HAPPY, MERRY from Maria and Andy! En route to London!

AHAHAHA - the dildo of consequences. 🤣 🍆🍌

Ellen Bass:

Join the Larksong Writers’ Place for a Speed Writing & Reading Holiday Party today, Saturday, December 13, 2025, from Noon to 2:00 pm CST on Zoom. Enjoy poetry, fiction, memoir, and songwriting sessions. Get tickets at larksongwritersplace.org/Events/Onlin....

Join us over your lunch hour! Sign up here: modernpoetryintranslation.com/launching-mp... #poetry

I had a joke about Daedalus but I lost it in the labyrinth.

My latest translations of Greek poet Dimitra Kotoula will be featured in @mptmagazine.bsky.social. Join us for MPT's launch. 11th December at 12:30 pm CT; 6:30 pm UK time. Sign up here to attend: bit.ly/antidotetoag....

I'm pleased that my review of @martinespadapoet.bsky.social's "Jailbreak of Sparrows" is in @northamerreview.bsky.social's Open Space. Espada's poetry has long championed the voiceless. My piece also highlights a lesser-known aspect of his work. Read more: bit.ly/jailbreakofs.... #poetry

I'm thrilled to join Dimitra Kotoula for Modern Poetry in Translation's issue launch, "The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus." We're with talent: Jessica Sequeteria, Brian Sneeden, & Phoebe Giannisi: 11th December, 12:30 pm CT/6:30 pm UK. Get tix: bit.ly/antidotetoag....

The appropriate response is, "YOU be quiet, rapist-pedo."

Only Cassie Mannes Murray at Pine State Publicity could have a baby, write a badass blog, & support writers like me & countless others. She likens Helene Appel's artwork of dirty, overflowing sinks to when writers hold back the BAM. Read more: pinestatepublicity.substack.com/p/texture-ov....

What unfolds when you and the Other Woman bond over a lousy ex? Here's a preview poem from my upcoming collection, PULSE (Omnidawn, 2026). Explore more at: medium.com/scribe/woman.... Intrigued? Discover your PULSE now: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... #Poetry #BookRelease

Check out this throwback review from The Times Literary Supplement praising my translations of Dimitra Kotoula's Greek poetry, "The Slow Horizon that Breathes." They commend my work for bringing important poetry to English readers. Order now from World Poetry: bit.ly/3RtEwfL #poetrycommunity

Yes it is. PROUD of my hometown.

I received my first ever Pushcart nomination, and I'm over the moon!

And the award for the most Instagrammable cover goes to...

It’s your last chance to sign up for @omnidawn.bsky.social's Breaking the Bowl. I’m pumped to talk about the sestina, including how to avoid the dreaded sestina sag. The last day to enroll is Saturday, October 25! Join Breaking the Bowl: www.omnidawn.com/breaking-the....

Costco is beloved for many reasons, not least a particularly stellar food-court deal: a hot dog and soda for $1.50. When a reporter asked the company’s former C.E.O. what it would mean if the price were raised, he replied, “That I’m dead.”

For my political views, see Chuck D. #nokings #fucktrump

I woke up today on the right side of history. #nokings #fucktrump

I'd rather my taxes go to feed hungry kids than to the salaries of greedy, never ever get full, politicians.

I woke up this morning and rubbed my eyes... Let's go for #1. No point in playing small. Pre-order your PULSE today: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... and link in bio. #poetrybook #poet

Thank you, Maria Topali, and the Greek national newspaper @kathimerini.gr, for featuring my interview with her and my translations of Dimitra Kotoula's poems, "The Slow Horizon that Breathes” from @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social. Get the collection today: worldpoetrybooks.com/books/the-sl....

It's back--announcing the return of Omnidawn's Fabulist Fiction Contest! Send us your literary tales of the weird and wonderful! Deadline: 11/16/25 Prize: $1000, publication, and 20 copies Judge: Arria Deepwater omnidawn.submittable.com/submit

Many congratulations to David Leftwich, winner of the 2025 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest, selected by Daniela Molnar! Congratulations also to the finalists Robert Black Xinyue Huang Annie Rovzar Jackson Watson JinJin Xu

“Exposure is not something that ICE wants,” a Los Angeles City Council member said. “When you are engaged in a systematic, unconstitutional activity where you’re trying to grab as many people in your net as possible, you do not want cameras.”

