Anyone else under the suspicion that none of this is worth it?

I get that it's Pride month, but I'm a teacher in June & therefore spending my weekends sleeping

Annual rejection from Bread Loaf!

How to get yr students to stop using AI for their essays? Assign books from Indie presses. Assign new poetry titles. The bots don't know shit, the kids have to think, & it's a win-win.

Really wish writers would just stop using "unlock" in their corporate copy. I get that it's a benefit-driven verb, but we don't need it EVERYWHERE.

Here's your Art of the Deal. It's almost as though having virtually any experience in diplomacy would help these talks. Instead we get this white supremacist, bootlicking class traitor. www.npr.org/2026/04/12/n...

Finally caved and watched Love Story, & yes, painfully historically inaccurate & clearly written for protagonist-antagonist character development. & they did Daryl Hannah dirty! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

Friends! I know the world is burning. But, just for a moment, you can celebrate with me: This is the cover of my book of poems. Can't thank Alex Wolfe enough for this crisp attention to graphic design. And feeling very eager to hold this spine in my hands!

heyhey my book, retrovirology, has a due date! It will be birthed from my loins (and from the loins of the printer) on September 15, 2026 through @upittpress.bsky.social DM me if you want to 1. read together, 2. talk about queer docupoetics, 3. need an ARC, or 4. just nerd out about poetry #booksky

Hot-take: Go with Subfolio, not Submittable if you're an editor, managing editor, & lit-mag starter that doesn't want to overpay. I've used it as both a submitter & an editor: better functionality, user friendly, cheaper--overall better experience.

A Palm Sunday poem therumpus.net/2022/04/16/n...

"Protests don't do anything," said the person who has never been to a protest.

rewatching Cruel Intentions & remember feeling pure fear at this storyline as a 13 year old; now I can't stop laughing

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

I never actually cared about the men's U.S. hockey team tbh

Bhanu Kapil

We must protect Connor Storrie from that demon at all costs.

Made a list of first book contests for folx with a poetry collection forthcoming this year. If anyone wants it, feel free to DM me

make 'what are you reading?' a normal question... akin to 'how are you?'

"post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains"

Kathleen Fraser

Late to this party--love when a narrator's voice can carry the plot and keep the pages turning. Having worked with so many kids from this level of poverty, I'll attest to the broken system laid out here. This book is a masterpiece.

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.