Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
@warmaiden.bsky.social
Poet, academic library scholar, chronic illness life. Author: The Light Becomes Us (Main Street Rag, 2025), Toothache in the Bone (boats against the current, 2025), more. See www.colleensharris.com
@firstbitepress.bsky.social is less than $300 from meeting the goal for my fine press limited edition of #poems, Babylon Songs. Pick up a hand-printed poem with custom linocut? Each piece is a work of art!
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#poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 #criplib
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#poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 #criplib
Babylon Songs - Limited Edition Letterpress Poetry Book
Babylon Songs is a fine press, hand printed poetry collection written by Colleen S. Harris with illustrations by Sandie Levent.
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September 14, 2026 at 7:41 PM
@firstbitepress.bsky.social is less than $300 from meeting the goal for my fine press limited edition of #poems, Babylon Songs. Pick up a hand-printed poem with custom linocut? Each piece is a work of art!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...
#poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 #criplib
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#poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 #criplib
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
Again, this is newsworthy, but only because it shows (1) the deeply unpopular President of the United States is badly out of touch with the actual concerns of voters and (2) he is also quite fucking insane.
Trump says he might change the names of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans next
August 27, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Again, this is newsworthy, but only because it shows (1) the deeply unpopular President of the United States is badly out of touch with the actual concerns of voters and (2) he is also quite fucking insane.
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.
July 10, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
I'm glad to see this from the Globe. ICE is leaning into the "secret" part of secret police because they know they are unpopular and they also think that people won't pay attention when their abductions happen away from white people.
ICE is still detaining people out in the streets — but in quieter ways - The Boston Globe
Immigration arrests by ICE are ramping up in Massachusetts and across the country, even if the activity is garnering fewer explosive headlines than previously.
www.bostonglobe.com
July 10, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I'm glad to see this from the Globe. ICE is leaning into the "secret" part of secret police because they know they are unpopular and they also think that people won't pay attention when their abductions happen away from white people.
My poem "Inflammation as Girl" out of @phillychapbook.bsky.social is featured by the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses Disability Pride Month list!
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#poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 #criplib
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#poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 #criplib
A Reading List for Disability Pride Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
We asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in honor of Disability Pride Month, observed ann...
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July 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
My poem "Inflammation as Girl" out of @phillychapbook.bsky.social is featured by the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses Disability Pride Month list!
CLMP Link: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
Poem: phillychapbookreview.org/five-poems-b...
#poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 #criplib
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Poem: phillychapbookreview.org/five-poems-b...
#poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 #criplib
Honored to have finished my 1st week as the new dean of Meriam Library at CSU Chico, affectionately known as Chico State. Best of all worlds - an incredibly dedicated library team, dedicated students, a beautiful campus, and a wonderful city. It feels like home 🥰
July 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Honored to have finished my 1st week as the new dean of Meriam Library at CSU Chico, affectionately known as Chico State. Best of all worlds - an incredibly dedicated library team, dedicated students, a beautiful campus, and a wonderful city. It feels like home 🥰
Been quiet as things have been busy - accepted a new job! I'll start as the new dean of Meriam Library at CalState Chico on July 1. Really excited to join their passionate and talented team, and wishing my current folks the best with the amazing things they're building.
Carl Fredricksen: Adventure Is Out There!
ALT: Carl Fredricksen: Adventure Is Out There!
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June 4, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Been quiet as things have been busy - accepted a new job! I'll start as the new dean of Meriam Library at CalState Chico on July 1. Really excited to join their passionate and talented team, and wishing my current folks the best with the amazing things they're building.
Watching reactors listen to their first Billy Joel songs, and as a spectator it brings me the same kind of pure joy as when I saw my inland friends see the ocean for the first time.
Peanuts Gang: Charlie Brown, Linus & Snoopy Winter Dance
ALT: Peanuts Gang: Charlie Brown, Linus & Snoopy Winter Dance
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June 4, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Watching reactors listen to their first Billy Joel songs, and as a spectator it brings me the same kind of pure joy as when I saw my inland friends see the ocean for the first time.
