Just learned something unbelievable Did you know poetry can rhyme?!

Very proud to have been on the editorial team of Florida Review the last few years—congrats to Bertha and all!

Louise Glück ♥️ “I speak / because I am shattered.” Always revisiting this poem.

“Flavor text” is the intersection of two of my passions: literature and MTG, so I sorted through well over a thousand cards’ flavor to find the best texts of the year. Check out the article at @edhrec.com: edhrec.com/articles/the...

GIANT FLASHING RED AUTHORITARIAN ALERT apnews.com/article/immi...

Happy “you bought a few gifts online so enjoy the next six months trying to unsubscribe from more newsletters than you ever thought even existed” season for those who celebrate it

Kinda have a dream job working not just for an LGS, but one staffed by and frequented by really amazing people?

A quote on “seriousness” in individuals from an old lecture by John Cleese. Feels especialy apt lately—

Honored to have two poems from my pandemic crown of sonnets in the latest South Dakota Review along with several friends and writers I admire. Thank you to @artichokeheart.bsky.social for including me in this storied journal.

sex is fine but have you ever had someone review your poetry who fundamentally gets what you were doing and a few things you didn't realize you were doing?

One must imagine Sisyphus happily mulling to three

So excited to finally be able to move this nerd hub to a bigger place downtown that our community deserves!

For from the earth they were made, and unto the earth they shall return

Time for my monthly check in of ONE of my student loan bills from 2017 to see if it’s tipped over to me paying more principal than interest yet…nope! So close. Eight years later. $55,000 paid in and only $19,500 to principal—and I still owe $68,000 on this loan alone.

If there’s one piece of art that perfectly encapsulates the millennial experience of a life placed squarely at the intersection of a country’s promise and its broken pieces that we’ll be left with, it’s Kentucky Route Zero. Hauntingly beautiful, human and bleak.

timeline cleanse

in the brilliant standup special “dress to kill,” eddie izzard said communication is “70% how you look, 20% how you sound, and only 10% what you say.” seems relevant right now.

Yesterday I didn’t know this card existed but today it’s one of my new favorites. Sometimes you need to deploy a midair lion

Boiled down my AI policy this semester --

Tonight I tried to check my pocket for my keys *while* driving, if you want a sense of my level of generalized anxiety these days

Probably swap 3 and 4 but otherwise no edits

Happy Labor Day 🙂

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

Let's rank every keyword ability pair by which two you'd most like to see on your creature as it heads into the red zone. By @amico.bsky.social #EDH #EDHREC #Commander #MTG

New article up at @edhrec.com! I rank the keyword pairs you’d most want to see on your creature. Like every ranking/list article, I expect half of the internet to be so offended by the choices that my death is called for, sans jury. But we do it for the love of the game. edhrec.com/articles/ran...

A post-ska dad band called Soda Poppin’ Daddies

The mailman today finally brought me something other than warnings about my untimely death delivered in Pig Latin—the @nightvaleradio.bsky.social Roleplaying Game! Love the world that @planetoffinks.bsky.social & @happierman.bsky.social created, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with friends.

Therapist: And when do you think this disillusionment with being a professional artist began? Me: When I saw how the biz treated Gonzo youtu.be/8AdaI-4bCt0?...

A thank you to Mergoat Mag for including my haiku in this, their last issue, focused on Appalachia, Catastrophe, and Helene.

A hard but grateful message: the Fall 2025 issue of The Florida Review will be the last with me as Poetry Editor. Nothing but love for my time there, and I’m excited for whatever the next steps for my life look like. ❤️ @rochellehurt.bsky.social @theflreview.bsky.social

They’re the same picture

Delighted and grateful to have a few poems in The Florida Review! Here's one of them... Big thanks to Poetry Editor, @amico.bsky.social!

My washing machine has this important political message to share

Honey Labubu is this anything

How about we just f*cking don’t? Keep AI away from art, whether it’s the Poetry Foundation or a small journal. This desire some have to feed every bit of humanity into the gaping maw of bloodless tech is ghoulish.

File under “projects that absolutely, definitely will get made, for real, we mean it this time, why are you looking at us like that”

Just deleted the oldest email in my inbox, just over three years old: a reminder to myself to do something. After three years I looked it up, and turns out I don’t have to do it anymore. Convenient!

“The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.” J.D. Salinger

Finally made a library card system for my commander MTG decks! There’s a stamp I can use to put the date I play a deck on the card inserted into each of these, & I can track wins/losses with it because I am a sicko for stats. Saw someone do something similar & was like well I have to get on that

Last two days I’ve noticed a lot of the trees near our house have these handful of dead patches that are dropping off, despite the rest of the tree seeming fully healthy. Is this something to do with the cicada brood? Is it related to Helene last fall? Any botanists have any idea?

What a staggering, heartbreaking, and beautiful book @niina.bsky.social’s PATH OF TOTALITY is. How all-encompassing, how specific. I love it and you should read it too.

Hi I hate this

Ok who knows what kinda spider this is living in my mailbox

Holy cow, anyone playing in the Magic Spotlight with this one please sell it to me, that art is incredible

My wife got a milkshake with dinner and now my yard is filled with boys that I have to fight off Scott Pilgrim style

Issue one of @autocorrectmag.bsky.social is live: autocorrectmag.com

Uhhhh, looks like there’s a new variant of the Secret Lair bonus card Seven Dwarves. Just pulled this from my Vrooom lair! CC: @saffronolive.bsky.social @manacurves.bsky.social @starcitygames.bsky.social @mtggoldfish.com

Not death or taxes but a secret third thing

Grateful to the folks at Spoon River Poetry Review for giving three from my “year 2 of pandemic” crown of sonnets a home with such lovely company. Pick up your copy today!