Megan McDermott (she/her)
@megmcdermott92.bsky.social
Poet, priest, reality TV fan, prolific selfie taker. Author of JESUS MERCH (https://t.co/PRT1qJMt9w) & 2 chapbooks. MFA student in Richmond, VA after a decade+ in New England, where I went to div school & served in parish ministry. meganmcdermottpoet.com
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Need a gift idea this season? We’ve got you covered, and will ship to you free with the code 2025GIFT 🌊 🌊📚💙 #poetry #Booksky
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November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Need a gift idea this season? We’ve got you covered, and will ship to you free with the code 2025GIFT 🌊 🌊📚💙 #poetry #Booksky
riverriverbooks.org/store/
riverriverbooks.org/store/
Seeing some journalists raise questions about the story I reposted earlier, so wanted to share since accurate info even in the midst of intentional chaos & evil of this admin is important.
There’s a religion-related story getting some traction on here tonight from an outlet I’ve never come across, with details that raise lots of questions — so I’d want lots more confirmation.
Not gonna point to it directly bc of that, but I’d encourage folks to await more reporting on the matter.
Not gonna point to it directly bc of that, but I’d encourage folks to await more reporting on the matter.
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Seeing some journalists raise questions about the story I reposted earlier, so wanted to share since accurate info even in the midst of intentional chaos & evil of this admin is important.
Profoundly evil.
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Profoundly evil.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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(1/2) Swipe through these graphics to read Megan's stellar thoughts about art and literature. Thank you, Megan, for your insights! Check out Blackbird's art section of Flight 24.1 to see the fruits of her labor. 🎨 blackbird.vcu.edu @megmcdermott92.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
(1/2) Swipe through these graphics to read Megan's stellar thoughts about art and literature. Thank you, Megan, for your insights! Check out Blackbird's art section of Flight 24.1 to see the fruits of her labor. 🎨 blackbird.vcu.edu @megmcdermott92.bsky.social
"I would rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do." - artist Helen Frankenthaler (quoted in An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters by Lucy Davies)
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"I would rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do." - artist Helen Frankenthaler (quoted in An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters by Lucy Davies)
Predicting this will be a must-read 👏
Do I have a new collection in preorder from @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social coming out in the spring? Why yes I do!
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Predicting this will be a must-read 👏
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So appreciative of readers like @megmcdermott92.bsky.social. I love seeing these kinds of connections and being part of a conversation.
Read this @abbiekiefer.bsky.social poem last night & it felt very relevant to today's Gospel texts (for churches that follow the lectionary - it was Luke 21:5-19)
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
So appreciative of readers like @megmcdermott92.bsky.social. I love seeing these kinds of connections and being part of a conversation.
"To be loved by Susan would be to be impaled by a bird's sharp beak, to be nailed to a barnyard door. Yet there are moments when I could wish to be speared by a beak, to be nailed to a barnyard door, positively, once and for all." - The Waves by Virginia Woolf
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"To be loved by Susan would be to be impaled by a bird's sharp beak, to be nailed to a barnyard door. Yet there are moments when I could wish to be speared by a beak, to be nailed to a barnyard door, positively, once and for all." - The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Read this @abbiekiefer.bsky.social poem last night & it felt very relevant to today's Gospel texts (for churches that follow the lectionary - it was Luke 21:5-19)
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Read this @abbiekiefer.bsky.social poem last night & it felt very relevant to today's Gospel texts (for churches that follow the lectionary - it was Luke 21:5-19)
Diocese of Western Mass. new bishop elected on ballot 1!!!! 😮❤️ (I'm watching from livestream)
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Diocese of Western Mass. new bishop elected on ballot 1!!!! 😮❤️ (I'm watching from livestream)
Living in a city again is bringing me back to my early-mid twenties vibes lol (it does not help that the clubs play 80 percent of the same music as a decade ago, just with Chappell Roan thrown in 😂)
November 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Living in a city again is bringing me back to my early-mid twenties vibes lol (it does not help that the clubs play 80 percent of the same music as a decade ago, just with Chappell Roan thrown in 😂)
The suggested Instagram content I get as a single woman (who cannot resist reels that are a hot mess) is so unhinged
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The suggested Instagram content I get as a single woman (who cannot resist reels that are a hot mess) is so unhinged
I had a really lovely poem&people-centric day today
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I had a really lovely poem&people-centric day today
Lectured in a college class for the first time today ✨✨✨
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Lectured in a college class for the first time today ✨✨✨
"I like views of spires across grey fields. I like glimpses between people's shoulders. Things kept popping into my head. I was imaginative, subtle. After dinner, I was dramatic." - The Waves by Virginia Woolf
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"I like views of spires across grey fields. I like glimpses between people's shoulders. Things kept popping into my head. I was imaginative, subtle. After dinner, I was dramatic." - The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Just registered for my spring semester (for MFA year 1)! I may end up backing out of a class if it's too much, but tentatively I'll be doing both poetry and creative nonfiction workshops and a literary criticism class (in addition to work as a TA and art editor at the lit journal). I'm hyped!!!!!
twilight sparkle from my little pony laying on a shelf looking at a book
ALT: twilight sparkle from my little pony laying on a shelf looking at a book
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Just registered for my spring semester (for MFA year 1)! I may end up backing out of a class if it's too much, but tentatively I'll be doing both poetry and creative nonfiction workshops and a literary criticism class (in addition to work as a TA and art editor at the lit journal). I'm hyped!!!!!
