Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I feel like I've come across cento poems where the poet pulls from previous lines of poems from their own work? Have y'all? Any examples? 000
Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I was reading Chen Chen's new poem (very good, now I want to write a poem about names/other selves) in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social and started bopping around, as one does, and came across this great little story that I devoured: splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0926...splitlipthemag.com24 Hours on Labor & Delivery — Split Lip Magazine7:13am Patient has seemingly been in early labor since she was born. Requests epidural at one centimeter. 010
Reposted by Tara SheaDeborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Each time I see an announcement of the banning of THE BLUEST EYE, I pick up the book from its pride of place on my desk, open it to a random page, and read a passage aloud, relishing its lyricism. "So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die." 119727
Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026damn all these fucking years working these long poems about my dad into a thousand versions and then, click: form and space and cutting a lot and finding the song WHAT 000
Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026excuse me I have just learned that sonnet means, roughly "little song" 120
Reposted by Tara SheaDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sure, it’s cheaper to have big classes and to give each adviser 1000 students while rushing students themselves to graduate as fast as possible, but less learning will happen as a result. 215213
Reposted by Tara SheaONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In Conversation w/ Poet of the Week 💙 Cole Swensen I love how your poems trust perception to be stranger than we assume. I’d also love to know how close you are with nature, if it occupies a big part of your life? 051
Reposted by Tara SheaRose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Erasures from Institutionalism and Schizophrenia: A Comparative Study of Three Mental Hospitals 1960-1968, G. W. Brown & J. K Wing 16012
Reposted by Tara Sheawomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Setting Sun, (mid 20thC) by English painter Laura Knight #WomensArt 7767157
Reposted by Tara SheaCassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's esp important for male academics to learn more about how problematic the Title IX process is and how poorly universities treat survivors. I helped organize a conference panel on this topic in 2022. The room was full--of women. Two men came. This isn't a women's issue, it's a human issue. 13111
Reposted by Tara SheaJohn McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Human hair reworked. Band of needle lace made from human hair, England, c. 1640 - c. 1680. The thicker lines may be horse hair. (V&A, London) 25217
Reposted by Tara SheaNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every single person we cast out of protections against discrimination accelerates the descent into fascism. And it places a target on their back. 14717
Reposted by Tara SheaJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If your art and artist collapse in the oven it is likely they were monsters. 459626
Reposted by Tara SheaSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University. 694252593
Reposted by Tara SheaChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. —Toni Morrison 03817
Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026trying to uncork a particularly expensive but long aged bottle of wine at my next interview 000
Reposted by Tara SheaNothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026An Orchid — Georgia O'Keeffe, 1941 03810
Reposted by Tara SheaDorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Saddened to hear that a writer was contacted by a fake Danielle Dutton (not our very real and human editor) pretending to be asking for work on behalf of Dorothy. We do not solicit work that way (i.e., cold emails). Please help us spread the word?! 02311
Reposted by Tara SheaNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Think about how long it has been since you first saw headlines about Harvey Weinstein’s violence. Nine years after #MeToo went viral, his case(s) are still working their way through the criminal justice system. This is (one of a long list of reasons) why survivors don’t report. 2469106
Reposted by Tara SheaChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. —Mary Oliver, from "In Blackwater Woods" 03911
Reposted by Tara SheaDr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If you are creepy with college girls, word gets out, guy CW professors. 👀 152
Reposted by Tara SheaGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/09/2026Trump's third-country removal scheme may be suspended, but the cruelty of ICE flights continues. This is yesterday, Monday, Sept. 21. --72+ flights, nearly every adult onboard shackled --12 removal flights --A removal flight headed to Myanmar 4477234
Reposted by Tara SheaBrevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise." ~ Julia Cameron 062
Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You can get 40% off when you subscribe too! I'm about to get myself some bday presents. 043
Reposted by Tara SheaTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize. 102585620
Reposted by Tara Sheathe lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026friendly reminder that if you’re worried about cultural decline you can just pick up a book published by a small press and feel way better 26929
Reposted by Tara SheaPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.stringinamaze.netDon't Surrender On Trans RightsMany Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be. 383843881
Reposted by Tara SheaTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026One of my personal opinions is that we need to be having students at all levels doing more creative writing. The last 20+ of writing instruction seems to have shifted towards more regimented genres of composition, but one outcome has been a detachment from writers encountering their own voice. 511114
Reposted by Tara SheaJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026As a person who has had a nervous breakdown, I feel moderately qualified to say that we are having a societal nervous breakdown 271378122
Reposted by Tara SheaAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I have had some great teachers in this life, and she was the one who taught me what I could call the survival techniques to being a writer. I wouldn't have made it this far without her. I'm grateful to her, for her. Rest in peace, Annie. 17973158
Reposted by Tara SheaTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026$500, some highlighters, and ten days to wrap it up. Treat candidates like we treat teachers. 332696387
Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 15/09/2026prediction markets link to Ballotpedia pages now yikes 000
Reposted by Tara SheaAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth 11477793640
Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026my goodness. what a story. it has me thinking about so many things, so many people in this world, how war and trauma stay inside us, and about the things we make, how they linger in stories and memory... 000
Reposted by Tara Sheaashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected 3031021154
Reposted by Tara SheaChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026all i wanna do is hang out with gay people 1276
Reposted by Tara Shea~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Poem for Thursday 9.10.2026 (This poem & book are stunning) ✨ Clean —from: Dressing The Bear ~ Susan L. Leary —I often worried when I got the call, I'd be unprepared. But the morning my brother dies — 🤍 1126
Reposted by Tara Sheaashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/09/2026i feel like we just need to admit to a lot of young people that our systems completely failed them. we let digital tools in the classroom and social media algorithms use them like lab rats and now half of them cannot have a basic, polite human interaction. 451598443
Reposted by Tara SheaRainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I especially feel for young people who are being told: Learn to use AI but also AI is going to take all the jobs; you must use AI in this class but never that class; care about the world but disregard the environmental impacts; believe in yourself but don’t trust your own brain more than the tech. 1426
Reposted by Tara SheaTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I'm working in the library today. They just started a kids reading circle in the next room. These children are giving me life. LOL They're better at Q&A etiquette than a lot of academics I know. 677251
Reposted by Tara SheaDr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A truly ridiculous amount of talent & lyric warmth & creativity & depth—watch for their forthcoming collections! 1294
Reposted by Tara SheaRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Sorry but if antivaxxers were truly looking for people to just treat them kinder they wouldn’t have aligned themselves with every single hate movement that exists, and it’s intolerant to everybody else to act as if that’s not exactly who they are 352494448
Reposted by Tara SheaKeezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 07/09/2026trans people deserve EVERYTHING everybody else gets and more. romantic love. romantic angst. mistakes. reconciliations. dreams. happiness. fucking up. respect. marriage. jobs. success. failure. kids. choices. divorce. learning. growing. messing up. still being loved 52250672
Reposted by Tara SheaRose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The Kitten, created 1970 by Mary Bishop in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live. This is part of a vast body of work she created during her 30 years there, which expresses distress, explores her traumatic history & critiques the psychiatric system 720137
Reposted by Tara SheaChiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Get you a press that runs on equitable best practice, reads with love, and has this level of transparency 💙💙💙 183
Reposted by Tara SheaTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Place still matters. It’s probably about to matter a whole lot more. 336335
Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Nothing makes me question my life choices quite like a faculty meeting. 000
