Well, if we all get sent to the gulag, at least it will be the one with the comedians and Drag Queen Story Hour.

New definition of "dark academia": Writing up book blurbs in the ICU waiting room.

TFW you agreed to do a big organizational thing and now the poor organization of said big thing makes you realize your next months are going to be total hell.

Read the full story, which is part of “Food and Power in the West,” a FERN special issue produced in partnership with High Country News, at thefern.org/2025/09/the-... @highcountrynews.org

Read the full story, which is part of “Food and Power in the West,” a FERN special issue produced in partnership with High Country News, at thefern.org/2025/09/eati... @highcountrynews.org @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social

Still good news in the world: Arthur Sze is U.S. Poet Laureate! www.pw.org/content/arth...

You guys may run an amazing reading series, but if you don't gift your readers a Navajo blanket after, what are you really doing? Thank you to Colorado College for the generous invitation, and for a fantastic visit!

So let’s get this straight, we no longer can practice free speech in America. apple.news/AxcVvsNMuTkW...

When my lecture at USAFA was canceled because the admin had been surveilling my politics, some people said it was to be expected at a military academy. My reply was that it's happening in every academy. And it is: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I loved writing this essay. Huge thanks to FERN and @highcountrynews.org--

This dog lives down my road. A special breed created when the first greyhound mated with a Victorian ghost child, it now pops up regularly in my drive. The dog's owners have also purchased it a wardrobe of spacesuits constructed by NASA. Meaning it is now lead singer of a David Bowie tribute band.

As if things aren't bad enough in Utah, JD Vance is coming to visit. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Once again, America: I'm reading the news, having every possible feeling you can have.

Killing those we disagree with is wrong. Full stop. You dislike the ideas? Come up with better ones. Freedom of speech requires navigating disagreement, not murdering those we disagree with.

For the guy in the comments section questioning my gender identity, it's "Exhausted."

Read this, by @jamellebouie.net. These are the stakes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

Someone please attend this for me!

Hi All! This event I'm doing at Colorado College now is free and open to the public!

So High Country News has a special Food and Power issue, and for this issue we have a poem that has a very wry, very sly take on food, power, and the writer's power over the reader. Big thanks to Natasha Sajé for this! www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/...

LET'S GUESS WHY. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I'm just going to go ahead and assume it's everything.

It’s publication day for Matthew Holman’s much-anticipated book on poet Frank O’Hara’s career as a curator Available now from Bloomsbury at 30% off in paperback www.bloomsbury.com/us/frank-oha...

Hey, hey! I'm reading at Colorado College now next week. Come out! Also, yes, I now come with a content advisory.

HUGE gratitude to Colorado College, where I'll now be reading/speaking September 10th. For those of you who were interested in attending the now-cancelled USAFA event, come to this one instead! In the meantime, this is an illuminating article: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Walking with friend past the clubs. Everyone but us in tight shorts, bikini tops, stilletos. Bouncers at the hot club don't give us a glance, but the bouncer next door sees our sandals and wide-legged pants, and yells, LADIES! Come in! We have ALTERNATIVE ROCK FROM THE 90'S and a COMFY COUCH!

Back home in Seattle to visit my dad (and deal with more bills!) but it is the start of dungeness crab season and so I will be spending the next few days covered in flecks of shell, thanks.

Another headline for this military.com article might be "Air Force Academy Cancels Lecture After Supervisor Engages in McCarthy-Like Snooping." www.military.com/daily-news/2...

I post this poem every time there's a school shooting. At this rate, it's going to become our national anthem. poets.org/poem/letter-...

Someone else loves the same poem I do: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

So here's a lecture on poetry and war that I gave a couple of years ago: poets.org/text/beyond-...

So here's an article about my canceled USAFA event that also quotes the post I wrote that I'm assuming led to my cancellation: gazette.com/military/air...

Gearing up for the American West Center's 2025-2026 speakers series! First up: what does it mean to re-wild Montana with wolves and bison? Should be a fascinating convo--

Just learned from USAFA speaker's series donor that my talk was canceled because the supervisor searched my social media accounts & discovered I said critical things about Trump. I have many things to say & I'll be writing them. For now, here's this sadly evergreen poem: poets.org/poem/epitaph...

We cry good news so much it comes--

In romantasy section of the book store tonight, my husband starts parodying the titles. KINGDOM OF SPOONS AND THUMBSUCKERS! he cries. SWORDS AND STRUMPETS! Or the next big thing, THE SPARROW'S VULVA! Then he pauses. Actually, he says, that one's not going to be big at all.

“The response to the missing books has been overwhelming and mostly positive for the library. We will use the donated money to replace the books and buy more like them.” www.newsfromthestates.com/article/libr... 📚💙 #UniteAgainstBookBans

Do not have the caloric fortitude to type this up in stages, so here's the post I wrote about an event of mine now being canceled due to politics:

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

I love the exercises that these profs gave their students. There are so many creative ways to utilize critical thinking, writing,v& problem-solving skills. If there is one upside to AI, it may be that it forces us to think outside the academic boxes: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

For me, this would be the quadratic equation.

One of the annual "dead-laster"s of my school's Presidential Fitness Test here! That said, after completing so many half marathons, I'm happy to take the test again, especially if I can compete against the president. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...

Honored to publish this wonderful poem by Dana Levin in @highcountrynews.org. That last line-- www.hcn.org/issues/57-8/...

Do you like beer? Do you love books? Do you hate fascism? Come to this event today to indulge all these feelings. And stop by the #LetUtahRead table to sign up for more info, get a sticker and some swag, and say hi to me! www.visitsaltlake.com/event/brewla...

Congrats to @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social ‘s “West: A Translation,” winner of the 2025 Utah Book Award in the category of poetry. It’s a great book - the poems are good history, and the endnotes make a beautiful personal essay. utahhumanities.org/programs/cen...

Honored and excited to share the first blurb for my forthcoming collection