"I start drawing the spiral on the back of my hand in crusty ballpoint pen, refreshing it whenever it fades, so when the aliens come back they'll know right away who to trust." "Spirals" by @narwhallington.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD:

It’s a great day to send us your ✨chapbook manuscript!✨

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Happy Halloween, from us, and Katherine Oung, and the blood moon!! 👻 🎃 🩸 🌑 💀 https://www.havehashad.com/ll0sy

"Perhaps in the distance waves sweep across the sand, or someone walks barefoot on the floor above. " A poem by 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗭𝘂́𝗻̃𝗶𝗴𝗮​ (transl. 𝗠𝗲𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿) in the Fall 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity #translation

The entire point of doing reviews is for us, the scholars, to THINK and read, and write and learn at the same time. Why are we devaluing all of that in academia? Shameful piece.

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Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to the utterly spectacular Emily Van Duyne about her research on the legendary poet, Sylvia Plath. shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-...

LOVING SYLVIA PLATH by Emily Van Duyne appeared on @readbookpage.bsky.social's list of 12 best biographies of 2024. Available now wherever books are sold. wwnorton.com/books/loving...

the millennial experience of living in America

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

I would love some recommendations for ecologically and environmentally-focused poems, poets, and collections! Anyone got anything for me?

yeet | interjection | used to express surprise, approval, or excited enthusiasm

May this pup bring you good luck

THIS (some of) IS WHAT CLERGY ARE TO DO NOW (video at link) You don't cozy up to power You speak prophetic truth to those who have power when you have the mic You use your voice and position to demand moral reckoning, safety, care, love, protection. YOU. TAKE. RISKS. It's your damn job.

they should invent unprecedented times that are good

the world feels impossibly heavy for all *the reasons* and a few more, but there's always Wendy Cope's lovely poem

Molly Brodak

Over the course of the year, I looked through hundreds of poetry books to write my monthly roundups for @literaryhub.bsky.social. It was immensely rewarding and pleasurable and time-consuming. I approached each book I reviewed as a conundrum to be transformed into a reflection of some kernel

Looking to do more poetry book reviews in 2025! If you’ve recently had a book published or have one forthcoming in the new year, please drop it in the replies! I’d love to consider your work and will reach out for an ARC if I think it’s a good fit! 🥰📚

"It's not a test, you say, but what would you do with me as a worm, as a single ice cube, an escaping gas, a fleck of glitter on your thumb. I know it's hard." ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 today from Ashley Varela https://www.havehashad.com/w58nc

We lived in the house of poetry, which was also the house of love and grief; the house of solitude and art; the house of Jane’s depression and my cancers and Jane’s leukemia. Donald Hall

In "Interrogating the ‘African troupe’: The construction of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese consumption of K-pop videos," Xu and Wilson analyze Chinese K-pop fan responses to ‘Rica Rica.’ Read their analysis now:

If you know of any excellent small press books coming out in January 2025, I would love to hear about it.

Ibuprofen isn’t enough I need to become an invertebrate

The audacity of the university asking employees for donations. Every institution! Every year!

Another day incapable of sitting in a chair like a normal human being

Still Life Glass with Wild Flowers, 1890

Tomorrow will be the third consecutive day that it’s Saturday.

big day coming up for people who like dinner

Troll in your comments? There’s a method to their assholery. Block immediately. Don’t help them. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

A new look for a new year. Our Winter 2025 issue, which will reach readers in January, features work by writers we’ve admired for years, as well as poems and stories by those just starting their careers. A thing of beauty, inside and out. We couldn’t be more proud.

As ever: we 100% know that spending money on homelessness solves it and actually saves money in the long run. We have known for years. Homelessness is a problem of political will, not practical way.

We are having a sale this week, and when we tell you that a single book sale is a big deal, we mean it 📚💙 Shop small, shop local, buy direct from small presses. Keep us here! 30% discount, free shipping with code THANKS 🩷 riverriverbooks.org/store/

There’s a key distinction between saying “things are really horrible and bleak BUT we can work together to survive this” and “everything is totally fucked forever and we should give up now and wait for death.”

To the person who made the fake account impersonating me — saeed jones private page — please, unblock me so I can enjoy myself. I deserve me! Let me see me being great.

friendly reminder I have a new chapbook out with @variantlit.bsky.social! which you should order! it has some of my all-time faves in it, and the cover is stunning too! variantlit.com/product/td/

gentle thought that big political "activist" accounts may not be worth your attention if they post lots of angry soundbites but never post any call to for practical action like calling your reps or supporting your local library or mutual aid group or doing anything other than scrolling and clicking

If you’d like a lil’ auditory treat, our spoiler filled deep dive on Last Night at the Telegraph Club is now streaming wherever you get your favorite podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... #podcast

Dear humans, Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤 www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

"There was another life I might have had, but I'm having this one." —Kazuo Ishiguro

doing falconry with a trained seagull that brings me individual french fries

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. —June Jordan

Carl Philips (@cphillipspoet.bsky.social), "And If I Fall" Light enters a cathedral the way persuasion fills a body. Light enters a cathedral, the way persuasion fills a body.

Come to the launch party for our Fall Poetry issue, featuring different readers each nights! The fun starts at 6 pm Eastern time! Monday, Dec. 2nd Zoom link: gatech.zoom.us/j/9883851511... Tuesday, Dec. 3rd Zoom Link gatech.zoom.us/j/9659866426...

Going to open up submissions for Short Story, Long in December. Have a longer (~3k-8k words) story you think I'd like. Get it ready to send my way! ashortstorylong.substack.com