nothing says christmas like a shitty hallmark movie with a dead parent and a family business on the brink of ruin

I actually never cared about nicki minaj tbh

so refreshing to be on vacation and to finally reply to personal emails i should have replied to days ago

if you don't want a book for the holidays, maybe don't be friends with me?

I never actually cared about liam neeson tbh

Nina Iskrenko, trs. Forrest Gander & Joy Dworkin

wrote an oped but tossed it to two newspapers (and not one) and now i feel a little guilty abt it... not sure why--it's fair game if they don't specify they're anti-simultaneous subs, right?

only one more year until i can apply to macdowell again, lol

Gary McDowell

Larry Levis

Wonder if I'm the only one who has stopped (or at least grown highly suspect of) using most .gov sites in post-2024 research

I learned it from watching you, Charlie Brown. I learned it from watching you!

Ugh, I was just listening to Jimmy Cliff yesterday! Rest in power, legend. youtu.be/7Znh0OM9jiA?...

We are the case. John Ashbery

Most collosal disappointment of a celebrity bc of their Trump support? Go.

hey remember that time I got rejected from princeton?

A round of applause for the 2025 #NBAwards winner in Poetry: Patricia Smith for The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems.

We hope your decorative gourds are still kicking ass on your porch or mantel or in your all-gourd reenactments of 'Diff’rent Strokes' eps. #BLAMMO

David Carter's Stonewall book completely changed me, but the text I had read years ago was a library copy. I was writing an essay and needed to include a quote, so I finally ordered my own copy #myownprivatestonewall

Such a glorious feeling to read a book, think you're only halfway through it, and then scan the back pages consisting of pages upon pages of index and appendices. Like, oops, nevermind! I'm 75 percent through! Almost there!

"But oh, Lou. Maybe that means we get to keep ourselves, too" www.short-reads.org/deadhead/?fb...

I have the weekend off. Can I remember how to be a writer and a reader

If you can't figure out post-production to align the sound volume between your interviewer and subject, please don't make a podcast... marie howe literally soundd like she's whispering in this interview

but how about this banger from Carl Phillips?

Excellent critique on @theatlantic.com article "Is America Sliding Toward Illiteracy?" written by a veteran teacher: www.adn.com/opinions/202...

Yes.

so when i calculate a word count, does the title get lumped in there? asking as a poet writing an essay who usually doesn't calculate word counts.

really wish higher ed didn't pay garbage so I could feel good about an exhaustive application process. "Donaldson Writer in Residence" would be a beautiful title if "hourly employees" were not "subject to 29 hours per week max." These positions are for people with rich husbands.

I know this is some bougie shit, but I really wish bars just had some kombucha on tap as their alcohol-free option. It's good for the gut!

I love when reality tv show contestants just up and leave on their own accord. Like, yes, you gave those producers enough, you're tired, you know you're unlikely to win, you're not in an actor's union... assert your power.

Perfect timing for this story to drop on the same day Amazon lays off 30,000 workers due to claims of AI efficiencies. If companies have less work for people to do, they don’t give you Fridays off, they lay off people until everyone has a full workweek.

Had a student completely lose their shit when I said they couldn't use ChatGPT with their essays. "Why? Can't I just look up facts?" "No. You can't. Wanna see the MIT study on AI and essay writing?" "Just don't talk to me!" I'd call this a teenage tantrum, but no: it's typical addict behavior.

Red line to Boston Book Festival, then back to Braintree to read in Buzzard's Bay--sometimes it's exhausting filling your soul with poems, but how blessed this exhaustion.

#nokings #hyannis

1) comma with coordinating conjunction 2) semicolon 3) semicolon followed by coordinating conjunction followed by a comma 4) colon (if there is a causal relationship between first and second clause) 5) comma (only if there are more than two independent clauses) 6) the dash ("for emphasis") 🪗

LinkedIn is the weirdest space of AI worship & kiss assery

U S Mutant Ninja Turtles have risen from the radioactive ooze. Splinter says, "I, too, once had a family, Danny," and brings brainwashed youth back to the light, and we all, together, fight ICE #usmnt

Michael Eugene Archer aka D’Angelo 🖤🕊️

Why doesn't starring emails work?

I'm not sure why I keep getting these emails, but I shamelessly read every AI-generated word. "Hey cosmic baddies!"

Loved this poetry book so much! It was an honor to judge.

I'm both thrilled and shocked to announce this! Thank you Honorée Fonanne Jeffers for selecting my work for this honor. @upittpress.bsky.social has been a dream press since as long as I've been at this--not enough emojis for all these feels.

This is terrorism in America.

"What would happen if I turned off my phone?" is my daily affirmation

Added this underrated banger to my running playlist. Also: the 90210 allusion here youtu.be/8Mtiecwd4ic?...

Welp...: Tonight on the Shuffle Up: Save Me by Aimee Mann www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0V8...