Me @ 40 Paula Cole @ 54 🤝 coming out as bisexual in midlife My @marchxness.bsky.social essay is alive! Shout out to @paulacole.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥

OK, this essay is brilliant: "the song is about having been sold an image of what your life with a man will be like, and then coming to the realization that it’s actually a pile of crap. Hello heteronormativity, my old friend." Cast your vote for @erindorney.bsky.social's essay on Paula Cole.

Fans of Mensch's Dylan Sadness essay should get on this

The Boys need your help! Vote by 11 AM ET tomorrow! #backstreetboys #bsb #marchxness

Digging Danielle's neuroscience-informed take, & "Ordinary" is a banger—but I've been snoozing on this 3rd Eye Blind song, & I'm compelled by @brianzitzelman.bsky.social on the aesthetic experience of MISSING (or avoiding?) a song's darkness. 2-ish hours to go in this @marchxness.bsky.social match!

45 minutes to go!! (I did not do the time conversion)

Dylan needs a few more votes here! I loved this essay about Kate Braverman. Please vote by 9:00 AM Eastern! @marchxness.bsky.social / marchxness.com/1stround-mye...

I feel like this sums up a lot of the Sadness issue: "The veracity of any such declaration depends on the complex interplay of factors including, but not limited to, the song, listener, and medium of sound." from Danielle Geller's essay. marchxness.com/1stround-rai...

15 minutes left! Get your votes in!!! I can't believe it, but I'm still rooting for BSB and definitely want the Bob Dylan / Kate Braverman essay to win. Bonnie Raitt and Portishead was tough match, too. @marchxness.bsky.social

I can't believe I cast a vote for Backstreet Boys & "Show Me the Meaning..." but I'm in love with Lydia Pudzianowski's essay, which is so funny and so smart and tucked me right back in the nineties: marchxness.com#/1stround-ba...

I love some humor with my sadness, and Lydia Pudzianowski nails it for me in her BSB essay with lines like "At any rate, putting a song called 'Backstreet’s Back' on your debut album is some legendary shit" and "worth every penny (RIP, penny)" marchxness.com/1stround-bac...

Enjoyed the essays by @leahmensch.bsky.social and @allisonwrites.bsky.social so much... I think I could be grateful for Leah introducing me to Kate Braverman for some time ... and as a fellow yearner, I sure felt called back to those aches of adolescence that Allison's writing helps connect us to.

Never heard Roads by Portishead until today, but have to say, as a former cruiser of Wisconsin's rural backroads in an Olds Cutlass Supreme at unsafe speeds, I am absolutely down with @dellegeller.bsky.social's assessment of what makes for a sad song of the 1990s.

I had to choose Backstreet Boys here- didn't listen specifically to them at any point, but couldn't escape them either and this essay captured me now and them across time. Read the essay and vote for BSB in March Sadness! @marchxness.bsky.social

FRIDAY NIGHT! Offsite reading with @splitlippress.com and @marchxness.bsky.social. 6:30-8 pm at @greedyreads.bsky.social Remington

Yes, the rumors are true: we're hosting an AWP offsite with @marchxness.bsky.social in Baltimore at @greedyreads.bsky.social! Friday, March 6th from 6:30-8pm, come on up to Greedy Reads Remington for readings from Hayden, Aubrey, Jillian, Shanda, Raquel, Katie, Sejal, and Ander!

I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both 5 Calls can help you make the call: 5calls.org/issue/iran-i...

My essay is up! Vote your heart (will go on):

Now more than ever, we need @marchxness.bsky.social marchxness.com/1stround-dio...

Pretty psyched and honored to be included in this @marchxness.bsky.social essay collection, out from @splitlippress.com this month! Edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social 🔥

Hell yeah! Finally here!!!!!

