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Zach Powers
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Author: THE MIGRAINE DIARIES (2026), FIRST COSMIC VELOCITY (2019) & GRAVITY CHANGES (2017). Artistic Director at The Writer’s Center & Poet Lore. zachpowers.com
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How many craft books went into writing my own, THE UNRULY WRITER? At least this many. And now my book is in the process of finding a home, so stay tuned!

Bonus: tiny cat head.
a heap of about 100 books on a reddish couch with a blue blanket (from Ireland!) over the back. You can just see Kirby the cat’s head in the corner.
May 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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A toast to Jimmy! One of my favorite Savannah landmarks is this plaque in the bar at Pinkie Masters where Jimmy Carter once stood to deliver a toast. I was luckily there last week.
A brass plaque featuring President Jimmy Carter in profile with the text “Here stood the president. St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 1978, in tribute to Pinkie Masters.
December 29, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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Lighting design by BlackCat. Tiny cat hat by Kirby.
A black cat named Nushka tinted blue from the TV. Behind him Kirby the Siamese mix cat peeks over Nushka’s head.
December 4, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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Oh hi this is 90% a cat account
Kirby, a siamese mix cat with a white chin, peeks around the edge of a doorframe. A black cat, usually called BlackCat, sits on the counter behind Kirby. Kirby is fucken adorable.
November 15, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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Tracking my apple juice consumption
A bar chart hand drawn on a Quality Inn notepad. The chart is titled “Times I’ve drunk apple juice 2010-2023”. The left bar is labeled “at motels with continental breakfasts” and rises to around 23 on the chart. The right bar is labeled “all other instances” and rises to around 3.
October 27, 2023 at 12:54 PM
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Ah yes, the lone genre of Japanese literature: short novels featuring cats.
A photo of three smaller-than-usual novels on a shelf: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa, Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. All three have a cover illustration featuring a cat.
October 16, 2023 at 12:49 PM
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Kirby the kaiju
Kirby, a Siamese-mix cat, standing on a desk and staring questioningly down at a Godzilla action figure and being generally adorable.
September 28, 2023 at 9:30 PM
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Late night in Berlin
A street at night in Berlin. A silver van is parallel parked. In huge black letters is says “MILFS” on the side. We theorize the bottom line of an E has been removed in an act of essential vandalism.
September 21, 2023 at 11:54 AM
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New Karen Russell novel alert! I became giddier with each sentence of the description. But we have to wait until 2025.
Karen Russell’s THE ANTIDOTE opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, but beneath its own violent histories. The novel follows a “Prairie Witch,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate. The novel is above all a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting—enacting the settler amnesia and willful omissions passed down from generation to generation, and unearthing not only horrors but shimmering possibilities. This gripping Dust Bowl epic echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency…
September 14, 2023 at 12:10 PM
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Saturday morning writing session
A panel from the classic Prince Valiant comic strip featuring Merlin in a purple cloak and pointed cap, hunched over a piles of books with a quill in his right hand.
September 9, 2023 at 2:37 PM
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READ THIS! (I did not buy three copies, this is for work, but I would consider buying three copies)
August 29, 2023 at 6:49 PM
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Morning cat content
Kirby the cat, a siamese mix, reaching his snowshoed paw toward you, while at the same time offering an expression that can only be described as “arms length, fukwit”
August 24, 2023 at 11:52 AM
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In the court of cats
Zach sitting amidst three cats, one curled up on either side and one standing awkwardly on Zach’s lap.
August 20, 2023 at 7:59 PM
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Have you met our furmound, ShyCat?
A cat-like mound of fur contorted into what appears to be a most uncomfortable napping position, yet ShyCat naps nonetheless. ShyCat, still contorted atop a gray char, now with her whole head upside-down. Much fur.
August 11, 2023 at 8:13 PM
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my perfect son
A siamese-mix cat with a docked left ear looking into the camera with his light blue eyes and being generally incredibly handsome.
August 5, 2023 at 11:40 PM
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Bookshop sent me the wrong books, but I appreciate that this was one of them.
Cover of the book MISTAKES WERE MADE.
August 5, 2023 at 5:18 PM
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Guess this is a cat account now. Kirby with an excellent face.
A siamese mix cat slightly squinting and with one tooth sticking out after sleeping on his mouth.
August 1, 2023 at 12:50 AM
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Post-storm irony
A huge tree limb half-fallen in front of a house. A yard sign in front of the limb reads “save our tree canopy”
July 30, 2023 at 2:29 PM
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Fangz
A siamese mix cat flopped on a couch with one fang displayed prominently.
July 29, 2023 at 6:55 PM
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Trying to figure out what content to share over here and this if def it.
A Godzilla action figure holds hands with a Scarlet Spider action figure
July 28, 2023 at 3:44 PM