Conor Gearin
@conorgearin.bsky.social
hardy perennial
https://buttondown.email/possumnotes
https://buttondown.email/possumnotes
it was prescient as hell when smashmouth said “the years keep comin and they don’t stop comin”
August 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
it was prescient as hell when smashmouth said “the years keep comin and they don’t stop comin”
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Check it out: the pre-order link for Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest! This book collects dozens of #LiteraryLandscapes essays, and pre-orders will ship in November—perfect for Christmas! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Lingering Inland
www.press.uillinois.edu
June 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Check it out: the pre-order link for Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest! This book collects dozens of #LiteraryLandscapes essays, and pre-orders will ship in November—perfect for Christmas! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
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Happening now: in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, students at Sullivan High School are walking out this afternoon in protest of ICE and Trump's deportation regime.
February 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Happening now: in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, students at Sullivan High School are walking out this afternoon in protest of ICE and Trump's deportation regime.
Trying to do anything in the house without alarming my cat
February 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Trying to do anything in the house without alarming my cat
New poem up today with @pinehillsreview.bsky.social!
February 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
New poem up today with @pinehillsreview.bsky.social!
Sometimes it’s okay for a park to be a park. A park-flavored park. Yes I’m 32 why do you ask
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Parks that deliver, parks that don't
Judging small parks by the stakes they set
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January 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Sometimes it’s okay for a park to be a park. A park-flavored park. Yes I’m 32 why do you ask
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A newsletter is a blog you get in your email. You could get blogs in your email but newsletters are different, somehow, in a way that makes people read them. And I think that’s great
January 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A newsletter is a blog you get in your email. You could get blogs in your email but newsletters are different, somehow, in a way that makes people read them. And I think that’s great
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BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
December 19, 2024 at 2:05 PM
BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
congrats to Outlook on making email (the sending and receiving of digital messages) a bewildering and upsetting experience
December 2, 2024 at 9:54 PM
congrats to Outlook on making email (the sending and receiving of digital messages) a bewildering and upsetting experience
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I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...
Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can.
Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.
slate.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...
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NEW POEM #138: "Other Lives" by Conor Gearin (@conorgearin.bsky.social)
"If I was a
lavender seed, on
gravel or on good soil.
If I was a gull on kitchen
scraps or a pile of
confiscated weed."
stonecirclereview.com/other-lives/
#Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem
"If I was a
lavender seed, on
gravel or on good soil.
If I was a gull on kitchen
scraps or a pile of
confiscated weed."
stonecirclereview.com/other-lives/
#Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem
June 9, 2024 at 3:19 PM
NEW POEM #138: "Other Lives" by Conor Gearin (@conorgearin.bsky.social)
"If I was a
lavender seed, on
gravel or on good soil.
If I was a gull on kitchen
scraps or a pile of
confiscated weed."
stonecirclereview.com/other-lives/
#Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem
"If I was a
lavender seed, on
gravel or on good soil.
If I was a gull on kitchen
scraps or a pile of
confiscated weed."
stonecirclereview.com/other-lives/
#Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem
are indoor soccer shoes back in style? 6th grade me is vindicated at last
April 5, 2024 at 5:19 PM
are indoor soccer shoes back in style? 6th grade me is vindicated at last
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Redcedar - Conor Gearin
March 12, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Redcedar - Conor Gearin
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A gray whale near Nantucket! The archeological evidence has gray whales here up to about 450 years ago, and then scattered sightings into the 18th century, so it’s been a long long time!
www.neaq.org/about-us/pre...
www.neaq.org/about-us/pre...
Gray whale, extinct in the Atlantic, seen in southern New England waters - New England Aquarium
In an incredibly rare event, the New England Aquarium aerial survey team sighted a gray whale off the New England coast last week, a species that has been extinct in the Atlantic for more than 200 yea...
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March 6, 2024 at 1:37 PM
A gray whale near Nantucket! The archeological evidence has gray whales here up to about 450 years ago, and then scattered sightings into the 18th century, so it’s been a long long time!
www.neaq.org/about-us/pre...
www.neaq.org/about-us/pre...
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Rejection can be brutal! 🙃 First drafted this while trying to find work before I found Our Climate.
