Kai Coggin (she/her) 🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@kaicoggin.bsky.social
Hot Springs Poet Laureate, Teaching Artist, Master Naturalist, Gay Mama Bear, Host of Wednesday Night Poetry. Editor at SWWIM, TERRAIN.ORG, and RISE UP REVIEW. www.kaicoggin.com
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We are Gathering for Hot Springs National Park! Join us Sunday March 2nd, 12-3pm on Arlington Lawn at the end of Bathhouse Row to show our love and support for Hot Springs National Park, and our Rangers and staff.
February 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
We are Gathering for Hot Springs National Park! Join us Sunday March 2nd, 12-3pm on Arlington Lawn at the end of Bathhouse Row to show our love and support for Hot Springs National Park, and our Rangers and staff.
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If only we'd been warned about all this in advance, say with a meticulously detailed plan whose title was the year they planned to carry it out.
February 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
If only we'd been warned about all this in advance, say with a meticulously detailed plan whose title was the year they planned to carry it out.
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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
February 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
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On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.
February 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.
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This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.
February 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.
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This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.
February 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.
T 🏳️⚧️
February 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
T 🏳️⚧️
Kamala told us this would happen.
February 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Kamala told us this would happen.
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Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.
February 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.
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At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.
February 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.
Still here. Still queer.
February 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Still here. Still queer.
😲 Wow. My poem “I Am My Own Country Now,” published on inauguration day as my act of resistance, was the most read poem of January at ONE ART: a journal of poetry.
If you need a reminder of how to persist in these dark days, you can find it here.
oneartpoetry.com/2025/01/20/i...
If you need a reminder of how to persist in these dark days, you can find it here.
oneartpoetry.com/2025/01/20/i...
February 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
😲 Wow. My poem “I Am My Own Country Now,” published on inauguration day as my act of resistance, was the most read poem of January at ONE ART: a journal of poetry.
If you need a reminder of how to persist in these dark days, you can find it here.
oneartpoetry.com/2025/01/20/i...
If you need a reminder of how to persist in these dark days, you can find it here.
oneartpoetry.com/2025/01/20/i...
Can’t keep up with the absolute insane amount of fresh new hell unfolding each moment. This is generational damage.
February 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Can’t keep up with the absolute insane amount of fresh new hell unfolding each moment. This is generational damage.
This is fucking reprehensible
‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
January 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is fucking reprehensible
Do not go gentle
January 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Do not go gentle
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"My neighbors pushed a lotus back down into the mud
when we were so close to the surface,
when we were at the cusp of breakthrough,
when we could almost see her iridescent petals"
A poem for these times, from @kaicoggin.bsky.social in @oneart.bsky.social
when we were so close to the surface,
when we were at the cusp of breakthrough,
when we could almost see her iridescent petals"
A poem for these times, from @kaicoggin.bsky.social in @oneart.bsky.social
I AM MY OWN COUNTRY NOW by Kai Coggin
I AM MY OWN COUNTRY NOW November 6th, 2024 I am my own country now. I am seated at the very bottom of myself at this time of highs and lows, ebbs and flows, moving through colors of emotion…
oneartpoetry.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"My neighbors pushed a lotus back down into the mud
when we were so close to the surface,
when we were at the cusp of breakthrough,
when we could almost see her iridescent petals"
A poem for these times, from @kaicoggin.bsky.social in @oneart.bsky.social
when we were so close to the surface,
when we were at the cusp of breakthrough,
when we could almost see her iridescent petals"
A poem for these times, from @kaicoggin.bsky.social in @oneart.bsky.social
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Just finished a Hellbender reading/workshop with Jane Hirschfield & got super emotional hearing her read. Her poems are so dear to me. Thanks to Nickole Brown and @kaicoggin.bsky.social for leading a beautiful evening.
January 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Just finished a Hellbender reading/workshop with Jane Hirschfield & got super emotional hearing her read. Her poems are so dear to me. Thanks to Nickole Brown and @kaicoggin.bsky.social for leading a beautiful evening.
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Mother of Other Kingdoms (@kaicoggin.bsky.social)
Coggin’s poems paint a detailed picture of life with her “more-than-human children.” I love the space her poems make for mothering beyond the biological: “It’s not that I can’t have children / It’s that I already do.” @smallharborpub.bsky.social 5/
Coggin’s poems paint a detailed picture of life with her “more-than-human children.” I love the space her poems make for mothering beyond the biological: “It’s not that I can’t have children / It’s that I already do.” @smallharborpub.bsky.social 5/
December 30, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Mother of Other Kingdoms (@kaicoggin.bsky.social)
Coggin’s poems paint a detailed picture of life with her “more-than-human children.” I love the space her poems make for mothering beyond the biological: “It’s not that I can’t have children / It’s that I already do.” @smallharborpub.bsky.social 5/
Coggin’s poems paint a detailed picture of life with her “more-than-human children.” I love the space her poems make for mothering beyond the biological: “It’s not that I can’t have children / It’s that I already do.” @smallharborpub.bsky.social 5/
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Trust your anger.
It is a demand for love.
—Natalie Diaz & Christian Campbell
It is a demand for love.
—Natalie Diaz & Christian Campbell
November 29, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Trust your anger.
It is a demand for love.
—Natalie Diaz & Christian Campbell
It is a demand for love.
—Natalie Diaz & Christian Campbell
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hey hi bluesky
you may also know me from this post ::
you may also know me from this post ::
November 24, 2024 at 7:02 PM
hey hi bluesky
you may also know me from this post ::
you may also know me from this post ::
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"How we stand here is important, how we breathe."
Canadian writer Madeleine Thien donated the entirety of her $25,000 Writers' Trust of Canada prize to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Lebanese Red Cross and the Woodcock Fund.
Canadian writer Madeleine Thien donated the entirety of her $25,000 Writers' Trust of Canada prize to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Lebanese Red Cross and the Woodcock Fund.
November 23, 2024 at 11:17 AM
"How we stand here is important, how we breathe."
Canadian writer Madeleine Thien donated the entirety of her $25,000 Writers' Trust of Canada prize to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Lebanese Red Cross and the Woodcock Fund.
Canadian writer Madeleine Thien donated the entirety of her $25,000 Writers' Trust of Canada prize to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Lebanese Red Cross and the Woodcock Fund.
I’ve raised 4 generations of Luna moths since April & released over 150 beauties into the wild night. In late October, my 62 cocoons decided “nope” & are overwintering, meaning they’ll just hang out in their sleeping bags until spring. I make sure they still wiggle every couple weeks. 💚#naturalist
November 22, 2024 at 11:59 PM
I’ve raised 4 generations of Luna moths since April & released over 150 beauties into the wild night. In late October, my 62 cocoons decided “nope” & are overwintering, meaning they’ll just hang out in their sleeping bags until spring. I make sure they still wiggle every couple weeks. 💚#naturalist
I’m so gay, I drink pre-workout to chop firewood. 🪵 🪓 🔥
November 20, 2024 at 4:23 PM
I’m so gay, I drink pre-workout to chop firewood. 🪵 🪓 🔥
Pincushion moss. Such a gorgeous little variegated love, like a tiny globe, a world I would live in.
#moss #nature #naturalist
#moss #nature #naturalist
November 18, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Pincushion moss. Such a gorgeous little variegated love, like a tiny globe, a world I would live in.
#moss #nature #naturalist
#moss #nature #naturalist