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@peacepoetryprogress / peacepoetryprogress.tumblr.com

When I'm behind a mic, I'm Big Brother.
When I’m in front of a webcam,
I’m Miley. When I'm not, I'm Tim.
I live life and write poetry. Usually, but not always, in that order.
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edwad

now that everyone from twitter has joined tumblr overnight, it's time to lay a couple ground rules:

1. it's not called a "retweet", it's called a "reblog", but if you're REALLY cool, you refer to it as a "rebagel"

2. if someone has fewer followers than you, it is totally fair to call them "irrelevant", but it is actually more stinging to call them "irrelephant"

3. if you see someone irl that you think might have a tumblr, you're supposed to say "i like your shoe laces". the correct response, which any true tumblrite would know by heart, is "thanks, i stole them from the president"

4. there is a particular phenomenon that happens after 12am EST called "nightblogging", and everything after this point is the fault of the australians

5. tumbeasts

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peacepoetryprogress

Glad to know nothings changed 😅

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To go from only ever hearing someone's voice through your speakers to laughing with them non stop in a van. To go from only ever seeing their faces through a computer screen to hugging them. That is a magic. This weekend was amazing. #twitchcon #bleedPurple

#bleedpurple#twitchcon
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I wrote this yesterday: http://longcoolhallway.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/upon-leaving-the-backcountry/

Folks who participate in the outdoor industry, who want to get more black and brown youth outdoors, who think that spending time outside is valuable, who want to help people of color be more engaged in environmentalism, conservation, outdoor recreation, think about history. Think about who was displaced from “wilderness,” think about what being taken to the woods meant for your students’ great grandparents, and think hard about what is happening to students and to their families and to their communities now. There are so many more layers than “just get outside.” Getting outdoors doesn’t occur to POC not simply because of lack of visibility or education, it is because of systemic violence, historically and currently.

#Neverstopexploring your privilege.

Support #blacklivesmatter. #asians4blacklives #poetry #outdoors

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4 years, 300+ poems

Spring 2016

  • Catherine Weiss - “Ice Water”
  • Phil SaintDenisSanchez - “[the American dream is a ch-ch-ch-ch-chopper]”
  • Ty Rooney - “Captain Fucko Just followed you on OkCupid Would you like to send Captain Fucko a message?”
  • Alexis Pope - “Vanderbilt”
  • Tariq Luthun - “MUSEUMS”
  • Amie Zimmerman - “Echolocation”
  • Patrick Roche - “Depression, in Brief”
  • Heather Dora - “Open Letter to Belle / Beauty / Literate Princess”
  • jayy dodd - “Homeboy”
  • Robbie Dunning - “DeadName”
  • Carolyn DeCarlo & Jackson Nieuwland - “It was very cold”
  • elliot mclaughlin - “dead birds”
  • Joli St. Patrick - “Regard”
  • RJ - “Valentino”
  • Amanda Saunders - “When I Call Myself Survivor”
  • Maddie Godfrey - “Labels Are For Jars”
  • Greg McCarthy - “Liminal Space & You Enter Me Anyways:”
  • Evan Cutts - “The Punchline”
  • Richard Kerwin - “mycelium and the big bad electrovestigial experience”
  • Rachel O'Brien - “ignis fatuus”

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Winter 2016

  • Kou Sugita - “Poor POC @ Rich Kid Skool”
  • Elliott Sky Case - “ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VOIDS TO THROW MY BODY INTO”
  • Lex - “Bottle Drive”
  • Willow Germs - “muddy water”
  • Emily Griffin - “Drinking It on the Atlantic”
  • Tanaka Mhishi - “Bad Flowers and Graveyard Dirt (for Patti Smith)”
  • Raena Shirali - “morning & i reconcile my hands again”
  • Linette Reeman - “facts about tigers:”
  • Madison Mae Parker - “How to love an introvert: A Quiz”
  • Leyna R - “Dear Empathetic Male Poet”
  • torin audoire - “girl”
  • Sarah Gehring - “10 Year-Old Futon”
  • Teresa McMahon - “Chicago is Weird”
  • Jacob Shelton - “I followed a man home last night.”
  • Erin Schick - “Honest Speech”
  • Megan Merchant - “Blank Slate”
  • Laura - “text exchange”
  • Rachel Dunkel - “In Which Sunset Drinks Me Under the Table Again”
  • Misha Brandon Speck - “23”
  • Jessie Lynn McMains - “Over Cocktails, Courtney Love Tells Me About Aging”

