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Mid-American Review @midamericanreview.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The 25th annual Winter Wheat Writing Festival is open for workshop proposal submissions until September 24! Mid-American Review looks forward to seeing many of you at BGSU on November 6-8. Learn more at bgsu.edu/winterwheat or go directly to our proposals page: casit.bgsu.edu/winterwheat/...

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Winter Wheat – The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 27/07/2025

I hate writing and myself. It's great, really.

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melayna pongratz @mmelayna.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

my queer little poem "Mineral" has temporarily found its home in the Toledo Museum of Art alongside the darling hippopotamus-shaped cosmetic palette and other evidence of humans' ancient and everlasting love of beauty and art 🫶🏻 #tmapoetryprize

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melayna pongratz @mmelayna.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

the children yearn for well-constructed garments of times past

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Mid-American Review @midamericanreview.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We are excited to announce that BOTH of our genre editors, @skoeplin.bsky.social and @mmelayna.bsky.social, are finalists for the TMA Poetry Prize!

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

morale low in the office today @midamericanreview.bsky.social help

The three fates of graduate studies: fatigue, dismay, and burnout sit in an office in various states of repose.

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melayna pongratz @mmelayna.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

in case your vibe today is hugs & an unmade bed

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

a poetic reading of jump by kris kross

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

People don’t sit and ponder like they used to

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Harmin // Morgan @harminsandiego.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I think a new Rachel Ann Bovier billboard could heal me right now

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Nikki Giovanni was such a tremendous talent and a light guiding the way. She will be missed but I will always be full of gratitutude. Rest in Power, Nikki.

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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We are so, so very proud. To read these dynamite stories: reckonreview.com/award-nomina... @marythor.bsky.social @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social @patforan.bsky.social @katywrites.bsky.social @arlaina.bsky.social

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Jaden Gootjes @jadengootjes.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

petition -> www.change.org/p/protect-th... protect the porkies -> protecttheporkies.com/home #protecttheporkies #lakesuperior #michigan

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 09/12/2024

Try to make your mental illness work with you, not against you. Become a writer.

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

berry time

squirrel delicately reaches for a twig with berries

the squirrel squints as it grabs the twig with both hands

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David A.M. Wilensky @davidamwilensky.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It's not new. Trans people have been around as long as there have been people. And the revolutionary institute that performed the first known gender affirming surgeries, founded by a gay Jewish doctor, was among the Nazis' first targets. Learn more from @bschillace.brandyschillace.com:

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The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology

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