I spent many hours and days driving through rural Minnesota in my orchestra musician days, and "the flat-as-a-fucking-pancake part with seven farmers who all hated each other for being the wrong kind of Lutheran" is just a spot-on description of a very specific chunk of the state.
This was the best off-off-off site reading last year. Crushed to make neither AWP nor NAWP this year, but hope the lovely BlueSky poetry folks who cannot go to AWP make connections here.
WE ALREADY HAVE OUR THIRD PARTY. WE ARE IT: “They’re never going to run for office, and those grass-roots leaders brought this administration to their knees this week to do something about it. So there’s other ways to serve, and I’ll find them,” Gov. Tim Walz, the 2024 Democratic VP nominee.
Wait—“theater” as in make-believe crisis invented for cinematic effect or “theater” as in war against a US population???
Moon Palace has not only books but a whole section of zines and chapbooks. They are great at saying “yes, and. . . “ to the community.
I love how folks outside the state are showing up for Minnesota in so many ways. Thank you. Here’s one more: donate blood. MN supplies are super low right now because we are all a wee bit busy defending democracy. Our elders, our cancer patients, our trauma care centers could use your help.
I love Moon Palace so much. They are a crucial hub of the social justice community. Angela is a Minnesota treasure.
I need to also say that EVERYONE in Minnesota is showing up. We are protesting, guarding schools as safety patrol, packing food, fundraising, signing up for legal observer training, writing essays and poems, and holding each other close, and nourishing joy wherever we can find it.
My naturalized, US-citizen husband just got called into work. His office is across the street from the USCIS building in downtown Minneapolis. He took his passport with him and I kissed him and told him I love him as if I might not see him this afternoon. This is Minnesota right now.
What time does the off-air signal change to cartoons.
“I didn’t run for this job so I could have this job. I ran for this job so I could do this job.” —Gov. Tim Walz
Although this is the first year they'll actively be trying to shoot him down.
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
The life-size statue of a maid in the upstairs hallway!!
Sean Sherman: “Food systems don’t lie. Restaurants are like canaries in a coal mine, and the whistle is blowing. The danger is here and real.”
siouxchef.substack.com/p/fck-ice
2025 has been a rough year. What's one piece of art that's brought you absolute joy despite everything?
Very happy to have a poem published by @atriumpoetry.bsky.social today. Thanks so much @hollyannepoet.bsky.social and @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social for accepting it and being wonderful editors to work with.
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I don’t know how anyone might care about my clearly biased 0-star review of their company but maybe we could find out. . .
Bwahahaha—their general mailbox is full. Nice job rallying folks to call. I’ll try again in a few hours.
How do we mobilize to stop this?
5pm on November 1: let’s go for a walk, it’s still light out!
5pm on November 2: an early darkness blankets the land. Fallow fields lay bone-bleached by moonlight. The last memories of summer fade into oblivion. The last echoes of hope lapse into baleful silence.
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
Twin Cities: At least it isn’t snow.
Holy shit.
A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES
Masked ICE agents throwing bags of brown leaves in unmarked van
ICE Detains Leaves as They Turn Brown: tinyurl.com/37euaejk
holy fuck. Thank you, @assignedmedia.org, for bringing this up. Right on, blue state govs.
CHOMP! CHOMP! CHOMP!!
