I don’t believe in New Year Resolutions but tonight I went to a roller rink and watched my kid figure out how to skate the hard way, then came home and started picking up some toys the twins left out including this little ball with a message written on it. Happy new year everybody.

I haven't published many poems this year (kids, work, kids again), so seeing this poem "White Hot Star" featured on @slowdownshow.org today is a special honor to close this year out. Thanks to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social for selecting and to the Cincinnati Review for 1st publishing. link in coms.

I got this newest one by Jack Bedell, FIGHT NIGHTS, about boxing and fathers and sons and more. Man I love this book.

I always say that only cops and crooks call me by my first name and I got this letter today, a scam that targets people with Asian last names offering to split a nonexistent inheritance. Sharing it so my friends with vulnerable relatives can be on alert. Too bad because I really could use the money.

📢 ANNOUNCEMENT TIME: We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL. Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties. 📚 Pre-order details coming soooon Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹

One week left to submit your poetry manuscript, translators! $1500 prize, publication by University of Wisconsin Press in their prestigious Wisconsin Poetry Series. You can submit more than one year (different judge) and more than one manuscript.

Alan Moore knows the score

Meta suggests this AI version of an old photo of mine but in addition to it’s inability to render fingers, Facebook seems unable to comprehend the crucial detail.

Edward Hirsch

So y’all know about the ring doorbell and partnerships with flock and thus ICE, right? Get these devices off your homes.

Remember back in the day you wrote your own emails, took your own photos, and thought your own thoughts. The only difference nowadays is that big tech wants you to believe you never could and still can’t, so should have AI do it for you. I believe in you way more than I do big tech. You should too.

Thanks to the guy on YouTube with the advanced toilet plunger technique, because now I don’t have to buy a toilet auger and a shop vac and spend the day taking out my kids’ toilet.

It's a very important time to support queer and trans authors. I hope you will read this collection of truly stellar work by our talented contributors. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

This king. Fight fascism.

This king. No others.

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Another broadside, this one I made for GVSU Poetry Night with Tyehimba Jess this week.

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

Today in Intro to Creative Writing, we are starting to talk poetry, which means that between Richard Blanco’s “Translation for Mamá” and Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club,” I can’t promise not to weep in class.

I made this limited edition broadside of one of my favorite stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell for her reading and craft talk at GVSU today.

Send me your students’ poems! 🌸💫📖 Nomination details at link below.

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry: Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski! 🎉🎉🎉 @zefrrr.bsky.social @noemipress.bsky.social #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

the secret is that your poems get better because you had/have to keep working and success is a spirit & craft blunter (you don’t want folks lining up to to publish everything you write 💙)

What a blast, getting to visit BGSU to see my old friend and poetry co-conspirator Amorak Huey and his amazing students (championship edition) to talk about poetry. Now driving back to Michigan where I am going to hug my kids until they tell me to stop.

News outlets should be saying in every story about the coming shutdown that Republicans control both Houses of Congress. Senate Republicans can end the filibuster & pass the bill if they want to. What Republicans want is for Democrats to share the blame when the cuts in this bill kill people.

Did you know we accept simultaneous submissions? Yes, we do! But ✨ please✨ withdraw your piece immediately if it’s accepted elsewhere. It makes our process easier!

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Are you thinking about treating yourself to a book today? Here is my weekly reminder that Unrivered is now in pre-orders at @sundresspub.bsky.social - on sale for the price of a couple of fancy coffees - AND if you order soon, this little broadside swag included. tinyurl.com/4pj96v59

Teachers, parents, and people who know high school aged creative writers, The Weight Journal is open for submissions! www.theweightjournal.com

Subbing my 2nd MS to University and Indie presses...what are your suggestions...preferably not prizes

"...and why am I not doing the things I need to make me happy, and better yet, now that I think of it, why am I not just a dog?" Big love for this piece of writing by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙💙💙

“the kind of beauty you have to pretend not to see” Seth Landman in Diagram

Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!

25th U.S. Poet Laureate, first Asian American to hold this honor. A big hell yeah for Arthur Sze today! www.npr.org/2025/09/15/n...

It's so hard to concentrate on the good in these overwhelmingly bleak times, but this new Split Lip Issue is truly one of our best ever. It arrives this Monday morning like a balm. Thank you for reading, supporting, and sharing this incredible work ❤️

“He let me drive the winding canyon to Malibu. I let him unwind. I loved being alive the winter I lay so close to loving I thought I’d die.” —Jessica Abughattas, “Love Lyric” @uarkpress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-sele...

Caring for each other is a form of radical survival that we don't always take into account. ~ Ada Limón

We're between innings, so here, have the first page of my book.

The Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition is now open for unpublished chapbooks of poems or prose, 16-36 pages long! Open to writers at all stages—the winner receives publication, $500, and ten book copies. For submission details and past winners, visit our site: buff.ly/SwRgCtH

DC friends: Last chance to register! Come hang with me and Amber Sparks tomorrow night! www.oldtownbooks.com/events/30770...

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying. #poetry #bestamericanpoetry

For the longest time being selected for Best American Poetry has been a great honor for so many poets but I think it’s time we acknowledge that not being selected for Best American Poetry is probably just as big an honor. Free Palestine.

David Lehman is staunch & vocal, anti-Palestine Zionist and I won’t be touching his projects or supporting his new book and yes you should definitely search Best American Poetry blog post controversy and read about it yourself. I’ve posted one of his blog posts, now deleted, below.

Kaepernick by Sasha Debevec-McKenney

I love these two very different approaches to writing a poem about a public figure, one by Rita Dove about Billie Holiday and the other by Sasha Debevec-McKenney more glancingly about Colin Kaepernick. Is the public figure poem a subgenre? If so or if not so, I’m on the lookout for more examples.

Currently listening to my twin sons try to tell their grandpa how much they love him by affirming to him how much they hate their father (that’s me) in comparison. 🙄

It’s crazy that there are three worse people than Hulk Hogan who were involved with WrestleMania 4 & 5 who are still alive.