Barry Maxwell
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Deeply embedded in my "Year of Saying No." And, sometimes, "Maybe." he/him https://t.co/TlMcB6S9CO
Missoula, MT
Joined August 2012
Nothing beats a good shot of endorphins & heart-meltiness to start the day. Thanks so much to all the @splitlipthemag & @splitlippress fam.
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Student visas: The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech for everyone within U.S. borders, regardless of citizenship status or immigration status. Inciting violence or other illegal activities fall outside that protection, but otherwise, protests and the like are fine.
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A friend of mine, one of those students I look at and ask "whaddya need *me* for?", just got published today! They're awesome. Check it out at @SweetLiterary : https://t.co/EZXu9mcspK
sweetlit.org
What I Understand I dreamed of a man with a gun in a food store and how he brought me with him to a corner. What he wanted was to sleep, I needed to be unscared enough to take a gun. I smelled it o…
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Fuck you Elon Musk and the pathetic tyrant you rode in on. That doesn't make me feel any better and won't do any good, but I couldn't not say it out loud. Free speech and all, right? @elonmusk
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A useful resource to track the ongoing shitstorm. https://t.co/BiZohzkbou
whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com
Your essential guide to the shock and awe in national politics. A sane, once-a-day newsletter helping normal people make sense of the news.
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Writer friends: A fellow writer is a journalist, a pro, intent on objectivity & fair reporting. They'd like to publish creative essays personal & political, but don't want their private ideologies to taint the journalistic persona. Is using a pseudonym a valid ethical move?
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In a college writing class for folks who didn't place well or have to retake the course, 2 dominant themes arose regarding less-than-great relationships to writing: The joy has been crushed out of a once joyful act & I don't understand why my audience doesn't understand me. Ouch.
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BEST NEWS EVER ! [ no pun ] 🥳 Go to https://t.co/aAOkIvAEW8 for more about independent #journalism returning to #Missoula MT! [ RIP @Missoula_Indy ]
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It's no more than a couple of baby steps after a long stretch of feeling intensely inadequate for anything writerly, but holy shit, I just submitted a couple of short pieces to a contest. Yay me. It's about damn time.
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Hey, Missoula folks! I've been honored w/a spot on the UM MFA program's @2ndWindReadings calendar this season, partnered w/the amazing Chris Patalano. Come watch me get all nervous & weird in public! It's April 23, 5 PM, at the UM Flat, 633 S 5th St E. Hit the other nights, too!
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I remember that fog smells like anesthesia - E, 4th Grade ✨✨✨
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Turns out teaching a flash memoir class is just the ticket for getting myself writing again. Been a long while.
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Best Westerns ride again! Feb 4th FreeCycles w/ Cosmic Sans
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Pile #1 w/about twice this still scattered among file drawers. Haven't even touched the hard drives yet. This'll take much longer than a month, but I'd bet there's a book length memoir hiding in there, a handful of essays, a short story or two, maybe even a bad poetry chapbook.
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I'm not doing NaNoWriMo, but in honor of words birthed by others, I'm pulling out orphaned fragments, rejected pieces, & the ghosts of workshops past, the rare ones so disheartening I couldn't even revisit the work. It's an exorcism & rebirth in one. Wish me luck & fortitude!
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I got to meet @J_Quellin_B, one of my longtime hero peeps today. https://t.co/qMeV0K3lWd
jacquelinetbrennan.com
Resisting domestication since 1992
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Jane Goodall's speaking at UM this evening, less than 1/2 hour from this tweet, actually. Zoom in if you like. Link on this page: https://t.co/r76PRbKx4n
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