I got some great book mail today. I can't wait to dig into (pun intended) these stories!

Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1 Reason #4: We promote our authors long past publication! Check out 2020 contrib @jessemdelong.bsky.social's new book The Vinegar in our Hearts, on sale now at www3.uwsp.edu/english/corn... And send us your best! slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

So excited to get my copies!

Finally got around to reading Justin Lacour's _A Reading from the Book of Panic_ and wishing I had sooner, so I could be rereading it now.

I'm grateful to Justin for this review of my forthcoming book, The Vinegar in Our Hearts, in Trampoline. www.trampolinepoetry.com/reviews

Happy butt fumble day to all who celebrate! youtu.be/82RIfy-gRa4?...

I'm excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book, out in late January from Cornerstone Press! I have a few ARCs if anyone is seriously interested in writing a review. Message me if interested!

I don't like the Carson poem, but it's obviously better than the AI poem. Carson's poem takes risks (and probably fails). The AI poem does what, unfortunately, a lot of poems do nowadays--just imitates moves they've seen in other poems. Comparing them is such a bad faith argument.

NPR said if you want to be truly happy you should do chores with friends, so if anyone wants to come help me clean my house let me know.

Have you ever seen a big like this? It was like the bark looking thing was its shell.

Our HOA, which last week sent us a letter saying they’re out of money so no longer cutting grass in the common areas, had the nerve to send us a letter and say we needed to cut our grass 😂

Willard Scott, the first Ronald McDonald

Is this a moth with a bug eating it, or a moth with a tail to mimic a bug?

When did the mega million become $5? Trump’s incompetence even caused inflation on the lottery!

Someone must have had a bad first day back.

I do not recommend eating Doritos after a fluoride treatment.

One of my biggest misrememberings from childhood was this moment. Until a few months ago I vividly remembered Hulk Hogan, not Lex Luger, doing this. We rented the tape, probably in the late 90s, from a video store in Idaho that rented out old wrestling matches. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_v-v...

The Unpassing was so good. When is Chia-Chia Lin putting out another book?

Someone always comes in and tightens up the laces of my boots after I wear them.

This new Wu-Tang album is really good. It’s not really modern, but classically good.

Found in the work trash today

Everyone’s forgetting that the Albuquerque Aztecs signed “Steamin” Willie Beamen and won the chip first year.

Antonio Brown with one of the worst poems you’ve ever read.

Poetry Hive Mind: Does anyone know if there’s a textbook or anthology that covers the various schools of poetry over the last 50-70 years? It seems like there should be.

Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.

Finches built a nest in the light cover overhanging our front door. The bulb hadnt been working for months. We have another light, in a lamp-fixture to the left of the door, that works, so I never bothered replacing the bulb before the birds built a nest in it. 1/

Issue one of @autocorrectmag.bsky.social is live: autocorrectmag.com

Chris Judge’s “A Daily Cloud” project began in 2020, born from quiet days in the garden during lockdown. With simple lines and a touch of imagination, he turned everyday skies into playful scenes - one cloud at a time. [1/3] Credits: adailycloud [FB] #clouds #creative

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

Wait, is this -- is this real? They actually published a list of books that may or may not exist? (The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir is, for example, not an actual book!) Please, jfc, tell me this isn't real. I'm not finding it online anywhere, which makes me hope it's fake? Gotta be fake, please?

I saw people lining up at 7:50 to go into an ALDIs store that opens at 9. That wait is not worth a $10 gift card.

Big time on the book thing. You’ll never in your life read everything you want to, so don’t waste your time.

Even though it’s almost impossible to reschedule a dentist appointment, because they’re so booked up, they want me to refer a friend, ha.

Still pissed I didn’t buy like 500 of these. From 2023. I’d probably still have some, dammit!

Why is the cdc calling me to do a childhood immunization survey

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

I think the reason Keosha and I like the house at different temperatures is because I wear socks and she doesn’t.

I love how the dad is always worried that his boss will eat him.

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Rainbow Convenience store made the best chicken wings and fried rice, but the children didn’t want to take it over when their parents passed.

After a long hiatus, Octopus Books are open for poetry manuscripts again until the middle of May. They’re capped at 300, though.

You: take 58 minutes to drink some aromatic and warming coffee. Me: takes 2 seconds to swallow a chalky tasting caffeine pill.

One time I applied to be a writer for Cards Against Humanity. The only sample card I remember writing is a white card saying “Ted Cruz’s browser history.” They never got back to me.

I finished The Books of Jacob and my sincere take is that it should have been shorter.

Had poutine for the first time today and that’s just another reason to move to Canada.

I’m excited to have my poem, “Parasites,” in the opening pages of Notre Dame Review (59). This issue has so many dynamic writers, so go get your copy now (link in thread). Much thanks to the editors!

Foreign born AND changed my name at 18. Zero chance I'll be able to vote again in SC if this goes through.

The whole “Which ad experience do you prefer?” isn’t about choice. It’s about forcing you to acknowledge the product, instead of zoning out.

The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...