the sequel to Anaconda should have been Bananaconda

Think of all the bullshit businesses out there and yet somehow Choco Taco did not survive.

why is this bunny so terrifying

Inside you are two teenage brain mentalities One is I'm 14 and this is deep The other is I'm 16 and nothing is deep It's very important to remember they're both stupid kids and ignore them

Artemis II in a few days, amIrite?

If you write CNF, you should take this class at NCWN

I threw my little chapbook entry at this submission call (fingers crossed!) and you should too if you’re looking for springtime opportunities 🌼

Game #1 of 2026: Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs at Durham Bulls. Perfect night, great stadium. This is about all I could want.

The Durham Bulls don't seem to do any promotions on Wednesday nights... so consider me a fan of the Wednesday night game.

Interested in how poems end? I'm reading with José Antonio Rodríguez, Keith Flynn, francine j. harris, Ellen Bass, Mathew Olzmann, and Nathan McClain from BREAKING INTO BLOSSOM: POEMS WITH EXTRAORDINARY ENDINGS next Wednesday at 7 pm ET/6 pm CT. Info: www.shsu.edu/academics/co...

Good Lord, an alert hit my phone for a missing child two counties away and I just about had a heart attack.

Very happy to see Justin Gainey coming back to NC State.

It's been a difficult year to be a UNC fan. But days like today can still make a fella smile.

Tell me again how he's good for business.

A thing I was thinking about today: suppose a tool could produce a reproduction of the Mona Lisa indistinguishable from the original at a molecular level. Suddenly everyone could own the Mona Lisa; no one could verify the original. Artist is long dead. Is this democratizing or is this awful?

Been listening to that first Rage Against the Machine album a lot. It's as good now as it was in the 90s.

Between TSA chaos and fuel costs rising due to war, our government is about to make any affordable airline in the US go out of business. Which is probably fine, since there's a dangerous situation developing with air traffic controllers, also the domain of government. But... LOW TAXES!

In case you’re looking for plans tonight, this is happening in about an hour.

Very suddenly, I’m performing tomorrow night at Mettlesome Theater in Durham with a team I quite like. 7:30 pm.

Probably needed to happen, but I’m still enormously sad and absolutely believe the athletic department will manage to make a bad hire for one of the best jobs in basketball.

I love it when horrible people lose a primary, but increasingly, they seem to lose to more horrible people.

Somebody tell me some English dept somewhere has a literature of food course called Chomp Lit.

I absolutely trust this athletic department to make a decision that is wrong, so have at it.

I'd emulate @mcuban.bsky.social's Cost Plus Drugs but for medical supplies and equipment. Plus, my small press would become a lot larger and my local improv theater would suddenly own an incredible space with like five classrooms. But those two are less than $2.5m to accomplish.

I do love the morning ritual of waking up, doing the Wordle, having some caffeine, and shipping books.

Always love kicking off my post-AWP reading with some of the gems I picked up from @bullcitypress.com

"Another word for it, I later learn, the dark cloud surging / from the field and shitting as it heaves in sudden unity, / is crèche..." Our miCRo this week, a propulsive poem by Kylan Rice, picks up on an array of material textures and coalesces into a felt impression of place. Link in thread.

If you have a tiny manuscript, spend your Tuesday sending it our way.

“Oak leaves so full of late summer // sun even I thought, “Obscene” and stood stunned / for a moment. My God.” — Gabrielle Calvocoressi . . . This poem appeared in Poem-a-Day, by the Academy of American Poets, 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.

I love how y’all keep making the world better even as most every company and institution around us becomes enshittified.

If you need to find me at AWP, here it is.

Can't stress this enough.

God, three days of having “Soma” by The Smashing Pumpkins playing on repeat in my brain. Nothing quiets it! It’s not even the lyrics that are lodged in there so much as it is just that riff.

I’ve been crabby for weeks, prepping for AWP, overwhelmed with administrative stuff. Spent 1.5 hours this morning commenting on student poems & radical progress & it was such a balm.

Some photos from last night's house party: Daniel Wallace, Matthew Olzmann, Jameela F. Dallis, and Melissa Faliveno. This was a good night.

I have been stressing hard for weeks, but I think... I think... all 1500 books and all the table stuff will fit in my car, with room left over for me, Matt, and our suitcases. That did not feel certain at all!

Today's the day-- my very funny students in ENGL 259 (Improv Comedy Games for Writers) are doing their first public performance. 5 pm, free, Mettlesome Theater. You should go.

Oh, if you're Durham area and want to attend, it's a free performance Saturday at 5 at Mettlesome

Olzmann is such a treasure. Here's another absolute banger of a love poem, from our archives:

Y'all, this reading is gonna be supreme. Thursday night at AWP.

My UNC students have named their improv team WE ARE PREGNANT and I can imagine that their parents will be very confused when they attend the event.

O hai.

The new Amy Gerstler is wholly entertaining and pretty wonderful.

Four of your faves. Teamed up for one sweet reading.

More please. More. gizmodo.com/hi-yah-the-m...

in case anyone else has Sunday scaries xx

Your boo or bae would love to hear some love poems. And comedy inspired by love poems? Why, that sounds heavenly too. Tonight at Mettlesome. Free.