This Week's Writing 7/11/26
Platner, poetry, cat under chair...and new venmo donation option!
Wrote a bunch about Platner this week, but also about other things.
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Okay, here’s what I published this week.
Politics
We have dictatorship by and for petty spite. (Public Notice)
Survivors, not the establishment, ended Platner’s campaign. (EIH)
Ds finally have a real chance to defeat Collins. (EIH)
Demand that candidates say “expand the court.” (EIH)
Cultural criticism
Poet Madhur Anand listens to birdsong and meaning’s decay in Parasitic Oscillations. (Splice Today)
Remarkably Bright Creatures is a white savior melodrama. (EIH)
Romero’s smaller than life horror. (EIH)
Poetry
Sort of haiku. (Five Fleas)
You know you are a real poet
when you would rather pay bills
than write a poem.
Two word poem. (smols)
nothing
between
From the archive
Progressive Candidate Has Dropped Out Of ME Senate Race
After the recent ugly revelations about Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner, I figured I’d look at who else was in the race besides 77-year-old Governor Janet Mills.
