Friends and colleagues in Native and Indigenous lit, the fantastic English Dept at App State is hiring: english.appstate.edu/news/we-are-...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

AUTHORS: It’s time to submit your claims for the Anthropic copyright settlement. 1. Look yourself up here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup 2. File your claim here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com Form asks for ISBN and copyright reg # for each work. Can find in step 1.

SUPER thankful to the brilliant Brian Railsback for editing a special issue of AmLit on American Literatures, Living and Dying in the Anthropocene: Responses in Contemporary Literature from the Western Hemisphere,

Friends and neighbors, As the Crow Flies, the open-access expansion of Appalachian Journal, is now live if you wanna go take a peek: as-the-crow-flies.pubpub.org

The husband and kiddo have birthdays next week, so today we're heading to Scarowinds to celebrate. In related news, I just saw the tracking update that my CBD-infused arthritis salve is also arriving today. #perfecttiming

I had a blast talking with @thejeremybjones.bsky.social about his new book, Cipher, with @blairpub.bsky.social. A huge thanks to Jeremy and @reckonreview.bsky.social for putting this conversation out into the world!

Appalachian Journal readers, check this out!

Why, yes, I did just write an angry version of "This Is Just to Say" to the squirrels who cleared our entire peach tree before I could can a single one.

In a landmark case brought by the sinking Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, the ICJ’s 15 judges decided unanimously that governments have a legal duty to protect the climate.

App Studies friends, check out the newest map by Tribal Nations Maps/Aaron Carapella: www.tribalnationsmaps.com/store/p3946/...

Excited to attend the launch of the NC Poetry Society's 2025-26 Poetry in Plain Sight Program in Durham today! My poem "Ode to the Pill Bug" will be featured in May.

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded. CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.

Fiction-writing friends!

University presidents are staying quiet as Trump tries to destroy their institutions. It won’t work, writes @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

Thought I heard a car door slam outside. Nope, just this furry beast jumping the 14 inches from lounger to floor.

🎶 Working 8 to 6, but they call you after hours Barely gettin’ by, lots of crying in the shower You might prequalify, won’t even hurt your credit Ran out of sick days--well, I hope y'all don’t catch it 🎶

The House budget reconciliation framework that cuts $1 trillion from Medicaid has just passed. They are literally taking from the sick and poor to give the rich tax cuts.

Looking forward to leading a breakout session on providing feedback to writers at the NC College Media Association's conference in Boone today!

Y'all, I just got the printed proofs back for Appalachian Journal's first-ever full-color issue focusing on Appalachian visual art and it's GORGEOUS!

As someone who has participated in clinical trials as a patient, this move is extremely reckless and unethical.

The country may be in crisis (yet again), but the garlic I planted in November is coming up and the songbirds are returning.

I can't emphasize enough how disastrous the NIH cuts will be. If implemented as proposed, it could decimate universities and college towns. And it could mean every one of us in the US and around the world will experience shorter and less healthy lives.

From the Chronice of Higher Ed's daily newsletter email. The first ICE arrest on a college campus happened at Spokane Community College yesterday. The Chronicle, however, is here to tell us that in "the bigger picture," it's no big deal, even if "the loudest voices" say it is.

A reporter directly asked Trump press secretary if disabled people still have a place in federal jobs and whether they still have protections. Her answer? “We will be taking a common sense approach” Please stand with disabled people. Fight for us to maintain jobs, accessibility & the ADA

As a North Carolinian, this is some much- needed good news.

I'm excited to share that my article "‘We are of One Ecology’: How Indigenous Pacific Islander Poetics Map Anthropogenic Climate Change" has been published in a special issue of Comparative American Studies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MSJ93...

Submissions are open at Polaris Literary Magazine (Sept 1st through Feb 1st) the national undergrad lit mag from Ohio Northern University. We accept fiction, poetry, non-fiction and visual art, and give cash prizes in each genre! Tell your students to submit! polarisliterarymagazine.com

#Winter has fully arrived in #Appalachia, and we're celebrating the entire season with books by #BlackAuthors and about #BlackAppalachia. Our #Winter2025 #ReadingList featuring works from Crystal Wilkinson, Alena Hairston, and bell hooks. www.appli.org/appli-...#Winter#Appalachia,#BlackAuthors#BlackAppalachia.

Call for papers for our special issue on Indigenous Science and Practice in Ecology and Evolution. Edited by @klymiuk.ca & @birdbiologist.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... / onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

(1/5) King’s words in their full context are damning of our status quo–not shallow affirmations of some “color blind” society. “First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the...

Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech in its entirety www.npr.org/2010/01/18/1...

With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier

For the nerds: exciting changes/additions to the 18th ed. include explicit inclusion of and guidance for the use of Indigenous languages. It also includes specific acknowledgement of and (IMO) more respectful treatment of Indigenous sources of knowledge—e.g., oral history / stories. #histed #writing

"A narcissist taking something away and then giving it back is a common manipulative tactic used to control their victim[s] by creating a cycle of dependence & uncertainty."

I cannot recommend this book enough: AEDNAN by Linnea Axelsson, trans. by Saskia Vogel. It’s an epic about the last century of Northern Sámi life in Scandinavia told by generations; it’s a gorgeous, sweeping, tragic story of forced assimilation but also cultural reclamation, spoken in many voices

.@NPR named By The Fire We Carry an eye-opening read for 2025! www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...

The mountains are calling. ⛰️ Registration is now open for the Network’s Spring Conference taking place in Asheville, May 2-4, 2025. Open to members and non-members with plenty of registration options! Register now to reserve your spot. www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...

"a smellscape is more than the list of chemicals found in a location. It’s a poetic map of the world, fed to us through our oldest sense...Each smell is a distinct sensation, but together they are more than that." nautil.us/scent-makes-...

So many housecleaners in LA have just lost all their clients. Most of these cleaners are mexicana or chapina and many don't have papers. If you know anyone in need of domestic work because of the fires, let me know and i'll try to find folks who need regular work done.

In 1850, the California government banned the controlled burning that Indigenous people had been doing for centuries. The practice controlled the forest density, scaled down undergrowth, and promoted fire-resistant species. It reduced the severity, mileage, and overall number of forest fires. 1/5

California has deployed 400 incarcerated firefighters to fight the LA blaze. They make $26 over 24-hr shift. “We’re doing this heroic, crucial work, but many ppl inside cannot support their family, can barely afford hygiene supplies. Nobody is saving money,” Amika Mota, former firefighter, told me

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us