iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I forgot what an absolute visual feast that movie is, hot damn.

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You guessed it folks: still queer (for the Major) after all these years.

Shootout to the Pflugerville Cineplex, where I have written a surprising number of poems this summer.

What do you MEAN I have to go do something else with my day!!!!!! Aauughh!

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Shit actually this has now taken over at least 1/5 of my brain. I've never seen the shape of a whole project this clearly before.

My most toxic writer trait: cutting out the first pages of a partially used notebook to repurpose it for a new idea.

A manuscript idea leapt into my brain on my old arthritic dog's interminable meander this morning. Unfortunately it is September and I have a toddler so the chances of it surviving the Endless Winter Ick are slim.

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Seeing the original Ghost in the Shell in a theater today! Was not expecting a Big Gay Anime Summer in my 30s but sometimes the universe gives you a little treat. Thank you @emilyemeo.bsky.social for being my movie buddy!!

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Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Look, you don't even have to wear em *all* the time in *all* spaces to protect yourself and your community! Mask up when you're feeling germy, or when risk tolerance is lower for you or the people around you. Harm reduction doesn't require perfect adherence to reduce harm.

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Librarians! Zine-Makers! This new Temporary Services zine (made with @doormouse12.bsky.social) is for you! We interviewed 4 public librarians that maintain zine collections and the result is a beautiful 44 page booklet. See and learn how they do it! $10.00 (or $3.00 PDF) from www.halfletterpress.com

From the front and back cover of the booklet:

Public Librarians Discuss Zine Collections

We asked librarians at four public libraries to talk about their library’s zine collection. What advice can they share with zine makers that want to get their work into a public library, or librarians that want to start a collection at their library? Was it hard to convince others that zines are a resource that the library should collect? What collecting models did they follow? How did they build the collection?

Interviewees:

Tim Devin / Somerville Public Library
(Somerville, MA)
Angi Brzycki & Ziba Pérez /
Los Angeles Public Library
(Los Angeles, CA)
Alicia Tate / Multnomah County Library
(Portland, OR)
Alina Josan / The Free Library of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am and will forever be a complete sucker for light rendered with this degree of adoration.

Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A little bit of pure joy for your day.

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Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tomorrow! We're opening our submissions for CHANDELIER: GLOWERING tomorrow! We want to read your most haunted previously published writing!

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

From Noah Falck's "Exclusions" (Tupelo Press, 2020) for #smallpoemsunday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Poem Excluding City, a poem by Noah Falck:

The sky was a concussion of clouds
and notorious for dropping everything
at a moment’s notice. And the fog,
how it removed everything and then it didn’t.
People gathered in the distance and made history
until it hurt. They devoured field after field
with bad ideas and took pride in the
groomed ruins. It was never a photo
opportunity. The mood when the forest
met the asphalt: Too little, too late.

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Take note @jamestalarico.bsky.social. I cannot adequately express how bitterly disappointed I am in you and your campaign. Time and time again here in Texas, not to mention nationally, progressives are let down by our own. Congrats on being part of that painful legacy. Do better.

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I got four hours of sleep last night. #SmallPoemSunday, give me strength.

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

All ready to start my review series on my site's blog but uh. I really don't love my website. 🥲 Like trying to write in a notebook you don't love with a pen you hate, except to fix it you have to bind a new notebook and build a pen.

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

NO. BABIES NEED COLOR AND WHIMSY. Hell we all do!

Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Cole Swensen in @poetrydaily.bsky.social poems.com/features/wha...

Through working on this and other series, I've realized that there are so many ways of being wrong and/or changing your mind—there's "the tweaking revision" along the lines of But no, that's not quite right...; "the doubting revision" as in Am I remembering that correctly?; "the rephrasing revision" :
Let me put that another way...; "the new evidence revision": And yet I've recently learned...; "the alternative revision": Or perhaps it's that... and, tailor made for poetry, "the revising revision": Maybe that last line should have been... Self-correction turns out to be an extremely rich mine.

