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Karin
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Writer, poetry workshop facilitator, collagist, and birder based in Portland, Oregon. Author of See You Never (2024). she/they 🌈
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In another life I would have pursued a career in something related to public policy; glad I became a poet instead.
Shazam-ing my neighbors’ shitty metalcore through the wall to see which terrible band they’re listening to, and then getting even madder when it’s one I’ve never heard of. Worst genre.
Eileen Myles nails it.
People have been mistakenly calling me “Karen” my whole life, and I don’t mind correcting people, but in an age of karens it is a bit tiring, gotta say.
Suddenly remembered this Big Star song I was obsessed with 10-15 years ago. All of my favorite songs are love songs youtu.be/utOb0JRLH0A?...
Nightime
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Emily Skaja’s got the juice.
This Horse Feathers cover of Nirvana came out in 2010 and I’m sad I didn’t know about it, a great song to slow down: youtu.be/3-FO0HaVc0Y?...
Drain You
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Fiona Apple and Jon Brion covering Buddy Holly. I love this song, would 100% sing it to a baby: youtu.be/IJGZImkXMVc?...
Everyday
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From Safe Word by Donald Dunbar:
Maybe mostly everyone has seen it by now, and Fallon sucks, but this song by Hayley Williams is really kind of great, calls out white southern christofascism and racism, more of this, please! youtu.be/sNNYei__joU?...
Hayley Williams: True Believer | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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I’ve been sad lately about a lot of things, but annoying animal dance party protest makes me laugh, great tactic, I love it here, never leaving.
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
Sometimes all I want is to listen to some guitar chords and a little ditty, thank you, Arthur Russell: youtu.be/FjPhXjmrTPE?...
Arthur Russell - Close My Eyes
YouTube video by Audika Records
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Transcribing that Jane Goodall interview clip into my poetry journal for future reference and thinking that slide guitar might be my favorite instrument (I thought it was theremin or handclaps). It is definitely Sunday.
About to go to the community arts and crafts store for some collage supplies here in war-ravaged Portland. 60 degrees and the sun is shining, an absolute hellscape.
From Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night by Morgan Parker:
Little bite from Paul Legault:
Feeling despair as AI increasingly takes over my writing dayjob opportunities and thinking of this panel with sci fi authors I went to back in 2019. I wonder what those writers are up to now that it’s fully taken over. slate.com/technology/2...
What Sci-Fi Futures Can (and Can’t) Teach Us About A.I. Policy
Join us in Washington on May 7 for a half-day mini-conference on the intersection of science fiction, futurism, and real-world A.I. policy.
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Up crying about the scourge of capitalism, wyd
Reading through poems on my shelf and found this little ghazal from Kaveh Akbar:
A wolf poem I like, from Ben Mirov’s Hider Roser.