WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

I forgot that #ArtAdventCalendar also includes photography! And what is more adventy, wintry and Christmassy than a robin?

Congrats to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees: Mikaela Hagen, @gabrielwelsch.bsky.social, @jstewartmiller.bsky.social, @duffusmatthew.bsky.social, Claire Hero, and @kellypedro.bsky.social. Good luck!

So good

I’ll be damned if I know.

Quiet, piggy.

Patricia Smith’s The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems has won the National Book Award for Poetry! Read more here: buff.ly/HKCSQQQ

Brutally accurate.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Here's a bit of alliterative humor from the redoubtable Martin Vine. #alliterative #poetry #medievalsky alliteration.net/poetry/king-pendas-apache-attack-helicopters/

I'm so honored to have my work featured on the Slow Down! Thank you, @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social. Wonderful timing, as I'm writing poems again and trying to finish a manuscript. New poems coming soon from some magazines near you! ✨

BotD is takeoffs, alternative cityslickers (birds in an urban context). Today I’ve got a barn swallow taking off from the roof, a blue tit taking off from its nest and a starling at Borough Market, London (although all birds shot in London!) #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #LondonBirds

perfect response: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

I just saw one part of the MONUMENTS show of decommissioned public monuments from across the American South. Specifically, I saw Kara Walker's reinterpretation of the Stonewall Jackson equestrian statue from Charlottesville, VA (where I lived for three years). The show is timely, to say the least.

My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:

We The People choose to fight for the right to maintain our 🗽 liberties, freedom, and life in these United States. #FreedomOverFascism

The Declaration of Independence:

A beautiful Bald Eagle circled overhead during our protest in Burnsville Minnesota and the crowd went wild #NoKings #Minnesota

Boston today - WOW!!

No Kings in Charlotte! The crowd is building and the vibe is great. We are doing this because we LOVE AMERICA. NO Kings, No Hate, Love for All

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

'October Gold', John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1889. There was a terrific exhibition of his work on at Scarborough Art Gallery when I was there to do the Grimms talk with artist Chris Wood; they were hung well and their atmosphere travelled well, as it did with Chris' eerie art.

This poem is stunning. If you haven't read Dressing The Bear, it's a must-read. Clean ~ Susan L. Leary -I often worried when I got the call, I'd be unprepared. But the morning my brother dies ——💙

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

W. S. Merwin

Important vaccine thread 👇🏽

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Jon Adams. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter to get the Daily Cartoon right in your inbox: nyer.cm/niP6eXi

There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

This reporter’s work influenced Forest Service policy in a good way! (Lead is kind of buried…) 🩺 🧪 I posted the original article when it came out. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/r...

I'm over the moon that Arthur Sze has been named our 25th U.S. Poet Laureate. Arthur was on the show for his new & collected The Glass Constellation and we looked back across his life as a poet in honor of it. ICYMI: 📻 tinhouse.com/podcast/arth... @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

As oceans warm, scientists warn of a sharp decline in phytoplankton, the foundation of the marine food web. These keystone species sustain hundreds of others, and their disappearance would devastate ocean ecosystems.

“We’re living through the fastest energy transformation in human history. Every previous large-scale shift in energy—from muscle power to wood to coal to oil—has taken decades or even longer. But the ‘renewable revolution’ is happening far faster.”

You can call on him all you want. Your time to have influence was when you could have blocked his nomination 🙄

New issue of Whale Road Review just dropped!!! 🍂 🎃 Grab your teas and pumpkin spice lattes and indulge some poems, prose, and pedagogy as a treat!

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES 🧵 DAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2025 NEVER FORGET 9/11 HONOR THEM To the hands that held each other through the smoke and the sorrow To the firefighters, police, medics, and all who showed the weight of that day you were UNBREAKABLE I had friends in Tower One My love forever 🙏

Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. -Adam Zagajewski Resharing a favorite. [trans. Clare Cavanagh, published in TheNewYorker’s Sept 2001 special issue] #everynightapoem

This is the only thing I am going to post on the Utah shooting. It’s something worth noting.

Thanks to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social & @slowdownshow.org for featuring my poem today. #BadHobby @milkweededitions.bsky.social www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

Can’t quite put my finger on why, but somehow the actual doodle makes it so much worse and more disgusting.

Guess what Florida will make great again? Measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, Haemophilus influenzae type b, Respiratory syncytial virus, influenza, Covid-19, hepatitis A & B, varicella, Human papillomavirus, Meningococcal meningitis & rotavirus

🔥🔥🔥 Whew! Stunning. Another must-read by @toddedillard.bsky.social

One of my favourites

Don't forget who empowered the SCOTUS and turned his dream into reality.

"Trump’s biggest reveal is what he shows about those around him; he is a mirror, and not a flattering one, for other people’s souls." @sbg1.bsky.social reviews the "longest, cringiest Trump Cabinet meeting yet." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

CINDY MCCAIN: “The desperation is overwhelming.”