Irene Cooper
@icooper435.bsky.social
poem-maker/lover, fictionist, attemptress, editor; enthusiast in (de)spite; long live VA Press
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
July 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The Author’s Wife Is Also an Author: On the Fantasy and Reality of Writing and Partnership+https://www.pw.org/content/the_authors_wife_is_also_an_author_on_the_fantasy_and_reality_of_writing_and_partnership
July 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The Author’s Wife Is Also an Author: On the Fantasy and Reality of Writing and Partnership+https://www.pw.org/content/the_authors_wife_is_also_an_author_on_the_fantasy_and_reality_of_writing_and_partnership
Next to my fellow Spoon River Poetry Review spoonfuls chapbook prize winner Luke, I look like I’m spoiling for a fight
February 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Next to my fellow Spoon River Poetry Review spoonfuls chapbook prize winner Luke, I look like I’m spoiling for a fight
Still hanging outside the party on this platform, as it were. One of these musicians is my kid, whom I love and of whom I am proud
February 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Still hanging outside the party on this platform, as it were. One of these musicians is my kid, whom I love and of whom I am proud
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I’m anxious about promoting this one—please spare me the book ban jokes, it’s genuinely scary!—and am hoping so hard that I can get the word out. Everyone deserves to know about working class history, especially now!
January 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I’m anxious about promoting this one—please spare me the book ban jokes, it’s genuinely scary!—and am hoping so hard that I can get the word out. Everyone deserves to know about working class history, especially now!
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long night moon, according to the infallible internet, is a Mohawk term for the full moon before solstice
December 22, 2024 at 6:28 PM
long night moon, according to the infallible internet, is a Mohawk term for the full moon before solstice
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Put solar and batteries on all the Post Offices. Have it serve as a community resilience hub during and after extreme events. Have it broadcast free neighborhood wifi. Every month release a new stamp with a cool animal on it.
The Post Office is a lifeline and essential service for rural and Tribal communities, and small businesses everywhere. It should be strengthened, invested in, modernized, and expanded to provide banking, resilience, and community services.
December 17, 2024 at 4:44 AM
Put solar and batteries on all the Post Offices. Have it serve as a community resilience hub during and after extreme events. Have it broadcast free neighborhood wifi. Every month release a new stamp with a cool animal on it.
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Jesus: it was then that I carried you
Jesus: it was then that I carried you
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Journalist: it's called an em dash.
Journalist: it's called an em dash.
December 20, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Jesus: it was then that I carried you
Jesus: it was then that I carried you
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This: www.porcupineliterary.com/post/why-we-...
By @jessicacuello.bsky.social on @porcupinelit.bsky.social
By @jessicacuello.bsky.social on @porcupinelit.bsky.social
Why We Resented the Teacher Inservice Speaker Who Was Paid $30,000 for the Day
Jessica Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two CNY Book Awards, The 2016 Washington Prize, and more.
www.porcupineliterary.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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For folks interested in teaching Larks, I made a short intro video—yes I’m in my bathrobe, yes I’ll wear real clothes to visit your class on zoom 📚💙 Let me know if you want to teach Larks!
Also Larks is currently on 40% discount at Ohio with code SNOW along with all Ohio books! ❄️
Also Larks is currently on 40% discount at Ohio with code SNOW along with all Ohio books! ❄️
Teach my book? Larks (Ohio University Press, April 2025) Themes: Southern, rural, myth, sisters, fairytales, art, farm and country. #poetry #poetrytok #teaching #teachersoftiktok #writersoftiktok #wri...
TikTok video by HanVHart
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December 6, 2024 at 1:52 PM
For folks interested in teaching Larks, I made a short intro video—yes I’m in my bathrobe, yes I’ll wear real clothes to visit your class on zoom 📚💙 Let me know if you want to teach Larks!
Also Larks is currently on 40% discount at Ohio with code SNOW along with all Ohio books! ❄️
Also Larks is currently on 40% discount at Ohio with code SNOW along with all Ohio books! ❄️
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ICYMI
since the US v Skrmetti #SCOTUS case is this week, I thought I'd share this 🧵 of excerpts from my essay "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies" (no paywall). the essay provides...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation…
NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…
juliaserano.medium.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:05 PM
ICYMI
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We are open for subs! Flash fiction, CNF, poetry, and art and photography. Can't wait to see your wild, wooly, and brightly feathered creations!
third-street-review.org/submissions/
Submissions
Third Street Review Literally On the Edge Located on the Pacific Ocean in the artists’ colony of Laguna Beach, California, Third Street Review lives on the edge, both literally and figuratively. Ca…
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November 13, 2024 at 11:36 PM
We are open for subs! Flash fiction, CNF, poetry, and art and photography. Can't wait to see your wild, wooly, and brightly feathered creations!
third-street-review.org/submissions/
Haiku attempting to express the feeling of returning to this platform after a few months absence:
my toes grip the lip
blue sky pool full of wild geese
flapping beautifully
(honk)
my toes grip the lip
blue sky pool full of wild geese
flapping beautifully
(honk)
November 26, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Haiku attempting to express the feeling of returning to this platform after a few months absence:
my toes grip the lip
blue sky pool full of wild geese
flapping beautifully
(honk)
my toes grip the lip
blue sky pool full of wild geese
flapping beautifully
(honk)
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My first book What Pecan Light is on sale for $12 at @bullcitypress.com! Y’all this is the time to directly buy from small presses; it has been such a rough year for small presses with SPD closing, and everything else 💙📚📚
What Pecan Light by Han VanderHart (unsigned)
by Han VanderHart ships April 20, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-949344-35-6 Softcover, 55 pages.
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November 25, 2024 at 10:08 PM
My first book What Pecan Light is on sale for $12 at @bullcitypress.com! Y’all this is the time to directly buy from small presses; it has been such a rough year for small presses with SPD closing, and everything else 💙📚📚
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Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom?
@transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:
@transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:
Trans Journalists Association
Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their careers.
www.transjournalists.org
November 21, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom?
@transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:
@transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:
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Ask me how I know! bookshop.org/p/books/runa...
Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me a book by Erin Keane
From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell. In 1970, Erin Keane's mother ran away from home for the first time. She was...
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November 20, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Ask me how I know! bookshop.org/p/books/runa...
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Hi lovelies—something I have been working on is how to pay reviewers at @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social; the goal is to pay all artists we publish.
So you can support Moist here, AND in return receive one of our cool new stickers in the mail:
moistpoetryjournal.com/support-moist/
So you can support Moist here, AND in return receive one of our cool new stickers in the mail:
moistpoetryjournal.com/support-moist/
Support Moist
Moist Poetry Journal is a community-run arts project without institutional affiliation: our readers are our support, and we grow from the ground. Our costs include our website hosting fees, design,…
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November 16, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Hi lovelies—something I have been working on is how to pay reviewers at @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social; the goal is to pay all artists we publish.
So you can support Moist here, AND in return receive one of our cool new stickers in the mail:
moistpoetryjournal.com/support-moist/
So you can support Moist here, AND in return receive one of our cool new stickers in the mail:
moistpoetryjournal.com/support-moist/
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It’s hard to think about love lately, but it's also the only thing worth thinking about. @honeyliterary.bsky.social, which centers marginalized writers & artists, is open for subs til 12/16. As Valentines Editor, I'd love to see any form of artistic expression touching on all types of love. ♥️
November 15, 2024 at 4:07 PM
It’s hard to think about love lately, but it's also the only thing worth thinking about. @honeyliterary.bsky.social, which centers marginalized writers & artists, is open for subs til 12/16. As Valentines Editor, I'd love to see any form of artistic expression touching on all types of love. ♥️
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Doubleback Review publishes prose and poetry that was previously published in now-defunct journals: http://www.doublebackreview.com
- Doubleback Review
www.doublebackreview.com
July 26, 2023 at 3:54 PM
Doubleback Review publishes prose and poetry that was previously published in now-defunct journals: http://www.doublebackreview.com
Today’s Final Four vote tipped by this line by Avery Ferin: “‘Bootylicious’ functions as a narrative that punches upward from a place of fierce sumptuousness—a sense of self-empowerment that women, namely black women, have been coxswained away from for centuries.”
March 27, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Today’s Final Four vote tipped by this line by Avery Ferin: “‘Bootylicious’ functions as a narrative that punches upward from a place of fierce sumptuousness—a sense of self-empowerment that women, namely black women, have been coxswained away from for centuries.”