Are we banning leaf blowers or what

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every victory speech is like “to those that did not vote for me just know i will work with you” nah dawg, we are running lib shit like it’s the four verts offense. gays everywhere. trans folks on every high school field hockey team. get on board or get smoked 42-0 at halftime.

LIES MY LORD

FORGIVE ME LORD I DO NOT CARE ABOUT CIRCLE PINES OR LINO LAKES

LORD I HAVE SEEN WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR OTHERS

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"Blood is blood to the nose of death."

Two more sonnets of my drought crown have appeared! This time in 32 Poems, a very favorite. The whole issue hits, as usual, and you should absolutely subscribe if you don't already, but they've got a couple picks of the latest issue online too, plz go read ❤️

Our children deserve to grow up. Fletcher Merkel and Harper Moyski should still be alive. As a father, I'm heartbroken for what these families are going through. As a legislature, we need to take action. We need a special session. Let's move our feet. senatedfl.mn/senator-omar...

Avryl Bender (@avrylbender.bsky.social) on Claire Wahmanholm's Meltwater!!! www.montrealpoetryprize.com/reviews/beca... <3

I wrote a sonnet sequence during the MN drought of 2021, and three of the poems are in the latest issue of Like a Field 🌱🌿🪲💚 You can read the entire issue online here: www.likeafield.com/2025/summer

Day 4: Meltwater by @cwahmanholm.bsky.social I read this whole book in one sitting, in the sneaky presence of a tiny snake, and am still dazed by its vivid grief.

hey folks, if you want to hear me run my mouth about stuff that ISN'T POETRY (cocaine, the Talking Heads, crabs, vegetable orchestras, Lays potato chips, obscure citrus fruits), have I got a deal for you, thanks to the good folks at @triviamafia.com! www.triviamafia.com/podcast/2025...

Ok that’s it this is a concerted group effort there is no denying it. The Dem establishment got together in a back room and said “how are we gonna stop this man from making change in the party he is too dangerously progressive and popular.” And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”

TONIGHT!! 7pm Pacific/9pm central, @mollyolguin.bsky.social's short story collection is one you'll want to have on your radar, I'm serious 🌊🐙

THIS THURSDAY, online, I'll be talking to my amazing friend @mollyolguin.bsky.social about her EXTREMELY GOOD debut story collection, The Sea Gives Up the Dead, out now with @redhenpress.bsky.social. We'll talk about horror, fairy tales, grim days, maybe even hope?? Zoom link on graphic!

TONIGHT! let's gooo!

minneapolitans, you can find a free copy of #abundantnumber in the entryway at Bench Pressed if you're quick

moonpalacebooks.com/events/24847... Come on out to @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social tonight folks! The tornado warning is OVER, @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social's book is EXTREMELY EXCELLENT and Angela Voras-Hills and @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social are both WELLS OF DELIGHT and there will be snacks and drinks!

SUNDAY, 5/18, 6PM CST: come help me celebrate the virtual launch of @farahghafoor.bsky.social's collection Shadow Price (@houseofanansi.bsky.social)! @sarahali.bsky.social and I will be reading a couple poems to kick things off 💛 Register here: tinyurl.com/ywx5dn6p

I've got two alphabet poems in the Arsenic and Old Lace DOUBLE ISSUE of Fairy Tale Review ❤️ Major gratitude to Asiya Wadud, whose poem "L" my "L" is directly responding to. I'm very into the idea of poems being letters/postcards that poets can send back and forth to each other! Why not?

Ahoy! What're you doing on Weds. 5/28 at 7pm UK time? (2pm US Eastern/1pm Central/12 MTN/11am Pacific.) You're invited to this first reading (of a summer of readings♪) to celebrate #patternbook, out 29/5 from @carcanet.bsky.social 👇👇👇 • admission £2 • event 1 hour long • 10 poems+conversation, ∞ joy

do your fucking job you hack

From @cwahmanholm.bsky.social's book, Meltwater. #poem #books #writing

I wrote about the Sweet Briar College Vixens, and how they are better than the adults in charge lithub.com/lydia-kiesli...

Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do

#HandsOffUSPS teach-ins are happening in 20 states so far! Shoutout AK, CA, CO, IA, IL, MA, MD, ME, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA & WI Would love signups in all 50 states by May 3rd and make it a truly National P.O. Soapbox Day 💌 #AskBelieveReceive lolol usps-teach-in.carrd.co

I don’t need to go into space, it’s none of my business. I’m a big Earth guy, I can’t get enough of her work. Daffodils! Are you kidding me? Bison! Miraculous. Sending a slinky down the stairs? Incredible. Mariachi music? Yes, please.

Hey gang, if you want a vibe, @misternagel.bsky.social has got your ideal surreal-dirtbag-sad-hilarious-grim pandemic-era-but-really-all-era essay collection right here! Out from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social! please get a copy and read it immediately!

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

Day 2: #NationalPoetryMonth @cwahmanholm.bsky.social's MELTWATER (@milkweededitions.bsky.social) demonstrates our precarious binding to all things temporal: ice, mineral, land, illness, loss, language. Poems exploring the fragility & rupture of self in a world of ecological collapse. #poetry

If you're UC-Riverside adjacent, come on out this coming Monday to hear me and Donika Kelly talk about ecopoetics and the apocalypse; they're also giving away copies of Meltwater to the first folks in the door! Come get yours!

If you're heading to AWP, come check out this reading on Friday evening at Night Gallery! We're going in alphabetical order so be ready to stick around lol

Hey #Milwaukee, I'll be at a pop-up fantasy and romance book sale on April 5th at the Triple Taproom from 12-3pm. I'll have copies of books 1-3 and (free) postcards of all four. Come say hi and get something signed! Find all the offerings here: heyzine.com/flip-book/7f... #bookEvents #booksky

My contributor copies of @epochliterary.com have found me! Here's my poem, "Diorama" 🐊🐊

If you'll be at AWP-LA, this reading promises to be really good, and you should pop it in your Friday night dance card!

Virtual reading alert! 32 Poems and Lisa Fay Coutley (who edited this beautiful anthology last year) are hosting a grief reading tomorrow night ❤️ Sign up and tune in via the QR code, and if you want to buy a copy of the anthology, you can do it right here: blacklawrencepress.com/books/temper...

AND FURTHERMORE, if you're in the Cities and into the intersections of art and science, come out to Milkweed Books tomorrow, 2/27, and hear me talk with Creature Needs contributors Kim Blaeser, Sean Hill, and Charles Baxter! (Excerpts below) 🐢🌵❤️

Chris Kondrich and I were on @mprnews.org yesterday talking about the Creature Needs anthology--check it out if you missed it! www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

I want to make it clear that no executive order can change federal law and every executive order trump has signed has expressly disclaimed the intent to. The screenshot is from the DEI EO. That’s before you get to courts actually blocking big parts of it. And yet the overcompliance is legion.

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Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue: 1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance 2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion 3. Don't live post resistance meetings

Claire Wahmanholm, from Redmouth. #booksky

Next Tuesday! Get your calendars in order!

Revisiting this exquisite collection of human love, loss and ecological collapse 🤍 @cwahmanholm.bsky.social's MELTWATER demonstrates our inextricable binding to all things temporal: ice, mineral, land. A fragility taut with both continuity and destruction. @milkweededitions.bsky.social #poetry

Upcoming events! 1. @letterspace.org will be launching his collection Vessels (@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social) at @nextchapterbooksmn.bsky.social on 2/25 and I'll be throwing him all kinds of fun questions! There will be party favors! A scavenger hunt?? Come see!