In hindsight, all the problems started when we moved away from hand-written library catalog cards.

I'll re-up this post, but I don't have many author copies left. But good news! You can ask your favorite shop to get it (we're on Ingram, baby) and/or always get it at my amazing publisher, matchfactoryeditions.com/books/. Thanks!

Are you thinking about treating yourself to a book today? Here is my weekly reminder that Unrivered is now in pre-orders at @sundresspub.bsky.social - on sale for the price of a couple of fancy coffees - AND if you order soon, this little broadside swag included. tinyurl.com/4pj96v59

When my wife asks what I'm in the mood to order for dinner on Friday night.

We want to defund the police, but are opposed to words

This is, amongst other things, one whale of a poem title. Sigh.

I spent the past year trying to publish this and the MS it is in and no one wanted it but I would like you all to read it. 2/2

Hell yeah.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

geez good thing we’re only using it for health insurance claims, legal arguments, mortgage rates, teaching students, predicting crime, mental health care, automating government services, fact checking, and pointing out other AI

Good lord, Jesmyn Ward.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Do you know a high school writer? Have them submit to this wonderful literary journal! Www.theweightjournal.com

I’m always more interested in FOAT (favorite of all time) lists than GOAT ones. Canon-building is for institutions and corporations. Desire is for us.

Your are at the beginning of my skeet, and now you’re moving into the heart of it. This is when it gets legit. Sadly it’s peaked now. Remember when it was good? Those were the days.

Subbing my 2nd MS to University and Indie presses...what are your suggestions...preferably not prizes

Teachers, parents, and people who know high school aged creative writers, The Weight Journal is open for submissions! www.theweightjournal.com

Poetry that sounds surrealist because none of the writers on this list remember what it's like to have uninterrupted thoughts.

Poets & Writers: 40 Writers You Haven't Heard of for Various Reasons [cover is a Brady Bunch layout where everyone has tremendous bags under their eyes and a feral look that screams "I haven't been out for a drink with a friend in a calendar year, so don't f&%$in say a word at me."]

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

Announcement time! October 14th, 7:00 Eastern: Hear poems from @clbpoetry.bsky.social, @mitchnobis.bsky.social, and @djvorreyer.bsky.social! Hosted by the amazing @readinstead.bsky.social! Hit the eventbrite link to register. NAWP! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

The wonderful @dorsalstream.bsky.social and I are on a tangent: What's a place that's deeply meaningful to you but you can't write about it? It remains, for whatever reason, out of your reach?

[On the way to the farmers market] Apple time, apple time. [On the way back, tossing aside a finished apple] Core man gets paid.

A climate protest poem based on Monets Haystacks

That's it. Right there. The previous "potentially fixable within, say, a lifetime" levels of bad.

Picture it, like the scene from Jurassic Park. Sam Neill & Laura Dern's characters in a Jeep, getting a tour. They're waiting, happily in Dern's case, impatiently for Neill. Then...they see it: A majestic flock of ostriches gleefully dashing across the savanna, deafeningly hollering "NAWP!"

October @ NAWP! @clbpoetry.bsky.social! @mitchnobis.bsky.social! @djvorreyer.bsky.social!

A reminder that anglophone states don’t call their own in-group rural populations ‘villagers.’

Click-Through Rate — Thomas Doyle, 2024 sculpture, mixed media 24 x 15 x 15 cm

I've been in a shooting slump at old man rec league, but it turns out we just need to play at 6:00 a.m. because I felt great* at Friday morning faculty ball. Shots fell (more or less) & body moved (more or less). *for 45 minutes anyway before I had to sit to stretch b/c I'm made of papyrus now

AP Lit prompt #3

The A #1 takeaway from the last decade may well be this: Dads, hold your sons as babies, hug them as children, and hang with them as young adults. Tell them you love them, for Christ's sake. We are living through Psych 101 case studies in emotional neglect.

It is, however, an excellent idea for a sitcom.

A small good thing: I had a faint memory of an audiobook recommendation, thought it might've come from @jamestatehill.bsky.social's old series on Lit Hub, and turns out they're all still there. Great audiobook reviews! lithub.com/author/james...

Those are some well-laid schemes you've got there. Be a shame if they were to gang agley.

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

The whole left/right/center metaphor for politics needs to get in the bin. It is the most thought terminating cliché of all. People do not think and behave on a coherent spectrum. There is no "center", no middle ground. A reasonable negotiated compromise does not exist for every issue or position.

Lunch break re-post, what up

real monkey's paw that we invented the ability to hold the sum of all human knowledge in the palm of your hand and then a few years later we're turning it into your stupid friend that pretends to know the answer to every question

It’s kind of hitting me that Stephen A. doesn’t say anything interesting, he just says nothing in an interesting way. I can only remember three entertaining quotes of his. One was “Lamar Odom, WHO WAS ON CRACK,” and the other two were in made up tweets and not real.

Had to repost 😅 #noai

Read some Skoog, wrote a poem, going to bed. Also a barrel-aged stout, dog walk, etc. But, poem. That features planes & crickets. So we're good here.

“Ball is life. And life again. And life again. And life again.” -Zen Lama

I TOLD YOU BALL IS RELIGION. I TOLD YOU BALL IS NIRVANA. I TOLD YOU BALL IS A HIGHER PLANE ONLY TRULY ACCESSIBLE WHEN WE MOVE BEYOND OURSELVES TO A STATE OF PURE BALL.

Being aware and being a reader and taking in media is kind of like being on the receiving end of one of those MAD Magazines comics of someone barfing everything including the kitchen sink.

I love that the answer is "it doesn't matter and/or all of the above." Find joy. Make joy. Be joyous. F*&$ the haters. Embrace joy. The bad guys want the good guys dead because the good guys know joy and defend others' joy. That's pretty much it. Life is for the living. F*%$in' live.

I already have my copy, so I know whereof I speak when I say that y'all want your copies, too.

I've got mine! You should get one, too!

Hey, so, for various reasons I haven't been able to do a slew of readings for my new book like one is supposed to do, which means I have a handful here still. Let me know if you want a signed copy dropped in the mail sometime this week! DM for details, Venmo, CashApp, whatever.

Haha, not only, but I have a discarded poetry manuscript based on this very idea. Each poem a multiversal Mitch of sorts. (There's still a good idea in there, but I wasn't executing it well.)