My actual brother promoting my poetry berg-brothers!

Start your climb of Berg x Berg x Berg now! Thanks to my fellow bergs, @gachzoldberg.bsky.social and Dan Rosenberg for the fun, and to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social for giving it a home!

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Concessions" by Ori Fienberg (@artfulherring.bsky.social‬) stonecirclereview.com/concessions/

Thrilled to have two sonnets to share with you today! electricliterature.com/two-poems-by... via @electricliterature.com

I 100% would have used ChatGPT for homework when I was in school, because homework sucked ass. However, if I hadn't been forced to bullshit a lot of essays 15 minutes before class I wouldn't have learned that I enjoy writing. The moral is to destroy both ChatGPT and homework.

Inside the secret bunker, a secret library Inside the secret library, a secret book Inside the secret book, a secret bunker... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

i talked about why it's important to have a community and make art, especially now: open.substack.com/pub/emilymal...

Who is 35 in New York and wants to run for office?

It’s over a 100 years after the great Jewish crusader for free speech, Emma Goldman, was deported from USA for her speaking out. Yet history repeats itself. People shouldn’t be deported for speaking out. People shouldn’t be deported for speaking out. We mustn’t stay silent.

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

“And we need to be there for people, now more than ever.” A beautiful post by @emilyfmaloney.bsky.social. Check it out, friends.💜

Had a dream last night that I was a poet--can you imagine?

What are you celebrating today? I'm thrilled to have two poems, alongside so many poets whose work I admire, in the latest issue of Smartish Pace.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

"But there’s something sinister about the way brands keep finding bigger, flashier ways to repurpose great moments in art to sell products" is a thing I wrote about a mayonnaise ad because I am in a normal and cool state of mind www.eater.com/24354679/whe...

When someone asks how the new poem draft is going...

A transformative poetry experience and community!

Happy 5th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary! #Geology ⚒️

I do not want any record of the shit decisions I make except my own haunted guilt and poor memory. Fuck off robots

During these difficult times, it's important to cherish the little things, like walks in the forest, spending time with loved ones, a beautiful sunset, the cries of terror as an entire village flees before your flaming visage, a good book.

I don't think Elon Musk doing a clumsy salute makes him a Nazi. I do think that supporting Nazi-adjacent international political parties and propagating Great Replacement Theory talking points and kowtowing to elected officials who kowtow to Nazi-friendly pundits makes him... Oh, whatever.

If you are arrested in Illinois protesting deportation actions are under the Trump administration, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].

No.

Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge). You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*

Temperatures will continue until morale improves.

"Lynchian" is a fully realized and instantly comprehensible adjective, as concrete a one-word summation of an artist's aesthetic and worldview as has ever been associated with any artist in any medium. Things will forever be Lynchian, but there was only one David Lynch. #RIP

Me in the summer: I am a brilliant young god, I will live forever Me in the winter: I am a fragile, eldritch being, held together with tape and glue, I will blow away like ancient dust

i sent my book to my agent, pls clap

This awesome group is reading & reviewing small press books this year to raise the visibility of great, often overlooked presses & authors. Follow them all! go.bsky.app/E6oomtn #100smallpress

What need then, for poetry? Great need! - From the preface to 101 Famous Poets, edited by Roy J Cook, 1929

What is HOLDING YOU BACK from being 100% cozy?

Mark Baumer (1983-2017)

Thrilled to have a poem, April is the cruelest month, except all the ones before it, in this issue!

Erasure of the Threepenny Review auto-displayed message following online submission:

The deadline for submissions to the Great Lakes Anthology is January 31! I'm particularly interested in finding: - Work about Indiana (Gary, East Chicago, the dunes, etc) - Work about Erie, PA or NY (Rochester, Buffalo, etc) - All nonfiction in general! chireviewofbooks.com/2024/09/06/c...

Days of Braise.

What is HOLDING YOU BACK from being 100% cozy?

"golden sugar cube"

The much-missed Jonathan Demme's documentary "Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains" is streaming on Amazon, if anybody is interested in such things.

Moving to Germany to pursue my dream of becoming a champion pretzel cutter.

Now probably isn’t the time to tell the guys at the tire store that I’ve watched “Days of Thunder” enough times to know that they should be able to give me four new tires in under 12 seconds.

Just found a gorgeous property on the San Andreas Fault. What could go wrong?

Albert Goldbarth

My poem "I’m trying to write about A.I. and Why It Bad" was just published on Eunoia Review 💚 eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2024/12/25/i...

Non-paywalled post. Rest in peace Rickey Henderson. The greatest leadoff man of all time. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Went to HomeGoods & really REALLY wanted to buy this. No discourse only Disco Horse.

It is lovely and perfect. Thanks @emilyfmaloney.bsky.social