Been working on a short story that’s now 4,474 words lolz

Your classmate who didn’t do the assigned reading and thinks he knows everything

My favorite poetic forms to write besides free verse or prose poetry: -Kwansaba ❤️🖤💚 -Sonnet 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇷🇺 -Haiku 🇯🇵 -Haibun 🇯🇵 -Pantoum 🇲🇾 -Villanelle 🇫🇷 -Barzoletta 🇮🇹

it's important we don't let monsters / destroy our love

Delighted to announce I am the first Zohran Mamdani Poet Laureate

ICYMI

New poems out now with @varietypack.bsky.social 🙏🏽 Thank you to the entire team at Variety Pack. Read the full issue here: varietypack.net/issue-xiii/

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Just had two poems accepted by @varietypack.bsky.social! Thankful for the opportunity to share new work. 🙏🏽 #alwaysgrateful “Love poem from the University of [Redacted] Encampment” “The Dominion of My Nothingness” Coming soon 🔥

I have nothing to say about SNAP or the crumbling of it all under the current administration. I’ve said everything and nobody listened for years. Those who did listen were ringing the alarm to no avail to others just like me. The system is corrupt in totality.

LOL, a single one-on-one meeting with Bari Weiss is all it takes for most people to run for the hills. I know that’s right. Run, save yourselves.

It was a great reading, and I loved hearing both you and @mitchnobis.bsky.social perform your work!

It was a blast I had a lovely time thank you @readinstead.bsky.social for hosting plus @mitchnobis.bsky.social and @djvorreyer.bsky.social for reading and performing with me tonight 💙🙌🏽

RIP DAngelo

Tonight! 7pm eastern Register below ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

See y’all tomorrow! Register below ⬇️

This is tomorrow, so RSVP now! I think this is my first live online reading since the book came out believe it or not, so I'd be honored if you joined the crowd. Plus, @clbpoetry.bsky.social & @djvorreyer.bsky.social are the BEST!

Tomorrow!

NAWP!

Can’t wait to share poems with everyone on October 14th! #NAWP

Get those poems, graphic narratives, and flash prose pieces ready! The Commuter will be open for submissions from 9/15 - 9/21, or until our submission cap is reached ⚡ 💡 We can't wait to read your work!

Agreed. Whenever people try to say Trump is from Florida, I quickly remind them that he is from QUEENS.

Issue 23 Contributors 🧡

Autumn Issue 23 Cover Reveal By Tara Toni 🐈‍⬛️

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Sodexo has denied T Hoxha her library job, 27 days into her hunger strike. The ask now is to call local UK embassies and pressure them to contact the UK ministry of justice, in addition to keeping up calls to the jail. Casey is on Day 11 without food. tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

To save T. Hoxha's life: email: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] call: 011 +44 20 7404 0110 (from US) +44 20 7404 (from elsewhere) Contact journalists and major news outlets Organize a protest at your local UK embassy w/T Hoxha's demands

Just sent work to the Nati Review for the first time

“We stayed because we did not just want to win the battle. We wanted to win the war.” Rest in Peace and Power, Joseph McNeil 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Match our $20 please?

Incel dinner party

Wife shared a tweet from @chenchenwrites.bsky.social in the family group chat and I was like

Friendly Friday reminder that I’ve got two books out this year for public consumption: FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN, a body politic horror kaiju fantasia, and BOXCUTTERS, a collection of short fiction that touches on horrors, hometowns and more. Thanks for any and all interest and support, amigos 🙏

The ppl who are constantly trying to find a way to take Bsky down a notch are ppl like Silver, who rose to an unwarranted level of fame and, once ensconced there, has found that their mediocrity is far more apparent to everyone than their supposed expertise

Bingo

You seem like a good guy Michael, but nothing Nate Silver says is worth anyone’s time in big 2025.

Cheese steak

Poets: University of Alberta Press accepts poetry manuscripts between September 1 and 30 from poets who are Canadians or landed immigrants. Info: https://bit.ly/4lfXLoI @mlobkowicz.bsky.social‬ @abbookpub.bsky.social @cdnpublishers.bsky.social @writersguildab.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social‬

“If you’d seen the lightning of his smile, you might have believed that man was walking on water, or at least that he had legs again.” —excerpt from Natalie Diaz’s “The Gospel of Guy No-Horse”

Tonight! Go!!!!!

Given what’s unfolding with the EAA & their attempt to silence @archagainstaparth.bsky.social, I find it salient to share my @aljazeera.com Op-Ed from last year.

I’m submitting full length manuscripts for the first time since 2023.

Being on social media is fine but if it’s getting in the way of you doing deep reading and deep thinking, then your balance of how you spend your time is off Lots of interesting threads here and none of them are a substitute for reading a good book or essay

Oh, we're so grateful for new books 💕 Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was published Aug 26th from Soft Skull Press! Get your copy here: buff.ly/Ym7Ew6W