Emily Dickinson

No, you're crying watching clips of Clayton Kershaw getting his 3,000th strikeout. (And I'm a Padres fan!)

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I promise not to become a fitness influencer (though if I start posting thirst traps, know they're all antifascist), but I had my first leg day as part of this process and I'm not sure I'll walk again hahaha people do this

A dear friend started what I hope will be a long series of video essays on film. Here's the first of his essays, on pastiche: What Is Pastiche? | Style, Genre, and Postmodern Cinema Explained youtu.be/WESMSa-xtWE?...

Happy 1st book birthday to DRESSING THE BEAR! It’s been such a wonderful year & to everyone who has read, uplifted, or engaged with these poems in any way, you have made me so happy & I am so very grateful! All the love to @triohousepress.org too! What a talented, tireless, and big-hearted team! 💙

The year I get ripped, grow a beard, and finish my book.

"Why should a company founded two days ago have rights, but not a river that has flowed for tens of thousands of years? It’s a form of socially normalised madness."

Directors keep putting actors the love of my life crushes on so that she wants to see the same movies as me and it's the best! Like she actually wants to the Edgar Wright The Running Man remake with me 🤯

happy pride! i edit an online literary magazine called beestung that's for two-spirit, non-binary, and genderqueer writers and readers. you can support me by reading us or tipping a bit of scratch if you like what we're doing. beestungmag.com

Human. I've long thought it in conversation with Yeats's 'Among School Children.' 'Are we human or are we dancer?' 'O chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?'

I went to B&N earlier this week for the Criterion Collection sale this month. I was bummed I couldn't find Sorcerer on 4K which was the main reason I went, but then the guy behind me in line had a copy and I asked about it and he said there was one left and he went and got it for me.

"Love...is an art of dependency." —Anne Dufourmantelle, In Praise of Risk, translated by Steven Miller

"It strikes often at the end of a day, when I am reviewing some work I have just written, and I find myself thinking that it is not writing that I have done. It is speech, or air, plain air. It is zero. It is a gesture, a sign, an indication of writing." Renee Gladman, TOAF

the only way to be good at writing is to read regularly the people you think write best in the genre you work in

Hi, everyone. What's up? 🩷

in the spirit of never telling anyone what I'm doing, it's 10:30 p.m. in California + I'm pleased to announce to the crickets + night spiders that #patternbook is available for pre-order (in the UK/Ireland) here www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017485... on @carcanet.bsky.social's beautiful new website!

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse: “The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one. … Mrs. Ramsay bringing them together… Mrs. Ramsay making of the moment [+]

Nazism, white supremacy, and Soros/globalist dog whistles: Not antisemitism Expressing support for Palestinian human rights: antisemitism Clear?

Something I like about all the lit bros is how they seem hard edged and caustic online, but if they share anything from their life or you encounter them irl, they're all soft boys, slightly effeminate, who just want a snuggle from their kid or their cat or their dog.

Guaranteed mood enhancer: listen to the highest tempo music that you listened to as a teenager.

How lucky we are That you can’t sell A poem, that it has No value. Might As well Give it away. That poem you love, That saved your life, Wasn’t it given to you? - Gregory Orr

Knowing the smartest, most creative, most generous, most compassionate people around the country and the world, and jumping on the occasional video call with them to bask in their presence and them caring at all about what you say too, it's not bad.

Physical media continues its unbeaten streak over VOD.

Thrilled when talented favs engage the work of talented favs, particularly so in the case of these two brilliant humans.

At a condo in southern Utah for a few days for the kids' spring break and reminded about my idea for a company that curates better, more poetic, sustaining, entertaining, geographically specific and resonant books for rental properties.

@anthonygarrett.bsky.social is a real one, and I am the luckiest to have him as a friend (and hype man) It's such an honor to be read with love

There's a wonderful haunting excerpt of @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social's Human/Animal in Electric Literature today! electricliterature.com/theres-somet...

Remarkable group, remarkable group.

gonna tell my kids this was Challengers

If we elected more ADHDers to national office, we could filibuster all the time. I've had filibuster worthy voice notes from friends.

None better.

The number of editors and publishers out here doing the work for nothing more than the love of the game — outstanding! They could make more elsewhere, but they love this weird project of words pushing up against the limits of representation and meaning making.

One of the ways I know the ruling class is corrupt is how quickly I exhaust the most extravagant list of things I could spend money on were money no object.

The amount I learn from even a short Jeannie Vanasco class is unreal. Every bit as talented a teacher as writer. If you have even the tiniest glimmer of a nonfiction project in mind, do not miss out.

The text needs its shadow: this shadow is a bit of ideology, a bit of representation, a bit of subject: ghosts, pockets, traces, necessary clouds: subversion must produce its own chiaroscuro.” (The Pleasure of the Text, tr. Richard Miller)

"Universal programs that spread the risks and costs of caring across all taxpayers can strengthen feminist goals, social cohesion, and consequently civic participation by making everyone responsible for an activity from which we all benefit." reading @pamherd.bsky.social today!

same

Submit less, read and celebrate others' work more.

"We are told that to refuse... threatens the existence of the university. But if the university’s existence depends upon complying and collaborating with fascism, then we will change the university."

"Samira Moyheddin recently wrote, '...Don’t stay in jobs where your knowledge is a liability.' [We are compelled] to say out loud, all the time, that if the university has become a place where our knowledge—of genocide, Palestine, racism, fascism—is a liability, then we must change the university."

I watched this yesterday because Val Kilmer is one of my favorite actors. I didn't know that he passed until this morning. A genuine artist, making movies with his brother Wesley since they were kids, Wesley drowning at 15 after Val was one of the youngest ever accepted to Juilliard.

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"Animals do not interrupt my story; they are the story." @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social making me realize this is a book @taliakolluri.bsky.social would very much enjoy.

Here I was complaining I hadn't received my copy and a day later! Order yours: www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/H/Huma...

US pub day for Our City that Year, which sadly has a great deal of resonance with our current political climate, including the rise of fascism and the capitulation of academia.

Happy Chungking Express Day to those who celebrate! ✈️🍍

Think of all the good work you’ve done even though the deck’s been stacked against you.