Alex Rettie
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Poems for Persons of Interest (
@PoemsforPOI
) is open for submissions to the latest 12-Hour 50/50 Poetry Contest.
Write a poem! Win half the submission fees!
Submit YOUR OWN work by 7 am EDT Sep. 30. Details below.
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@lastofthelads
@providenceluvr
Maybe you should not comment on situations you'll never be in. But I take it you get off on being an asshole.
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@emmakampground
@agneswickfields
My grandmother was the same -- 1896-1996. Her first job title was "typewriter," which she did using a "typewriting machine." She only got the job because all the young men were in the army in 1915.
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@ghostofchicken
@adityab
@DontAskJeeves
I am in my 50s, born in Winnipeg, and floored ro learn Phantom of the Paradise was not a huge international hit.
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Submitted my ms to a publisher for the first time today. Wish me luck!
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I was a hit! 😃
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@chenchenwrites
@TaraSkurtu
"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." Samuel Beckett, opening sentence of Murphy.
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@Lexialex
The white Americans often pushed the Black ones off the sidewalk if they didn't move aside for them. One night, the whole situation exploded into street fighting. So when she decided to emigrate, it was to Canada.
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@emrazz
If he's really into paying for people's dinners, he should
donate to his local food bank. Or women's shelter, if he only likes paying for women's dinners.
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@Lexialex
This was during WW2. Far from an isolated incident. This article is about another one in another English town.
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5 years ago today I was under involuntary hold in a psych ward with severe suicidal ideation. "Involuntary" is a bit misleading, as I wasn't against it, but anyway, for people with similar thoughts, I just wanted to say that it really can get better.
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@ask_aubry
My son's girlfriend was having troubles and my son said to me "I told her if she needed help that you would definitely help her."
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@WriterLDavis
It's been going downhill for 30 years -- about the time of the switch from from paper to screen as the usual medium for edits.
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An entire submission package accepted! Three dream sonnets.
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@s_r_stone
@PamK11
@soledadobrien
When I was 20 and living in a university high rise, I got off the elevator on the wrong floor and went to what would have been, on the right floor, my place. Noticed all the stuff was different and left. Note: I was high as a kite.
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Manuscript got rejected by the publisher I thought most likely to accept it. Oh, well.
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@MoscatoArthur
@KaivanShroff
Hell, it pays for itself. For 10% of those unpaid taxes you could hire at least 15 to 20 thousand agents.
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@colinmadland
This has been a known issue in many,many products for so long (I became aware of it more than 12 years ago) that the failure to find a solution seems like active malice at this point.
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I am pleased to announce that
@MayaClubine
is the winner of the first 12-Hour Sonnet Contest for her poem "Sun Inside My Brain." You can read it at
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This morning I sent a message asking the status of a submission, and just now I got an acceptance. So it's worth doing.
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@Lexialex
My English mother's first experience of Americans was with the soldiers, Black and white, who spent their evening leave in her town. The American military police ensured they didn't go in the same pubs. 1/2
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Soon I'll be published in 4 countries! Very pleased to say that 2 of the poems from my first collection will be in the inaugural issue of
@boroughpoetry
, out of Melbourne.
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A good read, if you're interested even a little in the Theotokos, Mary Magadalene, or the medieval Church in the West
Jesus, Mary, and Mary via
@nybooks
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@EdibleKnife
@TheDoughp
@coppertonebb
Good art doesn't come mostly from inspiration. It comes from time. The less time artists have to put into non-artistic work to pay rent, and into worrying about money, the more time they have to make art.
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Ooh! I have a poem in the latest issue of Passengers Journal. I am too tired now to read the issue or listen to Liz Eichler's reading of my poem, but I am looking forward to both. Thanks,
@PassengersPress
and eic
@1winsomewinham
!
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@AmyTanMD
Thank you for your dedication. The people of Alberta see it even if the government doesn't.
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@irizarr2
@redwyne
@BetoORourke
He's in a position of power, so yes, Goldman Sachs is fine being associated with him.
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And now I'm 58. Happy birthday to me! 🎉
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@amyhoy
@courtneymilan
Thank you. While my mom didn't disown me, she was the first person I thought about when I read Courtney's post.
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Just finished up my second book review in two days. Man, I wish I could make a living from just poetry and book reviews. That would be ideal.
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@ThatEricAlper
I was very drunk, outside a bar where a predatory man I didn't know was ushering me to his car. A very tough looking lesbian told him I was with her, drove me home, and walked me up to my apartment.
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@dale_wen
@davelevitan
@MaryHeglar
Fuel rationing is what happens when a country is in a major war. If the govt is going to take sides in a war in a way that impacts prices in a major way they have an obligation to protect citizens from that impact.
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Got an acceptance from a print journal for a poem I'd almost given up on placing. Thanks,
@Fitzthewriter
!
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@ebruenig
@Arron_banks
This tweet is the best example of "brilliant in its simplicity" I've seen this year.
