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#book banning #reading #action alert

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Sick Jan

Happy Tax Day, my fellow Americans!

#sick jan #chris fleming #music #taxes #uncle sam's naughty box #Youtube

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“An Easter Poem”

J. L. Long

A pigeon walks down the sidewalk

As a young man chucks

Pebbles at her head

And mothers pull away their children

Saying, “No! Bad! Dirty!”

A middle-aged man grimaces

And says to his companion,

“I hate those rats with wings”

The pigeon just keeps walking

Gazing out at them all

With calm and steady eyes

The world calls her a rat

But God calls her a dove.

(From my new chapbook, FIREWORKS ARE JUST PRETTY BOMBS.)

#poets #poetry #easter #christianity

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Black Trans Joy Zine 2024 – Gender Justice Leadership Programs

#black trans joy zine #writing #tdov #transgender

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"the 'power of love' trope is such an overused and cliche gimmick" i do not care i will love it always and forever. love prevails and explodes the enemy

#love #tropes

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“The Snakes Are a Metaphor”

J. L. Long

The snakes are a metaphor

The priest explains

The snakes are a metaphor

For all the Irish pagans

That St. Patrick converted

And all the pagans killed

The priest does not say

But that’s only myth and legend

There never were

Any snakes on the Emerald Isle

In all the time that

There’s actually been an Ireland

The snakes, you see, came later

As pets and zoo exhibits

Maybe that’s a metaphor too.

(From my chapbook, FIREWORKS ARE JUST PRETTY BOMBS, available here: https://jllongwrites.gumroad.com/l/fireworks.)

#poetry #writing #writers #st. patricks day #snakes

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hello I'm premiering of my little pony yay

#my little pony #equestria girls #mlp fim #beautiful and perfect

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Chapbook Live Reading: Fireworks Are Just Pretty Bombs (& Other Poems) - SoundCloud

Tonight I shared a few of the poems from my debut chapbook at Rochester Writers Night, and I was able to record two of them: the title poem, "Fireworks Are Just Pretty Bombs," and "In My Dreams You Are a Ghost."

ebook | paperback

#poetry #live reading #chapbook #writing

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#writing #writers #science fiction

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These 70 writers are actually all the same person - Ilan Stavans

On November 30th, 1935, dozens of writers passed away. They came from different backgrounds, espoused divergent beliefs, and wrote in a variety of styles. Yet almost 30,000 pages of their work was stashed in a trunk in an apartment in Lisbon, Portugal. So, what mysterious string tied all these writers together? Ilan Stavans explores the enigmatic life of Fernando Pessoa and his many identities.

Lesson by Ilan Stavans, directed by Héloïse Dorsan-Rachet.

#fernando pessoa #portuguese writers #writing #ted-ed #Youtube

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Exhibits, galleries, theater and more: Seacoast arts and culture news

https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/entertainment/2024/02/28/exhibits-galleries-theater-and-more-seacoast-arts-and-culture-news/72775481007/

My chapbook got blurbed in The Portsmouth Herald! 😁

#writing #poetry #new hampshire

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#cats #one of my cats insists on water straight from the sink faucet #and taught our youngest cat to do the same

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Many thanks to the Outboard for the promo! If you're in the northern New England/southeastern New Hampshire area, come check out the live reading!

#writing #live reading #poetry #new england

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My new chapbook scored a very nice write-up in The Rochester Post. Thanks to the Post!

#chapbook #poetry #writing #new hampshire

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I'm happy to be able to announce that I've just released my debut poetry chapbook, FIREWORKS ARE JUST PRETTY BOMBS (& OTHER POEMS). From the volatile mix of longing and loathing explored in the title poem to the bold defiance in poems such as “Burn Down Everything You Love” and “I’ll Give You Something to Be Afraid Of,” and from the quiet, broken prayer of “Merciful” to the heartfelt ode to community found in “Little Brother,” this poetry collection explores the full gamut of human emotion and experience.

The official chapbook launch and live reading is scheduled for the March Rochester Writers Night event on Wednesday, March 6th, 2024. The reading will be held in the Rose Room at the Rochester Public Library, located at 65 S. Main Street in downtown Rochester, NH, and will begin at 6 p.m. An open mic will follow.

The chapbook is available through Lulu Books as an ebook and from Gumroad as a paperback.  

#poetry #chapbook #state of the writer #writing

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Finally surfacing after a week of something that was maybe COVID, maybe the flu, maybe something else, and my God, I've never been so sick in my life. Just laying under a mountain of blankets for days on end, shivering like a Victorian urchin child in Dickens.

Take care out there.

#state of the writer #it's bad out there y'all

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The Contradictions and Controversies of Marc de Montifaud - Noble Blood | iHeart

"In the late 19th century, French writer Marc de Montifaud was sentenced to prison for indecency in his work. But rather than being sent to the rather cushy location for literary criminals, he was sentenced to forced labor... as a woman. Born Marie, but ultimately living as Marc, the Comtesse de Montifaud remains one of the most interesting and enigmatic figures in literary history, a trans man who defied social conventions to live and work as he pleased."

#marc de montifaud #writers #french writer #transgender #trans writers #noble blood podcast