Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026One of my goals for the year is to be a beginner, and there's nothing I'd rather be a beginner at than reading. I'm aiming to identify three "new" (to me, invented by you, etc.) genres to read a book in/of. Recommend me a genre and a book. 100
Reposted by Jennifer GravleyMatt Dube @mattdube.bsky.social · 20/03/2026My wife's essay on Nirvana's strange little nugget "Sappy" is up against Ani DiFranco's "You Had Time." One in a laundry room, the other in a fish tank, or maybe a Baskin-Robbins. You know what to do: marchxness.com#/sweet16-nir...marchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 052
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Who thought Nirvana would be an underdog? Woof! 000
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026This one’s gonna be tough. I don’t know if Nirvana can beat Ani DiFranco, so I wrote this little song about “You Had Time” in the style of “Sappy.” Enjoy, @marchxness.bsky.social fans, and vote your sad little hearts out. marchxness.com#/sweet16-nir... 183
Reposted by Jennifer GravleyErin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 13/03/2026This Mineral song is very sad! But any given Nirvana song is the saddest song in the room, I don't make the rules. marchxness.com/2ndround-min...marchxness.com3/13, 2nd Round: (16) Mineral vs (8) Nirvana — March Sadness 90s Edition 093
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026It’s librarian vs librarian today. Vote “Sappy” in @marchxness.bsky.social and you will be happy! marchxness.com#/2ndround-mi... 1113
Reposted by Jennifer Gravleydoritoshangover.bsky.social @doritoshangover.bsky.social · 10/03/2026If you ever see me vote against Kurt, I've been hacked, but Jennifer Gravley's essay also might be my favorite: "Build a memorial to the voice of your generation through your midlife, medicated and screeching. Line the ground, the glass bottom, with grass from an untended graveyard which struggles." 192
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Never thought it was possible to topple Sinead! 120
Reposted by Jennifer GravleyChristopher L. Keller @chrislkeller.com · 10/03/2026This, so much... "So many things in life aren’t on purpose. So much craft is instinctual, is punishing, is pushing its way through you. You are perpetually surprised by how old you’ve become. You never thought you’d." Thank you @jygravley.bsky.social 052
Reposted by Jennifer GravleyMoira 🫡 @moirajo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Every bit of @jygravley.bsky.social ’s “sappy” essay—the structure, the collegiate depression of a suicide spring, the exhaustion of what I’ve often called the suicide summer to myself—is just breathtaking. Man!jygravley.bsky.xn--socials-d36c 182
Reposted by Jennifer GravleySusanna Donato @susannadonato.bsky.social · 10/03/2026If you haven’t voted in this one, GET ON IT. Two great songs, and I came in thinking Sinead (which I have going far in my bracket), but @jygravley.bsky.social ‘s essay on “Sappy” knocked the wind out of me (to borrow @suburbanprairie.bsky.social’s phrase). SO GOOD, the structure, ideas, emotion. 272
Reposted by Jennifer GravleyMartin Seay @martinseay.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Cobain's specifically ghostly figure in @jygravley.bsky.social's essay evokes something we've seen elsewhere in @marchxness.bsky.social: the weird power a voice has when the speaker/singer is gone. "The voice of your generation speaks from scattered ashes, from scratched technology, from the past." 1102
Reposted by Jennifer GravleyMatt Dube @mattdube.bsky.social · 10/03/2026My wife wrote a whole dang essay about Nirvana's 'Sappy' and ignored pretty much all my suggestions about what she should say! Celebrate her independence and vote her essay through to the next round: marchxness.com#/1stround-ni... @marchxness.bsky.socialmarchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 0122
Reposted by Jennifer GravleyAllison Renner @allisonwrites.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Obsessed with the structure of Jennifer Gravley's essay. And so many gutpunch quotes. "In the end, the choice to live wasn’t a choice at all. You just kept waking up." 2112
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Vote “Sappy” by #nirvana in @marchxness.bsky.social by 9 am Pacific time. #ifyouvoteforme #thenyoullthinkyourehappy 082
Reposted by Jennifer GravleyMarch Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Round 1, round 1, round 1, I'm beggin of you please don't take my man Listen, read, VOTE! marchxness.com#/1stround-ni... 0137
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Vote for meeeee in @marchxness.bsky.social! Otherwise, I’m sure to lose by a landslide 😂 marchxness.com/1stround-nir...marchxness.com3/9, 1st Round: (8) Nirvana vs (9) Sinead O’Connor — March Sadness 90s Edition 162
