THIS IS IN THREE DAYS AND I AM NERVOUS / EXCITED / ANTSY / OVERWHELMED please come through we will have free snacks and free coffee and free giveaways

Really enjoyed seeing Ghayath Almadhoun read from his most recent book newly-translated-into-English last night. He read the first one here: www.theguardian.com/books/transl...

This is everything to me right now. A certain anti-poet turned me on to her, one @kjpgarcia.bsky.social #music #MusicSky #americana #joy

“Hope has nothing to do with optimism…. It is in Hell where solidarity is important, not in Heaven.” – John Berger, in The Seasons in Quincy

app.thestorygraph.com/profile/kenn... if anybody is on storygraph, feel free to follow me on there, and I'll follow you

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

Writing love poems is anti-fascist.

"To be a translator is both something more complex and something simpler than how it is generally described: The translator is someone who has to remain open to as much as possible in their reading of a foreign text." www.ronslate.com/on-the-philo...

New followers: I run an indie feminist press called @littlepuss.net. We are run and *owned* by trans women, including me. We have two books out next spring that are deeply, life-changingly meaningful to me. and I would love it if you pre-ordered either here 👇 or through an indie bookstore (1/2)

acab but I do believe that the world deserves a book of Eliot Nessays

Wonderful resource from Haymarket Books for anyone who wants to learn more www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/495-fr...

just a small sample but as a Mx, i do enjoy that we share a birth year

If you’re a poet coming in from Twitter reply here and tag the poets who’ve also joined, let’s rebuild!

also, this is a very unusual year because this book, MEN & SLEEP, was released in april! i'm still promoting it. (the page heading says "preorder" but it's just plain ordering now): meeklingpress.square.site/product/men-...

this is my next book, out in october & distributed internationally through asterism books: linked speculative prose poems engaging questions of exile, intimacy, isolation, surveillance, place, & relations with people who may or may not be human, or fictional... www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p183/J...

oh hey it's a good day to backup everything, especially that one not absolutely essential device that you keep meaning to backup but haven't yet

i'm still one of those people who uses all/mostly all lower case letters & it just took me a little too long to figure how to turn off auto-caps at the beginning of a new sentence on this phone. ofc maybe i'm just tired from having to find/replace a zillion passwords last night. rip to my old phone.

if you keep wondering why I repeatedly request support fr the 2023 Ottawa Promise Walk for Preeclampsia, this is because preeclampsia nearly took out my dear wife twice, after the birth of each of our small monsters : donate &/or sign up to walk! Sunday, Sept. 10; www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...

my love language is thinking about you and hoping that maybe you had a passing thought about me too

when I write a long crónica or diary entry where I really go into some pastoral or philosophical work I feel like I really did something. I really accomplished a task but when I write pages of antipoetry or synthpoetics I say to myself, that's what you do. it's just habit and nothing to be proud of.

usually there are great pieces on crimereads but this is not one of them. the folk and psychological horror subgenres can be very subtle. and I see both Gothic and horror as very closely related romance most of the time.

Poets! PLEASE REPOST! Uncanny Magazine will be OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 7 to August 21! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

Paul Reubens + Sinead O'Connor are highly illustrative re: the perpetual hypocrisy of "protect the children" culture. The same people who vilified Sinead for tearing up the pope's photo ended Pee Wee's career under the implicit auspices he was unsafe for kids. Same shit now.

You'd be forgiven for missing that Sinéad O'Connor passed away as a Muslima named Shuhada' Sadaqat, as almost all posted photos are from before her reverting & there's entire big media obituaries not using her chosen name even once. Innalillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon, Shuhada'.

Its use in the arts and journalism is not only destructive to livelihoods, it's degrading to human culture and civilization. Just a fount of misinformation and bullshit alienating human beings from each other and from actual experience and information. Trash.

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