Molly Spencer
@mspencerpoet.bsky.social
she/ her | poet, critic, editor, wonk | IF THE HOUSE (UWisc Press), HINGE (SIU Press), INVITATORY (2024, Parlor Press) | Solidly Gen X
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Manolis Calliyannis, The Mountain Opposite II, 1955
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123259
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123259
June 20, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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when ur a poet and a wonk
June 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
when ur a poet and a wonk
Reposted by Molly Spencer
I just
C'mon
The tool that gives you like 50-100 words when you're stuck is inside your skull!!!! Or maybe weed! Or a nice walk! Or literally anything else!
C'mon
The tool that gives you like 50-100 words when you're stuck is inside your skull!!!! Or maybe weed! Or a nice walk! Or literally anything else!
May 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I just
C'mon
The tool that gives you like 50-100 words when you're stuck is inside your skull!!!! Or maybe weed! Or a nice walk! Or literally anything else!
C'mon
The tool that gives you like 50-100 words when you're stuck is inside your skull!!!! Or maybe weed! Or a nice walk! Or literally anything else!
Reposted by Molly Spencer
May 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This lilac unleaves
It falls from itself
and hides its ancient shadow.
I will die of such things.
—Alejandra Piznarik
It falls from itself
and hides its ancient shadow.
I will die of such things.
—Alejandra Piznarik
May 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This lilac unleaves
It falls from itself
and hides its ancient shadow.
I will die of such things.
—Alejandra Piznarik
It falls from itself
and hides its ancient shadow.
I will die of such things.
—Alejandra Piznarik
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May 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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miniseries when?
Pope Leo XIV — born in Chicago, IL — is the first American pope in history.
May 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
miniseries when?
GOOD AFTERNOON, CHICAGO!
May 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
GOOD AFTERNOON, CHICAGO!
Paging all German speakers, you’re needed:
Is there a word for humiliating yourself in public by clicking on a Pedro Pascal video with very loud added music, having forgotten your phone sounds were on?
May 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Paging all German speakers, you’re needed:
And a at least two generations that have never had to write file transfer protocol code to attach a document to an email 💀
There's a whole generation who never got to experience the chronological feed. Or getting to the END of your feed (end of new posts). Or actually got to see friends' posts, or had a feed without ads or suggested content every other post.
May 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
And a at least two generations that have never had to write file transfer protocol code to attach a document to an email 💀
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"If I knew where poems came from, I would go there." -- Michael Longley.
April 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
"If I knew where poems came from, I would go there." -- Michael Longley.
just wanted to show you this v good girl
April 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
just wanted to show you this v good girl
me waiting for my students’ papers to roll in [checks notes] two days after the deadline
April 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
me waiting for my students’ papers to roll in [checks notes] two days after the deadline
Gavin Newsom can f*ck all the way off
Sen. Chris Van Hollen responds to Gov. Gavin Newsom's comments calling the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case a distraction, adding, “This is not about one man. If you deny the constitutional rights of one man, you threaten the constitutional rights for everybody."
April 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Gavin Newsom can f*ck all the way off
when the bbs start coming home for the holiday 🥹
April 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
when the bbs start coming home for the holiday 🥹
If this is legit, it’s 100% just a tactic to de facto cut Social Security benefits. These f*ckers.
SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
If this is legit, it’s 100% just a tactic to de facto cut Social Security benefits. These f*ckers.
You have spring semester, I have winter term. We are not the same.
April 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
You have spring semester, I have winter term. We are not the same.
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I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
What if I told you I also worked in a mini-lesson on iambic pentameter 💅
tryna get my students to love me by making a handout about methods for shape and elegance in writing, guys do u think it will work
a woman in a hat is talking on a cell phone and says " oh yes , i am writing it all down " .
Alt: a woman in a hat is talking on a cell phone and says " oh yes , i am writing it all down " .
media.tenor.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
What if I told you I also worked in a mini-lesson on iambic pentameter 💅
tryna get my students to love me by making a handout about methods for shape and elegance in writing, guys do u think it will work
a woman in a hat is talking on a cell phone and says " oh yes , i am writing it all down " .
Alt: a woman in a hat is talking on a cell phone and says " oh yes , i am writing it all down " .
media.tenor.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
tryna get my students to love me by making a handout about methods for shape and elegance in writing, guys do u think it will work
There’s so much theory on Woolf, but where’s the anthology of essays like “Virginia Woolf Saved My Life in 1989” and “When I Threw Woolf’s ‘Lighthouse’ Across the Room” and such? Asking for me.
April 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
There’s so much theory on Woolf, but where’s the anthology of essays like “Virginia Woolf Saved My Life in 1989” and “When I Threw Woolf’s ‘Lighthouse’ Across the Room” and such? Asking for me.
Chas. Wright forever and ever
March 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Chas. Wright forever and ever