Happy Lunar New Years' Eve! 🧧🎨

A miniature manifesto for friendship in this #birddivination from Audubon's Woodpecker. As always, find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofirds.org

Just got a package of all my fave Chinese candies from my fam in the bay and I’m crying - I love my Tucson life but packages like these remind me how much I miss living in a city with at least one proper 99 Ranch market

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

poets are the opposite of content creators we basically just make really effed up bowls that you can store the remains of your wondering in

Currently in Tucson

Today's Poem brought to you by the great and wise Octavia Butler:

Pidgin is poetry bah

The Hawaii Department of Transportation has a message for everyone.

I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare: “the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”

Collage #1549 Besar tu nombre con mis labios.

Aspirational as I start therapy

John Ashbery

Love it when being a scum sucking second fiddle douchebag doesn’t pay off

A Poem for Someone Who Is Juggling Her Life

Regardless of occasion, pie is superior to cake in virtually every metric: Better use of ingredients. More options for variety. No cloying icing. The potential for sprinkles.

A good book to remind us that anyone saying we’re in uncharted waters re American military escapades is full of shit

2025 sucked: -too much death (abuela, my neighbor, my best friend) -my brother is still a meth bum -ppd that won’t quit But its all bad: -I asked for time off work and got it -my partner & girls are miraculous, everyday 2026 looks like starting therapy, learning to ask for help, taking care🤞

Ringing in the new year with this Robert Creeley masterpiece

Please, consider a donation to Tucson-based The Florence Project. Adults who are unable to represent themselves, and children as young as 3 years old, are provided advocacy in immigration courts. This is our Humanitarian Moment. Even $5 helps, firrp.org/ways-to-give/

Wait wut

Frank O’Hara

Our planet is buried in convenient shit. Bad but easy food. Bad but easy art. Bad but easy narratives, followed by bad but easy conclusions. Prioritizing convenience disincentivizes the slow work of contemplation. Perhaps, even, of questioning. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/cheap-fast...

Life on Earth - Abderrahmane Sissako

If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"

I have been going to bed at a decent hour the last few days and it’s resulted in bad dreams so I’m going back to my normal bad sleep to see if anything changes is this normal wait don’t answer that

“I don’t go to poems to agree with things” is a real banger of an essay waiting to be written

#90sTop30 9 busted down the pretext

John Wieners

I had this movie poster on my wall as a kid and I miss it so much

If your book or show about LA doesn’t have quinceañeras, smog alerts, deep hatred for the 405, people speaking Armenian, Farsi, and Korean, gangsta rap nostalgia, blue-collar entertainment workers, getting so used to brushfires you don’t even call your parents about them, just text… it’s not my LA.

In another life I was a spirit Halloween store manager and I can confirm the unholy alchemy of bubbly preteens, frantic parents and bumrushed employees clawing their way to the sweet collapse of October 31

listen, I didn't stop listening to Nirvana when they started selling the smiley face shirts at Urban Outfitters; I'm not gonna stop using em-dashes just because chatGPT uses them

maybe an outlandish pair of glasses would fix me

Your daily horoscope: Today you will feel like a retired gladiator - exhausted, scarred, lucky to be alive, and looking for peace.

yes, i do want it to be impermissible to call people slurs in public. that is the moral ground i am staking out. i want people to be afraid to express their views that are bad in public, not because they will be killed, but because they want to live in a society

Personally I prefer a society whose members feel some pressure to signal virtue over one where vice is continually rewarded

i will calm down i will do drugs i will pet the cat i will pretend we do not suffer under the most slobbish, unimpressive robber barons in the history of the world

Please save this, read it, feel it. Shame on all those who do not see our children!!

Don't stop searching for joy. Track it down if you can. Look in cluttered bookstores, movie theaters, spooky cemeteries, and mossy forests. Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.

Rain! Mwah love you welcome stick around

I must remind myself that revision is when a writer builds brilliant writing from the compost of the ordinary. And honestly, "uninspired" writing is better than we think it is, and the more "uninspired" writing we do, the better we get

“Then he came, the speaker. He stood in the square. He told us who to hate.” Been starting my mornings with William Stafford. Did not expect this one. (From The Way It Is) #poetry #writing

An evergreen lament

No better time to post Hunter S. Thompson on 9/12/2001. www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

Writing prompt

Up next.. This fantastic album turns 20 next year. "..and we don't make eye contact, when we have run-ins in town.. just a barely polite nod.. nervous stares towards the ground" Return To Cookie Mountain (2006) - TV On The Radio #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #musicsky

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person