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Lynne Jensen Lampe

@ljensenlampe.bsky.social

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Poet. Editor. Late bloomer. Trans ally. she/her. Reader at Tinderbox. Poems in Many Nice Donkeys, Rise Up Review, Stone Circle Review, Inflectionist Review. Coming: Okay Donkey. Talk Smack to a Hurricane (Ice Floe Press, 2022). https://icefloepress.net/tal

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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 5d

Yep. A big amen to this

Kirsten MacI- @kirstensaidwhat.bsky.social · 6d

IF YOU BELIEVE IN GOD YOU BELIEVE HE DOESNT MAKE MISTAKES AND THAT INCLUDES PEOPLE WITH IDENTITIES YOU DONT UNDERSTAND.

Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 11d

Haha, I have a bunch of those somewhere—only found one to share though

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 28d

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 28d

Right now at the Missouri State capitol. Photo shows a fraction of thousands here from across the state. This is what democracy looks like—a big NO on illegal redistricting!!!

Thousands protest in the Missouri capitol rotunda—NO on redistricting

Rainbow colored poster saying Missouri votes should always count.

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · Aug 26

If we lived in a world that made any sense, this would be the definitive end of ChatGPT and everything like it

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · Aug 26

Holy fucking shit

Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his
parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him
"[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.

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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · Aug 26

I just saw an ad that promised savings of 100%—so the items should be free, right? #PoetsCanMath

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Aug 26

There’s a war on black women because we keep trying to do crazy stuff like stay employed.

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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · Aug 24

Yuck! I hope things have turned around—feel better soon ❤️‍🩹

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HAD @havehashad.com · Aug 23

giant "send it to HAD" energy

cover letter

I'm at a writers workshop right now and the woman who runs it hated this lol

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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · Aug 23

Eek! Thank you for explaining more, Han.

Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · Aug 23

Han, can you explain a little more? Or if not here, in a DM or email?

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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · Aug 19

Welp, considering @havehashad.com and I have the same birthday, I def need to send something to their Thursday submission call ❤️💀

Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · Aug 11

I’d like to read it when it comes out!

Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · Aug 10

Why did you decide to write an essay about it?

Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · Aug 10

I loved that movie when it came out. Not sure how I’d feel/react now.

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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · Aug 5

Some news! 🎉🎉🎉

The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · Aug 5

Today, we’re thrilled to share that the new host of The Slowdown is @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social!

The Slowdown will return with new episodes on August 18th. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and sign up for our free email newsletter at slowdownshow.org

📸: @cowtownchad.bsky.social

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · Aug 5

Honored my new poetry work FATHER TECTONIC published by @the-ethelzine.bsky.social is reviewed as a summer read in Issue #9 of @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social. An amazing issue incl. a feature on the late playwright, novelist, teacher, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong-o. Ty to @danadelibovi.bsky.social & eds.

Robert Frede Kenter’s Father Tectonic is a limited-edition, handmade book of poetry, papered and stitched with care by bookbinder Sarah Lefsyk. Kenter’s poems feel handmade, too. They are careful, tender, spare, and infused with feeling. The twenty-five works in this collection revolve around the dynamics of the author’s family of origin—mother, brothers, and, most of all, father, living with modest means but ample complexity. Father Tectonic is one of the best poetry collections we’ve read on the hope, love, confusion, and grief of growing up (and then and living on) as part of a family. It’s a book for a summer’s twilight, with a cold glass and time for memories. (Robert Frede Kenter is a past contributor to Cable Street— Dana Delibovi

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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · Aug 3

tfw you realize your new manuscript is gathering strange little love poems—

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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · Aug 2

Welp, at my husband’s gig til 10 and then home snugged up with a poetry book—after all, it’s Day 1 of #SealeyChallenge

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · Jul 28

And another @amorak.bsky.social poem this week at @stonecirclereview.bsky.social! 💙🙏

Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · Jul 27

NEW POEM #254: "How Inadequate Our Language for Love Keeps Turning Out to Be" by Amorak Huey (@amorak.bsky.social)

"I imagine retracing their path —
south, toward silence, summer,
a whole season in your hands,
my heart already on its way."

stonecirclereview.com/how-inadequa...

#Poem #Poetry

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · Jul 25

And since I just saw it again in replies to an article I re-posted I'm tapping this sign. There is nothing moral or immoral about mental illness. Enacting evil or believing in atrocious things is not a sign of mental illness. Don't call someone mentally ill when you mean they are a bad person.

Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · Jun 11

I see the protest against fascism without using ableism challenge remains unmet today.

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Alexandra Halaby 🇵🇸 @iskandrah.bsky.social · Jul 25

The systematic starvation of Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli government bears haunting parallels to the Nazi treatment of Jews in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

The world condemned the Nazis for such crimes—how can the world stay silent on similar atrocities now?

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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · Jul 23

Matt, if you go to my website you’ll find a publications page with links, and most of the other pages display a poem you can read without clicking a link. Thank you for asking! Oh, and there’s a general resource page for writers 😊 lynnejensenlampe.com

Lynne Jensen Lampe

Lynne Jensen Lampe writes poetry about family, mental illness, and societal expectations. Her chapbook about mother-daughter relationships and mental illness, Talk Smack to a Hurricane, is forthcoming...

lynnejensenlampe.com

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Carly Anderson @carlyanderson.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is gorgeous. So glad to start my morning with it.

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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · Jul 23

Oh Carly—wow. Thank you for this generous comment ❤️