This essay is everything to me right now!!!

...That is why writing is good, letting the tongue try itself out–as one attempts a caress, taking the time a phrase or a thought needs to make oneself loved, to make oneself reverberate.” -"Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays" by Helene Cixous

"“There is waste in what we say. We need that waste. To write is always to make allowances for superabundance and uselessness while slashing the exchange value that keeps the spoken word on its track...

(It's feminist theory time)

"They have committed an antinarcissism in her! A narcissism that only loves itself if it makes itself loved for what is lacking! They have created the loathsome logic of antilove.”

-"Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays" by Helene Cixous

"They have committed the greatest crime against women: insidiously and violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies, to mobilize their immense power against themselves...."

I told myself I was done submitting my pre-MFA full-length manuscript in order to focus on new work, but today I cut some poems, did some line edits, and sent it out to two more places 🫣✨

Started my day meeting for tea with a Richmond poet I met through an AWP panel...AWP bringing the people together 🫰🫰🫰

I am writing a weird long poem b/c of a prompt from my brilliant professor/brilliant poet Devon Walker-Figueroa & sometimes I'm just really grateful to be back in school ✨

WHEN WILL THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY STOP INFLATION

The idea that "sticking to matters of morality" would somehow not include war....these are not serious people

But only if I just get to yell a lot

Personal Feminism Consultant to the Pope, I'd be in

woody and buzz lightyear from toy story are standing next to each other and saying `` everywhere ! '' ALT: woody and buzz lightyear from toy story are standing next to each other and saying `` everywhere ! ''

Where I'd love to see women priests

Pope Leo (who obvi would be very interested in my advice) this is the perfect time to do something pro-women or pro-LGBTQ+ while you're getting heat anyway lol

Pope Leo: "I have no fear" of Trump The president issued a disturbing, insult-driven attack against the pope, labeling the Catholic leader "weak" and "terrible."

Following an extraordinary attack against Pope Leo XIV that featured President Trump insulting the Catholic leader as "weak on crime" and "terrible," Leo told reporters on Monday that he was not afraid.

“I have no fear of the Trump administration."

City Megan selfie (walked to a friend's and am walking home bc you can do that here!!)

There's growing disquiet in the military. The Iran war made it worse Since Trump began his second term, his administration's use of the armed forces has left a growing number in the military unsettled, according to NPR interviews with service members and advocates.

Hotlines for US soldiers thinking of leaving the armed forces as "conscientious objectors" are being overwhelmed.

Almost all the calls mention the bombing of the girls' school in Iran that killed more than 100 school children.

www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

i'm sending u a poem about being 33 lol

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Tabling with @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social at Richmond Poetry Festival! Are y'all following us yet on Bluesky 👀

NULLIPAROUS (DEFINITIONS) There is no word for what I am, so I have taken what I could find The closest word we have slanders me: not creating, not laboring having brought nothing into being True, no part of me has left my body to walk outside it except myself except me and like every mother I couldn't live without her like every mother I wanted her back.

Two poems into Childless Millennial by @chiaradilello.bsky.social and oof

Yaaaaay happy bday!!!!

Oooooh

Thank you for your beautiful book! It was such a delight to bring it in conversation w/ Woolf :)

Thank you! It was so fun to write and the Virginia Woolf class that inspired it was INCREDIBLE

Shout out to @legroff.bsky.social

CRITICAL ESSAY "Creative and Controlling: Women's Power as Interrogated through Priestly Imagery in Grimms' "The Fisherman and His Wife," Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, and Lauren Groff's Matrix" by Megan McDermott

Academic Megan has returned...found out this morning I won a department award at my university for the most me essay I could've submitted 😂💖

✋ I would also like to denounce genocide + war crimes

Every moment that he's not impeached and removed from office is another moment of failure. Every moment broadcasts to the world that Congress doesn't value human life and is happy to embrace war crimes.