We published Brett at BWR last year, and his story with us rocks, but this story is the stuff of dreams

My supremely talented friend Emma wrote a gorgeous essay on one of my favorite Blink-182 tunes…consider voting for her this fine March!

I did what everybody else is doing and wrote about AWP, but specifically about friends and gratitude open.substack.com/pub/olddream...

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

Ohhhh I’ll be there! Reading! I’m reading!

POEM 309: "Breaking" by Grant Clauser (@grantclauser.bsky.social) "Pipes leaking. Cold creeping in where the insulation’s old, and more things waiting broken in the garage and shed, bedrock cracking under the foundation and the kidnapping " stonecirclereview.com/breaking/ #Poem #PoetryCommunity

So grateful to Steve Gergley for publishing one of my favorite things I’ve written over at scaffold! Catch it here: www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

The Bulb Region opens its doors today with four brilliant writers. We feel privileged to publish their work. Make sure to show them the love they deserve and celebrate your fellow writers. 🚀 @aaronburch.bsky.social @tracyfuad.bsky.social @neonpajamas.bsky.social — bulbregion.com

This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

I think what people miss is that life come out the box hard… but i don’t welcome hardness in the portico of my heart

So thankful to have this new poem out today in the terrific Stone Circle Review!

Ryan Grubb call a good game challenge level: impossible

Banger up from Joseph House jakethemag.com/ode-to-stayi...

This kid goes to Auburn. Yeah I wouldn't wanna watch football anymore either pal

Our EIC, @kristenmiller.bsky.social, in today’s Kentucky Lantern 🔥🔥🔥

Pure dopamine watching DJ Durkin-coached Auburn kick rocks, roll tide baby

Today's listing of the day is: JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine @publishedbyjake.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Got a story out today about something I’ve been fascinated by for years: From Atlanta hip hop to Bama RushTok, here’s how and why the South has taken such a firm grip on modern American culture. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Baby’s first skull 💀 check out my weird little Kentucky poem ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🐎🐎🐎

Update on Ernesto, an 18-year-old in Bowling Green, KY who was taken by ICE: “The Department of Homeland Security has blocked the release of Ernesto Manuel-Andres, despite a federal immigration judge ordering that he be released on bond, according to the nonprofit working with him.”

my newest poem in JAKE is an absolute favorite of mine, read it here!!!

Get in loser we’re creating honest sentimental art without a trace of irony and putting a piece of ourselves out into the world

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

good morning. today at IHTOV we have @jeremymauser.bsky.social writing about pearl jam. specifically "jeremy" and how having a song with his name, about this subject, affected him. great read ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/king-...

The Trump admin is terminating a settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Black Alabama communities harmed by raw sewage, calling the agreement an “illegal DEI and environmental justice policy”

"The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union (IUE-CWA Local 83761) and the local labor movement." labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...

two weird prose poems out today with @havehashad.com one inspired by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi & one inspired by Amelia Gray www.havehashad.com/94wk0

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

Reading Sam Lipsyte’s Venus Drive for the first time and feeling like I’ve missed out for years with how incredible this collection is

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Someone went to a Firehouse Subs in Bowling Green, KY and spotted Fireman Big Red.

so honored to have a poem in this wonderful issue alongside my fellow Kentuckian Silas House 🥳 check it out, y’all!

I am growing and becoming a more complete person and it absolutely sucks ass

Spurs playing the morning after Christmas must be to ensure my holiday joy is immediately extinguished

I wish I could write pop punk poems. Not poems about pop punk, but poems that elicit similar vibes. I want to be the Gerard Way of poems

My mother told me she’s been listening to a new rapper but she couldn’t remember the name and after much searching it was revealed to be XXXTentacion. The news was hard to deliver

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha began her National Book Award acceptance speech, "Good evening everyone and Good morning to beloved Gaza, where it is the 411th day of the genocide.. We are now living in the second November of the American-funded genocide in Palestine: t.ly/DV2K9

I would love to write a poem in meter but unfortunately I’ve made it all the way to an MFA program writing poems and I do not know how <3