Melissa Spohr Weiss

Sometimes I write poems.

[Melissa Spohr Weiss @melsince93]

Any @UNB, @StThomasU, or @myNBCC students who feel unsafe or nervous about returning to campus on February 7, consider signing and/or sharing this petition:
https://t.co/cIH06wz6IL

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

no one told me that half of adulthood is wondering if people are mad at you because they didn’t answer your email and the other half is not answering emails because you’re tired

[Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor]

The plums, the icebox, the thieving motherfucker

[Tara Skurtu @TaraSkurtu]

“Positive vibes only” people make me so nervous. You can’t trust that.

[The Gritty Nurse with Amie Archibald-Varley @Grittynurse]

Retweet this if you want a healthcare worker who is vaccinated taking care of your sick family member in hospital.

[Mag Gabbert @mag_gabbert]

Poems are kinda tough to teach in a test-based school system, so instead they’re often framed more like riddles, as things that need to be “figured out” or “solved.” To me, the difference is:

Riddles have 1 answer.

Poems have 0 answers, but many secrets.

[Melissa Spohr Weiss @melsince93]

I can't wait to get my coy! Cristalle is an amazing poet - check out her chapbook!

[Charlie C Petch 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🏳️‍⚧️ @sawpoet]

I'll likely never admit how I found out that another way to say "crying in the washroom" is "going number 3", but I love this so much.

[Charlie C Petch 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🏳️‍⚧️ @sawpoet]

Look, I want to be real with you all. I've just been rearranging 26 letters this whole time

[@[email protected] @VitaVirginiaBot]

29 May, 1927
You're the only person I want to see when I have a headache-- that's a compliment.
Virginia

[@[email protected] @VitaVirginiaBot]

3 March, 1926
I wish you could live in my brain for a week. It is washed with the most violent waves of emotion.
Your Virginia

[Leah Johnson @byleahjohnson]

Y'all gotta quit lying to young writers and telling them they need to write everyday. Nah, y'all need to go watch a movie. Listen to folklore. Talk to your friends. That's what's going to make the work sing. I think we forget that being a human is central to being an artist too.

[Tara Skurtu @TaraSkurtu]

Writers: If you are submitting something you strongly believe in and it keeps getting rejected, please keep sending it out. Often our strongest work gets rejected the most before it gets taken. This is the truth.

[@qwertymagazine.bsky.social @Qwerty_Magazine]

We're hungry for more visual art in our FOOD x IDENTITY issue, edited by the one & only @gaia_writes! 2SQTBIPOC artists, submit your work at https://t.co/BA6QD7vwoN.

DEADLINE: FEB 28, 2021

[Melissa Spohr Weiss @melsince93]

Honoured to have three new poems in The Temz Review!

[The Temz Review @The_Temz_Review]

We're so pleased to publish @melsince93's poetry! From "Julia Rapke":

Julia always has her hands in the ground / she has steel-amber eyes / she keeps busy scrubbing holes through bathroom linoleum / she forgets about fruit until it is over-ripe / ...

https://t.co/D0sDuGpwWT

[Melissa Spohr Weiss @melsince93]

I can't wait to get my copy! @SmithCristalle is the most incredible writer! 💜🥳🦄

[Patricia McKnight @Pmcknightnews]

I keep hearing the word “protestors”. Terrorists. Rioters. Thugs. NOT PROTESTORS. Let’s be intentional with our word usage.

[Melissa Spohr Weiss @melsince93]

My little crow poem found a nice home at Barrelhouse. Looking forward to reading all the great work in this issue!