Big news for the pod!

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. ~ Allen Ginsberg

Coming out in February, but I wish it were tomorrow. Waiting (impatiently) for this book I already know I love.

Everything is terrible, except the view-from-below paws of this ready-to-sew trompe l’oeil cat issued by Arnold Print Works, MA c. 1892 (courtesy Fashion and Textile Museum London)

Thinking about an elder who talked w/me at the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth about trying to find out what was happening with her sister on their island during a hurricane a few years ago & no US weather station was covering it--the racist structure that created those hours of silence & waiting

And here's a link to our web page with information on our 'project' and lots of links. It's never too late to join. Everyone is welcome!!! 💛 (in collaboration with @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social) www.joiedevivre9.com/katebriggs24...

#AContinuation25 It took us a bit longer than expected (life!), but we're wrapping up our reading of Roland Barthes' THE NEUTRAL.❤️‍🔥 Part 6 of our project—Proust's IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME—will begin soon! We're doing a slow, slow read (40pp/wk) & we'll begin SWANN'S WAY on August 2nd. Links below. ⬇️

We are open for submissions! All genres, always free! June 1-July 15! psalteryandlyre.org/submissions/

So when you leave your messages for your senators over the weekend, you will want to demand: - No cuts/obstacles to Medicaid - Retain gender-affirming coverage - No handouts for what Alec is describing in this thread below

From Jen Bervin's Nets: "When we write poems, the history of poems is with us, pre-inscribed on the white of the page; when we read or write poems, we do it with or against this palimpsest."

This is a persistent feeling in a poet, but staying alert to all the ways one is coerced into denying experience, sense, and reason is a huge task. Alice Notley

You heard it here first…🌊🌊📚 riverriverbooks.org

hello! preorders for #patternbook available in North America, the UK, Ireland (and elsewhere!). anyway, I wrote about the book and why you might enjoy it at the link below. get a copy from yr local bookshop or from @carcanet.bsky.social in the UK (ELPB15 = 15% off and free shipping in the UK)

Poetry lost the wonderful Martha Silano this week. From her book “The One We Call Ours”

Hero.

Every one of these is stunning, @hanvanderhart.bsky.social!

This book, @hanvanderhart.bsky.social's Larks, has been my companion for the past week & I'm so grateful for these poems, don't want them to leave my side. Attentive, wise, graceful, courageous. They have been buoying me, getting me through, & that's no small thing now or ever.

Congratulations to @davidnaimon.bsky.social His “Eleven Stills” has been selected by Susan Orlean for inclusion in this year’s Best American Science & Nature Writing. He does so much for all of us on Between the Covers. And he’s a writer, too! You can preorder now: bookshop.org/p/books/best...

A glimpse of the covers of our forthcoming US edition of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage, each incorporating a portion of detailed map of London in 1895. It will be available only as a set and exclusively from @asterismbooks.bsky.social by the end of September 2025.

Hi poetry babes—hope April finds you revising that beautiful, full-length manuscript, and that you consider sending it our way when we open on May 1. Submission guidelines here: riverriverbooks.org/editors/subm... Model contract here: riverriverbooks.org/editors/cont...

"If the inexplicable is named and explained, it enters the world of the justifiable and becomes dangerous." Fanny Howe, The Wedding Dress

“Resilience…isn’t just about responding—or getting through—a difficult experience. [It’s] more about being than doing…a way for our body to access possibility and coherence, regardless of the circumstance.” —Resmaa Menakem

The rule changes to Social Security will force people to go to an office if they can’t verify their identity online (since he’s doing away with Phone services that the elderly & disabled rely on) the White House website posts propaganda and LIES. Cutting ACCESS to benefits is the same thing. #LIARS

For, in the end, we are all exiled. I, and the occupier, we both suffer from exile. He is exiled in me, and I am the victim of his exile. On this earth, we are all neighbors, all exiled, the same human destiny awaits us… Mahmoud Darwish

New episode alert! Hear us on Han Kang’s WE DO NOT PART.

I loved talking about this book with @nonsuchbook.bsky.social and @ds228.bsky.social for One Bright Book — look for a new episode in a week or so!

Mosses of America

So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum in painted quiet and concentration keeps pouring milk day after day from the pitcher to the bowl the World hasn't earned the world's end. -Wisława Szymborska, "Vermeer" (t. Clare Cavanagh) [Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid” 1657] #everynightapoem #ekphrasis

Hello friends. There’s a new #HeyItsMe today, in which @rachzuck.bsky.social and I talk about how to navigate our friendship when we’re in very different places in our lives emotionally: www.heyitsmepodcast.com/episodes/epi...

Can’t have global warming if we shut off all the climate data Can’t have a pandemic if we shut down all the public health monitoring systems Can’t have a recession if we stop tracking economic indicators A+ plan, nothing can possibly go wrong

Trump blames Ukraine for starting the war the way a rapist blames his victim for looking too sexy.

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

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

This is at the heart of the grief we feel at the firing of Federal scientists. Scientists go to school and train for years, and mostly don’t get rich or work easy hours. Why? Because we get to look at the stars. We get to ask questions, and to try to use the answers to help people.

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

THIS WEEK: Your representative is back home for recess. That means it’s time to let them know we’re paying attention. Demand that Republicans explain why they’re selling out to billionaires, urge Democrats to fight back with all they have, or take the fight to Musk himself: indivisible.org/muskorus

in honor of president’s day, i would like a new one.

Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it. So we moved over to blue sky. Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-) Please do Follow Retweet & repeat

from Nuar Alsadir's Animal Joy

"To come to know your desire—what you really want as opposed to what you think you want or what will fulfill the desires of others, those watchers at the gateway of the mind—is essential to psychological freedom." ~ from Nuar Alsadir's Animal Joy

beckoning wonder land

Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

February’s Full Moon Haiku contest is here (Hunger Moon in Leo—let it burn, poets ❤️🔥)! Respond to this post to enter—multiple entries welcome. 🌕 ✨ #poetry #haiku #fullmoonhaiku #fullmoonhaikucontest (Please use alt text if posting images)

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

In the book of silence, I have written your name. The way we departed like twilight, cloaked in the blue of forgetful rivers. ~Ilyse Kusnetz