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Ashley Wagner
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Poet who doesn't know what she's doing here, exactly. I wrote a book and I'll do it again.
We're SO back, babyyyy! Four in Twisted Tongue's very first issue twistedtonguepress.com/issue-1/
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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NFTs were a bubble, AI is a bubble, but small carvings of large hipped women have remained popular with unsettling lighthouse keepers for 200 years, invest with confidence
August 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Computers should still scream at you if you try to go online.
August 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"Resist much, obey little."

—Walt Whitman
August 15, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Here’s some Luis Toledo art to make your Sunday a little better.
August 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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I love how wry Adam Zagajewski is, how deft he is at wielding irony. But also! this whole conceit is very funny. I wanna try it.
August 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
December 2, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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my editor: this poem is two poems

me: respectfully I disagree

the poem:
January 24, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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Words To Live By Number 136
November 26, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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The duty of the writer… is to remind us that we will die. And that we aren’t dead yet.

—Solmaz Sharif

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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

—Toni Morrison
November 26, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Okay I'm back. What did I miss
November 24, 2024 at 7:16 PM
At long last... Lady Ligeia RISES from the grave to bring you ART and LITERATURE! (We're back from our hiatus with some supercool work. Check it out.) www.ligeiamagazine.com
March 1, 2024 at 9:37 PM
checking submittable the day after a contest ends
January 16, 2024 at 10:11 PM
A podcast! And I'm in it! Yall gotta listen to this one for me! Because I can't! 🫣 Much love to Oaky Tyree for having me on! open.spotify.com/show/14kyfZq...
Tell Me About Your Book
Listen to Tell Me About Your Book on Spotify. A podcast where Oaky sits down with an author, discussing their book(s), publishing stories, and the author's life. Updated twice a week, on Tuesdays and ...
open.spotify.com
December 12, 2023 at 9:44 PM
Guys it's simply too many poems, what do I do
December 9, 2023 at 4:25 AM
Open for subs. Did you miss us?
December 5, 2023 at 4:02 AM
New work in Slipstream 🩸
October 20, 2023 at 3:51 AM
Yesterday I had the absolute pleasure of speaking to a small group of TU students interested in exploring a career in writing after graduating. And what a bright and talented group of young writers! They had all the right questions, and I can only hope that my answers help them along their journey.
October 17, 2023 at 9:01 PM
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it’s so important to romanticize the mundane like. bro you’re telling me i get to go to the farmers market to buy cute lil potatoes, walk around the city while going to the tailor and dropping off film, and get a fun matcha lemonade for the walk home?? i’m in love w that life actually
September 30, 2023 at 5:45 PM
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Do not go gentle into that good night
July 9, 2023 at 11:48 PM
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Thought I’d officially introduce my work on Bluesky!

I’m Olivia, an illustrator and comic artist interested in landscapes and surreal narratives.
September 25, 2023 at 8:37 AM
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Here is my piece at Joyland about diving into the deep sea among other places

joylandmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
The Night Prairie | JOYLAND
joylandmagazine.com
September 22, 2023 at 12:42 PM
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#poetry. Nuff said.
Ilya Kaminsky, in Garth Greenwell’s “Still Dancing” interview in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine (2019)
September 22, 2023 at 2:15 AM
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purty
September 21, 2023 at 4:09 PM