“If there are two and if they’re unaware that I am there, they meet each other in the passage, pause as if exchanging news, then go their own ways home.” —excerpt from “Kronos” by Joshua Mehigan @joshuamehigan.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025 literary competitions! Randall Mann has awarded the top Neruda Poetry Prize to Michael Lavers, and Nancy Jooyoun Kim has awarded the top Porter Fiction Prize to Talia Neffson. 1/5

What a lineup! We are very proud.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

James Comey, planning a crime: before I do it, I'm going to give a hint about it with these shells

My son is in the military and I sent him this telling him to check on his Navy buddies cuz something is off with them...He sent this back and said it doesn't take too much digging to link it to Trump.

Thanks to @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social & @jamiepcameron.bsky.social for running a poem of mine in their Apr./May issue. I get to appear there with @amitmajmudar.bsky.social & @ianduhig.bsky.social , poets whose new poems I wait for, & teach. I'm tickled to death about it. thelondonmagazine.org

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There are 900 US protests on Sa 4/19. If you loathe the current administration, you'll want to find one & go register your opinion loudly. If you are happy right now, I have no idea what to say to you, except I hope you soon see the president for the circus grifter he is. tinyurl.com/y2wvv48y

I am honored and so happy to report that my second poetry collection, Might Could, has won the 20th Anthony Hecht Prize. Huge thanks to judge Shane McCrae and to the Waywiser Press. You can see some poems from me and from the other finalists at the link—I love this tradition of Waywiser's. ❤

HAPPY NATIONAL POTTERY MONTH!

Poetry by @ianduhig.bsky.social, Alex Wong, C. P. Nield, Dane Holt, Larry Narron, Malene Engelund, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, Heidi Williamson and Gaspara Stampa (trans. Harry Cochrane). Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/sing...

Register by March 30th to explore the sonnet with @joshuamehigan.bsky.social or eco-somatic poetry with alma valdez-garcia! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Don’t miss your chance to explore the intersections of poetry and hip-hop, nature, the sonnet, generative prompts & more this spring in these upcoming workshops with Karl Michael Iglesias, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social, alma valdez-garcia & @storiesandnoise.bsky.social! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Get ready for National Poetry Month in workshops with dawn lonsinger, alma valdez-garcia, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social, @storiesandnoise.bsky.social, @geg2us.bsky.social & others exploring hip hop, love, lust, nature, the sonnet, the brain, eco-somatics & more! mailchi.mp/brooklynpoet...

Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type. snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...

The bad news is that Chuck Schumer is not up for re-election until 2028. The good news is that he can resign right now—in fact, he should do that twice.

Sanders Warns Musk's Call for $700 Billion in Cuts Is a 'Prelude' to Social Security Privatization www.commondreams.org/news/musk-so...

Is it a peace process? (short video) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy. Let that sink in.

In this six-week, online workshop with @joshuamehigan.bsky.social we'll endeavor to move beyond the idea of the sonnet as poetic formula and toward a deeper grasp of it as a surprisingly versatile means to a huge variety of expressive ends. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...

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In this week’s dispatch ft. alma valdez-garcia, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social & @geg2us.bsky.social, you can explore persona, love, lust, nature, the sonnet, the brain, eco-somatics & more! It’s also your last chance for workshops with @lhiton.bsky.social & dawn lonsinger. mailchi.mp/brooklynpoet...

Walter de la Mare: Napoleon 'What is the world, O soldiers? It is I: I, this incessant snow, This northern sky; Soldiers, this solitude Through which we go Is I.'

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The State Department was set to buy $400 million worth of armored Teslas from Elon Musk. But after a report from Drop Site News exposed the massive conflict of interest, the department quietly deleted the word “Tesla” and changed the $400 million line item to a generic “armored electric vehicles.”

Another revised poem, since we're back to where we were.

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

We need a massive strike and widespread non-compliance like never before. And quickly.

Please post this on here @translatingpal.bsky.social x.com/translatingp...

Alley Wall, Coney Island Ave., Midwood, Brooklyn

New poem out today in the December issue of The New Republic. Tremendous thanks to Rowan Ricardo Phillips for taking it.