Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
@warmaiden.bsky.social
Poet & academic library scholar. Author: The Light Becomes Us (Main Street Rag, 2025), Toothache in the Bone (boats against the current, 2025), recent work in Gone Lawn, SheilaNaGig, Berkeley Poetry Review, ONE ART, more #spoonie www.colleensharris.com
Excited to finally have my first copies of my newest #poetry chapbook, The Girl and the Gifts out of Bottlecap Press! It’s got all of the best things: family, mythology, and love of the land and the sea. Grab it at bottlecap.press/products/gifts #booksky 💙📚 #writing 📚☁️ @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Excited to finally have my first copies of my newest #poetry chapbook, The Girl and the Gifts out of Bottlecap Press! It’s got all of the best things: family, mythology, and love of the land and the sea. Grab it at bottlecap.press/products/gifts #booksky 💙📚 #writing 📚☁️ @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
Proud my #poem "Nel Mezzo Del Cammin Di Nostra Vita," originally in @soflopojo.bsky.social, will be in the Sligo Creek anthology Bearing Witness: Poetry for Troubled Times. Original at www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/poetry-37-ma...
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #criplib
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #criplib
Poetry #37 May '25
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November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Proud my #poem "Nel Mezzo Del Cammin Di Nostra Vita," originally in @soflopojo.bsky.social, will be in the Sligo Creek anthology Bearing Witness: Poetry for Troubled Times. Original at www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/poetry-37-ma...
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #criplib
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #criplib
Thrilled my #poem "Theories of Rain" is in the new Hood of Bone Review! It's about midway down - ctrl+f "colleen" will get you there. Grateful to editor Grace Ezra for including me w/such talent!
www.hoodofbonereview.org/issue-four-n...
#booksky 📚💙 #poetry 📖 #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📝
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#booksky 📚💙 #poetry 📖 #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📝
Issue Four - Nov. 2025 | Hood Of Bone
www.hoodofbonereview.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Thrilled my #poem "Theories of Rain" is in the new Hood of Bone Review! It's about midway down - ctrl+f "colleen" will get you there. Grateful to editor Grace Ezra for including me w/such talent!
www.hoodofbonereview.org/issue-four-n...
#booksky 📚💙 #poetry 📖 #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📝
www.hoodofbonereview.org/issue-four-n...
#booksky 📚💙 #poetry 📖 #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📝
Super proud to have my #poem "The Leafcutter (Megachile rotundata)" in Hawai'i Pacific Review! It's short - give it a look and let me know what you think: hawaiipacificreview.org/2025/11/03/t...
#booksky 💙📚 #writing 📖 #Poetry 📝@blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📚☁️ #ReadMorePoetry
#booksky 💙📚 #writing 📖 #Poetry 📝@blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📚☁️ #ReadMorePoetry
The Leafcutter (Megachile rotundata)
by Colleen S. Harris Brightly flowering plantsin easy reach are the most tempting—the candied pinks and purplesof azaleas, alfalfa, lilac.
hawaiipacificreview.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Super proud to have my #poem "The Leafcutter (Megachile rotundata)" in Hawai'i Pacific Review! It's short - give it a look and let me know what you think: hawaiipacificreview.org/2025/11/03/t...
#booksky 💙📚 #writing 📖 #Poetry 📝@blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📚☁️ #ReadMorePoetry
#booksky 💙📚 #writing 📖 #Poetry 📝@blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📚☁️ #ReadMorePoetry
Aaaah! My #poem "Common Ivy (Hedera helix)" was accepted for publication by Drexel's Paper Dragon!!
#booksky 💙📚 #writing 📖 #poetry 📝 #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
#booksky 💙📚 #writing 📖 #poetry 📝 #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
joy from inside out is dancing with her arms in the air and saying yay !
ALT: joy from inside out is dancing with her arms in the air and saying yay !
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October 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Of possible interest @parisnoire.bsky.social
PRE-ORDER WEDNESDAY!! ❤️🔥 Pre-order the 2nd printing of The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social starting Wednesday, 10/29, 3p Eastern USA. www.weherepress.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Of possible interest @parisnoire.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
I agree with this so hard.
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I agree with this so hard.
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
What a disgrace. And what an embarrassment for @cnn.com.
Scoop: During a trip to DC last week, CNN CEO Mark Thompson made a visit to the White House, where he promoted the network’s new streamer
Staffers were taken aback the next morning when Thompson urged them to ease up on East Wing renovation coverage
www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...
Staffers were taken aback the next morning when Thompson urged them to ease up on East Wing renovation coverage
www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...
