Vic 🪩⚡️🗡

High-tech lowlife out of Carolina, writing gender & disability & the South. Glossary of Unsaid Terms (2020). Teaching @ UChicago. They/them. Opinions mine.

[Vic 🪩⚡️🗡 @vicstronaut]

I only check twitter for updates on active shooters.

Read it again.

[Vic 🪩⚡️🗡 @vicstronaut]

20k words into a prose project & I have no clue what I’m doing but I can’t stop??

[Astro Poets @poetastrologers]

Somewhere a Libra is not thinking of you

[Vic 🪩⚡️🗡 @vicstronaut]

@KenV54 Totally!

[Vic 🪩⚡️🗡 @vicstronaut]

Every three months I rediscover that hot coffee 1) exists and 2) is also good but 4 days later I return to my siren song: a Very Queer iced coffee and that little swirly gesture before I take a sip

[Vic 🪩⚡️🗡 @vicstronaut]

Irrepressible Thoughts of Death Barbie 💖

[Vic 🪩⚡️🗡 @vicstronaut]

@SarahViren Messy suggestion: discourse around the longform YouTube apology is particularly rich 💁 I think a lot about the ways a digital life changes the rhetoric of an apology

[Gracen Maverick🎙️ @gracenmaverick]

as a writer, i am neither writing or revising but, instead, a secret third thing

[Vic 🪩⚡️🗡 @vicstronaut]

poetry might be emotion recollected in tranquility but it’s also the blown power line and small fire in my back alley yesterday

[Vic 🪩⚡️🗡 @vicstronaut]

Each person has a story.
Each story is a tragedy.
Tragedy is a question of time.

@23cschwartz #SealeyChallenge

[joseph osmundson (all pronouns) @reluctantlyjoe]

The FOMO to Please Don’t Perceive Me pipeline.

[Maya Jewell Zeller @MayaJZeller]

Hi! ⚡️@KatNuernberger & I have been collaborating on an Advanced Poetry text -- which has been a lovely way to spend time thinking abt lineage & ancestry. Built around the pedagogy of creating your own canon, our book is now available for pre-order! 📗 https://t.co/BVV3Kj1X9W

[Vic 🪩⚡️🗡 @vicstronaut]

Now this is stellar news!! 🤩

[Read Appalachia @ReadAppalachia]

I can finally share the news! I'm so grateful to @abby_freeland at @KentuckyPress for making this project happen.✨
#DisabilityTwitter #Appalachia

[Griffin Poetry Prize @griffinpoetry]

We’re thrilled to announce the 2023 #GriffinPoetryPrize winner! Please join us in congratulating Roger Reeves for his collection, Best Barbarian (@wwnorton)! 🎉🎉🎉

[Vic 🪩⚡️🗡 @vicstronaut]

Elizabeth Bishop 🌻

[Vic 🪩⚡️🗡 @vicstronaut]

Headlines ≠ research

[Vic 🪩⚡️🗡 @vicstronaut]

Very Tired of reading stories and essays and poems about the South that are gawking, voyeuristic, out of time—faces pressed to the glass.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

writing does not have to be “relatable” to be good.