Today's Featured Poem: "Girl Work" by Zefyr Lisowski from Girl Work published by Noemi Press Read here: poems.com/poem/girl-wo...

we need a department of kerning

happy 80th to Neil Young, I'll have to spin the full Ditch Trilogy today to celebrate

I think “live every day as if it’s your last” is the worst pop wisdom. If it was my last day I would lay around moping and indulging in my cheap comforts. People should live like they have 80 years left and therefore work towards building things that matter.

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They literally ruin everything they touch

I just discovered that I could write 'Toronto' with only letters from the word Tron. That is my whole day right there folks.

RIP D'Angelo

Universities would not be nearly as vulnerable to the present administration had it not been for the five decades of increasingly neoliberal policies within them leading up to this.

RIP Sister Jean news.luc.edu/stories/news...

this is what happens when you don't wear the wrist strap

That’s the spirit of it www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Friends: I just got into all this to write some fucking poems.

Scurge: Hive for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC launches October 10 www.gematsu.com/2025/10/scur...

Muriel Rukeyser

Forcing young girls to give birth and allowing the rapist contact and partial custody is political violence Unlawfully detaining people is political violence Denying people due process is political violence Deployment of the National Guard to DC is political violence

It's Dreamcast day! Here's to 26 years of one of my favorite video game consoles. #SegaDreamcast

My favorite thing to remember when I write is that I only have to solve the problems that I myself make.

People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom. This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/

be our guest be our guest rise from your grave we'll do the rest

I want to see a meta tribute band, like a tribute band that does a tribute to another tribute band. Third-hand tribute kind of thing, or even deeper. That's what I need in my life.

This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.

We're excited and proud to announce that Digital Foundry is now fully independent, having parted ways amicably with IGN. In this DF Direct Special, we share our thoughts and aspirations for the future of the channel: youtu.be/tl7bIJ2yu4I

Ditto university presidents and upper administrators.

VILE: Exhumed may be banned for sale, but I refuse to let that stop people from playing the game. It’s now available, for free, at WWW.VILEISBANNED.COM Please share the site, share the game, and fuck anyone who tries to control storytelling and expression.

all of my takes are hot, it’s like 200 degrees outside

@linoleumcast.bsky.social if y'all do decide to reread The Odyssey in prep for next year's movie, there's a newish translation by Emily Wilson which is pretty great

I'm excited to share that my poetry book Cow Stomach and Mother Fat is forthcoming next year from Veliz Books!

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Virtual Boy! ♥️

Anniversary: 10 Years After His Passing, Satoru Iwata's Thoughts Are More Relevant Than Ever. (Repost)

An ugly day for the game industry. And my hopes of playing a new #PerfectDark game go up in smoke.

FIRE EATER: A TRANSLATOR’S THEOLOGY by Chloe Garcia Roberts, published by @coimpress.bsky.social, is a finalist for the Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction. We’ll be celebrating the finalists and announcing the winner on June 26! www.clmp.org/event/2025-f...

a lot of publicly visible feet that probably should not be publicly visible in this walmart today

Hell yes!

One nation, under Exceptionalism, inadvisable, and so forth, with temerity and junkets for all.

The Alchemist's Rapper's Best Friend instrumental series is changing my life one track at a time.

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

netflix is down, guess i’ll go lick some toads

Annals of Poetiquette: Is it better to buy your books in front of you or skip buying them so you assume I've already read them before your reading and buy them later on?

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Read Chloe Garcia Roberts's "What Sparks Poetry" feature now at @poetrydaily.bsky.social! poems.com/features/wha...

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You should get this book.

Today's Featured Poet: Jose-Luis Moctezuma is a Xicano poet, professor, and researcher. He is the author of two books of poetry: Place-Discipline (selected by Myung Mi Kim as the winner of the 2017 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize) and Black Box Syndrome.

This is such a ridiculous attempt at walking back bullshit.

Today's Featured Poem: "Ágape" by César Vallejo, trans. by Margaret Jull Costa, from The Eternal Dice: Selected Poems, published by New Directions (@ndbooks.bsky.social). Read here: poems.com/poem/agape/

Congratulations to all the finalists for thePEN America Literary Awards, among them WWB contributors Najwan Darwish, Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Ali Kinsella, Tomasz Różycki, Mira Rosenthal, Bill Johnston, Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, and Christina MacSweeney! pen.org/announcing-t...?

Homeland of Swarms is a finalist for the 2025 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation! Congratulations to Lupita Eyde-Tucker & Oriette D'Angelo!