weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

If you're a law enforcement agent, and you're intimidated by snowballs, it's time for a new fucking line of work. www.youtube.com/shorts/eTEQC...

Thanks to those GOP State Senators here in Indiana who voted for democracy tonight! And for the Democrats who needed no convincing whatsoever. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...

Poets! We'll be opening up @atlengthmag.bsky.social for submissions on January 1!

Walt Whitman’s epic long poem, Promotion of Myself

As the season of rampant consumerism commences, let us remind you that At Length is a free and widely accessible literary journal. No cost to read and no cost to submit. Let us be your long-form oasis as the mayhem begins.

And let's not forget the casual racism of these "Speaker Hakeem" posters; his title would be "Speaker Jeffries." Gotta blow that Islamophobic dog whistle. I don't even like Deery--that wiener gave us SB 202, an attack on higher ed. But at least he believes in the constitution on this issue. 2/2

Micah Beckwith might be the most loathsome guy in Hoosier politics, what with his book-banning mania and his campaign of "retribution" (his word) against Spencer Deery (W. Lafayette, R) for not joining in an undemocratic, off-cycle re-districting. 1/2 indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/11/19/p...

Friends--we've got more long-form literature for you! @affisher.bsky.social, Preeta Samarasan, @carsonwirtz0.bsky.social, and I put lots of sweat and effort into getting these gems out into the world every couple of months. Take a gander when you've got a chance!

This is happening next week at Wabash College! Hopefully it's the first of many: Hoosier poets reading in triplicate on campus. Free and open to all!

Thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social and Jonathan Farmer for this interview about When the Earth Flies into the Sun! The book celebrated its first birthday last month!

Tim Hunt recently invited me to chat about three Robinson Jeffers poems alongside my own. Our conversation, which you can read (or listen to) below, was a total delight. Thanks for this, Tim, and for your Selected Jeffers, which has accompanied for over 20 years. huntt.substack.com/p/robinson-j...

Hoosier writers old and young (including students!): we've got a chapter of Writers for Democratic Action (@indianawda.bsky.social) up and running, and we'd love for you to join! Resist authoritarianism--like Orwell did before you--with your pen. DM me to join. sites.google.com/view/indiana...

I'm so proud of Lafayette and West Lafayette, where the #NoKings crowds were so huge that hundreds were turned back from crossing the Myers Pedestrian Bridge. And big love to the "Hoosier Hogs Stand with Portland Frogs" guy. Yes to this. All of this. All the goddamn time.

This administration is authoritarian--kicking journalists out of the Pentagon, unleashing the Army on our cities, and disappearing people into its ICE-sponsored police state. Join us at the No Kings Rally in Lafayette, IN at 2 PM. Meet at the Margerum Fountain. Stand up for democracy www.nokings.org

You can add my fury, and my phone calls to my elected representatives, to theirs. Using American cities a military "training grounds"? Including the one where I was born and where my heart remains? This is authoritarianism, pure and simple. History is watching. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Our new issue of At Length is available! We're particularly excited to have our first translation piece edited by @affisher.bsky.social out in the world!

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

"Shut the fuck up, Donny." -Walter Sobchak & Everyone in the United States Still Interested in Preserving Democracy

Трамп, иди на хуй!

D.C. dude hits a guy in battle gear with a sandwich, gets charged with a felony, and will likely go to prison, but 1,000+ folks, some in actual battle gear, break into the Capitol, and try to overturn an election--they get pardoned? I cannot be any clearer about this: fuck this administration.

Fellow Hoosier Writers! @shana-r.bsky.social is forming an Indiana Chapter of Writers for Democratic Action. If you'd like to attend our call out meeting on Thursday, September 4th (6 PM), please contact her or me. The meeting with be over Zoom. Thank you! www.writersfordemocraticaction.org

As someone developing a similarly placed streak of gray hair, I'd like to remind us all that it was Susan Sontag's first, and that Tulsi Gabbard can fuck right off back to the Kremlin she shills for. slate.com/life/2025/08...

"Sometimes institutions are deprived of vitality and function, turned into a simulacrum of what they once were, so that they gird the new order rather than resisting it." @timothysnyder.bsky.social, from ON TYRANNY - a book I read and taught in 2017, hoping it would lose relevance by 2025. Sigh.

Democracy Update in America: this President is a firing non-partisan labor statistician for telling the truth, has eliminated the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and continues his attacks on scientific research and higher education. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

It's me and Norman Rockwell, ya'll: my @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social essay on the American Road Trip was just re-published in the @satevepost.bsky.social. Thanks @erynbrown.bsky.social! www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/07/savi...

We're back from Portland, but here are some behind-the-scenes pics from @affisher.bsky.social's interview with Emmy-winning TV host, Helen Raptis of AM NW fame!

Farewell, Thomas Sayers Ellis, whose The Maverick Room is one of the best poetry books from the 2000s. My copy, which Ellis signed in various colors of marker--on the cover no less--is well-loved and oft-taught and all the more cherished now that he's gone. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...