I loved this @marchxness.bsky.social essay by Melissa Fite Johnson on "My Heart Will Go On" for March Sadness! Read it and weep, read it and vote!

creating and sustaining this anthology has been one of the greatest pleasures of my life as a writer/editor. Thank you to the incomparable @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social for being a fantastic collaborator. And please check out our rural anthology Vol 3! eastoverpress.com/book/an-anth...

I was wondering why my friend Kyle (@kesemmel.bsky.social) named his Substack "Bright Boy." He wrote a wonderful essay in response and I learned more about him, which is maybe what we want in any writing. So many Substacks, some of them not very interestingly named. But "Bright Boy"? I love it.

a wonderful evening of poetry at the Highland Bowl with readings by @kathryncowles.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social and @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social -a huge thanks to Writers & Books for hosting and @robinweeg.bsky.social for hanging

“I wanted people to know something about him other than his death—to know something more of Jim’s life—and to memorialize the kind of friend he was to me and to so many.” @sejalshah.bsky.social writes for our #10Questions, available on our Substack: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

I forgot I had written this piece about the wonderful journalist James Foley. Thank you, Andrew, for finding it and resurrecting it here. Thanks to @kenyonreview for publishing this on their blog.

If the IRS deprives Harvard of its tax-exempt status, that's very bad for Harvard but it's also a catastrophe for the IRS. Instead of a neutral agency that enforces tax law, it will become a tool of partisan warfare. It may never recover.

1. This is a legitimately courageous stance in a moment when many elites are choosing the path of appeasement 2. Strategic alumni organizing will be crucial to make it stick. What I'm saying is: if you went to Harvard and you want everyone to know but in a humble way, THIS IS YOUR MOMENT

“We need essays and stories and poems. We need these things that don’t make sense in capitalism—especially because they take time and reflect on the human condition.” Wonderful words from @sejalshah.bsky.social mailchi.mp/078f81271e52...

I loved this chance to write about my favorite Margaret Atwood essay, dance, meditation, and words from @alexanderchee.bsky.social, Terry Tempest Williams, Richard Hugo & more…thanks @briangresko.bsky.social & @writingco-lab.bsky.social

Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!

"But of course it is nonsensical to feel contempt for systems. Systems don’t disappear and murder people; people do. Such malice is corporeal—it requires individual actors with actual bodies, with hearts that could fit in my chest." [email protected] www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

White people are crazy, man.

Omar al Akkad on the language we use in armed conflict, and how it dispossesses people of their humanity. thewalrus.ca/what-happens...

NEW EPISODE: Bestselling fiction writer @csittenfeld.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about her new collection of stories, Show Don’t Tell. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/curtis-sitte...

We have each other. We are the Resistance now. All of us.

These FREE trainings are super helpful and give you concrete steps on what to do in situations needing intervention.

Pretty darn thrilled to have my (tournament-winning! I couldn't believe it!) March Danceness essay from last year about Amerie's "1 Thing" in this forthcoming @marchxness.bsky.social edited @splitlippress.com anthology!

So incredibly stoked that this is happening, and that the very first @marchxness.bsky.social essay I wrote (about the Creatures & Virginia Woolf & menstrual blood & nu-metal, among other things) will be in it alongside so many faves! Coming March 2026!

These ten Democrats should just quit. To censure Green when there have never been consequences for MTG for egregious behavior whereas Green was protesting fascism. We are drowning in shit.

Some happy news at a grim time. #bookstagram #fiction #shortstories #storycollections #forewordreviews #multiculturallit

We cannot allow the indefensible actions of our government to eclipse our overwhelming solidarity with the Ukrainian people. sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

"Did my brother get stuck in red tape because my parents did not know whom or how to ask or push? What are the consequences of...not understanding bureaucracy is meant to tire you out?" Here's an essay I wrote about my family's immigration history: magazine.wellesley.edu/issues/winte...

(Know that when I say “fight”, that will mean something different to each and every person. Don’t try to make them fight the way you fight. Find out how they’re fighting, and figure out how you can assist/encourage one another in your primary challenges)

We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE. In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.