Excited to get my hands on this sequel to The Shadow Road by Saskatoon author @kurtkirchmeier.bsky.social!

“Write to the market.” You’ll never catch the market. By the time you’ve written it, the market is gone. Write what you’re on fire to write, and sometimes the market shows up.

The leaders of the country’s biggest white nationalist group believe that “the Nazis were right” and that a violent “race war” for Canada’s future is underway youtu.be/scR4OZX4g4s?...

Poem: ‘Snow’ by Andrew Motion

Happy birthday Jane Austen! You're looking pretty fresh for 250! p.s. @devoney.bsky.social 's Wild for Austen is highly recommended (including by me, as you can see).

Kudos to @josiahnelson.bsky.social for his excellent short fiction piece in the new issue of Brick! Clever, alchemical, eerie - a great read. @brickliterary.bsky.social

“You come at poetry with the momentum of having failed. It’s only when other communication is absolutely impossible that a poem has to exist.” —Alice Oswald

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

this is my #1 advice to grad students: anyone can reproduce jargon; the bigger flex is being able to make the argument in straightforward prose. clarity is indicative of deep thought and engagement. even chatGPT can write word salad.

Brandon Kilbourne, Natural History: poems / @graywolfpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/12/bran...

It's amazing how a few weeks away from a poem makes you see the cracks in it. Time is the best editor. Patience is better than any craft book.

icymi, wrote about how to not understand (but maybe enjoy!) John Ashbery's first book *Some Trees*. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/getting-co...

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*. Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more. Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.

A very happy birthday to the ever-beguiling and brilliant William Blake, born #onthisday in 1757. Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w... #otd

Read what Carcanet's Managing Director, Michael Schmidt had to say about 'ChatGPT and the modern poet' in a recent article published in BookBrunch: www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...

Being a writer is like surfing. Always hoping to catch the perfect wave, but most of your time will be spent paddling against the tide or just floating, waiting, eyes on the horizon while you watch other people riding their highs into the sunset. But you have to love the work more than the ride.

Amnesty International condemns Alberta’s use of Notwithstanding Clause to prop up anti-trans policies amnesty.ca/press-releas...

This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.

A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.

This sounds amazing! I’d be there if I didn’t have an MFA poetry session at the exact same time!

9 Nov 2025 --Heartbreaking op-ed in Teen Vogue by Katelyn Burns --"Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better" @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Hey yo here’s some blue meat from me on yesterday’s election results. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

I am trying something in November. National novel-reading month, basically. It is the PERFECT month for reading (at least in the Western hemisphere). naomialderman.substack.com/p/november-i...

Please check your kid’s Halloween candy tonight. Apparently requests for a synopsis are being hidden in candy bars.

More than 460 people were reportedly killed in a North Darfur hospital that was overrun by Sudanese paramilitary forces, the WHO said

(via Kelly Link @kellylink.bsky.social)

I wouldn’t tell anyone I’d won The Lottery but there would be signs… The signs: [getting stoned to death]

A haunted house but every room is just another person whose name you should definitely know by now

Hare riding a hound with a trained snail of prey Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390

Truss bridge at Dorothy, Alberta. 📷iPhone 16 Pro

I wrote about seeing Yiyun Li and Miriam Toews in conversation with Alexandra Schwartz at #NewYorkerFest. It was an emotional evening and I thank you in advance for reading about it: www.maureenlangloss.com/you-have-to-...

Delighted reading this food for thought piece by @naomialderman.bsky.social on my lunch break naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-best-a...

A useful animated video, illustrating how everyday noises—ones non-autistic people may not notice—can overwhelm an autistic person, in some cases leading to bolting and meltdowns that uninformed people dismiss as "autistic behaviors." Please watch and share. youtu.be/K2P4Ed6G3gw?... #neurodiversity

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

Get @reshare_app • @thishourhas22minutes When the ICE agent is Canadian… 🇨🇦

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents. Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time. He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone. Houston, Texas

Racism is embedded in the death penalty. This World Against the Death Penalty Day and every other day of the year, we’re calling on our elected officials to work toward an end to capital punishment once and for all.

It’s useful to think of Christian Nationalism as a subculture like any other, with one important difference. THIS subculture thinks of itself as the default “normal” culture of “real Americans,” but which is also under siege by “the dominant culture.”

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Hey everyone! I'm extremely excited to announce that today marks the release of the 10th Anniversary Edition of Steve Silberman's ground-breaking NeuroTribes, with a new foreword by John Elder Robison.

Now that's it's officially fall, here's a fall poem I had published in the Summer 2025 issue (Vol. 52.4) of Grain.

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

If Tylenol caused autism, we’d all be autistic. Almost every pregnant woman in America has taken Tylenol because it’s what doctors recommend during pregnancy.

“Then he came, the speaker. He stood in the square. He told us who to hate.” Been starting my mornings with William Stafford. Did not expect this one. (From The Way It Is) #poetry #writing

Taught John Balaban’s great poem “A Finger” to my students this morning. I can’t think of a poem that captures the immediate, terrible aftermath of living through the events of September 11th more movingly. Here it is: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152030...

BREAKING: Trump’s Education Dept. cancels grants that help students who are both deaf and blind. “How low can you go?” said one person who works with DeafBlind students and their families. W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...