Ms Minjares
@fabmsm.bsky.social
Lover of words, teacher, reader, committed to kindness & curiosity.
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April 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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I'm kicking off National Poetry Month at the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day series! You can read my new poem, "Magnitude and Bond," at the link below. Special thanks goes to Willie Perdomo for making space for me and these words this month.
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poets.org/poem/magnitu...
Magnitude and Bond
that which is betwixt us of the lampooned lips and noses
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April 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I'm kicking off National Poetry Month at the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day series! You can read my new poem, "Magnitude and Bond," at the link below. Special thanks goes to Willie Perdomo for making space for me and these words this month.
poets.org/poem/magnitu...
poets.org/poem/magnitu...
Balancing my few “free days” of reading with Samantha Harvey’s beautiful novel _Orbital_, while wading back in again to Clint Smith’s _How the Word Is Passed_.
April 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Balancing my few “free days” of reading with Samantha Harvey’s beautiful novel _Orbital_, while wading back in again to Clint Smith’s _How the Word Is Passed_.
Finally Spring break & reading for (English teacher?) joy: Yoko Ogawa’s « Mina’s Matchbox » and « Respect the Mic » @joseolivarez.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Finally Spring break & reading for (English teacher?) joy: Yoko Ogawa’s « Mina’s Matchbox » and « Respect the Mic » @joseolivarez.bsky.social
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Please read this. Decide what you really believe, and write it down. Then hold yourself to it.
That article is here: thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-he...
February 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Please read this. Decide what you really believe, and write it down. Then hold yourself to it.
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Struggling with making it through the year? @briansztabnik.bsky.social and I share what helps us not only make it through the year but make this career not just manageable but enjoyable.
Burning Out? 9 Tips for Sustainable Teaching - Much Ado About Teaching
Teacher burnout can peak in the darkest, coldest days of winter. It rears its ugly head as we recover from the holidays and feel the physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion caused by the prolonged ...
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February 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Struggling with making it through the year? @briansztabnik.bsky.social and I share what helps us not only make it through the year but make this career not just manageable but enjoyable.
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Be aware that firing people without thinking about the consequences isn't just stupidity.
It's deliberate chaos-making.
It's a way of grabbing power.
It's deliberate chaos-making.
It's a way of grabbing power.
This is what happens when you tell Alexa: "Delete Biden contacts"
"Chief law enforcement officials across the US are now scrambling to figure out how they can continue performing their functions—including responding to critical incidents"
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
"Chief law enforcement officials across the US are now scrambling to figure out how they can continue performing their functions—including responding to critical incidents"
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Remaining Biden US Attorneys Said to Have Devices Deactivated
As many as 22 remaining Biden-appointed US attorneys had their government-issued devices deactivated Friday without being told they’ve been fired or provided an explanation, said three people familiar...
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February 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Be aware that firing people without thinking about the consequences isn't just stupidity.
It's deliberate chaos-making.
It's a way of grabbing power.
It's deliberate chaos-making.
It's a way of grabbing power.
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Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.
February 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.
Thank you,Walt Whitman, for speaking across the decades to the 16- & 17-year-olds in my classes.
#whitman
#poetry
#transcendentalim
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45473/...
#whitman
#poetry
#transcendentalim
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45473/...
A Noiseless Patient Spider
A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, E...
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February 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Thank you,Walt Whitman, for speaking across the decades to the 16- & 17-year-olds in my classes.
#whitman
#poetry
#transcendentalim
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45473/...
#whitman
#poetry
#transcendentalim
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45473/...
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I love this essay so much
José Olivarez & Calumet City—maps might make the world legible, but poetry reveals “the little cracks in the totality.” #LiteraryLandscapes by Ava Tomasula y Garcia. @joseolivarez.bsky.social #CalumetCity #Chicago #Illinois newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...
José Olivarez – Calumet City, Illinois - The New Territory Magazine
Maps might make the world legible, but poetry reveals “the little cracks in the totality.” Literary Landscapes by Ava Tomasula y Garcia.
newterritorymag.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I love this essay so much
Read this — thank you Samantha Harvey for Orbital. My reading experience currently feels ineffable. So glad you have words for us.
January 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Read this — thank you Samantha Harvey for Orbital. My reading experience currently feels ineffable. So glad you have words for us.
January 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM