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A.M. Coleman
@amcolemanpoetry.bsky.social
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Queer Chicago poet, any pronouns.
I may not use this but I have heard that writers have to have social media now and my personal accounts are uh. not professional.
Work now appearing in Prosetrics: The Literary Magazine & more to come
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amcolemanpoetry.bsky.social
Wild grey hair & fervent eyes, an older man gripping a younger man's shoulder, proclaiming like thunder, "go, you fool! Your hesitation will be the death of you! You are capable, you lack only courage!" The young man nods, and the bus flies through the intersection. Pedestrians scatter, overawed.
talesfeathers.bsky.social Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 6d
Not all ghosts linger due to malice, or unfinished business. More often you will find those who loved so fiercely, dedicated themselves so passionately to something that their spirit remains long after their body is gone. Whose ghost do you meet today?

#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
February 11, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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cxorlando.bsky.social
hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 10, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.
February 1, 2026 at 7:20 PM
amcolemanpoetry.bsky.social
RIP to one of the greats, Catherine O'Hara 💕 Let's all just be sad today, yeah?
Poem text on a background of leaves and flowers, reads: Gratitude for Ordinary Sadness A. M. Coleman (posted on instagram, bsky 1/30/26 If I am killed by the state, we say, if they take me in my coat and hat in the winter silence, do not let my body disappear into the snow. Do not let them lie about whom I loved and how much I would do for them. Because this is a thing we must be on guard for, today. Poem text, on a background of leaves and flowers, reads: We cannot simply sorrow--this grief has claws. It demands not the everyday work of loss, the forms, scheduling, arrangements. Instead of cousins we call congress, instead of memories we share headlines, we, strangers, scaffold the stranger’s death with urgent care into a barricade against the wolves. The ritual reconfigures from whispering wake to holy, chanting procession through the prayer wheel of the streets, our streets, battleground sanctified. And this is right, that we rise to the holy work given to us by the dead, who stood guard, who shielded, whose hands we become. Poem text, on a background of leaves and flowers, reads: But today when the artist died, ordinary, at home, from an illness with no perpetrator to evade justice and no justice to grasp for but time, and mortality, we sink into the sadness with a sigh of terrible relief at having a simple reason to simply be sad, to rest in it like the relief of remembering to breathe after laughing so long--her gift--you almost forgot how.
January 31, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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gwynnega.bsky.social
I didn't publish a lot in 2025, but I'm proud of what I did publish. I'd especially love it if you'd consider my poem "the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force" (eligible for the Nebula, Hugo, and Rhysling awards). strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force
our purple clouds of delight rise above your tear gas
strangehorizons.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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rincewind.run
for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence

hope that helps
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21d
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Opinion | Why Gen Z Doesn’t Love ‘Harry Potter’
The wizarding worldview is naïve.
nyti.ms
January 26, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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originalist.bsky.social
"part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; part of this is conservatives projecting;

and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis"
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edburmila.bsky.social Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23d
They find it inconceivable that you could believe in anything and act on it without getting paid because if there wasn’t an endorsement deal to hawk fake supplements or straight up cash for podcasting, these people wouldn’t even muster the effort to log on.
January 26, 2026 at 12:19 AM
amcolemanpoetry.bsky.social
Anyone else feeling constantly inadequate for the moment we're in?
Text reading: Write About Your Feelings A. M. Coleman I’ve been thinking about anger I’ve been sitting in the burn of frustrated righteous rage reading about another child kidnapped hurt lost left alone in a house because a man with a gun and a cracker jack badge decided that his anger was a permission slip and just what is my anger supposed to do about it? I shouldn’t even be writing a poem about it probably there are better people to write these poems but god how are we not all writing poems about this who doesn’t have inarticulate rage they are trying to bang into some kind of useful shape a shield a whistle a sword a helmet a gas mask a blanket a gun who isn’t out here trying to say something that will break and rebuild the world better we should all have our whistles and we should all be marching we should all be playing the most furious songs of our hearts because what else is even adequate every child is ours, he said, Baldwin the patron saint of furious love every child is ours and we should all be poets for this child because how else can we possibly convey it the determination to break the world open and make them free
January 24, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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susankayequinn.bsky.social
Readers... this AI shit in Amazon ebooks is something authors can't opt out of and it's frankly illegal, but when did that stop tech companies? The only thing they respond to (sometimes) is customer backlash — don't use this feature and tell Amazon you hate it.

kindlepreneur.com/amazon-ask-t...
What Amazon’s 'Ask This Book' Feature Means for Authors | Kindlepreneur
Amazon’s Ask This Book feature adds AI-generated explanations inside Kindle ebooks. Here’s what it does, how it works, and why authors are pushing back.
kindlepreneur.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Call your reps. Let them know that if they vote for ICE funding, you will not vote for them ever again.

Representatives need to feel the heat. NO on ICE funding. No excuses.
evangreer.bsky.social Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 26d
So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE.

There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it.

Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance.

24 hours. Go.

www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...
No Funding for ICE Surveillance Tech!
www.fightforthefuture.org
January 22, 2026 at 12:12 AM