Woot! My paper "Class Performance, Anxiety, and the Violence of Social Illusion in Hitchcock and Contemporary Film" was accepted for presentation at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association summer conference!
a man with a mustache wearing a blue jacket and scarf
ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a blue jacket and scarf
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April 21, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Woot! My paper "Class Performance, Anxiety, and the Violence of Social Illusion in Hitchcock and Contemporary Film" was accepted for presentation at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association summer conference!
Not sleeping lately, high inflammation. But productive - I've drafted 2 books (1 on lyric, one on literary criticism/feminist critical theory) & proposed them to university presses, wrote 6 articles out of them submitted to various journals, & 1 article out of my PhD dissertation submitted #writing
April 2, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Not sleeping lately, high inflammation. But productive - I've drafted 2 books (1 on lyric, one on literary criticism/feminist critical theory) & proposed them to university presses, wrote 6 articles out of them submitted to various journals, & 1 article out of my PhD dissertation submitted #writing
I have severe IBD, and I just saw a meme that said "Girls who poop vs BITCHES that SHIT" and I am HOWLING with laughter
March 13, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I have severe IBD, and I just saw a meme that said "Girls who poop vs BITCHES that SHIT" and I am HOWLING with laughter
Doc: "Make sure you report any hypomania so we can correct it"
Me: [writing a new monograph and an MA thesis and starting a new poetry collection and full of ideas again] "Yeah, no, never heard of it"
Me: [writing a new monograph and an MA thesis and starting a new poetry collection and full of ideas again] "Yeah, no, never heard of it"
March 12, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Doc: "Make sure you report any hypomania so we can correct it"
Me: [writing a new monograph and an MA thesis and starting a new poetry collection and full of ideas again] "Yeah, no, never heard of it"
Me: [writing a new monograph and an MA thesis and starting a new poetry collection and full of ideas again] "Yeah, no, never heard of it"
My #poems "Pain Scale" and "Chronic Illness Logic" have been accepted for publication by @anodynemag.bsky.social ! I am so, so excited. #booksky @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #criplit 📝 ☁️📚
March 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
My #poems "Pain Scale" and "Chronic Illness Logic" have been accepted for publication by @anodynemag.bsky.social ! I am so, so excited. #booksky @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 💙📚 #poetry 📖 #criplit 📝 ☁️📚
SO PROUD - my #poem "It Begins This Way" is out at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social! To see it published in an outlet I love reading feels like coming home 🏠 Thank you, Camille & DIHP team!
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#poetry 💙📚 #booksky @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 📝 ☁️📚
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#poetry 💙📚 #booksky @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 📝 ☁️📚
Colleen Harris — Does It Have Pockets
It Begins This Way
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March 1, 2026 at 11:04 PM
SO PROUD - my #poem "It Begins This Way" is out at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social! To see it published in an outlet I love reading feels like coming home 🏠 Thank you, Camille & DIHP team!
www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/colle...
#poetry 💙📚 #booksky @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 📝 ☁️📚
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#poetry 💙📚 #booksky @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 📝 ☁️📚
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
The dildo store is out here doing more than Mayor of Minneapolis yet again. @smittenkittenmn.bsky.social has secured a match of up to $250K in Rental Relief Funds from the Wilson Foundation. Donate & share! LFG!!! ❤️🔥
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Donate to SMITTEN KITTEN X NHN RENTAL RELIEF FUND, organized by Anne Lehman
TLDR; SMITTEN KITTEN FINALLY HAS A WAY TO TAKE ONLINE DONATIONS FOR RENTAL ASSI… Anne Lehman needs your support for SMITTEN KITTEN X NHN RENTAL RELIEF FUND
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February 28, 2026 at 9:50 PM
The dildo store is out here doing more than Mayor of Minneapolis yet again. @smittenkittenmn.bsky.social has secured a match of up to $250K in Rental Relief Funds from the Wilson Foundation. Donate & share! LFG!!! ❤️🔥
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Man, hyperfocus is wild. I think I might have accidentally written most of a decent scholarly article on Victorian literature and the gaze tonight. Whoops?
