K. P. Aldrich
@kpaldrich.bsky.social
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Poet🩵 Mom💕 ADHDer🌈🦋 Vegan🌱
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K. P. Aldrich
@kpaldrich.bsky.social
· Oct 3
"Lean into—not away from—empathy. Recognize that we are in serious need of each other’s support. Understand that if some are vulnerable, we are all vulnerable. Show up not just for your own groups, but for every group that you can…"
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“Tom was super excited to become a U.S. resident, so much so that he had insisted on a cowboy-themed wedding.” But then the German robotic engineer was arrested for a visa overstay based on a policy he had no way of knowing existed. Completely Kafkaesque. "We feel like we were tricked.”
November 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“Tom was super excited to become a U.S. resident, so much so that he had insisted on a cowboy-themed wedding.” But then the German robotic engineer was arrested for a visa overstay based on a policy he had no way of knowing existed. Completely Kafkaesque. "We feel like we were tricked.”
Wake up. Parent. Eat. Dishes. Remember the horrors. Anger. Decorate for the holidays. Paw Patrol. Pet actual dogs. Eat. Laundry. Shower. Gather moral courage. Kiddo bedtime. Revenge bedtime procrastination. Lights out. Oh, right, horrors. Sorrow. Fury. Look up how to resist next. “Sleep.” Repeat.
November 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Wake up. Parent. Eat. Dishes. Remember the horrors. Anger. Decorate for the holidays. Paw Patrol. Pet actual dogs. Eat. Laundry. Shower. Gather moral courage. Kiddo bedtime. Revenge bedtime procrastination. Lights out. Oh, right, horrors. Sorrow. Fury. Look up how to resist next. “Sleep.” Repeat.
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Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
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I’ve submitted a lot of poetry to different publications in the past couple weeks, after having not submitted for a year while I worked on writing and dealt with life stuff.
I kind of feel like I’m in a weird limbo state. Like I sort of exist as a writer, and sort of don’t.
I kind of feel like I’m in a weird limbo state. Like I sort of exist as a writer, and sort of don’t.
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I’ve submitted a lot of poetry to different publications in the past couple weeks, after having not submitted for a year while I worked on writing and dealt with life stuff.
I kind of feel like I’m in a weird limbo state. Like I sort of exist as a writer, and sort of don’t.
I kind of feel like I’m in a weird limbo state. Like I sort of exist as a writer, and sort of don’t.
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Instead of doing a consumerism on "Black" Friday, consider supporting small businesses, dropping a few coins in someone's ko-fi or go fund me, sign up for their patreon instead.
Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today.
QRP with your links!
Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today.
QRP with your links!
November 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Instead of doing a consumerism on "Black" Friday, consider supporting small businesses, dropping a few coins in someone's ko-fi or go fund me, sign up for their patreon instead.
Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today.
QRP with your links!
Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today.
QRP with your links!
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Today’s Featured Poem:
[I've wanted to ask for a long time...] by Anna Malihon, translated by Olena Jennings from from Girl with a Bullet published by World Poetry Books
Read here:
poems.com/poem/ive-wan...
[I've wanted to ask for a long time...] by Anna Malihon, translated by Olena Jennings from from Girl with a Bullet published by World Poetry Books
Read here:
poems.com/poem/ive-wan...
[I've wanted to ask for a long time...]
I've wanted to ask for a long time: what is is like for you on
that side of the war?
poems.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Today’s Featured Poem:
[I've wanted to ask for a long time...] by Anna Malihon, translated by Olena Jennings from from Girl with a Bullet published by World Poetry Books
Read here:
poems.com/poem/ive-wan...
[I've wanted to ask for a long time...] by Anna Malihon, translated by Olena Jennings from from Girl with a Bullet published by World Poetry Books
Read here:
poems.com/poem/ive-wan...
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This Black Friday, weaintbuyingit.com.
November 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This Black Friday, weaintbuyingit.com.
One of the national guard members who was shot yesterday—Sarah Beckstrom—died today. She was 20 years old.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
One of the national guard members who was shot yesterday—Sarah Beckstrom—died today. She was 20 years old.
Wishing everyone a safe and peaceful Thanksgiving with friends and loved ones🥰
Now to see how fast I can make an apple pie!
Now to see how fast I can make an apple pie!
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Wishing everyone a safe and peaceful Thanksgiving with friends and loved ones🥰
Now to see how fast I can make an apple pie!
Now to see how fast I can make an apple pie!
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Seeing images of that devastating fire engulfing multiple residential buildings in Hong Kong...
This is the one time I WISH the images and footage were all AI, because it is so absolutely horrific I wish it wasn't real.
This is the one time I WISH the images and footage were all AI, because it is so absolutely horrific I wish it wasn't real.
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Seeing images of that devastating fire engulfing multiple residential buildings in Hong Kong...
This is the one time I WISH the images and footage were all AI, because it is so absolutely horrific I wish it wasn't real.
This is the one time I WISH the images and footage were all AI, because it is so absolutely horrific I wish it wasn't real.
I had to dig through all of my doom piles looking for my car keys today. I thought I had looked everywhere, and finally gave up, announcing to no one in particular, “UGH, I GUESS THEY’RE GONE FOREVER.”
