The only thing sillier than pivoting to video is pivoting to AI

Also....... "THE" Dawn Staley.

Need something for your sanity/humanity? Get in, kids, we’re going to a Zoom reading about songs!

seriously, somebody stop us

South Carolina!

Going to the moon on the first day of national poetry month? Idk, seems like some kind of set up.

I don't mess with April Fool's Day because 12 years ago I had to call out of work because I was in the hospital because I sliced my leg open with my bathroom sink. So consider this instead your annual PSA not to sit on countertops, which can break.

You're not crying? Leonardo DiCaprio's 24-year-old girlfriend is watching "one of Leo's old movies" for the first time, sobbing over Jack's death, not realizing that 25 is the iceberg and she is the ship, and he will always be Rose on the door, and you're not crying? marchxness.com/sadnesschamp...

“The most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it’s disheartening, you don’t want to go on. That’s what I think is hard—the discouragement that comes from seeing what you've done. This is all you could manage?” —James Salter

View from the very back row of a very small plane I got rebooked onto after much nonsense. Literature only, indeed.

I’m slowly but surely refinding and refollowing enough people I knew on Twitter that this app is starting to feel appropriately annoying, welcome back, internet of my youth, spring has sprung, etc etc

At an energy conference on Monday, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said, "The era of taxpayers subsidizing unreliable, unaffordable and unsecure energy is officially over.” Hours later, one of America’s largest oil refineries exploded.

I'm not always homesick, but the mom who runs the corner store down the block, with whom I try valiantly to practice my Spanish, was tagging MoonPies on the countertop today

was just reading a profile of a writer with a forthcoming book and stumbled across a lettuce ad that said “delicious, fresh, and crispy!” and simply assumed it was a blurb

guy in the neighborhood was playing Love Hurts on his phone. great song, i said. he looked at me blankly. emmylou and gram parsons right? i said. he opened a translator app and gestured to speak into it. when my thing was translated his eyes lit up. country music! he said. country music, i said

This is an excellent piece that comments on the damage that GenAI causes. "I hate that I’m forced to make art, or to enjoy it, in an age where technology, industry, and individual choice conspire to undermine our trust in each other at every turn."

Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/

Words I looked up in the dictionary today, which you're welcome to use as a writing prompt: barbershop, catlike, footbridge, woodsmoke, lunchtime, diacritic, déjà vu, heart rate, burnt, stationmaster, pine cone, judgment, fillet, catalog, bloodstained, son of a bitch, lightheaded #amediting

This is one of the saddest songs I know, the one I skip when my blood is already too close to the wrong side of my skin or skip to when I need to cry a specific feeling out of my system, and Melissa’s essay is an absolute banger. Vote Crows!

Sometimes I save a book I'm dying to read for when I think I'll need it. Yes, one can always re-read, but it's just not the same. I've almost read CREATION LAKE about 8 times, but I finally read it, and I'm so glad to have read it this week. If you've also been saving it, I hope your time comes soon

Can anyone recommend me a profile piece about... anyone, a musician, a politician, an athlete, a friend of someone famous that you read recently and liked? I'm racking my brains and mostly only remembering the ones we've rage-read for The Discourse

I'm a Wilco fan and knew whoever wrote about "Via Chicago" would do it proud, but Christopher Keller really delivered. I somehow missed the Tori Amos bus back in middle school, but Nanette Donohoe's take on "Winter" made this the best listen I've ever had to one of Amos's songs. Both worth the read!

Time is a flat circle, and so is my cat

I’m writing a sapphic air hockey romance

A most infuriating modern necessity: ruthlessly side-eyeing every single em dash in a manuscript in a paranoid attempt to make sure the voice isn't coming off like *that* voice.

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

working on a genre of book that I call Y'allternative

It’s iconic, she’s iconic, but what did it all mean? I wrote about Lisa Loeb and Stay (I Missed You) for @marchxness.bsky.social. We’re up against Lee Ann Womack and a worryingly good essay from @amygcb.bsky.social Come and vote and feel your feelings! marchxness.com#/1stround-lo...

In some ways I wish I was at AWP but mainly I think it’s nostalgia for who I used to be

People now think they’re doing 90s fashion but they’re actually just emulating boring rich people from the 90s. They’re not capturing anything that was fun or interesting about the era, not the punk or grunge influences, not the heavy 70s and 30s call backs. Just boring rich people

"Though not as heroin forward as the rest of their debut, one would have to pretty briskly walk past those obvious lyrical details... My ass has been running past them for nearly thirty years." Can confirm "The Background" made a devastating soundtrack for a middle-schooler and still slays me today.

the thing about comedy is that im really worried nothing will ever again be as funny to me as Space Ghost Coast to Coast

I want to do my part in raising awareness. Texas's Big Bend is set to receive new border security infrastructure, including >100 mi of border wall cutting through Big Bend National Park. Kristi Noem just waived 28 environmental protection laws and regulations to expedite this construction. 🧵 1/4

Got a new-to-me vintage bag and am thrilled to discover The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake fits perfectly in the outside slip pocket. Every bag should have an easy-to-access pocket specifically designed to accommodate slim little story collections, imho

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Hoo boy, did not expect to have a cathartic little cry over this. It's a gorgeous song, and I'll never hear it the same again having read Tammy's (short! worth the read!) essay

Line editing out weasel words is such a specific pleasure. "Still" is still the albatross I'll never shake, but though I had it down to only 3 instances of "slightly," only one belonged. The other two revealed super belabored syntax in one case, and in the other, inconsistent character description!

the snow looks like powdered sugar, and I forgot to buy sweetened condensed milk for making snow cream

Everyone says your mom doesn’t count as a beta reader, but what if, when you tell her you’re finishing up some revisions, her reply is: “oh, did you actually write an ending this time instead of just deciding it was long enough to be a book? that would be a big improvement over your last couple.”

social media is all lawless, but I can say specifically that it's a rough time to be a NextDoor moderator, and meanwhile I'm trying to gift some duplicate kitchen items in a Buy Nothing group and people are sending me voice memos?? Y'all are pretty tame by comparison

roses are red chocolate is nice read books, punch nazis moreover, destroy I.C.E.

I don't work at Prairie Schooner anymore, but I did for 7 years, & running a legacy mag on a shoestring budget is tough. PS turns 100 this year, which is a FEAT in the world of litmags. 8 more donations, and they'll get a $10,000 match. Please consider supporting: glowbigred.unl.edu/campaigns/pr...

Editor self: Spends the morning confidently writing 10+ pages of thoughtful, fluent feedback for a couple of authors. Writer self: Sits down this afternoon to work on her own pages and promptly googles "how to tell if your novel is good."

You can even write a book without the intention of having it published. You can just do it if it’s something you want to do.

Ask the moon. Ask what it has witnessed. - Linda Pastan, "Why Are Your Poems so Dark?"

Among other horrors, this is absolutely heinous