Full poem here: www.sierranevadareview.com/eben-bein-2024
What would you call this form? Considering "a disintegration" or "a mutation". #rejection #poetry #funny
Full poem here: www.sierranevadareview.com/eben-bein-2024
What would you call this form? Considering "a disintegration" or "a mutation". #rejection #poetry #funny
March 3, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Rejection can be brutal! 🙃 First drafted this while trying to find work before I found Our Climate.
Full poem here: www.sierranevadareview.com/eben-bein-2024
What would you call this form? Considering "a disintegration" or "a mutation". #rejection #poetry #funny
Full poem here: www.sierranevadareview.com/eben-bein-2024
What would you call this form? Considering "a disintegration" or "a mutation". #rejection #poetry #funny
One of the strangest and shortest poems I’ve published
Non-Elegy for Dead Stars eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/n...
March 3, 2024 at 7:24 PM
One of the strangest and shortest poems I’ve published
I drafted this poem roughly 10 years ago. It’s been getting tweaks and revisions ever since. I’m glad it finally found a home with @eunoiareview.bsky.social
eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/t...
eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/t...
The Canal
The board where the tall old man wrote fossil data in chalk blurred in my still-waking eyes and is this what's needed, not sharper sight but little give, allowance of blur—as if Whistler, painting gra...
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March 3, 2024 at 1:37 AM
I drafted this poem roughly 10 years ago. It’s been getting tweaks and revisions ever since. I’m glad it finally found a home with @eunoiareview.bsky.social
eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/t...
eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/t...
New poem out today
March 2, 2024 at 2:29 PM
New poem out today
[nixon voice] slack it…to me??
March 1, 2024 at 2:58 PM
[nixon voice] slack it…to me??
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I'm incredibly proud to share my latest for @mongabay.bsky.social: the story of the Hawaiian activists, scientists, and technology wizards working to restore an sacred island from military destruction, erosion, invasive plants and... cats. news.mongabay.com/2024/02/on-k...
On Kaho’olawe, new technology could restore a sacred Hawaiian island
To bring seabirds back to Kaho‘olawe, you need to first find the cats. And to find the cats on Kaho‘olawe, you need to know where to find the bombs. Eleven kilometers, about 7 miles, off the coast of ...
news.mongabay.com
February 19, 2024 at 6:15 PM
I'm incredibly proud to share my latest for @mongabay.bsky.social: the story of the Hawaiian activists, scientists, and technology wizards working to restore an sacred island from military destruction, erosion, invasive plants and... cats. news.mongabay.com/2024/02/on-k...
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Childhood hero: David Attenborough. Kinship with the living world he instilled in me has only grown.
Thx Radar Poetry for celebrating this at www.radarpoetry.com/common-descent & to my #chickadeecollective, especially @conorgearin.bsky.social who helped identify the heart of this poem early on.
Thx Radar Poetry for celebrating this at www.radarpoetry.com/common-descent & to my #chickadeecollective, especially @conorgearin.bsky.social who helped identify the heart of this poem early on.
February 19, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Childhood hero: David Attenborough. Kinship with the living world he instilled in me has only grown.
Thx Radar Poetry for celebrating this at www.radarpoetry.com/common-descent & to my #chickadeecollective, especially @conorgearin.bsky.social who helped identify the heart of this poem early on.
Thx Radar Poetry for celebrating this at www.radarpoetry.com/common-descent & to my #chickadeecollective, especially @conorgearin.bsky.social who helped identify the heart of this poem early on.
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Some of the most thoughtful science writing I've read have been in non-sciencey pubs (e.g. airline magazines); on topics that don't scream "science" (e.g. local communities, cultural history); by reporters who might not identify as science writers. Tell someone you know to enter NASW SciWriAwards!
DUE THIS THURSDAY 2/1: Know a writer who penned a thoughtful research institution story in 2023? Tell them to enter our NASW Excellence in Institutional Writing Awards! NASW membership not required—and SciWriAwards entry fees waived for select professional associations! www.nasw.org/article/entr...
January 31, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Some of the most thoughtful science writing I've read have been in non-sciencey pubs (e.g. airline magazines); on topics that don't scream "science" (e.g. local communities, cultural history); by reporters who might not identify as science writers. Tell someone you know to enter NASW SciWriAwards!