Millie Tullis
@millietullis.bsky.social
she/they / poet / EIC Psaltery & Lyre / educator / researcher / folklorist / https://millietullis.com/
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Good afternoon:
Can anyone please help me make this goal by this evening? I still need $200 for bills. PayPal and Venmo are in the quote tweet below. Thanks so much.
Can anyone please help me make this goal by this evening? I still need $200 for bills. PayPal and Venmo are in the quote tweet below. Thanks so much.
October 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Good afternoon:
Can anyone please help me make this goal by this evening? I still need $200 for bills. PayPal and Venmo are in the quote tweet below. Thanks so much.
Can anyone please help me make this goal by this evening? I still need $200 for bills. PayPal and Venmo are in the quote tweet below. Thanks so much.
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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Could anyone please help with either or these? I’m really hoping to make this goal today. Grateful for any help. #MutualAid #HelpSky
October 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Could anyone please help with either or these? I’m really hoping to make this goal today. Grateful for any help. #MutualAid #HelpSky
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Act so there is no use in a center.
-- Gertrude Stein
-- Gertrude Stein
October 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Act so there is no use in a center.
-- Gertrude Stein
-- Gertrude Stein
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if you’re in the mood to read my short story about the mystification of love and seaweed, here’s "Call Us Not Weeds," published at Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social
with special thanks to EIC Millie Tullis @millietullis.bsky.social
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with special thanks to EIC Millie Tullis @millietullis.bsky.social
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![a photo of seaweed, golden green, wet and forked. [excerpt: Under the featherlike Desmarestia viridis, Horatia had dashed off: 'Found between the tide-marks. A foxy colour, soon green when kept from water. Thus exposed, it becomes soft and slippery, but becomes itself again when dry. I believe it is my favorite.']](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:radq5ea3mto23ckpk7qe4j4v/bafkreicakkg53c2ydma5r4j6bwjfluer5egtit2tvt2ha2y37tmg6xe2du@jpeg)
October 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
if you’re in the mood to read my short story about the mystification of love and seaweed, here’s "Call Us Not Weeds," published at Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social
with special thanks to EIC Millie Tullis @millietullis.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/13/c...
with special thanks to EIC Millie Tullis @millietullis.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/13/c...
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Millie Tullis can't tell you a thing about her band director's class or the lessons they learned there, today at Villain Era!
Two Poems by Millie Tullis
My Director Once, my high school band director threw a metal music stand across the room. Not at any particular student,but not away from us either. My director loved teaching symphony, hated the marching band. The band director my director replaced——who had loved marching band almost above all else—stepped down after marrying an 18-year-old former student. The year before that, …
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September 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Millie Tullis can't tell you a thing about her band director's class or the lessons they learned there, today at Villain Era!
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The link in your post isn't working for me, but this link does work for me: www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/07...
Sundress Announces the Release of Delicate Machinery: Poems on Survival & Healing - Sundress Publications
Sundress Publications announces the release of Delicate Machinery: Poems on Survival & Healing, edited by Erin Elizabeth Smith. Here, thirty-three authors share their experiences with sexual trauma, e...
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July 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The link in your post isn't working for me, but this link does work for me: www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/07...
I am so moved to have my poem, "housesitting for a stranger in spring," featured in DELICATE MACHINERY, alongside so so many poets I admire. You can download and read the entire anthology for free! Here: www.sundresspublications.com/.../delicate...
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July 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I am so moved to have my poem, "housesitting for a stranger in spring," featured in DELICATE MACHINERY, alongside so so many poets I admire. You can download and read the entire anthology for free! Here: www.sundresspublications.com/.../delicate...
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Really need help, having a rotten day, and really would like not to have to worry about this. If you can help, please do.
Good morning—I’m in urgent need of $460 ($500 - $40 received last night) for June rent shortfall. I’ve been posting for over a month about losing teaching work with registration issues. I really need this help today, so if you can help, please do. Thanks.
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June 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Really need help, having a rotten day, and really would like not to have to worry about this. If you can help, please do.
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May 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Gratitude to editors @millietullis.bsky.social and
@megmcdermott92@bsky.social a
@psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for giving space to this review of Justin Lacour's marvelous chapbook, LITTLE MOTORS: SOME LOVE LETTERS.
@megmcdermott92@bsky.social a
@psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for giving space to this review of Justin Lacour's marvelous chapbook, LITTLE MOTORS: SOME LOVE LETTERS.
"Take a trip in these little motors that hum. The little letter poems in Justin Lacour’s chapbook are epic in their smallness, epic in their playfulness, epic in their gravity."
@stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social reviews "Little motors: some love letters" by Justin Lacour
@stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social reviews "Little motors: some love letters" by Justin Lacour
Book Review: “Little motors: some love letters” by Justin Lacour
Review by Stephanie K. Merrill
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April 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Gratitude to editors @millietullis.bsky.social and
@megmcdermott92@bsky.social a
@psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for giving space to this review of Justin Lacour's marvelous chapbook, LITTLE MOTORS: SOME LOVE LETTERS.
@megmcdermott92@bsky.social a
@psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for giving space to this review of Justin Lacour's marvelous chapbook, LITTLE MOTORS: SOME LOVE LETTERS.
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"They say the mind of a saint is like a room / where flies wander in"
"The Fly" by @sallyohbrien.bsky.social
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"The Fly" by @sallyohbrien.bsky.social
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The Fly
by Sally O’Brien
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March 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"They say the mind of a saint is like a room / where flies wander in"
"The Fly" by @sallyohbrien.bsky.social
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"The Fly" by @sallyohbrien.bsky.social
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Are you unable to attend AWP? Are you filled with the usual sense of FOMO reading everyone's "where I'll be" posters? Come join us at Not at AWP (NAWP!) for our third annual open mic!! This Thursday at 7:30PM EST
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March 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Are you unable to attend AWP? Are you filled with the usual sense of FOMO reading everyone's "where I'll be" posters? Come join us at Not at AWP (NAWP!) for our third annual open mic!! This Thursday at 7:30PM EST
www.eventbrite.com/e/nawps-thir...
www.eventbrite.com/e/nawps-thir...
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Writers over at @porcupinelit.bsky.social are currently being targeted by the MAGA crowd.
Read and share the work of teachers. We can use all the support we can get!
Teachers, send us your work. We will take good care of you.
www.porcupineliterary.com
Read and share the work of teachers. We can use all the support we can get!
Teachers, send us your work. We will take good care of you.
www.porcupineliterary.com
Home | Porcupine Literary
Porcupine Literary is a journal by and for teachers.
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March 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Writers over at @porcupinelit.bsky.social are currently being targeted by the MAGA crowd.
Read and share the work of teachers. We can use all the support we can get!
Teachers, send us your work. We will take good care of you.
www.porcupineliterary.com
Read and share the work of teachers. We can use all the support we can get!
Teachers, send us your work. We will take good care of you.
www.porcupineliterary.com
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Friday Links is UP! Featuring @ellereeve.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @millietullis.bsky.social @toley.bsky.social and MORE!
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Friday Links: Poets, Friends, and Cranks Edition
"The National Anthem vampires at the blood. / I am a uniform. Not brusque. I bray" Gwendolyn Brooks, "Riders To The Blood-Red Wrath"
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February 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Friday Links is UP! Featuring @ellereeve.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @millietullis.bsky.social @toley.bsky.social and MORE!
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Everything you guys do — @megmcdermott92.bsky.social and @millietullis.bsky.social and @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social — is so beautiful, it lifts me right out of my sadness. Need you more than ever 💙📚
"I won’t tell the golden gods about my mother. How she knows none of their names.
How she pours her faith on flames of worry. Extinguishes any doubt of her religion."
Another poem I really enjoyed reading during the submissions period & talking about with the @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social crew!
How she pours her faith on flames of worry. Extinguishes any doubt of her religion."
Another poem I really enjoyed reading during the submissions period & talking about with the @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social crew!
"I don’t want to tell my mother about Gilgamesh, have her question her religion."
Tammy Greenwood's "Her Religion"
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Tammy Greenwood's "Her Religion"
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February 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Everything you guys do — @megmcdermott92.bsky.social and @millietullis.bsky.social and @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social — is so beautiful, it lifts me right out of my sadness. Need you more than ever 💙📚
Southern poets! Apply and share the call:
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Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Literary Arts | South Arts
The Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Literary Arts support, acknowledge, and celebrate writers in our nine-state region with $80,000 in awards. The genre for the 2025 cycle is Poetry.
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January 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Southern poets! Apply and share the call:
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"My mind works like a ‘what-if’ generating machine, so often I find myself bubbling over, like Strega Nona’s pasta pot, with recalled details and odd scraps of language....”
