Excited for two poems from my next book to appear in American Poetry Review.

Excited for two poems from my next book to appear in American Poetry Review.

the school year just ended and I already miss indoctrinating students into cultural Marxism and extremist gender ideology

“I pray for your career. / That you aren’t crushed by the stupid and the vacant. / For whatever is left / of imagined, impossible careers: / dyspeptic soda jerk dying in Frazier, Indiana; / a librarian in Pompeii” — @paulmguest.bsky.social, “I Hope for Everything”

LOGGING ON

This. 🎯

I think all the time about Jack Kerouac heckling Frank O’Hara that he was ruining American poetry & O’Hara responding without a beat, “That’s more than you ever did for it”

I'm speedrunning my train of thought upon reading this, but I'm thinking about all of the pressure put on young people to work hard & get a good job & never do anything that might fuck up your employability & yet when you enter the workforce the assaults on your dignity never stop.

Used bookstore score! @paulmguest.bsky.social

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Know I told you it was okay to leave me. Why'd you believe me? You always believed me.

This era and political movement have revealed beyond a doubt that many Americans simply don’t think non-Americans matter, or that they are actually even people. There is no way around this conclusion. As a nation, we must agree to accept we are part of a vibrant, larger world, not its master.

It makes so much sense to put ALL these villains on TV, non-stop, for ongoing viral-video interrogations—to get them to slip up, to say something that pisses him off, to look weak— because the only thing that matters to this guy is what happens on the tube

the internet is poison

new poem in @oneart.bsky.social --

When AOL and Prodigy started taking off in the early 90s, our neighbor bought a bunch of cement slab and busted it up and sold it online as "Real Pieces of the Berlin Wall" and "Real Pieces of the Great Wall of China" and that guy realized what the internet was gonna be before everyone else

the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity

I say this three times a day and mean it more every single time, but what is going ON?????

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

Gov Spanberger has directed Virginia’s state law enforcement agencies to end 287g agreements with ICE, saying the agreements "improperly cede accountability and discretion over VA law enforcement" to the feds.

I'm just waiting for Donald to tell Sean Hannity he'd be so much prettier if he smiled more.

After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post. substack.com/home/post/p-...

No we don’t you worthless lump of campaign bribes, we want ICE abolished and every person who committed crimes, as well as those who allowed it to happen, prosecuted. Go fucking retire, you’ve done enough damage already.

The center-will-hold folks seem to understand very little about widening gyres and mere anarchy.

We are ruled over by thieves and murderers and rapists who are hellbent on taking everything from us. Evidence like the Epstein Files just makes abundantly clear what we already know and continually confronts us with a question we must answer: how much more of this are we willing to take?

I’ll be in conversation with these smart poets a week from today, Fri 2/6 starting 6:30 pm—& the temps will be above freezing! Free @PVCC campus in Charlottesville VA. Register & get a free book! piedmontgarden.org/event/a-poet... #poetrycommunity @paulmguest.bsky.social @haydensaunier.bsky.social

This is wonderful

We are so thrilled that Aracelis Girmay has been selected as a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection for GREEN OF ALL HEADS! The winner will be announced live at the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony, held at The Town Hall in New York City on March 31, 7:30pm.

Also, the worst actor in every Quentin Tarantino movie? Always, always Quentin Tarantino.

Message me on Signal.

Activists are calling for a “nationwide day of no school, no work and no shopping” across the U.S. on Friday, Jan. 30, to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown following the fatal shootings of two people by federal agents in Minneapolis.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Dear neighbor, It is not the time to let your guard down, nor is it the time to stop organizing. While Bovino will be leaving Minneapolis along with some U.S. Border Patrol agents, there is still no specific plan that has been communicated to the public. 1/

People who think we should wait until we win everything think we should win forever. Celebrate interim victories, partial victories, imperfect victories, small victories, because celebrating strengthens the resolve to keep on, reminds us of our power, and also is fun.

How about these apples

Do you understand they are weak and their violence comes from weakness? If we fight them together, if we link arms, if we say enough in one voice, they will crumble and we will be free to create something better, something we deserve. I’m begging. Please. See it. Know it.

Damn proud of Minnesota.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Another murder by immigration enforcement in my district. I am absolutely horrified that federal agents are targeting and executing our residents instead of protecting them. ICE and CBP must leave Minnesota immediately. Kristi Noem must be impeached. Enough.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Apparently people are surprised that a man whose only friends on the world stage are a KGB agent & a North Korean Stalinist planned to unleash a murderous secret police on his population. Looking back, there were signs.

Preventing ICE from murdering civilians could have a chilling effect on future presidents’ ability to terrify the nation with a secret police force.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Witnesses say a man was shot by a federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning. The Minnesota Star Tribune is on the scene: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

i love my country of minneapolis 🫡

I, along with the entirety of my academic department, will be participating in the general strike tomorrow, as a part of the Day of Truth & Freedom here in MPLS, to shut things down as completely as we can, to protest the invasive, terrorizing occupation by ICE. Please join us in any way you can.

‘SINNERS’ has broken history as the MOST-NOMINATED FILM OF ALL TIME at the Oscars with 16 nominations See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26

are they not monsters?