FM Stringer
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FM Stringer
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Benevolent bog monster

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Thrilled and honored! @epochliterary.com
Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
October 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“When Did You Get Hot” sounds like if Ariana Grande was in Incubus. This is praise. #sabrinacarpenter
August 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
on top of everything else this guy is literally carmen sandiego
July 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Donald’s big boy birthday tank parade
June 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Among my millennial habits is Googling words for their definitions and being annoyed when the results are all AI startups named whatever I was searching.
May 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Our signs for #handsoff in DC today.

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April 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
*Cory
I ate dinner, watched White Lotus, went to bed, got up, worked, tinkered with my fantasy baseball team, went to like four meetings, archived a poetry rejection, started cooking dinner again, failed, ordered pizza, and it’s gonna get here and Corey Booker will still be filibustering. Incredible.
April 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I ate dinner, watched White Lotus, went to bed, got up, worked, tinkered with my fantasy baseball team, went to like four meetings, archived a poetry rejection, started cooking dinner again, failed, ordered pizza, and it’s gonna get here and Corey Booker will still be filibustering. Incredible.
April 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The only thing keeping me going is our annual March rewatch of Derry Girls.
March 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Boost the "Trump Hates Dogs" signal. It's the one thing that might break through and lift the curse on the MAGA-brained.
guys they're going to stop feeding TSA's bomb-sniffing dogs, per Fox News nat security correspondent:
March 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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March 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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From Ukrainian-born poet Ilya Kaminsky. Photo courtesy of Poetry Foundation.

Don't have this one in a book, so making a rare exception to my only posting own photos rule given the circumstances.

#poem #writing #ukraine
March 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
March 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
In the canon of cartoon playground bullies there's usually a big hulkin' guy and then behind him a little ratfaced goblin boy jeering. I don't know who the first guy is but the second one is definitely JD Vance.
February 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Just pretend this post is a gif of Ben from Veep saying “We are at DEFCON Fuck.”
February 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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"on the ocean when you die, I don't like imagining your gawky bag of bones incinerated, sprinkled like fish flakes over an aquarium." You'll want to linger with FM Stringer's poem of grief and regret on Open Space here: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
February 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
and they say AI can't produce art
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention?

www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
February 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Better report my accomplishments for the week before the deadline
February 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
First post and it's a new poem about loss and longing. Thank you to the editors at @northamerreview.bsky.social for selecting it for Open Space. I’m a big admirer of this magazine.

northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
When you say you want your ashes scattered | North American Review
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February 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM