Thousands of immigrants who have not been convicted of a crime and haven’t even been accused of a crime are being held indefinitely in detention facilities that are concentration camps in all but name. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

A newly released affidavit from the FBI reveals what experts have long warned: The Trump administration is purposely recycling thoroughly debunked lies about the 2020 election in an effort to “take over” the handling of the midterms.

I hope the puppy wins.

According to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals. That amounts to $456,621 per hour. But how are you doing?

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Join readers who gather at the library in Capitola, CA, for a communal reading of a featured poet's work. The Spoken Experience meets on the fourth Monday at noon. On January 26, the discussion centers on the healing poems of Joy Harjo, first Native to serve as poet laureate for the U.S. Join us!

Thanks to Beth Gordon, Narmadhaa, Jude Marr, and Amanda McLeod (and Anne Kazak's art): "The Ticket" found a home in FERAL. feralpoetry.net/issue-twenty...

"I see literature as activist, particularly the epic forms of literature. It’s great to have lyric poetry that explores the self and identity, but the voice you choose gives you what you see, and if your voice is private, your vision will be private." Alice Oswald in the Paris Review resonates.

Here's a nice way to start the week, and you're invited. You're always invited: Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience: Monday, December 22, noon to 1 p.m.@Capitola Branch Library. This month, we're going to take some time to share poems from Naomi Shihab Nye.

For the archives. Big thanks to Sacramento Poetry Center. youtu.be/s0SPyTuzZIk?...

Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience Monday, November 24, noon to 1 pm, Capitola Branch Library The poems of Jane Kenyon take the focus this month. Discussions facilitated by a trio of Aptos poets. If you feel so moved, you're welcome to bring a poem of your own to read at the end.

Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience Monday 10.27 @ Capitola Branch Library, noon-1 We're going to share some Tony Hoagland. Join us. Before I went to work on this planet I signed a nondisclosure agreement with god . . . from "Disclosure Agreement" By T.H.

As of Sunday, GRATITUDE DIARY: POEMS (Main Street Rag) is one year old. Still in the stroller.

"Systematically" now "up" in Indianapolis Review's response to censorship. Thanks to the staff & fellow contributors: thanks to you, too. Does a heart good to read you. We had the option to not be tagged, given scary stuff happening. Talk about living in interesting times theindianapolisreview.com

Congrats to poets launching books or marking book birthdays. It's not easy to promote yourself--especially now. So we'll share your news in community on November 6th. Join us and meet others who might collaborate to help make your book's journey more enjoyable. Sign up NOW at [email protected]

Wrote a fan-girl letter to the James Webb. It's published now in a Verseve book about the stars. Simpler times. A former teacher posted this quote, and wow it spoke: What kind of times are these When to talk about trees is almost a crime Because it leaves so much atrocity unspoken —Bertolt Brecht

Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience 9.22 from noon to 1 p.m. @ Capitola (CA) Branch Library Join us. This month we read Li-Young Lee: The radio in the kitchen is stuck in the year I was born. The capitals of the world are burning. from "Changing Places in the Fire," by Li-Young Lee

🫶 open mic

This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)

If you told me five years ago this would be me on Tuesday night, I don't know. I likely would have grimaced and changed the subject. Seems you really can change up your life.

Live coverage of the “Big Beautiful Bill” passing…

bookshopsantacruz.com/hive-live-co... If you're in town . . .

Saturday. Post protest. To fellow readers Laura Bayless and Jennifer Lagier and the rest of Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium, thank you. Have long wondered what it would feel like to read with you in your beautiful space. Was heartening, can't thank you enough.

Wish we could cancel this reality show. Like, before the end of the season.

San Francisco. June 1. Bazaar Cafe Salon. Thanks to owners Josh and Rozanne. Thanks to host, Peter Kline. Thanks to Ayelet Amittay, Fatima Jafar, Brian Komei Dempster for sharing some of your bright light with me.

😍 San Diego poetry community. Heard from three SD poets laureate on critical need to support libraries plus major insights from the rest at the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize event last night. Each poet, so different. Each poem. Felt in fighting form against AI there. TY to all. Wow.

National Poetry Month is a lot.

#AWP25 recap Thank you to every person there. I got to speak in person to some of you. I got some very important messaging from a lot of you. Got the vibe from even more of you. I tuned out the news for a couple of days, thanks to you. Let's do this. Let's write our way to IT

#AWP25 Thursday 11-1: Booth 845, Gratitude Diary: POEMS (Main Street Rag), book signing Friday 11-1: Booth 857, VONA, working the booth Other Times: Hiding

Dear Bluesky, Please help. I go here to see things I care about and have to dig. People generally are more civilized and empathetic than on other sites. But wow. The scrolling subject matter just does not interest me even though I live in the proverbial interesting times. A scroll is not enough.

Gratitude Diary: POEMS took first place for poetry from the Great Northwest Book Festival (and still can be ordered from Main Street Rag, I should probably add). As you were.

Want to join my club where we can all try to say what we mean even though it might take a while, and we are all there to support one another as much as we can though often the support isn't all that much? We could call it Poetry.

I submitted poems again. It's been a while.

Don't buy shit, write your book

✨ Nice surprise: the first part of the ten-part titular, eponymous poem "Gratitude Diary," which organizes my first collection, featured on Every Day Poems today open.substack.com/pub/everyday...

Glad for the chance to talk poetry on The Hive Sunday night. TY, Julie Murphy. (Show now archived on Spotify, link below) open.spotify.com/episode/0IiX...

sometimes i do wish "lol" meant "lots of love." lol

Poets and Poems: Jessica Cohn and "Gratitude Diary" - www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2025/02/18/p...

When someone out of the blue does a close read and then shares it with the world, that's a boost you want them to get back many times over. Thanks to reviewer Glynn Young and to L.L. Barkat at Tweetspeak Poetry. www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2025/02/18/p...

Read poems at the local library today, and people stood up after and read theirs in community. Really, nothing like that. Who knew? #WatsonvillePublicLibrary

That time when, recording three poems at the beach for DMQ, a family walked by, oblivious, and you just had to feel happy for them because they were so happy www.dmqreview.com/salon?fbclid...

Available at my local shops--Bookshop Santa Cruz and Two Birds Books in Pleasure Point--and online from the publisher mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/grat... Trying to get this first collection out there without using Amazon. My small press publisher is no oligarch. We'll see how it goes.

Don't beat yourself up about how long you've been away from your writing practice. The important thing is to go back. Tonight, why not read the last pages you wrote?

My first poetry book is now circulating in my library system and wow I wish my mom were alive

Molly Brodak