Bonanni Comma John
Poet. Winner of the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry for retrovirology (Pitt 2026). Editor of Cape Cod Review. Words in Gulf Coast, Foglifter, Electric Lit, & Michigan Quarterly Review. More here: www.johnbonanni.com
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- Made a list of first book contests for folx with a poetry collection forthcoming this year. If anyone wants it, feel free to DM me
- make 'what are you reading?' a normal question... akin to 'how are you?'
- "post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains"
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- Late to this party--love when a narrator's voice can carry the plot and keep the pages turning. Having worked with so many kids from this level of poverty, I'll attest to the broken system laid out here. This book is a masterpiece.
- nothing says christmas like a shitty hallmark movie with a dead parent and a family business on the brink of ruin
- I actually never cared about nicki minaj tbh
- so refreshing to be on vacation and to finally reply to personal emails i should have replied to days ago
- if you don't want a book for the holidays, maybe don't be friends with me?
- I never actually cared about liam neeson tbh
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- wrote an oped but tossed it to two newspapers (and not one) and now i feel a little guilty abt it... not sure why--it's fair game if they don't specify they're anti-simultaneous subs, right?
- only one more year until i can apply to macdowell again, lol
- Gary McDowell
- Larry Levis
- Wonder if I'm the only one who has stopped (or at least grown highly suspect of) using most .gov sites in post-2024 research
- I learned it from watching you, Charlie Brown. I learned it from watching you!
- Ugh, I was just listening to Jimmy Cliff yesterday! Rest in power, legend. youtu.be/7Znh0OM9jiA?...
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- Most collosal disappointment of a celebrity bc of their Trump support? Go.
- hey remember that time I got rejected from princeton?
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- David Carter's Stonewall book completely changed me, but the text I had read years ago was a library copy. I was writing an essay and needed to include a quote, so I finally ordered my own copy #myownprivatestonewall
- Such a glorious feeling to read a book, think you're only halfway through it, and then scan the back pages consisting of pages upon pages of index and appendices. Like, oops, nevermind! I'm 75 percent through! Almost there!
- "But oh, Lou. Maybe that means we get to keep ourselves, too" www.short-reads.org/deadhead/?fb...
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- If you can't figure out post-production to align the sound volume between your interviewer and subject, please don't make a podcast... marie howe literally soundd like she's whispering in this interview
- but how about this banger from Carl Phillips?
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- Excellent critique on @theatlantic.com article "Is America Sliding Toward Illiteracy?" written by a veteran teacher: www.adn.com/opinions/202...
- Yes.
- so when i calculate a word count, does the title get lumped in there? asking as a poet writing an essay who usually doesn't calculate word counts.
- really wish higher ed didn't pay garbage so I could feel good about an exhaustive application process. "Donaldson Writer in Residence" would be a beautiful title if "hourly employees" were not "subject to 29 hours per week max." These positions are for people with rich husbands.
- I know this is some bougie shit, but I really wish bars just had some kombucha on tap as their alcohol-free option. It's good for the gut!
- I love when reality tv show contestants just up and leave on their own accord. Like, yes, you gave those producers enough, you're tired, you know you're unlikely to win, you're not in an actor's union... assert your power.
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- Had a student completely lose their shit when I said they couldn't use ChatGPT with their essays. "Why? Can't I just look up facts?" "No. You can't. Wanna see the MIT study on AI and essay writing?" "Just don't talk to me!" I'd call this a teenage tantrum, but no: it's typical addict behavior.
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- Red line to Boston Book Festival, then back to Braintree to read in Buzzard's Bay--sometimes it's exhausting filling your soul with poems, but how blessed this exhaustion.
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- LinkedIn is the weirdest space of AI worship & kiss assery
- U S Mutant Ninja Turtles have risen from the radioactive ooze. Splinter says, "I, too, once had a family, Danny," and brings brainwashed youth back to the light, and we all, together, fight ICE #usmnt
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- Why doesn't starring emails work?
- I'm not sure why I keep getting these emails, but I shamelessly read every AI-generated word. "Hey cosmic baddies!"
