What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

One from me and a favorite from Jane Hirshfield. Happy #smallpoemsunday.

Jane Hirshfield #smallpoemsunday

One of mine, “Lemons,” in @frozenseapoetry.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Good morning @tomsnarsky.bsky.social and #smallpoemsunday fans

For #smallpoemsunday Name the four chambers of your heart: Meridian Sweet briar Claustrophobia Silk

One from me and a favorite from Jane Hirshfield. Happy #smallpoemsunday.

Good walk after dinner. Outdoors offering a late dahlia and a lovely sunset.

Agents kidnapped over two dozen people this past week in Salem alone. We aren’t a large city by any means. Resistance is happening, but there are so many vulnerable people in our community.

Have been struggling toward revisions for this project and haven’t talked about it much as it sat untouched. Had a bit of a breakthrough, finally, and while it will require more work, I feel the emotional core of the book will be stronger for it. It feels more *me* now, as well.

So, in an effort to regain some momentum, I have managed to reorganize my entire writing folder this week, including: Sorting my poems and prioritizing my strongest work for submission Combining separate full book outlines (5 of them!) into a larger, sorted hierarchy Sorting stories by genre

Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle" is a trans gal anthem, it's ours now

John Berger’s work in general, but AND OUR FACES, MY HEART, BRIEF AS PHOTOS. To be moved by something so short, to tear gently into the human condition & come away dialectically embracing love & death: beautiful. Shifted my world emotionally in addition to his other works informing my politics.

Yet another reason to enjoy listening to Madi’s music. New album last month (beautiful and cathartic and raw). Cover album this month (with proceeds going to a great cause).

One from me and one from Carver today for #smallpoemsunday.

One from me and one from Carver today for #smallpoemsunday.

What an incredible lineup.

Came for the music, stayed for the Walt Whitman shitposting.

this is absolutely true and this should not strike fear, it should strike righteous fucking fury in you, are you going to let them break you, or are you going to make them break upon us?

We GAINED an hour (supposedly), and it was still dark in the morning and dark by 5 PM and the rain is cold like the broken shower at the rec center. You know the one. My neighbors had their fireplace going before I left the driveway. Good luck everyone.

Demon Summoning Wish I were kidding. 🤷‍♀️

A little feeling for this #smallpoemsunday.

This game, y’all.

Watching Scherzer walk off after those 4 1/3 innings. The wave. The fist pump. The man loves the game and what he does.

Blade Runner 2049

2019 feels like a lifetime ago, but Max Scherzer starting game 7 of the World Series still gives me all the feels. As a fellow old guy I hope he has at least one more special performance in the tank. The matchup with Shohei is absolute cinema.

No. valid. reason.

Issue 71 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is live! Cover art by Lauren Rinaldi. Thanks so much to all of our contributors! You can read the issue at upthestaircase.org

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up. "But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

Mad Max is the absolute best avatar of the insanity that is a World Series Game 7, very important to put a total lunatic on the mound

Happy Halloween. Go listen to some gothwave or some metal. Eat candy. Embrace your friends, living and dead.

For those that like their guts twisted instead… the acoustic… youtu.be/rYZwqNdlZ0Y

Every time this song comes on I just get floored. What a jam. youtu.be/GyuYJqhRAvY

It was like two whole games in one! ⚾️

It took me all day to realize that I typed “life” instead of “lift”. Also using text to speech defaulted to “Lyft”. What an amazing time to be alive.

Hard morning filled with low feelings. My cat is on my tummy, warm, content, purring. I have poems and stories to send and more poems in my head. Sometimes I wish my own words could life me up.

I drafted five pages of poems between yesterday and this morning. And I am happy about that. Now I need to gather energy to send some others out…

My short story “The Last and First Loves of Hayrum Bellmaker” is now up at Crow & Cross Keys! 🖤

Be glad that you have something to say, someone to say it to, and that you can say it until you are all worn out. […] I insist this is a lullaby. Richard Siken @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi Bento’s Sketchbook - John Berger Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel Embassytown - China Miéville Sour Cherry - Natalia Theodoridou The Waves - Virginia Woolf The Drowning of a Goldfish - Lidmila Sováková Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Tom Robbins

I did a thing I was not planning… And now I need to find flash markets to submit to.

List: Fatal Optimist - Madi Diaz Precipice - Indigo De Souza Double Infinity - Big Thief Love Again - Andrea Bejar Vanities - Malibu bones - Rainbow Kitten Surprise Neon Grey Midnight Green - Neko Case The Life You Save - Flock of Dimes Straight Line Was a Lie - The Beths Eremocene - Virga

heyyyyy i've got four poems in the latest issue of @loverseyepress.bsky.social about being a woman in this apocalyptic hellscape, including this one. you can visit the poems holding my rage here: www.loverseyepress.com/post/4-poems...

The pressure to put our identities in our art is high, but that’s not a requirement to be valid. Being demisexual and a writer who rarely writes about it doesn’t make it less central to who I am. Happy #AceWeek to everyone on the spectrum just existing in their own way.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

thanks so much everyone for your participation in #smallpoemsunday this week! next weekend, on 10/26, there’s a very special small poem Sunday in the works — more info coming this week :)

A little offering from me for #smallpoemsunday

Turnout in Salem, OR seems much larger than the last No Kings protest.

Crowd swells into the tens of thousands in Portland as the March begins @oregoncapitalchronicle.com @statesnewsroom.com

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.