hi lovers, volume 25 is live xo
www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

"...we've all had those feelings that would never hold up in a court of law. But they keep our nights sleepless anyway, because at the root of those feelings, there is a sadness so intense that it defies reason..."

Beautiful phrasing of the axiom that emotions don't have to make sense to be valid.

"When Facebook came along, offering Gen X a 24-hour class reunion, we intersected again; by then, he had styled himself with a Buddhist title, looking for meaning there. It still seemed ill defined, uncertain, like he continued to be searching for words and just not being able to find them."

"Then suddenly you sit up straight in the middle of a random mid-August Wednesday night."

"Everyone has a Dave. Some version of him is trying to lodge himself in your bones as we speak."

now playing: "The Joker" • Steve Miller Band (by
@mallorysmart.bsky.social)
www.major7mag.com/post/the-jok...

"What matters is that I can still feel it, twenty years later, true as a sore throat."

now playing: "San Dimas High School Football Rules" • The Ataris (by @amy-e-casey.bsky.social )
www.major7mag.com/post/san-dim...

Reading back to get inspiration for my upcoming extracurricular at @marchrly.bsky.social and found @coriwinrock.bsky.social's essay on Hole. Rly enjoyed this! marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...

Ancient Rome. I know. Boring. I thought so too until we systematically learned about each period, ruler, & I understood how much happened, how fascinating it was...NOT in some smug decline of civilization manosphere sense...but just for its own sake.

BTW I was an Anthro major. So, can't use that.

During debate on a congressional stock trading ban introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley, Sen. Ron Johnson, one of the richest members of Congress worth an estimated $55 million, said the bill would “make it very unattractive for people to step up to the plate and run for office.”

Pumped that my extracurricular pitch for @marchxness.bsky.social was given the green light. It's going to bite! (like in a good way)

Pleased with the latest (final?) draft of a poem I'm writing for @metmuseum.org open call for Fall 2025 issue of Metaphrastics, for ekphrastic poems on items in their Arms and Armor collection. Might even write a couple more before the Sept 15 deadline.
www.metphrastics.com/submit

I'll be spinning this a lot in the coming months. Join in! Marchxness is so much fun, and interactive.

Awesome new poem by my friend @mariness.bsky.social

So here is your 64 lottery picks with their song choices updated as they come in. Congratulations to those who got lucky in the lottery this year! Those who didn't: pitch us EXTRACURRICULARS! We start running essays in September/October.

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human endeavor clumsily betrays humanity

- from "Japan", Anthony Hecht

After yrs of thinking I'm 'not ready', 'not good enough', 'have not written enough', I decided yesterday it's time to sub out a chapbook. I've got 24 pages/poems assembled. The ones I still like after sometimes yrs of revision. What's your advice to a virgin chapbook subber?