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Fall 2015

  • Orooj-e-Zafar - “To Dad, An Overdue ‘It’s Okay’”
  • Roshan - “Dog Rainbow”
  • Brenda Snyder - “I will decrease the property value of your heart”
  • Maggie Su - “Operator”
  • Faye Chevalier - “wisdom teeth (that which G-d means me to bury)”
  • Samantha Kennedy - “Connecticut”
  • William Ward Butler - “DEAR I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S NOT BUTTER,”
  • Lydia Armstrong - “Reasons Why I Can’t Have a Boyfriend”
  • Sugar le Fae - “GANYMEDE”
  • catch business - “how to stand up”
  • Maya Owen - “THE UNCERTAIN SCIENCE OF SHOPPING MALL WISHING FOUNTAINS”
  • Martha Grover - “Music is the Weapon that Makes us Brave”
  • Alex Dang! - “in which the poet tries to apologize again”
  • Christian J. Collier - “How it Feels to be Black”
  • C. Russell Price - “Armageddon Via Telephone Wires”
  • Melodic Rose - “When She Says No”
  • RJ Walker - “The Honest World (After Jeffery McDaniel)”
  • Mo Fowler - “How to Cure Her Depression”
  • Dan Gutstein - “Interview with a Yes Man”
  • Logen Cure - “Condolences”

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Summer 2015

  • Keaton Maddox - “PRESSURE WASHED EYES”
  • Angelina DiLisio - “Sssssslur”
  • Kiki Nicole - “Another Film By Spike Jonze About Sofia Coppola”
  • Mary Arnett - “Punk Rock Me To Sleep”
  • Tyler Gillespie - “Lunch Date with James at One of Those Cute Oceanside Restaurants”
  • Julia Gaskill - “regaining my voice.”
  • Lauren Yates - “Behavioral Patterns of a Reluctant Masochist”
  • Taylor Gorman - “4'33”
  • Greg Santos - “Action!”
  • Melissa Rose - “A Funeral”
  • Clementine von Radics - “Explaining Girlhood To A Boy Who Has Never Been There”
  • Aaron Griffin - “My Mouth is an Ugly Manhole of Misshapen Molars That Never Closes (Never Stops Stuttering)”
  • Amy L. Bailey - “It Was November Then”
  • Liz Bowen - “a plum with a worm in it”
  • Christopher Morgan - “Hate Song”
  • suzanne pearman - “sign language for the blind”
  • Sarah Caulfield - “not about anyone you know”
  • Zach Kocanda - “If We Can Put Fritos On A Pizza, Surely I Can Win Your Heart”
  • Joshua Winchester - “Vampire Face Lift”
  • Rick Lupert - “Make Your Own Kind of Music”

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Spring 2015

  • Christian Sammartino - “True Nakedness”
  • McKenna Hickock-Washburn - “spider poem”
  • Melissa Newman-Evans - “Lucere (to light)”
  • Isabelle Davis - “unflying object”
  • Nathan Wade Carter - “Shark Morgue”
  • Paul Hanson Clark - “flaubert”
  • Diana Bustos - “Single Lyfe”
  • Beyza Ozer - “I HAVE VERY OLD HANDS”
  • Caroline Rayner - “Morning Inside a New Body”
  • Jennifer E. Hudgens - “Upon Waking”
  • Mik Everett - “I’ve Tried Everything To Get Rid of My Stretch Marks”
  • William Lessard - “Burger”
  • Jake Matkov - “Elegy for Peter”
  • Logan Ellis - “The Hedgehog’s Dilemma”
  • Stevie Edwards - “The Devil I Know”
  • Trish Hopkinson - “Waiting Around”
  • Rose McAleese - “Carving”
  • M. Forajter - “Also, the bees.”
  • Ronnie K. Stephens - “THE EXPECTANT FATHER”

