Mandianne

Mandianne

@mandianne.bsky.social

MFA student, poet, tarot reader, mostly introverted, book lover

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This… Im overwhelmed with emotions… Fuck Vučić and all nationalists and mafia! Students won!

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“The book is detailed, strange, yet fun and light. The stories don’t look at death with only grief, but allow darkness to lurk and breathe.” @mandianne.bsky.social reviews SOMEBODY IS WALKING ON YOUR GRAVE by Maria Enriquez.

southernreviewofbooks.comMaria Enrqiuez on What Cemeteries Have To Teach Readers About LifeA review of “Sombeody is Walking on Your Grave” by Maria Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell, now out in paperback.

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Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

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A new study has shown that miscarriage or induced abortion is NOT a potential risk factor for breast cancer, contrary to continued anti-choice propaganda. Even several abortions or miscarriages does not increase risk. The study used high-quality Finnish registry data.

news-medical.netPrior abortion or miscarriage not linked to increased risk of pre- or postmenopausal breast cancerA prior abortion or miscarriage was not linked with an increased risk of developing pre- or postmenopausal breast cancer in a study published in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica.

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Here is an interview I did with Radha Marcum, author of "Pine Soot Tendon Bone" (Washington Prize 2023). "I do think that imagery comes first. When I start to think about a concept, it's always the images that come first." poettopoet.substack.com/p/in-dialog-...

poettopoet.substack.comIn Dialog with GhostsPoet Crisosto Apache discusses how their poetry collection Ghostword emerged in conversation with the works of Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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Ada Limón reflects on growing up with divorced parents and reframes the difficulties and challenges with gratitude for a twice lived experience I think this also speaks of her dual nationality, rather than being one/other/neither, there is something to treasure in being both #poetry #poemoftheday

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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

I don't use it myself but please find a better alternative. Nobody who cares about humanity, the planet, democracy needs this. Imagine, wholesale dumping of chatgpt won't make our lives any worse.

Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social

ChatGPT is Trump’s biggest donor and is used by ICE. If you don’t like Trump or ICE, you should quit ChatGPT.

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Proud to welcome Crisosto Apache as Colorado’s 11th Poet Laureate — a powerful voice exploring identity, memory, and the power of words, with work featured in GENESIS, Ghostword, POETRY Magazine, and Denver Quarterly.

Excited to see this review. Can't wait to sit down and take the time to enjoy reading this book (which will happen as soon as I've finished my thesis ;-) I love the way that some books come out at exactly when we need them. @fantomas2go.bsky.social #booksky

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Linktree in my bio. The secret is out now. I am excited to be named Colorado's 11th Poet Laureate for 2026 - 2027 by Governor Jared Polis @govofco. I join the ranks of the great poets who preceded me. To be honest, this news came as a total surprise—I never dreamed I’d be in this position.

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‘Suetonius is notorious for the salacious details he shared of the depraved sex lives and sadistic murder sprees of the early Roman emperors, but there’s more to the book than the X-rated material.’ @moonjets.bsky.social on Suetonius’ 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘴: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

lrb.co.ukThomas Jones · Lords of the World: Keeping Up with the CaesarsAs Mary Beard has put it, ‘How could you control and defend a vast empire, stretching from Spain to Syria, with a...

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While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

I took a double take at this today. Between this and GOP = Guardians of Pedophiles, I thought about it and realized the continued cover up of Epstein files makes this ring true. The 'prove me wrong' arguments of maga have come full circle back to them. They cannot disprove this. Release the files.

ML@mlpoole.bsky.social

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Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those

AI is NOT your friend.

Bruce Little@brucedlittle.bsky.social

Time to dump ChatGPT! The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.

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“America, are you listening? When freedom is in danger, when you are asked, in one faked way or another, a shabby admonition, to leave your own humanity which includes the humanity of all, the alarm is extra-ordinary, America. Don’t you think so?” U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, 2017:

bostonreview.netForeword: Poems for Political DisasterIntroducing a special collection of poetry, published on the inauguration of Donald Trump.

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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

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"Obradović has a natural storytelling ability and poetry that’s as accessible as it is thoughtful." ~Mandianne Berg Check out this new review of "Called By Distances" in Southern Review of Books!

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Enjoyed reviewing this poetry collection for @southrevbooks.bsky.social Worth a read, especially if you enjoy poetry that's candid, open, and crafted well. #booksky #writingcommunity #poetry southernreviewofbooks.com/2026/01/22/c...

Swift, deadly AND a fashion sense 😆😆 Croatians 😘

NPR@npr.org

In this installment of NPR's "Word of the Week" series we trace the origins of the "cravat" (borrowed from the French "cravate") back to the battlefields of 17th century Europe. n.pr/4jPpY6R

"Writing fiction is a lot of things. For me it’s partly music in my head. A pitch develops, a rhythm and timbre, a melody and harmony, a tempo and pulse."

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social

“You can be a lot of things and still be you, but there are a lot of things you can’t be without losing yourself. And it matters, in writing, not to lose yourself.” On weighing the question of maintaining an authorial brand.

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If your resolution this year is to support more independent bookstores, hi!👋🏽 We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every purchase supports indie bookstores all over the U.S. 😌📚 (And our CEO has never gone to space, just saying)

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‘Cleave’ can refer to splitting something apart. ‘Cleave’ can also refer to the uniting of two things. …what? A word that is also its own opposite is called a ‘contronym.’