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Pamela Manasco

@pamelamanasco.bsky.social
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Poet | Nerd | English instructor @ AAMU. Recent poems in The Louisville Review, Bear Review, Split Rock Review, & elsewhere. pamelamanasco.com

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21/11/2025
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
So much love to @susurrusmag.bsky.social for publishing my fossil poem!
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I am beyond honored that @identitytheory.bsky.social nominated my poem for the Best of the Net 2026! 💜
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Tbh I would rather lick a rusty railroad spike than incorporate generative AI in my freshman composition courses
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Welcome to another special Issue Twelve, dedicated in loving memory to CJ's late aunt. View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve 📸: Malcolm Glass
Susurrus. Issue Twelve. Summer 2025.Featuring: Malcolm Glass, Azul, D Bedell, Emma Bolden, Mark Blaeuer, B.C. Brock, Nicole Brogdon, Christa Fairbrother, Elisheva Fox, Marianna Gibson, Matthew Hand, William Hawkins, Patrick Holian, Tyler Jagt, L. Bellee Jones-Pierce, Gabby Kiser, Pamela Manasco, Marshall Moore, Anne Myles, Claire Nelson, Jeff Newberry, Megan Nichols, Sean Sexton, Chelsea Stickle, and Lisa Zerkle
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
My 10-year-old: I've eaten many ants in my time. Some were on accident. And some...were not.
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Just spent 2 hours donating platelets because it's a good thing to do but ALSO because I wanted this ridiculous shirt
A dark gray t-shirt with a blue and gray UFO and a green beam of light with the text I Believe In Blood Donors
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Killing Eve poetry meme

Villanelle / (Every other genre): “You’re a lot today.”

Eve / (Poetry): “I’m a lot every day.”
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I had some dental work this morning (fixing issues with a couple of old silver fillings). My husband's take:
Text messages:
Michael: You can bite a werewolf and kill it now though, that's a bonus 
Me: The silver fillings are gone now so I think maybe that's a downgrade. Welp can't drink through a straw 
Michael: Aw yeah that's right, sorry babe, you're vulnerable again to the lycanthropes, shame
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Sleeping dog on my legs = unfortunately I only exist to be a pillow in this chair and will never move again
A sleeping dog lying on jeans-clad legs
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Paul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Great poetry still exists
Ice cream joke
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/07/2025
Art is inefficient. Care is inefficient. Joy is inefficient. Humanity is inefficient. Don't let them take that away.
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
(poetry) rejections are never easy to receive but I am watching a weird, chunky cardinal munch on sunflower seeds outside my window and this bird just looks SO DUMB so everything is not actually terrible!
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Needed this reminder today.
Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”“If you die, you let them off the hook.”
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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An eel with a checklist:

TO DO:
1. I PEEK OUT FROM BEHIND A ROCK
2. OPEN AND CLOSE MOUTH
REPEATEDLY
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Judson Memorial Church (New York), instructing us that “if empathy is a sin, sin boldly.”
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/06/2025
Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
At work early-ish on a Saturday morning and it's really easy to be jaded in academia, but I still love seeing all of the freshmen heading our way each fall.
A basketball court and stands half full of incoming students and parents.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought: You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another thought… the process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts" - Lynn Hunt
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How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA
Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Chaos- the world right

Farmer farming- riders is just trying to finish their book
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say, ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” - Mister Rogers 💛 The human world, it’s a mess ❤️‍🩹💚🌎
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Destination Venus sells comics in Harrogate! @destinationvenus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Just a general note - call it a life hack, if you will: If you ever find yourself thinking something along the lines of "The librarians are a problem, we must do something about the librarians!" then stop, look in a mirror and realise YOU are the problem.
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Just bought myself a reward plant (pink princess philodendron, not potted yet, don't judge me) for Not Crashing Out About the Atypical Mole the Dermatologist had to Remove Pt. 2 because a treato really will make it better.
A pink princess philodendron plant inside a white pot with black smiley face, sitting on a wood table with other plants behind it.
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Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author @tomdellaringa.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
It's possible that Grammarly has lost it's damn freaking mind. #writing #writingcommunity #booksky
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
With the recent success of Andor, I'm getting more questions than usual about how to land a job writing Star Wars books, so let's do the yearly How to Write IP thread, shall we? Firstly, IP means Intellectual Property-- that's shows, movies, plays, even books, any world owned by someone else. 1/
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
There should be an anti-AI country song called Goodbye, URL
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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Poetry is where the real sickos are at. The ones who truly dgaf yet simultaneously g the most f
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Maybe this is my reward goal: answer email within 48 hours of receipt this June and July and I can buy this game in August? (I'm going to buy it either way)
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
What causes the cycle of email avoidance -> person avoidance -> turning into a little gremlin in a hole -> sending the "so sorry I didn't reply to your email for a month" messages and why is it always ADHD
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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.
 
it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
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Christopher Swartout @chrisswartout.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Nick Saban could do the funniest thing right now.
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Just checked out of my writing retreat. This week's poems included topics like: - the tornado that almost hit my house (thanks, Tuesday) - the almost (maybe?) extinct Alabama sturgeon, thanks to OLLI poets yesterday - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV show, not movie)
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I went to Auburn for a writing retreat this week and then a tornado went through my neighborhood and narrowly missed my house (& husband & kids). What even
A tree and portion of a fence have been knocked over by a tornado.
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
One day I will learn that when cinnamon is listed with the other coffee syrups it is always a lie and never a syrup.
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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
"A week or so after passing a bill to make it easier to fire librarians, the Alabama House of Representatives passed another naming Little Bluestem the state grass." From @pamelamanasco.bsky.social in @identitytheory.bsky.social
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Little Bluestem: A Poem by Pamela Manasco - Identity Theory
What should we tell our children about it?
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I love that there is peer reviewed research calling ChatGPT bullshit so much 😭
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.
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Vacation Bible School Podcast 🏳️‍🌈 @vbs.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Jesus to Mary Magdalene
I want you to put the world out there that we back up
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Whose idea was it to have the tornados today? I just want to talk
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NPR @npr.org · 13/03/2025
The “blood worm moon,” so named for the reddish hue of its glow and the time of year it’s occurring, will be visible in every U.S. state.
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How to see the 'blood worm moon' total lunar eclipse tonight
The "blood worm moon," so named for the reddish hue of its glow and the time of year it's occurring, will be visible in every U.S. state.
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Dear July '24 Pam who thought she had finalized the order of her poetry manuscript: you were so hopeful and I love that about you. You were also dumb.
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 10/03/2025
We're going to pay $150 for prose, poems, art, and beyond, for TBQ8, which will also be in print and released in the fall. We open 4/20. Official call and guidelines coming soon! Follow us, read all of our back issues online for free, and live más!
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
apparently I am in the only-write-erasure-poems stage of whatever this is
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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Every single day fighting the battle to sound like a normal human being in emails and failing horribly
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