Appreciate that SUPERMAN (2025) is the first superhero movie to express the high cost of property damage. CGI, making mass destruction of urban environments easy to render, is the villain in all our superhero films.

I’m Not a Supergirl, Not Yet a Superwoman

the best way for me to write a new short story out of nowhere is to tell myself it’s time to work on my novel

Time is the kidney of culture

I rarely drink alcohol anymore and almost never more than 1 drink when I do. Last night I had 4 beers over 8 hours and today I feel like I’ve been poisoned

I was just social for 8 consecutive hours Please respect my privacy at this time

Jane Austen walked so Flannery O'Connor could run

One thing top of mind for me of late is the quote from absolute icon The Vixen: “Everybody's telling me how I should react but nobody's telling her how to act."

I’m raising $ for Angels Gate Cultural Center, an org I love! It’s housed in old barracks in San Pedro, the southernmost tip of LA. They have AMAZING gallery shows and arts workshops for families and adults. If you can show support, even $5, I’d appreciate it ❤️❤️❤️ www.longbeachgives.org/story/8cwi3g

I’m raising money for Angels Gate Cultural Center, an org I love! It’s housed in old army barracks in San Pedro, the southernmost tip of LA. They have AMAZING gallery shows and arts workshops for families and adults. If you can show some support, even $5, I’d appreciate it ❤️❤️❤️

A BIG UPDATE: Contributing poets should have proof pages in their inbox to review by Sept. 28. We're planning a cover reveal on Oct. 1. And it's gorgeous!

Really respect Paul Hollywood’s transition toward white walking

The gays owning the Emmys tonight.

JEFF HILLER GOT THE EMMY This is correct ❤️

I hope this email finds you before I do

BARBIE is the story of one woman’s transition

⌂⏿⬫❍✷✆Two poems today at @villaineralit.bsky.social many thanks to @charlesjensen.bsky.social + co for giving them a good home ♡:) villaineralit.com/2025/09/12/t...

Not a ton of additions from last week but notably continuing the Helen Slater Film Retrospective

My commute was so long, if I had driven the same amount of time in the opposite direction I’d be in Palm Springs right now

The most expensive thing I own is my MFA. Fortunately it can’t be repossessed

One thing I think about a lot is how my Flemish-speaking grandmother never used the future tense, in any language, without adding “god willing” to the sentence.

Today’s headlines did not see this powerful poem coming

It must take a special kind of willful ignorance/cognitive dissonance for TERFs to look at their political allies and think "yes these fascists care about women's rights and wellbeing"

Gay announcement: I wore white jeans ALL DAY and did not get any stains on them!

I have to break my silence. The Word feature where you open an attachment but cannot save it unless you click "enable editing" is so stupid. If you try to click "Save," it will give you an error and then kick you out of the save menu and back to the main doc to click "enable editing."

Michigan is Wisconsin’s Wario

It was a lovely week

Bill saw a pic of Barry Keoghan and asked me, “Is that the guy from the show with the sperm?” And he was right

That’s what you get! wapo.st/47r1gFT

Driving home after The Beaches event last night, a car drove over the median dividing the 110 from an on-ramp and almost smashed into my car. It was so fast. I saw the car literally bounce over the curb and managed to swerve out of the way in time, but today I've got some back pain from the jolt 😩

A Stan Is Born

Takes one to know one ❤️ love these sweet ladies

i hope this email never finds you. i hope you are free

Lmaoooo “adult content” this is a woman’s nipple through a bra on an international release come on bffr ggggg

The album I’ve needed all summer is here

2 movie tickets: $42

Bill and I saw THE BIRDS (1963) at the Art Theater in Long Beach tonight. Such a fave of mine. One unforgettable set piece after another. And Suzanne Pleshette’s performance is just *chef’s kiss*. Good reason to repost this poem in honor of her character from my chap BREAKUP/BREAKDOWN

Cook chicken sausage in the air fryer

Disney’s The Little Mermaid is a cautionary tale about what happens when an autistic person puts their trust in someone every allistic person immediately clocks as toxic

Sabrina Carpenter stepped over Katy Perry’s dead body, looked at the shattered remains of Katy’s career, and told her realtor, “I’ll take it.”

Drag name: America Wurst

The first of my "_______ in Therapy" poems, where the blank is someone who ran afoul of the Greek gods, has been taken for publication! Thanks to the Atlanta Review for giving "Prometheus in Therapy" a good home. :)

Fun week!!

Getting hugged by Kylie Minogue in the loading dock of the Voltaire

The title is the first line of your poem. I will not explain further. Have some kind of day.

you’re telling me there’s crackers in this barrel?

Getting to teach poetry craft to people is one of the most precious gifts I have in this life

I love eating cacio e pepe. Like mac and cheese but I’m snooty about it

Sometimes it shocks me that with as little I post to social media, someone here has the time and care to subtweet me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