"'Starálfur' is not prayer, but people respond": a new extracurricular by @icooper435.bsky.social on the glorious Sigur Ros: marchxness.com/the-essays#/...

If you're not on the substack you won't be the first one to know when, hypothetically or maybe not so much, a spot has opened up in this year's tournament on short notice. So maybe think about getting on there: open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...

Rejoice, @marchxness.bsky.social fans! The annual can't miss @martinseay.bsky.social essay has dropped! His # didn't come up this year but he's still bringin' it with this extracurricular to help you get ya game face on for March 1!

"I am a terribly homesick person. The problem is that I’m homesick for so many places." Friday brings you one of our longtime fav Xnessers, @suburbanprairie.bsky.social, with a fresh extracurricular on the sadness of Tim McGraw's "Everywhere": marchxness.com/the-essays#/...

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

I feel a series of cleansing ugly cries coming on @marchxness.bsky.social #MarchSadness90sEdition

The Author’s Wife Is Also an Author: On the Fantasy and Reality of Writing and Partnership+https://www.pw.org/content/the_authors_wife_is_also_an_author_on_the_fantasy_and_reality_of_writing_and_partnership

Next to my fellow Spoon River Poetry Review spoonfuls chapbook prize winner Luke, I look like I’m spoiling for a fight

Still hanging outside the party on this platform, as it were. One of these musicians is my kid, whom I love and of whom I am proud

I’m anxious about promoting this one—please spare me the book ban jokes, it’s genuinely scary!—and am hoping so hard that I can get the word out. Everyone deserves to know about working class history, especially now!

#SkyFundathon Jon Batiste - Freedom www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YHV...

long night moon, according to the infallible internet, is a Mohawk term for the full moon before solstice

Put solar and batteries on all the Post Offices. Have it serve as a community resilience hub during and after extreme events. Have it broadcast free neighborhood wifi. Every month release a new stamp with a cool animal on it.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Jesus: it was then that I carried you

This: www.porcupineliterary.com/post/why-we-... By @jessicacuello.bsky.social on @porcupinelit.bsky.social

As a teen, I needed poems that didn’t jabber to me about some dude on a horse but rather spoke to me from inside a prison cell, where a bird song was enough to imagine the world. Courage isn’t glory: it’s lonely and hard and as forsaken as an early Neko Case song.

For folks interested in teaching Larks, I made a short intro video—yes I’m in my bathrobe, yes I’ll wear real clothes to visit your class on zoom 📚💙 Let me know if you want to teach Larks! Also Larks is currently on 40% discount at Ohio with code SNOW along with all Ohio books! ❄️

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We are open for subs! Flash fiction, CNF, poetry, and art and photography. Can't wait to see your wild, wooly, and brightly feathered creations! third-street-review.org/submissions/

Haiku attempting to express the feeling of returning to this platform after a few months absence: my toes grip the lip blue sky pool full of wild geese flapping beautifully (honk)

My first book What Pecan Light is on sale for $12 at @bullcitypress.com! Y’all this is the time to directly buy from small presses; it has been such a rough year for small presses with SPD closing, and everything else 💙📚📚

Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom? @transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:

Ask me how I know! bookshop.org/p/books/runa...

Call your senator to block the arms sale to Israel today. Leave a message. If you can't think of what to say, try: "Hi, this is Satan. You are serving me like a champ in Gaza." Here's a PDF list of phone numbers for every US senator. www.senate.gov/general/reso...

Hi lovelies—something I have been working on is how to pay reviewers at @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social; the goal is to pay all artists we publish. So you can support Moist here, AND in return receive one of our cool new stickers in the mail: moistpoetryjournal.com/support-moist/

It’s hard to think about love lately, but it's also the only thing worth thinking about. @honeyliterary.bsky.social, which centers marginalized writers & artists, is open for subs til 12/16. As Valentines Editor, I'd love to see any form of artistic expression touching on all types of love. ♥️

Doubleback Review publishes prose and poetry that was previously published in now-defunct journals: http://www.doublebackreview.com

Today’s Final Four vote tipped by this line by Avery Ferin: “‘Bootylicious’ functions as a narrative that punches upward from a place of fierce sumptuousness—a sense of self-empowerment that women, namely black women, have been coxswained away from for centuries.”

Please vote for "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim!!! Thank you so much I love this song and film <3 Anne. Vote here: marchxness.com/2ndrd-nellyv...

Both @aeweisgerber.bsky.social and @kjmoulton.bsky.social wrote the hell out of their essays this #Danceness round, and both "Weapon of Choice" and "Hot in Herre" are quintessential Aughts dance tracks. I voted my bracket but this is still anyone's game: marchxness.com/2ndrd-nellyv...

It's been a challenge keeping up w/the torrent of essay magnificence pouring out of @marchxness.bsky.social these first 8 days of the month. 64 topflight essays in barely over a week. I forgot there's even basketball happening. Hope to read what I missed this weekend. <3 marchxness.com

Thought I went into the #danceness voting today knowing my mind, but I did not know my mind marchxness.com

Perma-fave xness essayist, Raquel Gutiérrez, burns it down for Hercules & Love Affair: "You were competing with graduates from the Ivy League and loving language wasn’t enough to power you through anymore. Foucault. Derrida. Weber. Butler. This shit was hard, man. You thought you could handle hard."

Too many pull quotes for the algorithm from Raquel Gutiérrez’s essay on “Blind;” let “And you tried to bid farewell to 2008 but it should have been an exorcism” suffice marchxness.com/1strd-kelisv...

Reviewing materials for my next to last History of Prose Poetry class tonight...surveying 1990-2005...Thylias Moss, CD Wright, Anne Carson, Ron Padgett, Czeslaw Milosz, Joe Wenderoth, Killarney Clary, Linh Dinh, Harryette Mullen (pictured), Franz Wright, Amy Gerstler, Nin Andrews & more. Wowsers!

Tough voting on #Danceness today, esp between the Katy Perry/bell hooks dive and the Diablo sauce of Electric 6 marchxness.com/1strd-perryv...

Oh, the digressions are as delicious as the essay entire: “I love contrarian purists, and would absolutely binge a one-and-done season of a TV show about this guy but only if Richard Ayoade directed it. “ @erinkeane.bsky.social on Yeah Yeah Yeah: Yeah! #Danceness

“It’s no use going back to yesterday,” as Alice told the dudes. “I was a different person then.” My essay on the Aughts, poetry ambition (!) and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs for the MarchXNess #Danceness tournament. Please read & vote: marchxness.com/1strd-yeahsv...

I have Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" advancing in my bracket and Sara Sams makes a strong case, but I was charmed by Peter McDade's take on Spoon’s “Turn My Camera On.” Some things in life are best not overthought? Choices! marchxness.com/1strd-shakir...

To all continuing #Danceness victors, congratulations, esp. @aeweisgerber.bsky.social—go on and get it! An honor to compete! #marchxness Round 3! marchxness.com

And we salute the defeated but glorious: @frgm.bsky.social, @irenesenor.bsky.social, Brittney Uecker, and Allie Leach: you BROUGHT it. You wrote it. You left it all out there. No shame in a loss in this tournament. We salute you and your words.

The APA is coming out SWINGING, utterly rejecting the stigma and misinformation around trans healthcare, calling for a total repeal of all anti-trans healthcare bills, & going for the throat of transphobic lies! I know it's not the same as gov't policy, but this is still great. This passed 153-9.

Condolences to Kim Z Dale, Patri Hadad, Katie Darby Mullins, and M Gookin. You wrote like angels, played like devils, and left it all out there on the floor. There's no shame in this loss. Not sure these are the proper results, but they're what the people chose. We salute you!

March Danceness Day 2 Games Are Live on marchxness.com

Essays so good I had to vote against my bracket three out of four times today

These poems are in Hoffman’s WHEN THERE WAS LIGHT and Sax’s PIG.

That Christopher Walken guy is amazing and that @aeweisgerber.bsky.social essay is a marvel, AND VOTE INTUITION if you’ve ever tried to go electric with mixed reviews, even metaphorically #Danceness marchxness.com

Weapon of Choice NARROWLY beats Intuition for me but my kid went with Jewel, possibly because I lectured her about Christopher Walken's filmography until she begged me to shut up. marchxness.com/1strd-fatboy...