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Vanessa Stauffer

@vanopticon.bsky.social

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free range word person | Houston PhD, MFA | poems in various places | semi-dormant publishing professional | cat servant writing, services, contact: vanessastauffer.com assorted poetry warblings: amomentarystay.substack.com

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · Sep 9

I wrote about being a dumbass for the LRC

Full Circle | When in hell, walk through it with Dante | Literary Review of Canada

Vanessa Stauffer revisits Dante’s “Inferno” for the first time since graduate school. She argues it is a boring yet instructive classic.

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 5h

Wow, I have tried to get so many people to read Healing Back Pain . . .

Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 5h

NF: The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Poems: Animal Soul by Bob Hicok

Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 10h

final finalv2 FINAL draft

Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 10h

Returns returns returns returns

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 15h

wtf we haven't even finished blowing up earth yet www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Canada eyes putting nuclear reactors on the moon | CBC News

In order to maintain a presence on the moon, there’s going to be a need for energy. How do you maintain a colony of people in a place that has roughly 14 days of sunlight followed by 14 days of darkne...

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 1d

also shout-out to the taxpayers of ontario, thanks to whom I still have a house to run home to AND recovery milkshake cash, public health care 4ever

Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 1d

I inaugurated the Windsor free half marathon and decided to keep going since this month is 14 years cancer-free. Shout out to Dr Peter Ferguson, who possesses the bonkers ability to remove part of a leg in such fashion that it can still do dumb shit like this.

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 2d

I have an intense desire to dress up as an inflatable frog for halloween and possibly also for the rest of my life

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 3d

just poetry things (& my actual favourite poet)

"The Window" by Lynda Hull

& some bonus VS whatever is the poetry equivalent of fanfic.

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 3d

dear M&S poetry editors, please acquire the manuscript I sent you

Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 3d

I guess having your soul crushed by a multinational corporate monolith would be exciting in a way

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 3d

lmao no you do not have an exciting opportunity penguin random house

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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 3d

the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

An image of Maid Marian and Robin Hood from the animated film Robin Hood

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 3d

Lennie Goodings: www.biblioasis.com/shop/non-fic...

A Bite of the Apple - Biblioasis

A GLOBE AND MAIL GLOBE 100 BOOK Carmen is vigorously polishing one of our three telephones. I am just twenty-five, Canadian, new to Britain and in awe of this formidable […]

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 4d

the guy in the crowd saying "welcome to the war zone" through a megaphone for president

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 6d

DARK LIKE UNDER by Alice Chadwick (@biblioasis.bsky.social). Reviewed by @wildsustenance.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/dark...

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 6d

I did indeed price train tickets from Windsor—but there's a virtual attendance option you can register for here, too.

EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 6d

www.classics.utoronto.ca/events/trans...

Translating the Violence of the Iliad: 2025-26 S. J. Stubbs Lecture in Classics | Department of Classics

In the 2025-26 S. J. Stubbs Lecture in Classics, Translating the Violence of the Iliad, Professor Emily Wilson of the University of Pennsylvania will assess the challenges of interpreting and translat...

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 11d

Counterpoint: people are complex

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 11d

A list of words for coffee in ten different languages...

10. Welsh = coffi
9. French = café
8. Manx = caffee
7. Romanian = cafea
6. Dutch = koffie
5. German = kaffee
4. Swedish = kaffe
3. Malagasy = kafe
2. Icelandic = kaffi
1. Ojibwe = makade-mashkikiwaaboo (literally “black medicine water”)

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 14d

should probably rebrand as "Oldies but Goodies"

"Meditation at Lagunitas" by Robert Hass

In which Plato, Saussure, and Helen Vendler walk into a childhood river.

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 16d

YOU’RE A LECTERN oh wait

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 16d

phew am I enjoying having an adult at the podium

Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 19d

CARNEY: "We know that nostalgia is not a strategy. We can't rebuild the world as it was. But we can build something better. ... Canada is a determined and ambitious nation that is rising to the challenge of these ages."

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · Sep 12

I don't know what to do with myself anymore, so it seems that I do this. follow along if you are similarly aimless and besotted by poems.

"Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem" by Bob Hicok

Three memories, Or: why you should call up a friend and read a poem to her.

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