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Jennifer Bullis

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Poet, essayist, recovering academic in Bellingham, WA. Work in Indiana Review, Iron Horse, RHINO Poetry, Terrain.org, EcoTheo, Cherry Tree, Gulf Coast, Whale Road Review. Chapbook: IMPOSSIBLE LESSONS (MoonPath Press). https://jenniferbullis.wordpress.com

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Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · May 12

Much gratitude to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for publishing my poem "Our Lady of the Cascades" today!

Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · May 12

"O Lady Miriam Lady Mary mare mer Mère"

"Our Lady of the Cascades" by @jenniferbullis.bsky.social

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Our Lady of the Cascades

by Jennifer Bullis

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · 16d

@mooncitypress.bsky.social author @tms2072.bsky.social reads this coming Wed., Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., CT, via Zoom! Or if you're in Springfield, come watch her on the big screen! Where and how on the attachment, but the Webinar link is missouristate.zoom.us/j/87080217436.

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Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · Aug 16

Sherrilyn Ifill documents--and encourages--persistence with her excellent new essay: "this terrifying time of Trump must result in a true transformation of our national soul. It must create in millions more Americans an understanding that we rise or fall together."

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Aug 16

My new essay is up!

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Summer of Our Discontent

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

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Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · Aug 12

Absolute stunner of an essay by Tiffanie Kim weaving quantum physics with adoption in @tahomareview.bsky.social: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/s...

Schrödinger’s Father - Tahoma Literary Review

My father has been dead for almost a decade. For most people, this wouldn’t come as a shock. Ten years is a long time, after all. I would’ve been

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Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Ask ICE agents how they sleep at night. Record their actions. Ask collaborators if they recognize themselves. Emotional sabotage matters" because "fascism cannot prosper where empathy exists." Sarah Sophie Flicker on WWII-era Danes' resistance tactics:
www.thenation.com/article/acti...

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.

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Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · Jul 31

Grateful that my essay collection was included among the semifinalists!

Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · Jul 31

And to our semifinalists!

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social
Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social
Ana Caballero
Elizabeth Gray
Gail Hosking
Meg Jerit
Laurie Kutchins
Sonja Livingston
Madelyn Postman @madelynpostman.bsky.social
Anastasia Walker @staswalker22.bsky.social

Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · Jul 30

"Imagine that we had no word for cancer and no recognition of the varieties of ways it manifests, so that we just had occasional lurid news stories about strange and sometimes fatal growths in various parts of various people...": Solnit's brilliant analogy about the systemic reach of rape culture.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jul 30

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Epstein Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg: The Trump Protection Machine and the Epidemic of Violence Against Women

On July 2, the jury delivered a guilty verdict on some of the charges against music mogul Sean Combs for his decades of horrific sexual abuse of women with the help of his extensive staff and deep poc...

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Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · Jul 18

On Lexapro for 8 years postpartum. More sweating, more ... salivating? and tearing? Weird extraness with the fluids. And yes, heat tolerance gone, even after going off the med--summers are v rough. Hard recommend on that fan you're considering. And a mini-split for AC! Bliss, especially for sleep.

Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · Jul 18

Thank you, Senator Murray. I'm grateful to you for working so hard to push back against this and other over-reaches.

Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · Jun 24

Sherrilyn Ifill on how "ICE" agents' concealing their faces recalls Klan tactics: excellent historical & legal perspective sherrilyn.substack.com/p/masked-ter...

Masked Terror

At this point, we have all seen the videos.

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Jun 19

but who is going to write the poem

screenshot of an online article titled “drunk man sends injured baby bird to wildlife rescue center in Uber.” The caption reads: “A man who had a few too many alcoholic beverages ordered an Uber for a baby goldfinch that he found struggling on the ground. The baby bird was the sole passenger to a wild life rehab. There are two pictures of the bird: one of the bird resting in someone’s hand, and another of it chirping from a pile of towels.

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Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · Jun 17

Love this! I wrote my dissertation on Dawn Powell 30 years ago, just as Tim Page was editing her diaries and Steerforth Press was preparing to republish her novels. Later, Powell largely disappeared from public view again. Thank you for bringing this worthy author's short stories back into print!

Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · Jun 17

(better link)

She Walks in Beauty

By Dawn PowellJune 17, 2025 A coming-of-age story of two sisters living in their grandmother’s boarding house in a small Ohio town just before the first world war and the characters who filter in an o...

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Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · Jun 17

David! This is wonderful, congratulations. And such a lovely poem--what a sublime ending.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Jun 12

see what you need to understand is that they’re coming hard at california bc if they can take us down then it tells the smaller states there’s no point in fighting. we’re the bellwether. that’s why it’s so important we stop this shit NOW.

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · May 20

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · May 20

“Despair, in its own strange way, is a form of false confidence. It’s a sense that the future has already been decided and there’s nothing we can do about it. In fact, the future is something we make in the present.” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

How to stay hopeful in trying times - The Boston Globe

Rebecca Solnit, the author of "Men Explain Things to Me," says despair is a luxury.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · May 18

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · May 18

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.

University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · May 18

A must read

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Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · May 18

Thank you so much, Haley!

Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · May 12

And thanks to the editors for pairing the poem, as always, with such a gorgeous image.

Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · May 12

Much gratitude to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for publishing my poem "Our Lady of the Cascades" today!

Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · May 12

"O Lady Miriam Lady Mary mare mer Mère"

"Our Lady of the Cascades" by @jenniferbullis.bsky.social

psalteryandlyre.org/2025/05/12/o...

Our Lady of the Cascades

by Jennifer Bullis

psalteryandlyre.org

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Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · May 8

Rebecca Solnit on war, fast and slow: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-rob-you...

Some Rob You with a Six-Gun/ Some With a Fountain Pen: On Civil War By Other Means

Imagine if we were at war with a foreign power that bombed most of the federal buildings in Washington, destroying the records and functions of those departments and killing millions of federal worker...

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · May 8

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · May 7

Rest in peace, Martha Silano, poet, editor, and friend to all who put pen to page. You'll be dearly missed.

Yes, of course

those are angels lighting up
the neon, the eroding E
on your laptop keyboard. Not
a ghost, not a sign, but one

of God's bonafide lackeys.
What if the prominence
and the coronal hole told each other
they were beautiful? What if this

was the beginning of an eclipse?
Misery might have wings,
but it also has a mane, antlers,
a muzzle. Sometimes a shell

holds a current of melting doubt,
a slurry of cinnamon-colored truth.
Praying can happen at any time,
peeling back the leathery skin,

slicing into a mango. The years
marry all the sunsets since
the very first — every green flash,
whether or not they exist.

There are no years!" These are the words I heard spoken by Yevgeny Yevtushenko when he visited the University of Arkansas over 20 years ago. From that day forward, those four words have become my mantra. The thirty years and 2,000 miles that physically separate my daughter and me dissolve as we text back and forth, reveling in how often we are thinking, doing, or dreaming the same things. In this way I've come to recognize that years cannot divide any of us — from generation to generation we pass on our gratitude for all the large and small wonders of our world, from the glow of the sun to the simple act of peeling a mango. I hear resounding in Martha's voice the voice of Robert Browning in his poem "Pippa's Song":

The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his Heaven —
All's right with the world!

— Marie Silano

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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · May 7

We're so sad to learn that Martha Silano has passed. It was an honor to publish her work.

"Because solving’s just another word for letting go."
- from "Why I'd Make a Great Chemist" by Martha Silano

www.whaleroadreview.com/silano-2/

Why I’d Make a Great Chemist

Because my father was the X in X+ -e > X- + energy. Because my sister knits plutonium sweaters. Because none of my valence shells will ever fill. Because I love figuring out what all the arrows …

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · May 7

Devastated to hear the news of Martha Silano's passing. She was a wonderful person and poet. Condolences to her family and her loved ones.

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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · May 7

My friend @jenniferbullis.bsky.social has an amazing poem up over at Bracken Magazine. Check it out!

"Each crimson globe shining with its burden
of sweetness and regret."

www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xii/se...

Self-Portrait as Eve by Jennifer Bullis — Bracken

I heard the tree groan under the weight. Each crimson globe shining with its burden of sweetness and regret.

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