My poem "The Brown Couch" is featured today at Everyday Poems! Big thanks to L.L. Barkat for choosing it. everydaypoems.substack.com/p/the-brown-...

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📢 Delighted to share a poem of mine HOT off the virtual press at Elysium Review! 🔥 Thanks to @stevieedwardspoet.bsky.social for giving this poem a beautiful home: www.elysiumreview.com/sian-killing...

🏳️‍🌈 Since it's Pride Month, I encourage all allies to support this lovely young man's transition. He's raising money to pay for HRT & surgeries. I challenge you to show your support materially, in a way that will help directly. Please give what you can! Thank you! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 gofund.me/f2623079

You guys. Social media fucking sucks. I think I might leave so if you wanna stay in touch just email me or DM me and ask for my email.

I'm cracked out on way too much caffeine and it's the best I've felt all week

Jennifer K. Sweeney has a new poem up in the current issue of Bear Review. Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole at www.bearreview.com/11-2/jennife...

Hey yall, what books of poetry should I read next?

Perhaps starting today with Leonard Cohen's album "You Want It Darker" didn't quite set me up for a lighthearted kind of day.

Once on the subway I saw this guy who looked just like Danny Glover. We rode for several stops and I tried not to stare but then he got out at west 4th and his NYU jacket said "Glover" across the back. I never even got a selfie! Traumatized.

A poem of mine... Seems relevant again

Why is anyone listening to the CDC anymore? I'd rather rely on the Public Health Agency of Canada: Canada.ca/en/public-health.html

Open AI’s valuation is at $400 billion. They used about 190,000 books to train their plagiarism bot. Randomly saying 25% of their value comes from that stolen dataset, I think they owe the authors about $526,000 per stolen book.

Happy Memorial Day. Painting "Eating Figures (Quick Snack)," 1963 by Wayne Thiebaud.

Seen on the side of a bus in San Francisco

Not to brag but it's 5:38 pm and I just put on my pjs.

Know how to make cool signs? Here's how: indivisiblemarin.org/make-a-powerful-protest-sign

Help this lovely young trans man get necessary medical care-- it's a graduation gift! 🎓 Every contribution, no matter how small, makes a real difference, so please consider donating or sharing the link below. Thank you! www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-tra...

What has saved today from being an incredibly annoying clusterfuck is 1) my husband cooking dinner and 2) bourbon

Ever since I first had Covid in 2020, my sense of smell has been really off. Right now I'm smelling braised short ribs- this is a treat. Lots of times I smell burning cigarettes. Sometimes I smell rotting trash or sewage. I hate it.

"Do boycotts work?"

Have tried at least 6 different recipes for Chinese peanut noodles and I don't really like any of them. Who has a good one?

Help this lovely young trans man get necessary medical care-- it's a graduation gift! 🎓 Every contribution, no matter how small, makes a real difference, so please consider donating or sharing the link below. Thank you! www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-tra...

Here’s my poem “Ode to My Parents Who Immigrated from Mexico” published in my just-released book “Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man” winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award with Red Hen Press.

Think By the Bay is an inclusive, post-secondary program at Cal State East Bay. This week, they celebrate their first graduating class—but the university wont' let them walk at commencement with their peers. Please sign the petition to support including TBTB grads in the ceremony! chng.it/zS2BDrvbtr

"We want to make life easier on all of us. Once we’re dead, nothing else bad can happen. That’s science, folks."

I'm so tired and grumpy all the time. I blame the US political system.

Such a good idea to juice up your writing brain!

Hey. This mom is proud of you. You're doing the right thing and deserve success and happiness. 🩷

Extremely relatable

First of the season!!!

Oh shit

Please enjoy my neighbor's azaleas

God Wars: Episode 267 – A New Pope.

they're defunding the arts because the arts are a threat. make more art.

But Pa$$word123 is totally secure, right?

What do you do with books you start but don't really enjoy? Slog through to the end? Save yourself and find a new book?

What's wrong babe? It's #MayThe4th an you've barely touched your Jabbacado toast.

If you are a visual artist whose NEA grant was terminated today, I want to talk to you for ARTnews. You can contact me on Signal at karenkho.45. I can grant anonymity if necessary.

If u see this post your getaway vehicle

My daughter just told me that you either need pictures in books, or you need to write like a painter, and that’s the only way your book will be any good

🚨An exec order to defund PBS means we need to support it ourselves. Here's a link to donate to the Bay Area outpost: donate.kqed.org/secure/kqedpbs

If I could find a robe that looked like this, I might actually wear one!

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

Am entering the time honored tradition of parents whose kid has a major project due in the morning and at 10 pm we discover that it's only half done and too complex to finish.

You know what's good? Cheese. Cheese is good.