Mark Thompson’s D.C. Drop-In
CNN’s chief has Washington talking about his private meeting at the White House—following which he urged the network to ease up on coverage of Trump’s East Room demolition, Status has learned.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
What a disgrace. And what an embarrassment for @cnn.com.
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
lol what the wealthy today don't seem to understand is part of staying wealthy in society is not pissing off the masses.
There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.
There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.
October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
lol what the wealthy today don't seem to understand is part of staying wealthy in society is not pissing off the masses.
There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.
There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.
Jackdaw Review published 3 of my best #poems “Considering a Diagnosis at Martin’s Fort Lake,” “Ocean Aubade,” & “Tragedy Should Be More Dramatic”--read at online.fliphtml5.com/nnzao/ioyf/#... (link to my work in issue)
#booksky 💙📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 #writing #poetry 📝 #criplib #spoonie
#booksky 💙📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 #writing #poetry 📝 #criplib #spoonie
Cover Page Jackdaw Review Issue 3
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October 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Jackdaw Review published 3 of my best #poems “Considering a Diagnosis at Martin’s Fort Lake,” “Ocean Aubade,” & “Tragedy Should Be More Dramatic”--read at online.fliphtml5.com/nnzao/ioyf/#... (link to my work in issue)
#booksky 💙📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 #writing #poetry 📝 #criplib #spoonie
#booksky 💙📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 #writing #poetry 📝 #criplib #spoonie
My #poem "To the Doctor with a 12-Step Skin Care Routine" was accepted by The Bryant Review! It mentions how tough we women are who grew up as girls scrubbing our faces w/walnut shell shards to feel clean. I SEE YOU, LADIES.
💙📚 #booksky 📖 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📝 #writing #poetry
💙📚 #booksky 📖 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📝 #writing #poetry
October 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
My #poem "To the Doctor with a 12-Step Skin Care Routine" was accepted by The Bryant Review! It mentions how tough we women are who grew up as girls scrubbing our faces w/walnut shell shards to feel clean. I SEE YOU, LADIES.
💙📚 #booksky 📖 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📝 #writing #poetry
💙📚 #booksky 📖 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📝 #writing #poetry
Hey all. I'm not affiliated w/them except as customer, but after a big weght loss I've been using ThredUp to thrift my too-large clothes & to try clothes on the cheap to try on as I figure out what size I am in various brands. It's been a budget godsend.
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October 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Hey all. I'm not affiliated w/them except as customer, but after a big weght loss I've been using ThredUp to thrift my too-large clothes & to try clothes on the cheap to try on as I figure out what size I am in various brands. It's been a budget godsend.
www.thredup.com
www.thredup.com
My #poem "The Leafcutter (Megachile rotundata)" has been accepted and is forthcoming from Hawai'i Pacific Review!! So excited to have a piece in a magazine I've long admired.
💙📚 #booksky 📖 #poetry 📝 #writing
💙📚 #booksky 📖 #poetry 📝 #writing
a baby is sitting in a crowd with a woman holding him and screaming yes .
ALT: a baby is sitting in a crowd with a woman holding him and screaming yes .
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October 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I can’t wait to get my copy!!!
happy day of official recognition, little guy...
THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE • poems • upfromsumdirt
available from @kentuckypress.bsky.social - or (hopefully) everywhere books are sold.
THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE • poems • upfromsumdirt
available from @kentuckypress.bsky.social - or (hopefully) everywhere books are sold.
October 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I can’t wait to get my copy!!!
ERMEHGERD! I've been nominated for a Pushcart by MockingHeart Review for my #poem "Morning Commute"!!! Immensely grateful to their team & readers. You can read it here: mockingheartreview.com/archives/vol...
#poetry 💙📚 #writing 📖 #booksky 📝 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
#poetry 💙📚 #writing 📖 #booksky 📝 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
Colleen S. Harris
MORNING COMMUTE A quick jerk of my ringless left hand is allit would take. I could ruin this Tuesdaymorning, the air sodden with near-rain flirting with the grubby pines guardingthe shoulder of thi…
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October 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM
ERMEHGERD! I've been nominated for a Pushcart by MockingHeart Review for my #poem "Morning Commute"!!! Immensely grateful to their team & readers. You can read it here: mockingheartreview.com/archives/vol...
#poetry 💙📚 #writing 📖 #booksky 📝 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
#poetry 💙📚 #writing 📖 #booksky 📝 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
"The Unity Conference," called "Redacted: Navigating the Complexities of Censorship," was canceled at Weber State University. (Utah) 📚
www.ksl.com/article/5138...
www.ksl.com/article/5138...
