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Irene Cooper

@icooper435.bsky.social
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poem-maker/lover, fictionist, attemptress, editor; enthusiast in (de)spite; long live VA Press

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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the review of Krasznahorkai and Fosse by Lawrence Lenhart in @eldiagram.bsky.social 26.3 made me laugh out loud more than once and also has me thinking, if not convinced.
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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you @trippweavpoet.bsky.social
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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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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
a lil experiment substack.com/@irenecooper...
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Nice hair
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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...
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irene cooper – The Ground Beneath Us – About Place Journal
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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The shattering new issue of #aboutplacejournal from @blackearthinst.bsky.social is live. I've got one in here, in humbling company, thanks to Issue editors: Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...
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The Ground Beneath Us – About Place Journal
The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance is a bold and unflinching issue that centers place as a living force shaped by history, marked by power, and sustained through resistance.
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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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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
@suburbanprairie.bsky.social Time well spent 🤩
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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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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Second Coming No. 417 — March 12, 2026 - i.cooper open.substack.com/pub/secondco...
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Second Coming No. 417 — March 12, 2026
A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by Donald Trump and his fascist regime
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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 · 28/07/2025
I look forward to that—lush and sparse, a true lament
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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I feel a series of cleansing ugly cries coming on @marchxness.bsky.social #MarchSadness90sEdition
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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
#MarchSadness90sEdition
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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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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Yes to this
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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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Emma P 🥖 & 🌹 & 🍷 & ⚖️ @emmapayitnomind.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
#SkyFundathon Jon Batiste - Freedom www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YHV...
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Jon Batiste - FREEDOM
YouTube video by JonBatisteVEVO
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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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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This: www.porcupineliterary.com/post/why-we-... By @jessicacuello.bsky.social on @porcupinelit.bsky.social
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Why We Resented the Teacher Inservice Speaker Who Was Paid $30,000 for the Day
Jessica Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two CNY Book Awards, The 2016 Washington Prize, and more.
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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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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
ICYMI
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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My kids were sure I made Catholicism up so I told them I made up Disneyland too
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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Goat standing atop a brick wallPhoto of artist in square with head covered in flowers surrounded by pigeons (photo credit Claude Cahun)
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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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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Ask me how I know! bookshop.org/p/books/runa...
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Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me a book by Erin Keane
From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell. In 1970, Erin Keane's mother ran away from home for the first time. She was...
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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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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hi, I do this and am interested in the work of others who do too
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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 · 15/11/2024
Also seeking the #poetry peeps
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Irene Cooper @icooper435.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
#marchxness
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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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