Joanna Penn Cooper
@joannapenncooper.bsky.social
Poet/writer of essay & flash. Author of The Itinerant Girls Guide to Self-Hypnosis (Brooklyn Arts P). PhD in American lit. Short Reads; Poem-A-Day/Academy of Amer. Poets; Wigleaf Top 50. joannapenncooper.substack.com Writing workshops at musewriting.com
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“As a very small child in the Nixon years, even I was tired. // But there’s ironic satisfaction to be found in Carole King’s ‘It’s Too Late’ being number one the week you were born.” — @joannapenncooper.bsky.social, “The Itinerant Girl’s Guide to Self-Hypnosis”
August 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“As a very small child in the Nixon years, even I was tired. // But there’s ironic satisfaction to be found in Carole King’s ‘It’s Too Late’ being number one the week you were born.” — @joannapenncooper.bsky.social, “The Itinerant Girl’s Guide to Self-Hypnosis”
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More new chapbooks from Ethel to check out: Celebrity Ghost, my book of drawings/comics; and About Ethel, by and about Ethel!!
January 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
More new chapbooks from Ethel to check out: Celebrity Ghost, my book of drawings/comics; and About Ethel, by and about Ethel!!
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June 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Synchronicity still exists
February 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Synchronicity still exists
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Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.
March 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.
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Guess Hulu didn’t pay for the pro Zoom.
March 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Guess Hulu didn’t pay for the pro Zoom.
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I have no words.
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I have no words.
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Etel Adnan: *Poetry reaches the unsaid, and leaves it unsaid.*
February 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Etel Adnan: *Poetry reaches the unsaid, and leaves it unsaid.*
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every few hours i think about how the nea just completely capitulated immediately while other agencies, including those that fund businesses, haven’t, and it makes me furious all over again
February 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
every few hours i think about how the nea just completely capitulated immediately while other agencies, including those that fund businesses, haven’t, and it makes me furious all over again
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In a world of endless heartbreak, we bring you work that's full of heart. Welcome to Split Lip’s February issue. Thank you so much for spending time with our contributors' beautiful art & words.
Love gets us through life 💕 And we're so in love with this new FEBRUARY ISSUE 💕: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR
All the love and thanks to our Contributors!
WORDS: Selen Ozturk, A.A. Tojino, Afri Arebu, Andy Chen
ART: Kathleen Frank
PLUS: Isabella Maria interviews Olivia Gatwood
All the love and thanks to our Contributors!
WORDS: Selen Ozturk, A.A. Tojino, Afri Arebu, Andy Chen
ART: Kathleen Frank
PLUS: Isabella Maria interviews Olivia Gatwood
February 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In a world of endless heartbreak, we bring you work that's full of heart. Welcome to Split Lip’s February issue. Thank you so much for spending time with our contributors' beautiful art & words.
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Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.
February 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.
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If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.
February 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.
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In troubling times, people experiencing high stress or crippling anxiety deal with it in different ways. Some have a therapist, some have a deep breathing exercise & some even have a personal mantra.
I have a Mabel.
I have a Mabel.
February 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
In troubling times, people experiencing high stress or crippling anxiety deal with it in different ways. Some have a therapist, some have a deep breathing exercise & some even have a personal mantra.
I have a Mabel.
I have a Mabel.
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Happy Valentine's Day, especially to anyone who might identify with one of the letters in LGBTQ, particularly the day after someone Trumpy stripped the letter T and then the letter Q from the National Park Service website for Stonewall in New York City.
February 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Happy Valentine's Day, especially to anyone who might identify with one of the letters in LGBTQ, particularly the day after someone Trumpy stripped the letter T and then the letter Q from the National Park Service website for Stonewall in New York City.
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Jill Kitchen’s poem “in a parallel universe, there is nothing i cannot do” uses a gorgeous cascade of language to open a portal into a different state of being. Here she shares just one thing about the piece:
https://buff.ly/41bnV5t
https://buff.ly/41bnV5t
February 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Jill Kitchen’s poem “in a parallel universe, there is nothing i cannot do” uses a gorgeous cascade of language to open a portal into a different state of being. Here she shares just one thing about the piece:
https://buff.ly/41bnV5t
https://buff.ly/41bnV5t
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“men’s gazes would sometimes linger on her for a moment, curious. At times, the daughter’s own gaze rested half a step inside herself, her eyes down and to the right, like those Pre-Raphaelite women.”
— @joannapenncooper.bsky.social, “The Itinerant Girl’s Guide to Self-Hypnosis”
— @joannapenncooper.bsky.social, “The Itinerant Girl’s Guide to Self-Hypnosis”
February 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
“men’s gazes would sometimes linger on her for a moment, curious. At times, the daughter’s own gaze rested half a step inside herself, her eyes down and to the right, like those Pre-Raphaelite women.”
— @joannapenncooper.bsky.social, “The Itinerant Girl’s Guide to Self-Hypnosis”
— @joannapenncooper.bsky.social, “The Itinerant Girl’s Guide to Self-Hypnosis”
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@joannapenncooper.bsky.social I read your post on substack this am and found both the lead-in and the essay great.
My amazing doctor’s research will be cut by our govt research funding because she studies women, and they’ve banned the word “women.”
joannapenncooper.substack.com/p/i-send-you...
My amazing doctor’s research will be cut by our govt research funding because she studies women, and they’ve banned the word “women.”
joannapenncooper.substack.com/p/i-send-you...
I Send You Out
On the care and wisdom of women
joannapenncooper.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
@joannapenncooper.bsky.social I read your post on substack this am and found both the lead-in and the essay great.
My amazing doctor’s research will be cut by our govt research funding because she studies women, and they’ve banned the word “women.”
joannapenncooper.substack.com/p/i-send-you...
My amazing doctor’s research will be cut by our govt research funding because she studies women, and they’ve banned the word “women.”
joannapenncooper.substack.com/p/i-send-you...
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In 2004, I interviewed for a teaching position. The principal asked me how many kids I had. I answered. He asked if I was planning to have more —said he couldn’t afford to have another teacher out on maternity leave.
This is why women need protections, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This is why women need protections, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
January 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
In 2004, I interviewed for a teaching position. The principal asked me how many kids I had. I answered. He asked if I was planning to have more —said he couldn’t afford to have another teacher out on maternity leave.
This is why women need protections, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This is why women need protections, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Pete Hegseth admitted to the Senate that he paid $50,000 (!!!) to silence a "Jane Doe" who accused him of rape.
But at his hearing last week, he said he was “falsely accused."
More questions than answers. We can't rush his vote and trust him with our national security.
But at his hearing last week, he said he was “falsely accused."
More questions than answers. We can't rush his vote and trust him with our national security.
January 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Pete Hegseth admitted to the Senate that he paid $50,000 (!!!) to silence a "Jane Doe" who accused him of rape.
But at his hearing last week, he said he was “falsely accused."
More questions than answers. We can't rush his vote and trust him with our national security.
But at his hearing last week, he said he was “falsely accused."
More questions than answers. We can't rush his vote and trust him with our national security.
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I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness
January 12, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness