I wish with poetry readings we considered the poem more and minutes less.

My poem “I Wanted to Touch Your Shadow” is in the latest issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social

ME: so what do you think of this cluster of big lakes TONY THE TIGER: *deep breath*

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

sure sex is great but have you ever had a growing and persistent sense of dread that turned out to be horribly, sickeningly justified

Get Chuck Schumer out

"Mamdani’s victory, above all, is a rebuke to the conventional strategies of the Democratic party. Democratic congressional leadership seems to have replaced the work of politics with a sort of learned helplessness," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Mamdani is not a warning shot; he is a sign of things to come. Dem voters everywhere want transformative change. They’re furious at party’s leaders and suspicious of candidates backed by an establishment that gets everything wrong," writes @alexshephard.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Different Dem candidates winning in different places should be evidence of the big tent - huzzah! Also, Mamdani winning in NYC despite the tepid support of Jeffries, lack of support from Schumer, and outright opposition from Cuomo should absolutely be seen as a marker of what's to come.

Are people still here or is this a void?

They are called writers

Timeline cleanse. Newspaper clipping, 1906.

how it feels to contribute to an edited volume

I’m pmsing on an eclipse in Pisces god help us all

For me, the main message from Brokeback Mountain is that you should only see people a few times a year.

RIP Marcel Proust, you would’ve loved Lana Del Rey.

With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.

By the time you’re 32 you should have lived in at least one haunted apartment

Oh youre jacking off to the sabrina carpenter sexy dog pic? Boring. Ill instead be jacking off to the album covers of Schubert , and Strauss

Facebook decided to suspend my account because of a piece (below) I wrote Monday about violence which in no way advocates for it (but does point out who is violent in the current ruckus).

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Today a politician congratulated me on my resume.

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

Today is my birthday

My Grand Derangement: An Epistemological Transfiguration Following a Period of Divine Isolation & a Great Fuck in April A story about grieving the past, bizarre impulses that emerge from solitude, the resilience of passion & desire, & trusting what life has to teach you substack.com/@juliemannel...

My Grand Derangement: An Epistemological Transfiguration Following a Period of Divine Isolation & a Great Fuck in April A story about grieving the past, bizarre impulses that emerge from solitude, the resilience of passion & desire, & trusting what life has to teach you substack.com/@juliemannel...

I'M GONNA KEEP ON DANCIN AT THE

Yesterday I wrote an amazing poem.

This election has taught me that I was correct to flee southern Ontario.

if a guy says theyre CIA and they want you to DM every girl you ever jacked off to and apologize, Its a scam. Just ruined my life. Thank you

If you love something, set if free. If it comes back that means no one else wanted it. Set it free again.

I’m sick of millennials complaining about losing JK Rowling when anyone can see that the real tragedy was losing M.I.A.

I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird

It’s the last week of the semester. I have five parking tickets that amount to $100 less than the cost of a parking pass. This is how you succeed in both school & life!

So tired.

If someone is wearing a bow tie then i automatically don’t trust them.

I hate slam poetry the way most people hate all poetry.

they really need to invent a second type of money these guys can play around with separate from the money I need to buy food. Business Money. Money 2

I was the Tonya Harding of the McGill English Graduate Conference.

these are the dullest people alive

Jason Brown skates like a dancer in a jewelry box. #mensfreeskate #worldchampionship #jasonbrown

Watching Siao Him Fa competing in the men’s freestyle at the world figure skating championships and his style feels deeply Alexei Yagudin. I mean that as the highest compliment. #worldfigureskatingchampionship #siaohimfa #figureskating

At 11:30 am this Saturday, March 29, I will perform 2 suites from my epic long poem “A Body of Rushing Water” at McGill University’s Thompson House in Montreal. The poem borrows its structure from T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and the Niagara Falls is the You. Lisa Robertson mentored the writing.

I wrote about the group chat. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...