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!

This Friday at Tamarack! Great poets, great vibes.

“Democracy is not a constant state.”—filmmaker Göran Olsson

Gershom Scholem being mean and maybe a little bit ableist to Walter Benjamin (1934). In the next letter Benjamin explains that “A memory that has to digest impressions imparted by unforeseeably changing living conditions will rarely be as reliable as one sustained by continuity.”

The mythological figures of the spider man, the howling woman, the dripping tap, the Mary figure.

Found looking through old bookmarks. From 2017

Reading Sunday at Et Al books, 2:00!

Just realized that Marthe Reed's "Ark Hive" is free in it's entirety here: www.theoperatingsystem.org/oa_library/a...

Me and @headboggle.bsky.social last night "on the radio." Should open to our poetry/music "set."

Wild Fin is now available from the Weavers Press bookshop (and soon elsewhere)! Thank you for helping make this beautiful book, Moazzam Sheikh and Amna Ali, and for the kind blurbs @cshunter.bsky.social, Maw Shein Win, and Divya Victor. *** drmonicamody.com/wild-fin.html weaverspress.com/bookshop

Excited about my new chapbook! First in about 3 years! The title is from something out of Marthe Reed's Ark Hive and is also part of a longer sequence engaging with Ashbery's Flow Chart

Earl Staub, inventor of the flexible straw, 1972