I’m almost at 1,000 days and I’ll be writing an essay about it.

Palestinians voted on Saturday in the first elections held in part of Gaza in more than two decades, while tens of thousands of Palestinians cast ballots in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. https://to.pbs.org/3OKJ3fh

"In the 1950s, the Iowa Writers Workshop received funding from the CIA to push a writing style that centered the emotional life of the individual while decentering the social and political forces that shape human behavior." lithub.com/the-craft-ch...

W.S. Merwin was like that

Felt

I promised you an early draft. Here ya go. Pistons in 6 in '26, baby.

Wanna know what it’s like to work in marketing? I just deleted 647 videos from my phone.

ICYMI

Teaching faculty poli sci. UW Milwaukee

Our friends in Gaza have been paying a heavy price since bluesky libs latest round of attacking Palestinians. Hammam has not gotten any donations on days and could really use our support.

Today I’m making my visual arts debut with @universityoflou.bsky.social’s own @miraclemonocle.bsky.social Magazine! You can check out my collages “Food for Thought,” “Harmony with the Natural World,” and my artist’s statement here: miraclemonocle.com/articles/foo...

Submit flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, & experimental writing in under 405 words, 5 lines, or 4 pages for your chance to win cash prizes & publication & join the #ExpoFam. Submissions are open for Ashley C. Lanuza’s Flash 405: “Saudade” thru 5/10: tinyurl.com/FlashSaudade

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

Just finished reading Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for the first time.

Apparently playing a song over and over is a sign of neurodivergence 🤷🏽‍♂️ well my gifted ass has been running back Brick After Brick by Stove God Cooks for almost 12 hours today and it’s not even out yet….

The min I find a scissors ✂️ flash tatt I’m grabbing it

The collection I'm querying is dark speculative stuff (more horror-leaning than my previous collections). (I am jobless and helping my family recover from a housefire so avoiding presses with fees) I do not have an agent 😔

if you can read this send us some work

BING BONG

I low key wanna live in Italy and Ireland even if just for a year each

Win

I appreciate you so much @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social! I hope you enjoy it ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

Droppin some visual art on 4/20. Stay tuned.

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

One day I will have a project that is completely about Montréal

Donald J. Trump is the most unfit, unhinged President of all time since the slave master Presidents.

“DEVOURING TOMORROW: Fiction From The Future Of Food” is an anthology I co-edited with @jeffdupuis.bsky.social “How will we feed ourselves in the future?” The authors knocked this premise out of the park! DEVOURING TOMORROW is Available Now! www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211... #booksky 💙📚👀

We are open for full length poetry collection submissions until 31st May. A very small percentage of people who submit to Broken Sleep Books actually buy a book from us. If every submitter bought just 1 title, it would make a huge difference. Guidelines: www.brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

In less than two weeks, Kaleidotrope will re-open to fiction and poetry submissions for one week. April 19-25. One of only three weeks the zine will be open this year!

Photos of MELODIES OF THE OPPRESSED from production to completion! This is a ✨ limited edition ✨and is already 15% SOLD-OUT. Grab your copy here: www.ethelzine.com/shop/melodie...

My mom just told she’s reading Roxanne Gay now 😏

I’m thankful for Sister Mary Agnes, a kind nun at my Catholic elementary school who taught me the Dewey decimal system, how to use Microsoft Word, and never discouraged me from reading anything.

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

Artemis took a picture of us: defector.com/artemis-took...

oh we’re talking Dawn Staley?

I’m working as a vendor at this artist fair and this lady setting up nearby is playing Candy Shop by 50 Cent and Olivia while she sets up her….candy shop 💀😭 I’m so weak this is peak millennial energy.

“I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world.” Seamus Heaney

Did you know that there is one group of Americans who are not entitled to birthright citizenship? People born American Samoa are classified instead simply as “U.S. nationals” — and as a result they cannot vote or run for office anywhere else in the country. Much more here, for anyone curious:

#HoustonSigmas 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

Idk who needs to hear this but I got my 17th acceptance on submittable today, after 6 years of submitting on that platform. Don’t give up, even if it feels bleak.

My college is rolling out an AI buddy for students and I… want them to have real friends? I am still close friends with people I met in college. They changed my life for the better. They remind me of who I was. When I was great, when I was shitty. One night some of them saved my life.

❤️❤️❤️ human's making art always has its challenges... praise & support to all the indie publishers out there dedicated to the work of us lesser-known poets out here hustling what we do.

This 🇨🇦 press closes today but only takes mail submissions. Had to call em and see if they’d take it by hand. Guess who got there right before they closed? This guy 😏

These are poems of the times, and thus they reflect that. Radical. Revolutionary. Real. These are the MELODIES OF THE OPPRESSED published by @the-ethelzine.bsky.social 🙏🏽 Poems previously appeared in @luckyjefferson.com @trampset.bsky.social @havehashad.com & more. Link in comments.

PSA! A SmokeLong Summer 26 dates!! May 28th-Sep 1st! Onboarding May 28th-June 2nd, Three-task-a-week peer-review workshop June 3rd-Aug 4th, then cool down with one task a week until Sep 1st. More live events than ever this year! Mark your calendars! More info soon! Summer just got longer.

Making Chris L. Butler’s MELODIES OF THE OPPRESSED this weekend! Link to shop in bio :). @clbpoetry.bsky.social

Love seeing it all come to life 😍 check out my new chapbook, MELODIES OF THE OPPRESSED with @the-ethelzine.bsky.social 🔥 $5 from every sale will be donated to the Philly Community Bail Fund ✊🏽 www.ethelzine.com/shop/melodie...