“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

70s Tom Waits voice: long bus rides and short novels

I' LL BE THE HIT OF THE PARTY

John Candy was short for John Canadian

my 9-month old just grabbed the phone and drafted an email to the new yorker

I got something very special in the mail today from my publisher ✨ You Must Live: New Poetry From Palestine edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor, translators and editors. (Copper Canyon Press, 2025). 💜thank you for not looking away💜 @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

@sadfrancisco.bsky.social and I wrote about Major for @truthout.org 💜

hey siri when is my baby old enough to watch uncut gems

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

spotted at the local pinball place in Somerville

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

the eyeball from alien earth kinda explains rfk jr

Nothing but respect for my Pride flag

in line to buy it at the tower records in lower manhattan

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Book 666 @fsgbooks.bsky.social 2027

Thomas Pynchon refused to insult Homer Simpson

The orange moon in the smoke-filled sky.

ghost dog the way of the samurai has influenced all of my decisions since 1999

Poetry is beautiful.

I’ve always understood the pull of p4k & the appeal of letterbox’d & RYM & g**dreads, but for me going into any work of art with the intention of giving it a numerical or star rating hugely detracts from the experience

not my dumb ass bringing in the sheaves

THE 2025 SHORTLIST: "Generous, soulful distillations. A tasting flight of prosaic kerosene. Each story ignited a flare in a forsaken corner of my mind. I can’t wait to experience more from these voices." —Henry Hoke, judge Get the pdf or pre-order the book: desperateliterature.com/product/elev...

keep honking I’m watching the music video for everybody hurts

Hello, Little Grandpa.

being my child means hearing me sing all tomorrow’s parties every time I change your outfit

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I was called Problem Child a lot as a kid because I looked like Problem Child. So I told people I was actually Solution Child and I was there to help solve any problems they might have. The solution was usually to let them beat me up

This is a cruel, deadly, and torturous decision that’s going to take lives. The world is better for every trans person in it, especially every trans kid that dares to be themselves in the face of this horror. We get through this by fighting back and keeping each other alive by every means possible.

sometimes I give a fruit fly a lil nudge into salsa I’m not gonna finish so it can die in unknowable bliss

Everybody go read Open Throat by Henry Hoke right now

Need a kids bop version of thought it was a drought

Fetch me the grape shears

Shoutout to Iberville Parish having a BALL lmaoooooooooooo

all love and respect to Logan Rozos, a Black trans artist, revolutionary voice and truth-teller who used NYU’s platform to indict genocide.

hoke cherries, painted by william henry prestele, 1894

DILF squad at the pastry shop and other stories

Around the world Around the world Around the world Around the world Around the world Around the world

A cereal so good I bought a sealed 18-year-old package and ate it and that experience ended up in my memoir

Define cinema with an image

just got word today that my chapbook Pizza and Warfare is back in print from Garden Door Press! if you would like to support my work, order here 💜🙏🏾✨ asterismbooks.com/product/pizz...

"What is urgent to the writer? What moment was most important to feature here and what themes emerged and what stayed with me? That’s all really exciting to me in judging ..." @henryhoke.bsky.social on judging the @desperatelit.bsky.social Prize minorliteratures.com/2025/04/23/v...

one of my favorite tags around here has got to be gummy bart

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." ~Thomas Mann