An absurdist little essay I wrote for the UK's Mersey Review. themerseyreview.com/issues/8/portraitofcraniometryastag

I emailed the Irish consulate and asked the taoiseach not to go to the White House on St. Patrick’s Day unless he’s coming out of it with Seamus Culleton.

A strange surreal gem by Veronica Tucker in the UK's Mersey Review. www.themerseyreview.com/issues/8/the...

what the fuck really is happening in Massachusetts and why?

This writing is heartbreakingly beautiful: unflinching but so considered and kind. ‘Perhaps a person’s life force is like a campfire, and we keep it burning by telling our stories around it. There is one story we never tell any more.’ 🥇 @stephenkelman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

There was something in the way he asked / that sounded like he was talking about the past

Please no.

Grown up music www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FQt...

#OtD 30 Jan 1972 the Bloody Sunday massacre took place when British soldiers fired on unarmed civil rights protesters in the Bogside, Ireland, killing 14. Protesters had been opposing the policy of internment stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1028...

Sublimation opens with my concrete poem! 💙 Available worldwide: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

Fumigation by Zyklon B. Right here in the USA.

“To be lit by Death Fluorescence is to enter a world both familiar and strange even to those who live it, a series of verbal matryoshka opening the language, by one of America’s most inventive and investigative poets." —Sean Thomas Dougherty sundress-publications.square.site/product/deat...

Brevity's new issue launched this morning. Flash essays from Nicole Walker, Alex Sokol, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Shuly Cawood, Thomasin LaMay, Charles Montgomery, Derek Maiolo, José Orduña, Josh Martin, Liz Sauchelli, Margaret Grayson, and Rocky Halpern. Artwork by Michael Todd Cohen. brevitymag.com

AMAZING NEWS!!! So excited to announce that my hybrid essay collection THE LUNATICS’ BALL is the runner-up for the Gournay Prize and will be published in the 21st Century Essay series by Mad Creek Books (the literary imprint of Ohio University Press) in 2027. My dream publisher!

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

My new prose poem from the latest issue of Thea Swanson's Club Plum including work by David Hanlon, Laura Vrcek, and so much more. #prosepoetry #newpoetry #poem

"When the fruits decay, I must leave you again." Lake Angela www.broadkillreview.com/post/childho...

A book giveaway is up at Story Graph. Enter if you'd like. Add to the heaps of nerves I already have about the reviews and response! app.thestorygraph.com/books/d0ad36...

In Toledo, most of us had fathers and mothers who worked long hours. Mothers going to school or working as teachers or nurses. It was the nineteen seventies and we sang, people get ready, for the train is coming. And we believed it." midwayjournal.com/lawn-mower/

For my friends overseas, what you've heard is true, and worse than true.

One of those small essays that tells a life in so few words. By Shuly Xóchitl Cawood in the new Brevity. brevitymag.com/current-issu...

For #smallpoemsunday & @tomsnarsky.bsky.social here is my #arspoetica "Allegory of the Lungless Poet" published in Unbroken Journal.

From the latest Brevity, such a powerful essay of the tenderness and secrets within Fathers and this is a powerful one plus it has baseball, and Caregiving. By the wonderful Josh Martin whose book of poetry Earth of Inedible Things from Jacar Press I also recommend. brevitymag.com/current-issu...

I love how the apocalyptic gives its grim smile through Nicole Walker's new essay. How the dailyness of it all is nearly inconceivable so all we can do is laugh and imagine the absurd. #brevity #flash #plastic brevitymag.com/current-issu...

And the ship the black freighter with its skull and its crossbones is coming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB__...

Brevity Magazine's new issue launched this morning. Nicole Walker, Alex Sokol, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Shuly Cawood, Thomasin LaMay, Charles Montgomery, Derek Maiolo, José Orduña, Josh Martin, Liz Sauchelli, Margaret Grayson, and Rocky Halpern. Artwork by Michael Todd Cohen. brevitymag.com

Poem for your Monday 🤍 a favorite. ~ Dr. Maya C. Popa - Reprise —You were a child, and I will never have a child with you, that wasted tenderness where might have lived a world. On earth, it will matter little that we met, our days like rivers at the mouth of a sea so cold, so quiet, so blue.

What's happening is not new, it's a return to the old. They've been killing working folks in the streets for centuries.

I have a new brief labor essay in Wilkes University's River & South. It's a terrific issue including new work by Kimberly Gibson-Tran, and an essay that won't let go of me by Angela Townsend and much more. riverandsouth.com/issues/issue...

This and they won. Remember all. We. The People. Won.

#OtD 11 Jan 1912 the Bread & Roses strike of @IWW women textile workers in New England against pay cuts broke out. Within a week 20k were out. Despite savage repression they held out for 2 months and won all of their demands. Learn more about IWW women: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...

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A poet not to forget. MacArthur winner Irving Feldman of Buffalo, a luminous poem from his 1961 book. Feldman is still alive in active at 97 years old. Who are very old poets you have not forgotten? "Some things catch the light A moment, or more..." www.justbuffalo.org/irving-feldm...

What a gorgeous story by @kiklodge.bsky.social. The way it slowly layers on meaning--and the still life she builds around her x-ray...beautiful. There's a full world in this flash.

Leila Chatti, on @poetrydaily.bsky.social

Sending thanks to Diniz Borges for his close reading of “Good Tank Farms” as an Immigrant Landscape. "The poet’s tank farms are more than industrial containers—they are the secular saints of a working-class America rarely rendered with such intimacy. " filamentosarteseletras.art/2026/01/02/a...

There isn't a clear definition of what it takes to become a genuine championship-winning superstar, but there are hints of which challenges will prevent good players from reaching that level. My latest for Y! Sports: sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/...

The new issue of Unbroken just dropped with a whole bunch of marvelous prose poems by folks such as Erika DeShay, Gary Finke, Howie Good, Nadja Maril, and Ozge Lena. I have one in there too. www.theunjournals.com/unbroken48

One of two prose pieces I have in the lastest fine issue of Broadkill Review

The Glacier just dropped! I have a basketball poem alongside so many folks including Mary Lou Buschi, Dana Jaye Cadman, Christopher Citro, Victoria Chang, Cal Freeman, Peter Grandbois, Jennifer Moore, Dana Roeser, and Chase Twichell. Highly recommended reading. theglacierjournal.com