Loud af sandhill cranes passing by in the middle of the night

imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin

Very cool idea!

I had a joke about Zeno, but I never quite

I thought I had 3 jokes about Cerberus, but I was getting ahead (and ahead and ahead) of myself.

Wrote a poem over the weekend called "Reasons for and Solutions to the Masculinity Crisis." Nice to have that all sorted out!

Got to play "osculate" in bananagrams last night, thanks to that one Monica Youn poem!

Subs have closed for Issue 6 of Public School Poetry, and we're reading through an an amazing bunch of submissions! Thanks for making our Vice Principal selecting work an exciting challenge.

I guess technically WE aren't selling anything, but PSP does have a Bookfair page for our contributors: www.publicschoolpoetry.com/book-fair All our funding, true to theme, is via a once-a-year bake sale...

NO

forest foot

All of this suddenly makes so much more sense to me

Buncha supposed politics experts are going to spend the next week looking at a young charismatic candidate with an optimistic message like it’s some cryptic formula for cold fusion

A former student of mine just published this story in @adroitjournal.bsky.social--it's always bewildering and delightful when undergraduates can write at this level. So proud! "Hsiu-hua’s strange behavior started along with Taiwan’s monsoon season..." theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

Somehow managed to overturn a whole-ass table while teaching today. What on earth am I even doing

"put me on repeat on repeat" yeah will do! One of my favorite tracks from this album

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

New platform for congress is when you're elected Pokémon tutorials will be optional

"We, foolish, dribble. / each bounce-back brings a stranger. can't call us for traveling / because // we ain't going nowhere" Any morning a @scryptkeeper.bsky.social poem shows up I know I'm headed for a good day!

PSP contributors Molly Spencer, Keith Taylor, Jen Sperry Steinorth & Jeff Kass at our annual pizza party reading. Subs for Issue #6 are open!

If you or any poet-friends want to get involved in Public School Poetry, send us some work! Our contributors write "5-paragraph essays" for each other (the poems randomly, anonymously assigned, of course). It is, we hope, a totally different kind of engagement than you can find anywhere else!

After teaching, before take-out and Survivor

i would be such a good writer if books did not require tension, character development, or settings

Libra season is upon us. My power is now infinite and fall has finally fallen. Crisp and clear today. Praise Beyoncé.

every AI ad is like “hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?” and then the phone is like “sandwich” and the guy is like “wow”

So excited to check out Laura Passin's new book! (featuring one of our favorite 'A Wrinkle in Time'-themed poems... www.publicschoolpoetry.com/laura-passin)

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.