Mary Karr
marykarr.bsky.social
Mary Karr
@marykarr.bsky.social
poet/memoirist/professor/nana
The great #TerranceHayes
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Reposted by Mary Karr
All the pearl-clutching about Zohran Mamdani--by right-wingers who elected a half-senile old TV star president--is very amusing. For once the shoe is on the other foot.
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If you want to know what God thinks about money, look at the people he gave it to.— Dorothy Parker
November 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Me trying to teach my book to be readable….

#Amwriting
#WritingTips
November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Why I live in NYC….
One of my favorite things about Halloween in NYC. Diane Keaton, I see you doing the Thriller dance back there.

Halloween this year felt special. One night to get our minds off *waves arms around* all this. Pure fun and joy.
Thriller Dance Halloween Parade 2025 New York
YouTube video by Good Morning New York
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November 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My grand (center) w part of heer Halloween coven: boo!
October 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The grand puppies got up to be ringbearers at their other nana’s wedding. Why don’t they make star-sparkle, cake tier dresses in my size—it’s not fair!
October 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
After almost 37 years without booze, I promise sober’s easier than drunk. Who tf knew. Thanks to my son, Dev who gave me a reason, my wild-assed mother, and all the topless dancers.
October 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Guillermo del Toro’s #Frankenstein poured magnificence through me as I watched, still running through me. Like opera or poetry, it’s both vast & intimate. Can’t wait to watch again & again. Kudos!
October 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Years deep into my hardest #memoir abt what went wrong but also radiantly right bet sister Lecia and me. She is now five years gone, but she’s still talking to yours truly. She was born on this day 1953. Hallelujah❤️ #SisterLove #HappyBirthdaySister
February 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
'Heaven doesn't want me, & hell's afraid I'll take over.'
--From the attitudinal shirt of Hanif Abdurraqib
January 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
When I pray for the devastated on the left coast, I conjure how hard it is to be another person, which takes me outa my noisy self. Nonbelievers say prayer doesn’t change things. But it often changes me, and I change things. #LosAngelesFire #PrayForLA #Prayer #YouDontHaftaBelieveSquatToPray
January 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Wanted to end the week in gratitude to my writing inspiration along the way.
@annelamott.bsky.social
@stephenking.bsky.social
@marykarr.bsky.social
Stephen I put you between two strong women :)
January 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
During an arctic blast when too many of my far-flung pals have homes in flames, I savor this poem by long lost Miroslav Holub. #PoetryFix #poem #PoetryCommunity
January 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
God bless @StephenKing & Miz Tabby on over 50 years of wedded hilaritas. Dang it, good for y’all
Tabby and I have been married 54 years today. It's all good.
January 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Poet Weldon Kees still jolts my cardiac region like defib paddles. Read it if you dare....#PerfectPoem #poetrycommunity #Poetry
January 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM