Rainbow over I-20 in Camden, SC, today.

I haven’t posted in a while, but this weekend’s Soda City Poetry Festival in Columbia, SC, rejuvenated my tired soul. What a great poetry community we have in SC!

This piece by @joangela.bsky.social was published in Apricity, January 2025.

I’m excited to be a part of this beautiful issue of Little Free Lit Mag, edited by Sarah Ann Winn! littlefreelitmag.com/issue-3-spri...

I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

Thanks to my Francis Marion colleagues for this wonderful honor.

Also yep.

Yep.

Are you a South Carolina poet interested in being chosen as a featured poet at Columbia’s Soda City Poetry Festival June 27-28? Fill out this application! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Clear winner.

Mom, leave me alone, please.

I’m thrilled to have three poems in this lovely anthology of SC poets and photos by SC biologist and photographer Phil Wilkinson. Available for purchase at www.danielcrossturner.com/all-titles/p...

Remember, this is a feature not a bug of bills like this. It's in the SAVE Act, and it's not an accident

This is all To pay for a tax cut for very wealthy people

Once again, no more grading for you, Mom.

South Carolina writers, check this out! SC Academy of Authors 2025 Coker Fellowship and Student awards in fiction and poetry! Go to hubcity.submittable.com/submit for details!

Still, There are good things in this world. James Wright

Volatile Mermaid nails it again.

He unites other countries against him and divides ours. What a time to be American. 🙄

“Mom, forget grading. Just give them all a C—for catnip!”

I just taught part of Douglass’s Narrative on Tuesday. A true American hero.

Except those red states have often been so gerrymandered, and so many there are disenfranchised, that a lot of people who never wanted these bozos in charge will suffer. Don’t forget that the real enemy has money and power. And it’s never cool to hurt the innocent to needle the guilty.

The reason the name will never, really change: When I get off of this mountain You know where I wanna go? Straight down the Mississippi River To the Gulf of Mexico

Wait, have we even tried this yet? 😅🤣😂

Boy, do I think of this all the time lately with all the customer service calls I’ve been having to make. America pledges allegiance to money.

More of this, America.

I will NOT be erased!

“Mom, I really like this video you’re watching!”

New criteria for NEA grants. 🤬 Scroll down to “Assurance of Compliance” section: www.arts.gov/grants/legal...

Mom’s purse makes a great pillow!

Tim Scott, like so many Republicans, loves to ignore all the laws and Constitutional protections the current administration is breaking while hiding behind the idea they have legal authority to pillage and ransack. BS. Call them on it. Click to enlarge.

We all should be screaming loudly over this (and so very much more).

“And that’s why / you can’t fall in love.” Luisa Muradyan

Two poems in the Apricity issue of Prosetrics Literary Magazine, each poem written some years ago. I confess it’s hard to feel warmth this winter.

My sister, like a second mother to me, passed away Jan. 12. So many people I know—at least seven I can count right now—have lost loved ones in the last few months, some of whom I knew too. Add that to the national horrors, and it’s almost too much. Yet we have to keep going. How?

Seeing a few flakes in South Carolina! (The snow kind, which is rare, unlike the human kind, which is not.)

This is true, especially for women. www.propelmagazine.co.uk/titilayo-far...

… in times like these. Sending love to all those affected by the wildfires 💙

From writer Leslie J. Anderson. #poem #poetry #poems #poets #writing #writers #resist