Fuck gen AI. I'm sick of having this useless, cancerous tool laced into our society for the benefit of billionaires and gaggle of dumb people who think it makes them sound smart.

Wordle 1,747 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Almost a stronger shock than coffee this morning.

To trans friends who play sports, and who definitely will not throw a ball around thank-you-very-much, and to those learning how to sit in a skirt, or who are learning how to shave their chins, or who are getting top surgery, I see you! I respect you as a fellow human! I accept you in every way! 🏳️‍⚧️▲

Okay, seriously love Malka Older that much more now.

The allegory is so loud it's giving me a headache.

Such a great story! I'm fortunate Kelly Pedro sent it to us!

Elizabeth Warren’s 2021 wealth tax would have raised $3 trillion over 10 years. Because billionaire wealth has grown so much since then, her new wealth tax proposal would raise $6.2 trillion. Still wondering if we should tax the rich?

Was actually reading today about the guy who invented the nitrogen fixing system we still use about a hundred years ago and there was a quote in here that hit me

To all the scammers who hope to prey on authors with books: we know you don't have to contact us if you want to feature our books in your book club. We know that we never have to pay you for book clubs but that readers will pay us (or support libraries) by buying books. Please, forget our emails.

Unrelated, I'm sure. www.nbcdfw.com/news/politic...

Such a great story! I'm fortunate Kelly Pedro sent it to us!

❤️Submissions open until April 15: INCH --our little journal with a big heart-- is accepting manuscript submissions; read all about it: buff.ly/jGeTkNA

Had a great time typing poems on demand with friends at Bow Market Book Fair in Somarville! As usually when I do these poetry on the fly things, we have a line. A long line. The weather was warm-ish, but got progressively colder.

#Indieauthor #Author #AuthorSpotlight #authorsky #writingadvice

Gift article:

The line that sticks in my head about that Cesar Chavez article: “Cesar Chavez is just a man.” I was slow to read it because I wanted to look away. I wanted it to not be true. So many abusers are just men. Nothing special. Let's stop protecting their image.

So recently I got this device called the Instruo Pocket Scion. It takes electrical signals from plants and passes them through a sound engine. I hooked it up to this calla lily in my garden and here's what happened:

I have two new poems in Issue #2 of slips slips—this one features midlife dating and both members of my writing group, @nematode.bsky.social and @jgriffingraham.bsky.social 💜 “it's a play in a wooden O; a cypher; we are but the players, filling it an hour, short as spring, lush and too beautiful”

This is wonderful news!

This story grows on you. I read it, then read it again, falling in love with it slowly. Good concept.

This story grows on you. I read it, then read it again, falling in love with it slowly. Good concept.

On this St. Patrick's Day & Trump-Free Tuesday™️, I'm wearing green in honor of the Irish who migrated to the USA, especially during the famine, for freedom and opportunity because those are the ideals on which the US was built, supposedly. Also, because I'm partly Irish-American through marriage!

This beautiful little story. So much in so few words.

Today, along with Kenji Lopez-Alt, I was a guest on All Things Considered, to discuss the toxic culture of restaurants. If you didn't catch us this afternoon, I hope you'll listen here! www.npr.org/2026/03/14/n...

Not all songs of enslaved people were coded. Historian/musicologist Mat Callahan found and organized recordings of songs of revolution and abolitionists. Here's one, contemporaneous to Turner's insurrection. Black people knew. So much was lost and so much is hidden. The humanities matter.

Increasingly convinced that social media should exclusively exist for us to watch videos from libraries x: www.instagram.com/reel/DUEahYN...

While millions are struggling to make ends meet, Donald Trump is exploiting the presidency to get even richer through shady crypto deals and blatant self-dealing. New "Golden Age" for whom, exactly?

This beautiful little story. So much in so few words.

If you’ll be in or near Northwest Ohio on Saturday & wanna come help me celebrate my new poetry collection, I’d love to see you— facebook.com/events/s/amo...

The reporter's name is Shawn McCreesh from the New York Times. .... More of this from all of you, please. Stand up to his bullshit! #ShawnMcCreesh 👏👏👏

I don't want to be a part of this. www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

As y'all head off to #awp26, I am calculating our author royalties. I cannot stress this enough - buy small press books directly from publishers. It's the way everyone makes the most money and art can continue to happen!

I'm so wiped out, and it's only day 1.5. #AWP26

Okay, y'all. Here goes. The first AWP event of the year. My anxiety is way tf up and I'm trying to figure out how to be even more incognito. I'm supposed to bring two or three people with me. I don't have two or three people. I think I'll peek in then skedaddle. We'll see.

#AWP26 is here. Join the @awpwriter.org's Adjunct Writers Caucus Thu Mar 5 | 12:10–1:25pm | Room 307 Scribner editor Emily Polson + union organizer Farallon Broughton on the real challenges facing contingent faculty in the literary world. 📚✊ MORE INFO: shorturl.at/0oqAq

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE. Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009. A quick thread:

As we reported in @boltsmag.org last month, Massachusetts is the *only* state with a Democratic governor + legislature that maintains a state-level 287(g) agreement with ICE. As part of this agreement, Massachusetts often funnels people exiting prison into deportation. boltsmag.org/massachusett...

Why are we captivated by the spaces where authors write? Katie da Cunha Lewin set out to explore "The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love."

Timeline cleanse:

Love, love, love this story!

Love, love, love this story!

On my way to AWP! If you see me, say hi, or smile, or wave, or introduce yourself, or start a rap battle (I'll lose), or high five me and quickly miss my hand as I try to give you skin back, and only our pinkies connect. Or scream my name so everyone thinks I'm a famous writer. #AWP2026

Do it.

New post on the problematic site Substack:

1/ Just watched the Luther Vandross movie on HBO. What an amazing talent and one of my favorite singers ever. All at once a lucky and loving life, but also a hurtful one. Imagine living your whole life without romantic love because of the fear of reproach? Key points:

Tapping the sign in solidarity

Every now and again I feel obliged to repost David E. Alter Jr's brilliant 1982 pic Bilbo's Great Adventure. Like a cross between a Victorian neo-medieval tapestry and an 8-bit platform game it condenses the whole story of The Hobbit into one image. My fave #Tolkien detail...that awesome little Bard

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.