The work is good but I'm so fucking depressed.

We are officially open for submissions until October 31st! Send us your long-form fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and your work that transcends the genres! Submit on: lastsyllablelit.com We can’t wait to read your work!! #writing #writingcommunity #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #litjournal #submit

I'm all lost in the supermarket. I can no longer shop happily.

“I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once." -John Coltrane (Today is his day.)

The only rapture I'll be called to is the one with Debbie Harry and Fab 5 Freddy.

I’m so honored to have blurbed @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social’s forthcoming The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife! @kentuckypress.bsky.social “Sonically resplendent and agile af (as foretold; chronologically, thematically, geographically)…this collection brings readers to the gleaming edges of language.”

I'm excited to share that we’ve just launched Siren! Magazine, a student-led, transnational feminist journal✨ supported by @annenbergcargc.bsky.social Our first issue, Resurfacing Feminist Currents, is now open for submissions! You can check our CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"Alice Coltrane is an artist whose music feels like it comes from somewhere beyond the human. Divine Songs is unreal, she’s in tune with frequencies most of us can’t even hear, and she translates them for the rest of us" Dev Hynes on #AliceColtrane - Divine Songs buff.ly/Blh5Vl7

Takoma DC neighbors, there is an ICE checkpoint near the Whole Foods, approximately Elder street on Georgia. If you’re around go (a) warn our neighbors and (b) go shame these masked occupiers

…If my work at Sarabande has brought you joy this year, would you send them a donation today for my birthday? I’ll mail you a little note & sticker so we can all party like we’re in our 30s! Link in my bio—thank you! It truly means the world. xx

What other things can we artificially price at half a million dollars or more and then criminalize not owning 🤔

When I die I want people to say, “wow, she really knew how to pack a car.”

All three titles added to my fall reading list. ✨

TODAY IN JAZZ: Coltrane held the second session for what would be his Lush Life record, at which he recorded this exquisite rendition of “Like Someone in Love.” #jazzsky #todayinjazz

Successfully deposited one brilliant young adult human at SUNY Buffalo today.

"Who doesn’t like a little geology sometimes?" Contributor Confab: Justin Maxwell open.substack.com/pub/slipssli...

School starts in weeks. My sister died suddenly July 22, leaving 7 kids — 5 need everything for school: clothes, shoes, supplies. At the same time, our grandfather is dying of brain cancer & we’re covering his funeral costs. We’re grieving, but these kids need us now. Please help: gofund.me/7fa81abe

The footage of the aftermath of the assassination of these brave journalists is too graphic to share here. But the intention of Israel is clear - kill the few, last surviving reporters and secure a blackout for what comes next. The completion of the genocide.

Assassination of the entire Al Jazeera crew in Gaza City, including its correspondents and cameramen: **Correspondent:** Anas Al-Sharif **Correspondent:** Mohammed Qareqea **Cameraman:** Ibrahim Zaher **Cameraman:** Moamen Aliwa **Crew Driver:** Mohammed Nofal

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Revisions today of something that is still so much a work in progress that I hesitate to tinker with it. I need a 500 word sample, though, and this is the thing most on my mind.

Just finished boxing 2,114 organic menstrual products to take to the parish prison in BR this week to 173 incarcerated women! To learn about our efforts, visit thurmanperryfoundation.org To donate (we need it), visit tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org

#nowlistening to Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's complete Ravel piano music. Utterly gorgeous. Has everything you could want: clarity, sensuality, brilliance of touch, rich sonority and magnificently evoked narrative atmosphere. Gaspard in particular is a treat and a half. music.apple.com/gb/album/rav...

Minnie Riperton released ‘Perfect Angel’ 51 years ago on August 9, 1974 album.ink/MRipertonPA

George Benson released ‘Give Me The Night’ 45 years ago on August 9, 1980 album.ink/GBensonGMTN

slips slips has an open call for submissions until the end of the month! Please send us your poetry, short prose, and visual art that fits the theme of Dialogues. Hit me up with questions - I can't wait to read and publish your work!

