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he’s got this alum’s support

aww man i love these guys they're so gross once we went fishing and asked for bait and they gave us these guys and we opened the box and then got scared by their many many legs and big chompers and threw it in the sea and the way they wriggled man the way they wriggled ill never forget it so gross

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

BREAKING: I am suing Northwestern University, a member of congress, two cabinet secretaries and the Attorney General of the United States. I explain why in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/when-we-figh...

These microgrants have been designed to have a super simple application process (brief personal statement, bio, writing sample!), because we want to give you money, we don't want to make you jump through hoops. Don't self-reject!

“…the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.” Hannah Arendt, “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

We're reading for issue 4 which will hopefully be out Fall/Winter 2026!

"in flashes of bright plumage- days measured in rustling phantoms" —Tiffany Morris :: “saguaro, at sunset” alocasia.org/2025/08/15/t...

Baba Yeztugo

The linguist in me is pleased by the constant invention on novel sentences like, “I am absolutely dead-legged by that Yeztugo.”

back on the horse 🐴

it is actually the equivalent to the modern vocal fry way of starting an exciting tale with “WAIT!”

"it’s fall now. the kisses on my face are fading and my hands won’t be dirty for much longer. the spiral is gone and the sun isn’t as romantic as she used to be." —jun uchuya :: “the earthling’s guide to life on earth” alocasia.org/2026/06/23/j...

"everything about the discussion of architecture itself is now political; and also that political discussion somehow seems quite impossible without reference to architecture, that is, to space generally, to the way the urban is organized, to the way geopolitics is organized." Jameson

"When the brick matters more than the man, you are building Babel." - Jules Polonetsky & Omer Tene

do i get the Lenin candle holders?

Carolina Wren singing "I need you, I need you, I need you!"

don't attack me, but is HAIM the new Wilson Phillips?

We all have to post as hard as possible about Lindsey Graham's death so we can see who wins by getting cited in an article in the Atlantic about how Bluesky is destroying the fabric of American politics next week.

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Czesław Miłosz, trs. the author & Lillian Vallee

if you live on the coast, check into joining your municipality’s wetlands commission or analogous environmental board - some of this can be stalled or reversed at the local level

I’m looking to speak with people who are resisting the erosion of human thought, creativity, skill, and relationship through AI. 🧵

From forthcoming “Cultural Deliteracy.”

COME CELEBRATE WITH US !!!! JULY 31 • 8P • 44 MULBERRY A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR HOSTS YU AND ME BOOKS NEW YORK, NY

Is “lucky Pete” still a term, or have the kids updated it to something contemporary like “lucky Brayton” or “lucky Bradleigh” or something?

To a house centipede: “My Lord, respectfully, you are in violation of our House Sharing Treaty. I humbly ask you to retreat to your realm.”

"Philosophy is a distinctly human sickness and cure."

“Unfortunately, Valve has tagged my game as ‘frequent nudity and sexual content’ and now hides it from most Steam users,” Yang wrote on his blog. “While I was careful to avoid explicit nudity, compliance-in-advance is never enough to appease a zealous censor.”

🚨Dream journal moment!🚨Beyond excited to have a poem in the new issue of North American Review alongside some absolutely rockstar poets and writers! Here’s to poetry, a little imagination, and the bizarre interplay of loss, lineage, and memory. @northamerreview.bsky.social

🎼 🎶 I’m not emerging. Not yet mid-career. 🎶

The library, your local bookstore—reading matters. Sustaining yourself matters. Supporting independent art and public services matters. Read with both care & abandon! 📚📚📚

there is infinite money for weapons, non-educator vice chancellors of nothingness, and tech-grift corporate welfare but zero money for teachers, libraries, tuition

Ahem—the editor will be in the shipping department this morning—if you buy a book, it will ship today! 📚💙 riverriverbooks.org/store/

submitting my MS today!

Thought of Nietzsche's critiques of Equality (& covert violences of liberal humanism) as our mayor gave a speech at the dedication of the local rainbow crosswalk & claimed, "All of us are equal. None of our differences matter. They are all inconsequential." The ? must always be: equal to what/whom?

Submit today before midnight! #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry

Friends, please join me & @jacklegpress.bsky.social on August 6, at 7 p.m., for A Very Gay Literary Happy Hour, featuring @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, @benkline.bsky.social & Richie Hofmann followed by an open mic. 🥂 www.eventbrite.com/e/a-very-gay...

is Xbox *trying* to shed users at this point?

Song of the many when they cry together. // one of two new poems in the Summer @prairie-schooner.bsky.social! glad to have this ode to collectivity in the world. 💙

the end of this article is very sinister.

new goal: become Taschen Monkey

"I like to look around new people’s bedrooms. Nowhere else to sit except the mattress. Boutique wall decals commanding bloom wherever you are planted. Inspirational cursive with insinuated menace" —Rebecca Hawkes alocasia.org/2026/06/23/r...

I’m hosting this book launch for Brett’s debut with @jacklegpress.bsky.social one week from today. Join me, Simone, Anthony, @dorseycraft.bsky.social, @aniking.bsky.social, nat, & Natalie for the fun! RSVP ⬇️

Read Toi Derricotte's "The Fate of Literary Journals" in @index.short-reads.org.ap.brid.gy today. The ending made me laugh out loud! www.short-reads.org/the-fate-of-...

To celebrate her 20th anniversary, get First Kicking, Then Not by @writesloud.bsky.social for just $10 this week & I'll include an I JUST WANT TO FEEL SOMETHING pennant for free. Best deal on the best short story collection about motherhood & womanhood ever. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...