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Jessica Lee McMillan

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Poet, teacher, music nerd | Chapbook: 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐃𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐧 via Pinhole Poetry Spring, 2026 | Poems in CV2, The Malahat Review, QWERTY, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, Canadian Literature (TBA). | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉🌻 | www.jessicaleemcmillan.com

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 17h

And the horrors continue: Cory Doctorow explains how corporate tech enshittifies apps to skirt the law.

How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law

The death of competition spells doom for regulation. Competition is an essential component of effective regulation, for two reasons: First, competition keeps the companies within a sector from all …

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 18h

Power tune of the month. Appropriately the first station I heard this electrifying band.

“I Got Heaven” by #MannequinPussy. #KEXP

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Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven (Live on KEXP)

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George Murray @bookninja.bsky.social · 2d

There's NewPoetry today from Adam Sol (@adamsol.bsky.social).

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Climate Grief Sandwich

Adam Sol It takes seven gallons of oil to make a tire, which means it’s pointless to beg you to love me like you used to. I am wearing thin, like an old tire haha, when the road gets cold I …

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 3d

Yes, that's awesome! It’s happened a few times in fall, no matter when the poems were accepted or the publication schedule & after slower preceding months. I guess this year too. I suddenly have about 10 pieces coming out after a smattering throughout the year. Fall magic✨🍂

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 3d

Congrats! I find that happens sometimes in the fall?

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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 14d

Argh! Yes, if you search Outlaw Alice Lebow, it should come up to watch here.

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 5d

Elvira share such a gem in this interview about Vincent Price and his recipe for dishwasher fish, as seen on Carson. Hilarious.

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Vincent Price cooks salmon in a dishwasher

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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 8d

Here's my interview with Cassandra Peterson, a.k.a. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark...

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Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark, is serving up sinister snacks and petrifying puns in 'Elvira's Cookbook From Hell'

“Put two fingers between buns and you’ve got finger sandwiches, which can also be called a felony in some states.”

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 5d

Fuckin’ A, this gives me goosebumps.

Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 5d

😍 #LivingColour #CultOfPersonality
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Living Colour – Cult of Personality

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talking-time.bsky.social @talking-time.bsky.social · 5d

The third day of our fifteenth issue includes new poetry by Laurie Koensgen , Ryan T. Pozzi and Mileva Anastasiadou, and The art of writing #118: an interview with Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com
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knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 6d

Ten Years in the Making. Poetry. Well-served. #KFB10

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 7d

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 8d

I have not experienced anything that direct—given so many students who have witnessed genocide, gender-based violence, etc. but it worries me that stereotypes permeate through culture nonetheless.

Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 8d

Congratulations, Jérôme!

Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 8d

I just taught it yesterday (and every year, as well as in June). It’s really hard with newcomers who are usually refugees, but it sets a precedent that we cannot look away and reminds us that all of us benefit from colonialism.

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 8d

Black and white photograph of nun in habit towering behind Indigenous children at desks in a Catholic-run residential school.

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 8d

I know!!! I simply cant’s wait. And there are more that will need ordering, like bissett:)

Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 8d

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Hank Mobley’s 'Roll Call' Joins The Classic Vinyl Series

Jazz legend Hank Mobley’s 1960 LP 'Roll Call' will be reissued through Blue Note’s Classical Vinyl Series in May.

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 8d

Such a joy to have this re-release thanks to #Audiopile (Vancouver) and thanks to my hubs.

Silver Technics turntable playing on the left, Hank Mobley’s Roll Call LP cover on the right. Design is pink and black with a photo of Mobley.

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 8d

Have a few of these titles on order (Joseph Dandurand, Randy Lundy) and one to pick up: if: prey, then: huntress by @christinashah.bsky.social. Congratulations!

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34 works of Canadian poetry coming out in fall 2025 | CBC Books

Here are the Canadian poetry collections we are excited about this fall!

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 8d

Oohhh, exciting! Can’t wait to read.

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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 8d

In this OpEd, I talk about the residential schools still being built in China and Russia - and explain how that should change Canadians’ thinking about this country’s residential schools: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Residential schools still exist in our world today. This is the lesson Canadians can draw from that disturbing truth

Canadians think about residential schools as if they were a creature of the past, an ancient moral failing from which we have since evolved. But around the world new residential

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 9d

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Ohio Heat

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 9d

Love this record. #SuperFurryAnimals
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Super Furry Animals To Reissue 2005 Album 'Love Kraft' - MNPR Magazine

Super Furry Animals unbox an archive of imperious, Catalonian-sun-baked, mid-noughties psych-pop with their 20th anniversary reissue of ‘Love Kraft’.

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