February 28, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Man, hyperfocus is wild. I think I might have accidentally written most of a decent scholarly article on Victorian literature and the gaze tonight. Whoops?
Proud to have my #poem "I Think My Sister is Secretly a Horse" in @northamerreview.bsky.social's Open Spaces!
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#poetry 💙📚 #booksky ☁️📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 📝
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#poetry 💙📚 #booksky ☁️📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 📝
I Think My Sister Is Secretly a Horse | North American Review
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February 27, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Proud to have my #poem "I Think My Sister is Secretly a Horse" in @northamerreview.bsky.social's Open Spaces!
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#poetry 💙📚 #booksky ☁️📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 📝
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#poetry 💙📚 #booksky ☁️📚 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📖 📝
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
So if this deal goes through, one MAGA-allied family will own:
Oracle
TikTok
CBS
Paramount
Warner Brothers
CNN
Trump will have his sticky, ketchup-covered little fingers in every facet of how Americans get their news.
Oracle
TikTok
CBS
Paramount
Warner Brothers
CNN
Trump will have his sticky, ketchup-covered little fingers in every facet of how Americans get their news.
February 27, 2026 at 3:04 AM
So if this deal goes through, one MAGA-allied family will own:
Oracle
TikTok
CBS
Paramount
Warner Brothers
CNN
Trump will have his sticky, ketchup-covered little fingers in every facet of how Americans get their news.
Oracle
TikTok
CBS
Paramount
Warner Brothers
CNN
Trump will have his sticky, ketchup-covered little fingers in every facet of how Americans get their news.
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
Jean-Paul Sartre hated stickiness. He was fundamentally anti-honey. Yet he had a beautiful way of describing how subject and object come together through touch, a discovery of "something like a flesh of objects..."
February 26, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Jean-Paul Sartre hated stickiness. He was fundamentally anti-honey. Yet he had a beautiful way of describing how subject and object come together through touch, a discovery of "something like a flesh of objects..."
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
You do good, unimpeachable work!
Thanks, that means a lot coming from you!
Thanks, that means a lot coming from you!
February 26, 2026 at 3:52 AM
You do good, unimpeachable work!
Thanks, that means a lot coming from you!
Thanks, that means a lot coming from you!
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...
BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance says the Trump administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns.
Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns
Vice President JD Vance says the Trump administration will “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns.
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February 25, 2026 at 10:05 PM
It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...
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I need to create a database of all the ways I'm discovering schools and libraries undercutting their state's Freedom to Read laws. We knew it would happen and we know it's happening, but the methods by which it's being done are fucking wild.
Book banners will ban books, law or not.
Book banners will ban books, law or not.
February 18, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I need to create a database of all the ways I'm discovering schools and libraries undercutting their state's Freedom to Read laws. We knew it would happen and we know it's happening, but the methods by which it's being done are fucking wild.
Book banners will ban books, law or not.
Book banners will ban books, law or not.
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
i'm so excited to have a poem in the latest issue of Radar Poetry. if you head to the website you can hear me read it, and the issue is a beauty--AND there's a stunning poem by @wordperv.bsky.social there, too!
www.radarpoetry.com/privilege
www.radarpoetry.com/privilege
February 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
i'm so excited to have a poem in the latest issue of Radar Poetry. if you head to the website you can hear me read it, and the issue is a beauty--AND there's a stunning poem by @wordperv.bsky.social there, too!
www.radarpoetry.com/privilege
www.radarpoetry.com/privilege
Reposted by Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie
Just to make this abundantly clear:
February 16, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Just to make this abundantly clear: