@readalittlepoem.bsky.social has introduced me to so many poems that I love. I'm so glad to see this favorite poem of mine in their rich archive!

“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.

🚨 📙 My forthcoming book has a cover! I hear dynamite gets lit once you start reading. 🧨 The one-and-only @taylorbyas.bsky.social was my editor and @simonemuenchie.bsky.social brought me into the @jacklegpress.bsky.social fold. ✨ Goes boom on 3.16.2026. More info coming soon!

Did you hear the news? Contributor @asaldrake.bsky.social’s debut full-length poetry collection MAYBE THE BODY is forthcoming from @tinhouse.bsky.social in 2026!! We're looking forward to the read 🤩

Wait, there's more baseball? I thought this game followed rule of threes. 😭

Write a critical essay with me this Saturday! 🥰

👀Announcing Tin House Jan-July 2026 titles! Check out our forthcoming books from @biancatherosestone.bsky.social @morgantalty.bsky.social @emilynemens.bsky.social @asaldrake.bsky.social + more in our new catalog! bit.ly/THJanJuly26C...

Portland ICE facility now.

Making little watercolors of happy news images to carry with me. This one's based on a Portland ICE protest photographed by Amanda Moore.

BREAKING: At least 51 Palestinians have been killed across Gaza by Israeli attacks since the ceasefire came into effect less than two weeks ago, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/z1q2d3

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement. At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

BREAKING: Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian in the Maen area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n5k3lj

Abolish ICE.

Thank you to Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) for including Babaylan in your 2025 reading list! 📚Happy #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth, everyone. Find your next read: https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-filipino-american-history-month-2025/#FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth

“The rule change amounts to an immediate transfer of income from poor farm workers to the very rich, very large agribusinesses which dominate US farms.“ unherd.com/newsroom/tru...

The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Join us — Luisa A. Igloria @thepoetslizard.bsky.social , Michelle Peñaloza, R.A.Villanueva, & @rhonierika.bsky.social — for a virtual reading & conversation, OUR HISTORY BRINGS US HERE * 8:00 ET, Wed Oct 8 * We're toasting our books published this past year/this year, so RSVP now at aaww.org/events/

Assata Shakur exchanged letters with Audre Lorde from prison, and Lorde wrote for her the poem "For Assata": I dream of your freedom as my victory and the victory of all dark women who forego the vanities of silence 👇Here's the whole poem

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

“… When we take them into the [operation] theatre they’re alive, they’re bleeding to death". Australian Dr Saya Aziz, working at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, says she has lost count of how many amputations she has performed aje.io/9v68pu

Sometimes I look up dream interpretations like "finding an axe" to interpret my awake life.

Israel is pushing towards the centre of Gaza City from two directions, 'sandwiching' Palestinians and forcibly displacing them toward the coast in a bid to drive them out of the besieged enclave’s largest urban centre aje.io/e8bfqz

Today is pub day for my third book and debut monograph! This baby has had quite the journey, and I'm so thrilled to see where it lands in the world. Link below for the info - please buy it if you have the means, ask your libraries to stock it if you don't, and ask me to things! a.co/d/5FmYwYw

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

Looking forward to this collection of poems by @asaldrake.bsky.social. Explorations of “lineage and future lineage of a body shaped by economic, ecological, and political dissonance” are my jam. Coming February 2026!

Thank you so much to everyone at @tinhouse.bsky.social for taking even the frivolous parts of my heart seriously, and thank you Adam at @debutiful.bsky.social for helping me celebrate this incredible cover!

There are some empires that destroy themselves… But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t harm others on the way down. My love to Breezy & all harmed by this man & series. Free Palestine

Say. it. louder. for. the. people. in. the. back! 👏🏽

This is one of my favorite poems I wrote this winter. It's a little messy but also one I was resistant to change? So glad @cerena.bsky.social and Poet Lore gave it a home in its current form. Every once in a while, I need to protect a sentimental poem.

Oh, we're so grateful for new books 💕 Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was published Aug 26th from Soft Skull Press! Get your copy here: buff.ly/Ym7Ew6W

I've been rereading @estherwslin.bsky.social's Cold Thief Place since January when I got an early copy from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. It's already one of my favorite books.

holy toledo just about $800 left til @coyotemedia.org hits our pie-in-the-sky stretch goal! and then we launch our sicccccccck worker owned bay area alt weekly on sept 15! givebutter.com/coyotemedia

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Breaking news: Kilmar Abrego García was detained by ICE on Monday after arriving at the agency’s Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in after his release pending trial on human smuggling charges, his attorney said.

Harryette Mullen's "Regaining Unconsciousness" (out with @graywolfpress.bsky.social) does so much, but maybe my favorite thing about the collection is how it resists the "economic argument" in favor of robust engagement. Much thanks to Elizabeth Metzger and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social!

The law requires "verification for all users, not just those accessing age-restricted content." This is a bad time for people who need anonymity to be subjecting their online activities to scrutiny.

Ooooooo lookit! Mah Poem!! 🥰

Gosh, I wonder who picks fresh vegetables.

U Chicago AAUP fights back docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thank you to the folks at @slowdownshow.org for sharing this poem. (One of many reasons why I'm grateful for public media.) This poem is one of the oldest I've kept throughout the many rewrites of my debut collection, "Maybe the Body" which comes out with @tinhouse.bsky.social in February!

I just spent three hours disassembling my washing machine to determine that I need a new washer.

So thankful to @andhow.bsky.social for helping me celebrate this favorite poem. And to Ninong, my mom, my cousin Beboy and Tita Nena for all the steps it took to mail our family copy of José Garcia Villa's Collected Poems to me.

A US child has been abducted without due process by Israel and is being held in a notorious prison, very likely being subjected to torture. This appears to be something neither the mainstream media nor US government care at all about. Seems rather alarming. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More attention here please.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway @mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...