“ — Why not move like light, reflected, across the snow?”

happy new year, fellow cheeseballs

On this side of the years-bridge with Ak’abal’s “The Bridge” (in @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social‘s translation; Spanish below)

Whew. That Mamdani has an exceptional speechwriter and is one of the most compelling politicians I’ve seen.

Art is so great. We are so lucky to have artists.

what if slower? what if smaller? what if a human-scale radius and circumference? what if denser? what if together? what if without a foregone conclusion?

We are bridging the turning of the year with poetry

We joked about doing exactly this with these linocut “TRY” cards I made last year while playing around after another project. In reality, I just share them with people I love who need a boost.

Year of the Zine!

We all should!

apricot-ginger cookies ✅ world peace cookies ✅ cookie/cocktail dinner ✅✅✅

Mix it up. Instead of Trumpism, start a fight this Christmas about who wrote the lyrics to “Twas The Night Before Christmas.” Was it the original uptown nepobaby, Clement Moore? Exhibit A in the case that Columbia has always been a real estate developer masquerading as a university. 1/

rugelach ✅ coconut cookies ✅

pozole proceeding

Emerging from a flu-stupor with a late entry: chocolate rugelach (yeast-risen) coconut friands (freeform) buttery apricot jam cookies world peace cookies (please work this time)

My new organizing model is Red-breasted mergansers swimming upwind in the Salish Sea

Langston Hughes’ Homemade Christmas Cards From 1950 www.openculture.com/2025/12/lang...

Happy “today is 3 minutes longer” to those who celebrate.

once more, lights into the dark

wondering about mid-20th century work and contemporaneous considerations of 'monumental' sculpture and painting especially

The Trump Administration's campaign to stigmatize, threaten, and harm transgender people is wrong, illegal, and I will continue to fight it. Everyone deserves access to the health care they need, without fear, stigma, or political interference. www.one-colorado.org/latest/joint...

I too made a randomizer a while back to generate folktale prompts, loosely inspired by tale-type databases! perchance.org/taletype (I should put a nice header on it like you did)

Hearing murmurs that publishing houses are pushing editors to use AI in their work. How can writers help employees push back against this? If you work in publishing & don’t feel comfortable replying directly, I am opening up my DMs.

Are you a writer who can't get away for a residency? Spend your holiday break at Barrelhouse Write-in’s Imagine Cabins Writing Retreat! Join us between Christmas & New Year’s in a (make-believe, Zoom-based) Imagine Cabin in the woods, and get some writing done! www.barrelhousemag.com/writeins

If there are any NCAR folks out there who would be OK with speaking to me, would be happy to hear from you. Email [email protected].

you can tell Paloma you love her if you want

just too much things.

“something like a ship, a wide berth for memory”

Practicing peace is hard. It means practicing justice and it means not indulging an understandable desire for revenge. This is hard. But practicing peace is practicing survival for our species and our ecosystems.

as Babybel Poet Laureate, thank you for this poetics of space.

Discount applies, among a gazillion super-exciting SUNY titles, to our humble volume "Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas" -- $16.48 for the paperback (plus tax/shipping)! sunypress.edu/Books/M/Mach...

And then, unbidden, her book's actual premise came to her. 🫠 Go for walks, kids. I've only ever written things for real on walks.

Sincerely, : I am a grown up. I am doing my best to hold it together. Thanks, : I have already forgotten what this conversation was about. Cheers, : Please don’t be mad at me and please don’t reply to this message. Very respectfully, : I have been taken hostage and fear for my life.

If you're Nobody too, then make plans to join us for Dickinson's 195th birthday celebration! Newer every day: A Dickinson Birthday Celebration Weds., Dec. 10, 6pm ET VIRTUAL PROGRAM Register: emilydickinsonmuseum.org/newer-every-day-195th-birthday

today’s affirmation: I am within the acceptable range of deviation. I am a perfectly roasted quail. if I was a car the mechanics would find nothing weird or rodent related in my air filter. I am upright. There are no stones or excess debris in my shoes. I still have all my bones.

Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/23/e...

I’m currently reading Lois Lowry’s THE GIVER w/ an English learner. We just read this: Jonas is given the memory of snuggling on grandma’s lap at Christmas & describes the feeling as “warmth and happiness […] and something else,” which is eventually named…love. Did chat-whatevs account for love?

Thinking about a thing: if I set up a between-christmas-and-new-years "writing retreat," in which all of us parents/broke bitches who don't have the time or $ to go anywhere could lock ourselves in a room to write w/morning & afternoon check-ins, would ppl be interested in that sort of thing?

Asemic found text for #SmallPoemSunday

Pablo Medina for #smallpoemsunday

Every month, my Read It Slant group reads a (poetry) book. We each select a poem to focus our discussion. This month we’re reading @eireannmor.bsky.social’s Pattern-book, and I’m having a devil of a time choosing. Thankfully @pounk.bsky.social already chose one of my favorites: “An Ampler — Zero —“

But why were they on his property, he asked.

big snow outside. big warmth inside

Thank you, @benjij.bsky.social, for making me newly obsessed with this fierce little falcon 💙 Fascinating piece about the link between tenacious predators and how they not only benefit the landscape — but our food, too. Well worth a read: www.vox.com/climate/4711... @vox.com

at no matter no

Episode 2 just dropped

Welcome to a new occasional series, “Would I date that Denver building?” We begin with 655 N. Broadway. Hesitant yes. He’s seen some stuff. (Deals with it through steady tobacco use.) Looks great in a white t-shirt and jeans. Generous in bed. My parents have questions, but also sorta get it.

What a coincidence—I named my fists “mary” and “oliver” because they do not have to be good

Gateway. 9.25 x 12.75. 2024, analog collage. #collage #analogcollage One of my more recent favorites. Wish I had a better picture though. I take them when I finish which is often at night but I find afternoon sun gives the truest colors.

Happy December! Your annual reminder: 1. It's easy to call end-of-year celebrations a "holiday" party instead of a "Christmas" party so that people feel included 2. It's also silly to call explicitly Christmas stuff a "holiday" event, we do know when it's a Christmas thing 3. Everyone likes cookies