Tell me you have no interest in unsolicited poetry submissions without telling me you have no interest in unsolicited poetry submissions. October 24, 2023 - May 14, 2026 = 933 days = 2 years, 6 months and 20 days @newyorker.com #poetry #submission #pobiz

I got to be at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social in Chicago yesterday for a screening of @stealthisstory.bsky.social and met Amy Goodman and the filmmakers - Carl Deal and Tia Lessin. GO SEE "Steal This Story, Please" if you get the chance and - if you can afford to - support Democracy Now!

No excuse for this, Sam Ezersky, especially given the rampant Islamophobia in the US. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/m... #nytspellingbee #spellingbee #bias

The NL Central is smoking. .529 lands you in last place! #mlb #competivie #baseball #gocubs

www.npr.org/2026/04/27/n... Seriously @npr.org why on earth do you have your reporters attending a "festive" occasion between this grotesque POTUS and the press who he has called "scum" "enemies of the people" etc? Maybe your pool reporter who covers the prez - ok - but why others like Martin there?

Who wore it better? www.cnbc.com/2026/04/19/a...

Listening to @npr.org headlines on the weekends, I may not find out what's happening with the genocide in Gaza or ethnic cleansing in The West Bank, but I'll definitely hear what movies are leading in ticket sales at the box office.

This transplant cardiologist really should be wearing gloves and a surgical mask for Christ's sake!

Apologies to Caravaggio. www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-arti...

Now I'm ready for the domino theory! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Who's blocking the straight of Hormuz now?

apnews.com/article/isra... Thinking about this re 9/11 in the US. Lebanon's population is about 5.8 million vs. US 281 million (in 2001), so US 48X bigger. Given that, Israels' slaughter of 300+ people in Lebanon in one day, is (proportionally) like 300 x 48 = 14,400. That's literally terrorism.

Imagine if instead of JD, the Iranians had insisted on John Kerry being the only one they'd negotiate with.

If you want to catch an interview with me about poetry, the writing life and other little joys you can find the link here (April 8, 2026). new.weft.org/publicaffair...

I appreciate @newversenews.bsky.social for publishing "Bridges" this morning. So much is at risk from the rotten souls running our country. Sigh.

"The world survives into another day" youtu.be/JY__agG_eXc?...

Onion-worthy: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

the blurbs are in @haymarketbooks.org

Bullet dodged! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Of course I went to the Champaign-Urbana (IL) "No Kings" day rally and march yesterday. A curse on war mongers, war criminals, genocidal states and their enablers, and the filthy rich who prey on all of us.

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars reut.rs/4rZIThC

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... Come on @theguardian.com ! So you reduce the Houthis intervention to stop the GENOCIDE in Gaza to "support of Hamas." That's pure pro-Israel/US propaganda and you should do better. jewishcurrents.org/houthis-yeme...

I appreciate Sweet Lit posting this "Connections" feature today. sweetlit.org/sweet-connec...

Bonesaw pressures Bonespurs www.commondreams.org/news/mbs-tru...

"Falling from the Sky," a poem of mine today at Dissident Voice reflecting on recent weather here in Illinois and in Tehran, Iran. dissidentvoice.org/2026/03/fall...

Dear Guardian, just helping out. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... #war_of_aggression #war_criminal #Iran #Trump-Epstein_Files #POTUS

Really pleased (and grateful) to have this flying, ice, Greenland, worry, moon poem up today on the Open Spaces feature at @northamerreview.bsky.social northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

I'm attending MoveOn's event, “[LIVESTREAM] People's State of the Union” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

This poem of mine was published today at The New Verse News: newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/02/x-ra... It is informed by this article - www.theguardian.com/global-devel... - and to be clear, I DO NOT support the US taking ANY military action against the country where this occurred.

@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social He does like a wedge salad. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... ----- cysalad.com/article/what...

BREAKING: government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under terrorism law ruled UNLAWFUL This matters for everyone. For years, the right to protest has been under sustained and deliberate attack. Thousands of people have been arrested for something that should have never been a crime.

I'm so grateful to Escape Into Life for posting the first review of my second book of poems, Little Joy. www.escapeintolife.com/poetry/littl...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

www.npr.org/2026/02/01/n... What @npr.org is the point of running a piece like this where you allow an official to brazenly lie with NO pushback from the interviewer? Plechash states, "the hard work of the administration to remove the worst of the worst criminals from our communities."

This is where people snatched up in Trump's occupation of Minneapolis and Saint Paul are being sent. After the first death at the notorious "tent city" at Fort Bliss, advocates warned ICE that detainees reported extreme physical and sexual abuse at the facility. Within weeks, two men were dead.

On the morning of January 28th, forty years ago, I was a bike messenger in Chicago. That's when I first heard about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. This poem of mine first appeared in Poetry East in 1991, and then later in Bulletproof, my first book.

True heroism and bearing witness: the woman who documented the killing of Alex Pretti www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Worked on this small poem this week thinking of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos abducted by DHS and ICE thugs. I'd hardly finished it when these ghouls went and murdered 37-year-old nurse, Alex Pretti, for filming their crimes. abcnews.go.com/US/5-year-as...

For the nurses. Thank you to the sleepless guardians who keep watch on my son in the night. These past few months living with my son’s cancer have had a profound impact on me. Now, whether at the hospital or at home, at night, I think of them.

Our new media alert is now available. ‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ medialens.substack.com/p/the-weak-m...

History remembers.

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

"I want it all protected— the moist, the wet, the soaked and saturated..." From a poem of mine just published in Flyway. Below, I'll link to the news story it was reacting to. flywayjournal.org/poetry/matth...

Just a poem I wrote this week, in memory of Renee Nicole Good.

For God's sake... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed

I think he meant to say "ruin" Venezuela, not run it, because he certainly is an expert at that.