Shawnte Orion

Slacker poet. Procrastination Laureate. Rejection slip connoisseur. Author of Gravity & Spectacle (Tolsun Books) and The Existentialist Cookbook (NYQBOOKS).

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This split 7inch (with SF band Sweat Lodge on one side and my poems on the other) came out greater than I hoped!
Launch show at @stinkweeds records on Feb. 25th or pre-order from Related Records here (will ship a few weeks earlier) 👀
https://t.co/ve0drrBmnW
#vinylrecords

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@CoffinItUp Bite Me and You Suck were especially hilarious.

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Dolly Parton definitely lived a full and lengthy life so I'm only sad for the world because we are missing out on one of the truest forces of good this universe has ever seen.

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@letjesscook True. The whole cast was perfect.

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@havehadhavehad Consulted all the desert oracles to decipher which timezone we are currently in, on behalf of the Arizona delegation 🌵

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@letjesscook What in the Guillermo del Toro ����

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@jdalewrites I mostly feel this way, too.
Another band that covers it slant, was The Minibosses, who did epic rocking guitar hero translations of 8-bit Nintendo game themes.

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Last week for submissions to @rinkydinkpress ⚠️

https://t.co/C4KtjzbAEE

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@havehadhavehad This is the best.

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@letjesscook Btw I'm glad you got an account back. I only use this to keep up on all the lit world drama, but i always appreciated your Suns takes to break up that monotony.

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Fyi @rinkydinkpress is open for submissions this month. Our calls aren't as fleeting as @havehadhavehad but we have a few authors in common like @EZhang77 so if you have a cohesive group of 5 or 6 micro-pieces that would fit on these tiny zine pages: https://t.co/s5AuIklVNv

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If Trump wanted people to show up to his embarrassing 250th American State Fair, he should've just built a BUC-EE's on the White House lawn like the one they just opened in Arizona.

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I guess random is also an effective algorithm

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D'OH! Got caught up in summer break mode, nothing formatted for today.

Play a game of RANDOM and share your findings!

https://t.co/UeaMlXtbHW

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@aliner A killer line 🔥

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fyi rinky dink press is open for submissions through June and July for our 2027 series of zines.
So if you have a tiny manuscript of 5 or 6 micro-poems (or micro flash, memoir, etc), here are our guidelines:
https://t.co/Fap9YB46f0

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Stoked to have a poem in the new issue of Threepenny Review about the Dushanbe Teahouse in @downtownboulder 🍵💚
Only time you'll see my name next to Sharon Olds.

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They should've just told Trump that his son was getting married at Madison Square Garden, so he wouldn't show up.
Then the Knicks wouldn't be cursed.

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@rinkydinkpress is excited to announce our 2026 series that will launch at AWP Baltimore!
(find us at table 617)
Welcome fifteen new authors 🎊
Fifteen new zines 🎉

This is the 10th Anniversary of rinky dink press 🎉

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@jaiaarana That sounds like a very cool project. If you give me a mailing address, I'd be happy to donate a copy of my last book.

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Grateful to have a new poem in the Sweet 16 issue of @SugarHouseRev