Video game lets you return African artifacts from Western museums: www.cnn.com/world/africa...

I'm so excited that this anthology of critical and creative work about Dungeons & Dragons edited by @oozannesay.bsky.social and @edmondchang.bsky.social is out in the world! You can download it for free or buy a hard copy here: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... #DnD

Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd

Your mom caused the shutdown.

Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons and Dragons had dropped! Thanks to coeditor Ed Chang, collaborator Daniel Shank Cruz, @shankcruz.bsky.social, and cover artist Hannah Carr-Murphy. Congrats to all our contributors! playstorypress.org/books/roll-w...

Congratulations to all the winners and finalists! Especially @officialmchangpoet.bsky.social, @amythatcher.bsky.social, Sara Lupita Olivares, and Buffalo’s own @noahfalck.bsky.social nationalpoetryseries.org/congratulati...

Congratulations to all the winners and finalists! Especially @officialmchangpoet.bsky.social, @amythatcher.bsky.social, Sara Lupita Olivares, and Buffalo’s own @noahfalck.bsky.social nationalpoetryseries.org/congratulati...

An opportunity to have poet Michael Chang review your manuscript! Bid for a good cause! givebutter.com/c/nodear/auc...

See you all in a week!

See you in a couple of weeks AWP LA!

This is not a drill: Mets Double-A affiliate Binghamton will play three games as the Spicy Meatballs.

I’m happy to share the new issue of confluence, which contains a bunch of poems and an essay by me, and some generous commentary on the work by several others. #haiku #senryu confluencehaiku.com/7-daniel-sha...

a surreal confessional poetry anthology coming soon! i’m excited for this anthology & to have work among fellow contributors @oozannesay.bsky.social & @ritamookerjee.bsky.social & others! thank you editor @littlemissbleah.bsky.social for your vision!

Super excited for this anthology to drop from Defunkt press. Special thanks to @littlemissbleah.bsky.social for collecting these works! Love to be among so many writers I admire like @ritamookerjee.bsky.social , @shirad.bsky.social and Adele Elise Williams.

Save the date for AWP LA 25! Thrilled to be cohosting this offsite reading with poet Adam J. Gellings on Thurs 3/27 6:30-9:30pm at Angel City Brewery in downtown LA

Do one thing every day that scares you. Me: **reads the news**

Really so in love with issue 9 of Lover’s Eye Press! Grateful to have work featured there alongside writers I admire like Joanna C. Valente & Shannon Hearn. EIC @persepheni.bsky.social treated my work so tenderly! Thanks for reading! www.loverseyepress.com/about-3-1

I’ve got two new essays up at Harpur Palate: the first is about an ill-fated “guys trip,” the second about my younger self’s (mis)understanding of strength. Thanks, @oozannesay.bsky.social, for giving these such a good home! harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/benson-brian...

Our government is totally dysfunctional, on the verge of stopping daily life as we know it, and then I open up a browser to get blitzed over and over by changing pant styles. Ankle-length bell bottoms now?

Still an absolute banger of a sketch m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie6L...

I wrote this love letter to my deranged muppet of a dog way back in 2020, but it sure does read like I wrote it yesterday. So happy it landed in @xraylitmag.bsky.social, a journal I’ve adored for years.

today we have a micro by Brian Benson @mrbrianbenson.bsky.social !! it's one for the dog lovers, one for the lovers of beautiful sentences -- click & read !! xraylitmag.com/wanted-dance...

“I always thought I was a science project. Maybe all girls are.” Loved this trippy micro by @oozannesay.bsky.social.

Hey Ithaca and Central NY! Feeling lucky to be running a conversation between two amazing poets at Buffalo Street Books this Feb 13th @4pm. Please join us! www.buffalostreetbooks.com/event/adam-g...

read this amazing micro by Suzanne Richardson @oozannesay.bsky.social !! it’s titled ‘Teenaged Girl Grows Antenna in School Bathroom Stall #3’ “One day soon I will be on the girl radio and they’ll send my name up like a rescue flare asking me how I got out. xraylitmag.com/teenaged-gir...

It's such a betrayal when something falls out of your sandwich.

Happy birthday to my boy Edgar Allan Poe who wrote my favorite anthem about knowing/being a haunted/different sort of person.

At Nosferatu for a second time with friends some reflections : -wish I had a hiking cape -is she in a computer chair by the sea? -Dr. Zeros is a sick DJ name

We dropped our ninth issue in the middle of this week, and the first physical copies are arriving in the world Get a nice blanket this weekend and curl up with Radon Issue 9. Available on our website, ebook, and print worldwide

I've been dreading posting this because it was incredibly hard to curate, but: I made a (some of) The Best Speculative Poetry of 2024 list for people trying to get into poetry and looking for poems to nominate for awards. 💙📚 vanessajae.com/the-best-speculative-poetry-of-2024/

RIP David Lynch. You inspired so many of us. ❤️

amazing things are happening

I used to go to multi-day raves and now I’m standing in the health food store anxious to grind my own peanut butter because the machine is really loud, and people stare, and what if I push the wrong button? (There’s only one button).

So thrilled w this brilliant review of MICHAEL CHANG’s TOY SOLDIERS — big thx to Jonathan Fletcher & TQ 🐹❤️‍🔥 — www.tupeloquarterly.com/reviews/a-ce...

Getting a PhD: fighting the worst aspects of yourself in a literal garbage dump. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ5s...

Oldest photo of me in my phone, technically not a selfie tho. Taken by my friend Natalie in the back of a cab after a party. Brooklyn, New York September 2005.

“A wave is the movement of a medium back and forth. If this is true, then the ocean of garbage behind my house is the medium that transfers the energy of my city to me. Each object an electric message pushed by a human towards me.” Sunday morn(ish) reading. 🍰

Arctic ground squirrels deserve a crown of sonnets

I have a piece up on Sugar, Sugar, Salt Literary today. It’s a reprint of my favorite Three Things column from No Contact Magazine. I’m glad Three Things lives again :) sugarsugarsalt.org/2025/01/12/c...

After seeing Saltburn and Nosferatu, I’m concluding that post-pandemic there’s such a deep subconscious desire and longing for the dead that it’s being honored in film via necrophilia tableaus.

Virgil Finlay illustration for "The Complete Book of Space Travel," 1956.

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My Mom screaming so loud about how Ole Miss can’t play football the dogs are barking.

As happy as I am to see writers validating themselves with end of year round ups of successes in the industry, I truly wish we didn’t work in an industry where validation was scarce as fuck.

Every winter I reread Sherwood Anderson's "Death in The Woods." The way the narrator steps out in the end trying to reckon with something that happened by retelling the story moves me. gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/040...

Texting my niece and nephew “on the way, boners” like a villain in an 80’s movie.

Swing low, skeet chariot