"Does he not look like stained glass, all broken and consumed with your image? Like bread his voice breaks into a higher octave against the choir’s modulation, asking the audience to join in his appeal" 🕊️🔥 What a poem!

I see a lot of utility for AI, but I’ve stopped using it entirely. It gets things wrong. It’s glib. And AI sorts information and people into preset hierarchies. It’s this latter point that’s giving me the most pause. The current iteration of AI is also a social engineering project.

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This morning in East Somerville, MA masked agents who told bystanders they were from Homeland Security abducted a man who lives in the neighborhood while he was on his way to do laundry. Video shared directly with me of the moments after he was detained and put in an unmarked vehicle:

Missouri Republicans today passed a new gerrymander that would break apart the Democratic district in Kansas City, which would flip a seat to the GOP. (The governor is expected to sign it.) www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

One month ! 10/10 at 7pm @coupletseries.bsky.social

When nothing softens the grief, may grief soften me. - Andrea Gibson

2. I created this list and it's been viral. Some actions that are not protesting or voting. There's something for everyone on the list. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Come join @joepan.bsky.social & me Friday night at @portersqbooks.bsky.social, where we'll be discussing Joe's awesome new novel, 'Florida Palms'. Joe is one of the good ones, and this book is SO GOOD. portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

We are collecting donations for the South Bay Jail Library. You can order from their wish list here: portersquarebooks.com/wishlist/swo...

Looking forward to discussing 'Florida Palms' with @joepan.bsky.social at @portersqbooks.bsky.social later this month. Am loving this novel -- it hits the sweet spot: best of poetry, best of prose. Hooray, Joe! Come join us for this fun night. portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

I'm in here, too. Infuriating.

I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.

🌸COVER REVEAL🌸 for MORE FLOWERS & it’s a beauty! I’m grateful to so many: @triohousepress.org, @krisbigalk.bsky.social, @natashakane.bsky.social & to @fascicles.bsky.social, @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, & @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social for their kind, generous words! Pre-order link in comments!

“...if you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven’t even climbed. Thisis a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.” -- Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

This is again a reminder that college isn’t supposed to just teach you a job but is supposed to teach you how to think, because that job you’re training for might not exist when you graduate

Maybe let the New York Times help you find your next book... @nytbookreview.bsky.social

CD Wright: "Death is death and none other." Somehow it carries tragedy & destiny--how? Paradox is small comfort. Wrote this poem after a loved one's death--it came out this summer @southerninreview.bsky.social. But after losing my father suddenly last week, it now seems the poem was always for him.

A growing number of the new victims of Trump’s cruel, illegal ICE terror are young Asian Americans with LEGAL STATUS who have grown up their entire lives in this country and are being swept up for minor infractions or technicalities.

My goodness, the fact that I know precisely where this is.

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Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

Australia's ABC News explains what the Israeli government won't allow the news organization to report on from within Israel. www.instagram.com/reel/DLOxTZ9...

"These poems are inescapable, taunting, and intimate. They lay bare the undeniable personal and national multiplicities inherent in American society." @nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews MY HERESIES by Alina Stefanescu. @sarabandebooks.bsky.social

Bob Perelman and I were stuck in the New Haven train station together at 2 a.m. back in 1996. I was a teenager on my way back from Ireland and had no idea who he was. 🫣

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

i am proofreading fall poetry title; once it lands, who might be open to a review/media copy? im good at being interviewed, by the way, // @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 1: Allison Adair Allison Adair is author of The Clearing, winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize from Milkweed Editions. www.allisonadair.com Bluesky: @fascicles.bsky.social X: @fascicles Instagram: @allisonadairpoet

Calling all Early American Scholars: our POTUS has pulled funding from The African Meeting House. (IYKYK) How to begin fundraising? Let’s talk.

Sometime in late June, time is made up, the calendar is malleable, just send us your manuscripts.

According to Republicans, tax cuts for the rich are “pro-growth, pro-family, and pro-America,” while the Inflation Reduction Act is “corporate welfare for progressive special interests." The class warfare-style language is familiar. So are the lies about their “big, beautiful” bill.

Not sure we are fully grasping the tragedy of so many people with so much knowledge and experience who only want to offer it up to make the world better being cast aside or demonized, with nowhere to do their work.

So many of our contributors have been featured on @clmporg.bsky.social reading lists over the past few weeks it's been hard to keep up! In April, miCRo contributor Fatma Omar was featured in their #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth reading list with her piece, "(Perhaps?)".

Today's Featured Poem: "Against the Encroaching Greys" by C. D. Wright, from The Essential C.D. Wright, published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/against...

Going insane reading this Politico story about Musk's AI servers poisoning the air of a 90% Black community in Memphis followed immediately by this Washington Post story about states lining up their own communities to host the next ones

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Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

From “Self-Elegies” by Martha Silano 💔

Heartbroken to learn today that Martha Silano has died. She was one of my favorite poets writing today. I had the honor to publish a number of her poems over the years in @northamerreview.bsky.social, and I'm in the midst of writing a life review of her work for @presencejournal.bsky.social 💔

"but it was the single rose bud from the yard’s way back he placed in a small blue vase that won her over and over. Theirs was a language with a grammar and syntax I could not parse, key words omitted, place-holdered." - @marthasilano https://coupletpoetry.com/martha-silano/

Stay dangerous, indies. 💪 Friends, please support these presses by donating or by buying their (amazing, radical) books.

(23 of you) asked, we listened! The 2025 9L Literary Awards deadlines is extended until May 10 at 11:59 p.m. CDT. Last chance to win 1 of 3 $1000 prizes + publication. Stay tuned as we drop free web access to 2024 winners all week. We can't wait to read your work!

looks like we finally found the anti-Christian bias

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

Hey, it's my birthday!💥 I'd love it if you'd share a link to a particularly memorable conversation on the show &/or who you would most like to see in the future. For me, the conversation with Nikky Finney is forever etched in my heart. & I dream of Anne Carson tinhouse.com/podcast/nikk...

How moved to find my sad spontaneous overflow at home in the wonderful Georgia Review, alongside work from writers I admire. Here's my girl, whew, here she is, friends, be gentle, snapped w/ a few other poems that caught my eye. What an issue! 🌾 Grateful for poetry. #nationalpoetrymonth