high school teacher, aging soccer player, scribbler of words, chronic overthinker, rarely gets haircuts, he/him

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Joined December 2013
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I have just won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Let it bring hope Let it be a tale
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Submissions close April 5th! Send us your stuff!
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You've got till' Sunday❤️ #WritingCommunity
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Your literary journey starts here. Share your creations with Fahmidan Journal today. Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme
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A little late posting this to Twitter, but a huge thank you to @penn_review for giving this poem a home. I have been shopping it around since its first encouraging decline from @TBQuarterly and stoked it finally landed with The Penn Review. pennreview.org/we-worshiped-…
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The conversation about A.I. begins and ends with the Spongebob episode where King Neptune mass produces hundreds of disgusting Krabby Patties through magic and Spongebob handmakes one delicious Krabby Patty with love
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Now open for submissions for this anthology. Submit at terrapinbooks.com/what-the-h…
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📢Calling all poets📢 Only two weeks left to send in your love poems!
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Real recognize real grandad, and right now you looking kinda unfamiliar! 😂
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Toni Morrison said, “I do write towards something...The possibility of moving from data to information to knowledge to wisdom is the track of everything I have ever written.” This is also a good approach to teaching.
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The announcement of Tim Walz as Harris's VP pick has brought back my non-MN friends calling me and asking me to say "bag" in a sentence and share their thoughts on the movie Fargo. Which is cute and all, but...
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I also need them to realize how in less than a month a new group of high schoolers is going to learn that my last name is Sturdy and they're going to ask me to dance in a way that I haven't properly stretched for, and, AND...don't they realize I'm tired?
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Hold on, my phone is ringing. Yep. I gotta take this. *mentally prepares self to say "bag" and talk about ice fishing*
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With JD Vance looking like the Republican pick for vice president, a reminder that there's a great collection of activist and scholarly perspectives on him—Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy. A bunch of us worked on it at (no surprise) a university press.
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A dating app but it's just one picture of someone's bookshelves, one of their usual grocery haul, one of their pets, and one their thermostat
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🧵🧵There is a faction of people in Minneapolis whose limited imagination leads them to believe that the only path to safer communities is police funding & larger salaries for the police. But there are so many other options for the city of Minneapolis to actively pursue safety 1/
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“The first words I write aren’t necessarily the ones I want or will use, but those first words open doors. How else can the muse enter?” Toni Cade Bambara
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“This hurricane is a direct result of the climate crisis that Grenada, the Caribbean, and other Small Island Developing States are on the front line of.” Ecocide
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