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rhiannon mcgavin/poet/member of the chelm writers guild

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“These aren’t for Santa, they’re for Hanukkat!”

“Hanukkat?” 

“A magical feline wonder that leaves presents under the Hanukkah bush for all good Jewish children! She adorns her fur in fancy, flowing ribbons, and will kneed your back when you sleep if you leave her out some latkes, fresh cream, and Hanucookies!”

Happy Hanukkah everyone! This is a gift for my lovely boyfriend @quantumparable (hmm… I wonder if there may be more gifts to come in the next few days? ;) ) It’s based on one oh @rhiannonmcgavin‘s old shakespeare abridged videos which I still love to this day (to be specific, her Comedy of Errors one! I highly recommend her channel if you enjoy poetry, cats, and generally good vibes!)

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wait omg how did i not see this earlier, this is so good thank you!!

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chatting with local artist and smartypants ariela barer about the media and political landscapes for young women, and her first short film JELLY! 

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chatting with local artist and smartypants ariela barer about the media and political landscapes for young women, and her first short film JELLY! 

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chatting with local artist and smartypants ariela barer about the media and political landscapes for young women, and her first short film JELLY! 

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really proud of my revision process but this is the one poem that was just immediately done! here’s the original note of “foreign correspondent”, and how it appears in my book, branches

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I wanted to read an article about black motherhood that wasn’t a horror story. So I wrote it myself.

Coverage of the community has revolved around high maternal mortality rates, but I needed to read about our joy.

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here’s a video for the poem “foreign correspondent” from my book BRANCHES

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here’s a video for the poem “foreign correspondent” from my book BRANCHES

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a video for my poem “foreign correspondent”, from my book BRANCHES

shot between 2 trips to paris in little gasps! 

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a video for my poem "foreign correspondent", from my book BRANCHES

shot between 2 trips to paris in little gasps! 

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A retired teacher found some seahorses off Long Beach. Then he built a secret world for them

Rog Hanson created a secret habitat for seahorses in the coastal waters off Long Beach. He's come to see them about 1,000 times.

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The Tear Gas Biennial

WARREN B. KANDERS DIDN’T EARN HIS PLACE as vice chair of the board at the Whitney Museum of American Art through his good taste alone. He has also used some of his estimated $700 million fortune to make tax-deductible donations to support exhibitions at the museum. What successful enterprise has made this generosity possible? Thanks to the collective, years-long effort of activists, students, and reporters to bring everyday brutality to light, we could tell you quite a lot about Kanders’s company Safariland, which does a brisk trade supplying batons, handcuffs, holsters, and body armor to police

kanders quit but i hope the momentum of this moment continues to swing! “everything is impossible before it happens“

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slimming my schedule to producing one youtube video for my channel per month so the videos can be longer / artsier / i can focus more on writing! relatedly i'm thinking of starting a newsletter

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hello LA i am home and reading poems with a cool lineup of comedians and poets on 7/24 if you’re around ! get tickets here

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today we journey deep into the subconscious by cleaning out my bookshelf

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hi prague!! i’m reading at the globe bookstore at 7 or 8ish pm on july 2, come say hi! 

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would you say that ezra pound was the first podcaster