Mags Colvett

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Cool, fun, popular • Writes at buttondown.email/magscolv • Reads at @magpie-reader.org • Queens Arts Fund ‘24, Brooklyn Poets ‘23, Creatives Rebuild NY ‘22-23 • Proud @transjournalists.org • They/them to you • Queens

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Love to fly out of Asheville

What are fireworks but a form of sky posting

Watching A Capitol Fourth on PBS and they just used an image of this painting and a speech about Revolutionary War drummers to introduce Sheila E.

To the hills of Tennessee and all that

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

Get into it

When you’re coming out of anesthesia and someone asks if it’s 6:30 or 6:50

iOS text recognition is pretty impressive but not up to the task of transcribing my handwritten poem drafts

Made an extremely important $25 purchase

Rare literal “say hello to my little friend”

Painted this for the Queer Liberation March and I think it came out nice 🕊️

The Liberty “Equality” alt jersey implies a third, confusing “Fraternity” jersey

"Calm is not a replacement for righteous rage or fury at injustice, both of which are powerful drivers for necessary change. But calm is the precondition for focus, for the capacity to prioritize."

Target-advertised to within an inch of my life by the Pride month climbing-themed nonalcoholic beer

This poem actually dates back a few years and I’d grown a little ambivalent about it, but talking about it with people when BP asked to feature it this summer taught me to love it again, so here’s to showing and telling 🌌 brooklynpoets.org/community/po...

ok we haven't done this in a while but let's do a SHOW AND TELL THURSDAY respond to this post (either in a reply or quote or both) with something you made that you're proud of. everything counts; you can show me a pie you made if you want. if you're selling it, link the shop. use alt text.

Another 40 postcards to the registered Dems of Florida, light work 💪

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The ice is already nearly gone but unfortunately this is hitting

The posting biome needs to be fed regularly with material from outside (deep thoughts, funny food labels, pet photos, things of this nature) or stuff gets grim

btw YouTube’s attempt to keep things clean in the search suggestions does something pretty funny here

Saying this like Madonna in “Erotica”

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Need this on a shirt

*Lana Del Rey voice* 🎶 Did you know

🌄🌄🌄 Hometown Mentioned 🌄🌄🌄 www.atlasobscura.com/places/mount...

Mountain Dew Headstonewww.atlasobscura.com This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

Also, this classic (or variations, like using a water bucket with ice packs in it) works — searching “ice bucket fan diy” now brings up these elaborate setups you can do if you have a weekend and a drill, but setting some ice in front of a fan isn’t nothing www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Easy...

Seasonal PSA that many common prescriptions affect your ability to regulate heat/hydration in one way or another, so be aware of that and proactive about caring for yourself and others

🎃 Be prepared 🎃

Whose woods these are, I think I, know,

Printed and cut 270 draft-stage poems to start figuring out a 50ish-to-100ish-poem manuscript; send thoughts/prayers

I saw six of them all at once on this car hauler a few weeks ago

Steve Scafidi

This explains a lot

furious at the delicious dip in my fridge for starting a war

🪢🪢🪢

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I’m so untrained but whenever I do anything like this I want to show everyone like it’s my glue-and-macaroni craft from school

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