this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

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Hanif Abdurraqib 💙 from A FORTUNE FOR YOUR DISASTER (Tin House) Day 24 - #SealeyChallenge @tinhouse.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

💃MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! 💃 Send us your weirdest, coolest work! Submissions close September 9

I’m so excited to announce that after years of planning, The Tightwires Anthology is officially open for submissions! I’m especially thankful for our two incredible judges— Hanif Abdurraqib will judge poetry, and Hannah Whitten will judge fiction! hibatahir.com/the-tightwir...

This week on Tightwires, I spoke to Mariah Rigg @riggstah.bsky.social, author of EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD-- out today from @eccobooks.bsky.social! Kate Davis, former fiction editor of The Arkansas International and my best friend, co-hosted! youtu.be/7cHaB5_TA6s

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

We started a new literary magazine with @colnol.bsky.social and @hhtahir.bsky.social! Send us your work!

One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not. —Fanny Howe, RIP

Hiba Tahir in conversation with Mandy Shunnarah www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvRi...

Mere hours before announced he'd ordered strikes on Iran, Trump was loudly complaining that he'll never get a Nobel Peace Prize.

Just. Wow. "In Kocher’s analysis, since January, detentions of immigrants with no convictions or charges have had a relative growth 3 times greater than those of convicted criminals—the 1/ www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

Final Curve by Langston Hughes #poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down? —Anne Carson, from "The Glass Essay"

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

Rosa Castellano was such a delight! The latest on Season 10 of Tightwires. ALL IS THE TELLING is already out from @diodeeditions.bsky.social! youtu.be/f2YKtxoEZkM

Not to put too fine of a point on this, but if I spent the last few months putting innocent people in concentration camps and the pope died basically three seconds after I met him, I would not continue life apace, I would not immediately clock back in at the fascism factory.

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

And this is why we instantly block every single number that ever texts us for money.

If he goes just a few hours, Sen. Booker will break segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond's record for the longest Senate floor speech in history—Thurmond's filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act (24 hours, 18 minutes).

"I couldn't help but wonder . . . where *is* Yemen? And how did I get in this crazy group chat about the place? At first, everyone was high-fiving each other. And just like that, everyone was talking about dropping bombs. Funny, how chats, like friendships, can turn like that."

we fucked up a perfectly good planet is what we did. look at it. it's got billionaires

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Ecstatic to have another Tightwires interview featured by Poets & Writers! And ecstatic to discover this on the release day for WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES, a searing and marvelous debut collection. ♥️

This took FOREVER to make, and I felt so bad asking this question all season. But everyone delivered! So grateful to live and write in a world where these poets and their words exist. youtu.be/6i6Vp6_TS1Y

“Eros and Sorrow” from We Contain Landscapes online (amidst brilliant work you can read free) at Poetry Northwest. thank you to the editors. WCL is out with @tinhouse.bsky.social in 3 days! www.poetrynw.org/poetry/eros-...

She's alive! Grab your copy wherever books are sold 👻

had an amazing time chatting with Hiba!! <3

My FINAL Season 9 guest is the Toronto-based poet & financial analyst @farahghafoor.bsky.social Farah Ghafoor, author of the utterly devastating SHADOW PRICE! Out on April 1, 2025 from @houseofanansi.bsky.social House of Anansi Press and available for preorder now. www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid...

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

Okay, fine. I have flights and lodging for AWP now. Hope I run into a few of you!

so thrilled to have received advance praise from Dr Craig Santos Perez! 💡 Shadow Price is forthcoming from @houseofanansi.bsky.social ✨

This week on Tightwires: Haitian poet & photographer @nadiaalexis.bsky.social talks about Mississippi, poetry, and photography ahead of the release of her debut (hybrid!) collection BEYOND THE WATERSHED-- out next month from @cavankerrypress.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid...

Had a blast chatting with the incredible @hhtahir.bsky.social . Hear me be a nerd about poems and horror!

So I read this, and as someone who's spent their entire career in the trenches of "how do we keep the tension between Good Guys and Bad Guys interesting," I have Some Thoughts www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

I had a great time catching up with @cdeskilson.bsky.social, dear old friend & former Arkansas MFA colleague, this week on Tightwires! Ahead of the release of their debut poetry collection SCREAM/QUEEN, out next month from @acrebooks.bsky.social & available for pre-order now! youtu.be/0S0QmkfBosE

Zines are here! snag yours before 3/1 -- forms.gle/oNwdK8SrR1aZ...

Still much to celebrate, yes— Enjoyed talking about poetry’s boundless potentials and heartbreaking limitations with @patrycjasara.bsky.social, author of the gorgeously searing WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES, this week on Tightwires! @tinhouse.bsky.social youtu.be/A_Pu2SXvjL8

gritty has seized control of the federal government

My first guest this year, poet & scholar Rawand Mustafa! I (meanly, maybe) asked her what poetry can offer us in 2025. Her answer, and my co-host’s, made me choke up. youtu.be/WO7B0QuW-0w

Poets in the south: simply send ten pages of poems and a bio. The fellowship comes with a large cash prize ($5000 to a poet from each state and a boggling $25k for the winner of the Southern Prize) + publication in an anthology from @hubcitypress.bsky.social Please spread the word before Feb 12!

Yesterday, I turned 29. Today, I struggled to find the volume on the projector while teaching my World Literature class. Is this how it begins

well at least theres still things to laugh about

A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.

look I’m no messaging expert but it seems like the American people might be interested to know that Donald Trump just gave our social security numbers to a teen called BigBalls