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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

If I can finish grading 3 assignments, I'm going to gift myself an ice cream sandwich.

Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I’m excited to share that I have three poems in the recent issue of Five Points. Here’s one of them. I’m so honored to be here alongside some brilliant poets, including Naomi Shihab Nye, Jessica Abughattas, Ethan Chua, and others. 💗 Thanks to Megan Sexton and all the folx who work at Five Points.

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Happy National Poetry Month. Here's a prompt by Haki R. Madhubuti.

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

If yr teaching meter, here are some lines from "Pink Pony Club" that are in iambs: "I'm having wicked dreams of leaving Tennessee." "I can't ignore the crazy visions of me in LA." My students scanned their sonnet lines by singing them to the tune of these @chappellroanbr.bsky.social lines. Dope.

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a woman is riding on the back of a pink horse

ALT: a woman is riding on the back of a pink horse

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Bundle two of @mariannelchan.bsky.social’s books with a reader’s choice for 20% off at @sarabandebooks.bsky.social! #AWP25

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Look who our current Fiction Editor @annablabs.bsky.social ran into at #AWP25! Our former Fiction Editor Katie Flynn! ANNNDDDD our Former Poetry Editor @mariannelchan.bsky.social 💜

Marianne and Katie, back to back, at awp

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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/03/2025

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It’s the 5th anniversary of ALL HEATHENS! To mark the occasion, I donated to Doctors Without Borders and PCRF. Want to join me? I’ll send a signed copy of ALL HEATHENS or LEAVING BIDDLE CITY for a $20+ donation. Limited # of copies—DM me if you're interested!

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Hello, friends! I’ll be at #AWP2025 for a day. I’ll be signing books for the @sarabandebooks.bsky.social, and I’m also moderating a panel ft. some brilliant poets (see below). Will you be there? If so, let’s hang, or at least exchange enthusiastic nods across a crowded convention center!

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I feel like all I ever talk about nowadays is exhaustion. It’s my whole personality, being tired.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Help the authors you love: - Buy their books - Review their books - Order their books at your local library -Attack people on public transport with a copy of their book so the cover gets featured on the news - Follow their social media - Share their posts

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I still can't believe immigration lawyers are strongly recommending that anyone who doesn't have US citizenship avoid international travel and the multiple cases this year that prompted that advice

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/03/2025

i have been watching clips of the classicist Emily Wilson perform excerpts from her translations of the Odyssey and the Illiad and she is one of the most captivating speakers i have ever seen?

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Meghan O'Rourke @meghanor.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I wrote about the Trump administration's assault on higher education & what's really going on: "If, during the Cold War, the government funded universities as a way of strengthening America, Mr. Trump’s second administration treats them as a threat to be dismantled." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

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Opinion | The View Inside Trump’s Assault on Universities

The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

What are your favorite poem endings?

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

One month from today! Join @mariannelchan.bsky.social, me, and @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social at Downbound Books as we read from new books and broadcast some poetry into these dark times. Saturday March 8 at 5pm!

Flyer for a poetry reading at Downbound Books in Cincinnati's Northside neighborhood on March the 8th at 5:00 p.m. featuring The poets Marianne Chan Ben Kline and Felicia Zamora

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

My bad posture is hurting me, but slouching is almost essential to my writing practice. WHAT DO I DO?!

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anthony ocampo @anthonyocampo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

the empire’s always done evil, maybe just easier to tell now

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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I understand that Trump “can’t” revoke birthright citizenship (a constitutional right) with an executive order, but I just read this essay in the NYT about revoking citizenship from born-in-the-USA Japanese Americans during WWII. Did people forget this? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

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Opinion | A Racist Purge Almost Destroyed My Family. Another One Is Coming.

If Trump issues his own order on Day 1, as he’s vowed, the first people could enter detention camps by February.

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Thank you for the strangeness, sir.

