If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Have some nice blurbs for my next poetry book lined up! Book is not out for a year but lots to do still.

Reading In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom and enjoying it! Will write a review on the weekend!

Our review of WRESTLING WITH CADENCE can be found here: open.substack.com/pub/theseabo...

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Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

I’m doing a little poetry reviewing this fall and essay writing. It’s hard to balance with full time demands of high school English but I’m glad to have the outlet and the ability to add to the conversation.

Might watch Weapons tonight with my teenage son. A little father son bonding over being terrified.

Sent some new poems out into the wild today. We will see if anyone wants them. I’m noticing a lot of journals doing theme issues but I don’t write for those sort of projects. If I have poems that fit a theme issue great, but otherwise I’m writing the next poem that comes to me.

“The most valuable thing to me in terms of my mental health is to read a poem or see a painting or listen to music which speaks to me, which breaks me open for a moment, and where I feel an experience honestly & delicately portrayed. That’s another reason AI can never create anything artistically.”

Gabrielle Calvocoressi

And this

New review of Guy Elston’s The Character Actor Convention out this Fall with The Porcupine’s Quill. tinyurl.com/4j2v7v6x "Honestly, I think The Character Actor Convention by Guy Elston out now with The Porcupine’s Quill is a fine debut from a promising new voice in Canadian Poetry.”

For those of you in the Montreal, Toronto, and Kingston regions: Robyn Sarah will be launching her new poetry collection, WE'RE SOMEWHERE ELSE NOW, in the coming weeks! Thank you to @theseaboardreview.ca and @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social for early reviews of WE'RE SOMEWHERE ELSE NOW. ❤️

Thanks to @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social for this review of NMLCT that I will treasure for a long time. "Honestly, I have not really read a poetry collection like this one. It’s a highly original book." — Chris Banks, The Woodlot Read the review here: the-wood-lot.ca/2025/09/10/r...

"It is not beautiful like the past but like the past I wear it." From Matthew Gellman's book, Beforelight: bit.ly/beforelightLB #poem #books #writing

New review of Robyn Sarah's latest poetry collection We're Somewhere Else Now out from Biblioasis this Fall. the-wood-lot.ca/2025/09/07/h...

Fist week back to work is completed. Teaching poetry to grade 12 students is lots of fun!

✒️ Paul Guest's forthcoming collection—I HOPE FOR EVERYTHING—will be published with BOA in the Spring of 2028! Learn more about this author @ poets.org/poet/paul-gu... #BOAEditions #BOAAuthors #PaulGuest #Poetry

for #LaborDay “What Work is” poem by Philip Levine www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52173/...

Starting to write Fall poetry reviews. Stay tuned.

Sober from alcohol ten years today! That is it! That’s the post.

The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.

Back to work in one week! Looking forward to working with high school kids again but trying to figure out how to have the AI talk. It’s really hard to explain that the trifecta of English is reading, writing and critical thinking and if you remove any of those elements poof! It falls apart.

Been in Montreal with the whole family for four days. Walking everywhere. Home tomorrow.

What I needed to read this week. ❤️

Wrote a banger of a poem this morning. Did the dishes? Taking the dog to the vet. Full day:

I have the Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly! What a book! I wish I could see all the titles on his bookshelf behind him in the author pic.

Poetry broadsides. Here is a favourite of mine. Signed copy of Philip Levine’s “What Work Is”

#PoetryMoment "White Rhino" by Stanley Plumly from Middle Distance W. W. Norton, 2020

I wrote an appreciative review of Karen Solie's book WELLWATER out with Anansi press in Canada.It's a great book shortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prize! tinyurl.com/3ma7k826 Check it out!

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

New tattoo.

"it was summer, it seemed everything had ripened at once" From Louise Glück's Collected Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/9780374534097 #poem #books #writing

Written three poems this week. Trying to write slowly in tercets again, not stack so many images on top of each.

Teacher burnout is real.

At @thelocal.to, we knew schools were relying on non-teachers–parents, grandparents, lunch monitors, aspiring educators–to fill in for staff absences. Data we obtained through an FOI request revealed a staggering 1,100% spike in their use since pre- #COVID at #TDSB #OntEd thelocal.to/tdsb-emergen...

apparently we are going to have to keep tapping the sign

Getting a new tattoo tomorrow.

and so here's a bunch of people appreciating him. thanks @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

Wrote two poems in the last few days. Trying to not stack so many things in a poem. Slowing it down and letting the lyricism do its thing….

Alright, feeling some poetry rumblings for the first time in five months, and I’m going to…..slow it down….and see where that takes me. Reading a lot of Mark Strand again and Jack Gilbert always, and would love to write a collection that was slowly distilled into language like them.

Erika Meitner, “Invitation to Tender” from Useful Junk (BOA Editions, 2022) #sealeychallenge #thesealeychallenge

I'm working hard this summer on translating the powerful and puzzling poems of Marina Pizzi from Italian. I hope to have a draft of her book, Intimate Distances, finished before long. Pleased to have a few of these translations published in Beltway Poetry. www.beltwaypoetry.com/three-poems-...

From Cameron Awkward-Rich's book, Dispatch: bookshop.org/a/862/9780892555031 #poem #books #writing

Nostalgia is a verdict for not living well. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

im getting really tired of everything being bad bc like 12 ppl can't fill the hole in their hearts despite being billionaires

Several major poetry journals have recently had to close their submissions windows early, having hit their monthly Submittable limit on the back of a bombardment of poems. This doesn't feel like a good thing for poets or editors...