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 02/01/2026I bring my own markers, scissors, and tape to the coffee shop. @marchxness.bsky.social essay coming soon!! 030
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Two sets of Pink Pony Club earrings but only one piercing per ear. One of both?? (Also soooooo excited to see Pink Pony Club live tonight!!!) 000
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Excited as hell to write about this classic! 1132
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Cleaning out my parents’ house, I’ve somehow had to pick up both a disintegrating diaper from when my nephew was a baby and his condoms from his current bachelor lifestyle. No. Just no. One or the other—but dear god, not both. 000
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Just fed my car a curb as a little treat. It’d been a few days. 010
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025So cool to see readers still finding this piece! 020
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Earlier I apologized, out loud, to a pair of socks. 000
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Just put a third tablespoon of syrup in my dirty soda because my little treat wasn’t treaty enough. 020
Reposted by Jennifer GravleyThe Forge Literary Magazine @theforge.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Our nonfiction story of the week is I Check Yes on Form CC-305 by Jennifer Gravley. @jygravley.bsky.socialforgelitmag.comI Check Yes on Form CC-305 - The Forge Literary Magazinecreative nonfiction by Jennifer Gravley 171
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Friend: your hair looks great! Me: I washed it! 120
Reposted by Jennifer GravleyLaura McHugh @lauramchugh.bsky.social · 08/12/2024@jygravley.bsky.social is my hero. Writers never stop! ✍️📚🖤 092
Reposted by Jennifer GravleyMatt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 12/10/2023Okay, to help everyone make their BlueSky what they want it to be, here's a thread about feeds. What they are, how to find them, how to add them, how to pin them, what feeds to follow if you're a #writer, and how you can make your own 🥸 1/16 24376214
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 29/09/2023Am I the only Jennifer thrilled by today’s Connections? 020
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 24/09/2023Columbians, come out to Yellow Dog on October 10 for some fun, and maybe even grab a book if you want one! 040
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 22/09/2023If you want a copy of The Story I Told My Mother: Poems and an Essay, you can order now on Amazon. a.co/d/9YIBAHi If you want a signed copy, stay tuned for local and mail options! 032
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 11/09/2023Just another curly-headed morning with a bad haircut. 000
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 09/09/2023Doing exposure therapy for fear of heights: not fun and involves nature. Two strikes!! 000
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 03/09/2023Just accidentally deleted every email on my "Promotions" tab. Terrible mistake I'll never recover from or immediate frolicking freedom??? 000
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 02/09/2023When you order off the kids’ menu for your afternoon work sesh 020
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 30/08/2023Making a presentation to give college students about how to make friends as adults. Your best strategies? Or tips for overcoming anxiety about putting yourself out there? 000
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 28/08/2023Has @marchxness.bsky.social seen the rendition of “I Touch Myself” in Deadloch? 120
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 26/08/2023Watching Jonathan Van Ness in the garden is so wholesome! 000
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 26/08/2023Women’s sizing in a nutshell: my top, S; my skirt, XL. 110
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 26/08/2023Only Murders question: is the white room a real theater thing??? 100
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 25/08/2023Next incoming info: my dad set the stove on fire. Everyone is okay. 010
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 25/08/2023The most wonderful sentence from a student worker: schedule me for the hours no one else wants to work. 010
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 25/08/2023Back-to-school is going well. Told my coworker to get out her voodoo doll of me tonight and go to town because I know I annoyed the hell out of her today. 000
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social · 24/08/2023Feels pointless to shower and wash curly hair at night because it’ll just be a disaster again in the morning, but morning is . . . morning. 100
