Save the date! Words // Friends is back on 5-26-26 at 7pm cst/ 8pm est! Lineup & free tickets coming soon 💥

I often think about that old norse story where the hero eats the dragon’s heart and suddenly he can understand bird song. (The birds all tell him his friend is going to kill him.)

went through the proof this afternoon and it's a beaut asterismbooks.com/product/john...

first announcement! chicago darlings, come join me & my dear pal @makecommon.bsky.social for readings from/chat about our latest, next month at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social : pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/50470

New from Action Books! Leia Penina Wilson's Call the Necromancer! "What is necromancy if not a refusal of order? Wilson’s ecstatic narrator is narrative’s transcendent rejector"[email protected] "written at a blistering pitch in the key of Cassandra"-Lara Glenum actionbooks.org/leia-penina-...

if you ever have problems at a hospital, mention "legal counsel", "negligence" and "never event"

"Incantation or hex? Curative or curse? Buzzing, clomping, and crying out solilo-quies, Leia Penina Wilson’s call the necromancer performs boldly on the page. Be medusa’d, be transmogrified" New from Action Books today: Call the Necromancer by Leia Penina Wilson: actionbooks.org/leia-penina-...

im glad i fell asleep before i could weepy depressed post abt being a failure poet at 1 am lol

New books from Action Books coming this spring! Two Poems by Jaime Saenz (trans Schluter/Dodson) and Call the Necromancer by Leia Penina Wilson. The Saenz includes the long poems The Cold and Death at the Very Touch. Both visionary masterpieces.

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somatics, man. christ.

did u know u can get double-double pneumonia

could really use a win, good news, **something**

Friends! Welcome our December guest editor - MATTHEW KINLIN!!! @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Matt’s theme for the month will be/// __My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico Sendyourmagicxx burninghousepress.com/2025/12/01/d...

i am so sad

we had suspected from earlier test results but confirmed today my mom has stage 4 cancer. happy thanksgiving, everyone can go fuck off.

got my author copies of a chapbook i’ve long wanted to see into the world, but which hadn’t gotten there till earlier this fall. very limited edition (35 copies) letterpress cover, by z-axial press, available for free (until they run out) at the free stuff reading series (“& nowhere online”).

"fervent and propulsive. devastating and sublime." - Christine Shan Shan Hou on Summer in Goodreads (lol I'm the last person in the world to discover Goodreads) www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...

I keep wanting to take a photo of myself and the book with fake blood everywhere but keep putting it off. As such I forgot to note that this episode is out. It eased a ton of my anxieties about talking about work like this. John is a legend.

I got to talk with everyone's favorite independent literature podcaster again, now almost a year out from the release of MASSIVE, we talked about Joe's insights and the general response to the book. www.noisemakerjoe.com/wtr/2025/11/...

I'm learning that I'm a Very Elderly Millennial, emphasis on elderly, as in *take me back to the home, i'm going to miss matlock*

christ alive, folks, what a fucking week.

A floating skull wafts by your feed, drawn by me in carbon dust technique at the Gordon Museum

In the new episode of Writing The Rapids @divinetailor.bsky.social and I talk exclusively about Horses. Not really, but wouldn’t it be funny if we did?

actually we don’t talk about horses at all. well, maybe a little. little horses. very small.

Wednesday! ✨ I’m reading with extraordinary folks at the Whistler at 6pm ✨ hosted by the fantastic Ben Niespodziany!

need more 2inch woodscrews dont forget

fine ill go run errands.

trying to convince my mom not to adopt frogs, proving once again i am her clone

sorry i cant write poetry, im building an extensive ikea hack from Pinterest

me & friend: you can buy luminol on amazon

i have a really bad infected cut from attempting a pinterest project dont do drugs kids

some important people spontaneously recognized me & called me a "great poet" confirming my suspicion we are in a simulation

if u ever wanna make yrself extra sad, try looking up your family's concentration camp internment records

Pinterest is ruining my life and my apartment

myself (adhd) & friend (also adhd) whenever we have an idea (approx. every 12 seconds): ok but we should bring an adult with us

when left without proper supervision, i will talk at coworkers for 2 straight hours about true crime and mormonism, im so sorry.

physically and emotionally exhausted

Thanks to the good people at Heavy Feather Review (@hfr.bsky.social ) who've published poems from a collection I've been working on about cult films. heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/10/15/j...

More here: www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/to...

✴️ TOTAL ART ✴️ A book against violence ✴️ Available this November from @lavink-dialogos.bsky.social ✴️ “All Harm Is Self Harm” ✴️

I'm in Santiago Chile to do some readings from Summer/Verano as well as talk about translation. It's spring here and the city is beautiful.

Some of the extraordinary Romanesque sculpture holdings of the Frederic Marès museum Barcelona

Now on sale! Aase Berg ’s Aase’s Death! 25% off with code DEATH at checkout! www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aas...

Death and the Maiden by Hans Baldung Grien - in Basel - the hand gesture of death is like a pistol

Book trailer for my fourth book of poetry: #Brillo Available from Lavender Ink Press on 11.15.2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Ob...

New episode of Writing The Rapids is out now! I talk to Jenkin Benson about his new book, his academic pursuits, neologisms, and more!

AASE'S DEATH (Forthcoming from Black Ocean)