Gutted to learn this morning of the passing of disability justice activist Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social 😥 I admire her writing & fierceness in advocating for herself & others for protections in hospital in the early days of the pandemic, how I came to know of her. What a force! RIP Alice 💜

“Had I known how much pain it would cause—baby, I would have gone around town with a drum, shouting, DON’T FALL IN LOVE.” I have 3 translations of Mirabai out in the new Poetry Magazine. Happy Mamdani Day to all! ❤️❤️❤️ www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Teachers! Send us your best work about teaching. porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit

circulate the news locally network local news with news circulated more distantly we are not billionaires and we are also not nothing noticeboards neighborhood bulletins indie weeklies (do still exist) newsletter in the mail find your local copy shop get familiar with the machines bring friends

..very grateful to Beloit Poetry Journal for giving a home to "The Little Man," a poem for Zeus, who is no longer with us, yet who will be with us forever, and who channelled this work with his sweet & gentle soul... ...from "The Morphologist," which is forthcoming from @milkweed_books in 2027 ❤️

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🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thrilled to have a kind of performance essay in this anthology—thank you Chloe!

“The future is full of possibility. Some of life’s surprises are heartbreaking, yes—but some are heart-repairing," shares host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s episode. Read "At Last the New Arriving" by @gabbat.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4mShV9s 📖: Persea Books

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old. There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

I haven’t been active on this site but I am excited to share this project, coming in March 2026 from @uchicagopress.bsky.social #coverreveal press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Good news… Can’t believe it but I am a part of this anthology about ADHD and the creative process, coming out in March 2026, I was invited by professor and poet friend- @chloemartinez.bsky.social #coverreveal press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe. I'm horrified. I'm angry. A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

After many requests, here are the files to print three different anonymous Chicago contractor-style flyers about ICE, as well my new zine of Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago. Print and resist, friends! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

PATTERN-BOOK IS OUT TODAY IN THE US! from @carcanet.bsky.social you can get a copy from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social or your local bookshop—or ask your library to get a copy. that is, if you like bicycles, rain, seasons, blackbirds, canals, migration, deathbeds, friendship, etc. #patternbook

#Davis #CA #VisibilityBrigade

Revel No. 3 is here and it's worth the wait! Its many incredible contributors include: Corey Van Landingham, Ammi Keller, and @chloemartinez.bsky.social. revel.short.gy/issues #literary #literaryjournal #writingcommunity #writers #poets #revelliterary

The Piprahwa Gems, Buddhist relics taken by an English explorer from a sacred burial ground in British-occupied India in 1898, have been repatriated and will go on display to the public, the Indian government said on Wednesday.

In light of the Columbia and Brown deals, I’m bumping these slides again about the Nazi takeover of German science, which includes discussion about how they took over academia, in a manner very similar to the Brown and Columbia deals

Congrats to SWWIMmer @chloemartinez.bsky.social on today’s encore feature on @slowdownshow.org! "In Love" was first published in SWWIM Every Day: www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...

Got my contributor copy of REVEL in the mail. Nicely designed new mag from @unboundedition.bsky.social, many thanks to the editors for including two poems of mine. Snippets below, get the whole thing at revel-literary.com

"Those are laminated floors in there, and I’m pretty certain Dachau’s were wooden. If they even had floors, mind you. But either way, there’s your answer: different floors entirely."

yeah this one is very bad rn. it's not funny or cute or "wow, these guys are wild" that there's a concentration camp in Florida. it's a horror. It's "the concentration camp at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport," but all major news outlets are going with "Alligator Alcatraz" in quotes.

Yup. “No ICE agents” in everyone’s profile. Make it toxic af.

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every moment whole tons of ponderosity seemed added to the sinking bulk, and the ship seemed on the point of going over

"No blade of grass, no sign of neighborhood, Nothing to eat and nowhere to sit down, Yet, congregated on its blankness, stood An unintelligible multitude, A million eyes, a million boots in line, Without expression, waiting for a sign." poets.org/poem/shield-...

Last Saturday to send us your poetry manuscripts! Tip jar or not, we read each one 💙

Please share this. Friends of the Everglades are organizing a protest to stop Alligator Alcatraz. Join us we have coalition members traveling overnight to be there by morning. Where: Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, 54575 Tamiami Trail When: Saturday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“My friends, get an amulet, cool me with sandalwood paste…” Two of my translations of Mirabai are up at the Harvard Review online today. Many many thanks to the editors. www.harvardreview.org/content/two-...

The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...

Excited to see this at the Getty

I visited the Africa Museum last year. Their renovation is the best attempt I've seen so far at grappling with the complex and often unanswerable questions surrounding exhibition, provenance, and restitution of looted (and otherwise colonially stolen) art. This piece unpacks these issues nicely.

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Our Spring 2025 issue features poetry by Chloe Martinez, Douglas Manuel, Cleopatra Mathis, and many more talented poets. Get your copy and enjoy their poems: https://pshr.us/spring25

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so very sorry to hear of Martha Silano's passing.

May Day--

“We must talk now. Fear Is fear. But we abandon one another.” Oppen in my inbox today.

Want to generate some new writing? Curious about the profane & sacred? Then join @djv50 this April for a workshop guaranteed to leave you in the mood for writing! Sign up here: buff.ly/4hBKWUX

Mirabai, translated by me, in a great new issue of @pshares.bsky.social with gratitude to the editors and guest ed Peggy Shumaker 💙

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Just as biodiversity is crucial for the health of ecosystems, neurodiversity is increasingly viewed as a helpful type of natural variation, rather than a disorder. Because of that revelation, neurodiversity is having its cultural moment.

@hanvanderhart.bsky.social's poem @poetrydaily.bsky.social from yesterday (yeah, I'm behind a day) is such an excellent model of living with ambiguity and mystery. ❤️ poems.com/poem/invocat...

Really great piece on translation and “readability” as a (sometimes overemphasized) value.

Today's Feature: In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Readers Write Back, and in honor of National Poetry Month, we've asked our readers to tell us about poems from Poetry Daily that have inspired them. Read here: poems.com/features/wha...

alongside the absolute terror of everything right now, little spots of joy, those are necessary too. A picnic with my kids and a new friend. A cool lizard. And this amazing response to a poem of mine, from a poet new to me: poems.com/features/wha...

Reminder that you can dial up a poem every day in April. I have been calling all week and, in response, have been granted moments of peace/insight/terrible beauty/humanity. You can even press a back button if you want to binge-poem. @oregonhumanities.org @mojgani.bsky.social #nationalpoetrymonth