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Poet & Asst. Professor @fcengandcwr✨ Mother Water (@LynxHousePress) ✨ @SJ_Society chair ✨ Ph.D. @EnglishEmory, MFA @UMDEnglish, @UNC '12✨ She/her ✨ Views mine ✨

Indianapolis, IN
Joined March 2011
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Happy to have a new poem in the latest issue of @MidAm_Review! 🍌🔫
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"I can make anyone / tell me everything / I want to hear / for a night."--"Riddle" by @auntaminal. newohioreview.org/2025/11/08…
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"This year we’re kicking underwire to the curb. / This year we’re breaking up with cup spillage. "--"The Algorithm Sells Me a New Bra" by @auntaminal , Winter Online Exclusive Featured art: "Embrace" by Rachel Hall. newohioreview.org/2025/11/07…
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✨ New CFP ✨ We're planning for two panels at the American Literature Association's annual conference in Chicago, May 20-23. Submit abstracts for "Jackson in an Age of Anxiety" and "Jackson and Animality" by January 15th. americanliteratureassociatio…
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Emily Banks retweeted
I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. 🧵
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Loved chatting with Miriam and Mike on @craftworkpod!
Listen to our latest episode! We chat with Emily Banks about posthumous publications, linguistic allergies, the atomic nuts and bolts of imagery, and so much more. tinyurl.com/572zhet3
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last day to submit an abstract for PAMLA! memory and forgetting!
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Don't forget! Abstracts for our PAMLA 2025 panel, "Shirley Jackson: Memory and Forgetting," are due June 30th. I hope some of you will join us November 20th-23d in San Francisco. 🌉🦭🌞 Follow this link to submit your proposal: pamla.ballastacademic.com/Ho…
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Happy New Year, Jacksonites! Remember to send proposals for our panels at the American Literature Association conference in Boston this May by January 15th!
🎉NEW CFP🎉 for the @AmLit_ALA's annual conference, 21-24 May 2025 in Boston MA. We are seeking papers for a panel on Shirley Jackson and Folk Horror as well as a second open topic panel. Abstracts by 1/15! americanliteratureassociatio…
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May #womeninmalefields never stop trending. This is the brand of pop-feminism I've been longing for.
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Boy do I have a religion for you
ancient holidays were a week long. Basically festivals. You can feel this is correct while at work today. people not really there. the whole world slowing down. You can just make the entire week a holiday and it's better than whatever is happening now
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Dear Russian people, Very few Americans want war with you. Most of us are glad the Cold War ended and want a friendly relationship. The people obsessed with fighting you forever are a minority — and they're on their way out of power. We want peace. Ignore our current leaders.
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Emily Banks retweeted
Mike Tyson is almost 60 years old. He shouldn’t be fighting. He should be getting ready to run for president in 15 years.
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The "perfect calibration" is part of what makes this terrifying. Interacting with parents and family members, kids learn to respond to other humans who WON'T automatically recalibrate to suit their needs and desires...like, ya know, friends...
Just watched my 5-year-old son chat with ChatGPT advanced voice mode for over 45 minutes. It started with a question about how cars were made. It explained it in a way that he could understand. He started peppering it with questions. Then he told it about his teacher, and that he was learning to count. ChatGPT started quizzing him on counting, and egging him on, making it into a game. He was laughing and having a blast, and it (obviously) never lost patience with him. I think this is going to be revolutionary. The essentially free, infinitely patient, super genius teacher that calibrates itself perfectly to your kid's learning style and pace. Excited about the future.
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Emily Banks retweeted
RFK better not be getting any ideas
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if RFK bans diet coke, i will make jan 6 look like a girl scout meeting.
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we are hitting the ground RUNNING.....
🚨 🚨BREAKING NEWS FROM @PunchbowlNews : Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-Fla.) resignation from Congress came two days before the House Ethics Committee was set to vote on releasing a “highly damaging” report outlining its investigation into the Republican, according to multiple sources familiar with the probe. The committee planned to vote Friday on releasing the report. Ethics loses its jurisdiction over Gaetz when he leaves Congress. The secretive panel has been investigating Gaetz on and off since 2021. President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Gaetz to be attorney general Wednesday. @MZanona @bresreports
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