The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester. A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:

WE CAN TELL

At SCI-arc in the '00s,I heard a student speak disparagingly of Frank Gehry's work. "We're 20 years ahead of what he's doing." TLDR: the Oedipal impulse was at work (see J. Halberstam's critique). FWIW, I'm grateful to Gehry for helping me imagine the built world as dancing, leaning, at play. RIP.

Wow! Small Wars Manual is one of Lit Hub's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025!

The fact that AI loves to use the em dash is proof that the devs gratuitously fed their LLMs my poems and those of my friends!

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

Tr*mp's haphazard efforts to ram through (and market) a peace deal while the Nobel is dishing out prizes has the energy of a shoebox diorama thrown together the night before a science fair by the kid who's going to smash it all to pieces if he doesn't win.

What horrible gun deaths yesterday in Colorado and Utah. Gun control now.

Department of Justice to be renamed Minitrue

Reading the script for JUNO 17 years after seeing it. A little cutesy with some of the dialogue, but it holds up really well. What are your favorite comedies (not series but feature films)?

Wednesday Friends #1 @raykwong.bsky.social @dcombes.bsky.social @tntnle.bsky.social @stephen5150.bsky.social @mersyme.bsky.social @eggzbacn.bsky.social @goodplacejames.bsky.social @thecaffeinator.bsky.social @luckyshitt.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social @chillprov1.bsky.social

New anthology available now Poetry Is Not A Luxury: Poems For All Season, 2025. bookshop.org/p/books/poet...

It bears repeating again and again: for Asians in America, proximity to whiteness will not shield you from white supremacy, no matter how successful or wealthy you become. Solidarity with other oppressed groups is the answer.

OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power. https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

The Marines are leaving LA, but the precedent is set—the president has deployed the military on U.S. soil in order to silence his political enemies. (If you haven't already, please consider reading my piece in @adroitjournal.bsky.social on the occupation of LA) theadroitjournal.org/2025/07/14/o...

My latest—an essay on the military occupation of L.A. and its connection to American imperialism in the Philippines and elsewhere. Thank you to @adroitjournal.bsky.social for supporting this work! theadroitjournal.org/2025/07/14/o...

In the #Andor finale, Cassian, Melshi, and K-2SO play Rianza. This game was created by the art/graphics department. Heavily inspired by ancient Mahjong sets and dominoes. S2 E10-12 HIDDEN DETAILS & REFERENCES: https://vulkk.com/2025/05/15/andor-season-2-episodes-10-12-hidden-details-and-references/

was interesting to track which of Tokyo's metal monuments survived the material mobilization of war: (but not interesting enough to keep in the book!)

ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also 1) bad at what it does 2) literally makes you stupider 3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.

I made this list of Nonviolent Political Actions for Writers for a course I taught during TFG 1.0 on Writers & Resistance. Please share. You do not need to be a writer to participate. "You are here on this earth at this time. Don't act like you're not a part of what's going on."

The oppression of the entire Latino community of Los Angeles right now is difficult to convey. Normally vibrant local retail areas of East LA and SELA look like ghost towns this week. People are afraid to leave their homes. Parents afraid to go to work. It's US citizens too. Anyone with brown skin

Trump went to the Kennedy Center and Drag Queens showed up! Yassssssssss ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Stephen Miller represents everything vile about this administration and drawing more attention to him will (a) make it harder for the administration to pretend this isn't creepy white nationalism in action and (b) likely make Trump jealous to the point he shitcans him like Elon. Win-win.

Huntington Park confirmed by ktla ktla.com/news/local-n...

When will they be held accountable?

Re: the DJT-Elon tiff

I would never ask that you follow me; I will never/ acknowledge a leader. I am my president. But also, I am/ everyone, trying to be with you, because I exist, and always have. --Alice Notley, 1945 - 2025

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

An American Pope...!

Most NEA translation grants for single books are around $12,500. An F/A–18 Super Hornet costs about $65M. These two jets dumped in the ocean would’ve financed 10,400 book translations.

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

@kavehakbar.bsky.social & @thenation.com were kind enough to take the last gesture of Small Wars Manual and give it a home. A bucket list moment for this poet; much gratitude to The Nation! www.thenation.com/article/arch...

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

It's literally on my desk right now! :)

you should get @santisugi.bsky.social's SMALL WARS MANUAL. (@milkweededitions.bsky.social has a discount w/ the code SANTIAGO: milkweed.org/book/small-w...). I often describe myself as a "grumpy" reader of poetry—I am hard to please. but this book is beautiful, skilfully made, smart. read it!!

I am sorry to say it, but this is probably one of the most important things you can repost today.

Twin Cities folks!—I'll be reading tomorrow evening (Tuesday, April 15), 6pm, with @santisugi.bsky.social at Next Chapter Booksellers. (I'll also be visiting with classes at the U of M and St. Cloud State.) Chris' new book SMALL WARS MANUAL is BRILLIANT—go get a copy!

As tomorrow is Palm Sunday, I offer my poem Palm Sunday, written during covid lockdown of 2020 and published in 2022 for National Poetry Month by The Rumpus. May we all make it through the tribulations of our times. 🤞❤️ therumpus.net/2022/04/16/n...

As a teen I was like, Oooh, neat! Weird art kids! Whenever I walk onto campus I still have a similar feeling 🤓

My first exposure to CalArts was when I was 15 or 16 (‘88 or ‘89) & friends took me to a party there. Fast forward to now, when I’ve spent 2024-2025 as visiting faculty in the MFA in creative writing program. Tonight I’m reading with Chris Santiago. documentarystrategiessymposium.splashthat.com

One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."

So excited to join @wendyortiz.com this Thursday at @calartsofficial.bsky.social to read & talk about documentary poetics! documentarystrategiessymposium.splashthat.com

Proud of JANM today.

Americans are standing up to Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s plot to shred our American safety net — like Social Security and health care — to fund tax breaks for billionaires and corporations and leave veterans, working families, and the most vulnerable among us in the dust. #HandsOff

Indiana, come fetch your trash. Defeat him the next election you can, and then when loses his job in the Senate, tell him he most definitely deserves it.

Trump's antisemitism agenda isn't about the Jews. I wrote about how the president and his allies are using the pretext of protecting Jews to protect their policies from criticism, while advancing an agenda that most American Jews oppose. Gift link:

#awp2025 book haul -- I should have bought more! What was I thinking? Congratulations to @santisugi.bsky.social on his new book SMALL WARS MANUAL and looking forward to reading these books by Lily Hoang, Trista Hurley Waxali, Jacinda Townsend, Harmony Holiday...

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I had to drive my parents 200 miles to a Social Security office, but at least I know that immigrants are getting sent to torture prisons in El Salvador.

Yeah, well F you Rogan and Rogan listeners. You're the ones who made these deportations possible by supporting the re-election of a felon. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Everyone keeps calling Booker’s filibuster “performative.” They sometimes mean this pejoratively, but remember what performative originally means: it is speech that MAKES. THINGS. HAPPEN.