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madelaine caritas longman

@effervescentvoid.bsky.social
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author of The Danger Model (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019). poetry / essays / neurodiversity & disability studies / 🏳️‍🌈

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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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io (shop is open!) @waxwings.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
interstate angel
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
22 years ago today, a digital video forum accidentally became the internet's loneliness hub
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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If you have a crush on a woman you should give her $200. Women love $200.
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
academic on a first date: my red flags? um... manichean binaries. and deleterious lacunas.
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by Patrick Cottrell was very moving. Deftly handled balance of humour and sadness, and a voice that felt genuinely fresh and surprising. I loved Sorry to Disrupt the Peace and also loved how this book felt so tonally distinct while exploring the same themes.
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New books from several favourites out this season, including Brandi Bird, Patrick Cottrell, Sara Peters, and Ada Hoffman. What a great summer.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
find what makes you want to write and do more of that thing. find what makes you not want to write and don't do more of that thing. in fact, avoid that second thing. ok that'll be $5,000.
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
before academia: nothing makes sense and i am so confused after academia: i am stymied by doxastic conflict and epistemic akrasia
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li = best book read in ages.
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Tuesday poem #680 : Madelaine Caritas Longman : guzzle III / @effervescentvoid.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ; dusie.blogspot.com/2026/04/tues...
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Tuesday poem #680 : Madelaine Caritas Longman : guzzle III
after John Thompson TELEPATHY WITH GOD reads a sticker on the metro Thank God I’m an atheist reads another. Drumheller, Red Earth, Me...
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Update. Still don't know what I meant but I've decided to keep this permanently on my to-do list. You should too. Very inspiring.
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Psychologically healed by the local bookstore. Eclectic independent literature > end of semester stress.
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Laura-Louise Slattery @redheadpinupreader.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
For any writer who needs to hear this: You don't have to write a bestselling literary masterpiece 📚💸 Write the book you wish existed 🌸✨
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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"Walked outside and my hands struck their own / endings, more mind than my mind. My mind didn’t end." Excerpt from @effervescentvoid.bsky.social's poem(s?) "River at Night" + detail from Matthew Wong's 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 (2018) Read "River at Night" in ISSUE 2.3: longconmag.com/issue-2-3/ma...
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Madelaine Caritas Longman: How a Poem Begins periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/03/made...
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Madelaine Caritas Longman: How a Poem Begins
How does a poem begin?       Poetry comes to me often—while walking, while cleaning, while riding the metro, while having a coffee, ...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
it is really bad how many people across the political spectrum on social media seem to discuss things in terms of discredited genetic pseudoscience when it comes to identity
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Being a professor is like Picture of Dorian Gray except it’s the students who stay young and full of life while you decay year after year in front of them
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
level of sleep deprivation where i write "pay bill" on my list only to immediately stare at it in confusion trying to remember who Bill is
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Slideshare Gems @goodslides.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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sam @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026
I just thought everyone should see this
Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
@kareem_carr
Jan 21
reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar
Jan 21
a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A rabbi asked his pupils how they could tell when the night had ended and the day was on its way back.
“Could it be,”asked one student, “when you can see an animal in the distance and tell whether it is a sheep or a dog?”
“No,” answered the rabbi. “
Could it be,” asked another, “ when you can look at a tree in the distance and tell whether it is a fig tree or a peach tree?” 
“No,” said the rabbi. 
“Well, then what is it?” his pupils demanded. 
“It is when you look on the face of any woman or man and see that they are your sister or brother. Because if you cannot do this, then no matter what time it is, it is still night.”
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /
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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
YOU COME RIGHT OVER HERE AND EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE HAVING ANOTHER YEAR
Dorothy Parker
Telegram to Robert Benchley
31st December 1929
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mtlreviewofbooks.bsky.social @mtlreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
"Temporally and geographically expansive, 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦’s apparent digressions sediment into uncanny layers." Madelaine Caritas Longman in conversation with Stephanie Bolster. Read the rest at the link: mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/long... @effervescentvoid.bsky.social
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
edited big essay. possibly made it worse but oh well. a process has transpired.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Just read Justin Torres' We the Animals. Love when a book is so good it leaves you thinking, "Oh yeah. This is why books exist."
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
books i have reread most often: short talks - anne carson the vertical interrogation of strangers - bhanu kapil god's silence - franz wright stilt jack - john thompson
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
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Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
the life of dunsparce
Screenshot of the Pokémon anime showing a screenshot of dunsparce and kids sitting on a bench looking a bookScreenshot of the Pokémon anime showing a screenshot of a dunsparce picture book with text reading “In the morning, dunsparce eats breakfast and goes to sleep.”Screenshot of the Pokémon anime showing a screenshot of a dunsparce picture book with text reading “At noon, dunsparce eats lunch and goes to sleep.”Screenshot of the Pokémon anime showing two kids reading the dunsparce picture book with text and the bottom reading “And at night, dunsparce eats dinner and goes to sleep.”
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Every 30 minutes I let out a long blood curdling shriek to keep my mind sharp
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
sick today but just had a poem accepted in Modern Haiku :)
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
"Advice" by Ruth Stone. Poems that make you audibly say "oof."
The poem "Advice" by Ruth Stone. It reads:

