I despise cancel culture, and I support this decision. Ye has apologized, but he has made no effort at repair. Until it is set right, it stays wrong. U.K. Bars Ye Over Antisemitism, Months Before Major Festival Performances www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/a...

Was trying to text a friend and got this reply. Does this mean I’m poetry famous!?! 😎 😂 🤷🏿‍♂️

I’m grateful to the editors at the Under Review for nominating my poem, “Giving and Taking”, for a Pushcart Prize. It means a lot to me that they appreciate the poem. www.underreviewlit.com/new-blog/giv...

“draw closer. The flowers speak to us…” I am grateful to the Academy of American Poets and to this month’s guest editor, Danusha Lameris for including my sonnet, “Lupines in a Yard in San Antonio, Texas”. I feel lucky and happy and blessed. poets.org/poem/lupines...

🎶 “Good morning, Baltimore!” 🎶 Well, actually, good evening, Baltimore! Come to this EcoTheo reading on Thursday night at the Baltimore Brewhouse! A stunning lineup (and also me)!

Poets and poetry lovers, do you have a few minutes to complete a survey on line breaks? It’s part of a research project led by one of my graduate students. Please feel free to share. Thanks for considering. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Congrats to the U.S. men’s hockey team, AND, I’m always amazed by people who grow up with so much privilege and so much support and go on to have so much material wealth and so many resources only to lead small, stingy, selfish lives, callous to the suffering of others.

Congrats to the U.S. men’s hockey team, AND, I’m always amazed by people who grow up with so much privilege and so much support and go on to have so much material wealth and so many resources only to lead small, stingy, selfish lives, callous to the suffering of others.

Dear Canada, I hope you’re alright. Sorry you lost the hockey game today. Say, if Minnesota becomes a Canadian province, we (“we”) WE would win gold in hockey forever. And MN would be done federal occupation. AND, I would live in a country with universal healthcare! Let me know, eh? MKD

For Orion Magazine, I wrote about the American Experiment - what it is and has been and what Minnesota shows us it could and should be. 1000 thanks to Kathleen Yale and Tajja Isen for all the edits and ideas. orionmagazine.org/article/what...

Is it me? Am I the only one who, you know… if the person in front of me at the ATM leaves their receipt behind… uh… you know… checks on how they’re doing… uh… um… financially…?

I’ve seen enough! The Minnesota Wild will win Lord Stanley’s Cup this season!

So grateful to have “Gloria Mundi” featured on The Slowdown podcast this morning. Thank you to the host, Maggie Smith, for seeing the poem fully and reading it beautifully. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

That parenthetical is giving real “once and future” energy. Fool so foolish he thought he could change it forever. They’re placating you, fool. You’re a clown, fool.

We hope to see you there!

Tiny-ass Donald Trump cereal boxes! We got much bigger cereal boxes (way more cereal) under Joe Biden!

My most recent review for the Minnesota Star Tribune finds much to admire in MINOR BLACK FIGURES, a worthy addition to Brandon Taylor's exceptional bibliography. If you like it half as much as I did, you'll love it. www.startribune.com/minor-black-...

Shohei Ohtani isn’t real.

We really do.

Sorry, Seattle. You had a great season.

Our daughter, Elinor, is raising money for an artist’s residency. Money raised will cover: pay for two dancers, travel expenses, and meals and miscellaneous expenses. Please support with a gift or a share if you are so inclined. TY www.gofundme.com/f/support-el...

So wait, I can’t be in the military now because I have a beard!?! 😭😭😭😩😩😩 (I’m also a pleasantly portly gentleman with a interest in things like peace and the Posse Comitatus Act and like not obeying illegal orders, so yeah, it probably wasn’t going to work out anyway)

No offense.

In my socialist utopia, there are no toll roads, and all the highways stay silky smooth because most of the travelers are on the world’s fastest and swankiest bullet trains. Also: healthcare for all.

