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Morgen Jahnke
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Writer, autistic mama, Saskatoon moon watcher. Nerd for nature, poetry, politics. Poetry: Grain, Prairie Fire (forthcoming)
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Morgen Jahnke @morgenjahnke.bsky.social · Sep 30
Now that's it's officially fall, here's a fall poem I had published in the Summer 2025 issue (Vol. 52.4) of Grain.
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Excited to get my hands on this sequel to The Shadow Road by Saskatoon author @kurtkirchmeier.bsky.social!
Book cover for The Ravenous Sky by K.D. Kirchmeier on a blue background
December 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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megelison.bsky.social
“Write to the market.”

You’ll never catch the market. By the time you’ve written it, the market is gone. Write what you’re on fire to write, and sometimes the market shows up.
goddessblade.bsky.social May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 12d
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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alexanderquon.bsky.social
The leaders of the country’s biggest white nationalist group believe that “the Nazis were right” and that a violent “race war” for Canada’s future is underway
youtu.be/scR4OZX4g4s?...
Exposing a masked ‘nationalist’ club: ‘The race war is here’
YouTube video by CBC News
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December 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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thetls.bsky.social
Poem: ‘Snow’ by Andrew Motion
Snow
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December 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Happy birthday Jane Austen! You're looking pretty fresh for 250! p.s. @devoney.bsky.social 's Wild for Austen is highly recommended (including by me, as you can see).
December 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
morgenjahnke.bsky.social
Kudos to @josiahnelson.bsky.social for his excellent short fiction piece in the new issue of Brick! Clever, alchemical, eerie - a great read. @brickliterary.bsky.social
Cover of Brick: A Literary Journal. Yellow background with an inset photograph of a figure standing in a rocky landscape
December 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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parisreview.bsky.social
“You come at poetry with the momentum of having failed. It’s only when other communication is absolutely impossible that a poem has to exist.” —Alice Oswald
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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vox-magica.bsky.social
this is my #1 advice to grad students: anyone can reproduce jargon; the bigger flex is being able to make the argument in straightforward prose. clarity is indicative of deep thought and engagement. even chatGPT can write word salad.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Dec 3
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Dec 3
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Brandon Kilbourne, Natural History: poems / @graywolfpress.bsky.social ;
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Brandon Kilbourne, Natural History: poems
On the trail of oblivion’s beasts, their lives now nothing more than tales sealed down in deposits of bones sown epochs ago, we have trave...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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maureenlangloss.bsky.social
It's amazing how a few weeks away from a poem makes you see the cracks in it. Time is the best editor. Patience is better than any craft book.
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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nberlat.bsky.social
icymi, wrote about how to not understand (but maybe enjoy!) John Ashbery's first book *Some Trees*. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/getting-co...
Getting Confused by John Ashbery
How to read his first book, *Some Trees*
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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propublica.org
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.

Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

(Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*.

Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.

Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
May 21, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
A very happy birthday to the ever-beguiling and brilliant William Blake, born #onthisday in 1757.

Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w... #otd
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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carcanet.bsky.social
Read what Carcanet's Managing Director, Michael Schmidt had to say about 'ChatGPT and the modern poet' in a recent article published in BookBrunch:
www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...
ChatGPT and the modern poet
BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine
www.bookbrunch.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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delilahsdawson.bsky.social
Being a writer is like surfing. Always hoping to catch the perfect wave, but most of your time will be spent paddling against the tide or just floating, waiting, eyes on the horizon while you watch other people riding their highs into the sunset. But you have to love the work more than the ride.
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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derek.bike
Amnesty International condemns Alberta’s use of Notwithstanding Clause to prop up anti-trans policies

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Amnesty International Canada condemns Alberta's use of Notwithstanding Clause to prop up anti-trans policies
In response to the Government of Alberta’s use of notwithstanding clause for the second time in a span of one month to protect a trio of laws that affect
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November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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jlynch13.bsky.social
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
Two pigeons on a London street, pecking at crumbs. Pigeon 1: "I'm sorry you missed out on the Booker prize. I thought your novel was wonderful." Pigeon 2: "It’s a stitch up! They always give it to a human!" Pigeon 1: "It’s nice they considered it." Pigeon 2: "Nobody cares about the longlist, Janet!" Pigeon 2 again: "Zadie Smith had a bestselling novel and an armload of literary prizes before she was 25*." Pigeon 1: "You’ve got to stop comparing yourself to Zadie Smith" Pigeon 2: "Why?" Pigeon 1: "We’ve all got to find our own path through the world. Plus, it’s much harder to type with claws." pigeon 2: "That’s true." They both go back to pecking. Pigeon 2: "I’m glad you liked my book." *Pigeon 2 is 3 years, 11 months and 22 days old, the equivalent of 42 in human years. https://pigeonpedia.com/pigeon-years-to-human-years-calculator/
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
Instagram post: This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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This sounds amazing! I’d be there if I didn’t have an MFA poetry session at the exact same time!
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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9 Nov 2025 --Heartbreaking op-ed in Teen Vogue by Katelyn Burns --"Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better" @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
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November 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Hey yo here’s some blue meat from me on yesterday’s election results.
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
I have terrible, terrible news for red America
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary unpacks the 2025 elections.
www.sfgate.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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naomialderman.bsky.social
I am trying something in November. National novel-reading month, basically. It is the PERFECT month for reading (at least in the Western hemisphere).

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November is for reading
or: a month of sheer luxurious intellectual pleasure
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November 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM