Honored to have been named the new Poet Laureate of Brookline, MA. Looking forward to celebrating this new post w/ past laureates at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social tonight. Our "Changing of the Bard" reading starts at 7! 🥳 brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-1...

Oh, Alexis. "The mal-administration of a democratic magistrate is a mere isolated fact, which only occurs during the short period for which he is elected. Corruption and incapacity do not act as common interests, which may connect men permanently with one another. [...]"

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

The media’s apparent normalization of 3% annual inflation is wild. The framing is problematic considering the average household will spend almost $2500 more a year for the same goods and services at this rate of inflation. How can this being sold as normal? www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/e...

Why did the AP want to interview me for my expert opinion when Taylor Swift called herself a poet but not now that she's calling herself a showgirl? OUCH

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Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

[Exit King.]

This is *hilarious*

Please study history. Please teach your kids history. We know how this ends.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

don't forget im launching the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025) in Ottawa next week at Plan 99 w Stephanie Bolster + Zane Koss, also launching new books! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-book-o...

These two things are of a piece, even if the motivations and details differ. Trump’s justification for his authoritarian crackdown is an America that doesn’t exist. @lizzieohreally.bsky.social

"All university employees, in their capacity as university representatives, will abstain from actions or speech relating to societal and political events except in cases in which external events have a direct impact upon the university." newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Y'all, you get a free registration for AWP if you volunteer for ONE SHIFT. That's incredible, considering the $$$ of entrance! conference.awpwriter.org/work_exchang...

Does ICE cease operations in a government shutdown?

Breaking News: The Trump administration is deporting a planeload of Iranians back to Iran after a deal between the governments, officials said.

"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.

So cool

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.