Starting to read a Virginia Woolf novel you haven't read before: what on earth is happening, what is she thinking, I'm so disoriented
10 to 20 pages in: she's a genius!!!!!
(Hi I'm reading The Waves for the first time)
10 to 20 pages in: she's a genius!!!!!
(Hi I'm reading The Waves for the first time)
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Starting to read a Virginia Woolf novel you haven't read before: what on earth is happening, what is she thinking, I'm so disoriented
10 to 20 pages in: she's a genius!!!!!
(Hi I'm reading The Waves for the first time)
10 to 20 pages in: she's a genius!!!!!
(Hi I'm reading The Waves for the first time)
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"The touch of their bodies, I would never think of marble"
I love the way this poem by @megmcdermott92.bsky.social warms up a sort-of ekphrasis.
I love the way this poem by @megmcdermott92.bsky.social warms up a sort-of ekphrasis.
POEM 282: "Looking at the Photo, I Remember an Episode of America’s Next Top Model" by Megan McDermott (@megmcdermott92.bsky.social )
"where contestants had to pretend to be living
statues, staying very still as pigeons landed
on their heads and arms."
stonecirclereview.com/looking-at/
#Poem
"where contestants had to pretend to be living
statues, staying very still as pigeons landed
on their heads and arms."
stonecirclereview.com/looking-at/
#Poem
November 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"The touch of their bodies, I would never think of marble"
I love the way this poem by @megmcdermott92.bsky.social warms up a sort-of ekphrasis.
I love the way this poem by @megmcdermott92.bsky.social warms up a sort-of ekphrasis.
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Hello to this beauty of a poem from a beauty of a woman. 💖
POEM 282: "Looking at the Photo, I Remember an Episode of America’s Next Top Model" by Megan McDermott (@megmcdermott92.bsky.social )
"where contestants had to pretend to be living
statues, staying very still as pigeons landed
on their heads and arms."
stonecirclereview.com/looking-at/
#Poem
"where contestants had to pretend to be living
statues, staying very still as pigeons landed
on their heads and arms."
stonecirclereview.com/looking-at/
#Poem
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hello to this beauty of a poem from a beauty of a woman. 💖
New poem (inspired by art 😱) - thank you to Lee & @stonecirclereview.bsky.social for providing such a great home for poetry!
POEM 282: "Looking at the Photo, I Remember an Episode of America’s Next Top Model" by Megan McDermott (@megmcdermott92.bsky.social )
"where contestants had to pretend to be living
statues, staying very still as pigeons landed
on their heads and arms."
stonecirclereview.com/looking-at/
#Poem
"where contestants had to pretend to be living
statues, staying very still as pigeons landed
on their heads and arms."
stonecirclereview.com/looking-at/
#Poem
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
New poem (inspired by art 😱) - thank you to Lee & @stonecirclereview.bsky.social for providing such a great home for poetry!
"It also asked Zane what his 'haunting habit' would be as a ghost. And what song he would like to 'go out to.'" This is so egregious.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"It also asked Zane what his 'haunting habit' would be as a ghost. And what song he would like to 'go out to.'" This is so egregious.
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Early Florentine self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi on view at Christie's in New York, and up for auction in in February. I just saw it in August and it's very close to her Inclination in the Casa Buonarroti (c. 1615) and other early self-portraits in Florence (thanks, @pjeromack.bsky.social!)
November 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Early Florentine self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi on view at Christie's in New York, and up for auction in in February. I just saw it in August and it's very close to her Inclination in the Casa Buonarroti (c. 1615) and other early self-portraits in Florence (thanks, @pjeromack.bsky.social!)
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Also, there are an additional six clergy that have sued the Trump admin this year as individuals, as well as four individual religious practitioners.
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Also, there are an additional six clergy that have sued the Trump admin this year as individuals, as well as four individual religious practitioners.
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Religion note: The first plaintiff in this case pushing the Trump admin to fully fund SNAP benefits is the Rhode Island State Council of Churches.
By my count, that makes 62 religious organizations (including denominations!) that have been part of lawsuits against the Trump admin this year.
By my count, that makes 62 religious organizations (including denominations!) that have been part of lawsuits against the Trump admin this year.
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Religion note: The first plaintiff in this case pushing the Trump admin to fully fund SNAP benefits is the Rhode Island State Council of Churches.
By my count, that makes 62 religious organizations (including denominations!) that have been part of lawsuits against the Trump admin this year.
By my count, that makes 62 religious organizations (including denominations!) that have been part of lawsuits against the Trump admin this year.