When I sleep alone, I love to burrito myself in a fluffy duvet so intently from head to toe that if someone wanted to locate me, they would need to excavate me from bed.

I’m so back!* *has health insurance again

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me

I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s not controversial to believe that all people should have their basic needs met.

My new flex is formal poems. Talk to the hand? Take it up with my SONNET CROWN.

Oh, you have something bad to say about me? Take that up with my sestina in ONE ART’s anthology, Book of Jobs.

You have something bad to say about me? Talk to my contrapuntal poem getting published on October 17th.

People are going to die because of this.

This guy is murdering people in the Caribbean and deciding how much your cabinets will cost.

Everyday, I experience

I love being Louisiana Creole; I love our culture and identity and history and ancestors! Everything cool and lovely and special about Louisiana is because of Louisiana Creoles (which also means because of Africans and Indigenous Americans in Louisiana).

Went to the West Baton Rouge Parish Museum to talk with the curator about a possible exhibit in 2027. Had a great conversation! Chatted with my friend (mô boug, mô kouzin) who works there. One of the current exhibits is Jonathan Mayers, a Louisiana Creole artist. I love Mayers’ work!

Cool tip for neurotypicals: if you're having discussions about autism, you should consider...inviting autistic people into the conversation.

The only panic I have over the youth is that they never want to print their assignments when I ask them to print.

My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...

This is lovely and also contains very actionable advice!

Now just wait a damn minute… 🤣

I have a book review coming out with @calyxpress.bsky.social that I am soooo excited about! I can’t wait to share it with y’all. Then, we can all read more books!

You can never break someone who gets their strength from the spirits of their ancestors.

Expert here: We were not, in fact, ever puzzled. It has been and always will be a writing tablet. www.indy100.com/news/ancient...

Rapture theology is very new! As in 200 years old… That’s new in an old world. Even for Christianity, a relatively young religion (medium aged, I suppose, compared to all world religions). Christianity is 2,000 years old. Rapture theology is 200 years old.

Tonight I read a rapture poem* at the local open mic! Very on brand ✌🏼 *rapture trauma poem from growing up evangelical

The Department of Agriculture said it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey. Experts say the move will obscure the effects of recent changes that will lead to people losing food aid.

Basically, their effort to portray Autism as preventable and curable is part of a larger project to eliminate anyone they see as costing society more than they contribute. And, short of that, to push those costs fully onto families and off of the state.

And moreover, if Autism is perceived as preventable and treatable, then the implication is that people with Autism Spectrum Disorder should no longer exist.

Essentially, it Autism is perceived as preventable and treatable, then families (mothers) who fail to take their recommended prevention or treatment steps can be blamed for their kids' Autism and denied social support (eg, healthcare, school-based accommodations, etc.).

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

A visceral poem on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY ❤️‍🔥 Poetry reader @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social published this piece in @porcupinelit.bsky.social on the frustrations of teaching through censorship: buff.ly/CWNbSZc

My friend just said: "You are the them in 'ya mama and them.'"

I haven't been sleeping well lately and I know that's soooo strange considering everything is going great and things are totally normal and there's nothing to worry about.

Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”. They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left. This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

“The study found that about 7% of US adults have been present at the scene of a mass shooting in their lifetime, and more than 2% have been injured during one.”

Yesterday Delta State U in Cleveland MS woke up to a young Black man hanging from a tree. Police said it was a suicide and no foul play was suspected in their press conference. Trey Reed deserves a real investigation to see if that’s the truth. www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2...

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Did we mention that our SEPTEMBER ISSUE just dropped and we're already obsessed with it? End your day with some amazing art from our wonderful contributors. ❤️ buff.ly/uOXuAsg

And there's a new issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social out today—gorgeous words abound! 🥳💜

Kick back, fix yourself a warm drink, and enjoy our SEPTEMBER ISSUE. 🍁 WORDS by Max Wheeler, JR Fenn, Kimaya Diggs, & Michal ‘MJ’ Jones ART by Valerie Marshall AND Benjamin Selesnick reviews Katie Lynn Johnston PLUS Matthew Groff reviews Gabe Montesanti buff.ly/uOXuAsg

My very first note on my phone from 2015 says: “Caprese Hot Cheeto” Glad to see I’m consistent.

"The heat hits hard like humidified bricks. The sun is a relentless shadow. The river stutters and fumbles brown in the distance." Poetry reader @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social published two poems in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! buff.ly/vtdoqvO

Professor fired for teaching about gender in children’s literature class. When decision was questioned re: academic freedom, they doubled down that it wasn’t consistent with the catalog or relevant to the course. HAS ANYONE EVER READ CHILDREN’S LITERATURE? apnews.com/article/texa...

Numerous journalists and writers purged today for posting factually about a slain regime ally, a bomb threat at the DNC HQ, 6 HBCUs closed due to bomb threats, shots fired at the Naval Academy, and that's just today.

Poems can have big impacts! Good and bad. Henry Longfellow’s poem “Evangeline” still haunts Cajun-Creoles today. It was so powerful a storm of invention, it white washed the truth. Many Cajun-Creoles didn’t know their true stories, only this Anglo-American man’s version of them.

if i get killed, you can quote stuff i wrote. that's why i wrote it

poetry is so cool I wish it was real

I would actually like it if we didn’t regularly tolerate murder in our country. It sickens me that we send children to school knowing they could be killed and we do nothing to make them more safe. We have the ability to create a safer world and it will require gun control.

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

a lot of people on the right are going to be pretending to be concerned about guns and political violence today. as it happens, this was just published today about how the present administration is handling gun violence in DC during a hostile occupation it claims it is doing for "safety" reasons