Weber State cracks down on censorship conference
Weber State University abruptly canceled a conference dealing with the complexities of censorship, citing a need to comply with Utah's diversity, equity and inclusion law, which prohibits government e...
www.ksl.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"The Unity Conference," called "Redacted: Navigating the Complexities of Censorship," was canceled at Weber State University. (Utah) 📚
www.ksl.com/article/5138...
www.ksl.com/article/5138...
AAAH! Editor Budd of The Orange Rose let me know they nominated my #poem What You Don't Learn as a New York Catholic" for a #Pushcart!!!!!! They publish gorgeous work, so I'm crazy proud! Read it:
theorangeroselitmag.com/2025/08/22/w...
#poetry 📖 #writing 📝 #booksky 💙📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
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#poetry 📖 #writing 📝 #booksky 💙📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
“What You Don’t Learn as a New York Catholic” by Colleen S. Harris
Priests don’t tell you that Eveis from Eastern Kentucky,land of harvest-gold hillsand homemade apple pie shine.That if you’re not baptized in it,or born of the landwhere the trees bear the fruit,yo…
theorangeroselitmag.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
AAAH! Editor Budd of The Orange Rose let me know they nominated my #poem What You Don't Learn as a New York Catholic" for a #Pushcart!!!!!! They publish gorgeous work, so I'm crazy proud! Read it:
theorangeroselitmag.com/2025/08/22/w...
#poetry 📖 #writing 📝 #booksky 💙📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
theorangeroselitmag.com/2025/08/22/w...
#poetry 📖 #writing 📝 #booksky 💙📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
New haircut!
October 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
New haircut!
Proud my #poem "Casting About for Images of Comfort, I Remember" appears in the latest issue of Eclectica Magazine! Read it here, let me know what you think: www.eclectica.org/v29n4/harris...
📖 #poetry 📝 #booksky 💙📚 #writing #publishing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
📖 #poetry 📝 #booksky 💙📚 #writing #publishing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
Casting About for Images of Comfort, I Remember—Colleen S. Harris—Eclectica Magazine v29n4
Poetry by Colleen S. Harris, Eclectica Magazine v29n4
www.eclectica.org
October 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Proud my #poem "Casting About for Images of Comfort, I Remember" appears in the latest issue of Eclectica Magazine! Read it here, let me know what you think: www.eclectica.org/v29n4/harris...
📖 #poetry 📝 #booksky 💙📚 #writing #publishing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
📖 #poetry 📝 #booksky 💙📚 #writing #publishing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
Aaaahhh!! Honored to have my first ever Best of the Net nomination from @goodriverreview.bsky.social for my #poem “Lessons From A Baptism”!! Incredibly honored - they published so much incredible work, I’m shocked to be named!
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Aaaahhh!! Honored to have my first ever Best of the Net nomination from @goodriverreview.bsky.social for my #poem “Lessons From A Baptism”!! Incredibly honored - they published so much incredible work, I’m shocked to be named!
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
Hot off the presses! Our latest book - "Navigating Disability in the Academic Library Workplace," edited by Paula Martin and Samantha Peter - is now available. Learn more in an excerpt from the introduction on ACRL Insider... https://bit.ly/3L1vi9O
October 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Hot off the presses! Our latest book - "Navigating Disability in the Academic Library Workplace," edited by Paula Martin and Samantha Peter - is now available. Learn more in an excerpt from the introduction on ACRL Insider... https://bit.ly/3L1vi9O
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
An important discussion on MLIS debt by @violetbfox.bsky.social 📜 📚
On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt - ACRLog
I don't know the right metaphor to make you understand how this much debt physically feels. What it actually feels like is a pressure on my chest and shoulders, but maybe that's not evocative enough. ...
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October 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
An important discussion on MLIS debt by @violetbfox.bsky.social 📜 📚
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
Librarians of Bluesky, may I request your help please?
In middle school (2006-09), I read a book about a teenager contemplating their sexuality, I think there's a football player who is the bully but also comes out by the end, and there's a support group iirc. The cover is colorful and striped(?)
In middle school (2006-09), I read a book about a teenager contemplating their sexuality, I think there's a football player who is the bully but also comes out by the end, and there's a support group iirc. The cover is colorful and striped(?)
October 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Librarians of Bluesky, may I request your help please?
In middle school (2006-09), I read a book about a teenager contemplating their sexuality, I think there's a football player who is the bully but also comes out by the end, and there's a support group iirc. The cover is colorful and striped(?)
In middle school (2006-09), I read a book about a teenager contemplating their sexuality, I think there's a football player who is the bully but also comes out by the end, and there's a support group iirc. The cover is colorful and striped(?)