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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 11/09/2026

from an ecopoet friend, another cool upcoming project seeking submissions: www.verdancyproject.com/what-i-meant...

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What I meant to Tell You — The Verdancy Project

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Call for Submissions for the 2027 ASLE Book Awards is out, all info and submission links at www.asle.org/stay-informe...

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 11/09/2026

Poets, writers, artists in #SATX: support la poeta @viktoriavalenzuela.bsky.social who has done much to build literary community here. She and her family are undergoing some difficult medical hardships currently...sign up to cook or donate toward medical bills: www.mealtrain.com/trains/d2378v

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Meal Train for Casa Viktopia

Friends! Thank you for your generous heart and for helping our little family not have to cook for the time while I am in recovery from partial thyroid removal due to papillary carcinoma. The medical e...

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 05/08/2026

Rest in power Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Last year when I was in the hospital I ordered your Aristotle and Dante, which I'd always wanted to read--that was one of the few pleasures there, to get things in the mail, books--and it brought me great joy to melt away into your writing, your storytelling.

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 03/08/2026

We're short #satx and #texas voices, so holding open this #callforsubmissions a bit longer. Send us your #degrowth #poetry :) Also your #art #music #photography #flashfic #flashcnf of the #pluriverse.

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 16/07/2026

Doing this artist-poet thing on Sunday, and I'm a little nervous about it, but I raised my hand cuz it sounded fun and wholesome and possibly weird too

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 16/07/2026

Our next creative review invites counterimaginaries to the official celebrations of this summer. How do we keep walking together toward "un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos"? Send us your response as #poetry, #art, #flashfic, #flashcnf or #music. To submit: marisol@deceleration.news by Aug 2.

Flyer with call for submissions to summer creative review published by deceleration.news. Over a shot of earth from space, text reads: "Many worlds, celebrate! Deceleration invites flash fic and nonfic, poems, songs, and images that offer counterimaginaries to official celebrations of the US 250th. In a world rent by the weight of colonial violence, how do we continue walking and working together toward another possible world--"un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos" (a world in which many worlds fit)? Selections will appear in Deceleration's Summer 2026 Creative Review. $25 honorarium per piece. Deadline: August 2, 2026. To submit: marisol@deceleration.news"

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 29/05/2026

@shelleyettinger.bsky.social & i collaborated to bring you powerful work by @odiwelter.bsky.social, alena duckworth, alex lacayo, daniel bertetti, mark wittmer, maya perkins, mecca miles, avril shakira villar, steve wilson, isabella briseño, aliza haskal, aida zilelian, kamala platt, & ed johnson.

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 08/05/2026

my kids are f'in brilliant, both of them. my oldest has been thru fire these past few years, but he got thru and now is set to fly free, away from this stupid state. here is a paper plate assignment he did for english, on how his future is gonna be so much less cursed than hamlet's.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 04/05/2026

Our spring creative review is open for submissions! Seeking art across genres responding to the genocide, ecocide, & crimes against humanity recently inflicted by US bombs & military spending. Excited to have @shelleyettinger.bsky.social as guest editor. #poetry #art #callforsubmissions #antiwar

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Rob L. White (‘Cuddle’ Short Film OUT NOW!!) @therlwrites.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

IT WAS CALLED THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR AND THEY BROUGHT THE BOOKS TO THE SCHOOL AND SET IT UP LIKE A BOOKSTORE AND YOU COULD GET GOOSEBUMPS AND FEAR STREET BOOKS BUT ALSO MICHAEL JORDAN POSTERS AND NICKELODEON BOOKMARKS AND PENCILS THAT SMELLED LIKE CUPCAKES

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 24/04/2026

Idk who this is but at first I thought this was an interesting poem called ‘No Subject”

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 23/04/2026

Just go ahead and make a thing. Even though you have no idea what you're doing. That's the whole point of all of it

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 22/04/2026

tomorrow night! reading from the bird church PLUS brand new never-before-spoken-aloud work with the amazing @anelflores.bsky.social at river alchemy of creative arts. part of write art out inc, organized by mandy lynn and @roostmtz.bsky.social <3 #nationalpoetrymonth

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 16/04/2026

URBAN-15's Mega Corazon, an online livestream of South Texas poetry, begins 2nite! I can legitimately say I'm always intimidated & humbled to be included w some truly brilliant folks. If you miss it today, Mega Corazon runs 24/7 the rest of April, National Poetry Month. urban15.org/meet-the-poe...

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Meet the Poets: Mega Corazón 2026 | URBAN-15

From scholars to journalists, musicians to activists, URBAN-15 strives to present the best and brightest poetic voices for Mega Corazón every year. While many of these voices are returning from years ...

