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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

when Chappell Roan said "you can kiss a hundred boys in bars" that's praxis

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A Gen Z cover band of the Killers called "The Unalivers"

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

How I think I look when I'm up on stage reading a poem about getting ghosted by another married man:

Chappell Roan at the 2025 Grammys holding a notebook

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Some exquisite footage of this picturesque little peninsula 🥺🥲 youtu.be/vjEWCwFJvZU?...

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DISCOVERING | 4 Seasons of the U.P.

YouTube video by Discover the U.P.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 17/12/2024

Are you a great fiction writer with one book published or under contract? (Or do you know one?) There's a sweet one-year gig open at UNC-- a 1/1 load w/ one public lecture, $40k: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/289...

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The Creative Writing Program in UNC's Department of English and Comparative Literature seeks to bring an emerging talent to campus for a one-year teaching appointment as the Kenan Visiting Writer.The ...

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

What up, blue folk, my chapbook of essays is now available for pre-order from @bullcitypress.com !! All of my blurbers told me they couldn't put it down, and I hope you enjoy it too! bullcitypress.com/product/an-u...

Book cover for "An Unstable Container" by John LaPine shows an art installation of two figures falling

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Our institution uses TurnItIn. I also have been telling students on my syllabus that it's not my job to prove whether something is AI, but it's their responsibility to prove that they wrote it themselves, so to keep early drafts, notes or to be ready to share a document with version history

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Top text: Thank you for sending us your work. (Someone playing Subway Surfers) Bottom text: Unfortunately, we're going to have to pass.

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Garamond to make my poetry sound nicer. Baskerville to make my prose sound nicer.

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

—memory, a "this I believe" essay, a letter to someone in your past. Happy to share more!

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

—poetry, how we define it, what to expect, etc. and this leads into a writing exercise where they compose an ars poetica. Langston Hughes "Mother to Son" is also great for teaching extended metaphor. I save CNF for the end, I tend to teach memoir style writing exercises: write about your first—

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

—but often misunderstood. Most intro students struggle with poetry. They write rhyming poetry, because it's what they think poetry is. I often ask students to revise rhyme out or use internal rhyme. Get familiar with how chatGPT writes poetry. I start the poetry unit with a discussion of what is—

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I find theme is the hardest thing to teach, especially since it hinges on characters and plot. Some intro students struggle with scene, so I start with a writing exercise where they need to spend 20 minutes writing a 1-minute scene. Remind your students that the most compelling villains arent evil—

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Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

@theplastickind.bsky.social interviewed me for my favorite literary magazine! Check out the last issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social for the year!! ❤️❤️❤️

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Strawman + who asked + AI generated profile picture + L + ratio

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Thank you! I'm just a CNF writer turned poet trying my hand at fiction 😅😅

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The Pink Poetry Club @thepinkpoetryclub.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Who are we? A brand new lil online poetry journal, just trying to get some queer Midwestern poems into the world 😍 Subs are always open! We have a few spots left before we can launch our first ever issue! Send us those poemsssss!!!

packaging and glittery shapes taped behind a piece of paper that has "Subs (always) open!" written upon it.

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Nor even a black widow
And if the truth were told this
Was only a small spider
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book
But she didn't
And she scared me
And I smashed her

I don't think
I'm allowed

To kill something

Because I am

Frightened.

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

In case you missed it: I have a chapbook of essays coming out this summer! Get in on the ground floor, it's goin to the moon

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Zach Semel - "Skyrim, in Retrospect" in FreezeRay Poetry www.freezeraypoetry.com/zach-semel.h...

Skyrim, in Retrospect

You and I used to laugh / for hours sending our
level 70 Khajiit / slinking around the / low-lying plains / near Whiterun,
shooting deer in / the ass / with seemingly infinite Iron Arrows,
giggling at the irony / that the butt was a site / of birth, of exit / without entrance, ‘cause / really,
what’s one more unclean thing / thrown into that / mass of muscle / and digestive sludge / it just
makes no sense / to want to roll in the mud / to trade soft skin / for choking on boys’
body spray clouds / we know better / than anyone that men / are imperfect
but I love it / and I know cis-men / are so good at thinking / they have the answers
but this time, I’m sure / that I don’t want to marry / Ysolda for the hundredth fucking time; no
I want to kiss / Redguard swordsmen with faded face tattoos / to hold
hands with taut-muscled / elves who make sinister comments / to passersby
but never to me; I want / souls that wish / they could once start a goddamn character
by picking “Other” / would you think I was serious
if I told you I want bodies / that look like yours
and that don’t?
How have we spent / ten years hopping from stone to stone / over this flowing
part of me? / So many questions I never / beg you to ask—is it my fault / you don’t know
enough? All those times / that we’d game / all day and
my parents / would joke that we’d someday / get married
then laugh--
all those times
that I laughed too.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Stunning stunning stunning poem by @tagreathouse.bsky.social at @poetrydaily.bsky.social today.

Masturbating to Greek Myths torrin a. greathouse
I'm searching for porn with bodies like mine, but not made fetish-false idol for a stranger's violent desire. So, I'm masturbating to Greek myths & how they remind me of my chimera body. How almost every monster was just the best parts of other animals sewn together. Myth-a stitch threading together the best parts of woman & what I was given. I lie back against the sheets & Charybdis both this body's hungry mouths, let my fingers feel what wet wreckage, what good & greedy breaking these can make of any body.
Name this sometimes-unwanted part of me-Hydra how you sever the head of a snake & it grows again & it grows again & it grows again, how this blood-hardened flesh reminds me of its presence. & in this myth woman is still born from the severance of man. But not how you were taught. My hands slur semen and seafoam into one word. A sound like birth & drowning. In myself & these sheets. Body breaking the water's surface.
Mouth gasping for air

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Thank you! It's been kicking around in my head since 2017!

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

In case you missed it: I have a chapbook of essays coming out this summer! Get in on the ground floor, it's goin to the moon

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The Florence + the Machine discography

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Snap back to reality / Ope, defy gravity

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Welcome new followers! A little about me: 1) sometimes I run 2) sometimes I hide 3) sometimes I'm scared of you 4) all I really want is to hold you tight... 5) ...and treat you right 6) be with you day and night 7) baby all I need is time

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Search “concert” in your camera roll and post the oldest image: Zhu, 2018

Photo of a concert says "welcome to Ringo's desert"

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Do not miss this incredible book!

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Despite everything, I hope my ex-therapist is having a brat autumn 😌🙏🏾💚🍏

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

They followed me yesterday so I checked them out, saw they accepted genAI and use genAi in their submission call, and also hiding replies that point it out. I left a comment saying I will not be engaging with them until they take a hard line stance against genAI. Got blocked for it, seems like.

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment: 1. Envelope full of anthrax 2. Dental dams 3. VHS of Lion King 1 1/2 4. Vial of the Substance activator 5. Toenail clippings (not my own)

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Naurrr sorry! It is technically in the latest issue 🙈🙈

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Using AI as a creative is so embarrassing

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John LaPine @johnlapine.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

AI slop is so embarrassing as a creative. Pay artists @ogre.red

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