high school teacher, aging soccer player, scribbler of words, chronic overthinker, rarely gets haircuts, he/him
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5 May 2025
I have just won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
Let it bring hope
Let it be a tale
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2 Apr 2025
Submissions close April 5th! Send us your stuff!
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11 Mar 2025
You've got till' Sunday❤️
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ALT 10 Popular Literary Magazines Approaching Deadline subs close: sunday march 15 • The Rumpus • Jet Fuel Review • The Dawn Review • Heroic Fantasy Quarterly • Southampton Review • phoebe • Harpur Palate Literary Journal • Iron Horse Review • Barely South Review • The Minnesota Review
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Your literary journey starts here. Share your creations with Fahmidan Journal today.
Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme
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A little late posting this to Twitter, but a huge thank you to @penn_review for giving this poem a home. I have been shopping it around since its first encouraging decline from @TBQuarterly and stoked it finally landed with The Penn Review.
pennreview.org/we-worshiped-…
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thrift store thor retweeted
25 Sep 2024
The conversation about A.I. begins and ends with the Spongebob episode where King Neptune mass produces hundreds of disgusting Krabby Patties through magic and Spongebob handmakes one delicious Krabby Patty with love
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17 Sep 2024
Now open for submissions for this anthology. Submit at terrapinbooks.com/what-the-h…
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16 Sep 2024
📢Calling all poets📢
Only two weeks left to send in your love poems!
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13 Sep 2024
Real recognize real grandad, and right now you looking kinda unfamiliar! 😂
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7 Aug 2024
The announcement of Tim Walz as Harris's VP pick has brought back my non-MN friends calling me and asking me to say "bag" in a sentence and share their thoughts on the movie Fargo. Which is cute and all, but...
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I also need them to realize how in less than a month a new group of high schoolers is going to learn that my last name is Sturdy and they're going to ask me to dance in a way that I haven't properly stretched for, and, AND...don't they realize I'm tired?
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7 Aug 2024
Hold on, my phone is ringing. Yep. I gotta take this. *mentally prepares self to say "bag" and talk about ice fishing*
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15 Jul 2024
With JD Vance looking like the Republican pick for vice president, a reminder that there's a great collection of activist and scholarly perspectives on him—Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy. A bunch of us worked on it at (no surprise) a university press.
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11 Jul 2024
A dating app but it's just one picture of someone's bookshelves, one of their usual grocery haul, one of their pets, and one their thermostat
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11 Jul 2024
RT @alexbobskers: 🧵🧵There is a faction of people in Minneapolis whose limited imagination leads them to believe that the only path to safer…
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8 Jul 2024
Adding to my ever growing list of texts I sprinkle throughout my CRW curriculum :)
6 Jul 2024
if you teach poetry you should be teaching this article it's so genius emergencemagazine.org/essay/…
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3 Jul 2024
“The first words I write aren’t necessarily the ones I want or will use, but those first words open doors. How else can the muse enter?”
Toni Cade Bambara
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3 Jul 2024
“This hurricane is a direct result of the climate crisis that Grenada, the Caribbean, and other Small Island Developing States are on the front line of.”
Ecocide
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