If you send a rejection in under 24 hours, you’re not reading submissions. You’re cleaning out your inbox.

Love it when engineers solve problems I’ve been griping about for a good decade

Revenge is sweeter in Paris

IM NOT GONNA USE GEMINI IM NOT GONNA USE COPILOT IM NOT GONNA USE CHATGPT IM NOT GONNA USE CLAUDE IM NOT GONNA USE GROK ALL YALL CAN GET FUCKED INTO THE SUN

Yes, give us more poet-on-poet. Guidelines on our site: www.verseofapril.com/submissions (Drawing by @dechabaneixbaptiste)

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Last night’s inauguration of the Netherlands’ new poet laureate, my dear friend Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad. As Sahand Sahebdivani put it in his speech: “What a gift it is to speak many languages” @uitgeverijpluim.bsky.social #dichterdernederlanden

"My identifying features / are rapture and despair." - Wislawa Szymborska, Sky

A drawing by Erik Satie which cannot resist its fancies.

We’ve extended the submissions deadline to March 1. Still plenty of time for you to submit and for us to get our chicks in order (starting a lit mag definitely comes with a learning curve :))

In 2021 I was telling people in my field of art history to stop legitimizing the use of image recognition, to stop applying for grants to use AI in identifying the subjects of portraiture bc this was what such work was being used to further. All this was obvious. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...

Happy annual mute AWP day to all who celebrate

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund

whatever it may be, your movement needs poets (don't always look like Poets), not grifters, because every movement needs people who patiently examine, life long, how language pricks and punctures and grazes and warms and holds and pushes us toward what we don't know yet how to say--world in process

The Netherlands’ new poet laureate and a dear friend:

There's a lot of issues with the myths around nonviolence and protest. A big one is that they erase the actual history of the civil rights movement — complex coalitions whose struggles and strategies are vital to understand — into a whitewashed saintliness that gentry liberals are comfortable with.

"Stemming etymologically from the same roots, these languages have branched out and the distance from their roots, the connections, may have been severed—or, this poem asks, perhaps there is still some collective soil?" Jennifer K. Dick minorliteratures.com/2026/01/13/m...

A poem very close to my heart has appeared for public viewing @glasspoetry.bsky.social - much love to Tony for trusting this work

“Espionage”

Today a neighbor complained to me and my kids that the fort they’d made on our patio was not “aesthetic” and was like homeless people had moved in. She did this while holding her naked breasts over her balcony. “I didn’t know kids lived here,” she said, of an 18 story highrise in Amdam north . . .

BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

Voor De Gids schreef ik over mijn veranderde verhouding tot het russisch, mijn tweede taal in plaats van het Kazachs, en over de historische, traumatische gebeurtenissen van Bloedige Januari in 2022. Hier te lezen: www.de-gids.nl/artikelen/qa...

White guy gets a little validation from other men and immediately starts praising the taliban lol

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like. And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Democrats Abroad "Hands Off" protests around the world. #handsoff #april5 #5April #democratsabroad

And please don't forget that the SAVE Act requires in-person voter registration (in many states that means every year). This will disenfranchise Americans abroad (or force them to pay to travel to the US), including the military, as well as the elderly and disabled. Stop the #SAVEAct !

The NYT reports DOGE has recommended cuts that would likely result in the shutdown of the NEH. This would gut Tennessee Humanities, which funds the excellent Southern Festival of the Book, as well as Chapter 16--the only outlet in TN that still reviews books. This is heartbreaking.

Rome being Rome

Obsessed with this book and the Tiber in early spring

Caught the eclipse on camera

Seems pretty fascism-y

Can Secretary Rubio give us a full list of the political views the administration will allow immigrants to espouse and which ones he will decide to "yank" their visas over? Be specific, please. www.state.gov/secretary-of...

ICE has arrested Iranian national Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama. He was arrested at home at 5 a.m. Tuesday. As with some of the others who've been disappeared, unclear why he was detained. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Lowkey PTSD from the AWP posts everywhere

Fun fact: @runforsomething.net is *still* averaging about 500 new people signing up every single day to consider a run for local office.

1. The list of countries issuing travel advisories for LGBTQ+ and especially trans travelers to the United States is expanding. France, Denmark, Finland, and Germany are all warning trans and LGBTQ+ travelers of potential trouble. The latest form S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

New visa policy targets transgender individuals: A directive from the Secretary of State requires visa applicants to disclose their sex assigned at birth, possibly affecting transgender travelers in all categories - Broad implications beyond sports: www.huschblackwell.com/newsandinsig...

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

Trump just signed an executive order banning vote by mail and ordering the defunding of any state that does not follow through with it as well as engage in massive voter roll purges. There won't be free and fair elections ever again. If you're waiting for 2026, it's already too late.

1. I'm already tired of this man's face. 2. I'm even more tired of EVERYONE using McNally-Jackson as shorthand for NYC lit coolness; did no one READ that piece about Herself the Owner! 3. This is the silliest question. 4. No.

Honestly very impressed by those who are managing to have a crush under these conditions.

My final trip to the US has been bittersweet. In many ways the time I spent with my friends (old & new) was the best I've ever had. But the country is also simply no longer safe for me to visit thinking as I think, acting as I act, & existing as I am.

Incredible Arpita Singh show at London’s Serpentine. I’ve been thinking about this more than the Elektra production we saw, the reason I came here in the first place

15,000 people protested fascism and racism in Amsterdam yesterday.

Joseph Radke in ISSUE 24! www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-24

Having self-respect is boring but calm