I don’t exactly have scientific data to support this, but I firmly believe that the sound of rain on the roof enhances the reading experience by at least 57%.

Jay Wright, from Párodos (@floodeditions.bsky.social)

Luis Muñoz, translated by Idra Novey & Garth Greenwell, from Poetry, April 2026 #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

"/ i must admit i am in love with violent resistance / like it’s a marriage worth failing harder at / think kill fuck marry without the institution of / bodies bodies bodies /" from GET FUCKED & DROWN by George Abraham @intifadabatata.bsky.social in @proteanmag.com proteanmag.com/2026/03/25/t...

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

one last ticket just opened up for the workshop due to a participant cancellation! happening this saturday at 6pm eastern!

Palestinians have been offering "extensive testimony as to the nature of sexual assault perpetrated by the Israeli military" far before Kristof said it was happening... www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Oh my LORD revision is such a pleasure. Removing everything that is not duck from the block of wood with your whittling knife.

“Your way of writing locates, even creates, your inner life.” Richard Hugo

i have sustained multiple minor injuries from transporting a sexy sturdy bookshelf but my reward is that i do not in fact have enough books to fill it so i have an excuse to buy more 😅😅

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

Free tickets are now available for the third installation of the ALOCASIA Summer Creative Writing Workshop Series, led in July by Seelai Karzai! RSVP on Eventbrite to reserve your spot! www.eventbrite.com/e/postapocal...

Joseph Ceravolo, from the beginning of his poem “Spring in This World of Poor Mutts”

An erasure rejection

AI enthusiasts have put the cart so far before the horse they arent even in the same galaxy anymore.

I recommend basing your personality on things you like rather than things you dislike

love it when a poem takes a familiar phrase and upends it like a junk drawer. a poem taking the quotidian, the cliched, the throwaway and rifling through it, pulling out its strangeness, drizzling new context over it. defamiliarize me; I want to be startled more than I want to know.

Elizabeth Robinson @omnidawn.bsky.social

The big seller at yesterday's Odd Mart Mother's Day market was Gore Poetics, which can only mean one thing: moms LOVE queer, erotic, weird, transgressive horror.

There's a screenshot going around of authors admitting to AI use and one of them appears to write hardcore monsterfucking fics and this makes me sad. If you're not writing monsterfucking fics for the sheer, genuine love of the game then what the hell are we even doing here?

No story I invent is as tragic as the truth.

Sending you huge love — no mother except a Virgin scapegoat can be everything our culture demands of her. May all mothers stay alive in their whimsy and laughter on the tongues of those who loved them.

“Parents have the right to choose what their children are exposed to or have access to.”

happy mother's day to these icons

My poem for #smallpoemsunday this week You just don't see enough of Larkin and his melancholy British verse out in the world, and that's a shame @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Get on the road to ruin and become a writer

For a year, I’ve been building this project, the Native Horror Index, with my bear hands basically. It’s my gift to the horror-loving Indigenous community. Over 55 profiles are live, but starting today, you can submit your own profile. Tag your kin, let em know. NativeHorrorIndex.com

This is writing

Feeling absolute horses today

So Orpheus tamed the wild beasts for long night comes down moving naked, over the wound, the gem from the crown. - J. H. Prynne

Egon Schiele Port of Trieste (1907)

Rep. Justin Jones burning a Confederate flag during the special session on Tennessee redistricting Jones: “It’s a form of Jim Crow terror — this is about race. This is about power. This is about silencing communities that have historically been excluded”

I don’t know if ‘we’ needed that rain earlier but I sure did

its amazing I can still have "there is nothing good on television" moments with the internet.

18th-century Chinese silver figurine depicting -checks notes- A lion

10 Reasons to Love Solar Power 1. Zero CO₂ to run 2.Infinite fuel 3.sunlight 4Cuts air pollution 5.Creates local jobs 6.Low water use 7.Price keeps dropping 8.Powers homes + grids 9. Works off-grid too 10. Energy independence Future-proof tech

Silent silent falling flowers Wang Wei, translated by G. W. Robinson

Check out this online zine featuring trans/two-spirit Indigenous poets. heyzine.com/flip-book/5d...

It was there like the beginning of a migraine, the song of a siren leading to no good, but was beautiful in a kind of way that had been formal before the war, like the stiff invitation cards called bristol the postman would deliver. - John Ashbery, “Chapter Seven” ( KR Project)

Glitter God The Glitter God is mostly decorative. Its skin is blown glass, its guts all sand— two humps, one function: timekeeping. A living hourglass with anxiety. Every time the sand finishes pouring from one hump to the other, the Glitter God is technically dead. But it can decide not to die,…

"Get ready to experience Bloodroom, a work that is part poetry collection, part museum exhibit, and part science experiment. You will walk away from this book a whole new creature." –Paige Lewis sundress-publications.square.site/product/bloo...

If you haven’t dropped a book on your face when you attempt to read whilst lying down, can you really claim to have battle scars?

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

May 3rd is the birthday of Hind Rajab. She would be 8-years-old. She called for help. She loved pretending to play doctor. She was kind. She should still be alive ❤️‍🩹 Happy birthday, Hind 🎈 We remember you. Thinking of your mom, may all of the kindness and beautiful memories of you seek her heart 💛

We're looking for readers! If you love flash fiction, poetry, and essays that respond to the world in real time, we want you on our team. Deadline to apply is May 31. www.glossyplanetmag.com/call-for-rea...

A tiny one for #smallpoemsunday convened by @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Reminder: If you're getting into the growing trend of returning to foraging, PLEASE make sure you read up on sustainable & ethical foraging habits, especially if you forage in a public shared space. Do it wrong & you not only hoard resources for yourself, but can also permanently destroy patches.

there’s an in depth discussion of this in Braiding Sweetgrass, but ramps in particular don’t have a good seed dispersal mechanism and can only move as far as their seed-bearing stems allow them. Wiping out a patch might be a millennia-long local extinction event