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1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix. Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection. They knew how to treat her. There was one issue … 🧵

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

the problem w/ academia is its demands for propriety instead of creative intelligence

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

don’t want to have to worry about money but also don’t want a boss

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

probably poetry requires a certain level of lawlessness that most people are not comfortable with

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

i got out of another ticket ..something is wrong w me

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

hegel —tragedy as a collision of contradictory views

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Immune to Boredom @immunetoboredom.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Only if you dislike them.

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

but i also know im almost ready bc i cleaned my house

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

i hate the thing where i have to start working on a book and i just procrastinate & post song lyrics like whyyyy

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

should you really give the ppl what they want tho?

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

should i go to law school or should i continue to be an unemployed poetry freak?

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I’ve killed my world & I’ve killed my time

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I worked so fucking hard on this review & I think it is really good. I’m glad I was trained as a materialist Marxist freak bc it is good for criticism

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I don’t remember the last day I did not work.

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MICHAEL CHANG POET @officialmchangpoet.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

😱😱😱 My new chap HEROES is now available from Temz Review / 845 Press • cover art by the amazing Jean Jullien 🐳🐳🐳 — www.thetemzreview.com/store/p50/HE...

HEROES BY MICHAEL CHANG NOW AVAILABLE FROM TEMZ REVIEW 845 PRESS

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MICHAEL CHANG POET @officialmchangpoet.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

ft blurb by @sandmansimonds.bsky.social and others 🌟🌟🌟

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

the Animals cover of It’s all over Now Baby Blue I like better than the og

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 06/04/2026

ah the poète maudit (as Alex once described you to me!)

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

easter, writing deadline, weird hotel room what is my life?

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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

It's almost as if people like that have an extra sense that allows them to inhabit songs and make themselves at home in those "little rooms in time" as David Berman called them (songs, that is).

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

it’s odd that some musicians have a talent for covers—cat power, ryan adams

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Thanks to the New York Public Library for choosing Burning Oracle as one of the best poetry books 📕💕

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

you shouldn’t have to sell your soul in black & white

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Assia is being optioned for film 👍

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Thanks to the New York Public Library for choosing Burning Oracle as one of the best poetry books 📕💕

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I think I have a gift for friendship because I am very much not judgmental if I can say at least one good thing about my personality.

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Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

therapy probably only works until about the age of 40 at which point you just accept that life is somewhat fuct & there’s not much you can do abt that so—why not just keep writing poetry?

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I encourage people to look at what happened to the profession as a whole through the process of adjunctification, a mechanism which degraded the quality and security of ALL faculty jobs, even those who are tenure track and see how AI automation is the same mechanism, only potentially faster.

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

it’s frank o’hara’s hundredth birthday! be gay! write poems! write poems about your hot friends! fall in love with beautiful dancers! write poems for them! love art more than any man living! frank!!!!

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