And then it occurred to me to check the pocket of the coat hanging neatly in my closet.
And then it occurred to me to check the pocket of the coat hanging neatly in my closet.
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I had to dig through all of my doom piles looking for my car keys today. I thought I had looked everywhere, and finally gave up, announcing to no one in particular, “UGH, I GUESS THEY’RE GONE FOREVER.”
And then it occurred to me to check the pocket of the coat hanging neatly in my closet.
And then it occurred to me to check the pocket of the coat hanging neatly in my closet.
I am horrified, and my heart is breaking for the untold number of people caught in this fire.
This is terrible.
At least 36 people are killed and 279 reported missing in Wang Fuk Court, Hong Kong tower block fires
At least 36 people are killed and 279 reported missing in Wang Fuk Court, Hong Kong tower block fires
Hong Kong fire: At least 36 killed in Hong Kong fire with 279 still missing, authorities say
Hundreds of firefighters have spent hours tackling the blaze, which began in apartment blocks surrounded by bamboo scaffolding.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I am horrified, and my heart is breaking for the untold number of people caught in this fire.
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New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Names Arts and Culture
Transition Committee
[Picture of Zohran Mamdani]
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who decisively beat back independent candidate Andrew Cuomo in the election to lead the city earlier this month, has named an arts and culture transition committee. The 28-member group includes curators, art dealers, journalists, and arts and nonprofit administrators. It ranges from Elizabeth Alexander, the president of the Mellon Foundation, which sits on an endowment of $7.7 billion, to Hannah Traore, who launched a 3,000-square-foot gallery on the Lower East Side not four years ago.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hfvsgl2mxreaxanwto4j2myn/bafkreih6lbbzfz7rdjdsdzloao3mfbqjabx2xnnnrffo4d6tgxs6dv3i5u@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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From the author’s note: "This poem, composed in a frenzied fifteen minutes of anger, frustration, and exhaustion, responds to the increasing appetite for, and uplifting of, anti-queer violence in academic and institutionalized spaces,…"
If you have to send us a heartbreak poem,
make sure it includes a pronoun and not just a feeling.
—Gray Davidson Carroll
make sure it includes a pronoun and not just a feeling.
—Gray Davidson Carroll
Queer Poetry by Gray Davidson Carroll - Rattle: Poetry
Send us a queerer poem, the editor says.
We love your writing but prefer the gay stuff.
www.rattle.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
From the author’s note: "This poem, composed in a frenzied fifteen minutes of anger, frustration, and exhaustion, responds to the increasing appetite for, and uplifting of, anti-queer violence in academic and institutionalized spaces,…"
One of the most important and accessible things we can do in the face of ruthless cruelty is to bear witness.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
One of the most important and accessible things we can do in the face of ruthless cruelty is to bear witness.
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I feel like so much of politics has turned into “well, if you give a mouse a cookie…” politics, without interrogating the fact that we actually deserve food and a warm, comfortable place to sleep and free hours in the day.
ZOHRAN: “The next challenge is fulfilling the agenda so people understand they were right to demand more.”
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social tells @adamfriedlandshow.bsky.social he’s ready for the fight.
Full: youtu.be/hsi5C_5HpoY?...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social tells @adamfriedlandshow.bsky.social he’s ready for the fight.
Full: youtu.be/hsi5C_5HpoY?...
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I feel like so much of politics has turned into “well, if you give a mouse a cookie…” politics, without interrogating the fact that we actually deserve food and a warm, comfortable place to sleep and free hours in the day.
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New York will always be a city of immigrants. When we protect the communities who keep this city running and uphold our sanctuary laws, we create a future that’s safer for every New Yorker.
November 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New York will always be a city of immigrants. When we protect the communities who keep this city running and uphold our sanctuary laws, we create a future that’s safer for every New Yorker.
Would love to be able to go a day without being made to feel disgust by the actions of people in power.
I’m getting a handle on the anxiety. I’m over being shocked. I’ve got more space everyday for the feelings that give life purpose. But the disgust, ugh, the disgust is just always there.
I’m getting a handle on the anxiety. I’m over being shocked. I’ve got more space everyday for the feelings that give life purpose. But the disgust, ugh, the disgust is just always there.
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Would love to be able to go a day without being made to feel disgust by the actions of people in power.
I’m getting a handle on the anxiety. I’m over being shocked. I’ve got more space everyday for the feelings that give life purpose. But the disgust, ugh, the disgust is just always there.
I’m getting a handle on the anxiety. I’m over being shocked. I’ve got more space everyday for the feelings that give life purpose. But the disgust, ugh, the disgust is just always there.
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Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE.
Here’s how to use them:
Here’s how to use them:
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE.
Here’s how to use them:
Here’s how to use them:
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Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
“Poems, especially, must be banished from our friends and fans when they matter most—when they’re fresh and relevant to the cultural conversation.”
Uncurated: The Case for a New Term of Art
Lit mag editor re-thinks what it means to be "previously published"
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“Poems, especially, must be banished from our friends and fans when they matter most—when they’re fresh and relevant to the cultural conversation.”
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”