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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"success" in a creative field for me means understanding more deeply what i want to do creatively—and getting to do it

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

“If we're not supposed to dance, / Why all this music?” — Gregory Orr . . . This poem appeared in Concerning the Book That Is the Body Of the Beloved by Gregory Orr, published by Copper Canyon Press, 2005. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 11/11/2025

It was “NO” yesterday. It’s “NO” today. And it’ll be “NO” when it gets to the House. I’m not voting for something that forces millions of Americans to choose between seeing a doctor and putting food on their table.

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Ellen Bryant Voigt—poet and founder of the first low-residency MFA program—transformed American poetry and the way it’s taught. Catherine Barnett, @victoriachang.bsky.social, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and @meghanor.bsky.social pay tribute to a singular mentor. yalereview.org/article/trib...

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Remembering Ellen Bryant Voigt

Catherine Barnett, Victoria Chang, Meghan O’Rourke, and Carl Phillips remember the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Yesterday we received word that the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) within Dept of Ed (DoEd) was gutted--right now we believe there is no one or nearly no one left. But what does it mean? 1/11

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I don't know how else to tell you this: generative AI, the dismantling of Dept of Ed, defunding science, MAHA, banned books. They're of a piece. They're trying to disenfranchise you of your brain. Keep thinking.

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Sweet old hound in the very last of the summer light. Working very hard to attend to beauty, not in denial of the horror of this moment, but as a reminder to stay resolute in fighting for everything good in the world.

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Loved writing this little piece about how to conceptualize the value of a creative writing degree for @pw.org :

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

YES! We’re all so lucky we’re about to get this brilliant, urgent, expansive book from @zibrak.bsky.social :

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

The devastating flu epidemic of 1918 was particularly dangerous for young adults, for people in their prime, who died by the millions. But RFK Jr. is too stupid to know that. Link below.

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Honestly I’ve spent a lot of my adult life watching Stephen in all his brilliant iterations. My heart breaks. But @stephencolbert.bsky.social go back to @thedailyshow.com!!

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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

“When an ethnic group has nowhere to go and is constantly displaced from one so-called safe zone to another, relentlessly bombed and starved, ethnic cleansing can morph into genocide.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The summer issue of Image Journal is live today & full of so many gems, including a last poem from the late, extraordinary @marthasilano.bsky.social. My editorial essay, on taxonomies of grief is shot through with gratitude for the solace this work provides. I'm honored to share it all:

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Taxonomies of Grief - Image Journal

The world warms up, the prairifire crabapple trees begin to drop their blossoms in almost technicolor puddles on the sidewalks in my neighborhood and, as if in concert, the base of my neck gets heavy ...

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

"We need the storm, the whirlwind, & the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; & its crimes against God & man must be proclaimed & denounced."

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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

The speech shows the moral outrage that powered the abolition movement and made it so threatening to Southern slave holders, but also to anyone willing to tolerate or ignore slavery.

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This incredible, generous, accessible resource from @zibrak.bsky.social is officially live today! A primer on exactly the kind of artistic and cultural history those in power are most intent on silencing and erasing right now, this series is smart, approachable, and full of wonder. Check it out!

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Jenni @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

You guys should support our statewide LGBTQ advocacy org and get this sick ass hat www.wyomingequality.org/store/p/new-...

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

“Anyone who writes is a seeker. You look at a blank page and you’re seeking. The role is assigned to us and never removed. I think this is an unbelievable blessing. I mean, to be seventy-eight years old and still looking—this amazes me.” —Louise Glück buff.ly/lgqE3GU

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 16/05/2025

“I am part of a support group made up of people who’ve gone through periods of wanting to die and who, like me, are constantly working through how to actively engage with a world that can feel relentlessly untenable.” Hanif Abdurraqib on the uses of despair. nyer.cm/RWqO9fW

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.—W. S. Merwin

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Whatever else is true, this place was wildly beautiful. Always at home back south.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is jmetraux@motherjones.com.

