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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Today, my Kentucky Wonders joined the tomato party— along with some VERY hot peppers

Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Friends, keep me in your thoughts and prayers. I am about to attempt the doomed and harrowing passage known as Costco on a Sunday Afternoon. Alone. I know it is a brave and foolhardy quest from which return is not assured, so hold me in your hearts.

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

All the bounty of summer. Wish I could share it with Mashal’s Afghan refugee family facing deportation back under the Taliban— who need resources more practical to survive. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd #MutualAid #Refugees #Afghanistan #Resist

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Mashal’s Afghan refugee family are ten deep— three generations, including Aliyah, the grandmother, and her three children and three grandchildren. They are in danger of being sent back under the Taliban. Help us help them survive. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd#Mut... #Refugees #Afghanistan

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Donate to Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger, organized by Mike Copperman

You awaken to police officers pounding on your door, demand… Mike Copperman needs your support for Help Save My Afghan Family from Deportation and Danger

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Make a difference for my wife’s refugee family. We are so close! gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Make a difference for my wife’s refugee family. We are so close! gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Blessed to have my aunty’s visit the mainland from Oahu, and to be treated to a deluxe chirashi bowl. But I am thinking of what my wife’s Afghan refugee family has to eat. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Fresh from my garden. Wishing I could share this with my wife’s refugee family, who cannot get fresh food. Please help them survive. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd #mutualaid #refugees

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Please help us meet our goal— help this refugee family survive. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd . #mutualaid #refugees #refugeeswelcome

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Please help Mashal’s Afghan refugee family— now in peril— survive. You CAN make a tangible impact— guaranteed. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd #MutualAid #Refugees #fundraisers #LiveAid

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

We are SO close. Please help my wife’s Afghan refugee family survive! gofund.me/d9e0b3cd #refugee #humanitarianaid #fundraising

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Help is make a future for these children! #fundraising#humanitarian #charity #stopthehazaragenocide gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

We’re so close! Please help these children have a future! gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Kawsar and Melika, the two girls, dream of being able to go to school (they cannot, as refugees in Pakistan; they cannot if deported to Afghanistan). Little Mo doesn’t yet know what he wants, beyond a better place to play. Help them find a future. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

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Kelly Caldwell @kkc212.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This spicy @short-reads.org essay by @michaelcopperman.bsky.social will make you chuckle, and make you hungry, and make you sigh. It's a balm, and if you've read any news at all today, you need it. www.short-reads.org/hot-chips/ #WritingCommunity #foodsky

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Hot Chips

by Michael Copperman | Land of the Hot Cheeto, Home of the Brave.

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I spent all night beseiged by MAGA keyboard warriors who mostly mistook my post to be about the US, and came with “joyful” deport memes. Others wrote, “Assimilate or die!” And still others wrote, “This is money going to the Taliban?” Thank you for helping: gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Trump ended their asylum to the US. Now they are in great danger. Please help: gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Please help my wife’s family survive! gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Here is Aliyah, Mashal’s family's grandmother who recently had to have emergency liver surgery, and her daughter and son. She is currently bedbound, and if deported from Pakistan will not have access to the healthcare she needs to survive. gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I celebrate a win as I try to help my wife Mashal’s Afghan refugee family— including the elderly matriarch and three beautiful young children— who are in terrible danger of being deported from Pakistan. Please please go to my profile for the gofundme. You CAN help!

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

How do we value a life? How do we decide that our lives matter, while someone else’s life is disposable? gofund.me/d9e0b3cd

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This is me at the same age as Kawsar, one of three children in Mashal’s Afghan refugee family who were recently raided by Pakistani police who have already deported 80,000 Afghan refugees back to the Taliban in the last months. Help us help them: gofund.me/aa47f892 #help #fundraising #support

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

My wife Mashal’s family was raided by police and government officers (read, Pakistani ICE) in Pakistan, where they have been refugees from the Taliban. Help cover transportation costs, find a safe place to live , and provide basic needs like food and medicine. Every dollar counts. gofund.me/aa47f892

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It’s my 45th birthday, and here’s me at dim sum place celebrating this past Sunday (today I’m at a conference).

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Headed to NonfictionNow! This is the first time I’ve been to a nonfiction-based conference, and with my second book of literary nonfiction, “Seeking Eden,” under contract with University of Iowa Press in fall ‘26, I’m looking forward to meeting new writer friends.

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Being anti “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion,” means you’re for segregation, discrimination, and exclusion, right? So when Trump goes after DEI the idea is the more racism, sexism, classism, prejudice, ableism, homophobia, etc, the better.

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

There goes the NSF. In short order, the Department of Education, NIH, and NSF…

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Elated that “Seeking Eden,” has found a home with University of Iowa Press!

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I haven’t really found or created the equivalent of lit/writer twitter here, but I want to say that, after 17 impossibly long months on the market, I’m vague!

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

So I wanted to teach relatable and moving poems. That led to teaching Lydia Davis’s “Head, Heart,” Sharon Olds’ “Late Letter to my Father,” and Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s “Song,” this morning— voice cracking with emotion despite my best efforts, while my students watched in horror. What was I thinking?

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

"Examining events from our childhood can be difficult because we’ve come such a long way through life—and so have changed so much that a great deal of the work of the piece is recreating, even rediscovering our past self." ~ @michaelcopperman.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/o...

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On Retrospection

By Michael Copperman In writing personal essay and memoir, retrospection is the engine of all of my work. Looking back allows me the angle of vision from which to interpret and understand what has …

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

So excited for this incredible event I’m putting on tonight in Lansing!

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Michael Copperman @michaelcopperman.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Paulann Peterson posted this today, and it seems right for the coming year

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