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 15/04/2026

Report below estimates that the average household is spending $8.41 of their tax bill on the 2025 Iran bombing (with 2026 campaign yet to be tallied), $57.86 on aid to foreign militaries (genocide in Gaza), $79.19 on CBP and $39.91 on ICE. www.ips-dc.org/2026-tax-day...

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Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons - Institute for Policy Studies

Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 14/04/2026

UNENDING TORMENTS

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Sundress Publications announces the upcoming release of Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s poetry Craft Chap, An Interview with Fear. Download your copy for free on our website! www.sundresspublications.com/craft-…

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 03/04/2026

are you a writer? a reader? a book lover? a parent? any old person who thinks kids and their families shouldn’t be held in concentration camps? here’s a readathon you can participate in for the children and families interned at Dilley:

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Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I had the great pleasure of talking to my friend Eli Clare about his new book, Unfurl, and the long arc of his exquisite work shaping trans politics and disability justice over the last many decades.

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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Alright y’all this is a small thing but an easy one Stop buying books from Amazon Instead buy them from Bookshop.com which supports your local bookstores Here’s a 20% discount on your first order refer.bookshop.org/jen52349

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Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

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Lauren Morrill @laurenmorrill.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I think I’d rather drive across the entire country in a rented Ford Fiesta than wait in a 6 hour security line that had ICE agents at the front of it.

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 11/03/2026

time to consider this again (if it wasn't already). a good start on how: nwtrcc.org/PDFs/5%20ste...

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I’ll be facilitating a writing seminar and workshop soon!

Myriam Gurba presents THE HARD STUFF, a six-day craft seminar and workshop where we will access different techniques that enhance, enrich, and complicate prose that addresses the defining word of our age: TRAUMA! Magic realism, ancestral influence, co-authorship with the more-than human, humor, epistolary perspectives, and multimedia authorship will be the themes that structure our first five meetings. The final meeting will be participant led. For more information, email
gurbamyriam@gmail.com
(mailto:gurbamyriam@gmail.com)

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 05/03/2026

"I do not need to point out the parallels. I *do* need you to help us ensure that this history is *not* allowed to repeat itself. LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND." amazing work by @piperbomb.bsky.social for @assignedmedia.org

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 02/03/2026

The one time I got to go to AWP it was because AWP came to us right as things were shutting down for COVID…and the local writers’ org was fire enough to get a bunch of comped registrations for local writers…I probably shouldn’t have risked it but wanted to go SO BAD…

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 15/02/2026

I don’t think David Romero’s on Bluesky, but I was excited to get his bombass book in the mail. I blurbed it but took way too long so I don’t think he could use it. But here’s what I wrote:

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Ernest Hogan @ernesthogan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"It’s about time I focused on finishing the novel I plan to call Paco Cohen is Alive and Well and Living on Mars." labloga.blogspot.com/2026/02/chic...

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Chicanonautica: Who the Hell is Paco Cohen?

Chicana Chicano Literature y más, Latina Latino Literature, cultura, criticism, reviews. Oldest Chicana Chicano Literature blog in history.

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 06/02/2026

this is how I feel about most social appearances, tbh. just let me write!

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 04/02/2026

worked on this for a couple months with @harmanity.bsky.social and @viktoriavalenzuela.bsky.social and rly proud how it came out...people sent some amazing art & writing.

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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A small thing but for anyone with small children trying to explain what’s going on I would highly recommend the book “Noodlephant.” A fantastic parable about the power of community defense and mutual aid to combat fascism and racism, and the inherent violence of policing

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 30/01/2026

ok here's another flash nonfic for you. in my phone notes it's titled "True Story": in Las Cruces my dad unbuttons his flannel to show me the shirt underneath: Straight Outta Tobin Hill, it reads in funky lettering. He was looking around for a shirt like that online but

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 30/01/2026

i know things are really dire right now. but maybe this will make you laugh (it did me). part of my writing practice has involved mining my phone notes for cast off buried treasure, things to possibly develop or incorporate into projects in progress. and so i found this:

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 26/01/2026

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

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Leticia Urieta @leticiaasu.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Have you gotten a copy of my poetry chapbook, Offerings to a Tumbled Temple? It's out now from @purpleinkpress.bsky.social I am proud to share these very vulnerable embodied poems about healing my relationship with my body and being in kinship with other disabled folks. I hope you read it!

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · 24/01/2026

never been prouder to be half Minnesotan

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

BREAKING: The Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota has just donated $10,000 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, an essential org working on the frontlines to protect people from ICE's terror.

receipt for $10k to the immigrant law center of minnesota (tribute: In spite of Greg Bovino)

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Jadine (JD) Pluecker @jdpluecker.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Excited to offer this learning opportunity this spring: Read / Write / Study Group: Languaging / Trans. Applications close January 23! forms.gle/akbjxJbENDDi...

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

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