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Winter 2015

  • Suzanne Pearman - “the art deco glow”
  • Jeremiah Walton - “Deer Carcass Canvas”
  • Anna Meister - “Making Coffee”
  • Willow Germs - “The Carpenter’s Daughter’s Song”
  • Ariana Loss-Cutler - “Virgin”
  • Barrett Warner - “My Friend Larry Poodle”
  • Julia Gaskill - “i will not beg for scraps”
  • Jess Rizkallah - “they call me Thunder Thighs”
  • Emma Rebholz - “Cut Along the Dotted Lines”
  • Molly McGhee - “Self-Undressing at the Intersection”
  • Maggi Roark - “The Seagull”
  • Bud Smith - “Here’s a Hammer”
  • Leia Penina Wilson - “my broken slipper leaves new splinters”
  • Livia Franchini - “Playground”
  • Anna Binkovitz - “Every Question I Didn’t Ask The Doctors”
  • Nick Bihm - “your syllabus is too long i wont read it”
  • Jackie Lutzke - “Into Something Different”
  • Sara Peck - “Undoing a Taste For”
  • Steven Arcieri - “photographs of people”
  • Kristin XinMing Chang - “complaints from a communist in california”

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Fall 2014

  • Ayla Sullivan - “Fruit Culture.”
  • Meghan Privitello - “Chromatic”
  • Austin Islam - “think of all the grain alcohol”
  • Allison Truj - “Death by Drowning”
  • Mike Krutel - “Clinging Hard in the Warbles”
  • Zoe Dzunko - “THINGS WE NEVER SAW COMING”
  • Kallie Falandays - “The Girl Who Couldn’t Levitate Got a Cold”
  • Sean Patrick Mulroy - “recordings of myself, high on mushrooms, 2002”
  • Orion Centauri - “I don’t know what to call us”
  • Mike Johnson - “Wild”
  • Shannon Hozinec - “UNEARTHED, MOTHER”
  • Kieran Collier - “He Thinks He Is a Sailor”
  • Laura Poholek - “Oh Silly Skinless”
  • Adam Grabowski - “The Lost Poem”
  • Alexandria Lowther - “Grounded and Flightless (abridged)”
  • Spencer Garrison - “regrettable deathsign”
  • Leyna Rynearson - “Carmen Sandiego”
  • P. M. Maisano - “A Theory of Inflation: pantoum for Andrei Linde”
  • Austin Givens - “MY TOOLS”
  • Charles Manis - “Eros of Attention”
  • Dee Mac - “I Thought I Was A Siren”
  • Danielle Perry - “frenzy of the maenads”
  • Steve Subrizi - “HALLOWEEN (or: DEAD STUFF FLOATS IN THE AIR ALL THE TIME, IT’S FINE)”

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Summer 2014

  • Cassandra de Alba - “by way of explanation”
  • David Blumenshine - “from STUNTING ON A JUMBOTRON”
  • Courtney Hammond - “Lost Consonants”
  • Ross Robbins - “Sonnet Against Sex”
  • Matthew Dinaro - “I want you”
  • Hayley Vinson - “Things You Should Know About Me and the Dating Thing”
  • Maggie Tirrell - “i am needy & do not know what i’m going to do about it”
  • Ashley Opheim - “Cinnamon Oil”
  • Bret Lawrence - “The Cherries of Gods”
  • Ellyn Touchette - “KOMODO DRAGON”
  • Caleb Andrew Ward - “You could hold the sun in your hands today”
  • A.J. Bradley - “I don’t want to believe Bruno Kirby was closer to me than you ever were.”
  • Christian Phiffer - “The Life and Death in a Train Of Thought”
  • Chelsea Werner Jatzke - “How held”
  • Christopher Morgan - “Dueling Season”
  • Sally J. Johnson - “another poem about the whole goddamn universe (because all poems are about the whole goddamn universe if you think about it that way and you should)”
  • Emily O’Neill - “Different-Colored Horse”
  • Janea Kelley - “Tender is the Knight or a response to Bukowski’s A Poem For Swingers”
  • Tara Jean Bernier - “Sick and Tired, - After Shihan the Poet”
  • Sara Woods - “Dear Hairless Dream”
  • Lucy K Shaw - “PERFECTION OF DOUBT”
  • Eric Tran - “My Mother Asks How I Was Gay Before Sleeping with a Man”

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Spring 2014

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2012-2013

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