Carolyn Oliver talks to @millietullis.bsky.social about "The Alcestis Machine"
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Carolyn Oliver talks to @millietullis.bsky.social about "The Alcestis Machine"
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“This machine, work of her hands”: An Interview with Carolyn Oliver on “The Alcestis Machine”
Interviewed by Millie Tullis
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January 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"My mind works like a ‘what-if’ generating machine, so often I find myself bubbling over, like Strega Nona’s pasta pot, with recalled details and odd scraps of language....”
Carolyn Oliver talks to @millietullis.bsky.social about "The Alcestis Machine"
psalteryandlyre.org?p=6137
Carolyn Oliver talks to @millietullis.bsky.social about "The Alcestis Machine"
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(If you like that poem, I talk a lot about it in a podcast episode I recorded with @millietullis.bsky.social & the lovely folks at Poetry: Medicine for the Soul!)
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A tapestry of gaps and the role of the body: a conversation with Megan McDermott and Millie Tullis | Poetry Medicine for the Soul
Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share and examine their work, produced and moderated by John Gillespie. Episode 6 features Megan McDermott and Millie Tullis. Megan reads “...
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December 31, 2024 at 3:24 PM
(If you like that poem, I talk a lot about it in a podcast episode I recorded with @millietullis.bsky.social & the lovely folks at Poetry: Medicine for the Soul!)
poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/episodes/meg...
poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/episodes/meg...
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Louise Glück ♥️
December 19, 2024 at 5:16 AM
Louise Glück ♥️
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Regence Blue Cross of Utah is denying chemotherapy to my friend, Raven Haymond. She is scheduled to receive Perjecta, which is the standard of care for HER2+ targeted cancers next week
You can call the ethics hotline: (888) 384-3577
email: eco@cambiahealth.com
We are also seeking media contacts
You can call the ethics hotline: (888) 384-3577
email: eco@cambiahealth.com
We are also seeking media contacts
December 6, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Regence Blue Cross of Utah is denying chemotherapy to my friend, Raven Haymond. She is scheduled to receive Perjecta, which is the standard of care for HER2+ targeted cancers next week
You can call the ethics hotline: (888) 384-3577
email: eco@cambiahealth.com
We are also seeking media contacts
You can call the ethics hotline: (888) 384-3577
email: eco@cambiahealth.com
We are also seeking media contacts
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"I cradled it on the gentian blue lip / of the mug, resting my eyes on brightness."
Laura Reece Hogan's "Chilean Navel Orange on Top of Cup as Divine Word."
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Laura Reece Hogan's "Chilean Navel Orange on Top of Cup as Divine Word."
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Chilean Navel Orange on Top of Cup as Divine Word
by Laura Reece Hogan
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December 16, 2024 at 2:03 PM
"I cradled it on the gentian blue lip / of the mug, resting my eyes on brightness."
Laura Reece Hogan's "Chilean Navel Orange on Top of Cup as Divine Word."
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Laura Reece Hogan's "Chilean Navel Orange on Top of Cup as Divine Word."
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“I look; morning to night I am never done with looking.”
Mary Oliver, “Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?”
Mary Oliver, “Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?”
December 15, 2024 at 9:38 PM
“I look; morning to night I am never done with looking.”
Mary Oliver, “Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?”
Mary Oliver, “Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?”
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"It could be looser: only one / earth smell and the next."
"Rest as Currency" by Lauren Camp
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"Rest as Currency" by Lauren Camp
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Rest as Currency
by Lauren Camp
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December 9, 2024 at 12:58 PM
"It could be looser: only one / earth smell and the next."
"Rest as Currency" by Lauren Camp
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"Rest as Currency" by Lauren Camp
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It was a joy to talk about poems, patriarchy, polygamy, and The Book of Ruth with @megmcdermott92.bsky.social! Check out the podcast:
poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/episodes/meg...
poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/episodes/meg...
A tapestry of gaps and the role of the body: a conversation with Megan McDermott and Millie Tullis | Poetry Medicine for the Soul
Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share and examine their work, produced and moderated by John Gillespie. Episode 6 features Megan McDermott and Millie Tullis. Megan reads “...
poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:23 PM
It was a joy to talk about poems, patriarchy, polygamy, and The Book of Ruth with @megmcdermott92.bsky.social! Check out the podcast:
poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/episodes/meg...
poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/episodes/meg...