All my years on 80, 78, and 76 and I never saw this town name before.

Three nonnegotiable requirements before I go to work, and fifteen other things I want to get done before 7:15 (am) 👋

I hear from old friends when I publish new poems.

I wish being irrationally unswerving from aesthetic choices was modernist coded again and not Gen X crank litmus

More new poems! In The Fortnightly Review open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...

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Sirius segued from Fool If You Think It’s Over to Baker Street. Time is a flat circle

ㅤ I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit. — Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home vid: A group of young Kestrels seeing a butterfly for the first time ㅤ

“The Pod Save guys boosted their favorite failson former coke dealer”

POEM 339: "They Depart" by Kyla Houbolt (@luaz.bsky.social) "Venus bows her gold-tressed head. You know, Diana, your hunting skills have surely improved. See our Jung down there now, an arrow through his brilliant heart, he's fallen from his loft indeed!" stonecirclereview.com/they-depart/ #Poem

Wemby Free Throw Shrug

Reggie Miller is not fun to listen to

More new poems! In The Fortnightly Review open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...

What if Bob was one of us

From *Brickworks* by @russellcarisse.bsky.social

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; , some further above/ground press author activity, (if you'll have it, / @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social @jrcarpenter.bsky.social @whatisapoem.bsky.social @jordandavis.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/once-more-...

Congrats to the coop brain genius moralists for boycotting Al Arz tahini.

Ask Claude to recommend what persona to present in the interview, with talking points and responses to “tough questions”

It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work

I woke up listing the (nonfiction) books I need to read to do justice to a book of poems I want to review — I’d estimate it’s about 1200-1500 pages of supporting material, on top of the 1200 pages of poems and essays by the poet, and 200 pages of interviews. For a 2000 word (unpaid) review

I have had the intro to “Airbag” in my head for like two months now. TBH I’m cool with it

BiNg BoNg

jkjk foot on the gas/throat till it’s done

Have we ever seen Fat Joe and Bill Burr in the same place

Here we go

How to buy my new book — sider0xylon.carrd.co#catalogue

Many times, stuck in a bad habit, I find myself saying out loud "Sorry, God."

This beauty by J-T Kelly #poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

How to buy my new book — sider0xylon.carrd.co#catalogue

The Feelies | Slipping (Into Something), So Far - White Eagle Hall, Jersey City 5/23/2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO1kQN2hyao

Ok, got to get going. Did I show you these yet

My new book

I am delighted that my illustration, of senescing cherry laurel leaves infected with bacterial shot hole (Pseudomonas syringae), has been displayed in the ABA online exhibition ‘Unusual’. See my piece here hgpenningtonart.com/... Explore the exhibition www.assocbotanicalar...

Bumping up the difficulty level by not reading work on Shabbat toward anything I’m writing about. This may be a step too far tbh

Ok basketball, what *else* can you do

B.i.n.g b.o.n.g

In case I haven't made it clear, all of Graham Platner's reddit posts have not yet been released to the press. Like this one: "You civilian fucking pansies tend to be shit at murder in my experience, and yet you judge us by your standards?"

Yessssss I knew it

What I hated the most about him was that everything screeched to a halt when he got the ball. Dribble, dribble, dribble, wait until the shot clock is down to 3, then makes his move. The beauty of bodies in motion & magical passes & unbelievable athleticism--all gone.

Ingenious applications of intelligence solve the problem of desire. — Harryette Mullen

I saw people said a Nobel laureate owned up to consulting LLMs and I thought they meant Dylan lol

There’s a concert tribute to Jill Sobule next Friday in Western Mass. I won’t be able to get there and I haven’t finished my Lori McKenna listen-thru but I’ve been meaning to hear all of JS’s work again soon. Reminded.

Keep going / and then what happened / you were saying

A Sportico editor accused Sports Illustrated of plagiarism, suggesting that AI may have been used to generate the plagiarized piece. SI deleted the author and his entire archive from its website. Social media profiles associated with the author have also disappeared. futurism.com/artificial-i...

The porta potty smell of New York in summer starts earlier every year

2026 #2 is getting there cc @robmclennan.bsky.social

Harryette Mullen

A politician is someone who sells the life you need to live for the politician to maintain personal power

Instead of putting everything in the bag that I want to read on the bus and over lunch for the week I’m trying to plan and limit what goes with me each day. The simplest things I have had to learn first. A schedule, limited options. Some choice but no time lost choosing.

Not sad enough