I'd never seen this but I love finding random stuff like this and then just vibing. Peter Murphy, Trent Reznor, and TV On The Radio doing Bela Lugosi's Dead in the daytime as possibly some kind of a sound check youtu.be/n8W4tslqVSg?...

Doing my annual company compliance training. "Phishing emails sometimes contain strange attachments." Huh, that's something phishing emails and I have in common

The fall makes me energized, and I want to take on more and more projects. It's very "yes and." I need to chill before I burn out lol

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

I gave a talk about viral poetry tonight for Zona Motel. Sadly most of you fair citizens will never see it but this is the slide of which I am most proud

Wow everyone here too good for a little somnolent linking in huh. Looks like I won't be adding you to my professional network

Can't sleep so I'm checkin LinkedIn

Just out here looking for dank William Carlos Williams "This Is Just To Say" memes

I'll be at Punch Bucket Literary Fest tomorrow. I'm participating in two panels -- one on writing about animals, and the other on books about complicated aspects of motherhood. If you're in Asheville for the festival, please come through! www.punchbucketlit.org/festival-sch...

I got that dawg in me (lightlife brand vegan hot dog)

My son asked for a bedtime story, and I told him one that was basically a ripoff of jack & the beanstalk, about a magic pan that is always full. Children are not well-read and it is easy to trick them into thinking you are very original and smart. Good thing that's just children though

I just got a flu and covid shot even though I live in NC, a state that supposedly requires a prescription. I feel like a lot of the messaging around eligibility will prevent people from even trying so I urge you to try!

I did not think the poet laureateship was going to happen this year considering everything. Great choice.

Metaphor is meaningless

I had to doordash childrens' underwear this weekend because I forgot to pack it for a short trip and you know what?? Not everything about this timeline is bad (yes I overtipped)

I'm in this post and I don't like it

I visited a college classroom this week at my alma mater in Florida. The kids were mostly science and premed, fulfilling an English credit, but they were super engaged, asking me questions about poetry and discussing their own experiences. It was really heartening and nice.

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Once more for the night crew! I'm really proud of this book. It deals with being a parent at A Time Like This, and NC ecology, and risk, and so much more. Also there is funny stuff because life is fucking absurd. Poetry contains multitudes

By the way, some news! I have a book coming out with the wonderful @autofocusbooks.bsky.social. I'm incredibly excited to join the list -- I so admire the work they've been putting out.

Did you know it's the year of the clown

People are always like we didn’t solve the school shooting problem, but actually we did by making dead kids really profitable.

This hits hard

You wanna play a game of risk? Give your toddler the bidet remote. Absolutely nothing like the combo of hot toilet seat with cold wide spray

Reddit and Craigslist are the fraternal twins holding down helpful non-gated internet (in the US). One of the twins is thriving, and the other one is not, but if you look at them, you can see they are very much related

a better world is possible dammit

I highly recommend picking a behemoth audiobook to accompany a half marathon training cycle. I've got Stephen King's 11/22/63 to entertain me on my long runs and it's been great.

For poets, there is absolutely NOTHING like the rush when you open your laptop and find the last tab you looked at was "This Is Just To Say" by William Carlos Williams

I have a watch that measures my "Body Battery" levels. I routinely get down to five out of a hundred, and I quickly realized that it won't actually go below five. This is kind of like a freebie -- you can keep running yourself ragged infinitely once you hit five. Unless you die

Turns out the dystopia is banal AF www.bbc.com/news/article...

The one (1) thing I miss about working in an office with other people is co-running the Soup Swap with @alexdao.bsky.social -- but alas, any soup I wish to lunch upon must now be made BY ME

Sometimes I wish I could text my 78-yo neighbor. He knows everyone in the holler. I go to him for gossip, and he would be incredible on this platform. But he goes to bed at like 8 and does not know about "the online"

Toddlers know what's up. Cucumbers with ranch is an elite snack

Today a wasp crawled into my toddler son's shirt pocket while he was at the playground, and I had to remove it without anyone getting stung because I was the adult. I succeeded. *Jeb bush please clap gif*

Happy Princess Diana jogging outfit season to all who celebrate

Working on some @teemuhelle.bsky.social translations today. "the stars / revolve around the moon / like carrion flies" GO OFF

I luv Philly and can't wait to do this event!

One of the best to ever do it on socials

I got a new phone and wanted to send a text saying "you're an important person in my life" to a delightful birthday hero i know. This phone not knowing my gestures typed "you're an imposter fraudulent in my life" The robots do NOT have our best interests in mind

Reddit is truly the best. This is from r/composting

A nation that doesn't support its arts has no imagination and thus no vision for the future

You: wyd Me: just working on some translations hbu You: nothing that exciting just thinking about the fact that Mr Dink on Nickelodeon's Doug was called dink because he was in a "dual income no kids" household hence why he had all the "very expensive" gadgets Me: ok Twist: these are both me

Red-tailed hawk circling and calling; all small songbirds fall silent

The war against trans people (and I don’t mean “culture war” I mean actual violent war) is fundamentally an act of slow, indirect mass murder meant to terrorize an entire population into obedience to the single dumbest ideology we have: gender. IMAGINE how stupid and evil you have to be to do this!

I too have been given this compliment and it is THRILLING

Permit me a little bit of sentiment here but my covid baby is about to enter kindergarten. That was already blowing my mind a little. Then I realized that's also true for all of the kids born spring of 2020 when we knew nothing and were filled with fear!

I know there's a lot to focus on here but I must point out that this tagline implies one should heat the soup can before opening it which is just plain dangerous

Well, the highway is alive tonight But nobody's kidding nobody about where it goes I'm sitting down here in the campfire light Searching for the ghost of Steve Jobs I'm sorry i'm trying to delete it