AOC has them sputtering mad because she’s educating people on constitutional rights. You don’t see them freaking out at Jeffries for talking about egg prices.

Grayscale photo of the moon on a balck background, with a line from Mini-Moon by Cynthia Arrieu-King: "The mini moon sweeping horseshoe wise, two months as a song in our atmosphere." The bottom corners of the square contain the maroon and pink flowers that are the logo for Asterales.

Spend Valentine's Day with the moon...Mini-Moon by @arrieuking.bsky.social in Issue One of @asteralesjournal.bsky.social!

www.asteralesjournal.com/1-1-king-mag...

Emily Dickinson’s dress by Khadijah Queen

Excerpt from Emily Dickinson’s poem, “With A Flower”

Lot of new people on here these days. If you pin a list of your interests like this to your profile, suddenly posts about those interests will pop up in your feed. Sending a big hug to everyone.

INSIGHT: Understanding toxic misinformation to stop the spread As misinformation proliferates on social media, we need to understand how audiences are affected - and what we can do about it

www.bbc.com/mediaaction/... for myself <3

Considering how ICE is now operating without judicial review, how long until a US citizen is a labeled an “illegal immigrant” and subjected to deportation proceedings without due process? It just happened

Facts

Looking for a great weekend class on adding experimental work into your memoir? Check out @arrieuking.bsky.social's course at the Iowa Spring Online. (I took an experimental writing class with Cynthia and it was fantastic.) mcuw-uiowa.catalog.instructure.com/browse/iswf/...

Recovering from 31st Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway in NJ. Workshops, meals together, karaoke, an amazing pop-up gallery of paintings that respond to faculty writing. A safe, positive vibe. Seasoned writers learn alongside new writers. Loved it. Here's Poe and part of the crew. #murphywriting #wg25

New journal, gorgeous work and layout. Thank you so much for this treat! <3

Aw that is sweet, thank you MaryLisa!

On today's The Last Word, Jennah Figueroa reads fierce, surreal, and moving poems. Graduated in '23 as a LITT major from Stockton University, now MFA at Emerson College. Her poems make me tear up and that's rare. Link in link tree feminism queerart surrealism puertoricanartist🇵🇷 pr theyoots

Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky

oh it looks like we share interests, we should be friends ok ok

Here are a few of my favorite things: poetry • pedagogy • audiobooks • quilts • textile • material culture• history • history of textiles • history of language • languages • handwriting • fonts • trees • inter/intra species communications • color theory • painting • reddit • Jorts •

we should be friends 😍

A weaving of colors slightly muted, still happy, of the complementary colors: olive, kiwi, brown, copper, tangerine, raspy. The piece is a rectangle and includes syncopated patterns of purple and cream nine patches in columns, white and brown four patches doing duets, and in between these, small stairs that remind one of southwest horizons.

Benita Koch-Otte
Aware

An adult panda sits in dried leaves on green grass with his ears up. He holds an apple in his right paw and looks to the left at the camera while snow falls.

One of the DC pandas eating an apple during the first snow fall.

Continuity by Cynthia Arrieu-King — Octopus Books Paperback, 77 pages “Cynthia Arrieu-King’s beautiful new book manages to feel written on the occasion of both a birth and a death, and perhaps it means to remind us that the passage of time necessita...

Here it is, Continuity... www.octopusbooks.net/books-1/cont...

an orange cat is looking at you from behind some furniture. he has a serious expression

Oh hey. I wasn’t avoiding you, I was just avoiding literally everything else

thetinymag.com, elderly, prolit, sink review,

Norway, Sandviken Village in the Snow

Norway, Sandviken Village in the Snow, 1895

https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10613

They're getting cut and not hiring new philosophy students...and etc.

Black and white photo in which a black cat looms large in the foreground and seems to be walking directly behind a much smaller man in the middleground.

When I talk to comic book artists I always emphasize the importance of clearly separating their planes of depth. This rule is only for comics and does not apply to Turkish photographer Sami Uçan.

lol that's so true