practicing not-poetry

so happy to have a poem in @westtradereview.bsky.social ! such a beautiful and special issue to me (this is the first poem I ever had accepted for publication)

picked this up at AWP and forgot to post about it hehe.. fun to finally have a poem in print!

Etheridge Knight from Belly Song and Other Poems

When you think about how the media covered Biden’s mental acuity and then see this, you really see how horrible things are and have been and will continue to be.

Someone sent me this.

I'm probably not the first to say this, but a moon launch is such a beautiful and fitting start to National Poetry Month.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

I said goddamn

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

Reading my way through AWP books Michael Bazzett

"I’d like to live on the train / with St. Francis / he’d finally allow himself to rest / we’d read holy poems and doze" From "Meeting St. Francis on the Northeast Regional," one of three new poems by Cammy Thomas. ➡️ buff.ly/N8JmJbD

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Your life is not your own and / never was. D. A. Powell

Solmaz Sharif's "Vulnerability Study" (as shared by Mag Gabbert elsewhere).

happy (and a bit harrowed) to have this poem out in the world. thanks @anthonyframe.bsky.social "I am wrong and you are wrong and I’m willing to say it, therefore I am a poet" --Rachel Zucker

happy (and a bit harrowed) to have this poem out in the world. thanks @anthonyframe.bsky.social "I am wrong and you are wrong and I’m willing to say it, therefore I am a poet" --Rachel Zucker

“Girls are laughing in the dark. Those are coyotes you tell me. Then there are girls, three, with headlamps, coming toward us with light pouring from their foreheads.” From “New Year’s Day” by Jacqueline Berger in ISSUE 29!

I still can’t believe this is real. Trump is giving a French company $1 billion in our taxpayer funds to scrap their wind farms.

reading Diane Seuss' first book

Spring is upon us . . . There’s one more week to submit your poetry and prose to us for Issue 9! 🌸 garlicpresslit.com/submit

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

"nothing we could not fix with stillness" One of my two poems in the new issue of @theshorepoetry.bsky.social (alongside poems by a ton of great poets!) -- www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-29

“I dream myself into the ditches we once dug to drain this swamp. Such audacity to bend the landscape around our bodies and yet it’s how we live here. So much for care- taking…” From “My Kink Is Distance” by Amorak Huey in ISSUE 29! www.theshorepoetry.org/amorak-huey-...

so happy to be in this issue with some fantastic poets and poems

I have a poem coming out tomorrow that is from my thesis and I am so excited and proud that it will exist in the world

Lucille Clifton

Hello?

Oh, he's ruthless? Has he imprisoned any immigrants without due process, or forcibly trafficked them to countries they are not from?

Eavan Boland

the trees have buds on them it turns out I am in fact still alive

why does this first book prize want a curriculum vitae :( let my poems tell you whether or not i've had a life

an acceptance on the first day of spring break omg 🥲

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Jay Hopler

From The Archives:

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Jay Hopler

'But you know what they did manage to cut out of the broadcast? Akinola Davies Jr. saying “Free Palestine” during his speech for winning outstanding British debut for “My Father’s Shadow.”'

turned in my thesis and annotated bibliography this morning. yeehaw now I'm going to sleep until I get PhD/fellowship news

You sleep with your head balled up in its dreams. - C. D. Wright, "Hotels"

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

procrastinated my schoolwork so hard I just did my taxes, ugh

[flirting] *you're

Auden

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor