Sing sin, we Thin gin, we

Thanks @clmporg.bsky.social for the highlight! Thank you @anmlymag.bsky.social for giving these poems a home!

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“Free healthcare….paid for by YOU!” What??

"[M]eter is the most fundamental technique of order available to the poet. The other poetic techniques of order—rhyme, line division, stanzaic form, and over-all structure—are all projections and magnifications of the kind of formalizing repetition which meter embodies. They are meter writ large."

Pauline Copes Johnson, a descendant of Harriet Tubman, has died at 98. She spent a lifetime guarding that legacy from the small city where Tubman spent her final years www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/11/t...

New piece on my website just dropped. This one goes out to the bougie homies whose ride or die knows how to use a chainsaw.

I still can't believe Ada Limón read my words! Thanks @slowdownshow.org for bringing my poem back again!

I don’t vote in NY (Debbie does) but I hope you rank Zohran Mamdani or literally ANYONE but Cuomo. Brad Lander! Scott Stringer!

Congratulations to Coco Gauff for winning her first French Open title! We really LOVE this.

Breaking news: In a rematch of their 2023 U.S. Open final, Coco Gauff beat top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka to win the French Open. She is its first American champion since Serena Williams in 2015.

Doechii’s music video for “Anxiety” is EXQUISITE.

Me to myself after @lichess.org survives the "technical difficulties" every time:

Lord I saw what you did for Belinda 🙏🙏🙏🙏 #thewhitelotus

#WhiteLotus said "Black allyship"

check this fun piece out lml

My piece is featured in Okay Donkey's March newsletter. "The Emmy Goes to the Seagull Flying off with a Hot Wing in front of the Chicken Spot?" Is honestly one of my favorite pieces. Catch me performing this and more pieces this summer near your picnic benches. okaydonkeymag.com/2023/01/27/t...

Yesss Dooeechiiii #grammys

First BIG announcement of the new year!! I've joined Macmillan Speakers Bureau! I'd love to come to your school to give a presentation, reading or talk on my life as an author! www.macmillanspeakers.com/speaker/juli...

Fans of great visual explanations may appreciate this piece on why bamboo scaffolding is still in use in Hong Kong. H/T to our old pal in the UK, Kate Addison 💜

Bruh, same

Im a multi-disciplinarian I talk about my food writing, media critique and my comedic pieces, but poet Djiah is my favorite. Here is a piece that was published on @havehashad.com back in 2023. It's a square poem and a sestina in one piece. Readable 3 ways horizontal, vertical & dates with sestina.

I am tired of people saying and believing this. Our lives are not a game of chess and these leaders aren’t making brilliant political maneuvers. Please stop the delusions. It’s embarrassing.

ANMLY is now open for new work for one more week *only!* We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap39

Time makes fools of us all. Not me seeing the way to draw the chess game tonight and somehow playing the worst move possible and losing. (I had 30 seconds left)

There was a chess puzzle on the anime “Kakegurui” in one of the gambling challenges. A cute checkmate in two. They didn’t show the answer but it was fun to solve. White to move.

Chess Zoo xkcd.com/3036

This restaurant is playing a jazz version of “Gangsta’s Paradise.” And it slaps.

Wishing everyone this kind of friendship

If you’re a poet, you should wear Jordans in June

Dommaraju unseated China's Ding Liren to become the new world chess champion. "Every chess player wants to experience this moment, and very few get the chance," Dommaraju said after the match.

Gukesh for the WINNNNN!!!! 18 years old becomes the 18th world chess champion!!

The man was triflin

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

Siri, put Doechii tiny desk on repeat

I just discovered the line art of Waclaw Szpakowski -- who did his work for in the early 00s but didn't show it for decades to anyone but family Coincidentally, two years ago I made a web-art tool that lets you do drawings somewhat like his Item #6 in my "Linkfest": buttondown.com/clivethompso...

Me because all I know is how to play chaotic chess

It’s wild how good ideas for poems or essays come to me within the time frame I need to get ready for work or while on a train to work. Is that an unconscious sign of escapism?😂

I been knew this song but let me tell you how my life got changed again. When it builds to 4:11 and just whips the soul outta orbit and all that 💫 What do I even do with my life right now? youtu.be/FxYw0XPEoKE

When my man says he's just going to go in the room and study some openings, but he doesn't invite me

When I first read this Haiku by Issa, I couldn’t recover.

X-Men 97 x Kendrick Lamar

Antonieta Sosa, Visual Chess, 1965 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137740

Jon Batiste and Jericho Brown need to be in the same room 😂 A whole bunch of “Yeahhh” “Ahahh” “Lawwwd”

Introduce yourself as an anime character