Carrie Kahler

@chillsubs Insisting on Times New Roman font. Just...why?

What do litmags do that gives you the “ick”?

@chillsubs Monthly - just to stare at the New Yorker one from 2022 that is still pending.

Honest answers only 😉 How often do you check your pending submissions on submittable?

Thank you to @poetrynw for publishing this poem at the beginning of December. ❤️

@RickyRayPoet @brokensleep Huzzah! What a perfect title.

A little extra good news: I wrote a whole book—a lovesong in prose—about the breathtaking work of this poetry goddess, and it's been accepted by @brokensleep! "Brigit Pegeen Kelly: The Many-Mindedness of Spirit" coming your way in spring of '25.

All the Virginia house of delegates and State Senate seats are up in Virginia. Voting ends on Tuesday night. If republicans flip both chambers, Glenn Youngkin will have unchecked power.

@MaryannCorbett Nope. Sorry.

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🧵UNPOPULAR OPINION: Sometimes life destroys you and you don't have to find a reason or learn anything. If you didn't already know, my youngest daughter was diagnosed with leukemia the week after her 4th birthday. After 2 1/2 years of chemo she is now 2 years cancer free. 1/

@rmoon Congrats!!

Woohoo!

Second-biggest owner of Twitter is executing a man for his tweets. Silence from the owner of Twitter, who is a self-styled ‘free speech absolutist.’ Not even a “concerning”.

The profound toll COVID-19 has had on heart health is only now starting to emerge. Doctors are grappling with how to help. “We are seeing effects on the heart and the vascular system that really outnumber, unfortunately, effects on other organ systems.” apnews.com/article/covid1…

@atsignemdash 93 degrees in my yard right now.

@atsignemdash Hooray Hooray!

@atsignemdash I'm hoping to join soon!

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Postlude by Rita Dove. 💐#poetry (thanks to @parisreview)

The continued emphasis on deaths is a political and media strategy to mask the *ongoing* mass disability being wrought by this virus. Invisibilizing disability is part of the strategy to further marginalize BIPOC & LGBTQ, who are most at risk of illness/disability.

Please take 30 seconds to ask your members of congress to support the #TreatLongCOVIDAct! 3/4 of the U.S. population has had a #COVID infection, and 1 in 5 develop #LongCOVID. Tens of millions in the U.S. have #LongCOVID and there is no cure. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has found that 4 million in the U.S. are out of the workforce due to Long COVID. It is time to act to help improve #LongCOVID patient outcomes! The Treat Long COVID Act focuses on creating and expanding *multidisciplinary* Long COVID clinics, and *provider education*! The #TreatLongCOVIDAct will provide funding to these facilities to offer better and more accessible care, and hopefully clinical trials. We cannot get help, without legislative support providing the funding, that will help create pilots to identify and create #LongCOVID assessment and care protocols (Long COVID Standards of Care) that can then be shared/ used nationally! We need each and every one of you to reach out to your members of congress urging them to support the #TreatLongCOVIDAct, and it only takes 30 seconds! Members of congress and their offices cannot, and will not, act on matters they do not receive massive outreach about from their constituents. 1 letter, 5 letters- don't do it! They use a tally system, so we need 50-100+ reaching out to each and every member of congress, and the #TLCA has been introduced at both the house and senate levels! In 2-ish weeks, we will have everyone follow up, with a more personalized message. This is an *ALL HANDS ON DECK* moment, and we need each other's support to move our community forward. Please take 30 seconds to complete this form, and another 30 seconds to share on other platforms/ groups, and with friends and family! Thank you. actionnetwork.org/letters/its-ti…

Imagine if Secretary Blinken totally disappeared for a month and Biden wouldn’t talk about it and people wonder if he had cancer or something and then it’s just announced he’s gone. This is China. It is weird, and should’ve been bigger news but the world has normalized autocracy.