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I am disturbed by the news that 300,000 Black women have left the labor force within a three-month period, largely due to dramatic cuts to the federal workforce. www.msnbc.com/know-your-va...

Among the rare pleasures of having poor vision: misreading blurry signs as my inmost self desires to. Today: "Our Lady of the Holy Shits."

Today's Feature: In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Endlessly Now: An Interview with @aditimachado.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/features/wha...

Apparently I'm growing papaya and musk melon by accident (seeds left in the compost last year).

A very important fundraiser for a very important book! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bir...

Ah the fart of July

Trendy summer footwear

Damn Tom is such a proud papa this season.

Left town for three rainy days and my babies had a growth spurt!

Just wept through that Top Chef semifinal. Ant fucking togarashi on cabbage. Tom going "I love my job."

Something I am realizing is that when people say "I just need an hour of your time," what they mean is "3 to 4 hours" and because I work at the snailiest of paces, that's anywhere from 6 to 12 hours of labor from me.

Blanket flower and Ohio spiderwort

Desperately need an ad blocker extension but for AI. An AI blocker extension. Does this already exist?

Wild indigo! And another columbine!

I have translated a book of poems from French! It is appearing from Roof Books in September! The poet is the wonderful Baptiste Gaillard (baptistegaillard.com)!

Also blooming: wild geranium and wild hyacinth

Came home (five days later) to columbines in full bloom!

Should have posted this at least 24 hours ago, but well: I'm reading with Kai Ihns, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, & Margaret Ross at the Neubauer Collegium (U of Chicago) at 5 pm today! neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/events/new-d...

Thanks so much for sharing this, Monika!

I am at the Cleveland Poetry Festival this weekend with some amazing poets! 4/26, 7 pm, Poetry Crawl closing reading @ Literary Cleveland 4/27, 1.30 pm, Workshop @ CMA Community Art Center at Pivot 4/27, 3.15 pm, Poetry in the Community Panel @ CMA Community Art Center at Pivot

New street sign

It is not spring until Mx Violet the Wood Sorrel maketh an appearance. Herewith:

Everything sucks about my university except we have a great reading series. Personal heroes Julie Carr & Gillian Conoley will read tonight at 5.30 pm.

Learned how to hectograph today!

Never call me a creative.

An intensification of hell.

I would like to punch someone very hard for claiming my punctuation is inconsistent when I made an actual document with a list of rules to follow and then read the text aloud three times to check against the rules.

Trying to send "energy" to the poet I translate from French ... does not seem to work en français ...

OK, this piece hit them HARD--in a good way. Hard-recommend this essay for writing students who are struggling for any number of reasons. Also for being a writer in a neoliberal institution where everything is "what's the deliverable?" There are no fucking deliverables! I have a PDF.

Students struggling to write toward the end of the semester ... time for them to read some Anne Boyer. :) "What is "Not Writing"?" yeah?

My #AWP things today (and I leave tonight, so hi and bye, I guess!)

We'll be at #AWP25, hanging at T925 with @new-sinews.bsky.social! And if you're just around for readings, well, we have an easy and excellent option for your Thursday night, too, featuring contributors Timmy Straw, @aditimachado.bsky.social, Monroe Lawrence, Talin Tahajian, and Tasia Trevino!

What is it about this ciel bleu that I don't see any news about Palestine? I have to go to the other entity owned by the lunatic to see that Hossam Shabat has been martyred. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...

Joyous news about a beautiful friend!

Guy in bar asking me what I'm reading Me:

Tonight in Seattle! Common Area Maintenance, 7pm.

Hi Portland! I'm reading at 5 pm at Powell's Smallpresspalooza.

Tonight in Denver!

I've been looking at doctoral regalia (never went to my commencement for myself but will soon need to "hood" a newly minted doctor) and found this great pre-owned option:

Three upcoming readings! 3/16, 7 pm, Counterpath, Denver with Monroe Lawrence & @aliciawright.bsky.social 3/16, 4-8 pm, Powell's City of Books, Portland with many fantastic small press authors 3/19, 7 pm, Common Area Maintenance, Seattle with oof the names won't fit!

Advisee burning up their dissertation feelz I took a video and everything.

Today!!!!

No big corporations involved, I promise! This was planned forever ago and I'm v excited to read with Brian in his hometown.

Students at my university = bright lights in the hellsphere www.instagram.com/studentsford...

Join us this Friday, February 28, at 7 PM in the shop for a reading with Nightboat Books poets Brian Teare and @aditimachado.bsky.social! Brian Teare will be reading from his recent poetry, and Aditi Machado will be reading from her new collection, Material Witness.

Thinking of #EtelAdnan all day on her 100th birthday. This is from SHIFTING THE SILENCE (Nightboat, 2020).

Tomorrow in Loouhville!