Also works for Monday reset.

I want to point out that the kid holding the No Kings sign (which he made before the last No Kings protest), is my 9 (almost 10)-year-old son. He's been doing this since he was not even a year old, when he went with me to the 2016 Women's March.

Deep red Wasilla, Alaska. #nokings

I can’t help but compare the lack of national coverage this seems to be getting with the excessive coverage of houses falling into the sea in NC’s outer banks. The situation in western AK looks so bad right now. These are people’s homes and whole communities, just totally destroyed.

There are So many ways to help people who have lost everything. www.kyuk.org/alaska-state...

Tiny fall fungus for your viewing pleasure.

Coming November 4! 🔥 DISSENT by Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Brant Freeman is a fearless, sonnet-charged response to our turbulent times—melding activism, myth, and fierce intelligence into poetry that demands to be heard. Learn more: 👉 www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/dissen...

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

Among all the terrible shit happening in this country, it was so nice to wake up to some positive local (red state!) election results. Palmer and Fairbanks both elected liberal mayors! (I don’t know enough about the other towns’ races/candidates though.)

Alaska folx, go get your vote on!

Oh, you mean the America my forefathers created by… invading a foreign land? That one? Yeah…

More of this please.

Extremely honored to be included in this issue of Prairie Schooner alongside some truly amazing writers! (and yes, this is the winter 2024 issue… which just came out… they’re a bit behind in their pub schedule…)

me in 2025

Not sure how I’ve never heard this before, but now I’m playing it and just may play it every morning…

Opposing political violence requires that we condemn Charlie Kirk’s death. Opposing political violence also requires that we condemn Charlie Kirk’s life. Charlie Kirk spent his life encouraging his allies on the far-right to think violence was legitimate and concerns about it were fake.

okay this is genuinely pretty funny even if I hope they have good lawyers

And here I was thinking that a “chipocalypse” was what happened when all the chips had been eaten and there were, sadly, no more chips. If only…

rabbit rabbit rabbit

Came home from an excellent day at the fair just to hop on here and see all the “witch is dead” speculations and man, this day just keeps getting better!

The world is uncertain and academia is falling apart everywhere, but I’m still pretty thrilled to be starting my first semester today as an adjunct poetry mentor for the low-res MFA program at Alaska Pacific University. Hoping against it all for good things to come of it!

I have mixed feelings about writing contests, but... I won a thing, and it comes with money. I don't have mixed feelings about paying writers and artists, so I'll take it!

Left Alaska 5 days ago and drove the whole AK Highway just to find the ugliest camping set up ever conceived.

Inside of every child (or… mine, at least) there are two wolves…

Change those ages to 9, 21, and 44. Then add that now, in 2025, my son is 9. The cycle just keeps cycling…

The Onion’s ad is probably the only true journalism in the “paper of record” today. What a world…

Super weird how all the talk here is the unconstitutional bombing of Iran, while facebook-land is basically business as usual… no mention of it at all as far as I could see… curious what the vibe is on the former bird app (not curious enough to go look).

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

Love finding poetry in the wild! Ada Limón at the Anchorage Museum’s excellent “Cold War to the Cosmos” exhibit.

Just returned from 3 days in the glorious no-cell-service-but-plenty-of-music-and-good-people-land of Chicken, AK. What'd I miss?

Putting together an individual arts grant request in the middle of… all this… feels pretty selfish. And unimportant. And yet…

Read this whole thread. This is exactly what many people have been warning about/expecting from this administration. They may "only" be using "less-lethal" munitions for now, but who knows what's next...

From “Self-Elegies” by Martha Silano 💔

ENDING SOON! We’re looking for poetry and art that stirs, surprises, and stays with us. This issue will explore the hidden layers of thought and emotion that shape our perceptions and experiences. 🔗Full guidelines here: www.harbor-review.com/submit

When you’re putting so much elbow grease into scrubbing your stove that you think you’re the one shaking the house, not the 4.7 earthquake 40 miles away. #alaskasky

Happy Earth Day from this tulip, who recognizes an opportunity for metaphor when she sees it.

He* is risen**! *the TBQ submission manager **finally f***ing open I've been waiting all g-d-mn-d year for this. Truly a miracle.

Our themed poetry submission period is still open! Send us 1–3 poems in a single PDF or Word doc via Submittable. We are a paying market and offer $10 per published poem via PayPal. Submit your work here: www.harbor-review.com/submit

Just got a 2-poem acceptance from Prairie Schooner!!! Happy National Poetry Month to me! 😎

Happy National Poetry Month! I’m grateful to have my chap reviewed alongside these two other stunning books!

Today's selection is from @thelostintent.bsky.social Andrea Hackbarth's wonderful chapbbook, waveforms, a short course in piano tuning (Small Harbor Publishing) poetrystash.substack.com/p/the-poetry...

I’m (unfortunately) not at AWP, but my book is! And you can get it (if you’re more fortunate than me) at the @smallharborpub.bsky.social table for only $5 today! Or go wild and pick up two small harbor books for only $8 📚📚📚

The volcano is still at “code yellow” status, according to the observatory, which indicates “elevated unrest.” Me too, Mt. Spurr, me too.

The Anchorage Museum has a Georgia O’Keefe on loan temporarily and I went to see it yesterday. It’s just a brown line on a white background, but it’s a really freakin beautiful brown line.

Lots of cool new chapbooks out last month, including mine, which just happens to be at the top of this list 💜 phillychapbookreview.org/poetry-chapb...

Finally got my author copies of my chapbook. Feels pretty cool to hold them in my hands 😎

Local high school just wrapped their f-ing stellar production of Hadestown and this song in particular has been playing in my head since and it’s just so f-ing on point I want to blast it through the streets but those who need to hear it wouldn’t get it.

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