A perfect poem to read in a blizzard. “Snow” by Mary Ruefle: www.versedaily.org/2008/snow.sh...

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

Can you help Neveen and her family today? gofund.me/5be7d9cb0

Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️

Ramzi is raising money to feed his family in Gaa, if you can help. chuffed.org/project/1319...

My @brooklynpoets.bsky.social Revision Intensive is sold out!

Don’t miss your last chance to explore writing your truth and revision in these workshops with @starrdavispoet.bsky.social and @taraskurtu.bsky.social that have deadlines this week ⏳https://brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Suburban observers say ICE has only been more aggressive since Homan: “I think they’re getting angry that we’re winning and the country is rallying around us. We’re so organized and we act with such integrity. They don’t want to admit they feel threatened by us.” share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...

We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.

New poll — Abolishing ICE continues its historic surge of support. 46% support 43% oppose 80% of Democrats and 15% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE. Independents are +8 on the question.

This is a direct way to get food diapers/essentials to families in Minneapolis. Neighborhood volunteers do pickups & deliveries. Someone I know does deliveries & shared the link with me. Share & donate if you can. And national strike Friday! www.dhhmn.com/operations

God bless the people who are going out there and directly confronting these fucking cowardly Democratic politicians. Thank you.

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Hi Friends! Do you have a skill you'd like to share with your neighbors? Something practical like mending clothes or doing bulk cooking (for events, protests, community support) or maybe influencing government officials or organizing events? Share it & raise money for a good cause

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

"We had one hotel publicly refuse to house ICE, which became a big national news story when DHS went after them. That’s a hotel we were targeting, and it was mostly because of our pressure. We had two more hotels temporarily shut down to avoid housing ICE..." www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...

"Non-violent tactics that waste a company’s time or money are really effective. For Enterprise, we’ve made and cancelled car reservations, saying the roads are too icy. At Home Depot... people [lined] up to buy ice scrapers and then getting in line to return them, in a way that clogs the lines."

Attention, revisers! In this seven-week, in-person workshop with Tara Skurtu, we'll comprehensively work through all the minute and macro parts of the revision process as we revise our poems to be the best they can be. Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...

Image credited to Garrett Peterson, CRNA colleague of Alex Pretti, of his colleagues at the VA hospital where he worked.

I've been informed that the man in this video is Matthew James Obadiah Allen, better known as Twin Cities hip hop artist Nur-D

Only a few spots left in my @brooklynpoets.bsky.social Revision Intensive beginning late Feb. 🖋️✨ Reserve yours: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...

In this seven-week, generative online workshop with Omotara James, we’ll explore how context reveals meaning, locates the voice, and transforms the poem. Register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...

Poetry, art, witness, care—@cftchange.bsky.social's new zine explores how we practice hope as a discipline, offering a collection of visions for what political hope looks like now. Thank you, @linasrivastava.bsky.social and Keefe Murren! www.transformationalchange.co/news-stories...

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It's my birthday today. No celebration. Instead, I'm getting on a plane at 7pm tonight to be with my mom for her breast cancer surgery tomorrow. My birthday wish is that you buy my book so that I can earn out, and hopefully keep writing. Thank you. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...

Only a few spots left in my @brooklynpoets.bsky.social Revision Intensive beginning late Feb. 🖋️✨ Reserve yours: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...

This is Minneapolis: Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city. Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

"until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream." Martin Luther King Jr. Washington, D.C., 1963

TAIWAN FRIENDS: This is tomorrow night! Tues, Jan. 20 at 7:30pm I’ll be in conversation w/ @michellekuo.bsky.social at Bookman Books in Taipei, and I will have copies of The Translator’s Daughter available for sale! Please RSVP via the QR code, bring a friend, and I look forward to seeing you 💚

Really, really happy to have a new poem in one of the first literary journals I ever read as a teen trying to find poems in the world. Here’s “After A Few Beers, My Uncle Asks Me How” in The Southern Review.

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A reminder that's it's not actually doom-scrolling if you're trying to keep your community safe and the only place that you can get timely enough information is social media.

Gaza’s Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal has said that recent storm deaths are the result of enforced exposure, not just nature. As shelters collapse and parents are killed, he asked who will care for the orphaned children. Video: Translating Falasteen via X (@translatingpal)

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

Explore first books, context, the love poem, writing your truth and revision with Gbenga Adesina, @omotarajames.bsky.social, DS Waldman, Starr Davis and @taraskurtu.bsky.social in these workshops starting in February! Register by January 18th to save $25. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Vigil TONIGHT for Renee Nicole Good in NYC 6pm, Grand Army Plaza

Letting murderers get away with murder is what leads to more incidents of murder.

interesting... I'm listening.

So thrilled to receive this dream of a review for Ballot from Kirkus! Ballot is out on February 5. You can pre-order anywhere books are sold! "An assured, forward-looking rumination on voting in the U.S. offers constructive ideas for the political left."

Also, lift up Keith Porter who also lost his life to ICE.

Thank goodness her little boy still has a loving parent in Renee’s wife, Becca. (I can’t imagine her grief and trauma.) Becca’s beautiful tribute, here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

If you read one thing today, let it be this: “An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good: Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness” ❤️💔 www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

This is correct. We are powerful. Do everything in your power now to say that this was a murder. And do everything in your power to get leaders to say it too.

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Rapid Response Call: ICE Killing and Lawlessness in Minneapolis” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

“Poet and writer and wife and mom”

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