@affisher.bsky.social makes her television debut, which I got to watch from within the studio. She made the camera guy chuckle! See the full segment below from KATU in Portland. katu.com/amnw/am-nort...

If you missed our interview with Derek Mong in our Spring Issue, be sure to check it out! Here he discusses the long poem...read the interview in full theindianapolisreview.com/featured-poe... @derekmong.bsky.social

@affisher.bsky.social makes her television debut talking about Pioneer Summer. And she bloody killed it! Watch below. katu.com/amnw/am-nort...

Portlanders! Annie reads from Pioneer Summer & chats with @lizzyacker.bsky.social tomorrow night at 7 PM. @powells.bsky.social on Hawthorne. Pack the house! Or watch "AM Northwest" tomorrow at 9 AM when she'll also be on live TV. Because, you know, she's famous now. www.powells.com/events/anne-...

Friends! Here's the longer (by about 100 words), slightly better, and paywall-free version of my essay on the American road trip. With thanks to @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social, @erynbrown.bsky.social, & Sarah Rothbard! I love that you can see the motel in question right here.

If you're reflecting on this beautiful & flawed & enormous nation right now--and the road trips that hope to capture it all--check out my latest essay in today's @latimes.com. Thanks to @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social, @erynbrown.bsky.social, & Sarah Rothbard! www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Mike Braun is really giving Todd Rokita a run for his money in the Wabash-Alumnus-in-Politics-Who-Forgot-to-Live-Humanely Award.

Nothing to see here except my wife @affisher.bsky.social's new translation, Pioneer Summer, in a feature-length article in @washingtonpost.com. Thanks @sophianguyen.bsky.social for this thoughtful piece! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Hey Chicago! Come see me read from #pioneersummer tomorrow night at City Lit Books, in conversation with the rad and talented Ali Kinsella!

We're marching on Saturday in the #NoKingsProtest. In solidarity with Los Angeles. In support of democratic ideals. And against the rising tide of fascism in the United States. Join us at Margerum Fountain at 10 AM in West Lafayette. Thanks to Greater Lafayette Indivisible for organizing.

Creating fake emergencies to stoke fear & show power. Sending Marines into a city against a governor's wishes. To quell said "emergency." To display existing power. Lying on television about talking with said governor. Holding a b-day party with tanks. If this isn't fascist behavior, what is?

Check out "from 'Thend,'" by Ben Doller on At Length! In these self-aware, snappy sonnets from Doller's long poem, "Thend," Doller discovers his doppelganger, considers his mortality, and learns that “it’s hard to say when one’s saying goodbye.” atlengthmag.com/from-thend/

My @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social colleague, Joe Mathew (@democracylocal.bsky.social), on the Feds in LA: "Living in a city of actors, I do recognize their Method-style commitment to the neo-Gestapo role." A fantastic, on-the-ground look at this inflammatory Federal response.

If you're in Indianapolis tonight, come to Dream Palace books to hear me, Katy Didden, and Natalie Solmer read from our books. I mean you sorta gotta, right? I'm the 5th best-selling author for the state of Oklahoma for the last week of May. I'm more famous than all the OKC Thunder combined.

Oh, this is sweet and hilarious and will never happen again: Annie and I had the #2 and #5 best-selling books in Oklahoma last week, based on four bookstores in the state. I guess that reading in Tulsa was worth it! Thanks @bdralyuk.bsky.social.

In the midnight hour she cried Moore, More, Moore With a rebel yell she cried Moore, More, Moore

I want Harriet Tubman to travel through time and take Hegseth back to the Confederacy, where he'll join up with the Rebs, shit his pants in battle, and retreat to the woods to brew moonshine. And then we'll be done with drunk ass. Forever and ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Thrilled for #pioneersummer pub day today! Congrats to the coauthors Elena Malisova and Kateryna Sylvanova ❤️🎉 and deepest thanks to Ruby Pucillo, Taryn Roeder, @abbymuller.bsky.social, @zackknoll.bsky.social, Jamison Stoltz, and the rest of the Abrams team for making this such a fantastic book.

Friends! @affisher.bsky.social's translation of Pioneer Summer, a runaway hit, TikTok sensation, and cause of additional LGBTQ censorship in Russia, publishes tomorrow. Buying a copy supports the book's co-authors, one Russian and one Ukrainian, as they see their work finally appears in English!

We're opening up submissions for translations in June and July! And we've even got a snazzy new email for you to send 'em to: [email protected]. Submission guidelines below. @affisher.bsky.social is excited to read your work! atlengthmag.com/submissions/

I swear this Wayne Thiebaud painting looks just Louise Glück relaxing in the tub.

Peter Moore, the director of Purdue's PrintBay, is doing some exceptionally cool stuff with his students. Here we are last March, making limited edition matchbook broadsides of my poem, "Odes to Asklepios." Check out those killer cover designs--all from Pete's students!