When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

Thank you to @hilaratzabi.bsky.social for being the inaugural poet in my new series Poem's Origin Story! She shares where the idea for a poem published in @consequencef.bsky.social came from. As an added bonus, she's teaching a related writing workshop next month!

Once again, Iranians, Palestinians, Israelis, and people across the Middle East are experiencing immense uncertainty because of the actions of warmongers in power. While they do anything to protect themselves and hold onto their power, ordinary people pay the highest price. (1/4)

I have made it even easier to be found at AWP. If the schedule graphics are getting to be too much, just follow the shoes … #AWP26

See you soon #AWP!!! Come hear me read at Pickles Pub, Thurs. 3/6, at 5 pm with @baltimorereview.bsky.social and more! IT’S KIND OF A BIG DILL.

#AWP26 We will be there! Join us at Pickles Pub and our official off-site Baltimore-style literary event... www.eventbrite.com/e/1980583384... @modernartistpress.bsky.social @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social @masonjarpress.bsky.social @baltimorereview.bsky.social #writers #AWP @awpwriter.org

Just in case anyone was wondering help.openai.com/en/articles/...

No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.

Beyond the Picket Sign: Writer’s Tools to Create Social Change Thurs., March 5, 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM EDT Location: Room 321-322, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center Sara R Burnett @sunuchandy.bsky.social @battlecake.bsky.social Chloe Yelena Miller @hilaratzabi.bsky.social

We’re open for submissions until March 15! This winter’s extended reading period is for individual poems for our first anthology rather than full-length manuscripts. Details at www.juneroadpress.com/submissions!

Winner of best offsite event title: “IT’S KIND OF A BIG DILL” at Pickles Pub Thurs March 5 at 5pm. And I get to read there! Cause I’m KIND OF A BIG DILL.

We’re having a Jewish Writers Breakfast offsite at AWP. And by “we” I mean “me.” Totally casual, no agenda, just show up, eat, schmooze. Friday March 6, 8:00–8:45am ish. All are welcome.

Here come all my AWP posts! This one’s the full schedule. Who’s going to be there? Come say hi! I’m on a panel, an offsite or two, and signing books @juneroadpress.bsky.social

I’ll be talking about the intersection of my Israel-Palestine peace activism & poetry writing practice at AWP panel “Beyond the Picket Sign: Writers’ Tools to Create Social Change” with @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social @srburnett.bsky.social @sunuchandy.bsky.social @battlecake.bsky.social

Join us for a Zoom conversation with Mo Husseini, a Palestinian-American filmmaker, writer, and activist, who will share about his recent work and his experience organizing in the diaspora. Register here: omdi.me/4qJ7y9z

Are you going to #AWP in Baltimore? Join us --and five other fabulous DMV-area (that's DC, Maryland, & Virginia!) on THURSDAY, March 5th at the iconic Pickles Pub -- right across from the Convention Center! Let us know you're coming, pretty please... www.eventbrite.com/e/1980583384... #writers

I’ll be leading an online generative writing workshop: “Seeking Peace through Poetry: Reading Palestinian & Israeli Poets” @consequencef.bsky.social Four sessions, Wed. Apr 8-29, 7pm ET. Learn more (scroll down to bottom of page) & register: consequenceforum.org/writing-clas.... All are welcome!

The phrase that keeps floating up for me after watching the Bad Bunny performance: “I, too, sing America” —Langston Hughes

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

Always a good time for Lucille Clifton

charges addressed to a Tyrant who "has sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, & eat out their substance; he has endeavored to obstruct the Naturalization of Foreigners; he has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures;

Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"

this kind of straightforwardly tyrannical behavior from government officials isn't, of course, unknown in US history, even recently, but it's worth saying again that it fundamentally violates the US's whole system of government, which binds agents of the state and citizens alike to the rule of law

"Terrible things are happening outside ... poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." — Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)

We’re halfway to our goal in our end-of-year crowdfunding campaign, and we want to ask you to help push us closer. Give to our important campaign here: standtog.org/Crowdfund

one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Came here to tell y’all about my “Writer Not Robot” and “Shh… This librarian is resisting fascism” mugs and tees. Holiday gifts for all you book nerds, writers, librarians! wtf-muse.printify.me

I don’t know who needs to know this (everyone?) but I made K-Pop Demon Hunters inspired Hanukkah shirts! Anyone else obsessed with Derpy?? Youth and adult sizes, multiple colors. I make stuff!! wtf-muse.printify.me/product/2557...

This is next week!! Sign up to see some superstar readers like @rika99.bsky.social @jaredharel.bsky.social @thefoxmother.bsky.social @philgoldstein.bsky.social @maudlavin.bsky.social @drsaephd.bsky.social @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social @hilaratzabi.bsky.social @vivakresh.bsky.social @mordecaimartin.net

Honored to have a new poem, “They asked us to imagine peace,” coming out the anti-war journal @consequencef.bsky.social. The poem will be read by Mass Poet Laureate Regie Gibson at a special launch event in Boston.

Shana tova, people-- here's a beautiful meditation from the organizer Erika Katske that I have turned to many times over the years, a stunning poem by @hilaratzabi.bsky.social and some other goodies for your soul 🍯✨

Instead of reading the news this morning, I wrote a poem about not reading the news. And I keep growing things, despite everything.

I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

Thanks to @baltimorereview.bsky.social for publishing my poem “Capture” in their latest issue. A poem I wrote on my lunch break on trying to capture a photo of two deer. 🦌🦌 baltimorereview.org/spring_2025/...

We've been writing about the plummeting pollinator population for years. Nobody ever listens to us! And - while there isn't much we (individuals) can do to turn things around, here are two tips to help bees. 1. Stop using pesticides. ALL pesticides. 🐝 2. Grow native flowers, plants, and shrubs. 🌻

Overheard at AWP: Every time he submits something I’m like … here we go again … 🤣 #awp2025 #writers #editors

Cartoon by Ali Solomon (@alisolomain.bsky.social)

Crowd for the #standupforscience rally in Chicago continues to grow, filling a good chunk of Fed Plaza

Thank you to @riseupreview.bsky.social for publishing my new poem, “Petition,” one that is very close to my heart, my personal prayer for peace. www.riseupreview.org/hila-ratzabi

Just finished the first session of Songs of the Grass: Exploring Jewish Ecopoetry as the snow creates a blank canvas on the earth. We are creating a space to use words to repair & heal our broken world. As I wrote in my poem “How to Pray While the World Burns”: “The earth hears your prayer.”

Hey, teachers, in case no one told you today: you are beautiful.

I am finally writing and submitting poems again. Planning my spring veggie garden. Focusing on the good people doing good in the world. Finding the spaces available where I can plant my seeds. (Photos from the summer garden)

Who could have possibly predicted?

RESIST VIOLENT DELUSIONS. SIGN OUR PETITION. ✍️ omdi.me/dearcongress

We're so excited to host this workshop with Hila Ratzabi. It's not too late to sign up, so please register today!

Hila’s workshops are fantastic!

Applications for Yetzirah's 2025 Jewish Poetry Conference open this weekend, and will remain open until February 21! Find details, including a recording of our Conference Q&A - plus more information about recent and upcoming Yetzirah opportunities - through our latest newsletter: bit.ly/3PUJi4z

“Each and every grass has a song” —Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav Thrilled to be teaching “Songs of the Grass: Exploring Jewish Ecopoetry” for Yetzirah. Six Wednesdays in February, online, all sessions will be recorded in case you can’t attend live. Join me! yetzirahpoets.org/yprograms/so...

Gorgeous winter hike today 🌳🌳🌳🌳