Everything about our society today wants us to be reduced down to the shallowest slivers of ourselves possible. Sand the edges off, fit into compartments, easily sorted and solved, but we need to be thorny and wild and true if we want a better, more organic world

I am once again falling into the horrible little trap of needing footnotes in footnotes.

deleuluzian

the ocean is a mystery. who knows how many clowns are down there

the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich

frogger was the truest American video game. “Can you, an adorable remnant of wildlife, survive crossing a street?” And the answer, eventually, is always no

politicians can't keep blaming video games for things. like, just because there's a video game where i get to be a wizard doesn't m— actually no, i would like to be a wizard, this was a bad example

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being a professional writer post-book-twitter

Slightly diminish a book. Some Expectations

Sappho didn’t write tiny poems with giant leaps. They were torn. Everybody, mostly men, Swinburne, for example, has been filling her holes ever since. She said…well, actually, you can say Sappho said anything. She says about two words and then everyone, the world, jumps in. Eileen Myles, Inferno

First they came for the em dashes

submitted my MS! [releases dove under ceiling fan]

Boiled down my AI policy this semester --

It's not a career. It's not a calling. It's a terminal hobby. You will die doing this. Become a writer.

“I choose not to believe. Leave him frozen in 1982 and don’t look too close/knowing he was a rockstar in 1982 and if I looked there’s bound to be plenty” Such a brilliant poem by E.B. Scnepp @beestung.bsky.social

Every day I’m met with fresh reminders that I’m distinctly unqualified to be a person.

me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog

This is so good! I it's so hard to even pick a couple lines to highlight (the entire end is just so stunning) [...] but details can always be changed to tell the story you want to tell. Like when I say what my son’s first football game was, I don’t have to mention that he never looked at the screen

The vibes are literary decay. The audience is you at 3 a.m., rereading a sentence like it wronged you.

Zbigniew Herbert, trs. the Carpenters

How to Write a Novel

Yesterday was day 1 of the Sealey Challenge and I read a wonderful book that’s been sitting on my tbr pile for far too long, Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi.

Looking for a #SealeyChallenge book to read? How about this one. It’s pretty good according to me, the person who wrote it, but also most people on Goodreads gave it a five, so it’s good according to them too. bellepointpress.com/products/bra...

Petition to always have AWP in Chicago.

no i am not “lost” i am consciously uncoupling from space and time

it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught

I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m pretty sure I’m doing it wrong.

]anxiety ]ground ] ]

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

Good morning✌️🍀

touched too much grass all itchy

once again—and I cannot say this enough—I love my fucking em dashes and will not stop using them I also like grouping things in threes. It’s a fairy tale thing FURTHERMORE, the keyboard shortcut for an em dash is super fucking easy

So excited to have work in @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social's new anthology, brain rot! fifthwheelpress.com/anths

Getting Rick Rolled at the antique store.

Reading is witchcraft. You're telling me symbols on paper MAKE you have thoughts? Not today, Satan!

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

My chapbook author copies for Blueberries Stain Like Blood (out from bottlecap press) arrived! They’re so amazing and lovely and now I need to take them places and I couldn’t be more thrilled!

My chapbook author copies for Blueberries Stain Like Blood (out from bottlecap press) arrived! They’re so amazing and lovely and now I need to take them places and I couldn’t be more thrilled!

buying 1,000 books and keeping them in random piles around the house would fix me

ICYMI: "蝴蝶梦 Butterfly Dream," poetry by Emily Anna King:

I have a new poem in Ponder Review!

100,000 percent this

Honestly if the choice was between someone using an AI summary to “read” something I wrote or them not reading it, I would rather they just didn’t read it

Thanks for the shout out @thecorlew.bsky.social! It’s a real honor to be included in this Friday’s Lazy and Entitled links!

I completely missed this dropped! I have a new poem in beestung y'all!

refuse discourse in lieu of embracement Diane di Prima

this is so good, congrats on putting together this series, @timhutchings.bsky.social !!!!