saltpeter
@saltpeterdraws.bsky.social
AKA Michael Todd Cohen. Queer writer, artist and adoptee living in New England. A Lilac Foundation Fellow for Environmental & Social Justice at Vermont Studio Center (2025). Often work in queer adult themes: 18+ please.
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"No, said the developer. Frank could not purchase the parcel, because he was Black."
Memoir reader @saltpeterdraws.bsky.social's article THE FIRST BLACK FAMILY IN LORDSHIP is in The Stratford Crier 😍 Read it here: buff.ly/hIPR8ee
Memoir reader @saltpeterdraws.bsky.social's article THE FIRST BLACK FAMILY IN LORDSHIP is in The Stratford Crier 😍 Read it here: buff.ly/hIPR8ee
February 17, 2026 at 4:35 PM
"No, said the developer. Frank could not purchase the parcel, because he was Black."
Memoir reader @saltpeterdraws.bsky.social's article THE FIRST BLACK FAMILY IN LORDSHIP is in The Stratford Crier 😍 Read it here: buff.ly/hIPR8ee
Memoir reader @saltpeterdraws.bsky.social's article THE FIRST BLACK FAMILY IN LORDSHIP is in The Stratford Crier 😍 Read it here: buff.ly/hIPR8ee
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I look forward to Ash Wednesday since it's one of the last few holdouts of Gothic Metal Christianity: the priest swipes you with a cool temporary facial tattoo while whispering about your imminent death.
February 17, 2026 at 1:52 PM
I look forward to Ash Wednesday since it's one of the last few holdouts of Gothic Metal Christianity: the priest swipes you with a cool temporary facial tattoo while whispering about your imminent death.
sketches from inside queerdo brain...
February 17, 2026 at 12:39 AM
sketches from inside queerdo brain...
Do you know the work of @edfirth.bsky.social?
Covet my copy of Pound Shop Decade (and personal portrait!). Sharp lines, clever voice, and styyyyyyle..... 😍
Covet my copy of Pound Shop Decade (and personal portrait!). Sharp lines, clever voice, and styyyyyyle..... 😍
February 16, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Do you know the work of @edfirth.bsky.social?
Covet my copy of Pound Shop Decade (and personal portrait!). Sharp lines, clever voice, and styyyyyyle..... 😍
Covet my copy of Pound Shop Decade (and personal portrait!). Sharp lines, clever voice, and styyyyyyle..... 😍
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i don’t care if someone is bad at drawing. at least they draw. if you complain about not being able to draw but you don’t draw idk what to tell you
February 16, 2026 at 9:13 AM
i don’t care if someone is bad at drawing. at least they draw. if you complain about not being able to draw but you don’t draw idk what to tell you
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the Black Panthers were right
February 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
the Black Panthers were right
thinking about what a memory-keeper said to me earlier this week, "community is dead."
I assured her it wasn't; that it is distributed between the digital and physical but even as I said this, it felt flat. Inadequate.
Community is...mutating? In what ways can its meaning *resist* capitalism?
I assured her it wasn't; that it is distributed between the digital and physical but even as I said this, it felt flat. Inadequate.
Community is...mutating? In what ways can its meaning *resist* capitalism?
February 15, 2026 at 11:02 PM
thinking about what a memory-keeper said to me earlier this week, "community is dead."
I assured her it wasn't; that it is distributed between the digital and physical but even as I said this, it felt flat. Inadequate.
Community is...mutating? In what ways can its meaning *resist* capitalism?
I assured her it wasn't; that it is distributed between the digital and physical but even as I said this, it felt flat. Inadequate.
Community is...mutating? In what ways can its meaning *resist* capitalism?
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Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.
