What begins as a festival afternoon becomes something else entirely. Stephen Brown’s “Shooter on the Parkway” follows two friends as celebration turns to uncertainty, and then to flight. A poem-essay hybrid about the moments that linger after the crowd moves on. Author: @scarletwitchy.bsky.social

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'Eulogy for an Old Man Who’s Still Alive' by Stephen Brown! @scarletwitchy.bsky.social You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. Issue 6 arrives this Summer! #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry

For @electriclit.bsky.social I wrote about common microaggressions in the ableist writing workshop, ways disabled writers can resist in order to reclaim their stories, and my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE. electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-d...

"Let them not say: we did not see it. We saw. Let them not say: we did not hear it. We heard. Let them not say: they did not taste it. We ate, we trembled." poets.org/poem/let-the...

We're shockingly prone to "cognitive surrender."

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Calling this line from McCarthy a "clunky" "mistake" based on "aversion to punctuation" ayfk, did an AI write this (probably)

The point of a student essay is NOT assessment. (I know many colleagues also do not understand this.) Teaching (and "learning") towards assessment is empty, it means nothing. A student essay is an experience in thinking. Assessment is (at best) feedback, but is not essential. The thinking is.

I haven't had to work on a lit mag's website since my MFA lit mag, and boy did injecting AI into Wix make their product shittier and more frustrating. kingsanthology.wixsite.com/whos-the-king

Because people asked, I want to point folks to some archiving resources that were circulated at the start of the admin's takedown of federal data at CDC, AskJAN, NIH, and discuss why keeping our data is so important. A thread 🧵

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“Amid accusations of AI cheating, some students are turning to a new group of generative AI tools called ‘humanizers.’ The tools scan essays and suggest ways to alter text so they aren’t read as having been created by AI. Some are free, while others cost around $20 a month.”

The woman who ICE killed was a poet. "i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of / cockroaches.

Ok then.

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

“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.

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

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