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All the posted poems from last year's 12-Hour Couplets Contest, including the winning poem, "Mother," by Ella Harrigan (ella) pfpoi.blogspot.com/p/poems-from-2…

Getting jump scared by the volta in a sonnet

to do: get job, learn how to make focaccia, grow out hair, write novel (critical success, commercial failure), get steam-cleaner like i see on instagram, make bed, become famous poet, water herbs in the garden, pick a few sprigs, put them on top of my focaccia

La France doit 30 milliards d'euros à Haïti En 1825 l’Etat français imposait à Haïti un tribut afin de compenser les propriétaires d’esclaves pour leur perte de propriété. Il est temps de lancer des discussions concrètes sur les modalités de restitution. lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2…

the thing everyone overlooks when trying to reconstruct PIE is the most obvious language—the universal language of love.

(reading a word) that's probably a reference to an object or concept

sat here reading auden. later i found a frog hidden under a flower. such a small frog! such a big flower!

BREAKING: Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well. Here's what Apple discovered: (hint: we're not as close to AGI as the hype suggests)

posting into the void: does anyone know any papers using discourse analysis on llm outputs? like length, politeness, etc?

We're enjoying Summer with our brilliant new JUNE ISSUE 😎 Enjoy it at our website: buff.ly/M9YTorb All the love to our contributors! WORDS: Amelia Valasek, Jack Barrie, ella, Alex Bortell ART: Jasper Glen PLUS: Tania Malik interviews Esinam Bediako

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From our archives: "Mother," by Ella Harrigan (ella), the winner of last year's Couplets Contest. Read the full poem at the link in the reply.

"Its more expensive to buy groceries than to eat out" is something only uttered by someone afraid to have beans for dinner. And that's fine. More beans for myself and my peers.

"Apparently, my nerves can’t be trusted. So their distress signals are blocked by paralyzed muscle: They’re sent out over and over but never received." —Ella Harrigan for Split Lip Magazine splitlipthemag.com/memoir/0625/el…

shoutout jefferson headache center <3 <3

Love when a pigeon boards the subway then gets off at other stop like wow she’s just like us

it's crazy how much your rituals can say about your life for instance in high school it was like: nightly skincare, nightly ensure, weekly weigh-in w/ the school nurse, weekly new yorker. now it's like: daily coffee w/ sugar, sunday church, still weekly new yorker :)

anyway here is a sonnet i wrote about how i was crazy in high school in michigan during covid. shoutout interlochen arts academy & their incessant fundraising emails — if you wanted me to donate, you should have been a STEM school not a poetry one!!

Eric Garner was killed on this day in 2014. If I ever get to teach a class on how to write about other people, this would be the first piece we would look at.