February 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.
thinking about nostalgia
February 15, 2026 at 9:17 PM
thinking about nostalgia
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you might wonder what art materials are needed when learning how to draw.
you need a pen and the cheapest paper you can find. blick sells 500 sheets of newsprint for less than $10 but you can just use what’s lying around
you need a pen and the cheapest paper you can find. blick sells 500 sheets of newsprint for less than $10 but you can just use what’s lying around
February 15, 2026 at 5:41 PM
you might wonder what art materials are needed when learning how to draw.
you need a pen and the cheapest paper you can find. blick sells 500 sheets of newsprint for less than $10 but you can just use what’s lying around
you need a pen and the cheapest paper you can find. blick sells 500 sheets of newsprint for less than $10 but you can just use what’s lying around
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I have some sprouts in this issue! 🌱
ALOCASIA #17 is here w/ queer planty writing as winter writhes into spring!
w/ Christopher Phelps, Shui-yin Sharon Yam, Adrian Dallas Frandle, Erin Mizrahi, Nikki Wallschlaeger, wallamide, Zoe Adrien Lapa, Tara Labovich, oleg olizev, & Aaron El Sabrout
alocasia.org
w/ Christopher Phelps, Shui-yin Sharon Yam, Adrian Dallas Frandle, Erin Mizrahi, Nikki Wallschlaeger, wallamide, Zoe Adrien Lapa, Tara Labovich, oleg olizev, & Aaron El Sabrout
alocasia.org
February 15, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I have some sprouts in this issue! 🌱
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From @dapowell.bsky.social’s exquisitely saucy new chapbook “Tricks”: www.cutbankonline.org/2026-chapbooks
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
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February 15, 2026 at 1:43 PM
From @dapowell.bsky.social’s exquisitely saucy new chapbook “Tricks”: www.cutbankonline.org/2026-chapbooks
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Here's a drawing of gold-toothed Kentucky hero Smilin' Sid Hatfield (yes, related to the feuding ones), chief of police of Matewan, WV, who battled coal coal company gun thugs after preventing them from displacing and robbing the striking miner families to whom he'd sworn his protection. 1/
February 15, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Here's a drawing of gold-toothed Kentucky hero Smilin' Sid Hatfield (yes, related to the feuding ones), chief of police of Matewan, WV, who battled coal coal company gun thugs after preventing them from displacing and robbing the striking miner families to whom he'd sworn his protection. 1/
YES we gonna love it up! 🙌
You like love poems? Anti-Fascist love poems? Erin Vachon and I have been working on organizing this reading to take place during AWP this year—hope you can join us. @erinvachon.bsky.social 🖤 💪
February 14, 2026 at 4:37 PM
YES we gonna love it up! 🙌
shapes I saw today while inventorying an 18th century historic house...
February 13, 2026 at 11:05 PM
shapes I saw today while inventorying an 18th century historic house...
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“Tell your story as though you are trying to keep people awake.” ~ Jesse Lee Kercheval
February 13, 2026 at 12:06 PM
“Tell your story as though you are trying to keep people awake.” ~ Jesse Lee Kercheval
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I'm working with The Writer's Center on two new book clubs that focus on independent authors and presses!!
We'll read a new book each month. Then the author will join us, read an excerpt, and answer reader questions!
Read with us!
We'll read a new book each month. Then the author will join us, read an excerpt, and answer reader questions!
Read with us!
February 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I'm working with The Writer's Center on two new book clubs that focus on independent authors and presses!!
We'll read a new book each month. Then the author will join us, read an excerpt, and answer reader questions!
Read with us!
We'll read a new book each month. Then the author will join us, read an excerpt, and answer reader questions!
Read with us!
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he took my spot
February 11, 2026 at 2:28 PM
he took my spot
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Good evening!! One happy guy
February 9, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Good evening!! One happy guy
February 10, 2026 at 9:19 PM
'tis true! art for ALL! 🎨
Michael (aka @saltpeterdraws.bsky.social) was officially appointed by our mayor to the Town Arts Commission today!
February 10, 2026 at 3:54 PM
'tis true! art for ALL! 🎨
waking up an angry again. deliberate and direct erasure. NO. We are here. We are queer.
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Trump administration removes Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument
The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, the National Park Service confirmed to Gay City News
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February 10, 2026 at 1:21 PM
waking up an angry again. deliberate and direct erasure. NO. We are here. We are queer.
gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...
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