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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

feeling all the seasonal jingles and tingles at the chance to write about this for @marchxness.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=a2MZ...

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Bad Religion - Christmas Songs (Full Album)

YouTube video by BR Discography

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Paging the @marchxness.bsky.social army, this is you-coded (now with correct quote-post!)

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We're wrapping ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a cool breakdown review 💕Contributor @suburbanprairie.bsky.social’s book "Teen Queen Training" was reviewed by @icooper435.bsky.social for @eldiagram.bsky.social ✨ buff.ly/jZAGt7n

Photo of parchment with a quill and ink.

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Ah hell, thank you @icooper435.bsky.social for such a fantastic (and so clever!) review of Teen Queen Training!!! I appreciate your time reading my work so, so much ❤️ thediagram.com/26_1/rev_mah...

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DIAGRAM :: irene cooper on Kristine Langley Mahler

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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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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

If you're not on the substack you won't be the first one to know when, hypothetically or maybe not so much, a spot has opened up in this year's tournament on short notice. So maybe think about getting on there: open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...

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What Price Comfort: Irene Cooper on Sigur Ros’ “Starálfur” + a 90s Sadness Slot Opens Up!

"It doesn’t mean anything, but I feel something."

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James Charlesworth @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Rejoice, @marchxness.bsky.social fans! The annual can't miss @martinseay.bsky.social essay has dropped! His # didn't come up this year but he's still bringin' it with this extracurricular to help you get ya game face on for March 1!

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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"I am a terribly homesick person. The problem is that I’m homesick for so many places." Friday brings you one of our longtime fav Xnessers, @suburbanprairie.bsky.social, with a fresh extracurricular on the sadness of Tim McGraw's "Everywhere": marchxness.com/the-essays#/...

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The Author’s Wife Is Also an Author: On the Fantasy and Reality of Writing and Partnership+https://www.pw.org/content/the_authors_wife_is_also_an_author_on_the_fantasy_and_reality_of_writing_and_partnership

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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Next to my fellow Spoon River Poetry Review spoonfuls chapbook prize winner Luke, I look like I’m spoiling for a fight

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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Still hanging outside the party on this platform, as it were. One of these musicians is my kid, whom I love and of whom I am proud

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I’m anxious about promoting this one—please spare me the book ban jokes, it’s genuinely scary!—and am hoping so hard that I can get the word out. Everyone deserves to know about working class history, especially now!

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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

long night moon, according to the infallible internet, is a Mohawk term for the full moon before solstice

long night moon, good night

we had a dog; and then dogs; and then no dogs; and then dog; and then no dog; and now dog

the backyard grew a patio and a playset and a garden and a sandbox and shed

those things before a shed rose up and from which sometimes floats music after the sun goes down and did before, too

which is not to say that everything, but everything, is cyclical

the moon pulls away from the earth at a rate of 1.5 inches a year; in 50 billion years, only half the planet will be able to see it

tidal friction causes lunar recession; an effect is that the days get longer

eventually the earth will exist in endless summer

today, the shortest and darkest of the year, marks the onset of winter, and the re-emergence of light, which is not to say tomorrow won’t be dark

things come back around,
they do

but that is not to say they won’t be, they can’t be, changed in the revolution

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 17/12/2024

Put solar and batteries on all the Post Offices. Have it serve as a community resilience hub during and after extreme events. Have it broadcast free neighborhood wifi. Every month release a new stamp with a cool animal on it.

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Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Jesus: it was then that I carried you

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

As a teen, I needed poems that didn’t jabber to me about some dude on a horse but rather spoke to me from inside a prison cell, where a bird song was enough to imagine the world. Courage isn’t glory: it’s lonely and hard and as forsaken as an early Neko Case song.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

For folks interested in teaching Larks, I made a short intro video—yes I’m in my bathrobe, yes I’ll wear real clothes to visit your class on zoom 📚💙 Let me know if you want to teach Larks! Also Larks is currently on 40% discount at Ohio with code SNOW along with all Ohio books! ❄️

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Teach my book? Larks (Ohio University Press, April 2025) Themes: Southern, rural, myth, sisters, fairytales, art, farm and country. #poetry #poetrytok #teaching #teachersoftiktok #writersoftiktok #wri...

TikTok video by HanVHart

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Rina Palumbo @rinapalumbo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

We are open for subs! Flash fiction, CNF, poetry, and art and photography. Can't wait to see your wild, wooly, and brightly feathered creations! third-street-review.org/submissions/

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Submissions

Third Street Review Literally On the Edge Located on the Pacific Ocean in the artists’ colony of Laguna Beach, California, Third Street Review lives on the edge, both literally and figuratively. Ca…

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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Haiku attempting to express the feeling of returning to this platform after a few months absence: my toes grip the lip blue sky pool full of wild geese flapping beautifully (honk)

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My first book What Pecan Light is on sale for $12 at @bullcitypress.com! Y’all this is the time to directly buy from small presses; it has been such a rough year for small presses with SPD closing, and everything else 💙📚📚

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What Pecan Light by Han VanderHart (unsigned)

by Han VanderHart ships April 20, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-949344-35-6 Softcover, 55 pages.

