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

"We seem to be entering an age of state control armed only with the delusional hope that if universities hide and say nothing about all of the obvious ways in which the nation is slouching toward the demise of democracy, they will avoid political retribution."

"I absolve the sky. It is subject to forces unseen. Then I absolve my boss." Incredibly stoked we get to feature two new @rorty.bsky.social surrealist bangers this week! Dreamworld imagery, playful language and a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor abound in these two beauties! Go peep! 🧶😶‍🌫️

Haven't really tried in a while, but what weirdo press might want to publish my book-length erasure poem of the novelization of Ang Lee's HULK? I don't know where to send it, but I don't want to give up on it.

So proud of my partner, @rorty.bsky.social, who has an op-ed out today in the @chicagotribune.com. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/o...

…found a signed Merwin??

finally forming my cover band, Linkedin Park serious inquiries only pls, cover letter required

The next Neon Night Mic is in two weeks! So excited for this stacked lineup 🎤 @danikastegeman.bsky.social 🎤 @parkeryoung.bsky.social 🎤 @simonemuenchie.bsky.social 🎤 Scott Daughtridge DeMer 🎤 Hedgie Choi (@uwiscpress.bsky.social) 🎤 Donato Loia (@bside-editions.bsky.social)

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

I could not be prouder of this Georgetown University Law Center student group. They were invited to an exclusive recruiting event with Skadden and withdrew because of Skadden’s preemptive capitulation to the Trump regime. Alanna, Caleb, and Carly were all students of mine.

I think the takeaway is that a lot of Democrats are looking for a fighter, and others in the party should take note.

New poem from a new project in the new @capgrasmag.bsky.social :—)

VOLUME ONE NOW LIVE!! Capgras hosts and will continue to host “undiagnosable” writing. Every poem in this inaugural issue is bizarre and beautiful. Take a fleeting or lingering look, link in bio 🪞🪞🪞

Jewish Voice for Peace has a really useful tool/script that makes it simple to call your reps about Mahmoud Khalil's chilling arrest www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...

New fire from Anthony DiCarlo on @havehashad.com ❤️‍🔥🔔🐚 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/2-p...

BTW, Dems have been making trans people scapegoats for ages now. My colleague and I wrote about it right after Trump got elected: prospect.org/politics/202...

Dems are making their strategy choices and Newsom has evidently decided that throwing trans people under the bus is the way to go. But there's another way! Look at Pritzker in IL and his unabashedly pro-LGBTQ agenda and rhetoric. Newsom should take notes (and so should voters).

I have a poem in the new issue of New Delta Review! It's about a seal & it's inspired by the writing of Rebecca Wadlinger

New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.” If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.

Learning (slowly, humbly) to use a camera this year.

I have a few new poems in Matt Hart’s SOLID STATE (a free journal, email solidstateliterary at gmail dot com for an issue). Here’s one from an ongoing sequence:

DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY poems by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi out on May 27, 2025 pre-order now: www.neonpajamas.com/pizamapress

Bear, pursued by exit

Ok two more, one from @rorty.bsky.social and one from me:

And a few collages I’ve done recently

Scanning some of my favorite @rorty.bsky.social collages today :—)

Chicago! The January Neon Night Mic will be a special one Co-hosted by Black Ocean, we'll be celebrating the reissue of The Naomi Poems by Bill Knott @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social Carrie Olivia Adams Nathan Hoks @evansquilliams.bsky.social @yoadrianididit.bsky.social Brian Foley

Some new poems lately in mercury firs and Sweet Mammalian :—)

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Really enjoyed chatting with @divinetailor.bsky.social about queerness, rings, the woods, and his book “Men & Sleep” for the Chicago Review of Books. You can read the full conversation here: chireviewofbooks.com/2023/11/16/c...

here's a conversation between @evansquilliams.bsky.social & me, up today at chicago review of books! thanks to @meeklingpress.bsky.social for helping set this up💚 chireviewofbooks.com/2023/11/16/c...

a tiny poem from my manuscript of mini fables

i created a video game about my heart for @anmlymag.bsky.social’s video game folio. you can play it at anmly.org/ap37/felix-l... thank you @summ.bsky.social for the beautiful introduction & the opportunity to design a video game for one of my favorite lit mags!

More grateful than I can say for this. Will probably try (and fail) later, but for now, thank you @sarabandebooks.bsky.social, for believing in this book. Thank you. 🫀

tomorrow. please join as we gather, read, and fundraise 🍉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Today’s obsession: An Extremely Well-Funded Study of Doors by Evan Williams from Above/Ground Press @evansquilliams.bsky.social

Vol. II of Dad Bod Writes is now live! In which I offer a story in the form of a list of rules, opine on Snopes and the early-ish internet, and talk about some of the cool shit that @evansquilliams.bsky.social & @neonpajamas.bsky.social have been doing! Give it a look!

I’m mailing out AN EXTREMELY WELL-FUNDED STUDY IF DOORS today! If you’d like a signed copy (with a little door drawing), shoot me an email at ejeromewilliams [at] gmail [dot] com :—)

why yes, i _am_ actively seeking poetry (book &/or chapbook) reviews for periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics; how good of you to ask! periodicityjournal.blogspot.com

I'm going to try to get it all on a YouTube channel, but for the time being, you can watch the stream for @evansquilliams.bsky.social "An Extremely Well-Funded Study of Doors" / @hexliterary.bsky.social reading here! Please excuse some audio issues (punk, not perfect)

🚪They have arrived!🚪

🚪KNOCK KNOCK🚪 The folks @clereviewbooks.bsky.social have kindly published an excerpt from my new chapbook! My love and thanks to cool guy @zerkperkem.bsky.social for his help getting this out :—) You can read here: www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/evan...

🚪NEWS🚪 AN EXTREMELY WELL-FUNDED STUDY OF DOORS (Coming soon to knock on you)

Fugue & Strike |🔥🗑️--my next book of poems, obsessed with trash, labor, violence, and wastage--is here, available, for getting. It was written deep in the labor archive, in a grad student fight with administration, then the chaos of the pandemic. www.blackocean.org/catalog1/fug...

A little happy news to announce: I’ll be releasing a long short story, AN EXTREMELY WELL-FUNDED STUDY OF DOORS, as a chapbook with @robmclennan.bsky.social’s inimitable above/ground press. 🚪More details to come soon🚪 :—)

Four excerpts from a novella of mine are out today in the Indiana Review :—)