To the tune of Summer is Icumen In

Oh, oh and @reckoningmag.bsky.social - specifically poems, essays and stories on environmental justice, with a strong emphasis on intersectionality.

Exactly $0 of our tax revenue should be spent on this.

at an event with Mahmoud Khalil and he just said America is a democracy “when it’s convenient” and …whew

Apologies to my neighbors, my dogs and anyone who walked past the house as I screamed: ‘I don’t want a fucking app for my fucking hair dryer!!’

It would be very cool (and also completely shocking) if someone were to nominate my 2025 climate-fiction short story "The Electric Ant In Its Natural Habitat" for a Hugo. Free to read (*with* annotations) in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social issue 2. www.tractorbeam.earth/story/the-el...

We really must get that 'I have neighbours everwhere' mantra I our heads and live by it. Not just in the US.

4. Here is a Brimstone Moth, making a frankly wank attempt at camouflage on my old porch window.

Good morning to voice and audience and that oft forgotten one: the reader.

my copy of Ragged Band of Travellers: writing from the threshold of dungeons & dragons is here! I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire.

Not now, Toad the Wet Sprocket.

hey, we've got an interview with House, Body, Bird author @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social!! check it out and get a load of that cover!! 😍 links to preorder, too 🖤 psychopomp.com/the-wonder-o...

THIS is the dystopian film i wanna see... sentient ai is less a threat to me than the billionaires sacrificing our children to preserve it.

"aenigmatite" -- poets, you know what to do.

"And what becomes of rain returning to crevices. What feeds them to the amplitude of later days and suns. How much nitrogen must then be bought to keep an oak from dying." —Guérin Asante alocasia.org/2023/06/21/g...

The answer to the question you're now asking is Edward Flynn. #mapoli

I had two clients moved within an hour of ICE learning we were looking for them and advising us there was not plan to move them. A family of four moved 36 hours after a court order forbidding them from being moved. 3 other clients moved within a day of court-ordered injunctions. 20/

kdrama where no one drinks: does such a thing exist? The one I'm watching now _exclusively_ lets people articulate important feelings when they're hammered?

Poetry fundraiser for rent assistance happening 2/15 at 4pm central! Featuring yrs truly, @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social, @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social, @katnuernberger.bsky.social and more! Donate to receive the zoom link. Artwork ("The Gift") by Pete Railand of @justseeds.bsky.social

The woman in the bathrobe below is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social.

My poem about crawling out from the ruins of collapse and establishing queer new ways of being: “Poeisis (Triassic Aubade),” from my collection TIME TRAVEL IS EASY (2025).

Another one — we don’t have nearly as many contacts in Arizona or New Mexico, so if you’re in the area and able to share this around please do! #houndsky Foster application is here: www.coonhoundrescue.com/FOSTER.html

It is a little wild that you aren’t seeing More elected officials putting their bodies on the line, risking arrest, you’d think this would be the perfect time for it even if all you were worried about was fundraising and keeping your job

I'm working on materials for a new project, and am listening to Susan McKeown, Alasdair Roberts, Old Blind Dogs, Capercaillie, & others. Got favorite traditional Scottish music & performers of that music to recommend? I'd love to listen!

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

ALOCASIA seeks applications for instructors to lead our upcoming Summer Creative Writing Series. Instructors will each lead a one-time Zoom workshop with dates between May and August. Compensation is $500.

"Sitting in that gallery, I sensed that the other side of the doors contained all possible futures...We can live, said the paintings on this side of the wall, another way." -- @heatherchristle.bsky.social www.thebeliever.net/vanessa-bell...

Our language becomes fluid, blurred. Gateway. Threshold. Portal. All these things imprecise and yet signalling what we feel as a truth: beyond this opening is the strange. Whether we go through becomes a litmus test. Do we want that possibility of encountering the uncanny? – Dr. M. Benn

What distinguished and delightful company to be in accepting novelettes without fees!

When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.

just an update from when we talked to the reporter: we’ve now successfully connected over 100 families for direct, peer to peer rent adoption. we’ve collected and immediately distributed…a lot. it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.

The morning so far

Rebecca Hart Olander ♥️ “Talking to you now is like the language of bees…” from SINGING FROM THE DEEP END (CavanKerry Press) @rholanderpoet.bsky.social

They're moving out of the urban core to where their kidnappings and brutality may find less organized resistance. That's not a drawdown.

Once again, if anyone knows of any remote full-time, part-time, or freelance jobs, I would be extremely grateful. I have nearly two decades of writing and editing experience, focused SEO experience, and a decade of teaching experience.

a friend calls the excavatory impulse around a new research interest/obsession the "badger sett" feeling. seconded.

I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.

Melville: I hope you enjoyed that bloody action-packed chapter! But now, a moment to consider obscure technicalities about where everyone sits in the boat, how the boat is constructed, and my personal critique of current assigned seating practices.

NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure. Her whereabouts & health are now unknown. The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.

me: I had a dream last night that you inherited a second wife. my husband: I what? ...FROM WHERE??

Shut down all of these concentration camps and provide everyone inside with medical care and US citizenship as reparations, if they want it.

Even as @propublica.org releases key reporting on the T*mp incarceration/deportation regime, it has still not settled matters with its guild.

what are we reading???? I just finished Lia Amador's wonderfully Cuban diaspora-inflected rom-com Witch You Would and then somehow fell into a partial Wimsey reread, though I've got Meg Elison's forthcoming Founding Fathers queued up too.

Puerto Ricans have been fighting for energy democracy - the right to control their grid locally and build the clean energy future on the island - for decades. If you want to support an incredible effort, get plugged into the work led by Queremos Sol! queremossolpr.org

Macbeth: SHIT

Remember that under the first Trump administration, Puerto Rico had to suffer through the longest power blackout in U.S. history bsky.app/profile/cost...

power transformers mentioned in halftime show ⚡️

That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.

Ok aside from the fact that this banger of a halftime show is going to give the right wing a collective heart attack, which is fucking awesome, how about the technical wizardry that went into that one camera take through the hedge maze