My hazard wouldn’t be yours, not ever;
But every doom, like a hazelnut, comes down
To its own worm. So I am rocking here
Like any granny with her apron over her head
Saying, lordy me. It’s my trouble.
There’s nothing to be learned this way.
If I heard a girl crying help
I would go to save her;
But you hardly ever hear those words.
Dear children,
You must try to say
Something when you are in need.
Don’t confuse hunger with greed;
And don’t wait until you are dead.
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
love this poem by Hannah Gamble
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Leisure, Hannah, Does Not Agree with You (2)
My house disgusted me, so I slept in a tent. My tent disgusted me, so I slept in the grass.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I remember that online post lamenting the embarrassment of being an adult figuring out social/emotional dynamics that others grasped as children, but as corny as it sounds I find it uplifting to remember that learning is never finished and life in adulthood can still change and improve.
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
It is a stressful time of year, but here are some books that arrived and which I am looking forward to reading: Stone Sky - N.K. Jemisin More Everything Forever - Adam Becker No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets We the Animals - Justin Torres
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Generally speaking, people enjoy learning, challenging themselves, and contributing to the world; the preferred degree of intensity may vary, but when people are physically and mentally well, they *like* to do things. Working towards goals that align with one's values feels rewarding.
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avery @pucksarcana.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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chicken on a beach 

‘if you are seeing this the curse is lifted have a good day’
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"My brother has a van full of rifles, a string of wives and children along the interstate, and I do not know if he shaves or does not. We each think the other has flattened a life." Mary Ruefle, "Cul-de-sac"
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Thinking about how everyone has a unique way of experiencing thought (some more linear, some more associative, different speeds and rhythms, different relationships to visualization and language) can be overwhelming but it's also beautiful. Corny sentiment but everyone really is irreplaceable.
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I love how poetry reminds you that people have so many different emotional ranges and ways of experiencing cognition. It's such a privilige to be granted that entry to the rhythms and textures of someone's thoughts.
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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Franz Wright again— Who on earth ?
On Earth

Resurrection of the little apple tree outside my window, leaf-
 light of late
in the April
called her eyes, forget
forget— but how
How does one go
about dying? Who on earth
is going to teach me—
The world is filled with people
who have never died

Franz Wright
from Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Knopf, 2003)
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Madelaine Caritas Longman : Three poems / @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/made...
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Madelaine Caritas Longman : Three poems
guzzle XIII balcony collapsing, the roof rotting through, low rent; i’ll live here as long as i can.  nowhere to turn to that isn’t...
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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
For the day that's in it... 'All Hallows' by Louise Gluck - has a deep sense of loneliness and loss, that shifting between the seasons, and the final lines where the veil between this world and the next becomes thin #poetry #poemoftheday #Halloween
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Carlos A. Pittella @pittella.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
👉 This from the brilliant review/interview/essay by @effervescentvoid.bsky.social on Stephanie Bolster's «Long Exposure», just published at mRb... mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/long...
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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Stuninng Victoria Chang poem: yalereview.org/article/vict...
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Victoria Chang: “The Swan”
A poem by Victoria Chang: “The thin shirtless / man fishing by / the river. The woman // by his side, smoking.“
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