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Megan Savage

@meganloverdesavage.bsky.social

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Writer, Community College Faculty, Fig Companion, Carolyn Moore Writers House Residency, PDX OR Work in The Rumpus, Tahoma Literary Review, Sixth Finch, Portland Review, Subtropics, etc. Called: “Story Witch,” “Pure Light in Human Form”

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · Nov 17

New followers! An intro: I’m a queer multi-genre writer finishing a short story manuscript. My work is devastating, funny, weird/absurd, fantastical, & about connection. Black Warrior Review nominated this one for Best of the Net 2024 (on grief and professional cuddling): bwr.ua.edu/project/spoo...

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 8h

This is what I’m aiming for when I step on conversational toes, cooperative overlap. But since I live in Portland instead of the Northeast, it usually means I’m apologizing after the fact.

Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 10h

I know it’s not technically polite, but I love having a conversation with other people who are comfortable with short interjecting interruptions. To me it makes the conversation feel more like something we’re weaving together rather than alternating individual presentations. It feels more alive.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 4d

Over the years, it’s struck me that when, at the end of the term, I speak with students about what they are proud of/successes/what they will take with them, so many say that they finished a book (or point to pride in the amount they read).

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 4d

My husband “The Spanish could sing about municipal water policy and it would make you want to start a revolution — and then fuck.”

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10d

NEW: Despite Trump's appearing to waver on sending troops into Portland, Pete Hegseth issued this memo today purporting to federalize 200 members of the Oregon National Guard.

This is an exhibit in Oregon's just-filed lawsuit challenging the deployment. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...

SEP 2 8 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ADJUTANT GENERAL, OREGON NATIONAL GUARD THROUGH: THE GOVERNOR OF OREGON
SUBJECT: Calling Members of the Oregon National Guard into Federal Service
On June 7, 2025, the President of the United States called forth at least 2,000 National Guard personnel into Federal service pursuant to section 12406 of title 10, U.S. Code, to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other U.S. Government personnel who are performing Federal functions, including the enforcement of Federal law, and to protect Federal property, at locations where protests against these functions are occurring or are likely to occur based on current threat assessments and planned operations. The President signed a copy of the attached memorandum to effectuate the calling forth of these Service members.
This memorandum further implements the President's direction. 200 members of the Oregon National Guard will be called into Federal service effective immediately for a period of 60 days. The Chief of the National Guard Bureau will immediately coordinate the details of the mobilization with you, in coordination with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Commander, U.S. Northern Command. The mobilized Service members will be under the command and control of the Commander, U.S. Northern Command.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 12d

There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 12d

Morning walk

Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 14d

too many people think the answer to "I've written something, what now" is getting published when really the answer is cleaning your room, making a roast, refilling the bird feeder. writing is also the living we do. it's not a way to get recognition in the same way that flossing isn't.

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 16d

With what do we toast the end times?

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 23d

…Ching-In Chen, Atina Hartunian, Jen Shin, Alina Pleskova, Raena Shirali, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Tiana Clark, Susan Nguyen, Danez Smith, Tish Jones, Gabby Trúc Cohen, and Holly Zhou.

Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 23d

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 23d

Check out www.pcc.edu/harts/2025/0... for more information about each of these writers, and (if you are in the PCC Community/Portland) stay tuned for opportunities to engage with them — readings, workshops, and class visits. ✨

2025-26 Carolyn Moore Writing Residents | HARTS (Humanities and Arts) Initiative at PCC

The Carolyn Moore Writing Residency consists of two-to-eight-week terms at the Carolyn Moore Writers House in Tigard, Oregon, offering established and emerging writers concentrated time to focus on de...

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 23d

Thrilled to announce our fifth cohort of writers, the 2025-2026 Carolyn Moore Writers House Residents. 🧵

@cmwritershouse.bsky.social

Margaret Juhae Lee, Julia Gaskill, Dominica Phetteplace, Zelmira Stevens Vindas, Mahogany Browne, Adam Falkner, Gabriela Denise Frank…

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 27d

My poem “September 11 and September 11,” published in The Pointed Circle. Feeling this today.

September 11 and September 11

Then
I saw a raccoon bright-eyed in the darkness, dragging a rag across Burnside, in the neon of downtown, a feral, darkling interloper, the rag a misshapen tail; it was both more and less than animal, both less and more than human. I drank tea without sugar or milk, for the bitterness. Even just to write this brings tears to my eyes, and I don’t know why. You were young enough then to learn a world with villains in it, unlike I, who grew up waiting for it.

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I want to open my windows, but all I can see are billions of dollars spent on Swarovski crystal crosses, wooden iPads, yoga pants. A man decapitated himself by tying a cable around his neck and driving a car away, a man threw his son in the water off a boat, a woman threw her family off a hospital parking garage, a man poisoned his disabled child. Did the boat weep? Did the cable weep? Did the parking garage weep? And you, in your body, sculpted like a golden bird, spinning your visions into muscles, you who cross borders like a knife through butter, how can you carve these spaces for your body without wearing blood on your hands?

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 28d

I bought Fig this sparkly rainbow tank as a souvenir when I was in Provincetown last week. She now refuses to take it off (which she has never done with an item of clothing). Maybe this is something you needed to see today? For no reason whatsoever?

Small white dog in a rainbow striped tank top sitting in a park.

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 28d

Well, time for me to take a close look at the syllabus for the Children’s Literature class I’m teaching this fall. Doot de doo.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Sep 8

I'm teaching The Left Hand of Darkness, and a student came up after class to ask how a book this radical could even get published in 1969. I found myself saying "Dissent was ... allowed then?" Being no dummy, student instantly followed up "Hmm, what about now?"

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · Sep 7

Chills.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · Sep 7

Btw here’s that epic moment the churches all came together and began ringing their bells as loud as possible for the protesters in DC.

More profound than car horns. These are not the average recorded chimes we usually hear.

They laid on them heavy for the people.

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Ira Allen @rhetlab.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thinking about the crisis of meaning imposed on us all with the RhetAI Coalition here. Hope it can be useful!

rhetaicoalition.substack.com/p/ai-revolut...

AI Revolution as Crisis of Meaning, and More

AI continues to be deeply panickable because it disrupts human meaning-making.

rhetaicoalition.substack.com

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmed.bsky.social · Sep 6

Look there has been no official word on why all our salt trucks are out.

But Chicago having all our Salt trucks blocking street access while ICE is trying to invade our city is just perfection.

We are the City of Big Shoulders; we are also a poem.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Sep 6

People want very badly to laugh this off, but I cannot stress enough: Believe people when they tell you their intention.

The president of the United States is threatening war against the nation's third-largest city. Therefore, the governor of Illinois should mobilize residents and prepare for war.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · Sep 6

But also, today at the beach, a group of 8 women in blue swimsuits took a photo with a woman in a white swimsuit, and I realized this was a dress-coded bachelorette weekend. (Again, Oregon would never).

Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · Sep 6

This morning at the pie place on Cape Cod, the clerk asked a customer if he wanted anything else. He replied, “40 years of my life back.” And this is why I miss Massachusetts. (Oregon would never.)

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