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P. Scott Cunningham
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Poet/Essayist. Winner, 2025 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. Founder: O, Miami - omiami.org #COYS About me: blockbusterlatefees.com
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Honored to have a poem about Florida chosen for Poem of the Day poets.org/poem/florida...
Florida Snow
The Everglades are burning. I’m fifteen.
poets.org
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"A love letter to Miami and a meditation on fatherhood... paints a vivid portrait of contemporary South Florida in all its contradictions and beauty."

Enter to win a copy of @cunningpscott.bsky.social's "Self-Portrait as the "i" in Florida" from @autumnhousepress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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It's here! We're so thrilled to share the cover for “Self-Portrait as the 'i' in Florida” by @cunningpscott.bsky.social, out on April 7.

Read about how the author worked with designer Gabriel Alcala to create the cover on Electric Literature's website.
December 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Cover reveal for my next book of poems. Comes out April 7th and I’m thrilled to share it with everyone
It's here! We're so thrilled to share the cover for “Self-Portrait as the 'i' in Florida” by @cunningpscott.bsky.social, out on April 7.

Read about how the author worked with designer Gabriel Alcala to create the cover on Electric Literature's website.
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Call me old fashioned or petty but I don’t like any other fan base loving Son. He’s ours.
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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This normalizes corruption, feeding the sentiment that both sides suck and so politics is pointless. A Dem party focused on rehabilitating its broken brand would be criticizing Trump and booting out Cuellar. Let the corrupt guys become corporate lobbyists - they’re dragging our party down.
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I've said this before and I'll say it again: Democrats can't hold official committee hearings, but they absolutely can gather in a room and invite people to answer questions and stream it live and invite the press to cover it.
NEW: Jim Jordan and House GOPers refused to let the American public hear directly from Jack Smith, per his attorney.
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Cursed fixture. Cursed performance. So getting a point out of that is fine by me.
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Wait, Spurs play today? I need longer mourning periods between games, please
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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to keep functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Body cam shows an immigration agent asking ChatGPT for help writing a report:
“During surveillance in the area, I observed a male subject loitering while seated in a vehicle. Based on his behavior, I approached and initiated a consensual encounter.”
ICYMI:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...
Bodycam footage from Operation Midway Blitz released: ‘It’s all about arresting people’
The group of videos made public through the Loevy & Loevy law firm includes footage from agents who responded to controversial arrest operations in the Little Village and Irving Park neighborho…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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In college, I had to read the Department of Defense’s Law of War manual.

I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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A year after Barnes & Noble opens in Wicker Park, nearby indie bookstore forced to close

What a bummer

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A year after Barnes & Noble opens in Wicker Park, nearby indie bookstore forced to close
Volumes Bookcafe, which has been open for a decade, immediately saw a “significant” drop in sales after Barnes & Noble moved into the century-old Noel State Bank building in October 2024.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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When Miami Beach gets packed, follow the locals.

The Financial Times asked me to create a survival guide for how to enjoy Miami Beach when more than 75,000 people come to town for Art Basel Miami.

Locals know where to go to have a good time — without fighting traffic.

#miami #artbasel
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Flyer by John Giorno published by Visual AIDS in 1993 for Day Without Art.
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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“another half-forgotten city, / wearing another man’s rags— / a scene he might have written: / streets snaking around him, / steaming and sulphurous, / rain dirty as it left the sky— / one last maze before the foothills of hell” —Nicholas Christopher, “Walt Whitman at the Reburial of Poe”
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I was an Ange-in guy but I was also hopeful for Frank. Seems like a decent guy. After Conte/Mourinho, not being an ass goes a long way with me. But feels like we’re back to where we were pre-Ange: starting a rebuild from the beginning. A lot of season left and I’m not excited for any of it.
November 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
There’s no quick fix. Team is poorly constructed and poorly managed. #COYS
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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He is risen
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Anyone who read American poetry from the 80s already knew language does not equal sense
Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Jamila Woods will join Kaveh Akbar for a live collab on art and empathy at the Metro. blockclubchi.co/48wDbgS
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”

@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I’m extremely biased but I’d have Ray’s 3 (and the Kawhi bounce) ahead of Kobe’s 81.
From @theathletic.com: A lot has happened in the NBA over the past 25 years. So our writers ranked the most significant moments of the 2000s.

Do you agree with our list? And how would you adjust the rankings? nyti.ms/47X54OY
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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This cover oozes with contempt for the magazine’s history and its readership
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?

Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Tottenham Hotspur FC

*noun*
1. Increasingly competitive women's top flight team coached by Martin Ho.
2. Home to successful Academy boys and girls teams.
3. There's a men's team too.
November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM