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Haley

@haley-exe.bsky.social

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Virginian living in Texas. Poet, project wrangler, weight lifter, mom. I run No Write Time, a zero-commitment virtual writer workshop. She/her. Avatar created here: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/117958 haleycampbell.net

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · Apr 28

Okay folks, I'm doing the thing. Want a no-commitment, low-stress writing workshop? Welcome to No Write Time.

We'll meet on Discord every other Tuesday, 7:30-9 PM CST. First 10 min is a reading, next 60 we write, last 20 we discuss. DM me for an invite link & follow @nowritetime.bsky.social!

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

www.pbs.org

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 1d

TONIIGGHHTT! 7:30 CST! Show up (virtually! From the comfort of your own space! On Discord!) and write with a lovely encouraging group of your peers. Get that draft done! Do the research! Submit that piece! Ping me for an invite, would love to see you there.

a girl in a school uniform is sitting at a table with a notebook .

Alt: A gif from an anime depicting a school girl with short brown hair sitting at a desk and writing furiously in a notebook, her arms becoming a flurry of limbs as she writes.

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 2d

Reading @ceruleancynic.bsky.social's "Strange Practice" and it is brilliant. It's got all my favorite things: vampires (of multiple varieties), Solidly Decent People, medicine, a heroine as competent as she is exhausted (read: very). Big big big recommend.

Also jeeze I just love vampire stories!!

Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 4d

It's been a rough stretch in my tiny corner of the world, but we just had a gorgeous morning out with the kid, the weather is *finally* turning, and I am sitting on the back porch in the cool breeze writing poems with my dog and my beloved while the baby naps. Grateful for this small perfect moment.

A photo featuring a blurry notebook, pen and glass of iced coffee in the foreground. The background, in sharper focus, is a crunchy dry lawn, a fence and a stone wall, and behind them a bright blue sky.

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who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 5d

goofy white ppl, your time is now!

I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 5d

Listen I know how serious the issue is.

But Portlanders protesting at the ICE facility are some of the most unserious people alive and it's being effective. You can't get good "tough on crime" optics when you're attacking a guy in a bear mascot suit or a girl in Victorian garb having a tea party.

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 6d

I'd be delighted to, although it's been a while since I've provided critique.

Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 6d

Was doing revisions yesterday and.... I have two chapbooks, somehow? Like they aren't DONE done but they exist!!!! Mind boggling to me, Earth's Slowest Poet.

Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 7d

When you figure out the last line!!! HELL yes.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 7d

that’s my emotional support three-hour sad/confusing movie

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 7d

One thing I adore about the poetry community here is that people share older work. It's wonderful. We should celebrate past publications with the same joy as new ones! @barrenmagazine.bsky.social pub'd this way back in the day barrenmagazine.com/common-time/

Quote this with an older piece of yours!

Common Time - Barren Magazine

There is a rhythm to it, the banality of breathing in the same space for years, inhabiting the same room, but at a distance.

barrenmagazine.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 7d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 7d

YES. And I'll dedicated a notebook to A Special Project and then inevitably it just becomes another random notebook so who can say which poems are where??? Certainly not me, the person writing them!

Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 7d

The creeping dread of knowing you have a poem draft to work on but you *cannot* find the notebook where you wrote it down!!!!!

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · May 29

Teapot spirits 🫖

#art #cuteart #traditionalart

Illustration in acrylic gouache and colored pencil. It depicts three colorful teapots, surrounded with little, playful ghost-like critters. The first teapot is tall and slender, it’s red with white, yellow and blue floral patterns. The second teapot is tall and a little wider, it has a muted green color and a lily of the valley painted on it. The third teapot is short and wide, has a wooden handle and is painted in a sunny yellow color and daisy patterns.

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Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 9d

NOT A DRILLLLLLL IT WORKS!

Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 9d

Got a submission out right under the wire for September. I think one a month feels like a good pace for me. That's slow compared to a lot of people, but these days I'll take slow and sustainable every time.

Now I to figure out where to send this acrostic!

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 9d

Says a lot about the state of popular science reporting that some techbro doofus can pretend he's going to be immortal and that will grab more headlines than "Hey we have a gene therapy that slows the advance of Huntington's by 75%," or "We gengineered a pothos into a living air purifier."

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 9d

The imagery in this one, hot damn. Not to be missed.

Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 15d

New flash up this week that's absolutely bursting with vivid imagery. Lose yourself in "The Lizard That Lives in My Chest" from Sharon Aruparayil

Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/9-23-25/liza...

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 9d

Never not in love with mom poems. Mom poems forever. This one by Rachel Beachy in @havehashad.com does that gorgeous gut-punch last line thing too.

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/lie...

Lies I Told the Day You Turned Five by Rachel Beachy

A bird flew into the window and you asked if it was asleep. When I played the video of Dolly Parton singing “Happy Birthday,” you thought she had recorded it just for you. You asked if I put th...

www.havehashad.com

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 9d

Oh heck yes!!! Sending all the "let's get published" vibes I have!

Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 9d

I'm gonna do it. Y'all yell at me if I don't.

(And you should submit too! Glass is amazing.)

Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 9d

psst....

we open for chapbook submissions in two days (October 1).

www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

Submissions Guidelines | Glass Poetry Press

www.glass-poetry.com

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 10d

I keep writing and then deleting posts because *fuck* what does a person even say anymore??

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 11d

Time to get cozy. ☕️🍂

#art #cuteart #caturday

Colored pencil illustration of a cute orange cat with a cup in its paws, wrapped in a patchwork quilt. The cat is framed by a patchwork frame with various patterns related to Fall on it. The entire image is in a warm, autumnal color scheme of browns, reds, oranges, greens and yellows.

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 15d

I wrote an acrostic tonight for my #APoetsGlossary project and it's....... really good actually? Like I'm kind of impressed with myself.

The next form to tackle is an aisling, which seems tricky given its cultural context, but I think I might have an angle to pursue.

Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 15d

Tonight for No Write Time we read Helli Fang's "ars poetica" from her collection "Village of Knives" and published by @driftwoodpress.bsky.social

An image of the poem "ars poetica" from Hello Fang's "Village of Knives."

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