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Jennifer Saunders

@magpiedays.bsky.social

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Poet, author of Tumor Moon 🌖 Co-editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation🩸(Querencia Press). Immigrant. Hockey fan. She / her. 🇺🇸/🇨🇭in 🇨🇭 http://www.jennifer-saunders.com https://concretewolf.com/publications/publications.htm

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 1d

Happy release day to @djvorreyer.bsky.social whose fourth full-length collection, Unrivered, is now available from Sundress Publications!
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"Good art is a truing of vision, in the way a saw is trued in the saw shop, to cut more cleanly" - Jane Hirshfield

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, it adds up fast!

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Congratulations, Ali!!

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 7d

Which circle of Hell is this? 8th (Sins of Fraud) or 7th (Violence against God, nature, and art)?

Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 7d

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Hollywood celebrities outraged over new 'AI actor' Tilly Norwood

The AI actress is apparently in talks with Hollywood talent agencies to represent her on the big screen.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 9d

Oh this sounds like it's going to be right up my alley. Clearing some time tomorrow for a good listen.

David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 9d

Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga...
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Olga Ravn : The Wax Child - Tin House

Set during the 17th century witch trials in Denmark, and relayed to us through the voice of a magically animated wax child of one of the accused, Olga Ravn’s new book, which creates something uncannil...

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 9d

It's almost October, and @dylanwardwriter.bsky.social's got seven queer writers with experimental horror novels that will definitely unnerve you this Halloween, check 'em out below!
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7 Queer Experimental Horror Novels That Will Unnerve You - Chicago Review of Books

A tour through several spine-tingling queer experimental horror novels to ring in spooky season.

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations!

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"—in poetry, a landscape is never only outer, it is also a portrait of a state of soul." - Jane Hirshfield, "Poetry and the Mind of Concentration"

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 14d

This is going to be super fun for US-Americans living abroad, hohoho

Forbes @forbes.com · 14d

The IRS has announced that paper tax refund checks for individual taxpayers will be phased out beginning September 30. Payments are next—but there is some breathing room.

IRS Confirms That It Will Make The Switch From Paper Refund Checks

The IRS has announced that paper tax refund checks for individual taxpayers will be phased out beginning September 30. Payments are next—but there is some breathing room.

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 14d

“This is the work of the threshold: to step into places of seeming barrenness, emptiness, or neglect and bring back an abundance new-coined” – Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 16d

Feel better soon! (And Ophelia! I reviewed Ophelia. Great collection!)

Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 16d

Sometimes when my son comes home from gymi he tosses an (American) football around and the thunk of it hitting the grass is so wonderful

Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 16d

I know, right?!

Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 16d

Reading back through an old notebook where I'd simply written the title of this Richard Siken poem, so I re-read it and now I'm sharing it all with you. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48158/...

Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out

Dear So-and-So, I’m sorry I couldn’t come to your party. Dear So-and-So, I’m sorry I came to your party and seduced you and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing. Love on the water, love und...

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 17d

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 18d

🎶It's the most wonderful time of the year🎶 www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n... (The photo accompanying this news story shows an Alaska brown bear wading in a river)

Fat Bear Week is here early, and the bears are fat and playful

The famous bears of Alaska's Katmai National Park are enjoying an abundance of salmon, and even some playtime, as they pack on pounds to prepare for the winter.

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 18d

Pathetic. Pathetic, spineless, gutless, feckless, worthless - all the lesses. Primary all of these people.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19d

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires.

shame.

clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 282
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

H RES 719 YEA-AND-NAY 19-Sep-2025 10:53 AM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution
BILL TITLE: Honoring the life and legacy of Charles “Charlie” James Kirk

Yeas Nays PRES NV
Republican 215 4
Democratic 95 58 38 22
Independent
TOTALS 310 58 38 26

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a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

Alt: this gif shows cartoon spiderman pointing at cartoon spiderman

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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · 19d

Are you a disabled, chronically ill, or neurodivergent writer with a recent or forthcoming book? If so, query us about our new book review and interview series. We'd love to celebrate your work!

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God grant me the wisdom to write this email I've been putting off for 4 days

Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 19d

You might enjoy this www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/169241...

Wake, Butterfly: Orb Weaver with Gabrielle Calvocoressi

In the first episode, Gabrielle Calvocoressi invites listeners to make a web.