Frankel to Rubio: "It is crazy that you want to let people in from South Africa because they can assimilate, while you're throwing out hundreds of thousands of people who have already assimilated and that are important parts of our economy and family life."

If releasing your tax returns and the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It's that simple.

Erasing history www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

the thing about writing is that it is *so easy* unless you are good at it

Friends! I’ll be in the Hackney/Shoreditch areas of London in a month. What should I do? Who can I have lunch with?

Joe Macken's fascination with buildings and landscapes started as a child after visiting the Panorama of the City of New York, the massive model that debuted at the 1965 New York World's Fair.

Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

I watched the show when I was in 6th grade, earning extra credit at school for doing so. I’m pretty sure it was a pivotal experience in my young life in Little Rock, and I’m sure those pivots are exactly what the folks in Knox Co are hoping to prevent.

Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

Had coffee with my thesis advisor yesterday. This fall I begin the crazy downhill slide into the station to finish my MFA and I’m feeling SOOOOOO much better about where I am in my plan than I did a year ago. 🎉🎉🎉

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Brave warriors just blow flu viruses up with grenades, I guess.

FlashFlood is open! We’d love to receive your subs 😊 Flashes up to 300 words, pre 2023 prev published considered, reserved spots for debut writers. You have until 23:59 on 25 April: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

And my ex insisted my idea to open one wouldn’t work. 😑

Wow, what a voice!

Do I have any friends or friends with friends who live in central London and would be willing to let me crash with them in June? Somewhere walkable to the Old Street Station would be ideal! 🤞🏻

Are you in need of a village? We are The Village with All of The Flash Writers. And here's the invitation link: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/plans/191340...

Washington Post chief executive and publisher Will Lewis has resigned just days after the newspaper announced massive layoffs. n.pr/4qjynkB

Who do I know who’s going to AWP next month and needs a roommate?

Uh… yeah. As dictated in the constitution and as fought for by the south as part of the STATE’S RIGHTS we were told the civil war was about. These fascists… 🙄

Just learned the one and only @sgj.bsky.social will be visiting my MFA program this spring - much excitement occurring in the student chat atm. 👀

"Of course, articulating those thoughts would not be prudent or polite and everyone knows I am the embodiment of both of those traits, so desirable in a woman..." @lauriemmarshall.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/januar...

@mpalaia.bsky.social just read your Lit Hub piece about MFA programs for a class I’m taking in my MfA (as I’m a newly-minted 60-yr old). Wanted to say HELL YES, and thanks. 😊

I’m excited to share I’ll have a piece in Ghost Parachute next month! Such a great journal, and I’m thrilled to be amongst some flash superstars!

Writer/academic friends - aside from AWP, what conferences are you attending to network, learn, be inspired?

Hey friends! I'm sharing a flash fiction piece every day this month to celebrate my birthday, and I would love some suggestions! Tell me what you're reading, writing, loving, surprised by, new discoveries... all the things! You can follow along here: therepurposedlife.substack.com THANKS!!

Setting intentions.

What's on the inside? It could be fire. Check out this amazing collage work from @lauriemmarshall.bsky.social in Issue 4! asteralesjournal.com/1-3-johnson-...

Here he goes.

@andrewbertaina.bsky.social Hey, Andrew! Would you have .pdf or do you have any arcs of Ethan Hawke and Me? A friend of mine who is putting together a student-run lit mag would like to review it. (@dogyardmag.com) No pressure or anything - if you’re interested let me know! :)

Made an appointment to say goodbye to my old man cat today. He’s had one thing after another over the last year including recurrent infections in his mouth, can’t make it to the litter box, hobbled by arthritis… but he sleeps well and loves us. Struggling to decide if this is the right thing. 😢

The problem with enjoying a lazy, go-nowhere, sleep late summer is that when the semester kicks off again I’m whining to myself about having to put on clothes and make a lunch every day. Every day!?! 😩😋

Russia lost a war in Crimea in the 1850s. To pay off war debts, Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. Now presidents Trump and Putin will meet Friday in Alaska to discuss another war involving Crimea.

Do better, @bsky.app @support.bsky.team

Issue Three is live! Poems from @readinstead.bsky.social @johnpauldavis.org, @mfitejohnson.bsky.social, @fklein907.bsky.social, Gail Martin, Kerry Trautman, Meghan Sterling and art from @carolee.bsky.social, Rachel Turney, @lauriemmarshall.bsky.social & Sandra Wilcoxon!

So happy to have my art used to illustrate such a lovely piece of poetry. Take a look! 👀

@johnaugust.bsky.social When you & Craig read 3-pg challenges you often give a note to strike character info that can’t be directed. Would it be appropriate to include character sketches? Where would they go? Plays often include them, but not sure about screenplays.

Fellow olds: get yourself some younger friends. Mine are into all the things I love, like gardening, birdwatching, collecting vinyl and shopping at thrift stores, but they also introduce me to queer poets and musicians, and we can discuss where to get tattoos. It’s a massive win-win-win.

😂😂😂

not gonna use this to point out that we were Ralph's first publication. not at all. that'd be tacky. just saying congrats. that's all. congrats!!

The destruction of public radio is truly an existential threat to books and book culture. I can't say it enough.

Port, poet… whatever. 😋

Port friends: what lit journals are accepting *translated* poetry? #poetry #poets #litmags

Thanks to @djvorreyer.bsky.social being persistent, I found out I had a piece of collage art accepted by @asteralesjournal.bsky.social after the email went to my junk mail. Haha, whoops! Anyway, yay for my first acceptance of anything at all since 2023! #gradschoollife #howdoyouworkthisthing 🎉

So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Yo writer types @barrelhouse.bsky.social is currently still open for everything -- fiction, nonfiction, poetry -- for our 26th print issue! No submission fees, we pay $50. Send us some good weird sad funny surprising stuff. www.barrelhousemag.com/submission-i...

Tonight at 7pm - the online launch of Cold Toast 🍞🥂 We'd love to see you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cold-toast...

In just under one hour, this link will be live. (How soon thereafter will it be dead? We'll see!) havehashad.submittable.com/submit/32953...

Still looking!