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Jessica Lee McMillan

@jessicaleemcmillan.com

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Poet, teacher, music nerd | Chapbook: 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐃𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐧 via Pinhole Poetry Spring, 2026 | Poems in CV2, The Malahat Review, QWERTY, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, The New Quarterly. | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉🌻 | www.jessicaleemcmillan.com

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BrooklynVegan @brooklynvegan.bsky.social · 3h

Courtney Barnett is back with her first new music since 2023. Hear "Stay In Your Lane" www.brooklynvegan.com/courtney-bar...

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 11h

Joy — like music, like love — is one of those entirely unnecessary miracles of consciousness that give meaning to survival with its bright allegiance to the most alive part of us www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/04/m...

A Defense of Joy

One of the most important things to have learned in life is that choosing joy in a world rife with reasons for despair is a countercultural act of courage and resistance, choosing it not despite th…

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BrooklynVegan @brooklynvegan.bsky.social · 1d

Peaches announces 1st album in 10 years & tour with Model/Actriz: hear "Not In Your Mouth None of Your Business" www.brooklynvegan.com/peaches-anno...

Peaches announces 1st album in 10 years & tour with Model/Actriz: hear "Not In Your Mouth None of Your Business"

'No Lube So Rude' will be out in 2026

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 1d

Source: Charitie Ropati, Intersectional Environmentalist, and Feminist reporting on Typhoon Halong ravaging western Alaska

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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 6d

October 8th is one of my favourite days because this one time on October 8th - I went to Christopher Columbus' birthplace and installed a plaque on his home, claiming the property on behalf of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 2d

#HappyThanksgiving🇨🇦

Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 3d

And I can’t exclude this other favourite from the album.
#FarisBadwan has a swoonworthy voice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVUo...

Primary Colours

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 3d

From their second album #TheHorrors “Mirror’s Image"
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#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #MyRockNRoll

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 3d

They are perennials. If these are the succulent-like flowers up the street from me that end up looking like deflated garbage bags by winter. They pop up again come spring. I think the city planted them over a decade ago and they are indeed a mystery.

Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 4d

Had me laughing out loud.

“Reasons to seek revenge on parallel universes” by Jamie Anderson in Room 48.2

Reasons to seek revenge on parallel universes
JAMIE ANDERSON

I am always hungry I am always
eating. I spilled a can of wood stain
on my laptop, but it still works and I get high
off mahogany every time I write an email.
I unlace my blue paisley blouse, want to be
bold, want to be enveloped. Something in me
is scrambled. There's a world where l'm an athlete-
a soccer player, maybe, or a ping pong champion.
That person probably uses a keyboard protector.
On the bus today, I watched a man eat
a tub of butter pecan Häagen-Dazs
without a spoon, tongue-fucking the container,
sprawled over a seat-and-a-half. I wanted
to throw up. I wanted some ice cream.

Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 4d

Another great single following “The Dictator” with “The Manifesto” by #Gorillaz

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Gorillaz - The Manifesto ft. Trueno & Proof (Official Visualiser)

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 5d

AIDAN CHAFE is a poet and educator. His poems have appeared in CV2, EVENT, The Fiddlehead and PRISM international. He lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver).

Find two of Chafe's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 5d

My new writing book c/o Dragonscales Journals. It’s resting atop Bride of Frankenstein (a nice closeup of Elsa Lancaster). www.facebook.com/dragonscales...

Cover of poster for Creature from the Black Lagoon on notebook. The cover has text sprawled above and stills below. Central image is green, aquatic creature holding woman in 50s bathing suit.

Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 5d

Beautifully filmed movie.

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 7d

And the horrors continue: Cory Doctorow explains how corporate tech enshittifies apps to skirt the law.

How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law

The death of competition spells doom for regulation. Competition is an essential component of effective regulation, for two reasons: First, competition keeps the companies within a sector from all …

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 7d

Power tune of the month. Appropriately the first station I heard this electrifying band.

“I Got Heaven” by #MannequinPussy. #KEXP

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Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven (Live on KEXP)

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George Murray @bookninja.bsky.social · 9d

There's NewPoetry today from Adam Sol (@adamsol.bsky.social).

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Climate Grief Sandwich

Adam Sol It takes seven gallons of oil to make a tire, which means it’s pointless to beg you to love me like you used to. I am wearing thin, like an old tire haha, when the road gets cold I …

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 9d

Yes, that's awesome! It’s happened a few times in fall, no matter when the poems were accepted or the publication schedule & after slower preceding months. I guess this year too. I suddenly have about 10 pieces coming out after a smattering throughout the year. Fall magic✨🍂

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 9d

Congrats! I find that happens sometimes in the fall?

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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 21d

Argh! Yes, if you search Outlaw Alice Lebow, it should come up to watch here.

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 11d

Elvira share such a gem in this interview about Vincent Price and his recipe for dishwasher fish, as seen on Carson. Hilarious.

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Vincent Price cooks salmon in a dishwasher

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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 15d

Here's my interview with Cassandra Peterson, a.k.a. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark...

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Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark, is serving up sinister snacks and petrifying puns in 'Elvira's Cookbook From Hell'

“Put two fingers between buns and you’ve got finger sandwiches, which can also be called a felony in some states.”

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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 11d

Fuckin’ A, this gives me goosebumps.

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😍 #LivingColour #CultOfPersonality
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Living Colour – Cult of Personality

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talking-time.bsky.social @talking-time.bsky.social · 11d

The third day of our fifteenth issue includes new poetry by Laurie Koensgen , Ryan T. Pozzi and Mileva Anastasiadou, and The art of writing #118: an interview with Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com
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