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StephanieKMerrill

@stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social

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Reader. Writer. Pianist. Words in UCity Review, Feral, Moist Poetry Journal, One Art, Rise Up Review, Amethyst Review, ZiN Daily, Eunoia Review, Trampoline Poetry, &tc. Retired English faculty. Pushcart & BOTN nominee. Ⓥ she/her Austin

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 15h

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 16h

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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StephanieKMerrill @stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social · 23h

Marina Tsvetaeva. Today is her day.

Image of two books: a biography of Tsvetaeva and a book of her poems.

Poem, "Appointment" by Marina Tsvetaeva.

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 1d

“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world,” writes @sivav.bsky.social in this brilliantly belittling essay. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

Fake as HELL.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 2d

lol this entire era of politics has proven to me that rules are indeed fake

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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 2d

“Halfway there, curtains / of sudden rain came down.”

"Delivered" by Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social

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Delivered

by Matthew Murrey

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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StephanieKMerrill @stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social · 2d

Thread👇

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Yael @elle91.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know man. At this point, paying taxes feels like giving a bully your lunch money so they can hire more bullies to steal your lunch money.

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StephanieKMerrill @stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social · 4d

"Floof Cat Hat!"
artist: Terry Runyan
#caturday

Drawing of a woman wearing a fluffy black cat as a hat.

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 6d

crane in the marsh-
one leg
longer than silence
#haiku #poetry #birds

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StephanieKMerrill @stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social · 7d

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake." -Wallace Stevens (Today is his day.)

Poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird "

Cover photo of book, WALLACE STEVENS, A DUAL LIFE AS POET AND INSURANCE EXECUTIVE: Wallace Steven's face on top, and text on bottom.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 7d

The Witch, John Bellany, 1968. #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween #31daysofhaunting

The Witch by John Bellany is an expressive oil painting depicting a witch with a wide-brimmed black hat, smiling, holding a fish. An owl sits to the right of the witch and a crescent moon hangs in the night sky.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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StephanieKMerrill @stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social · 8d

The Joy Issue. Live today.
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Issue Twenty-Three – The Joy Issue – FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art

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StephanieKMerrill @stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social · 8d

Proud to be a part of @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social, the Joy Issue. Thanks to @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social, managing editor.

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‘Opa!’ by Stephanie K. Merrill – FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art

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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 10d

"Barred Rock hens sing, same measures, over / and over as they pass over the earth"

"Favorite Passages" by Daye Phillippo

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