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Good morning to poets starting over again

"The Earl of Cattenborough will be Pleased to Partake of a Potato." Europa's Fairy Book. Joseph Jacobs, New York, 1916.

You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:

“Plunge. Me. Daddy. I’ve never. Met an iceberg. I didn’t want / to swallow / whole, never / met a half- / woman I didn’t / want to cultivate / a garden with. You know the metaphor, right?” —Zoë Fay-Stindt beestungmag.com/issue15/thre...

"Eventually, I hope she gives up on wanting to rip herself, on seeing the shredder as a secret kind of weapon." 3 stories by Kara Crawford (@kara-c.bsky.social): "Corporate Life," "Co-Work," & "Slumber Party!" / New today at AC

"William Faulkner says kill your darlings. I say drag your dead darlings around with you everywhere you go and try to prop them up in everything you write and see how they do as ghosts." - Sabrina Orah Mark

AI in academia conversation is completely warped by how only professors platformed to write about it are tenured at elite schools. What works in a 12-person Princeton classroom has basically no relationship to your average college's 40 person online class taught by an underpaid adjunct...

happy mother's day to these icons

Cat Ingrid Leeches @leeches.bsky.social / @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social

is karl ove knausgaard the most normal norwegian because if so then boy howdy are yall in trouble

MN state is being denied access to evidence It is not metaphorical or hyperbolic to say that this country is now run by, and functions wholly to foster, fascism If they continue to be allowed to act w this level of corruption & impunity— which has been the case for awhile now— many more will die

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Fuck ICE. Fuck Nazis. Fuck fascism, capitalism, and white supremacy.

we are open 💅

We’ve been playing hide and seek for quite some time, and I think I’ve been defeated by a master.

I read a lot of short story collections but I can’t think of any that are fucked up enough for this syllabus, but maybe a practitioner can @hughsheehy.bsky.social @maeganpoland.bsky.social @leeches.bsky.social

Today is my birthday, and this year I published a book with @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social. I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today. My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.

Today is my birthday, and this year I published a book with @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social. I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today. My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.

Prefacing that I liked Bugonia but this is wayyyy more interesting

i mean i wouldn't be mad... cough, i just so happen to edit @beestung.bsky.social / @alocasiamag.bsky.social / @anmlymag.bsky.social 💜💜💜

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

there’s a new charmin commercial where the teenage daughter of the shitting bear family is an influencer reviewing charmin for her channel or whatever. i don’t approve of this. why can’t the shitting bear child be a surgeon. or a celebrated academic

brb going on book tour with my emotional support imodium

PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY

Found this in a notebook today & couldn’t remember what prompted me to write it, or even what meeting I was in when I wrote it.

I had a nightmare that was a mash up between The Summer I Turned Pretty and Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild. 😬

This boy cravin’ salad

Recently, I was a guest on Betwixt the Sheets to discuss 19th c Kansas sex work. Have a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

A friendly reminder that if you go to a church where the pastor supports the regime that zip tied children in Chicago, you don’t have to go to that church anymore. Remember, at a certain point, complacency becomes complicity.

i think there should be a program that pairs the emotionally needy with recovering alcoholics who haven’t made new friends sober yet. sort of a big brother/sister program for impossibly dysregulated people

Things that have the same energy: 1. When updating your voter registration, they'll ask you to select from a drop-down menu of street types (e.g., "Lane," "circle," "Meadow," "Drive"...)—It's a surprisingly long list. 2. The Wikipedia chart detailing every one of Guinevere’s abductions.

Almost stepped on this baby today 🐍

If anyone (@thebaffler.com @nplusonemag.com @publicbooks.bsky.social) might be interested in an article offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.

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

this is nightmarish and should alarm you no matter what your opinions on pornography are

I love the smell of office supplies that have never seen the sunlight.

excited to announce the fourth issue of New Session, the world's premiere telnet-based literary magazine "Upheaval" submissions are open today, and close November 7th, for a December release read the guidelines and theme here: anewsession.com/issue4

Our Kathryn Davis Symposium with @kellylink.bsky.social is a couple of weeks away! Our Symposium series (this is the 2nd one) celebrates an under-read living writer. We're hoping this becomes a pretty special annual event that introduces readers to great writers portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

The Town-Ho is hunting sperm whales 🤨 ok

Timely, no? “Louis XVI Goes To The Guillotine” by Benjamin Péret and translated by Charles Simic.

this is so upsettingly real

Disintegration in the wild, shout-out @leeches.bsky.social grab a copy here (or DM us directly) -- asterismbooks.com/product/disi...

Me getting home from work this afternoon having been off socials all day

Book Mail from @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social of @leeches.bsky.social's newest book!!! www.carrionbloom.com/books/p/leec...

Get your copy!! Seriously!!

please believe me when i say you REALLY want to get this book !!

Some folks have started receiving their preorders of I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen, and I’ve loved seeing your photos and messages. Thank you for sharing them with me! If you haven’t picked up a copy yet and would like to, it’s still available through @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social.

Cis people broadly dramatically underestimate how difficult / impossible it is to escape your deadname / deadgender. I changed my name and gender legally in Pennsylvania in 2020. I regularly receive scam offers to my California address now addressed to my deadname. Surveillance culture is hell.