The stretch of I80 between Vacaville & Richmond is a zone of total anarchy.

They not like us; they also not like him.

“It’s the wild freedom of silly gooseness, feathers to cushion being told / you’re useless, repeatedly, while still being used for everything.” Jen Jabaily-Blackburn’s “Ars Poetica: Getaway Car” is featured in Issue 30, now yours to read: buff.ly/DPpNVSv

Birth of the Phantom By Chilean Oscar Hahn, on the haunting of longing. I drew your name on the mirror fogged by steam from the shower Leaving the bathroom I looked at our empty bed

Oh why not @smokelong.bsky.social

Today the Hotsie is my coffee shelf

Maybe the male loneliness crisis is actually a male personality crisis

love a short ekphrastic! today from J. Freeborn: https://www.havehashad.com/8ybs2

new way for me to stop taking someone seriously just dropped

"Chicago Haiku" a typewriter poem by Eric Plattner from the Leaf Town Forever launch at Colvin House! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/7995606...

one of my two poems in the newest print issue of @waterstonereview.bsky.social much love to guest editor @josehernandezdz.bsky.social

“Honestly, it's the wrong year / to write a love poem.” — Asa Drake (@asaldrake.bsky.social) . . . This poem appeared in Sierra Magazine, 2022. Shared here with deep gratitude.

do you believe we were made in the image / of something who needed to make something else?

New #poetry from Kate Kadleck: "Ovulation Testing".

Ah yes, let's dust off those old skull calipers

🪩 🕺 Hello Friends! Congratulations to our wonderful Pushcart Nominees: Amy Jannotti @cursetheground.bsky.social, Damon Hubbs @hubbsd.bsky.social, Will Cordeiro, Zebulon Huset, Salvatore Difalco, & Paul Hostovsky! Read their work here: engineidling.net !

From Jay Hopler's book, Still Life, which was released shortly after he passed in 2022. The beauty and wonder with which he explored and faced his illness have stunned me ever since. Published by @mcsweeneys.net. #poem #booksky #writing

From Adam Falkner's book, The Willies. #poem #books #writing

Very happy to be in the spotlight today, courtesy of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social ! Find my poem "Our Mothers" in Issue 7: The Urge below alongside too much additional 🔥 writing to list here.

Hunger They say you catch more
 flies with honey. Dead bodies also work. The question is why you want flies at all. Trust me. They will come soon enough . I’ve heard they visit the eyes first. Michael Bazzett Image courtesy @taraskurtu.bsky.social

If a judge is reading poems at you, you're fucked.

"It’s my birthday and I’ve spent the day counting the 27 bones that make up a fist..." today from Daniel Lurie!! 👊 https://www.havehashad.com/gt7eb

Hot damn

Mississippi Democrats won two closely watched special elections for State Senate on Tuesday, according to unofficial results and Republican and Democratic officials, breaking the Republican supermajority and bringing more Black voices to the state capital.

Nope. He's played the role of thorn in the side well enough, but we know he'll turn on any group the moment it seems politically advantageous.

This one wanting all the snuggles on this gray day in Sacramento.

🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤 Our #spotlight is on Megan O'Patry ! Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity

Not to pick on EBSCO, who we enjoy working with, because I'm sure all distributors of print and digital media will be doing the same thing. But this is appalling and everyone should say no. For one thing, we don't have the rights to this work after we publish...it reverts to the writers!

A gorgeous Karl Krakow for our rainy Wednesday. Tr. Stuart Friebert. Rain Rain like too-long sentences in a dead language Cicero's Latin

O hell yes www.stereogum.com/2328784/deat...

“All roads to the factually incorrect description of the spread of the plague lead back to this one text." www.popsci.com/health/black...

“I realized / it was my / zipper against / the metal / of the wheel well” — Tom Snarsky (@tomsnarsky.bsky.social) . . . This poem appeared in ONE ART: a journal of poetry, 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.

I have two poems in this issue! allium.colum.edu/fall-2025-po...

There was a smattering of polite laughter.

New #poetry from Sammy Bellin: "Cows in fog moored".

What if I tell you / something both / terrible and true?

it's important we don't let monsters / destroy our love

“Everyone I have lost / I have lost before the end.” — Eugenia Leigh (@eugenialeigh.bsky.social) . . . This poem appeared in Bianca by Eugenia Leigh, published by Four Way Books (@fourwaybooks.bsky.social), 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Lovely little poem dropped today in a lovely little issue of Anacapa Review from @gunpowderpress.bsky.social Give some love and attention to myself, Mickie Kennedy, January Gill O’Neil & more!!… anacapareview.com/joshua-zeitl...

New #poetry from Lauren Delapenha: "Ama".

"The tech industry is delivering on futuristic notions of science fiction," writes Casey Michael Henry. "Yet it seems unaware, at times, that many of those notions were meant to be dystopian or satirical — visions of where our worst and dumbest habits could lead us." nyti.ms/4oOdfmc

rage is a story that has / no ending Reading Ovid, Marie Howe

“While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” —Eugene V. Debs

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Not me sitting on my porch in California gleefully watching these election results from the rest of the country roll in.

Another one

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Oh hell yeah

Ready for silver linings results in the storm clouds tonight. I want to see anti-trans attack campaigns failing, progressives rising, Mamdani for New York City, Wilson for Seattle, Prop 50 for CA… West coast, we still have a few hours left. Get those ballots in. 🗳️

Nice!