Didn’t see this anywhere else, Prez walks out after Lockjaw’s psycho speech to zero applause: ‘I’ve never walked into a room so silent before…’

My beloved grows otherworldly tomatoes

Every so often I fixate on a very specific flavor--a few months ago it was spicy chili crisp; right now, it's the song "Bologna" by Destroyer. I plan to listen to this song on repeat until I barf youtu.be/LCEqe50p8Bw?...

Melania about to ferry this whole group across the River Styx

Issue #5 of @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social is out now! These poets were anonymously assigned a packet of poems by other contributors--and then agreed to write a five-paragraph essay in response. The results are delightful! www.publicschoolpoetry.com/current-issue

I'm so excited for this issue! So many fantastic poems and essays coming through...

The TWO DAY countdown to Issue #5 has begun! And will end very shortly! See you Monday on publicschoolpoetry.com

These people have smarted themselves into the dumbest fucking arguments. Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.

Happy to confirm, from a place of gastrointestinal normalcy, that those 2-year expired running gels were, in fact, fine to eat

i hope this email never finds you. i hope you are free

Sycophancy 101--freshman sycophancy Sycophancy 301--upper-division sycophancy Sycophancy 501--graduate sycophancy Sycophancy 701--postdoc sycophancy Sycophancy 901--Steve Witkoff sycophancy

signed a deal while eating chili out of a coffee pot i even gave my life to christ in a cracker barrel parking lot

Dropping off the kid at college yesterday I saw not one but two Youth wearing Creed band merch. What is this

I COULD be prepping classes, but the One Water race is currently streaming live while these athletes complete a 60-hour, 250km swimrun race across the Swedish coast. Syllabi can wait! www.youtube.com/live/fFec6eR...

Such a fun race!!!

Jordan Peterson has somehow come down with a crippling combination of consumption, Dutch elm disease, "wandering scrotum" and zebra mussels. He is being shipped via barge to a "health palace" in Macedonia where he will be submerged in Windex

Supposed to be doing this Casco Bay swimrun in a week but I just had a half-pound burger and two beers and may never move again

in other news

This guy just ate our window well toads

Every new issue of The Index becomes my favorite issue, but this one gets bonus points for haunted house serendipity--i just read Anne Carson's essay on this story, and then this shows up in the mail!

August. Merwin, with thanks to Eileen Chengyin Chow, who graciously shepherds poetry to BlueSky.

Have you read our interview of @sweetmachine.bsky.social, author of the forthcoming collection, We the Destroyers? Head to the link below to read about her. Also, through the end of the month you can scan her new collection for only $10! riotinyourthroat.com/product/we-t...

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

At AWP this year I learned that it's embarrassing to write in Times New Roman, so I've started typing up my poems in Georgia. But honestly I don't know that my writing is Georgia kind of writing. I might just be a TNR guy, writing poems that look like a dang syllabus

Five days left! We want to see your poetry manuscript. Yes, you. Yes, that manuscript.

This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩

Oh hey! PSP Vice-Principal Ellen Stone is on the radio in an hour (5pm EST) with the Living Writers series: wcbn.org

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

2 days left to submit! Have poems by 2 excellent poets: Shou Jie Eng & @patriciaclarkpoet.bsky.social www.publicschoolpoetry.com publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit

Jason Segel rolled his eyes at me because I gawked too long at him on Main St in Ann Arbor. Sorry Jason! I didn't believe it was you until you rolled your eyes

Me, practicing hot takes while the world is on fire: mini golf is the only good golf

"It was a summer of violence and wisteria. The clouds were clambering beastly heads and raining pink rain." from "Iphegenia," by @kdawn999.bsky.social www.publicschoolpoetry.com/kimberly-gib... (honestly, one of those poems where every line could be a pull quote. So, so good!)

Grateful to @pleiadesmag.bsky.social for publishing this love poem and its deranged title — dream journal to have work in.

"I learned this method from my father // who ate all fruit with a knife and bowl / and a precision that seemed almost vulgar" Gahl Liberzon, from Issue #4! www.publicschoolpoetry.com/gahl-liberzon Submissions due 6/15 publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit

"I preside over a subcommittee of one." @dalegoingpoet.bsky.social [the ending of this poem, whew] www.publicschoolpoetry.com/dale-going

为 I am held between sleep and desire. 写 I hold her gaze. 一 She waits in the mirror, 首 clocking me, 诗 as the time draws taut. - Cela Xie, "The Reflection" www.publicschoolpoetry.com/cela-xie 9 days to send in work!

Sunrise from Laura’s bedroom #twinpeaks #palmerhouse

University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Taking the day to submit poems, and as always the 'hubris-to-optimism' spectrum is totally inscrutable to me. Who knows! Sending stuff everywhere!

10 days left to submit some poetry for Issue #5! Each day, we'll post a poem from one of our 10 poets in the current issue. Today's poet is Alison Swan-- click the link for an accompanying essay by Shou Jie Eng! www.publicschoolpoetry.com/alison-swan

Writers in my feed: @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social is putting together an AWP panel about publications with interesting textures of engagement between their writers and their communities. I'll take any recs for magazines doing something funky and creative with how their writers/readers interact!

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

There's just a real base-level personality clash between me and AI chat bots. I find in-your-face, aggressive certainty to be a tough sell pretty much all the time

One of my favorite things about going on fossil club field trips is accidentally falling off the deep end of somebody's intense expertise. So easy to find yourself learning stratigraphy from someone who turns out to be a museum-grade paleontologist

Bummmmmer variety.com/2025/tv/news...

A little backyard recess & pizza to celebrate two years of @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social with the other Vice-Principals!

The pope having a chill Chicago brother and an evil Florida brother is a metaphor for the two wolves inside America