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Carolyn Ostrander
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Poet. Editor, The Comstock Review. Rhet/Comp & Historiography. Rural Studies. Linguistics. Multimodal/ Multilingual Acquisition. Disability/Deaf Studies. Educational Equity & Access. Best endorsement to date: my GP reports "Patient is a good historian"
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Weather forecasters may be in grave jeopardy in PA. If this isn't fortune telling, what is?
Black and white Winter country scene. Caption on the right reads "Here are the changes for a white Christmas in south-central Pennsylvania"
September 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Clean air, clean water & health campaigns FTW. I cut my foot but got antibiotics & didn't die like my great-great-grandpa-in-law did. I didn't die as a child of smallpox or polio like some of my parents' classmates did pre-vax, nor of cholera, dysentery or typhoid from dirty water like these kids:
1 large and 4 small gravestones stand between a small footpath and a dense stand of trees with fern undergrowth in an abandoned cemetery. Leetonia, PA (ghost town and former lumbering camp 1880s-1920s) photo 2006
May 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Meme image: white-haired woman wearing beige sweater white pants, black and beige scarf and glasses stands in front of clippings arranged on a wall as a brown-haired women in a matching blue top and sweater gestures. Caption: "That's not how this works" above and "That's not how any of this works" below.
April 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Something bright to go with your coffee
Two bright red amaryllis blooms on a tall green stem with green leaves. One faces front; the second is in profile. In the background a window framed by orange/brown sill and kitchen items: dishcloth, soap dispense, pitcher, coffeemaker, thermometer
March 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Title "The Small Black Hand of Fascism"
At left, a skeletal black-gloved hand floats. Center: D J Trump's left-silhouetted head on a white collar & blue tie pedestal. Full photo: Trump's black suit merges into night-black background. Screenshot from Reuters photo; Crediting photo source with a QT
D. J. Trump in a left-facing silhouette against a black background, wearing a black suit, white-collared shirt and blue tie. Only the collar and tie, Trump's head, and the upraised black-gloved hand on the left (in front from Trump's perspective) are visible. The gloved hand is facing the camera and uplifted at a 45 degree angle so that it seems to float in front of him. The glove reflects narrow lines of light on the four fingers and thumb, giving it a skeletal appearance. Screenshot from a photo taken on Feb 19, 2025 and credited to Reuters. The photo accompanied an article in The Hindu on Feb 20, 2025. In the full photo Trump's black suit merges into the night-black background, creating the floating images described. Crediting photo source in the QT article
February 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Don't let Halloween excitement TRICK you into missing out on submitting your Chapbook to the Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest!
TREAT your best poetry to a chance at publication -
Submissions end on October 31st, so don't delay!
comstockreview.submittable.com/submit
#poetrycontest #chapbook
Text: Don't let Halloween excitement TRICK you into missing out on submitting your Chapbook to the Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest! TREAT your best poetry to a chance at publication - Submissions end on October 31st, so don't delay! https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit #poetrycontest #chapbook Image: cover art by artist Yolanda Tooley from The Comstock Review Fall/Winter 2009. collection of masks in grayscale on a black background
October 30, 2023 at 10:38 PM