I’ve been reading a book, slowly.

Did you know the East German secret police ran an elite poetry circle in an outer district of Berlin?! Handles a heavy subject with a light & sensitive touch, making for an informative (no pun intended) & enjoyable read @philipoltermann.bsky.social

you gotta focus on like quality of bants not quantity

I’ve been busy, and now I look here to catch up, and I think, ok?

fool (if we think it’s over) :(

Shim kit Wobble wedge

Ornette Coleman's "Free Jazz" is a Christmas record.

day zot of pirsumei nisa. the mystics say that just as ḥanukkah is sukkot sheni, zot ḥanukkah is shmini atzeret sheni, the last possible day of repentance and atonement. may your winter break makeup work be meaningful

Consolidation of wealth is always the motivating force. The estate tax alone would set fascism back fifty years

The Jim Downey doc is worth watching, though I could do without seeing any more SNL hagiographies for another fifty years

That sounds like fifty dollars well spent to me

With respect he didn’t use all his money, he also used quite a lot of it to revive the Welsh National Theatre. It’s sad it’s necessary, but there we are.

Every time you repost this popular linguist into my feed I will repost my catching him in a patent untruth

Isn’t this a Tim Davis (doctored?) photograph of a store in Newburgh, NY?

‘poetry zings on the lolling tongue’. Very sorry to hear that Chris Wallace-Crabbe has died. An endlessly urbane and affable bard.

Typing up another notebook! A little one. (There are two bigger ones in play, and now another little one. I will fill one of the bigger ones by Jan 3, aka four weeks before the reading. Maybe there’s something in there worth saying out loud in public to an audience of peers I admire.)

1. Not ranking stuff 2. Everything else 3. Ranking stuff

This was the one that when I saw it I thought, oh. Maybe sometimes it isn’t deep. That’s fine.

Left my phone alone for the morning and wrote ten pages, responded to a friend’s manuscript, read a while.

Let’s rank some stuff

There's nothing wrong with "late" Christmas gifts. As a matter of fact, in some traditions, gift giving happens on Epiphany, January 6. In my family, we know that "I.O.U." notes are just fine, on the Big Day. So, go ahead and get a copy or two of Becoming Altar! See alt for link! 🎄 📚 🎶 ❤️

There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.

Everything I’ve ordered at Mr. Broadway I would order again.

This is all so stupid and I hate it.

it's a Christmas miracle - new poems from the one & only J.H. Prynne, in full "Doric Plumage". Order your copy here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/doric-...

Same / especially if

Boston University's Creative Writing Program is searching for a senior fiction writer to fill a chaired position, the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. See the job listing here:

It arrived! @luaz.bsky.social

In ways both big (blowing off the law to release ALL Epstein files today) and small (putting Trump's name on the Kennedy Center), today has a total "who's gonna stop me" vibe from the regime Maybe stop him?

In retrospect, it's surprising how *little* of this happened in the first term, given that "slap his name on something" is the only thing he knew how to do in business for most of his life (before he learned the secondary skill "play a successful businessman on TV").

A book is a lottery ticket, and you want to make sure it gets into the hat that they actually use to draw the winner.

Again, for reference. Should be mandatory reading always, but especially these days.

Unfortunately this is how I feel reading most positive reviews

Steady tapping breaks the stone

Tim’s pretty good, you should follow him on Instagram @ohthattimdavis.bsky.social

In 2023, seismologists detected a “global hum” originating in Greenland that lasted for 9 days. A rockslide triggered a 200m-high tsunami that sloshed back & forth in a fjord every 90 seconds, slamming into the fjord’s walls “like a beating heart”. [youtube.com]

Oh, it's just incredible and effortless how Kristen Stewart dismantles and diagnoses the pathology and ego of Brando (and... well, all the dudes in Hollywood) here. www.youtube.com/shorts/_h-iK... There's just so many parallels to tech in this. And I'm so glad she's solid in herself to just SAY it.

Academia and journalism made a point of speaking truth to power and now power is talking back.

To-do Lost

“Why do you write poetry?” To make a gazillion dollars in order to fly to the moon and kiss her rocky face

Four beautiful poems by Joanna Fuhrman, with audio, from metaphor to imagination, history to indexes of grief. Don't miss these beauties. https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/joanna-fuhrman/ #poems #poetry #poet #imagination #history #metaphor

Things I own that I’m looking for today: • spaced repetition study tracker • noise canceling over ear headphones • Finnish vocab flash cards • Finnish poetry anthologies • hair trimmer

The Downtown Music Gallery emails have resumed appearing in my inbox. Today’s brought a poem by Abiodun Oyewole, whom I knew in another life.

I woke up and heard a noise I wasn’t familiar with, and my first thought was, is something broken in the house. But it was rain, and the house is cozy.

My midwinter poem, from the Old Irish: news for you stag tongues winter snows summer's gone wind high-cold low sun short course tide's run deep-red bracken's hidden form brent geese cry's norm cold's caught bird's wing ice-time that's my news

You inspired me to do it again, with a poem by @catbake.bsky.social , one of my favorites on here. bsky.app/profile/kris...

Whatever make it 10 factor authentication.. I don't want to be able to sign into anything ever again

“The Hungarian poet Géza Röhrig…” is the sequence of words that begins this review of a movie I want to see and therefore want not to read reviews of just yet, but really, is a Hungarian poet an actor in a movie I want to see? Is this a Hungarian poet I want to translate.

BREAKING: The Florida Supreme Court upheld Florida’s law, making it the only state to allow juries split 8-4 to sentence people to death. Permitting non-unanimous, divided juries to sentence people to death is unconstitutional and increases the risk of executing an innocent person.