Saw some geese(??) walking across the street at or after the last light before Golden Gate Bridge and this man was holding his hand up to stop traffic, which did seem to work.

Just in the few months I’ve been parking in the garage, since “Danny” moved out, I seem to have gotten a rodent chewing situation under the hood of my car, and the wire harness has to be replaced. $1300!

I’ve had a lot of dreams about being in hotels lately. Seems to be about processing death because it’s such an intermediary/temporary space. Even dreamed my dad was living in a fancy hotel in NY and went to visit him, but when I got there I remembered he was dead.

Work, Work, Work! Work more, always work more.

Noticed one poem title in the new chapbook is in quotes and is also a quote of a quote. My poem titles in quotes seemed to cause a ruckus with the last book, but this time it doesn’t seem to be an issue.

I’m locked out of linked in, someone changed the password. I wonder what kind of fake jobs they’re creating or what on earth they’re doing with it?

“They’ve killed Malcolm X.”

Tonight!

Try another way.

I like meditation so much because I want to disappear?

Looking forward to reading for John Yau’s audience in NYC!

I feel like they're proving our point that transness is just deeply, immovably rooted in how humans are when they have to go all the way back to goddamn plato to remove "gender ideology"

I’m doing the January challenge on Storygraph and I just realized I had my settings set on accept no friend requests! I think it should be updated now. app.thestorygraph.com/profile/ypol...

I almost DIED in a BART fare gate last night. This kid ran through in a fare evasion success, and I didn’t care but I guess the timing got off and it closed on my arm. I was stuck like an animal in a trap yelping ow, ow, ow in escalating intonations.

Same!

On the verge of an introvert collapse. Flex week is the hardest part of the semester for me!

I thought they were crickets but they just told me they’re tree frogs

Not an IBS house where I’m staying: they have 1 ply!

In truth in my earliest memories I was a thief. This led quite directly to poetry, because poetry was easy and cheap. I simply absconded with the words I wanted. Words were my water. Words were my secret element, my gregarious ornament, my toxins, my darlings, my keys, and then my calling.

Love putting Tori kudos’ lyrics into the translator, they’re so wacky

What happens when we “animate [our] privacy with another person’s magic”? I'm leading a virtual collaborative poem writing workshop via @poetshouse.bsky.social on September 20 and I hope you'll join / spread the word! There are need-based scholarships available. poetshouse.org/event/magic-...

This is the weirdest song to be on a 4AD compilation I can really imagine, but I sort of love it more than I ever did

I'd write essays if I could write sentences like this: "Meanwhile, we seek after a commonness in how we breathe that would correspond to a commonness in that we breathe. This under-respirational aspiration is Juliana Spahr’s portfolio. It’s an essential object of desire and criticism." (Fred Moten)

When's an Alice Notley biography going to come out?

Upcoming Readings: June 12, Bathers Library, Oakland July 14, Antiphony Summer Folio Launch, Zoom July 18, Beauty Salon, San Francisco July 19, Light Jacket, San Francisco August 9, Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson October 4, Antiphony Press reading, San Francisco January 24, Segue Foundation, NYC

“If I had to guess I’d say 70,000.” “I’ve never seen this many people in my life.” “Sports event?” “Sports event!?” “Concert?” “Yeah maybe.”

Thanks Rob!

If you're wondering what the cause of the supposed migrant crisis is, "Borders export instability away from imperialistic countries" to other countries. (Nanjala Nyabola)

Funny that the reading I read at last night was a launch for a book called Permanent Record and the reading today is at a place called Permanent Records.

Is God just a metaphor for not having any power under governments?

this Sat. & Sun. @SFMOMA ! I'll be performing as part of a sound collective organized by @kadeltwist and @_postcommodity_ , improvising via field recordings/custom samplers to a graphic score we workshopped and created. Come hang out, I'll email you tickets. Links in bios

The only thing I liked about the Newsom podcast was when Bannon repeated “technofeudalism” as “your word,” Newsom’s word. Does he know or not know Yanis Varoufakis’s book?

Not aqua.

One good West Texas mom

Getting swollen lymph nodes at end of a cold (Day 10) and a terrible sore throat? New illness or same illness? Argh

Turkish Personal Jesus! youtu.be/F6uumolg1g0?...

I didn't know the cough center was a region in the brain, but that's where I am

Seems I’ll be reading two AWP offsites in LA: Friday night at a bookstore and Saturday afternoon at a bar/music space. Can’t wait to see old friends and help LA heal with my wet burrito purchases!?

No hopes, no dreams, no world I don’t belong here I don’t belong here anymore

This seems to be available sooner than I thought it’d be: www.ipgbook.com/the-flow-of-...

Where would David lynch meditate at LAX?

Due to daughterly duty reasons, I have to fly to Texas this weekend, and next. If I die, at least I'll die reading.

Carrie Hunter (poetry) and Derek Gedalecia (music) live on KZSU 90.1 fm --- 10:30PM pt THIS SATURDAY feb8 kzsu.stanford.edu./dayofnoise/2... www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqVm... @cshunter.bsky.social

Rehearsing for our Day of Noise set coming up Saturday

My dad thinks after God finished making the world, he left it to the devil, and that's why everything's so fucked.

~10:30PM pt SATURDAY Feb 8 , 2025 KZSU Stanford online / on the radio kzsu.stanford.edu/dayofnoise/2... Carrie Hunter and Derek Gedalecia 30min set . poetry and music @cshunter.bsky.social @headboggle.bsky.social

I thought this would just be historical, but sadly extremely relevant to today.

Wrote my student info sheet in four languages, and class went so much more smoothly. I don't think "English only" makes any sense for level 1!