“I think angels probably communicate wordlessly / Through strange coincidences or through / Other people when you actually listen to them”

Animorphs is better than The Chronicles of Narnia.

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Cool submissions call for an anthology on masculinity. I love the topic - and the editor @scarletwitchy.bsky.social - so I was working on a CNF piece called Penis Envy but didn’t finish it. May send another gender bender, and thought some of you might have work on hand as well. Deadline NOW.

Poetry to jailbreak an AI, chalk rings to trap a self-driving car. Technology is going to turn us all into witches.

Thank you @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social !!!

Utterly obsessed with this. LLMs can be defeated by spells (poems) arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

Fellow writers: this is depressing #BookSky www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

I read 1984. And Fahrenheit 451. And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale. And The Giver. And The Road. And The Lottery. And The Parable of the Sower. And The Hunger Games. I know what I’m seeing.

2nd tiny glass unicorn one of my BFA students has made for me. I don’t mind this becoming a tradition. 🥲 Really leveled things up with these pegasus wings. 🦄🪽

Let’s mock them still

Therapy. Lifted heavy. Blocked internet 18 hours a day. The good coffee beans. The good creamy grits from that place I like. Sit on a bench. Called three friends. Sauna time booked. Cuticle care. (Inspired by @karenho.bsky.social)

Putting together a new project! Masc Anthology. Please share around. 🤙😎 #poetry #writing #cnf #writingcommunity

The evil that men do lives after them

My job remains designing situations within which it is both desirable and possible to become more human, more capable of thinking and asking questions, more capable of being alive with others, on earth

the demand for yassification of authors, a class traditionally allowed to look like freakazoids, is an assault on me personally

Freshly printed poetry smells so good. 😤😤😤 @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social

People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.

Consider the attack on Public Broadcasting. Right-wingers, w/their boners for autocracy, say they hate communists as they undermine communities, & say they hate socialists while butchering society. Funneling all the money to the top 1%'ers has no appeal to most of humanity.

Joanne Kyger

Hey, lovers, poets & mystics: it’s time to lay it down. 🕊️🔮

Came across this MacCaig poem by chance and bloody hell, amazing

Dune, 1965

I never write or type brain without double checking I didn't use brian.

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

It's here... issue 2 of Lip Service is quite the *period*ical. The theme of our quarterly zine is menstruation! Treat yourself to 40 pages of art, poetry, commentary and cultural critique about all things bloody from our community, in print or digital vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/products/lip...

"Advice to Sadists". #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Still writing to impress? This article shows how to write what makes you squirm instead. thebrokenspine.co.uk... Check our site for live workshops.

Old man wader, Stares at the menu of fish, And points with his spear. 🎣 🐦 #BlueSkyRelay #Heron #DailyPrompt #Senryu #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #NaturePoem #Fishing #Ardeidae #ArdeaCinerea

Oh hey, I have work in this. Check out my piece “Eulogy for an Old Man Who’s Still Alive” 😎

reading a memoir is so crazy to me. you remember stuff you did?

I say let it out, too 😤😭

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

Catch our next issue of Metachrosis on the 25th! Digital and print copies will be available with digital copies being open access and free to download. You can find it all on our website: metachrosis.com. in the meantime feel free to check out our first 4 issues. 😄☀️🌼☀️ #litmag #literarymagazine

My mom is babysitting this week while I’m at my writers’ residency. I suspect she’s being outsmarted.

Closing out the last class of my MFA with Professor @mlrio.bsky.social is shaping up to be pretty cool 😎 🤓

I always heard “sometimes you have to turn off your editor brain to write a first draft” as “suspend your judgments about quality if that’s a barrier to getting something on the page,” but more and more for me it’s also “don’t stop to be completely sure of what everything Means if it’s compelling”

Survived my first time navigating @chillsubs.bsky.social from the editor's side! Phew! 🤗

pokemon* but pokemong also feels right

I'm DMing a Pokemong/Hunger Games mashup right now for our weekly tabletop group, and somehow even now in this theme... the players always backslide into starting a small business.

Sometimes I wonder where some of my sentences come from. Where I first read or heard them. Why I took them along with me.

I say let it out, too 😤😭

Putting together a new project! Masc Anthology. Please share around. 🤙😎 #poetry #writing #cnf #writingcommunity