It's the end of The Best American Poetry. I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse. defector.com/good-riddanc...

just gonna have to keep saying, in company of so many others: we are jewish faculty against the astroturf antisemitism persecution of jewish faculty by our own universities, by online hate groups, and by the regime www.thenation.com/article/soci...

We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...

a chicken in every pot and an all ages hardcore show in every neighborhood

NEW: Arkansas announced plans for a mega prison in a rural town. Since then, locals are organizing to stop it. At first they opposed it in their own town. But some now say they've taken a more critical look at how we incarcerate in the country. make time for this new feature, you won't regret it

the tiny issue 14 is live! The cover art Bedroom (2023) is by KB Jones. Read the issue at thetinymag.com

I have some poems in the new issue of @thetinymag.bsky.social; but more importantly, the rest of the issue is extremely good and you should read it! www.thetinymag.com/current-issue

Time to go to work in the shit factory!

my neck my back my war you’re one of them

Very long time coming but, super stoked that this digital collection of archival materials from Ithaca House—amazing Ithaca, NY-based small press that operated from 1969 to the mid-'80s—is finally live! digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/...

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

universities ARE healthcare rural clinics, rural hospitals, urban ERs all run by universities where corporations won't go attacking universities is public health poison bsky.app/profile/dday...

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

solidarity, everybody, as we navigate the ruins of the postwar anglo-american educational system together —but please know, this does not need to be the way

I have some sonnets in the new issue of Grotto!

BHP are excited to welcome our July guest editor - M. Forajter!!! @saint-remus.bsky.social THEME: ART & ANNIHILATION: contemporary gothic writing in the Anthropocene “microplastics + dandelion + flawed pearl + fruit punch + The Relic + baroque” Sendxxx burninghousepress.com/2025/07/01/j...

wrote about the excellent @qzap.bsky.social on my library's blog! blogs.cornell.edu/olinuris/res...

some new peepers have joined my family

haven't published new stuff in a minute! thank you to John and BHP : )

"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda." for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

every academic worker and librarian pushing for this shit is either a sellout, a fool, or both

This is true bravery, and my heart is with every single soul who put their own safety on the line to protest fascism

U Michigan spent nearly a million dollars paying private spies to follow and harass its own students. The university is in crisis.

the guys who are Mad At Academia have discovered "phallocentric"

my four-year-old just called me “doctor poetry”… my PhD is finally paying off thank god

I am poetry-pilled once more, I can't stop thinkin about POMES POMES POMES

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED GENOCIDE TO STOP It is always a good morning for June Jordan.

Alice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.

"This beautiful and meditative compilation of Argentine poet Ponce’s work presents ethereal scenes that seem self-contained in the poetic world..." Read the full review of THEORY OF THE VOICE AND DREAM by Liliana Ponce, trans. by Michael Martin Shea, in Publisher's Weekly. Out May 20th, 2025!

working on a new long poem (I think) and repeatedly asking the question I've been asking myself every time I've tried to write for the last ~4ish years :)

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

Who the fuck wants this

Just signed the contract for my first scholarly monograph with @cupress.bsky.social. The title is Making Places: Rural Infrastructure, Media, and D.I.Y Poetic Community. I'm super excited!!!

Happy May Day!

all proceeds go directly to me from my publisher!

the internet archive is one of the greatest resources the internet has produced—sign this shit!!!

I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

In case you needed a reminder

playing a show with a bunch of hardcore bands in a Korean restaurant in Albany tonight 😍

besmilr brigham (1913-2000) ✨ 30 days of Mississippi poets for national poetry month 5/30

My daughter is named after the Mae from NITW fwiw!!!!