Where are the Washington State senators? @murray.senate.gov

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

"The present is different from the past, but that’s no use if you can’t remember the past. With feminism, the immensity of its achievements over the past 50 or 60 years disappears if you forget things used to be worse in ways almost unimaginable to those who didn’t live through them or study them."

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To honor Transgender Day of Visibility, an annual day celebrating the incandescence of the trans community, Split This Rock is pleased to announce a special collection in The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. The collection will be released in April. Read the full letter: bit.ly/4rYRXn9

patiently explaining to national political reporters that the people who organize No Kings are also doing the daily advocacy, voter registration, mutual aid, and immigrant defense, and that just because the cameras show up for the big crowd does not mean that work did not exist before and after

A new chronicle is up: sarahstockton.substack.com/p/pelicans-a...

So heartwarming when someone takes the time to share like this. Grateful.

Hiiiii, feel free to keep deaf people out of this! So sick of the condescension disguised as faux concern about how disabled people "need" AI. We don't. Autocaptions are almost always very bad, and then people like you use their existence to justify taking away actual accommodations that work.

I'm attending MoveOn's event, “[LIVESTREAM] People's State of the Union” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

"Without feminism, the sequence of events that led to Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest would never have happened. It’s a reminder that feminism is powerful and important and even transformative, which is why there’s so much pushback..."

Happen to be in the DMV on 3/1? Susan Scheid & I would love to see you at our booklaunch @thewriterscenter.bsky.social for an afternoon of poetry. @christinadaub.bsky.social will also read. For info & rsvp go to writer.org/event/scheid...

Please check out a review of These Saints are Stones by @millietullis.bsky.social from Signature Books. www.trampolinepoetry.com/reviews

Lovely books, inside and out!

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

issue 131 of Rogue Agent is here! Ft poetry by Casey Zella Andrews, Abraham Aondoana, LeeAnn Bartolini, Georgie Contreras @drdisarro.bsky.social Kara Knickerbocker, Marilyn McCabe, Kashiana Singh, Amanda Adrienne Smith & Ruiyan Zhu—w art by Olivia Baldacci! rogueagentjournal.com/issue131

Ocean Beach this morning… just wow!!

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Robert Hayden masterpiece:

@susanscheid.bsky.social's and my joint launch reading this coming Sunday @thewriterscenter.bsky.social, Bethesda, MD writer.org/event/scheid...

A poem from my forthcoming chapbook, Pelican's Daughter (Concrete Wolf Press) is up on the Psaltery & Lyre site today. Many thanks, @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social and @millietullis.bsky.social!

We just saw this, and it’s a good idea for businesses to post. Private businesses are allowed to set dress and conduct rules. Requiring no full face coverings has long been standard for safety and loss prevention reasons, and it is within a business’s rights to refuse entry or service.

Friends, "These Saints are Stones," my first full-length, comes out in two months, and you can now preorder! AND, please let me know if you're willing to write a book review, interview, podcast chat, or anything else to help get the word out! 🧡

We are dealing with an institution modeled on slave catching and the great news is that we also have resistance models This is a great book about the Underground Railroad in an urban environment, New York City: wwnorton.com/books/gatewa...

this was also consensus opinion for center-right types after george floyd’s murder five years ago. the state media apparatus will be working overtime the next few weeks to reprogram them

Posting for a fellow ME/CFS friend in need: Arianne True is so sick, my dudes chuffed.org/project/aria...

Lit matters: Many literary nonprofits lost grants this year because they would not defund programs that were deemed “DEI”; donations from individuals went down, book sales are down. Even $10 helps a small press like @triohousepress.org or a large org like AWP. Please give to the orgs you love. 💛💜

My weekend read: this lovely new book of poems by @burgi.bsky.social, just right for a winter's rainy day.

Poets aren’t bad at self-promotion because we’re inherently humble, but because the habits that sustain poetry have very little to do with the habits required to promote it. Promotion can feel like an assault on the inner world by the outer one.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

My debut collection WHITE DOOR is out!!! 💃✨💃 Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social! Link to order and more info in 🧵 DM for signed copies/to review 🙏💙 Watch this space for events/news 😊

Everything we care about, from the cost of groceries to the character of our republic, will be affected by decisions that are happening at the ballot box today. So if you care, make sure you vote!

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The battle against authoritarianism is fought in the streets, but also in the mind.

Chronicles (launching September 1st) Getting back in the newsletter game: I'd love to see you there.

Chronicles (launching September 1st) Getting back in the newsletter game: I'd love to see you there.

Lemon Grove Writers has collected all of our Writing Sprint prompts into a PDF and all sales made in August will be sent to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. lemongrovewriters.com/products/pro...

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

@marthasilano.bsky.social's "When I'm On the Bed": "called death, I hope / to be thinking about / the texture of the bucatini / at Campiello, how they seated us / in the bar by the pizza cooks..." poets.org/poem/when-im... (posthumous volume, TERMINAL SURREAL, forthcoming Sept.) #poetry🎉

I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't   you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write —W.S. Merwin, from “Berryman”

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.

Susan is such a kind poet- this lifted my spirits so much. What are you reading today? I suggest Dressing the Bear, a profound collection: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...

With all the hard and heavy and heart-breaking news, I’m taking a sliver of a moment to celebrate. My third full-length collection, Our Lady of Thread, will be coming to a bookstore near you in 2027.

The people of G*z* are living an unspeakable nightmare inflicted upon them with absolute impunity & on our watch by the I*r***i occupation. The least we can do is to not give in to resignation. Find some resources here or compile your own. burgizenhaeusern.com/links-for-ga...

Please give if you can!

Looking forward to this!

One of my favorite poets!

Children, they are moving amongst children.