Jennifer Militello
@jennifermilitello.bsky.social
poet & memoirist 🌎🌻✨📚
Poet Laureate of New Hampshire
author of THE PACT (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books) and KNOCK WOOD (Dzanc Books)
https://jennifermilitello.com/
Poet Laureate of New Hampshire
author of THE PACT (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books) and KNOCK WOOD (Dzanc Books)
https://jennifermilitello.com/
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this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this is quite the detail
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The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
Rainer Maria Rilke, Evening; tr. Stephen Mitchell
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
Rainer Maria Rilke, Evening; tr. Stephen Mitchell
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
Rainer Maria Rilke, Evening; tr. Stephen Mitchell
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
Rainer Maria Rilke, Evening; tr. Stephen Mitchell
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Book Cover of the Day:
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Book Cover of the Day:
a little extra shine last night
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
a little extra shine last night
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Two poems by Jennifer Militello badlilies.uk/jennifer-mil...
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Two poems by Jennifer Militello badlilies.uk/jennifer-mil...
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Poets, start your wild, precious engines.
'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Poets, start your wild, precious engines.
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"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
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October 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
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NH poet laureate Jennifer Militello, an open reading, and an open musical Interlude... frostplace.org/sundays-in-t...
October 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
NH poet laureate Jennifer Militello, an open reading, and an open musical Interlude... frostplace.org/sundays-in-t...
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"If you want to write...you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling...You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfume."
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
October 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"If you want to write...you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling...You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfume."
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Identifying the Pathogen is available for preorder from @tupelopress.bsky.social —this brand new hybrid poetic fictiony set of lab notebooks ! 📚🩻💖
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Identifying the Pathogen
A hybrid collection blending historical research and contemporary essays to consider the nature of oppressive marriage and gender inequity. Composed as a lab notebook recording various surgeries, auto...
press.uchicago.edu
October 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Identifying the Pathogen is available for preorder from @tupelopress.bsky.social —this brand new hybrid poetic fictiony set of lab notebooks ! 📚🩻💖
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Very much looking forward to my next @arvonfoundation.bsky.social class next month. Come along!
September 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Very much looking forward to my next @arvonfoundation.bsky.social class next month. Come along!
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Congratulations to Jennifer Militello, NH's Poet Laureate, for being awarded a Poet Laureate Fellowship prize from the Academy of American Poets!
We're honored to host her for our final installment of "Sundays in the Barn with Bob" on Sunday, 8/24, starting at 3pm.
poets.org/academy-amer....
We're honored to host her for our final installment of "Sundays in the Barn with Bob" on Sunday, 8/24, starting at 3pm.
poets.org/academy-amer....
August 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Congratulations to Jennifer Militello, NH's Poet Laureate, for being awarded a Poet Laureate Fellowship prize from the Academy of American Poets!
We're honored to host her for our final installment of "Sundays in the Barn with Bob" on Sunday, 8/24, starting at 3pm.
poets.org/academy-amer....
We're honored to host her for our final installment of "Sundays in the Barn with Bob" on Sunday, 8/24, starting at 3pm.
poets.org/academy-amer....
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TP author Jennifer Militello, Poet Laureate Fellow of New Hampshire, has been selected as one of the American Academy 2025 Poet Laureate Fellows! Congratulations Jennifer!
poets.org/academy-amer...
poets.org/academy-amer...
July 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
TP author Jennifer Militello, Poet Laureate Fellow of New Hampshire, has been selected as one of the American Academy 2025 Poet Laureate Fellows! Congratulations Jennifer!
poets.org/academy-amer...
poets.org/academy-amer...
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
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things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
August 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
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“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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“...if you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven’t even climbed. Thisis a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.”
-- Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey
-- Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey
August 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“...if you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven’t even climbed. Thisis a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.”
-- Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey
-- Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey
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Congrats to all of the Poet Laureate Fellows from the Academy of American Poets!
Thank you to the Academy of American Poets! ❤️❤️❤️
August 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Congrats to all of the Poet Laureate Fellows from the Academy of American Poets!
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
Thank you to the Academy of American Poets! ❤️❤️❤️
August 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Thank you to the Academy of American Poets! ❤️❤️❤️
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"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
July 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
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Paperback books are like velveteen rabbits — ours to be loved and squeezed and read and stuffed into shoulder bags and left in the sun and read and read again until there's nothing left but memories from something real
July 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Paperback books are like velveteen rabbits — ours to be loved and squeezed and read and stuffed into shoulder bags and left in the sun and read and read again until there's nothing left but memories from something real
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It's just a “swarm of fish" following a duck.
July 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It's just a “swarm of fish" following a duck.
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“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.