Against this future, we tailor a bespoke love, nooks sewn in calamity.” D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social) reviews Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon (Black Ocean, 2025), a lyrical meditation on damage, residuum, and reclamation. Read the full review: tinylink.net/6Fcdn

New review up at @variantlit.bsky.social! On OUR HUMAN SHORES by @burrowtongue.bsky.social (@blackoceanbooks.bsky.social), a "sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled poems" which "offers hope in ... human agency, despite the waves of damage now impacting our shared material realities."

TONIGHT: SDOT will be presenting the results of their Aurora study to a joint meeting of the Seattle Pedestrian and Transit Boards.

Josh Fomon, Our Human Shores / @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/josh...

“Heresies are dreamy, to me. They nudge us to think, to imagine, to forsake the given scripts and safety associated with conforming to received beliefs and conventions.” @civitaveritas.bsky.social interviews @alinaetc.bsky.social about My Heresies (@sarabandebooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/qCPYFBV

My #poetry book is now available for preorder from @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social! Check out my book Our Human Shores, which explores living in these trying times, existentialism, and the #ecopoetics of our world through a lyric exploration.

i am not being pollyannish when i insist that the people who sign up do not sign up to advance a president’s domestic political agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82

Keep up the fight!

John Ashbery

🎀 UK/Ireland Cover Reveal and Preorder Link Judas Goat (the87press edition) coming Oct 24, 2025

My second book, Our Human Shores, will be out from @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social in July! Very stoked to share this book and its incredible cover. This book clocks in at 184 pages and has poems from 2017-2022 and I think you’ll find something in it you’ll love.

Don't miss Black Ocean's own Tessa Bolsover, Spencer Lee-Lenfield, and James Shea with an introduction by Janaka Stucky in person at Grolier Poetry Book Shop or via Zoom on June 25 at 7 PM ET. Sign up here: buff.ly/JHsaA9C

Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February. He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."

I've had actual arguments with people about "Separating art from the artist." There's no separating this. Like Idk what to tell you, but trans people should be more important to you than like dobby the elf or whatever

"The author's compensation is his copyright, & it cannot be limited to money or fame or tenure. It must consist of independence, the freedom to write as one believes, & to find people to communicate with. A bad copyright law can destroy that independence; a good one can help to preserve it."

Ringer, 50 years before DOGE & AI slop: "...the combination of tyranny and technocracy could destroy not only freedom of expression and the quality of life but human culture itself."

Barbara Ringer, LOC Register of Copyrights, to an audience of writers & publishers in 1975: "If the users of the new communications technologies insist on using authors' works without giving some appropriate compensation in return, they will find that sooner or later there will be no authors..."

To thine own self be truant

Delighted to be a part of this mayhem💜🌺 Yes, that's TERRY DACTYL in the middle, out on magical November 11, oh my👠💥💫

Excited to see you at this and read some new and old poems!!!

Tomorrow! We're bringing you another amazing night with this #AWP25 off-site reading featuring our authors and poets from some of our favorite publishers. The Kulta from 6-10 PM!

Woke up and chose violence:

"You could smell the fear everywhere. But under the Syrian regime, you could hide the real meaning behind your words with metaphors. Metaphors would save you," Almadhoun explains." Ghayath Almadhoun (Action Books) on writing in a dictatorship: www.middleeasteye.net/discover/met...