@cassmannes.bsky.social expertly creates your press kit! Grateful to @omnidawn.bsky.social, @joy-castro.bsky.socia, Kate Gale, @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social, & David Koehn for endorsements. Preorder: bit.ly/3IRpxei. DM for readings, reviews, classes, & book clubs!

marianazos.substack.com/p/yes-dan-os..., Dan Osborn, I Stole Your Look

Wow - @cassmannes.bsky.social expertly creates your press kit! Grateful to @omnidawn.bsky.social, @joy-castro.bsky.socia, Kate Gale, @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social, & David Koehn for endorsements. Preorder: bit.ly/3IRpxei. DM for readings, reviews, classes, & book clubs!

This. All day long.

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL. 💔 To quote the great movie, Jaws, "We're gonna need a bigger boat." 'Cause these are some deep, uncharted waters, baby. 💦🌊🦈

DUFUG. 💔😡 To quote the great movie, Jaws..."We're gonna need a bigger boat."

Got my under-eye filler dissolved. Happy to be back to my (metaphorical) old self! It's back to being me again. 🌞

Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.

I forget this every year!!!! 😭Is it too late for me to join @sealeychallenge.bsky.social??

We're extended the 2025 Omnidawn Open Poetry Contest to August 31st, 2025! Poet Jose-Luis Moctezuma is our judge this year. He's looking forward to reading your work! Prize: $3000, 20 copies, and publication Submit your best work here: omnidawn.submittable.com/submit

⚠️ Pls read this description if you're not familiar w/my work. (TW for violence). 🫀PULSE interrogates the loss of friends to cancer, hate crimes, & mass shootings, including the 2016 Pulse Nightclub. The poems examine the life force of a fragmented world.🫀 📊 Vote: forms.gle/unBqD52vZsq9....

✨ Help shape the cover of my new poetry collection, PULSE! ✨ It’s coming Spring 2026 with @omnidawn.bsky.social, and I’m sharing very rough cover ideations + inspo images to see what resonates. 📊 It’s quick — just 2 minutes to vote! 💌 forms.gle/oUm4s7UVPaZE.... Thank you! 💖 #Poetry #BookCover

Governor Pritzker is right. No more blank checks for Netanyahu’s right-wing government and its military. No more blank checks for war crimes against Palestinians. forward.com/fast-forward...

Recently, I turned 45 years old, and I wrote up some thoughts on my feelings of wistfulness and despondency in the wake of this transition. Along with thoughts on writing through these feelings. andrea-blythe.beehiiv.com/p/on-turning...

Just had an intense moment at Staples. While printing draft covers for PULSE, I met Jade, new to Lincoln but formerly from Orlando, where six friends were lost in the PULSE Nightclub tragedy. He told me, "Be authentic." This collection has a deeper purpose. #poetry #PULSENightclub

Moonlit Oaths, shadorma August is getting busier! There's a lot going on this week (and month), so I'll do my best to write a poem or two. This week on #TankaTuesday, Robbie asked us to work with implied metaphors in our poetry. I let the words in this shadorma flow. 💜 I hope the implied metaphors…

A sestina can feel like a tedious date if mishandled. Let me guide you in loosening it up. Alter the repetition. Defy expectations. 🗓️ October 26 - November 16, 2025. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/breakingtheb.... #PoetryRedesign #CreativeWritingWorkshop

“The arts allow us to dance at the edge of uncertainty.” Barbara Groth Join our 2025 Breaking the Bowl class led by David Koehn! www.omnidawn.com/breaking-the...

It’s hard for me to convey just how much pleasure I will take in voting for @aoc.bsky.social to represent me in the Senate… if we’re still having elections, of course.

We’ve slid to a deeply dangerous place for civil liberties, Jay Caspian Kang writes. “Anyone who was hoping that the Trump Administration would loosen the strictures of ‘wokeness’ and bring us into a relatively freer speech era can officially chalk themselves up as a fool.”

Yes

Each day of Donald Trump’s second term is “its own fresh hell,” David Remnick writes, “bringing ever more outrageous news from an autocrat who revels in his contempt for the government he leads, for the foreign allies who deserve our support, and for the Constitution he is sworn to uphold.”

Honestly, if people started using cash again on a regular basis, it would put a major hurt on credit companies, considering that they make money everytime somebody swipes their card.