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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom? @transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:

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Trans Journalists Association

Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their careers.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Call your senator to block the arms sale to Israel today. Leave a message. If you can't think of what to say, try: "Hi, this is Satan. You are serving me like a champ in Gaza." Here's a PDF list of phone numbers for every US senator. www.senate.gov/general/reso...

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hi lovelies—something I have been working on is how to pay reviewers at @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social; the goal is to pay all artists we publish. So you can support Moist here, AND in return receive one of our cool new stickers in the mail: moistpoetryjournal.com/support-moist/

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Support Moist

Moist Poetry Journal is a community-run arts project without institutional affiliation: our readers are our support, and we grow from the ground. Our costs include our website hosting fees, design,…

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Eugenia Leigh @eugenialeigh.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It’s hard to think about love lately, but it's also the only thing worth thinking about. @honeyliterary.bsky.social, which centers marginalized writers & artists, is open for subs til 12/16. As Valentines Editor, I'd love to see any form of artistic expression touching on all types of love. ♥️

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Doubleback Review publishes prose and poetry that was previously published in now-defunct journals: www.doublebackreview.com

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- Doubleback Review

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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Today’s Final Four vote tipped by this line by Avery Ferin: “‘Bootylicious’ functions as a narrative that punches upward from a place of fierce sumptuousness—a sense of self-empowerment that women, namely black women, have been coxswained away from for centuries.”

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AEWeisgerber @aeweisgerber.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Please vote for "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim!!! Thank you so much I love this song and film <3 Anne. Vote here: marchxness.com/2ndrd-nellyv...

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Both @aeweisgerber.bsky.social and @kjmoulton.bsky.social wrote the hell out of their essays this #Danceness round, and both "Weapon of Choice" and "Hot in Herre" are quintessential Aughts dance tracks. I voted my bracket but this is still anyone's game: marchxness.com/2ndrd-nellyv...

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3/14, 2nd Round: (2) Nelly vs (7) Fatboy Slim — March Danceness

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AEWeisgerber @aeweisgerber.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

It's been a challenge keeping up w/the torrent of essay magnificence pouring out of @marchxness.bsky.social these first 8 days of the month. 64 topflight essays in barely over a week. I forgot there's even basketball happening. Hope to read what I missed this weekend. <3 marchxness.com

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March Danceness

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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AEWeisgerber @aeweisgerber.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Perma-fave xness essayist, Raquel Gutiérrez, burns it down for Hercules & Love Affair: "You were competing with graduates from the Ivy League and loving language wasn’t enough to power you through anymore. Foucault. Derrida. Weber. Butler. This shit was hard, man. You thought you could handle hard."

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THE GAMES — March Danceness

Games begin and end at 9am AZ time.

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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Too many pull quotes for the algorithm from Raquel Gutiérrez’s essay on “Blind;” let “And you tried to bid farewell to 2008 but it should have been an exorcism” suffice marchxness.com/1strd-kelisv...

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3/6, 1st Round: (5) Kelis vs (12) Hercules & Love Affair — March Danceness

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Reviewing materials for my next to last History of Prose Poetry class tonight...surveying 1990-2005...Thylias Moss, CD Wright, Anne Carson, Ron Padgett, Czeslaw Milosz, Joe Wenderoth, Killarney Clary, Linh Dinh, Harryette Mullen (pictured), Franz Wright, Amy Gerstler, Nin Andrews & more. Wowsers!

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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Tough voting on #Danceness today, esp between the Katy Perry/bell hooks dive and the Diablo sauce of Electric 6 marchxness.com/1strd-perryv...

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3/5, 1st Round: (4) Katy Perry vs (13) Electric 6 — March Danceness

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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

Oh, the digressions are as delicious as the essay entire: “I love contrarian purists, and would absolutely binge a one-and-done season of a TV show about this guy but only if Richard Ayoade directed it. “ @erinkeane.bsky.social on Yeah Yeah Yeah: Yeah! #Danceness

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

“It’s no use going back to yesterday,” as Alice told the dudes. “I was a different person then.” My essay on the Aughts, poetry ambition (!) and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs for the MarchXNess #Danceness tournament. Please read & vote: marchxness.com/1strd-yeahsv...

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3/3, 1st Round: (8) Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs (9) Mark Ronson feat Amy Winehouse — March Danceness

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

I have Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" advancing in my bracket and Sara Sams makes a strong case, but I was charmed by Peter McDade's take on Spoon’s “Turn My Camera On.” Some things in life are best not overthought? Choices! marchxness.com/1strd-shakir...

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3/3, 1st Round: (5) Shakira vs (12) Spoon, — March Danceness

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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

To all continuing #Danceness victors, congratulations, esp. @aeweisgerber.bsky.social—go on and get it! An honor to compete! #marchxness Round 3! marchxness.com

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March Danceness

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

And we salute the defeated but glorious: @frgm.bsky.social, @irenesenor.bsky.social, Brittney Uecker, and Allie Leach: you BROUGHT it. You wrote it. You left it all out there. No shame in a loss in this tournament. We salute you and your words.

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