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Jen Benka @jenbenka.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

For artists and arts workers in all disciplines who have lost residences, studios, or livelihoods or been impacted by the devastating LA fires, a new emergency fund led by J. Paul Getty Trust, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and other generous institutions. www.getty.edu/news/foundat...

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Foundations and Arts Organizations Create $12M LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund | Getty News

Emergency relief fund will provide critical support for artists and arts workers impacted by Los Angeles fires

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

"Most nights we have / a beer outside on our porch swing that belongs to our landlord and / talk. There's still so much more to learn." Former Poetry Editor @mariannelchan.bsky.social just published the loveliest of love poems at @sixthfinch.bsky.social ! Check it out here: buff.ly/4gOsIPN

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Never been much of a love poet, but here’s my attempt at writing a love poem for my love, published in the Winter 2025 issue of @sixthfinch. Thanks to Rob MacDonald for giving this piece a beautiful home. Read the whole issue here: sixthfinch.com

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I always worry that I'm accidentally reading my poems aloud with a British accent. If I ever become an American poet who is reading her poems with a British accent, I'd appreciate you letting me know.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

New Year by Zaina Hashem Beck (click through for thr rest): www.instagram.com/p/DEQfvmHSUF...

New Year
By Zeina Hashem Beck
Tell me about it, the year.
The year you almost shattered your shoulder. The year you spilled all that past & red wine on the kitchen floor. You sang in alleys, in cars, in nightmares where you looked for your love in dark clubs & shouted the wrong name. Tell me about the year. June gorged with afternoons & conversation.
January of chance. March of laughter.
July of bombs. Tell me how you refreshed the news every hour & couldn't keep up with October, with the dead who outgrew the living, how you lost your mind & met deadlines, how you marched or did not march,

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

New Year’s Resolution: Lie around more.

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Gosh, thank you to @hollyamos22.bsky.social and the @poetryfoundation.bsky.social for including Leaving Biddle City in your 2024 Staff Picks!

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 26/12/2024

we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

People have been putting money in his commissary account and trying to donate money to a legal defense fund. He probably doesn't need it. But if you're moved, you can donate to OTHER prisoners' commissaries www.thecommissaryfund.org You can also request TCF funds for your incarcerated loved ones

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Luigi Mangione receives 87 pieces of mail and 163 donations while behind bars

Exclusive: The murder suspect has received over 100 pieces of mail since being taken into custody

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I did find these Trump nestling dolls at a Williamsburg holiday store.

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My poem “The Room is a Rectangle” from Leaving Biddle City was featured on The Slowdown! Thank you to Major Jackson and to all who work on The Slowdown. Listen to the episode here: www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2024...

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1264: The Room is a Rectangle by Marianne Chan

Today’s poem is The Room is a Rectangle by Marianne Chan.

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

What are you poets thinking about today?

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

"My approach to reading your poems and helping you maximize their creative tensions is discovering what your poem most values by determining how the poem works." - Marcela Sulak, December Poetry & Hybrid Consultant and author of The Fault. blacklawrencepress.com/consultation...

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

It is unacceptable, all the stunned and anxious missing a person is asked to endure in life. It is not to be endured, not really. —Lorrie Moore

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Anyone’s Spotify Wrapped look like this?

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I feel like I've only been posting about Victoria Chang and Diane Seuss lately. I don't care. Also, I see the irony in posting this poem, but I had to: Watchers by Victoria Chang A poem is published. It is posted everywhere. A tree drops leaves in secret.

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

"I wish I was less, a recipe composed of a single ingredient." —Diane Seuss

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Love Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's Wikipedia picture.

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇

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UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism

Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Writers who used to find writing fun and then professionalized and now enjoy writing rarely (but always enjoy having written) and/or enjoy editing a lot more than the writing........ ....how do you find the spark of fun again

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Marianne Chan @mariannelchan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

"By a poem’s held beauty, our held terrors become bearable." —Jane Hirshfield

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