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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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.
gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...
gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...
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
gaycitynews.com
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...
gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...
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Three years, three books, three promotional thirst-traps 😜
After a successful Kickstarter campaign, my third book is out now! You can find the first two on bogossbook.com/shop
After a successful Kickstarter campaign, my third book is out now! You can find the first two on bogossbook.com/shop
November 1, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Three years, three books, three promotional thirst-traps 😜
After a successful Kickstarter campaign, my third book is out now! You can find the first two on bogossbook.com/shop
After a successful Kickstarter campaign, my third book is out now! You can find the first two on bogossbook.com/shop
lil sketch of handsome devil @cinephilecub.bsky.social.
February 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
lil sketch of handsome devil @cinephilecub.bsky.social.
filed draft with editor shhh watching inbox for explosion
February 7, 2026 at 4:59 PM
filed draft with editor shhh watching inbox for explosion
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Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
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February 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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These words mean very different things in my culture.
February 5, 2026 at 12:03 AM
These words mean very different things in my culture.