Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Twin Cities friends, do join us to celebrate this beautiful new limited edition chapbook series from Brighthorse Editions.

A few new poems from yours truly up at Nine Mile Press. www.ninemile.org/spring-2025-...

Saturday, June 7th 4:00 PM at Open Book in Minneapolis. Free. A bevy of brilliant readers. ASL interpreted. Join us! @krisbigalk.bsky.social @heideerdrich.bsky.social @hawona.bsky.social @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social @raymondluczak.com @josinamm.bsky.social @slipfast.bsky.social @sagirahs.bsky.social

We've lost another gorgeous one, but she's left us her extraordinary poems. missourireview.com/when-i-learn...

Join us in St. Paul for a reading with co-editor Michelle Filkins and contributors Sha Cage, @slipfast.bsky.social, @maureenaitken.bsky.social, and Pat Cumbie at the East Side Freedom Library May 15th, 7pm! Register here eastsidefreedomlibrary.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/e...

The Only Possible Poems www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Thank you, Senator Cory Booker! #Resist

"We buy into some version of the intentional fallacy: the notion that art is about having a clear-cut intention and then confidently executing same. The actual process, in my experience, is much more mysterious and more of a pain in the ass to discuss truthfully." ~ George Saunders

Some Canadian poetry for today. From Margaret Atwood's book, Morning in the Burned House. #poem #books #writing

Artist Sophie Woodrow's ceramics artist who creates ceramic figures to explore allegory, sentimentally, the strange and the decorative #WomensArt

That tracks.

One goodness.

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Year of the Snake Happy #ChineseNewYear Joana Vasconcelos, Crochet snake, 2008 #womensart

Congratulations to the poetry finalists: Oliver Baez Bendorf, Anne Carson, Jennifer Chang, Dawn Lundy Martin, & Carl Phillips; & our poetry nominee for the Leonard first book award, Cindy Juyoung Ok. I'm honored to emcee the finalists reading March 19; our ceremony is 3/20. @bookcritics.bsky.social

This "thought experiment" from George Saunders has been on my mind often of late: "Is it possible that we have come to feel responsible for too much, for everything, even things outside of our control, and that this makes us feel like gods who have been unfairly disempowered?"

One way, I guess, to spirit away some great books when the Divine Republic starts torching them. www.wired.com/story/entire...

Always exciting to find a wonderful new poet I did not know! poems.com/poem/evoluti...

Some good news from a geriatric mother.

From @natalieshapero.bsky.social's book, Hard Child: bookshop.org/a/862/978155... #poem #poetry #natalieshapero #writers #books

How to move a mind – Barry Lopez on the power of metaphor over data

Thanks to Myrna Keliher and Expedition Press for sending these beautiful notecards

Blue Man Group, the wordless theatrical troupe of drum-beating, paint-splattering, bald blue performers, will end its run in New York in February, more than three decades and 17,000 performances after it began. nyti.ms/3Onr0YT

Hey poets! Check out BERNADETTE MAYER's list of poetry experiments/prompts. Blow your mind and never be stuck again: www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Maye...

I love so I solve. —A.E. Stallings (@aestallings.bsky.social) #fromthearchives

My messy corner of the day.

Most plants have minimal genomes; one tiny fern is a big exception.

There's a spectacular moon out there this evening. Go look if you can!

Okay, I'm working on a Starter Pack (and accompanying Feed) of lit mags and presses. Who's here? Who can I add? go.bsky.app/QktiLWR

Can we do a POET Roll Call to see who's all here? #poetrycommunity Drop a note, reshare, etc.--let's see who's here!

Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.