Two new micro poems in @havehashad.com today! The first one is a true story of when the Dr. left open our medical file on the screen...

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

It's funny -- you hear all the time that mainstream media tends to undercount protests. And then you really see it, because you were there, with @rvtrousdale.bsky.social. This is a _ridiculous_ headline from NBC Boston. The protest drew upwards of 500. www.nbcboston.com/video/on-air...

Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide.

Hey MA friends! Please write to your MoCs to ask them to push to inspect the inhumane conditions at the Burlington ICE facility, and to show up & join the weekly protests. Here's the link to a form email that you can revise/personalize, that does just that: actionnetwork.org/letters/insp...

POEM 281: "Nostalgia, 1997" by Natalie Marino (@nataliemarino.bsky.social) "I see myself young and cunning because the war is over and I can go wherever I want. I walk away before the end" stonecirclereview.com/nostalgia-19... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

Peter Coviello, the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin who wrote the article about not talking to the NYT, can write his ass off. DAMN.

As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.

One active heckler at the Waltham anti-ICE march; driving by in a white Mercedes; had clearly never heard of typecasting.

It's party city for me this coming weekend. Need to launder all my going out clothes. Friendsgiving, sex reveal, graduation/birthday party... I need $200 for substitute care for Ma. I would really like to go hang out with my friends, but I must also be responsible. If you can help:

Because, as I have said, it’s only good universal use case is disciplining labor.

That last sentence goes REAL hard

A new poem by Rae Armantrout from this month's issue of The New York Review of Books.

another unsolicited thought from me: people who dismiss romance novels have no idea what a _readerly_ world they're pooh-poohing. one doesn't have to be a fan (I am a fan -- clearly), but imo slinging mud at romance as a genre is telling on yourself.

Early Florentine self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi on view at Christie's in New York, and up for auction in in February. I just saw it in August and it's very close to her Inclination in the Casa Buonarroti (c. 1615) and other early self-portraits in Florence (thanks, @pjeromack.bsky.social!)

Read. It.

If @isaac-fellman.bsky.social’s goal in writing “Notes from a Regicide” was to get every queer to sob staring at the wall but also feel a new glimmer of hope for the future, he succeeded. Fucking brilliant existential fuel. Read it

It was so fun getting to talk about bird cognition, experiments, and a list of beloved books with @robmclennan.bsky.social!

If you have a regional accent, please never try to get rid of it. Accents tell stories.

Interested in #RosalindFranklin? With help from her family, we published an anthology of stories in honor of her work and struggle, edited by @bogiperson.bsky.social and featuring stories by authors whose names you will recognize! Give it a look? For you or your local or school library? #Booksky

Alarming to have at least one child willing to encourage me to become weirder.

If you missed it, the Sundress blog spent last week reprinting five selections from my chapbook, A FEW MYTHIC PATHS. This was the last excerpt: sundressblog.com/2025/10/31/t...

SNAP UPDATE: I’m directing SNAP benefits to be processed today — and paid IN FULL starting tomorrow. Americans are going hungry because President Trump chose to play politics with their lives. People need to eat. We’re making sure they do.

help i can’t get up

November submissions are OPEN! The theme for the November submission period is REVOLUTIONS! We pay $0.10/word! More info on how to submit is on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

We’re only about a month out from the release of the weirdest thing I’ve ever written! Get excited for The Writhing, Verdant End, a split eco-horror collection from me, @tiffmorris.bsky.social, and @ericraglin1992.bsky.social :)

Fuck up their plans. Talk to and care for each other.

A perfect example of the (anti) logic of capitalism is trying to invent robotic bees for agricultural pollination rather than shifting to an agro-ecological model of producing food that doesn't destroy biodiversity.

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute. This is the *moderate* position, by the way.

Live footage of T.S. Eliot writing a poem

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

It's still early, I guess, but I have never seen the crowd at the Atlanta airport this sparse.

oh thank Christ the puppy's gone to sleep. this tiny dog has been working us so hard, you have no idea.

Profane Illuminations II: Lyn Hejinian, weird hamburgers, we’ve got it all

There are a lot of different reasons to publish, and continue publishing, a magazine, but this is the one joy of it that never gets old.

hahaha no I will not sign an electronic thank-you card for Nancy Pelosi.

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“Today’s poem unexpectedly merges the playfulness of anagrams with the gravitas of a terminal diagnosis — the weight of reckoning with the end of one’s life," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1388. Read “When I learn Catastrophically " by the late Martha Silano: bit.ly/43SNIA9

Super fast work from @jmetr22b.bsky.social at the Trib: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...

If anything, those of us who pushed for such a reckoning have been punished more than the actual perpetrators. I spent over a year muzzled in SLAPP litigation for the high crime of... saying I believed a state senator's accuser. The senator sued us activists for defamation.

Ellis: "I see little reason for the use of force that the federal agents are currently using. Pointing guns, pulling out pepper spray, throwing tear gas, shooting pepperballs and using other less lethal munitions do not appear to be appropriate."

"Thousands are escaping El Fasher with nothing but the clothes on their backs — help us raise $50,000 to keep them alive." #KeepEyesOnSudan www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

tfw you reach out to the school to say "hey, this is going on with my kid, maybe keep an eye out to see if some in-school support would help" & the response is "but his grades have been great!" --thank u, not the point.

I am...crying with laughter.

Each day, ICE / CBP descend on different city neighborhoods & suburbs. It’s often not the same ones two days in a row but sometimes it is. You might hear the helicopters before the rapid response alerts begin. They start around 7a & go til 3 or 4p, even on weekends. It’s been like this for 8 weeks.

Chilly in MA this morning. "Potatoes for every meal" weather.

I feel like if you’re a witch and you catch a witchy vibe and the weather is lovely and stormy you should be allowed to call off work and do witch stuff

Ted Kooser’s “Starlight”