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Morgen Jahnke
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Writer, autistic mama, Saskatoon moon watcher. Nerd for nature, poetry, politics. Poetry: Grain, Prairie Fire (forthcoming)
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Now that's it's officially fall, here's a fall poem I had published in the Summer 2025 issue (Vol. 52.4) of Grain.
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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this is my #1 advice to grad students: anyone can reproduce jargon; the bigger flex is being able to make the argument in straightforward prose. clarity is indicative of deep thought and engagement. even chatGPT can write word salad.
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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It's amazing how a few weeks away from a poem makes you see the cracks in it. Time is the best editor. Patience is better than any craft book.
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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icymi, wrote about how to not understand (but maybe enjoy!) John Ashbery's first book *Some Trees*. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/getting-co...
Getting Confused by John Ashbery
How to read his first book, *Some Trees*
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.

Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

(Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*.

Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.

Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
May 21, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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A very happy birthday to the ever-beguiling and brilliant William Blake, born #onthisday in 1757.

Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w... #otd
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Read what Carcanet's Managing Director, Michael Schmidt had to say about 'ChatGPT and the modern poet' in a recent article published in BookBrunch:
www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...
ChatGPT and the modern poet
BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine
www.bookbrunch.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Being a writer is like surfing. Always hoping to catch the perfect wave, but most of your time will be spent paddling against the tide or just floating, waiting, eyes on the horizon while you watch other people riding their highs into the sunset. But you have to love the work more than the ride.
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Amnesty International condemns Alberta’s use of Notwithstanding Clause to prop up anti-trans policies

amnesty.ca/press-releas...
Amnesty International Canada condemns Alberta's use of Notwithstanding Clause to prop up anti-trans policies
In response to the Government of Alberta’s use of notwithstanding clause for the second time in a span of one month to protect a trio of laws that affect
amnesty.ca
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This sounds amazing! I’d be there if I didn’t have an MFA poetry session at the exact same time!
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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9 Nov 2025 --Heartbreaking op-ed in Teen Vogue by Katelyn Burns --"Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better" @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Hey yo here’s some blue meat from me on yesterday’s election results.
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
I have terrible, terrible news for red America
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary unpacks the 2025 elections.
www.sfgate.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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I am trying something in November. National novel-reading month, basically. It is the PERFECT month for reading (at least in the Western hemisphere).

naomialderman.substack.com/p/november-i...
November is for reading
or: a month of sheer luxurious intellectual pleasure
naomialderman.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Please check your kid’s Halloween candy tonight. Apparently requests for a synopsis are being hidden in candy bars.
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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More than 460 people were reportedly killed in a North Darfur hospital that was overrun by Sudanese paramilitary forces, the WHO said
WHO Says Over 460 People Reportedly Killed At A Hospital Taken By Sudanese Paramilitary Forces
The head of the U.N. health agency says more than 460 people were reportedly killed in a hospital in Sudan's western Darfur region.
www.huffpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I wouldn’t tell anyone I’d won The Lottery but there would be signs…

The signs: [getting stoned to death]
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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A haunted house but every room is just another person whose name you should definitely know by now
October 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Hare riding a hound with a trained snail of prey
Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390
September 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Truss bridge at Dorothy, Alberta.

📷iPhone 16 Pro
October 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM