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Pamela Manasco

@pamelamanasco.bsky.social

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Poet | Nerd | English instructor @ AAMU. Recent poems in The Louisville Review, Bear Review, Split Rock Review, & elsewhere. https://pamelamanasco.com

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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 7d

So much love to @susurrusmag.bsky.social for publishing my fossil poem!

Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 8d

"...how wonderful it is to be wrong about the bones
and underneath, to remind absence is only replacement,

that what we are is perhaps necessarily a plan
for what is coming later, some shining reminder."

"On Finally Understanding That Fossils Are Not Bones" by @pamelamanasco.bsky.social

On Finally Understanding That Fossils Are Not Bones — Susurrus

www.susurrusthemagazine.com

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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 10d

I am beyond honored that @identitytheory.bsky.social nominated my poem for the Best of the Net 2026! 💜

Identity Theory @identitytheory.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees from Identity Theory!

Identity Theory Best of the Net 2026 Nominees:

Fiction
Deities by Jo Withers

Nonfiction
White Woman Freedom by Matthew Henry

Poetry
Little Bluestem by Pamela Manasco
In Dreams by Shira Haus
Reasons for Staying by Sarah Mills
Sonnet for the Dreamers Craving Sleep by Janna Miller
A chainsaw whirs through February air by nat raum
As Is by Jillian Clasky

Art
Politeness of Giraffes by Alan Michael Parker
Rothko Burger by Alan Michael Parker
The Subway Boar by Alan Michael Parker

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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 10d

What?! Thank you so much!! I'm so honored that you nominated "Little Bluestem." 💜

Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 19d

Yes, and I'm sorry you're going through hard stuff. Pro tip, I learned today that crying in the shower is not a terrible idea as long as you're careful with the shampoo!

Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · 22d

It looks like your quoted post was deleted. Did anything happen to the TAMU collection? I searched (surface level) and couldn't find anything, so hoping it's not subject to [insert relevant apocalypse].

Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'm going as analog (paper and pencil, no devices out) as I possibly can this semester. I'm just so tired of generative AI. I'm weary.

Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · Aug 24

Happy, happy birthday!!

Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · Aug 20

Tbh I would rather lick a rusty railroad spike than incorporate generative AI in my freshman composition courses

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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · Aug 17

Welcome to another special Issue Twelve, dedicated in loving memory to CJ's late aunt.

View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve

📸: Malcolm Glass

Featuring: Malcolm Glass, Azul, D Bedell, Emma Bolden, Mark Blaeuer, B.C. Brock, Nicole Brogdon, Christa Fairbrother, Elisheva Fox, Marianna Gibson, Matthew Hand, William Hawkins, Patrick Holian, Tyler Jagt, L. Bellee Jones-Pierce, Gabby Kiser, Pamela Manasco, Marshall Moore, Anne Myles, Claire Nelson, Jeff Newberry, Megan Nichols, Sean Sexton, Chelsea Stickle, and Lisa Zerkle

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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thank you so much for including my poems! 💜

Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · Aug 10

My exact response:

a brown dog is sitting on a blanket and looking at the camera with the words `` wait what ? ''

Alt: a brown dog is sitting on a blanket and looking at the camera with the words `` wait what ? ''

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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · Aug 10

My 10-year-old: I've eaten many ants in my time. Some were on accident. And some...were not.

Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · Aug 9

I started today and got in my 600 words! Thank you for the encouragement!

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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · Aug 7

Just spent 2 hours donating platelets because it's a good thing to do but ALSO because I wanted this ridiculous shirt

A dark gray t-shirt with a blue and gray UFO and a green beam of light with the text I Believe In Blood Donors

Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thank you for posting this! Always good to know when the book was close-ish. And thank you and @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for reading!

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Jul 30

Killing Eve poetry meme

Villanelle / (Every other genre): “You’re a lot today.”

Eve / (Poetry): “I’m a lot every day.”

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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · Jul 18

I had some dental work this morning (fixing issues with a couple of old silver fillings). My husband's take:

Text messages:
Michael: You can bite a werewolf and kill it now though, that's a bonus
Me: The silver fillings are gone now so I think maybe that's a downgrade. Welp can't drink through a straw
Michael: Aw yeah that's right, sorry babe, you're vulnerable again to the lycanthropes, shame

Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · Jul 10

This is Shirley!

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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · Jul 10

Sleeping dog on my legs = unfortunately I only exist to be a pillow in this chair and will never move again

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Paul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · Jul 7

Great poetry still exists

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jul 7

Art is inefficient. Care is inefficient. Joy is inefficient. Humanity is inefficient. Don't let them take that away.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 7

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business?

The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday.

The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times.

That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working.

You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step.

If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

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Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · Jul 5

(poetry) rejections are never easy to receive but I am watching a weird, chunky cardinal munch on sunflower seeds outside my window and this bird just looks SO DUMB so everything is not actually terrible!

Pamela Manasco @pamelamanasco.bsky.social · Jul 5

I'm impressed that you seem to have started & finished Catan in under an hour!

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Jason Song Quinn @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · Jul 3

Needed this reminder today.

Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”

“If you die, you let them off the hook.”

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · Jul 2

🤣

An eel with a checklist:

TO DO:
1. I PEEK OUT FROM BEHIND A ROCK
2. OPEN AND CLOSE MOUTH
REPEATEDLY

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