May Day poetry reading TONIGHT!! If you have more energy after the demonstrations today, please come out to The Square Root in Rozzie for a May Day poetry reading I'm part of, along with @jennmartelli.bsky.social 8pm. No cover charge.

May Day poetry reading TONIGHT!! If you have more energy after the demonstrations today, please come out to The Square Root in Rozzie for a May Day poetry reading I'm part of, along with @jennmartelli.bsky.social 8pm. No cover charge.

Policymakers learned nothing from the war in Vietnam, but I learned how much I hated war, growing up in the wake of it

Honestly can’t wait two days @jennmartelli.bsky.social

Beltane May Day A poem about a farm fundraiser and marriage and springtime A poem about a couple who just lost their insurance A poem about sitting shivah for capitalism Come join me for this

May Day* set list Poems from my book: I buried the workweek Placenta Long suffering Other poems: The gates open—unpub’d poem Retirement—poem pub’d in Matter The desert god demands a tithe —new poem I would not laugh at a man in uniform —new poem * May 1, 8pm, The Square Root, Roslindale MA

Cicadas are coming to the northeast this summer, and I’m working on a poem about time. I’m hoping friends will send me storing their cicada encounters, to put into the poem, which will be in “we” voice like the swarm.

May I read some labor related poems to you on May Day?

Reupping this, because SHRIMP LIFE, I guess.

Got plans for May Day yet? Come to Square Root for some poetry

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500+ Jews show up to stand with our immigrant neighbors in Boston and beyond against illegal deportations this Pesach @truahrabbis.bsky.social @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social #SederintheStreets #freeMahmoud #freeRumeysah #freeMohsen

BOSTON MA: On this 6th night of Passover, over 300 Jews have gathered to demand the release of Rümeysa Öztürk and the passage of the Dignity Not Deportations Act. As authoritarianism encroaches on our city & across the US, we fight for freedom — not only for ourselves, but for all who are oppressed.

Seder in the streets! @ifnotnowmovement.org @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social

6 pm! Today! Boston! @ifnotnowmovement.org

99% of activism doesn't need to be posted on social media. Expecting people to post everything they do as some kind of litmus test isn't just wrong, it's dangerous. People are more than what they post, and you should be, too.

6 pm! Today! Boston! @ifnotnowmovement.org

Don’t bother asking if you are doing enough, for enough is a destination that you can never reach, no, don’t bother asking if you are doing enough, ask instead if the something the something you are doing is at least a step towards that destination.

Such a beautiful poem!!

I don’t need to go into space, it’s none of my business. I’m a big Earth guy, I can’t get enough of her work. Daffodils! Are you kidding me? Bison! Miraculous. Sending a slinky down the stairs? Incredible. Mariachi music? Yes, please.

Chapattis for breakfast on Passover is the best. Takes about 15 minutes start to finish. Then you melt some butter, fry an egg, top it with some feta, and grind a little black pepper

BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.

Heavenly (pesedik) chocolate cake — as promised! @smittenkitchen.bsky.social

Blushing & sharing:

Years ago I stopped following all the loophole rules of Pesach. For me the only rule is No Bread.

Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks anything the less of me

Finished this book in one sitting while my son is at bball practice — a masterpiece. Met this author at AWP! He said some smart things at the panel I liked the most: the new American labor poetry.

“they are getting rich directly off the market chaos that’s ruining your retirement and gutting your investments” is the kind of shit that makes people very angry

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

in the latter days of a corrupt world cherry blossoms Issa

“Here are my favorite waters of the moon: Sea of Crises, Sea of Knowledge, Seething Bay, Bay of the Center, Lake of Time, Lake of Fear.”

Reading this book (“Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza— a reckoning,” by Peter Beinart) is like reading my own brain set down in type, but more organized and articulate. Hope you have this in your to-read list, Jewish friends.

How to read a poem properly

Boston area folks: come to our @yetzirahpoets.bsky.social salon featuring Jo Radner and Steve Rapp on April 27! Rsvp for address at: tinyurl.com/bostonyetzir...

Boston area folks: come to our @yetzirahpoets.bsky.social salon featuring Jo Radner and Steve Rapp on April 27! Rsvp for address at: tinyurl.com/bostonyetzir...

Suggestions for interim actions: ✅Make/distribute flyers + stickers to spread info offline ✅Volunteer time or money for mutual aid--food banks, libraries, legal aid, whatever! ✅Check in on ppl, esp. elderly, disabled, immigrants, trans folks + new parents ✅Start a garden ✅Call your reps ✅Make art!

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

#HandsOff Waltham, MA

Small sample from Hands Off in Waltham, MA

Boston turned out this morning despite the rain ❤️💪 #HandsOff

REMINDER: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration. So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY. Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.

Just went to this panel at AWP and got to howl like wolves with a bunch of poets, in an extended metaphor about the joy and usefulness of preaching to the choir

This is what I picture when you talk about how useful AI is

Reading this…good antidote to the news app.thestorygraph.com/books/368af0...

To Phrase a Prayer for Peace launches online on Sunday March 23, 4:00 pm PT with the amazing poets @jaredharel.bsky.social Julia Kolchinsky and Yehoshua Josh November. Thank you @wildhousepubs.bsky.social and Mark S. Burrows! Register here usc.zoom.us/meeting/regi... I would love to see you there!

Glad you’re my rep!

Glad Elizabeth Warren is my senator

Didn’t need this to convince me but glad someone else thinks like this!

Don't buy a gun, even if it comes in rainbow: defector.com/dont-buy-a-g...