You can, in fact, just decide to start a thing. I do it all of the time and it's a good way to execute ideas rather to just critique others' ideas. Critique by doing as Michelangelo said. Critique by DOING.

My capable assistant Tiffany D, (U.S), got stuck while on the road & could use the cost of a hotel room so she doesn't have to sleep in her car. I'm not in a position to help out ATM. If anyone can contribute we'd be grateful: Venmo/PayPal: [email protected] or CashApp: $Tiffscribes

Writing today by moving paragraphs around that have already been written but belong in a different order. With writing as in life, changing one thing changes everything. I want to like this piece more than I do. I loved it when I was writing it. Or maybe I loved writing it.

Portrait of the Gentle Sage as a Scowling Poet...

We are so lucky at slips slips to get to know the writers and artists who contribute to each issue. One of the ways we do this is with artist interviews. Here's the latest! Contributor Confab: upfromsumdirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/slipssli...

I never go as a passenger

Here’s one way to make some of your Sealey Challenge reading more accessible

I lost my sister suddenly on July 22nd. She left behind 7 kids—4 are moving in with us. We’re raising money to remodel the basement for them, get a lawyer, and get them in school & therapy. Our grandpa was just diagnosed with brain cancer too. We’re overwhelmed. Please help. 💔🙏🏽 gofund.me/7fa81abe

Hell is empty. All the devils are here.

hey, my inaugural issue of Slips Slips has arrived, featuring my poems, Chiaroscuro Vita: an Artist's Statement and What Light Through Beyond Yonder Window ❤️❤️❤️

What an honor to platform your work, @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social! ✨ Please send us more poems - we love this community on paper we’re building and are excited to keep it growing!

I lost my sister suddenly July 22nd, leaving behind 7 kids we now must raise. At the same time, our grandfather was diagnosed with brain cancer. We’re heartbroken and overwhelmed. Please help us support the kids and give Grandpa a dignified goodbye. Any help means the world. 💔🙏🏽😭 gofund.me/7fa81abe

Take your vitamins and say your prayers

😂 #Writers #VisualArtists Send us your work! We're #OpenForSubmissions #CallForSubmissions until August 31. hmu if you have questions but we're eager to share your #flashfiction #flashnonfiction #poetry #illustrations #linedrawings #photos Need a little more inspo on the theme of Dialogues?

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams." ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Okay, getting organized with these projects. There are four pieces to finish by the end of 2025. Two are in a generative stage (fun!), the other two are in revision. I know I can complete this work on time if I make a clear production schedule, but the key (for me) is to not fall to distraction.

What a lineup! #ClassicalMusicSky #ClassicalMusic #PianoSky #MusicianSky

Alright alright alright I tightened the gears on the opening paragraph and will now go restore some sconces. Don't forget to submit to slips slips! Making #art is one way to fight fascism. #WritingCommunity #Art #FlashLit #LitWorld

Hey #Writers #VisualArtists and #Photographers! Excellent news! slips slips issue #2 is open for submissions until August 31! Please send us your work for this wonderful print arts and literary journal! details here: www.slipsslips.net or hit me up with questions! #OpenCall #CallforSubmissions

Hey #Writers #VisualArtists and #Photographers! Excellent news! slips slips issue #2 is open for submissions until August 31! Please send us your work for this wonderful print arts and literary journal! details here: www.slipsslips.net or hit me up with questions! #OpenCall #CallforSubmissions

It took me four days to two short paragraphs. 76 words. I've been writing and rewriting, starting this same piece for months. Eventually I'm going to have to pick one of these beginnings and take it to the end.

Affordable housing, nutritious food, clean water, time off, the internet, breathable air, universal healthcare, quick and clean mass transit, and living wages are not luxuries. They're the baseline of human rights.

Lighting restoration & learning to be a person again open.substack.com/pub/onthemen...

Writing about the bowline knot.