Alan Gilbert

Endless gratitude to @onagritz.bsky.social and @wordgathering.bsky.social for this review of my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE, which so beautifully describes how I hoped to position my writing advice for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers.

One of our own in the writers community, Chelsea Qinn Yarbo, has passed. Her estate needs help to settle her end of life care. Please help spread the word and donate if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/6n9tz-supp...

Resistance is everywhere. Truth-telling matters. Mutual aid will get us through.

en*gendered reopens SEPTEMBER 1st!

(During today’s hearing, the judge said that her clerks have also been up since around 2:30 a.m., when she called them about the emergency motion for a temporary restraining order.) bsky.app/profile/anna...

Happy #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

YOU GUYS IT’S ME

We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to [email protected] by Tuesday, September 2nd!

Remembering Linda Pastan “in the pure blue of insight” @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday #poetry

"The courage to be brave when it matters most requires a lifetime of small decisions that that set us on a path of self-awareness, attentiveness, & willingness to risk failure for what we believe is right." Mariann Budde, Episcopal Bishop of Washington

Apparently while we were playing the Der Freischutz overture last night there was an earthquake. I didn’t notice it: I was busy counting bars rest and basking in the wonderful horn solo.

Honestly, I am not sure if I’ve ever met a person, of any gender in the United States, who hasn’t been sexually assaulted or raped or both, multiple times. It’s an epidemic.

Zeina Hashem Peck

BEST LINE: THE THINGS THEY CARRIED I hope so. I really hope so. It’s why I keep writing. #booksky #writers #storytellers

so much beauty trotting at the airport. everyone is just tryin their best in a big complicated place, helpin each other when they can. folks getting frustrated sometimes but ultimately just tryin to trot home to someone they love. so moving

#PoetryMoment "Statement of Teaching Philosophy" by Keith Leonard from Waxwing, Spring 2021

This debut collection from @writesloud.bsky.social is 15 tracks, no skips. Pictured here with my copy is my cat Willow, alongside some of the laundry I’ve managed to fold, but will never put away. Get this book NOW. I guarantee you, it will make you FEEL something. 🔥 💪 😭 🙏

Sure a person can learn about things from the internet or books, but have you ever sat down one-on-one with a friend and talked to them about a subject they're passionate about? Like, just encourage them to talk about what they love and why they love it?? All the juicy neurochemicals RIGHT THERE!

Which book in your public school library had a magnetic hold on your heart? Show me. Tell me why. My school was rural, tiny, K-8 so—“Search for a Living Fossil.” I met a brilliant female protagonist in these pages. She learned for the sake of learning. She lived far away. Men believed her. O, wow.

“‘…the document makes clear that violent neo-Nazis and far-right militia groups continue to pose a serious and ongoing threat—and that state governments are failing in their duty to secure dangerous military hardware,’ says Ryan Shapiro, executive director of Property of the People.” —Dell Cameron

I don't believe there's a category of copyright law for "only a little bit of plagiarism"

This year's Best of the Net Anthology (@sundresspub.bsky.social) is live! Congratulations to everyone who had their work selected for inclusion! Many thanks to my fellow editors, genre coordinators, readers, and interns that helped make this year happen. bestofthenetanthology.com

Yeah this would probably radicalize me in ways I dont want to fully contemplate if I was in this man's position

Just a reminder this list is drawn from a piece written by four researchers for MICROSOFT (data scientists, CS people, economists) who have never stepped foot in an archive/never taken an oral history/studied material culture, by their CVs. Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.

The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. —Simone Weil

Here is one of ~50 cases we documented of federal agents--usually masked and unidentified--smashing car windows to grab the person inside. “She is pregnant!” a man screamed, as his citizen wife sat, terrified The agents break three windows and grab the man projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Snail mail, the USPS, that specific kind of kindness can & and does & has saved lives: tactile love you can always return to moved over the miles is a miracle worth staying for. Walk softly and carry a lot of stamps. 💌💌💌💌💌💌💌💌💌💌💌💌💌

Mary Oliver (a rainha)

Hello, I am a knife in a TV show or movie. When you look at me, I go "shing", so you know that I'm sharp.

15: Oh, hey, Dad…I skimmed through your essay in The Sun. Pretty good. 50: 😭😭😭

I've helped a lot of writers find their first books. It's nice to hold my own first book in my hands! My chapbook "First Kicking, Then Not" will be out Aug 12!

Unless there are Nuremberg trials for everyone involved in this system, it will be a moral failure of historical proportions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“However, the original thought was a critique of the ways colonizers and the wealthy get places named after them, which then forces the rest of us to live in that map, a map that circumscribes everyday reality and possibility.” —Kenji Liu

This is the only time I have ever posted about Newsom and today seems a good day to reshare:

Y’all need Christina Cook’s new book. Y’all need the entire suite of Aim Higher’s coven of publications because it’s true what they say—art ✨is✨magic aimhigher.org/books

We make no profits on the words Taco Bell, and let's face it, we're writers, we make no profits on any words

for the evening poetry readers, who need a meadow and fireflies ✨

I love opening a manuscript, starting to read, not knowing the poet or the poems, and then the reading begins to slow me way, way down—like a temporal shift, a blurring—the poems asking for a whole other kind of attention.

Your activism works! Here are a couple of success stories. First, after 6 months of activism from @aabbri.bsky.social & others, the Freedom to Read Act became the law of the land in Rhode Island on July 2 www.ripbs.org/education/go...

Fanny Howe was one of the first poets I ever heard read, at the Grolier from her book Second Childhood. From there it was so easy to fall in love with her poems’ simultaneous strangeness and ineffably inviting familiarity—they’ve been constant companions, and we’ve lost a legend

The 14th Amendment was ratified on this day in 1868. It guarantees: ✔️ due process for all ✔️ birthright citizenship ✔️ equal protection under the law Now more than ever, we're determined to protect these essential rights.

“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..” @niemanreports.org #Hellsite niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...