Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔

The full quote which is not featured here is “We heard that you were a people come from under the world, to take our world from us.”

I got morbidly curious about art organizations who won (?) NEA funding this year. pretty sure Children's Fairyland is the only Oakland org - and the money is for a puppet show adapted by the Sogorea Te' Land Trust (!)

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

"it’s unclear when or whether Liam will be able to return for his stuffed turtle, his hat, and his W worksheet" sahanjournal.com/education/ic...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

boo! here’s me on two new Wittig editions and how her thinking helps us breakthrough TERF BS and divisions between gay and trans people lareviewofbooks.org/article/moni...

the Joshua Clover quote on the Wikipedia page for Aaliyah’s album Aaliyah

been thinking about what it meant that BotH came to us with this story I think it points to how alt-weeklies and small music venues used to be part of the same independent culture ecosystem. Arts infrastructure as a public utility — but totally separate from city govt. We so desperately need it

imagine if someone turned Bottom of the Hill, and the apartment above it, into a residency for independent musicians and bands. made that commitment. kept that stage alive www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...

Our new album, NUCLEAR WINTER IN OUR HOMETOWNS, is out today. It’s the best thing I’ve ever done in my life and I owe an unpayable debt to the many people who worked tirelessly help make it a reality. 1scrivener.bandcamp.com/album/nuclea...

This Publishers Weekly article about protests at the Poetry Foundation, including layoffs & changes in PF programming, is so strange. Because this shift is so important to poets, to readers, & to the field, here's a 🧵 about how we got here: tinyurl.com/326xy2tm

It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍

in Oakland alone, there’s a wellspring of new spaces - Clio’s, Bathers, Local Economy, and now Nomadic Bookshop - that are community or membership supported. book adjacent (lol). like the purpose of the spaces is organizing. they require buy-in instead of selling

Prepping for class on figuration in the age of AIDS & this one is coming just in time for the holiday next week: "Eggs Having Turkey Dinner," 1985–95, painting in nail polish on metal tray by inimitable artist & drag performer Jerome Caja

It was an honor to be invited to write about Small Press Traffic's newly organized Print Collection Archives. The work that SPT has done to preserve & make available these materials, recordings, & stories is remarkable. (& the website is really great) www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/sust...

Soooooo fucking grim to see the sycophantic "yes-and" machine of GPT-4o affirming the aesthetic and narrative virtue of this kid's suicide plans

Unraveling of federal arts funding infrastructure continues. Hard to describe the decades of debates & advocacy invested in sustaining the CW fellowships at the NEA. Now, wiped out.

In which I share my books' sales and kind words of wisdom from @dannymlavery.bsky.social, @rumaan.bsky.social @mysoncool.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com, @jayasaxena.com, @islemcelroy.bsky.social, and @lydiakiesling.bsky.social meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/the-mortif...

I feel like when it's really hot we should dig little tombs for sleeping in, to cool off, like 6 feet deep, right down into the ground. Why should only the dead be cool.

I’m hunting for a job that can’t be automated maybe I’ll pick delicate juicy berries until I die

“What is an alien but the hallucination or projection of a haunted, mortified body—a person, a people, a nation—in the midst of being separated from its soul? Doesn’t that also describe an enemy?” thebaffler.com/latest/alien...

saw Lydia Lunch at The Knockout last night. the best thing about punk, the worst sound you ever heard cut off after 15 minutes, is wanting it

I respect Legion of Honor’s homage to Wayne Thiebaud at the Wayne Thiebaud show

“The infrastructure of comradeship, of friendship—that was Joshua … infrastructure can also be a gift from the past to present, as it would be in communism, a materialized ancestry. He is still present, then, as long as he is remembered and read.”

I wish Ocean Vuong's first books of poetry, published by small presses, got mentioned more. No (YesYes Books) and Burnings (Sibling Rivalry Press)

New poem day! I wrote about what it’s like living with #VerySevereME and #LongCovid. Thanks to the Mid-Atlantic Review, and please read in landscape mode for correct linebreaks! midatlanticreview.com/2025/05/a-di...

Lucio Massari, The Holy Family, or, St. Joseph and Baby Jesus help with the Laundry, 1620 (Galleria degli Uffizi)

Happy to share that preorders are now open for Glove Money, my second full length collection of poetry. Preorder here or from your best loved local bookstore nightboat.org/book/glove-m...

I finally did it. I made a version of the four children with Sesame Street characters. Here's a PDF if you want to include it in your haggadah this year! static1.squarespace.com/static/64418...

“To me, this is for the freaks. That’s an ethos for us.” Kenower and Paul talk about Woolsey Heights. what even is it www.berkeleyside.org/2025/03/05/w...

A cloud interlude, by Sean McFarland 🌝

the centerfold of the @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social

all the bathers, all together, at Bathers Library in Oakland. thanks to @amyberko.bsky.social & @stevestevie.bsky.social for reading, for the night

went to a poetry reading because I need some reillusionment in my life

Yaaaa excited to read with @stevestevie.bsky.social and @libraryliam.bsky.social at Bathers Library in a few weeks! I hope to see you there 💜

I’m reading on Feb 6 at Bathers (2310 Telegraph, Oakland) with @libraryliam.bsky.social & @amyberko.bsky.social Come out it will be fun & insightful & soothing & exciting.

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