.com#submit-section

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RogueAgent

Welcome to Rogue Agent, a Journal for poetry and art that inhabits the body.

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scare-ah 👻 @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

yes / I love you and yes / I miss you when we don’t talk / see that place in the field there / where the grass has been flattened / by some wild animal / I am the grass / you are the empty space / we are both / the animal #poetry #writingcommunity

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Jen Stein Hauptmann @dexlira.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Learning to cook for not the whole family is a constant reminder that the kids are off at college having adventures.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Goodbye summer and hello September! That means FREE SUBS ARE OPEN for fiction, flash, memoir, interviews/reviews & art!!

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Jen Stein Hauptmann @dexlira.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

A scarecrow, a cinder cone, and a hollow apple… RA 102 is here! Featuring poetry by Yael Valencia Aldana, Lorelei Bach, Anne Champion, Jillian Clasky, Fox Henry Frazier, Vanessa Couto Johnson, Jen Karetnick, Lisa Marie Oliver, Monique Quintana, and Kristin Camitta Zimet —with art by Simone Stoll.you

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Issue 102 — RogueAgent

Welcome!

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