it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

A 21-year-old Moroccan woman was beaten by her family when they found out she was a lesbian. She sought asylum in the US & Trump tried to deport her to Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal. Sometimes we get distracted by how incompetent our country has gotten, we forget how evil it has gotten.

We are governed by a coalition of Huck Finn’s dad, the insane race war rant from Gatsby, and Ahab’s mad quest for vengeance.

Preorder my second poetry book Cow Stomach and Mother Fat, dropping soon from Veliz Books. www.velizbooks.com/cow-stomach-...

Here it is, your moment of zen.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

We’re thrilled to share the finalists for the 2026 AWP Small Press Publisher Award. Congrats to @adroitjournal.bsky.social, @themassreview.bsky.social & @obsidianlit.bsky.social! The winner will be announced at the AWP Awards Reception & Celebration in Baltimore.

Great to see a lot of groundbreaking new work in translation from the Scandinavian countries. This morning Im reading Mette Moestrup’s brilliant To the Most Beautiful (trans Ögaard-Jensen, @coimpress.bsky.social ) which uses nine different formal system (”magical machines”) to engage with Beauty.

all-time secret PS1 banger; if you know, you know

I wrote about how we're dealing with a war of attrition at the hands of a callous and cruel administration, and how we cannot let them whittle us down to their level. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

New Stop Caring article is live. @aglhrm.bsky.social returns to the site, blessing us with an essay on Dragon Quest VII, gnosticism, and the secularization of game mechanics. Really riveting read, was an absolute pleasure to read and edit.

Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs acceptance speech for Song of the Year: "We need to keep fighting and speaking up. Our voices do matter."

If you start MELANIA at the exact same time as Alice Coltrane’s meditative 1971 modal jazz classic “Journey in Satchidananda” they line up perfectly

we're at the physical book fetishization discourse! we're at the unhinged anti-AI takes! we're at the combination physical book fetishization discourse and unhinged anti-AI takes!

If you're running for Congress in 2026, I don't want to hear you mention Greg Bovino's name without calling for his prosecution and imprisonment. Ever.

I would love to know how many people who were convicted for January 6 are now member ICE

When they lie this obviously & shamelessly about their murder victim, a neighbour who was helping his neighbours and was attacked for it, when there’s video EVERYWHERE showing the ridiculousness of their lie, then you know for sure that they’re lying about literally EVERYTHING they say. Everything.

With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.

There were six or seven agents, trying to harm a man who looks unarmed and still they murdered him in broad daylight. These ICE agents are venal, incompetent, cowardly and this type of execution will keep on happening because they are an unchecked paramilitary force of scared men who crave power.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

Is this why it's not easy for my poetry to get published? Too much queer desire and carnality?

Remembering the legendary Bob Weir 🖤

don’t forget the reason for the season. guilt

I think about this so often.

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

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.