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How exciting! I now have TWO poems coming out in the New Verse Review -- one in October, and one in January. Thanks,
@StevenEKnepper
!
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This little guy is flying out to Victoria tomorrow to start university. All that time just went.
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I have a date, of all things. A pleasant man who was at the reading Saturday. I wish I were a more plausible match for him, or anyone. I don't think I'd want to get involved with me. I'm such a mess.
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@christobarbour
@ebruenig
Maybe she knows her parents better than you do? I won a national poetry contest as a university student and my dad's response was that it would be nice if I wrote things he liked reading.
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Applying for a job as a gallery assistant. Not great pay, of course, but nice benefits and working conditions. The last time this job was open another poet, so ... maybe that's a good sign? Wish me luck!
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@courtneymilan
What a great thread. Thank you. I'm sitting here thinking about the weirdness of a system that allows my heirs to profit in perpetuity from a thing I bought (land, say), but not from a thing I made.
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I am pleased to announce that the winner of the 12-Hour Couplets Contest is Ella Harrigan (
@luckyyyycharmss
) , for her poem "Mother." Read it here:
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@jessyroos
I think a lot of North Americans don't know how far north the UK is. Because it's not cold like the northern US or Canada, they assume it's further south than it is.
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@Nola_szn
@okcfanethan
I'm in Alberta, the Canadian province north of Montana. It's a beautiful state, but it's no deal if we have to take the people too.
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The younger son has left the building. I hope he has a great time at university, but I will miss him so, so much. 😞
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So pleased to be in this wonderful issue with so many fantastic poets. 😃
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@courtneymilan
He sounds like he's never met a farmer. Which wouldn't be too surprising, but still.
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I am feeling much better than I have been for a while, and am no longer in the desperate straits I have been these past few days. Thank you to everyone who took the time to express concern and support. I appreciate it .🧡
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Mad at myself. Earlier this morning I had an idea and a couple of lines for three linked sonnets and I said to myself "I'll write it down after I do this work stuff" and now I can't remember either the lines or even the idea.
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@BethanyJarmul
Basic living expenses. Time spent worrying how you will pay rent is time not spent improving your craft.
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@jaiofearth
I'm single, but hoping to bag a philanthropic investment banker with keen literary interests.
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Had my ms printed at the UPS store near me. When I went to pick it up, the guy asked "It's the .... POems???" with a very distinct "you are a weirdo" tone.
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@s_r_stone
@PamK11
@soledadobrien
I was unarmed, of course, and nobody was home (or maybe they were in the bedroom). I like to think if I had been armed I would still not have shot anyone.
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Here's a fun if low-prestige contest if you like writing sonnets. Submissions open NOW and are only open until 6 am Eastern.
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@MrHWM
You see this a lot, sadly. Writers with a lot of "raw talent" (for lack of a better term) but not much experience are having their writing treated with a hands-off approach that does nobody any favours.
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@lesannsai
What shocked me was how blah-blah-blah show-offy the review was, while saying essentially nothing. I haven't read your work and I'd expect I'd know something about it after reading a review of it, but no.
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@anjogenow
@holyfreak86
@MaceAhWindu
The last elections under the Nazis were in 1938, so the wording is still incorrect.
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I have very little to be proud of in my life, but do have these guys! Happy Father's Day, all.
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@dean18892
@cavalier__youth
@ajplus
It would be pretty easy to pass legislation to raise funds for reparations through special taxes on the heirs and successors of slave traders and slaveholders.
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@trudat2020
@audricmoses
Trying to imagine a Montrealer who knows how far Montreal is from Brantford off the top of their head, or anything about it other than the name.
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Wow -- keep your doors locked. A woman just walked into my house and shouted "You know, they're just not willing to leave you alone," and I don't know what that's about and am feeling a tad terrified.
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So pleased to have these two poems in the first issue of
@theborough
, the wonderful new poetry journal out of Australia. Thanks, Clarence Caddell
@truegodsattend
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The poetry rejections are rolling in today. Sort of sad I can't place poems set in Canada with Canadian publications.
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Another "but we'd like to see more of your work" rejection. Could be worse!
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A little poem of mine is in the latest issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. Thanks,
@PaulDeane3
!
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@angelajames
Also, if something is creepy and harassing when done by a man to a woman, it's creepy and harassing when done by a man to another man.
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I have written 15 thousand words over the past two days, and yeah -- it wasn't my own creative work or anything (it's PPTs and Facilitator Guides for Emergency Management training), but like -- FIFTEEN THOUSAND WORDS!
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My dad couldn't take a decent photo to save his life, but here is a picture of my mom in 1975ish that I've been having visions of while meditating lately. In the visions, she's by a river. Man, she loved that suit.
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@ebruenig
Thank you. You are dead on when you speak of our society's contempt for the vulnerable. Victims who don't report often, sadly have contempt for one's own vulnerability. I just want to cry.
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