It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Book birthday — two years since True Story, my trilogy of documentary/memoir plays, was published by @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social. Many thanks to @chadwpost.bsky.social, Kaija Straimanis, & readers 🙏🏻 dalkeyarchive.store/products/tru...

Maybe 15 years ago I was in Western Massachusetts with a partner who wanted to check out the Norman Rockwell Museum. I only knew of Rockwell as 1950s kitsch and had low expectations. As it happened, we showed up while an exhibit on Rockwell's Civil Rights legacy was on display. Blew my mind.

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

The American College Theatre Festival has suspended its affiliation with the Kennedy Center after nearly six decades of partnership. www.broadwayworld.com/article/Amer...

The Northwest Review is alive and now on Bluesky. We are reviving this historically great magazine in 2026. We are now open for submissions. Send us your best fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. northwestreview.submittable.com/submit

We've got gift options galore and our annual end of year sale is still on! Link below for details. 🎁📚🎉 #booksky

"Another challenge was to fit in writing between part-time and full-time work and, later, cancer treatment. I have four fewer organs now than when I started the book. So to at last see it published is, for me, an arrival that I don’t take for granted."

Some of my recent books, bendable for placement inside stockings — available in the usual ways, but links are @ www.danobrien.org @acrebooks.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @poetrylondon.bsky.social @calquepress.bsky.social

Amazing to me, but @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social and I began @badlilies.bsky.social five years ago this coming spring. Five years! A lockdown project of optimism in a sad time. The world continues to disappoint. Bad Lilies keeps going. Explore our archive: www.badlilies.uk/issues

New work from Acre poet @bydanobrien.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

A poem for my brother in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social, in fine company. Many thanks to editor @jamiepcameron.bsky.social thelondonmagazine.org

A poem for my brother in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social, in fine company. Many thanks to editor @jamiepcameron.bsky.social thelondonmagazine.org

Delighted and proud to see Acre Poetry Editor / @cincinnatireview.bsky.social Managing Editor @lisaampleman.bsky.social in the pages of @pw.org! 🎉🎉🎉

Twelve hours to go until the submissions window closes on our disability issue, folks. Keep those poems rolling in. Full call and instructions here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

Thanks to all the new readers and of course, to all the saintly booksellers who have supported the book 🙏

In which a New Zealander writes about a fire likely still burning. From Collected Poems of Bill Manhire, Carcanet Press, 2001. @carcanet.bsky.social @pacificraft.bsky.social

My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thanks, Black Warrior Review for publishing my new graphic memoir piece "Pink"--about silent movies, living in color and the sadness of my sister fading from my life. bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

Imagine being so weak minded & illiberal & brittle & averse to criticism, that you think banning Wole Soyinka is the right thing to do? Good grief. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

Come join our @litquake.org Lit Crawl event tomorrow at 5 p.m.! I'll be hosting, and Jesse Nathan & Cate Lycurgus will be reading. Kick off your Lit Crawl San Francisco with @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social! litcrawlsf2025.sched.com/event/2AjSc?...

Published two years ago, but a new shipment of copies still brings a thrill — thanks to those who’ve been reading 🙏🏻 @acrebooks.bsky.social

American democracy today....

No Kings 🐔 Santa Monica

[Exit King.]

Nice write-up of the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV show which is on iPlayer now-ish (I don't have access to the iPlayer so not sure) and which is on BBC Northern Ireland tonight at 9pm; BBC 2 on Monday. Hope you enjoy it.

No screeners for this issue, folks. I’ll be reading and responding to every poetry submission. If you identify as disabled, please submit!

10 years today since my poetry collection New Life—a companion to War Reporter—was published by @cbeditions.bsky.social in London (and not long after by @hangingloosepress.bsky.social in Brooklyn) 🙏🏻 Here’s a lovely review in The Rumpus therumpus.net/2016/01/29/n...

The deadline for the Jake Adam York Prize is October 15. But we always hold the door open till OCTOBER 18 for anyone who has an emergency or problem that gets in the way. PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD to any poets with a good first or second book manuscript!

My childhood memoir turned two yesterday. Thank you to all who’ve been reading (& listening to the audiobook) 🙏🏻 @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social A nice review here by @jamesbpcook.bsky.social in the @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

Thank you @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for this chat with christopher oscar peña about my ‘True Story: A Trilogy’ @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social and chris‘s ‘Three Plays’ @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social — & thank you @markarmstrong4.bsky.social @scavengerjunta.bsky.social @lisaampleman.bsky.social 🙏🏻

Playwrights (and CR contribs!) @bydanobrien.bsky.social and christopher oscar peña in conversation with director and producer @markarmstrong4.bsky.social about the two's recently published play trilogies and more. Link in first comment:

Thank you @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for this chat with christopher oscar peña about my ‘True Story: A Trilogy’ @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social and chris‘s ‘Three Plays’ @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social — & thank you @markarmstrong4.bsky.social @scavengerjunta.bsky.social @lisaampleman.bsky.social 🙏🏻

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

From the great novelist Sherwood Anderson, a letter to his son.

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

The start of my poem for my brother in the latest @southernreview.bsky.social — very grateful to editor Jessica Faust 🙏🏻

New work from Acre #poet @bydanobrien.bsky.social in @southernreview.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

The start of my poem for my brother in the latest @southernreview.bsky.social — very grateful to editor Jessica Faust 🙏🏻

Here’s the start of a longer poem of mine in the new issue of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social, a journal I love — very grateful to poetry editor @andrewdavidking.bsky.social and editor @ovillalon.bsky.social 🙏🏻 www.zyzzyva.org/2025/09/10/i...

Here’s the start of a longer poem of mine in the new issue of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social, a journal I love — very grateful to poetry editor @andrewdavidking.bsky.social and editor @ovillalon.bsky.social 🙏🏻 www.zyzzyva.org/2025/09/10/i...

@bydanobrien.bsky.social sent me a new play. a good day. ❤️

An encore of my essay about my brother in Esquire Singapore today . . . esquiresg.com/family-suici...

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Well she’s written her own sketch shows, co-created and co-written TV shows, co-written an audio book, co-written screenplays and more than a few TV pilots along the way . . . but, drumroll please, this is my wife’s first proper book and it sold at auction in the spring ✨

Come live and write with us in Sewanee! The Department of English & Creative Writing's is seeking applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Poetry position! Apply by Nov. 3.