It’s CRAZY that I get to chat with @roxanegay.bsky.social about RESTING BITCH FACE tomorrow night!!! AHHHH!!!

If you are also stressed out and filled with rage, please remember to eat a high protein meal to avoid stomach pains and headaches due to hunger and dehydration. And there is no shame in heating up canned soup or microwave meals when your executive function is low.

A reminder that follow-for-follow schemes and all forms of follow farming are harmful, contribute to the spread of misinfo and disinfo, & legitimize bad actors, willful and otherwise. Don’t follow farm. Block everyone who does. Idc if they’re funny or famous or seem nice. They perpetuate harm.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Love this poem about "The little things in our ecosystem" Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform by Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social in You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World #poetry #poems @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2024/03/29/f...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, the Brooklyn Book Festival! brooklynbookfestival.org/event_type/f...

Up early this morning, walked the dog under an impossibly bright coupe glass moon, living this poem almost word for word & & & www.dmqreview.com/hueyf25

Happy #NationalVoterRegistrationDay! We're officially 49 DAYS AWAY from the November elections. Make sure you're registered to vote & double check your state's voter ID laws!

Muriel Rukeyser

Hey, so, for various reasons I haven't been able to do a slew of readings for my new book like one is supposed to do, which means I have a handful here still. Let me know if you want a signed copy dropped in the mail sometime this week! DM for details, Venmo, CashApp, whatever.

I already have my copy, so I know whereof I speak when I say that y'all want your copies, too.

Get your COVID shots, y'all! A great thing to do TODAY if you have a minute.

They’re ok ☺️

Today is “drag and tag,” tagging sharks with drag queens while raising money for LGBQT+ youth organizations in Florida! www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...

“I am sorry,” said Frog. “That hat is much too big for you. I will give you something else.” “No,” said Toad. “This hat is your present to me. I like it. I will wear it the way it is.”

Poetry prompt

At last Frog came back to Toad.

I’m giving a (rescheduled until Thursday) free public talk about marine biology, ocean conservation, and sharks! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

TONIGHT!

Join us on Sept 16th at 6pm (ET) for our Fall 2025 Contributor Reading Event! We'll have 13 contributors from Issue 36 sharing their work. The event will be in Google Meet. The link to join is in the article on our website: www.doorisajarmagazine.net/articles/doo...

I was thinking recently about how much I missed writing dialogue. This piece I wrote for the "my body, my choice" inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary uses lots of dialogue and is very short. I'd love for you to read it and the whole amazing debut issue! 💙 hotflashliterary.com/wyoming/

Hey! Shout-out to my fellow teachers & teacher-writers going back to work this time of year. I know a lot of you stay off-line a lot in summer, so hey FYI, my debut poetry collection came out at the end of June.

Please come see @majda.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social Julia Kolchinsky read their new books for @notatawp.bsky.social on Tuesday, September 9th at 7pm. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nawp-a-rea...

Buy a book from Stanchion! They're great!

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.

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

oh. my. goodness "Because you are alive, & alive, & alive — & the heart, that reckless anarchist, won’t stop beating its fists against the dark"

TODAY is the last day to enter the SFPA Poetry contest! Open to all!! sfpoetry.org/wp/annual-co...

Call your reps - Ds and Rs - and tell them to publicly demand the resignation/firing of RFK, Jr. Tell them if you die of COVID, they will personally be responsible if they don't do something about this. reps.fyi

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Hey writers: you're doing amazing work, and we're proud of you for making art in trying times. Keep at it.👏 ❤️

We're looking forward to seeing a lot of people here on 9/7. Please help us spread the word.

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Resistance www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Every lie is another opportunity to yell the truth. Please consider chipping in monthly to support us and grab a Holler hat: tnholler.com/holler-hats/ 🧢

This link will be live tomorrow/Thursday/Aug21 from 7am – noon ET. See y'all then! havehashad.submittable.com/submit/33451...

If you see this post a robot:

As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

Just to be clear, states have constitutional authority over their elections, not the federal government. Trump's attacks on mail-in voting are illegal and purely designed to sow distrust in the 2026 midterm election results. Your reps should be saying that. 👉 5calls.org/issue/electi...

COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation. It comes as California students, for example, return to the classroom after RFK Jr. nixed the CDC’s recommendation that they receive booster shots. www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Love this poem by @mitchnobis.bsky.social in his new @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social collection of poems! Thanks for sharing @flightlit.bsky.social !

One more run to the lake for summer '25, and then life starts to (maybe? possibly?) get a bit more predictable, at which point hey hi howdy I'd love to do some more readings, interviews, etc. for my debut poetry book. Say hey!

Finally remembering to post a couple signed copies of Larks—holler if you’d like one. $18, with shipping. 💙📚

i remember the electric reading @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social gave at a bar in AWP Austin 20+ years ago, and remember the electric feeling of reading this book shortly after, and adore how this book still hums electric when I read it—one of the few I return to again and again

I have a new story thing in @havehashad.com. I'm grateful and humbled to appear in this amazing journal. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/whi...

"I’m still bandaged from your last love" "Self-Portrait as Hereboy, Sethe’s Dog in Beloved" by Saeed Jones (@theferocity.bsky.social) in Poem-A-Day poets.org/poem/self-po...

Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call… HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775 HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000 PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well. NONE of this is okay. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Oh, yeah, so on that note, here's my book, Bluesky. 😁

THE BLUEBERRIES *gasps in poetry* @thecorlew.bsky.social these are so good