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This morning my husband is reading our daughter short creative nonfiction essays about birds at the breakfast table. Couldn't ask for a richer life than this.

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I gotta get back on the submission bandwagon. I'm sitting on a couple of pretty kickass pieces and I've been writing and reading more than I have in years.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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Okay it's this, from "Say Fire" by Selma Asotić. Holy hell.

Text of the poem "Landscape with footprints in ash" from "Say Fire" by Selma Asotić

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Here's the pile. Some of these have been sitting half read or unread on my shelf for uh. Well. Listen nobody's perfect.

A large pile of poetry books with the spines facing the camera.

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jenzo duque-french @jenzo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Because I am helpless against ideas for ambitious projects I will inevitably abandon, thinking of working down my TBR poetry pile with a little blurb, one book per month (it takes me a long time to get through a collection). I just picked up "Say Fire" by Selma Asotić so perhaps I will start there.

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from the comfort book by Matt Haig, which helped save my life

For when you reach rock bottom

You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too. Stay for the person you will become. You are more than a bad day, or week, or month, or year, or even decade. You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on. Stay.

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Queer! Storm! Chasers! In! Love!!!!! Sign me the hell up!!!!!

The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Threat of data center construction looms over Dog’s Head. Council’s efforts to implement a local ban won’t affect the development.

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Threat of Data Center Construction Looms Over Dog’s Head • The Austin Chronicle

Threat of Data Center Construction Looms Over Dog’s Head

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That was stupid but I did it. Now someone get the spray bottle and remind me that weight does NOT go up for another ~3-4 weeks.

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Me: okay I am older and tired-er, no need to push for linear progression, especially after a sick day Also me: It's just two extra pounds to score another PR! And makes a nice round number!!!

Time to squeeze deadlifts into the 30 free minutes I have this morning after being sick all yesterday. Light a candle for me.

NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Hi NAWPsters! How was your summer? I see you're here, in the apocalyptic wastelands of social media, so how about you share a poem you read & liked this summer?

So, it's a screencap of the Care Bears. It says "Sharing is caring" and the Care Bears picture bellies are shooting rainbows. I never really knew anything about the Care Bears, but I assume that makes sense to the Care Bears hive. Anyway, I added the NAWP ostrich's head to the graphic too because why not.

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james o @jamesolearypoet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm so excited for/jealous of everybody going to SPX. It's such a kickass event and I hope I can go back someday. Last time I went with a bunch of family and I treasure those memories.

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“I am planning a lesson on Sappho knowing I can get gunned down in the middle of a fragment” SG Huerta ( @sgpoet.bsky.social ) from their books Burns

Texan Sonnet
I am planning a lesson on Sappho knowing I can get gunned down in the middle of a fragment or fired for the confusion of my manwomanboygirl body or ravaged by a virus until my brain and lungs are once again too foggy for poems.

I finally started binding, loving it, and it's 100 degrees in Texas. Risk: heatstroke. Risk: dysphoria. Risk: death.
My besties are waiting at the bear bar for trivia but I am too scared to leave my house with my body.

I don't struggle to love myself, not now.
I struggle to live in this great state.

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 07/09/2026

I also really like and resonate with @rjaurand.bsky.social's excellent answer to this question. In the same vein, the magic of writing is to reach across miles and years and hand a stranger a feeling in a jar. It's a way of saying, "Hello, did you feel this? I felt it, too. You and I are not alone."

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

TAKE ME TO BURCH* *bug church

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I probably don't know you well enough to fall into the "friends and mutuals" category so may not warrant an invite, but I really admire your writing and would definitely be interested!

Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My child has given me a snack.

Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have to say thanks for all the reminders, providing so much straightforward guidance on applying, and stating directly that this kind of thing is intimidating! It's super helpful (also, I did the thing, hell yeah).

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

2018 me asking the real questions:

Scrawled handwriting that says "What am I ACTUALLY trying to say here? Can I just come out and SAY it?"