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Longreads @longreads.com · 28/04/2025

"A trick of climate change, or the trick of the effects of climate change, is that some of the biggest devastation is unseen by most of us." @laurenmarkham.bsky.social in conversation with @jennitaur.bsky.social for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...

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Building a Nest | Los Angeles Review of Books

Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Amid mounting attacks on higher education, @meghanor.bsky.social argues for a magazine—and a university—that keep the pilot flame of independent thought alive. New today on TYR. yalereview.org/article/megh...

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Meghan O’Rourke: The Work of a Little Magazine as Higher Education…

Amid Trump’s attacks on higher education, making a space for literature and the arts is more important than ever.

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Happy Birthday, LG. Still learning from you; still watching the world the way you taught me

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I prob post this every year around this time, but it remains the case the best Easter poem ever written is this James Tate fire:

Goodtime Jesus

Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. He hd been dreaming so deep there was nothing left in his head. What was it? A nightmare, dead bodies walking all around him, eyes rolled back, skin falling off. But he wasn't afraid of that. It was a beautiful day. How 'bout some coffee? Don't mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/04/2025

"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."

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Pope Sends Deputy to Lecture Vance on Compassion at Vatican

Vance had an “an exchange of opinions” with Cardinal Pietro Parolin that touched on migration, the Vatican said.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I'm sure someone has already said this more eloquently, but autistic folks who don't pay taxes are still valuable human beings, and people with criminal records should still not be disappeared to foreign extra judicial prison sites. Inherent human worth is the hill.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

good grief… "The hospital, originally called the Hospital for the Negro Insane, opened in 1911... a time when lawmakers and health care officials claimed to see a rise in mental illness among Black Americans, which they blamed on their freedom from slavery.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/b...

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Maryland Mental Hospital With Painful History to Rebuild

The former Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland was once the state’s most crowded psychiatric institution. Pulling off a plan to redevelop it won’t be easy.

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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Tonight Dr. Diana Greene Foster, author of the Turnaway Study, spoke to a rapt group of advocates, activists, and providers who had traveled from across the state to listen to her words on the eve of our Supreme Court decision. We’re here for each other and we’re ready. www.cnn.com/2025/04/13/u...

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New laws complicate Wyoming’s abortion situation as bans set to be argued in state Supreme Court | CNN

When a Wyoming woman phoned the state’s only abortion clinic recently to make an appointment to end her pregnancy, she received news that complicated her life even more.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

"We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights." FINALLY. Thank you, @harvard.edu, for FINALLY taking a stand.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Eugenicists are so stupid.

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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This. We have lost 80% of funding for our state Humanities org, which provides programming for rural low pop communities that is so crucial to survival in the most desolate state with the highest suicide rate.

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

“That poem you love, / That saved your life, / Wasn’t it given to you?” — Gregory Orr . . . This poem appeared in Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved by Gregory Orr, published by Copper Canyon Press, 2005. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Sweetest surprise this morning is that the first class of grad students I ever taught sent tenure celebration flowers from across the county! Being a teacher is one of the biggest sources of grace in my life, no matter the state of the world, and these writers are magic. ❤️

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Loved getting to talk about shared history, critical fabulation, the political stakes of art, and the way the past echoes into the present at @mcachicago.bsky.social yesterday! *Really* loved getting to see this woman, and remember just how much I adore Chicago! Somehow, back to Laramie by sundown.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Oh HELL YEAH

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Chicago! I couldn’t be more excited to read and be in conversation with the artist Mat Bodett this afternoon! The political stakes of art and poetry have never felt more vital, and it’s a privilege to be part of this remarkable series. If you’re here, grab a ticket and come join us!

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Tenure! It's a colossal privilege to have arrived in this place, one made possible almost entirely by the enormous amount of support I've been given. Thank you so much to every person, community, and organization that has held me up and resourced my work. Screw you to every person who would...(1/2)

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The highlight of AWP was— as it always and forever is— the people I love. As with every year, I remembered to take basically no photos (!) but I have never been so grateful to be seen, held, and steadied, never needed more to have so many complicated, ranging conversations or to laugh so hard: