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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 5h

My #poem "The Leafcutter (Megachile rotundata)" has been accepted and is forthcoming from Hawai'i Pacific Review!! So excited to have a piece in a magazine I've long admired.
💙📚 #booksky 📖 #poetry 📝 #writing

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you so much!!

Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 21h

I can’t wait to get my copy!!!

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 1d

happy day of official recognition, little guy...

THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE • poems • upfromsumdirt

available from @kentuckypress.bsky.social - or (hopefully) everywhere books are sold.

photo of blue hardback book with orangish, goldish illustrations of a mermaid with a leopard on the front. the book sits on a desk with an assortment of stuff on it, lime an orange notebook, a blue sharpie, and a bottle of black.

photo was taken at about 3am. why isnt the poster asleep?!?

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 1d

Y'ALL - Broken Tribe Press chose my #poetry collection the Discipline of Drowning as their award winner, & it's coming out next summer!! AAAAHHHHH!!!!!
#poetry 💙📚 #booksky 📖 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #poems 📝 #writing 📚☁️

book award announcement, photo of white woman with shoulder length brunette hair and glasses, text reads Meet our Tribe Poetry Award Winner Colleen S. Harris, the Discipline of Drowning forthcoming summer 2026

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much for the high compliment!! And yes, that's exactly what i was trying to capture. Thank you so much for reading it <3

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 1d

ERMEHGERD! I've been nominated for a Pushcart by MockingHeart Review for my #poem "Morning Commute"!!! Immensely grateful to their team & readers. You can read it here: mockingheartreview.com/archives/vol...

#poetry 💙📚 #writing 📖 #booksky 📝 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

Colleen S. Harris

MORNING COMMUTE A quick jerk of my ringless left hand is allit would take. I could ruin this Tuesdaymorning, the air sodden with near-rain flirting with the grubby pines guardingthe shoulder of thi…

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much for taking the time to read it! You gave me my first smile of the day 😁

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 3d

"The Unity Conference," called "Redacted: Navigating the Complexities of Censorship," was canceled at Weber State University. (Utah) 📚
www.ksl.com/article/5138...

Weber State cracks down on censorship conference

Weber State University abruptly canceled a conference dealing with the complexities of censorship, citing a need to comply with Utah's diversity, equity and inclusion law, which prohibits government e...

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 4d

AAAH! Editor Budd of The Orange Rose let me know they nominated my #poem What You Don't Learn as a New York Catholic" for a #Pushcart!!!!!! They publish gorgeous work, so I'm crazy proud! Read it:
theorangeroselitmag.com/2025/08/22/w...
#poetry 📖 #writing 📝 #booksky 💙📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

“What You Don’t Learn as a New York Catholic” by Colleen S. Harris

Priests don’t tell you that Eveis from Eastern Kentucky,land of harvest-gold hillsand homemade apple pie shine.That if you’re not baptized in it,or born of the landwhere the trees bear the fruit,yo…

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 4d

New haircut!

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 4d

Proud my #poem "Casting About for Images of Comfort, I Remember" appears in the latest issue of Eclectica Magazine! Read it here, let me know what you think: www.eclectica.org/v29n4/harris...
📖 #poetry 📝 #booksky 💙📚 #writing #publishing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

Casting About for Images of Comfort, I Remember—Colleen S. Harris—Eclectica Magazine v29n4

Poetry by Colleen S. Harris, Eclectica Magazine v29n4

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 5d

Aaaahhh!! Honored to have my first ever Best of the Net nomination from @goodriverreview.bsky.social for my #poem “Lessons From A Baptism”!! Incredibly honored - they published so much incredible work, I’m shocked to be named!
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

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Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) @ala-acrl.bsky.social · 6d

Hot off the presses! Our latest book - "Navigating Disability in the Academic Library Workplace," edited by Paula Martin and Samantha Peter - is now available. Learn more in an excerpt from the introduction on ACRL Insider... https://bit.ly/3L1vi9O

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 9d

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Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 13d

An important discussion on MLIS debt by @violetbfox.bsky.social 📜 📚

On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt - ACRLog

I don't know the right metaphor to make you understand how this much debt physically feels. What it actually feels like is a pressure on my chest and shoulders, but maybe that's not evocative enough. ...

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 13d

Librarians of Bluesky, may I request your help please?

In middle school (2006-09), I read a book about a teenager contemplating their sexuality, I think there's a football player who is the bully but also comes out by the end, and there's a support group iirc. The cover is colorful and striped(?)

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Pink Bunny @pinkbunny.bsky.social · 14d

Reading Kay Graham’s memoir, “Personal History” and her father has just bought The Washington Post in 1933 and boy howdy, do I wish these were still the principles not just for The Post, but all journalism

What he (Eugene Meyer) did have was a well-developed philosophy, which he spelled out in an early editorial, in 1934, and in several speeches over the next few years. He felt a newspaper was a public trust, meant to serve the public in a democracy. My father wanted a paper that would advance beyond what it had achieved even in its heyday and "take a leadership which could be achieved only by exceptional quality." In one address, on March 5, 1935, he spoke about the principles that he insisted on from the beginning, outlining them as follows:
I. That the first mission of a newspaper is to tell the truth as nearly as the truth may be ascertained;
2. That the newspaper shall tell ALL the truth so far as it can learn it, concerning the important affairs of America and the world;
3. That as a disseminator of news, the paper shall observe the decencies that are obligatory upon a private gentleman;
4. That what it prints shall be fit reading for the young as well as for the old;
5. That the newspaper's duty is to its readers and to the public at large, and not to the private interests of its owner;
6. That in the pursuit of truth, the newspaper shall be prepared to make sacrifice of its material fortunes, if such course be necessary for the public good;
7. That the newspaper shall not be the ally of any special interest, but shall be fair and free and wholesome in its outlook on public affairs and public men.

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Elizabeth Dill @elizabethdill.bsky.social · 22d

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🔊 Listen Now: Wary of changes under Trump, 'citizen historians' are documenting the Smithsonian

Morning Edition on NPR One | 3:46

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 17d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you so much! I was tickled this one came together.

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 14d

Excited to have my #poem "Damnation Does Not Impress Us" published in @flatink.bsky.social issue 3! (This one's for my @centrecollege.bsky.social peeps from me, '01.) www.flatinkmagazine.com/articles/pro...
#poetry 💙📚 #booksky 📖 #writing 📝 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

Damnation Does Not Impress Us

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 19d

Asking 'how do you know if you need stitches?' knowing damn well I'm just going to wrap it in gauze and electrical tape like a good electrician's daughter. Why does @parisnoire.bsky.social put up with me? 😂

a woman says i am a gift in yellow letters

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 19d

Really pleased to have my #poem "Self Portrait as Bearded Vulture Chick" in the fantastic new issue of @thimblelitmag.bsky.social ! I hope you'll take a minute to read it at www.thimblelitmag.com/2025/07/25/s...
📝 #poetry 💙📚 #booksky 📖 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #writing

Self-Portrait As Bearded Vulture Chick

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 21d

About to start sending requests for blurbs, and oh lordy is this the part of poet-ing I hate most. I would rather eat a hippopotamus ass-first than impose on other writers whose time I know is already wildly overcommitted.
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #writing 📝

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