Burned all my notebooks, what good are notebooks? They won't help me survive youtu.be/jLwZvg46jms?...

acceptance from the haunted castle at @hexliterary.bsky.social of a creepy little piece of historical fiction that I’m rather proud of! 🐸 coming Mar 26

Simicomancy for Monday (featuring insomnia, “light, unsayable” and crow shadow)

modern Russian Roulette is the app notification “Would you like to see these photo memories from 10 years ago?”

makes a lovely dark wash - we need to get the binding right, but walnut husks-only makes a decent water color-like ink

makes a lovely dark wash - we need to get the binding right, but walnut husks-only makes a decent water color-like ink

black walnut ink-making today

Today’s poem is selected by David Naimon (@davidnaimon.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “blessing the boats” appeared in Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton, published by BOA Editions Ltd., 2000.

All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere have stories that I think are good enough to teach, though I can never teach them because I wrote them (it wouldn't feel right!). But you can teach them! Or you could just read them. Or you can review the book on your favorite platform.

One of mine in @bruisermag.com #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

it’s Sunday on bluesky so I am urging everyone to take care of themselves. Take a walk, have a second cup of coffee or tea, read a book, spend some time looking at small poems

those little nubs behind the wings are called “halteres” and they are like biological gyroscopes (formed from vestigial wings) that help it balance or change position quickly, mid flight. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halteres

how to use their own AI slop against them?

new food obsession - overnight oats: food52.com/story/9844-h...

The elongated human necks of 20th century sculptors like Lehmbruck and Giacometti remind me of Leda and the longing of the swan. Elongation and longing: two ways of distancing the subject from conventional representation.

Jack Gilbert

Your soft breath on my back is a phantom. — Nicole Tallman’s “Dolce Vita” @natallman.bsky.social

from Sofia Samatar’s Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life

A fascinating and terrifying analysis of long-term health effects of hurricanes and other climate change-related events youtu.be/LsToZlTBeGc?...

this new D*n Brown book is making me stupider.

Just booked train tickets so I'm happy to say I'll be making my triumphant return to AWP in 2026 after last attending in 2019. I am now accepting invitations to read at your event (I'm very relevant: I will have a 9 year old book and a 2 year old chapbook).

“We will watch it infinitely promise itself and endlessly vanish through concealed doorways that shine like mirrors and open onto a labyrinth.” Jacques Derrida, “Dissemination” (tr. Barbara Johnson)

“We hardly ever see the moon any more” A poem by Frank O’Hara.

cool

you gotta click through for the footnotes and thus for the full power of Kristin Gustafson's piece today, but here's enough of a teaser to make you do said clicking through... https://www.havehashad.com/2jj6l

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

met a lovely Trachelas tranquillus today

Simicomancy for today: (this one is v @porcupinelit.bsky.social coded)

Send us your work!

Looking for a workshop? Contributor @cavar.bsky.social is co-teaching a hybrid writing workshop this November with @fahmidangroup.bsky.social! Get all the details here: buff.ly/g325d1g

“Natalya from Submittable”

Sam Sax

it’s crazy reading queer theory 20+ yrs later that cites your psychology 101 professor as an example of a conservative transphobic jerk and I’m like “ah, yes, that checks out.”

i don’t even the play kojima’s games and yet i’m under his sway w/every announcement

It's never too late to preorder a book Leslie Jamison describes as "embodied, unsentimental, blunt and bare-faced, messy and hungry."

Michael & I are thrilled for this! Karen is such a force, and the world will be better for this book ❤️

and Kissinger is great a parties

Epigraph from the “Plato’s Pharmacy” section of “Dissemination” by Jacques Derrida

Good morning FAM! Grab some coffee and don't forget to check out our SEPTEMBER ISSUE 🌞 buff.ly/X3u8x4b

"Unrivered is the revelation that comes after grief. It raises the wounded but adamant voices of those who fight against disappearing." —Patricia Smith sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri...

This is why governments should fund science! This is wonderful news! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...

revising

maybe the spatial metaphors that structure politics are pathological?

Ama Codjoe

Ever considered an essay intensive? Come learn more and ask questions! 2 BIPOC scholarships available! writer.org/event/virtua...

CT friends, come join us on 11/15!

Come hanggggg Chatting up @alinaetc.bsky.social @adrianf.bsky.social @raxkingisdead.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @saralippmann.bsky.social @katetooley.bsky.social and more! ❤️

born in the era of “you’re cruisin’ for a bruisin’” and “I’ll give you something to cry about”

Gentle reminder from Merleau-Ponty: “We will arrive at the universal not by abandoning our particularity but by turning it into a way of reaching others, by virtue of that mysterious affinity which makes situations mutually understandable.”