It has been hard to breathe under the weight of despair about the genocide in Gaza and my complicity as a citizen and taxpayer in the USA. I gave, and hope others will, also.

You can also find my conversation with Joyelle and Notley’s Descent of Alette on Spotify—do listen, and share! open.spotify.com/episode/01Dj...

columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp

It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.

Finland and Denmark have issued official warnings to their trans citizens from traveling to the US. This follows Germany issuing a similar warning. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

“As we look to the courts to protect us from the Trump administration’s abuses, many have overlooked or forgotten how SCOTUS got us here in the first place.” @mollycoleman.bsky.social on how we got to this moment @commondreams.org.web.brid.gy

The EEOC has launched investigations into 20 Big Law firms for the bs reason of supposedly having DEI. This is clear retaliation for these firms bringing lawsuits against the Trump administration's unconstitutional actions. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USE...

Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I love this quiet little poem so much:

My new book THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS comes out October 7 and is available for pre-order! If you order from @prairielights.com I'll sign your copy! www.prairielightsbooks.com/book/9781644... @graywolfpress.bsky.social

new poems in @diodeeditions.bsky.social today, including a new sonnet crown written during residency @justbuffalolit.bsky.social 🤍🌕 diodepoetry.com/cao_diana-2/

yes! I ran the reporting & production team for this project: nativenewsonline.net/currents/sea... Always seemed to me to go hand in hand with their work against Indigenous protest too in a very sick and twisted way. Limited characters to describe their limitless evil 🙃

"every day i prove my humanity to robots" Refractory Period & the algorithm moves toward an average by Diana Cao. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

new poem—thank you @yalereview.bsky.social

Hey! If you have access to a printer, a thing you could do is print up some of these Know Your Rights flyers and cards (in languages spoken in your area) and post them around your neighborhood. miracoalition.org/news/know-yo...

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) a special one today, one of my favorite small poems of all time by James Schuyler:

i loved working with this team before law school—learned so much from them and from the work

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case challenging Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting for individuals with certain felony convictions, which the state enshrined in its 1890 constitution with the express purpose of denying Black men the right to vote.

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Let me get this straight. Petro calls for dignified transit. Trump threatens tariffs. Petro smacks Trump in a post threatening his own higher tariffs. And Trump agrees to what Petro asked for. And yet NYT is calling this *Petro* backing down?

Yesterday, in protest of Harvard University's response to the genocide in Gaza and deepening repression of campus activism against it, I submitted a letter of resignation from my job there. Here is that letter.

thanks to @dialogist.bsky.social for my first two poems of the year—both, sort of, about robots (dialogist.org — also worth reading all their previous weeks' poems)

If you are a visa holder/temp resident in the U.S., and your child was born here and doesn't have a passport, GET A PASSPORT FOR THEM IMMEDIATELY. Like, make the appointment this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

As we see these images of people crying at the border after the asylum system shut down, it is again worth considering how indescribably desperate a person must feel to travel with their children through the desert, across the water, or through the Darien Gap simply for the *possibility* of safety.

Harvard will now characterize criticism of Israel as antisemitism in its anti-discrimination policy. Entire disciplines could be censored for discussing or teaching about the genocide in Gaza. A dark day for academic freedom. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

some forthcoming 2025 books by women of color I’m excited about!!! in this piece out today in @electriclit.bsky.social 🖤 electricliterature.com/48-books-by-...

I’m sorry, this might be a great investigation, but “as it was never intended” is obscene. This is precisely how many people specifically and repeatedly told us — warned us — it would be used.

We're very excited to share the results of this year's chapbook contest. Please join us in congratulating the winners and finalists. Huge thanks to everyone who submitted. Stay tuned for updates about pre-orders and release dates for the three newest additions to the Sixth Finch catalog.

Can't wait to read with two poets I so admire! Join me, @dianacao.bsky.social, & Angela Siew on the 21st! www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-rea...

this is going to be fun!!!

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER! #litmags #writer #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

hello! I've compiled a list of 2024 books I'm anticipating from women of color & here it is, a bonanza of novels, essay collections, memoirs, & more electricliterature.com/75-books-by-...

Another haunting Marina Tsvetaeva poem from Dark Elderberry Branch trans Kaminsky and Valentine

my favorite poem by niina pollari

“An open letter from the Bremen DIG stated that honoring Gessen (a Jewish writer whose grandfather was murdered by the Nazis) “would contradict the necessary decisive action against the growing anti-Semitism.””

Also Anne Boyer:

Bill Corbett 🌙

This poet, this poem. ⚡💥 ✨ @estanislaopoet.bsky.social

The end of this one by Mary Ruefle made me laugh.

🙏Thank you to THE POETRY QUESTION for this terrific review of Jennifer Funk's remarkable THE FANTASY OF LOVING THE FANTASY: "a stark collection of poetry that is pervaded by a fiery dynamism giving rise to ruminations on domesticity, the self and the insatiable nature of desire." 🔥

Adrienne Rich “For the Dead”

my poem “Recurring” at Poetry Daily, poems.com! originally published in Hayden’s Ferry Review 💕💕💕