Looking for book-ish community & convo in August? Join our @politicsprose.bsky.social seminar on contemporary memoir—we'll read Kiese Laymon's HEAVY, Chloé Cooper Jones's EASY BEAUTY, and Hua Hsu's STAY TRUE. 3 Mondays (8/11, 8/18, 8/25), 6:30-8 PM ET over Zoom. politics-prose.com/list/online-...

Baltimore friends—tonight at 6 PM ET (Monday, 5/19) I'll get to be in conversation with the stellar poet @stevenleyva.bsky.social at The Ivy Bookshop to celebrate Leyva's collection, The Opposite of Cruelty (H/T @blairpub.bsky.social). Please join us on The Ivy's patio at 6 PM!

I was sitting on my porch in the rain and remembered my favorite poem with a veranda in the rain, and I initially couldn’t find it, so here it is for the good of everyone. Vocation by @sandrabeasley.bsky.social

The only thing better than having my book in a vending machine of DC authors would be if our books were piled in a big heap and you had 15 seconds to manipulate a claw to pick one at random. (LitBox 2.0?) Looking forward to the LitBox launch this Saturday (5/17) with Martha Anne Toll & Kyoko Mori!

"I can't decide which / catfish is frying, history or memory, in the skillet." Happy pub day to @stevenleyva.bsky.social for THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY from @blairpub.bsky.social!

“You hit on me. You hit on everyone. / You pour gallons of lightning punch / into a trash bag, explaining that sobriety / is just a 2 AM Waffle House away.” — @sandrabeasley.bsky.social, “Love Poem for College” www.angelfire.com/zine/bluefif...

Was heading home last night from hearing Anne Carson read in Georgetown University and saw this tree. It's about to get worse. We need to fight. But also, there is still joy in the world, and we need to honor that too. Thank you to whoever makes sure this tree is doing what it is doing.

Pableaux Johnson had many gifts—cooking skills, generosity of spirit—and absolutely irreplaceable talent as a photographer. People lit up for his camera (like I did, at a Southern Foodways Symposium) because of who was behind the camera. You are so missed, friend. www.foodandwine.com/pableaux-joh...

2025 might seem like a very weird time to resolve to spend MORE time on social media, but life circumstances put me on relative hiatus back in 2022, and I miss y'all's voices. Kicking off by sharing an essay, "I Am Cat Lady," which I published in VQR late last year: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/be...