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Lisa Piazza

@lmpiazza.bsky.social
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oakland writer/teacher/mother/reader

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Can't wait!
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent” - Marwan Makhoul
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
not a novel not a short story but a secret third thing (a super satisfying novella)
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
It is very difficult to work in an environment where you and your profession is under constant suspicion stoked by those who have little to no experience on the inside. This is the life of teachers and the suspicious are everywhere.
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 12/04/2026
anyway so i’m gonna go 🌿✨
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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Feedback is not just feedback! It is relationship-building! This should be obvious! Hire more teachers so they/we can do our jobs properly!
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Greg Andree @gregandree71.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"That's AI." As an 8th grade teacher, this is a new insult the kids have been using this year, even on things unrelated to writing. Someone does something stupid, or ridiculous, or cruel: "Ugh, you're AI."
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
As the father of a middle schooler I have seen the rebellion against AI forming there — even using “that’s AI, bro,” not indicating something is literally AI, but that something is metaphorically so — it’s sus, it’s bullshit, it’s bad weird
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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I am horrified by the prospect of a future in which *I* have become one of the smartest people on the planet simply because I continually refused to use an obviously stupid computer program
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
what an incredibly short sighted abdication of your role, what a profound failure to understand the stakes here, and such a catastrophic failure of the students whose welfare should be foremost in your list of priorities.
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@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Ann Harbuz started painting when she was about 60 If you want to do something, dive in -- it's never too late
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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Thinking about submitting? Take a moment to read some of our tiny gems, such as Guy Cramer's "Strength," part of our tiny wren tarot deck. www.tinywrenlit.com/10/strength
tinywrenlit.com
STRENGTH | Tiny Wren Lit
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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Elaine Equi
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Lisa Piazza @lmpiazza.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
work in progress — but thanks!
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Lisa Piazza @lmpiazza.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
it is, it is
rough sketches/paintings of chairs
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Lisa Piazza @lmpiazza.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
❤️❤️❤️
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Nathaniel Mackey
Down on my
knees testing
notes with

my teeth, always
knew a day’d
come I’d

put my wings out
and fly.
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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
So thrilled to have two new pieces published in The Bulb Region today. What a gorgeous journal! Thanks to editor Sarp Sozdinler! 💙
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Jean Valentine
I dove down my mental lake fear and love:
first fear then under it love:

I could see you,
Brilliance, at the bottom. Trust you

stillness in the last red inside place.
Then past the middle of the earth it got light again.
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 02/04/2026
beyond delighted to share my new story "Even After You're Gone," fresh now with the lovely @bulbregion.bsky.social! check it out 🦇⚡
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Even After You’re Gone, by K.C. Mead-Brewer — The Bulb Region
Even After You’re Gone — K.C. Mead-Brewer RIPLEY’S CAT IS A SMALL CAT. Here,...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2026
"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."
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Lisa Piazza @lmpiazza.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Exciting!
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Vic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If you were into @identitytheory.bsky.social’s March Equinox micro issue, send us something to read! We are always open for micro subs and are reading for the June Solstice issue now. And if you haven’t read our latest yet, what are you waiting for??
identitytheory.com
Micro - Identity Theory
Prose up to 500 words. Poetry up to 9 lines.
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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Kevin Young
Snow in April

Winter, you are
the worst kind

of lover--soon
as I hope for good

you're gone
you return--cold

in hand--
bringing no flowers
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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 31/03/2026
The Believer/McSweeney's is now accepting applications for paid, part-time editorial interns. Our application window will end on April 24. For more details: www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/mcswee...
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Daily humor almost every day since 1998.
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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Get those gorgeously quiet and softly healing pieces ready, folks! Literary Namjooning will be opening for subs in June!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Lisa Piazza @lmpiazza.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
love this poem
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Kat La Ronde @katlaronde.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Your mom had thoughts that weren’t about you! Sorry if this is painful to hear!
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 26/03/2026
the impact of AI/LLMs on kids will eventually be compared to lead exposure
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 25/03/2026
OKD contributor Patricia Q. Bidar (June 2019) has a short story collection out from Unsolicited Press! You can check out Patricia’s debut collection, “Pardon Me for Moonwalking” (which includes the story she published with us), at www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/pardo...
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Marie Ponsot
BLISS AND GRIEF


No one
is here
right now.
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Donald Hall
This sadness!
I wrap myself in it like bedclothes
that give off cold.
I take walks in it.
There are no rabbits in it.
For an hour
it was a small room with no doors
where I lay still.
Then I was not waiting for anything
and the room opened
to my big empty house full of doors.
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East Bay Times @eastbaytimes.com · 09/03/2026
Director David Mendizabal’s thoughtful production of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” at Berkeley Rep feels just as relevant today as it did when it premiered in 1947.
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Curtain Calls: Jimmy Smits brings star power to East Bay production of ‘All My Sons’
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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 17/03/2026
❤️Submissions open until April 15: INCH --our little journal with a big heart-- is accepting manuscript submissions; read all about it: buff.ly/jGeTkNA
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
FIRST WOMAN TO EVER WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST BLACK PERSON TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST FILIPINA TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. ACADEMY AWARD WINNER AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPAW.
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Terrance @stickysweett.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
SINNERS 🏆🎥 #Oscars
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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Richard Brautigan #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
"GOOD WORK," HE SAID, AND
"Good work," he said, and went out the door. What work? We never saw him before. There was no door.
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Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I couldn't afford an AI companion, so I got a Magic 8 Ball to carry around with me and now we're in love.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Jane Hirshfield
THE DARK HOUR


The dark hour came
in the night and purred by my ear.
Outside, in rain,
the plush of the mosses stood higher.
Hour without end, without measure.
It opens the window and calls its own name in.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 10/03/2026
Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.
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Eric Scot Tryon @ericscottryon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
8⃣ Tuesdays til launch! 🌊I'M THE UNDERTOW Fun Fact Countdown!
Blue flier with I’M THE UNDERTOW fun fact: 

IN THE NOVEL, THERE IS A SCENE IN BARNES & NOBLE. I DIDN'T WORK AT B&N, BUT IN COLLEGE, I WORKED AT BORDERS BOOKSTORE IN SANTA BARBARA WHERE I MET A SLEW OF CELEBRITIES, MOST NOTABLY: JEFF BRIDGES, JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS, TROY AIKMAN, MARCUS ALLEN, JENNIE GARTH, AND MY FAVORITE: KATHY BATES.
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Rick Barot ♥️ A beautiful reminder of what poetry can do.
During the pandemic, I had days when I felt I was by myself on a shore drained of the tide, dragging a stick across miles of wet sand. There were also days when I was a boy again, sliding down a snowy hill on a flattened cardboard box. And there were days when I remembered the teacher who made us memorize a poem each week, and when we asked why, she said we might one day find ourselves in a wreck at the side of the road and we would recite these poems to stay alive.
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Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
For those seeking personal narratives that challenge, heal, and inspire the new CNF anthology from IOE will leave a lasting impact. It includes writing by @egjames.bsky.social, @athenadixon.bsky.social, and Cris Mazza among others. Preview and preorder: buff.ly/vV45S6T #booktok #writersky
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Anna Quilici @osaisons.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Dan Beachy-Quick #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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