Just finished reading this incredible essay about hope in the face of overwhelming obstacles. Don’t you want to read something like that? bittersoutherner.com/feature/2024...

“Their wild movement is a testament to how they are rooted.” Love this.

Proud to be published in Shenandoah today. www.shenandoahliterary.org/volume-75-nu...

The flash I needed today.❤️

RIP Tom Stoppard.

Fellow insomniacs! @maledictions.bsky.social understands. ❤️❤️

This story!❤️So frustrating Sanchiz isn’t more widely translated. Thank you, @clarkesworldmagazine.com !

Wow. I loved this. @terrainorg.bsky.social

Thank you, New York, Brave City of Light.

Well this little zine really delivers! Thanks @artbrister.bsky.social !

“She imagined Michael reading this letter on his cot in Vietnam, under a sweltering tent full of other men reading letters.” —Mary Miller tells a story of a girl who discovers a series of letters between her uncle, who died in Vietnam, and his lover. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/E3UPQ

@mydangblog.bsky.social Thank you for publishing my little fairy tale today, and for making Dark Winter Literary, a cool as-hell indie Canadian press and lit mag. www.darkwinterlit.com/literary-mag...

Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.” Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.

I’m with Ta-Nehisi.

I might spend the rest of my life looking for a book as good as this.

Yes. Of course we are. Stupid question. Yes.

Powerful and necessary nonfiction from @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social

When storms come for your trees and war comes for everything else.

V (formerly Eve Ensler) drawing inspiration from, among other things, community response to tornado in STL. www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...

Just spotted this slow worm weaving its way through my garden #reptiles #herpetology #nature 🧪 🐸🦎 youtube.com/shorts/nc0IM...

Splendid.

Thank you, STL! #NoKings

Loved hearing Beth Bombara and Sam Golden play this tonight. Love you, Beth!❤️🐈‍⬛

This essay on art, a teacher of art, and his students of art moved me immensely.

I no longer believe art can save the world, but I believe still that it can save me. So in the face of chaos, misinformation, hatred & ignorance, I'm going to make more art, experience more, share more, pay for more & publish more. I started this in darkness & it'll continue to be my light. 🖤🤍

Grave goals.

I'm attending The People's Response's event, “The Ville Onsite Support” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/peoplesrespo...

This story by Allegra Hyde rewrote me. Read it! @bombmag.bsky.social

Love this.

So proud to have my fiction debut up TODAY @storyquarterly.bsky.social ! Thank you, Paul and Stephanie.

Here is new wonderful non-fiction from my beloved teacher, @eafentress.bsky.social ! Beautiful work, Ellen!

My god, this is interesting.

Someday I Will Speak It: My 12 Hours at Kafka Rent-a-Car.

Somehow I thought the zombie apocalypse would have more comic relief.

This is why they call it ROCKET. Go, arugula, go!

“The bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans—as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides. My two topics are really one topic; they unite at this point. Fake realities will create fake humans.” —Philip K. Dick

Well, this is fascinating.

You don't need the state apparatus to make your art. We're all already angry enough to write books even Zukofsky would think are too long. And we're still writing. There are always sabretooth tigers and we still always find time to rub pigment on the cave wall.

‘The fear that with the right promotion homosexuality might really catch on implies an unconscious conviction that the “unnatural” is natural after all, merely awaiting, in everyone, the licence to blossom.’ Alan Hollinghurst on an anthology of mid-century gay London: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! I walked away from Amazon and it has brought me joy.🫀

This is the news I didn’t know I needed today.

“It was a combination of tactics—bodies in the streets and votes in ballot boxes—that forced Washington’s hand.” David Cortright, Vietnam veteran and antiwar activist, on the lessons for today’s movement.

“New.”🫀

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Needed to look this up last night to get the precise language of one of my favorite Toni Morrison quotes: "There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal."

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My windowsill oak garden. The big one, sprouted on this very ledge 2 years ago, is a Swamp White Oak named Sylvia. The two oaks-in-training are a Red Oak and a Burr Oak.

Proud of my daughter’s continued reporting on the devastating effects of federal funding cuts to rural MO.

Today’s Featured Poet: Christian J. Collier is a Black, Southern writer, arts organizer, and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, TN. He is the author of Greater Ghost (Four Way Books, 2024), and the chapbook The Gleaming of the Blade, the 2021 Editors’ Selection from Bull City Press.