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Eva Langston @evalangston.bsky.social · 14h

LOVE this episode!!

Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 21h

"imagine if we allowed people to engage w poetry the way we expect people to engage w music. Nobody plays you a song they love or sends you a playlist & then says, get back to me w meanings of all of these songs."

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social on our 50th episode of This Mama Is Lit!

Holly and Amanda chat with Maggie Smith, author of Dear Writer, about applying poetic license to writing and beyond, embracing the beginner's mind, and aging in reverse through creativity.

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Shannon Sanders @shanders.bsky.social · 19h

“Why do people bring all their kids with them to the grocery store?? 😤”

Among all the other reasons, consider that if I am only going to get the tiniest little bit of time to myself all day—my one wild and precious break—I might not prefer to spend it buying paper towels and sunbutter

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David J Bauman @davidjbauman.bsky.social · 21h

Yes! This!

Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 21h

"imagine if we allowed people to engage w poetry the way we expect people to engage w music. Nobody plays you a song they love or sends you a playlist & then says, get back to me w meanings of all of these songs."

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social on our 50th episode of This Mama Is Lit!

Holly and Amanda chat with Maggie Smith, author of Dear Writer, about applying poetic license to writing and beyond, embracing the beginner's mind, and aging in reverse through creativity.

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 21h

"imagine if we allowed people to engage w poetry the way we expect people to engage w music. Nobody plays you a song they love or sends you a playlist & then says, get back to me w meanings of all of these songs."

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social on our 50th episode of This Mama Is Lit!

Holly and Amanda chat with Maggie Smith, author of Dear Writer, about applying poetic license to writing and beyond, embracing the beginner's mind, and aging in reverse through creativity.

Tiptop of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula the Straits of Mackinac churn like logs while bonfire writes storiesagainst a lowering sky. My little family circling the flames. Steven, life-love and father to...

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 2d

"Shine entices, which is fine/ but don't rush tumbling into that burn"

- from Laura Bernstein-Machlay's poem, "Bonfire and Big Waters," in our September/October issue:

Bonfire and Big Waters

The clouds shrouded our momentso you and I sit on the sidewalk bench,metal lattice pressing diamonds into our thighs, your feet dangle and kick. We stare at the sky, catch flashesunder the gauze. You ...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 3d

Over 100 Brown U students & 20 faculty members gathered outside
the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought.
#DefendHigherEd

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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 3d

A great thing about little kids is how you can spend half an hour setting up an activity that will keep them occupied for 5 minutes and creates a mess that will take another half hour to clean up and the whole time you’ll both be on the verge of tears.

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 3d

"The clouds shrouded our moment"

from Marion Wyce's poem, "Eclipse," in our Sept/Oct issue:

Eclipse

They call it delayed, fragile chromo- somes that string you together perfectly—they make my freckles shift on the shirt of my being: genetic ...

Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 4d

"this is one way to learn/the poverty of acceptance around us"

from Francine Diodati's poem, "Fragile X Syndrome," in our Sept/Oct issue:

Fragile X Syndrome

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · 4d

The amazing Maggie Smith is on the fiftieth episode of This Mama Is Lit! 😍 Check it out!

Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 5d

We're celebrating our 50th episode of This Mama Is Lit!

@hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social & Amanda get a pep talk from the inimitable @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social!

"I have one wish for humans: it's for humans to be less afraid because being afraid makes you live small":

Holly and Amanda chat with Maggie Smith, author of Dear Writer, about applying poetic license to writing and beyond, embracing the beginner's mind, and aging in reverse through creativity.

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 5d

We're celebrating our 50th episode of This Mama Is Lit!

@hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social & Amanda get a pep talk from the inimitable @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social!

"I have one wish for humans: it's for humans to be less afraid because being afraid makes you live small":

Holly and Amanda chat with Maggie Smith, author of Dear Writer, about applying poetic license to writing and beyond, embracing the beginner's mind, and aging in reverse through creativity.

Dress You Up in My Love - Longreads

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Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social · 5d

I think of this essay this time every year, a very specific kind of haunting. "I never thought, when I started doing IVF treatments, that a byproduct of those treatments would be that I would actively start to hate Halloween." longreads.com/2018/10/31/d...

Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to @anniemarhefka.bsky.social!

Sharing in the Excitement

What motivates one writer is not the same as what motivates another, but the beauty of Literary Mama is that it's a place where all kinds of writers with their unique motivations can co-exist. Som...

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 5d

We're celebrating our 50th episode of This Mama Is Lit!

@hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social & Amanda get a pep talk from the inimitable @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social!

"I have one wish for humans: it's for humans to be less afraid because being afraid makes you live small":

Holly and Amanda chat with Maggie Smith, author of Dear Writer, about applying poetic license to writing and beyond, embracing the beginner's mind, and aging in reverse through creativity.

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 5d

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 5d

There’s a lot going on, so here is a map of the world’s forests, divided by categories of wood.

Map labeled "Geographic Distribution of the World's Forests, Differentiated by Categories of Wood"

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 5d

We're getting ready to drop our 50th episode of This Mama Is Lit! tomorrow. Stay tuned for an incredible guest and check out our episodes here: literarymama.substack.com/s/this-mama-...

a woman in a red dress is dancing in front of a crowd with the numbers 5 and 0 above her

Alt: a white woman in a red pantsuit with curly dark hair is gesturing the numbers 5 and 0 in front of a crowd with the numbers 5 and 0 and an exclamation point to either side of her

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 6d

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

AABB Author Sign-Up Form

Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...

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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 6d

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Essays feat. @literarymama.bsky.social @orionmagazine.bsky.social @xraylitmag.bsky.social @y2kq.com et al. https://duotrope.com...

Smart Search List of the Day

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Essays feat. @literarymama.bsky.social @orionmagazine.bsky.social @xraylitmag.bsky.social @y2kq.com et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/nonfiction/essays-r6Eeyb29

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 6d

"her whole trailer a trousseau of embroidered belief"

from Ingrid Andersson's midwifery poem, "Prenatal Visits," in our Sept/Oct issue:

Prenatal Visits

Covering the walls inside the first home,dozens of passages of Scripture, calligraphedby hand or painstakingly hand-stitched, her whole trailer a trousseau of embroidered belief:The Lord is my shepher...