Ominous portents this evening

Kitchen disco, 8 a.m.

@davidnaimon.bsky.social we’re in here somewhere

my 1st book, Sister Golden Calf, was released 2 years ago today by @splitlippress.com. I don't think anyone can predict how a book launch will go, but I got real lucky with the Split/Lip team & the events I got to do in Portland w/ David Naimon, Alissa Hattman, Thea Prieto, & Bishop & Wilde Books

thank god i'm not alive to see this

how the emails are finding me this morning:

& speaking of review outlets, a boon for my Monday just came in the mail

what if I (or anyone) started a publication for reviewing books that have been out at least a year...? 🤔

It’s too hot to think about quilting. And yet.

It’s a heatwave in Portland so I’m looking back ever so longingly at quilting progress from a couple weeks ago

I’m Out Of Office for the next week but please fill our inbox with your weird short fiction in the meantime

“Let us come together to celebrate literature without lending these banks the shine of our collective dreams for a better future, without helping the reputations of those who profit off death in the shadows.” 📣📣📣

This beautiful summer poem by Rosalie Moffat.

Get his ass, Ron 😤

Request: could everything just kind of stop for one (1) month

@robertlong4man.bsky.social what have you done?? Weird Pig can steal my car anytime; he’s one in a million (I would’ve read it sooner but needed to save it as a reprieve for an especially dark season & it really came through)

Ah, so the day has arrived when we need to bring this chestnut over from ye olde Twitter archives. PLEASE shop small/local/direct whenever you can!!!

a moment with the beautiful goth duck at Laurelhurst Pond this morning

It's that magic time, novelists + novella-ists! You've got 2mos to send our beloved + well-practiced novel/novella reading team your >100pg books: call it a novella, call it a novel, but we hope you call it READY TO SEND before Sept 1 because we want to read it! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

don’t get distracted! | patreon.com/lubchansky

up to my elbows in quilt, perfect way to spend a summer

These discussions always bring me back to a remarkable passage in which artist Zoe Leonard recounts what David Wojnarowicz said to her about the importance of embracing beauty in difficult times, which I think is worth a read right now (from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's book "Orwell's Roses")

Did you know that instead of cleaning your gouache palette you can just make really soft muddy colors and it’s so nice?

pals spotted on the Small Press Featured Titles shelves at Powell’s—Film Elegy by @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, Leafskin by @mirandarschmidt.bsky.social, & Show Me Where the Hurt Is by @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social 👏👏👏

SIFT is now available as an audiobook! 🌿🎧🎶

trans people will always exist (laudatory) trans people will always exist (threatening) trans people will always exist (factual)

I made this list of Nonviolent Political Actions for Writers for a course I taught during TFG 1.0 on Writers & Resistance. Please share. You do not need to be a writer to participate. "You are here on this earth at this time. Don't act like you're not a part of what's going on."

Somehow managed to get four more quilted last night

Oregon’s state House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 1098 on Monday, a bill that will protect access to books in school libraries.

Reminder: if you put a rainbow flag on a bomb, it's still a bomb. Harvey Milk's name on a warship was just cynical pandering to a gay movement that sees military inclusion as a path to accessing straight privilege and all the violence of patriotism, militarism, endless war. Let all these ships sink

it’s going to be a color theory summer, I think (which is just putting things next to each other to see what happens), by way of fabric and gouache

I started quilting one of the pieced tops one of the quilters on my dad’s side of the family left behind (not sure if it was just his mom or others). This one’s all stars, all in different fabrics (I’m guessing mostly from the ‘60s/‘70s?), all about 5.5” across. I’m going to document each as I go—

I finished this last night and I don't think there was enough kissing. Way more dying than kissing was happening on the page.

There are no gods, but not everyone is cursed every moment. There are minutes, hours, sometimes even whole days when the earth is spinning 1.6 million miles around the sun and nothing tragic happens to you. I do not have to enter the land of everlasting sorrow. —Ellen Bass poets.org/poem/youre-t...

did you know? sometimes it’s really fun to read an incredibly well-written twisty thriller, especially with a cover like this 💋💋

The trolley has gained sentience and refuses to run anyone over. “I will not be used for murder,” it tooted in Morse code

@obonpdx.bsky.social I just wanted you to know the yuzu seedling I got from you at the start of the year is doing well 🌱

by Kyla Jamieson

a trance, in july, with a hermit? I'm in!

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though: