"Adrift in hollowed out artificial logs, we trailed our fingers in the chlorinated river, then stood, arms wide, daring the darkness to strike us." From "Knott's Berry Farm, 1996," a new essay by @jenpmeadows.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/n6pbseP

I’m deeply proud to share my essay, “Knott’s Berry Farm, 1996.” Thanks so much to @therumpus.net for their continued support of my writing. This essay is 30 years in the making and a love letter to the time, to the age, to all the girls, and to that place, Knott’s 1996.

It's more important than ever to know what to do if ICE shows up at your door. Head to our website now to access our Know Your Rights guides and other multilingual resources. ⬇️ stopaapihate.org/community-resources

“large parts of the internet are information deserts, in which the only available brain food is junk.”

ANMLY #41 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, with a folio on autistic protest poetry! >>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1 >>> anmly.submittable.com

For shame, USA. We must do better! Our children deserve better. “The agency enforces the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the law creating a free and appropriate education for children with disabilities, and funds special education services to the tune of around $15 billion.”

If you are thinking about asking friends or relatives if they took Tylenol when they were pregnant, STOP. No one has to justify their TYLENOL use, and you are not helping.

Happy Star Trek Day! forever grateful to @barrelhouse.bsky.social for taking a chance on my sad-jeans Star Trek poem all those years ago www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/y...

Queen of Spades, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of Art Nouveau and the Glasgow School #WomensArt

No matter what uniform they wear, federal agents and military troops on our streets are bound by the Constitution. For more information, go to aclu.org/deployment_kyr.

"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom." "All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

another "5" list, today from Rachel Beachy, that kinda sneaks up on you and then just knocks you out "After you wished for a horse for the backyard, I said maybe next year. You asked if I had fun at Chuck E. Cheese." https://www.havehashad.com/25jix

“Thank GOD the National Guard is here while I EAT MY PIZZA,” shouts a woman at Red Light on 14th in DC as yet another trio of guardsmen walk by.

“With great cunning, Persephone seduced Sisyphus into trying Zeus’s Thunderbolt, a hot new app that promised to mass-unsubscribe him from spam newsletters. But it was a trick, and Zeus’s Thunderbolt instead flooded him with scores of emails hawking meme coins.” —Hyginus, Fabulae, via Alex Baia

Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home: We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more. Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Make a Zine! You! Yes, you! We couldn't agree more, Imogen GENDERTRASH From Hell Pre-orders close at the end of August 😱 www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/gende...

Bring back pieing politicians. Sandwiching also works.

For when you are working with students or sending your kids off to school.

Back at the casino.

Thank you, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. With gratitude from viewers like me.

At the casino with parents. Mom won a bit at craps and I told her if she handed over 1K we could come back tomorrow. Now she’s just playing with her original seed money.

Dad refuses to eat ramen now because of what he read on “the Facebook.” Also cashews.

This Tuesday feels like Monday.

Blasting some Rush at 11 would really improve my mood/outlook right now, but the fear of exacerbating my tinnitus stops me.

“We were saying, “Art is not enough; do something more.” When we did it, we were thinking, art is not enough; fundraising is not enough; memorials are not enough. You know, it was a call to people to get off their asses and do something more.” - Mark Simpson of Gran Fury

This Friday feels like Monday.

“Suggesting it looked like a film set is far too generous. LA Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson accurately described it as ‘staging for a TikTok video.’ Even the name was dumb: Operation Excalibur.” www.torched.la/space-invade...

…HUMANS ARE SUFFER. Indeed. Good night.

What people want with AI is not literature, it’s products. What people often want to create with AI is not art, it’s a product that they would’ve bought or commissioned from an artist, but these companies now provide this workaround for you so you can bypass the process altogether.

Attending Nonfictionow at University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Got my badge and excited for our research panel this morning. #NFNow25

When your government tries to tell you autistic people can't write poetry, go read entire, beautiful, poetic novels by autistic writers. buff.ly/jNb8sKN

Because fuck that old-money brainworm

“Fighting Oligarchy” rally with Bernie, AOC, and 30K+ supporters at Folsom Lake College! Folsom, CA. 4.15.25.

Just remember the band leader from the Titanic's body was found later with his violin strap to his body. The violin is still in his family to this day. So if the country tanks make sure to strap your current novel draft to yourself and hopefully your descendants will find it someday.

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

Sacramento, CA protest. #50501 #HandsOff

“A no is not a rejection of you. It’s not even a rejection of your work as a whole, or your worth as a writer.” - An excerpt of @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social's Dear Writer, PLUS a little video interview I got to do with her. memoirland.substack.com/p/on-rejection

Leaving a sleeping house for AWP. Seven hours to LA.

I like how people are sharing these “Where to find me at AWP” posts that include panel, reading, and bookfair info. It’s helpful. However, my AWP game plan includes lurking and seeing what happens—it’s much more organic and anxiety inducing that way. #AWPLA #AWP2025

NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself: