In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity. In Chile, precious aquifers are in danger of depletion. In South Africa, where blackouts have long been routine, data centers are further taxing the national grid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

Truly I couldn't even imagine he might die. His work felt that large.

It broke my heart to write this poem, and I would give it back if I could reverse my brother's death or my mom's diagnosis. But it doesn't work like that. So I'm trying to open my hands to the joy of having a poem in @thenation.com. Thank you, Kaveh Akbar, et al. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

This is the D'Angelo performance that I've never forgotten. This song was already a huge hit but the way he took it from contemporary R&B to church revival illustrated how connected those idioms are. A revelation for those who didn't know, and an affirmation for those who did.

“Life, friends, is boring.” Oh hey, it’s your old terrible book boyfriend John Berryman with “Dream Song 14,” perhaps the modern poetic apotheosis of ‘I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.” And yet.

@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social @nowarwarren.bsky.social @thekismetmag.bsky.social thank u for this amazing book, & for this searing account of an indispensable collection of voices & witnessings which cannot now be erased, revised or wiped from the historical record. kismet-mag.com/review/blood...

(Showing you some annoying shit that sucks ass) and would you believe a computer made this all by itself?

R.I.P. R&B icon D'Angelo, neo-soul innovator www.treblezine.com/r-i-p-dangel...

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

We're bringing back excerpt submissions from unpublished novels and novellas, but adding a criterion: 200 words max length. All other prose, fiction and poetry submissions still have no length limit.

We're now accepting longform poetry in addition to prose for our fall issues! We define longform poetry as a single long poem, variations on the epic poem, or a sequential poem such as a crown of sonnets or numbered series. Find out more and submit by November 15: https://pshares.org/submit/journal/

Belong – Jay Som's first new album in six years – is out now 💙

We have reached our cap for poetry submissions and will close them in ONE WEEK! Poetry submissions will close at 11:59pm on Thursday, October 16th. Get your poems in before then! All other genres will remain open. blackbird.submittable.com/submit

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I don't know how else to tell you this: generative AI, the dismantling of Dept of Ed, defunding science, MAHA, banned books. They're of a piece. They're trying to disenfranchise you of your brain. Keep thinking.

Poetry at a little free library in Austin TX: In a yard of fallen yellow peaches I am listening, by Andrew Hemmert (Missouri Review, Summer 2025).

FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

"First, videos that suck are the future. If I could make a video that sucks this much in one hour, imagine how hard I could make something suck in two hours, or even three."

Bill filed in #Florida Legislature would make every single college & university name one street after Charlie Kirk. And the bill even specifies WHICH street at each one. (But the governor doesn't want streets used for political messages, which is why no rainbows!) www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

One week left! Our NaPoMo Contest Issue closes October 15. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this incredible collection of poems! Send us your strongest work today: ironhorse.submittable.com

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Poets, Shenandoah reading periods are coming up fast! The one for Virginia poets will stay open till 10/31, but Samyak’s great call for formal experiment will hit the cap fast (I’d guess 3 days). www.shenandoahliterary.org/submissions/

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

someone must have told gavin the game involves destroying hastily built shelters

Broken Social Scene's self-titled LP was part of a massive indie rock groundswell in the mid-2000s. The album turns 20 this Saturday, so let's look back:

(58/61) “Witness, / if you can, listen: I slurped the frog-leg soup / gone bad. Held a brass spoon like a barrel / to my mouth.” —Vievee Francis, “Break Me and I’ll Sing” (The Shared World) @nupress.bsky.social #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

Two months left! Submissions are open for the 25th Annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize! 🎯 Prize Details: - Winning manuscript published by BOA Editions in Spring 2027 - $1,000 honorarium

Perugia Press’s annual prize is open through 11/15, for what will be our 30th collection. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Guidelines & info at linktree in bio. We look forward to reading your work!

Every time someone says, "I used ChatGPT to help with this," I immediately assume they suck.

friendly reminder my loves to schedule your vaccinations as soon as possible, we are seeing an increase in infections already

Call me from Albemarle Station if you can I hope you find your concentration beneath those ceiling fans We used to dance in this split-level ranch Moonlight flooding the room Now you're gone and the shades are all drawn In my air-conditioned tomb

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

this exists it is called thinking

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

2 YEARS TOO DAMN LONG. INTERVENTION NOW. DEMAND YR LOCAL EVERYTHING TO STOP BEING PARTY TO GENOCIDE.

Read "In every religion, a purifying" by the legendary Diane Seuss in our latest Flight 23.4. Link in bio and below! 🐦‍⬛ blackbird.vcu.edu/in-every-rel...

The rules are that any cisgender white guy can kill anyone he wants as long as he blames the computer. Everyone else will just grumble "ah yes, the computer" and move on

i have property taxes due on the 14th & my dog is getting surgery on the 30th so if anyone ever really wanted to buy some upcycled memento mori type of jewelry for yourself or someone goth and/or weird in your life, now is the perfect time: garlicfurb.etsy.com

The Algernon Cadwallader comeback album is truly special. Not only does it sound like they never left but it’s an awesome addition to their legacy that they’re cementing now. Worthwhile return from the OGs, we’re lucky to have Algernon in this world algernoncadwallader.bandcamp.com/album/trying...

Places in Silksong, probably: -Lily Blossom Lake -Fern Gully -Dire, Dire Docks -"The Fog" -Repentance Row -Sepulcher of the First Ones -Song of the Ancients -Really, Really Deep Down -Dark Tower

I really appreciated how player-friendly Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown was, it respected your time and had a ton of options for customising difficulty. Also I’m glad Silksong doesn’t have any of that and is just a huge jerk of a game.

“Luck in this landscape lies flat.” A poem by Jorie Graham.

Florida says AMEN.

Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying. #poetry #bestamericanpoetry

Final copies are here, and they're stunning. Alex Wolfe did an excellent job with the design. If I owe you a book, it'll be on its way shortly. And for the rest of y'all, the book comes out from @upittpress.bsky.social on October 21. I can't wait to share No Longer at This Address with you.

If I don’t want water pipes or electrical lines near my house I should be able to just rip them out