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One of our founders Karol Olesiak finaled in the 2024 Moonstone Chapbook contest. Read the opening poem which was featured @laurelreview proud to be https://t.co/Y9iWhO0B2v

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New from Finishing Line Press: Saturday Morning Crusades by Karol Olesiak

On SALE:    https://t.co/hdTtlvj564

Saturday Morning Crusades is a playful yet piercing collection that reimagines childhood cartoons, pop culture relics, and myth through the lens of memory, trauma, and survival. From Muppet Babies dreamscapes to idiomatic bestiary haikus, the poems blur absurd humor with elegiac weight, exploring war legacies, ecological collapse, illness, and the surreal rituals of daily life. Saturday morning turns innocence into a battleground of identity and history, where cartoon archetypes collide with existential dread and longing. Both intimate and mythic, the collection interrogates nostalgia while forging new language for grief, resilience, and the strange joy of persistence. #poetry #popculture #identity #life

Karol Olesiak is a #queer #disabled #poet, writer, and activist whose work explores trauma and transcendence. Karol is a combat veteran and a co-founder of https://t.co/bzalbN0oaQ, an Occupy Wall Street affinity group and antiwar blog, Karol’s work appears in Laurel Review, Rogue Agent, Neologism Poetry, Soul Forte, Zoetic, Lone Mountain Literary, and other publications. Karol is a Wheeler Prize semifinalist, Saturnalia Books semifinalist, Moonstone Chapbook finalist, and Pushcart nominee with an MFA from University of San Francisco.

PRAISE:

With Saturday Morning Crusades, Karol Olesiak boldly reimagines the mundane as a symphonic stream of thought, playfully drawing attention to the oft-ironic underbelly of the modern world. At once a layered lament and a celebration of euphony, Olesiak’s joyful play with sonics juxtaposes the chapbook’s subject matter, ultimately nodding to the nonsense in the world around us and forcing the reader to parse the harsh truths hidden between the lines.
–nat raum, author of journal of various worries 

In Saturday Morning Crusades, Karol Olesiak evokes an impression of something intangible, a crumbling reality that at times seems almost absurd, yet you can’t shake the feeling that each word has been carefully chosen. With each read, you find yourself deciphering hidden meanings, like a puzzle you can’t step away from. There’s something chaotic and fragmented in Olesiak’s language, entwined with a sentiment of exhaustion and overwhelm amid the society’s brain-rot. Olesiak questions everything, including the sense of self, gender, and the world around us. The language doesn’t shy away from a strong critique of spirituality and the reliance on being ‘fixed’ by someone or something else. This poetry collection is heavily based on symbolism and, at times, humorous twists and riddles, but it pulses with frailty and unspoken truths that are often either too unpleasant or too painful to acknowledge.
–Andrea Damic author All The Losses

Built out of refrains, fractured lists, and idioms pushed across and against multiple tongues, Olesiak’s poems feel like they’re testing. Testing the reader, testing boundaries of language, testing the spaces where Saturday-morning-cartoon logic bleeds into trauma. Familiar phrases return slightly warped; animals and objects become unstable anchors for thought rather than symbols that resolve. Like the best cartoons, the book is a pleasure to move through, even as its residue lingers slightly off-center, just out of reach of comfort.
–Dylan Connell Nadie se salva & Mask of Aphrodite

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@elonmusk We hope you are super sad. Maybe the "woke mind virus" would make you happier. Maybe you are feeling guilty. Loved you in the epstine list.

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We wish Americans had cared as much about Abu Ghraib as they do about the Epstein files . End the war on terrorism. Ice is a byproduct.

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@stevespiffler @NICKIMINAJ Because she’s Margaret Thatcher

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I will be reading my poem, honoring the nexus between @iww and Whitman at the @moonstonearts launch of the Remembering Joe Hill Anthology zoom reading on Nov. 16 2pm eastern. Register here: https://t.co/iRNyv7yc9M

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@HustleBitch_ weekend-warriors

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“In the Southern States, masters induce their slaves to drink whisky, in order to keep them from devising ways and means by which to obtain their freedom.” Frederick Douglass

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eco poem -- ombrotrophia -- live @decenterarts -- book trailer https://t.co/N3knQde9fl via @YouTube

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Avi Loeb is a Fraud Now #ufo https://t.co/FuYI22dBV0 via @YouTube

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@FakeNewsHurts I'm not saying it was a fake Putin but it gives a different vantage of spectacle. Also, why would they send the real Putin.

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New article from a new member of our team. https://t.co/YDyDm531mP

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Military Myths and the War Hawk Class https://t.co/h9eudeltsA

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Why Historic Protests Aren't Always Effective Protests https://t.co/iPrpqWPF6a

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@tedcruz We shouldn’t indict communism. If Batista tortured and Fidel Castro tortured, then maybe Cubans just like to torture.

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They Are Arresting Anti War Veterans In The Capitol https://t.co/rLRIuXdqMe

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Shout out to the children of Holocaust survivors, who aren’t supporting the present day holocaust free Palestine

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Our website has a new look come check us out. There’s something things in the pipeline. Here’s George Carlin's Discharge papers from the Air Force https://t.co/QrqlskTS9D

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It seems to me that the only way the war terrorism is going to end is by mistake

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tomorrow I will premiere a video of a poem it's taken me almost a decade to write for Judy Sin I am finally satisfied with it and hoping you'll join me in honoring my friend https://t.co/vBfmNA6rvl via @YouTube