Molly McCully Brown
@mmccullybrown.bsky.social
Poet. Essayist. Educator. "Places I've Taken My Body" & "The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded" Co-author "In the Field Between Us" w Susannah Nevison. Editor in Chief @ Image Journal. http://mollymccullybrown.com
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It was “NO” yesterday.
It’s “NO” today.
And it’ll be “NO” when it gets to the House.
I’m not voting for something that forces millions of Americans to choose between seeing a doctor and putting food on their table.
It’s “NO” today.
And it’ll be “NO” when it gets to the House.
I’m not voting for something that forces millions of Americans to choose between seeing a doctor and putting food on their table.
Senate passes shutdown-ending deal
Senate passes shutdown-ending deal
The House could clear the package for President Donald Trump’s signature by Wednesday.
dlvr.it
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
It was “NO” yesterday.
It’s “NO” today.
And it’ll be “NO” when it gets to the House.
I’m not voting for something that forces millions of Americans to choose between seeing a doctor and putting food on their table.
It’s “NO” today.
And it’ll be “NO” when it gets to the House.
I’m not voting for something that forces millions of Americans to choose between seeing a doctor and putting food on their table.
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Ellen Bryant Voigt—poet and founder of the first low-residency MFA program—transformed American poetry and the way it’s taught. Catherine Barnett, @victoriachang.bsky.social, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and @meghanor.bsky.social pay tribute to a singular mentor. yalereview.org/article/trib...
Remembering Ellen Bryant Voigt
Catherine Barnett, Victoria Chang, Meghan O’Rourke, and Carl Phillips remember the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt.
yalereview.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ellen Bryant Voigt—poet and founder of the first low-residency MFA program—transformed American poetry and the way it’s taught. Catherine Barnett, @victoriachang.bsky.social, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and @meghanor.bsky.social pay tribute to a singular mentor. yalereview.org/article/trib...
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Yesterday we received word that the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) within Dept of Ed (DoEd) was gutted--right now we believe there is no one or nearly no one left. But what does it mean? 1/11
October 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Yesterday we received word that the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) within Dept of Ed (DoEd) was gutted--right now we believe there is no one or nearly no one left. But what does it mean? 1/11
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I don't know how else to tell you this: generative AI, the dismantling of Dept of Ed, defunding science, MAHA, banned books. They're of a piece. They're trying to disenfranchise you of your brain. Keep thinking.
October 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I don't know how else to tell you this: generative AI, the dismantling of Dept of Ed, defunding science, MAHA, banned books. They're of a piece. They're trying to disenfranchise you of your brain. Keep thinking.
Crucial writing from @bethmacy.bsky.social :
@bethmacy.bsky.social recalls how the collapse of local journalism can decimate a community’s sense of trust.
How the Collapse of Local Journalism Led to the Erosion of Community Trust
My family had once been proud of me. In March 2011, my sister Terry went to the trouble of stuffing Post‑it notes into every issue of O, the Oprah Magazine in the checkout line of her grocery store…
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October 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Crucial writing from @bethmacy.bsky.social :
Sweet old hound in the very last of the summer light. Working very hard to attend to beauty, not in denial of the horror of this moment, but as a reminder to stay resolute in fighting for everything good in the world.
September 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Sweet old hound in the very last of the summer light. Working very hard to attend to beauty, not in denial of the horror of this moment, but as a reminder to stay resolute in fighting for everything good in the world.
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Are we just an RFK hate site now?
www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/09/07/w...
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Week 33 Updates - Disability Rights Watch
Chaos hits pharmacies as CDC's delayed approval of covid vax causes confusion, barriers to access. Covid surged to the highest levels in the US since the 2021 Delta variant--in response, CDC stopped t...
www.disability-rights-watch.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Are we just an RFK hate site now?
www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/09/07/w...
www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/09/07/w...
Loved writing this little piece about how to conceptualize the value of a creative writing degree for @pw.org :
In our latest issue, poet and essayist Molly McCully Brown unpacks the value of a creative writing degree, “Think of it in early readers accumulated: The one you’ll e-mail for the next thirty years with your earliest drafts and subject headings like ‘This may be very bad.’” at.pw.org/ValueOfADegree
September 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Loved writing this little piece about how to conceptualize the value of a creative writing degree for @pw.org :
YES! We’re all so lucky we’re about to get this brilliant, urgent, expansive book from @zibrak.bsky.social :
Here's what I'm up to these days. SO EXCITED to write this book and talk about how the history of positive thinking in wellness impacts us all. Grateful for my agent @babedylan.bsky.social and my new editor Maria, who rocks.
September 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
YES! We’re all so lucky we’re about to get this brilliant, urgent, expansive book from @zibrak.bsky.social :
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The devastating flu epidemic of 1918 was particularly dangerous for young adults, for people in their prime, who died by the millions. But RFK Jr. is too stupid to know that. Link below.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics.
RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
August 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The devastating flu epidemic of 1918 was particularly dangerous for young adults, for people in their prime, who died by the millions. But RFK Jr. is too stupid to know that. Link below.
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Honestly I’ve spent a lot of my adult life watching Stephen in all his brilliant iterations. My heart breaks. But @stephencolbert.bsky.social go back to @thedailyshow.com!!
Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.
July 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Honestly I’ve spent a lot of my adult life watching Stephen in all his brilliant iterations. My heart breaks. But @stephencolbert.bsky.social go back to @thedailyshow.com!!
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“When an ethnic group has nowhere to go and is constantly displaced from one so-called safe zone to another, relentlessly bombed and starved, ethnic cleansing can morph into genocide.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“When an ethnic group has nowhere to go and is constantly displaced from one so-called safe zone to another, relentlessly bombed and starved, ethnic cleansing can morph into genocide.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
The summer issue of Image Journal is live today & full of so many gems, including a last poem from the late, extraordinary @marthasilano.bsky.social. My editorial essay, on taxonomies of grief is shot through with gratitude for the solace this work provides. I'm honored to share it all:
Taxonomies of Grief - Image Journal
The world warms up, the prairifire crabapple trees begin to drop their blossoms in almost technicolor puddles on the sidewalks in my neighborhood and, as if in concert, the base of my neck gets heavy ...
imagejournal.org
July 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The summer issue of Image Journal is live today & full of so many gems, including a last poem from the late, extraordinary @marthasilano.bsky.social. My editorial essay, on taxonomies of grief is shot through with gratitude for the solace this work provides. I'm honored to share it all:
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"We need the storm, the whirlwind, & the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; & its crimes against God & man must be proclaimed & denounced."
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
The speech shows the moral outrage that powered the abolition movement and made it so threatening to Southern slave holders, but also to anyone willing to tolerate or ignore slavery.
teachingamericanhistory.org
July 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"We need the storm, the whirlwind, & the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; & its crimes against God & man must be proclaimed & denounced."
This incredible, generous, accessible resource from @zibrak.bsky.social is officially live today! A primer on exactly the kind of artistic and cultural history those in power are most intent on silencing and erasing right now, this series is smart, approachable, and full of wonder. Check it out!
The free trailer of A LITERARY TOUR OF THE US is up on the Great Courses Plus. For those who need a re-up on their US history knowledge, booklovers with little time, roadtrippers, culture hounds, kids and boomers. I put so much of what I know in here for everyone -- and the tea is HOT.
A Literary Tour of the United States
Journey from sea to shining sea to discover the richness and diversity of American writing in this deeply researched literary road trip.
www.thegreatcoursesplus.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This incredible, generous, accessible resource from @zibrak.bsky.social is officially live today! A primer on exactly the kind of artistic and cultural history those in power are most intent on silencing and erasing right now, this series is smart, approachable, and full of wonder. Check it out!
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You guys should support our statewide LGBTQ advocacy org and get this sick ass hat
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June 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
You guys should support our statewide LGBTQ advocacy org and get this sick ass hat
www.wyomingequality.org/store/p/new-...
www.wyomingequality.org/store/p/new-...
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“Anyone who writes is a seeker. You look at a blank page and you’re seeking. The role is assigned to us and never removed. I think this is an unbelievable blessing. I mean, to be seventy-eight years old and still looking—this amazes me.” —Louise Glück buff.ly/lgqE3GU
May 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“Anyone who writes is a seeker. You look at a blank page and you’re seeking. The role is assigned to us and never removed. I think this is an unbelievable blessing. I mean, to be seventy-eight years old and still looking—this amazes me.” —Louise Glück buff.ly/lgqE3GU
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“I am part of a support group made up of people who’ve gone through periods of wanting to die and who, like me, are constantly working through how to actively engage with a world that can feel relentlessly untenable.” Hanif Abdurraqib on the uses of despair. nyer.cm/RWqO9fW
May 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“I am part of a support group made up of people who’ve gone through periods of wanting to die and who, like me, are constantly working through how to actively engage with a world that can feel relentlessly untenable.” Hanif Abdurraqib on the uses of despair. nyer.cm/RWqO9fW
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I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.—W. S. Merwin
May 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.—W. S. Merwin
Whatever else is true, this place was wildly beautiful. Always at home back south.
May 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Whatever else is true, this place was wildly beautiful. Always at home back south.
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Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is jmetraux@motherjones.com.
April 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is jmetraux@motherjones.com.
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"A trick of climate change, or the trick of the effects of climate change, is that some of the biggest devastation is unseen by most of us." @laurenmarkham.bsky.social in conversation with @jennitaur.bsky.social for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
Building a Nest | Los Angeles Review of Books
Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.
lareviewofbooks.org
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"A trick of climate change, or the trick of the effects of climate change, is that some of the biggest devastation is unseen by most of us." @laurenmarkham.bsky.social in conversation with @jennitaur.bsky.social for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
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Amid mounting attacks on higher education, @meghanor.bsky.social argues for a magazine—and a university—that keep the pilot flame of independent thought alive. New today on TYR.
yalereview.org/article/megh...
yalereview.org/article/megh...
Meghan O’Rourke: The Work of a Little Magazine as Higher Education…
Amid Trump’s attacks on higher education, making a space for literature and the arts is more important than ever.
yalereview.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Amid mounting attacks on higher education, @meghanor.bsky.social argues for a magazine—and a university—that keep the pilot flame of independent thought alive. New today on TYR.
yalereview.org/article/megh...
yalereview.org/article/megh...