When I look at certain strains of white evangelical Christianity, I think “I bet those people think everyone in heaven is white.” I mean, what you hate on earth could not exist in the heaven of your imagination…

Okay, if the rapture didn’t happen, doesn’t that also mean the seven years of trials and tribulations in the wake of the rapture ain’t happening? Like, can we dial down the trials and tribulations?

Rare sports weekend: Jayhawks won Vikings won Chiefs won Packers lost and, most importantly, Lynx won!

Yes to Farm Aid. AND (2 questions, please): (1) are we talking clearly about why farmers need aid in this moment? And (2) what, if anything is or can be done to get farmers to see this as a sea change moment, to get them to vote with us (instead of against us)? www.startribune.com/what-does-fa...

I enjoyed my visit with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Christie Friesen Aschwanden on their cool and smart Emerging Form podcast. Check out the episode here. emergingform.substack.com/p/episode-14...

I feel like this is a safe space where I can be myself, love what I love unreservedly, and pursue my passions!

Very sad to hear about the shooting at Evergreen High School in Denver today. There are three young people in critical condition whose lives (if they survive) will never be the same. Sensible gun laws now!

Canine Superpowers, a poem to guide walkies: "We stroll the grounds and stop at every tree./Their noses lead to every thing I see." — Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social in @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/you-... #dogs #poetry #poems #sniffari #sniffwalks #villanelle

Rode my bike to work! Yaaay Michael! Yaaay! Forgot my fitness tracker. Booooo!

Forgot to get a Powerball ticket. 🤷🏿‍♂️

For all the parents surviving all those college drop-offs - you are not alone. ♥️

Among the many sad things about the horrific shootings in Minneapolis today is they may become a pretext for sending (again) the National Guard here. But only that, a pretext, not an actual or valid reason. To be clear, there’s nothing the National Guard could have done to stop these shootings.

Poets and poetry loving friends, when you think of “voice” which poets and books come to mind? Thank you. ♥️

I am probably noticing your hands. I’m probably looking at them. Not in a fetishistic way - please don’t. I don’t mean anything by it. I’m drawn to people’s hands in a narrative way; they’re full of stories.

Hair AND body wash? I don’t trust it.

Hmmmm… bad news here… that won’t do… maybe Trump Should fire both the President and the Chair of the New York Stock Exchange… 🧐 www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/s...

It is so hard to be a Minnesota Twins fan sometimes. Like yesterday, for example. And today. I hurt all over. 😩😭😩😭

Capitalism: people choosing to work for the benefit of the wealthy because they are convinced that any alternative would force them to work for the benefit of the needy.

Part of me is like, “THIS is what got the MAGA base to turn on Trump!?!” And part of me is like, “of course something like this is what got the MAGA base to turn on Trump.” Epstein. That tracks actually. Dumbest timeline ever.

Yes, hi, hello! Is this thing on? 🎤 It’s pub day for the 12th issue of the Under Review and the 1st of our BlueSky era! We’ve got sporty poems, stories, essays, and a review and interview of epic proportions for y’all! Enjoy and share widely! 💕 www.underreviewlit.com/issue-12-202...

Thrilled to have a new poem, “Giving and Taking”, in the Under Review, a dream publication for me. Please also spend a moment with all the cool art in Issue 12 (especially the Letter from the Editor). www.underreviewlit.com/new-blog/giv...

I’m pleased to announce the formation of a new political party, the United States party. Our core platform: tax the rich until every last one of them is middle class; use what our gain$ to save the planet.

I have seen many movies I like less than 28 YEARS LATER.

If you have an anxious dog (we have an anxious dog) this night of fireworks is THE WORST! Some years, of course, it’s many nights. I wish firework friends could experience it one time. Does anyone know a part of Minnesota where there are few neighborhood firework shows?

@saaramyrene.bsky.social would be turning 50 later this month, and in memory of her and to honor her wishes, I’m raising money for the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop the rest of July. The program leads creative writing classes for those incarcerated in MN with a restorative justice approach

The don’t call St. Paul “St. Pothole” for nothing! Be careful exiting 94 westbound and turning left onto Cretin!