Delighted to have a poem up this week in Psaltery & Lyre! Alt text for the photo appearing with the link: a close-up photo of a small wicker basket filled with a variety of wild mushrooms.

I got my first book club spam - purportedly from an Australian organization - last week. Because it wasn't the standard "book promoter" spam I read it through and did spend a minute wondering if it was a real thing but then I just deleted it.

Also, like, these people are just sitting there? Reading? That's like calling sports fans performative for attending matches.

Switzerland ended daylight savings time 2 weeks ago and the cats are still impatiently expecting 6pm dinner at 5pm.

This is completely bonkers. Also, I understand Switzerland has a much smaller population than the US & is logistically easier to manage. But. In the coming days my child will turn 18. A short time past said birthday there is an election. Said child has already received their voting materials.

Wrote about Condé ending Teen Vogue as we knew it. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

There are lit mags out there forbidding entire POVs? What are we doing?

I'm sending off a stack of work on paper, and since it's going to the US I pulled out a ream of 8 1/2 x 11 paper and wow, the size of 8 1/2 x 11 paper is oddly satisfying. It must be reaching some deep cultural touchstone lol

PDX peeps! What are you doing next Monday? How about attending STORYTELLING AGAINST HUNGER, a 5-hour marathon of author readings & open mic fun that's a fundraiser for the @oregonfoodbank.bsky.social ???? Rose City Book Pub, 4 pm - 9pm. bit.ly/43i9s8D

Teen Vogue rising after the 2016 election and dying after the 2024 election doesn't even feel like a metaphor as much as a microcosm of what is happening all over places that were once strong areas of resistance.

This is bad

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Fuck, I knew they were coming for Teen Vogue.

My alma mater Pacific University where I attended @pacificmfa.bsky.social sent a fundraising request for food pantry programs serving the Pacific community in light of federal food aid ending Sat & I have never reached for my wallet faster. There's so much I can't do from overseas but I can do that.

I've told this story for about 16 years. When my youngest was 1-3, he was overly adventurous. It never occurred to him that he couldn't do the things his older brother could do - climb ladders & trees & run fast down the street - and there were a lot of bumps and bang ups & some pediatric ER visits

Turn off Gemini in Google! It's been turned on by default. Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

New Chelsea Dingman poem! www.amsterdamreview.org/we-have-know...

another fee-free submission opportunity

The rare still fee-free submission opportunity, opening 1 November (@derekjgwilliams.bsky.social)

Very bummed that my kid has so much Sunday evening hockey this season :( Next time!

Feeling a bit better about my poetry collection Tumor Moon not being a finalist upon seeing some of the powerhouses who are finalists. Thanks to @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social for expanding the opportunity for post-publication awards.

Shout out to Soham Patel at the Georgia Review for making my first-ever review-essay SO MUCH BETTER. Tighter. Cleaner. Sharper. More clear.

Happy release day to @djvorreyer.bsky.social whose fourth full-length collection, Unrivered, is now available from Sundress Publications! sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri...

"Good art is a truing of vision, in the way a saw is trued in the saw shop, to cut more cleanly" - Jane Hirshfield

Which circle of Hell is this? 8th (Sins of Fraud) or 7th (Violence against God, nature, and art)?

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Oh this sounds like it's going to be right up my alley. Clearing some time tomorrow for a good listen.

It's almost October, and @dylanwardwriter.bsky.social's got seven queer writers with experimental horror novels that will definitely unnerve you this Halloween, check 'em out below! chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/29/7...

"—in poetry, a landscape is never only outer, it is also a portrait of a state of soul." - Jane Hirshfield, "Poetry and the Mind of Concentration"

This is going to be super fun for US-Americans living abroad, hohoho

“This is the work of the threshold: to step into places of seeming barrenness, emptiness, or neglect and bring back an abundance new-coined” – Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

Reading back through an old notebook where I'd simply written the title of this Richard Siken poem, so I re-read it and now I'm sharing it all with you. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48158/...

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

🎶It's the most wonderful time of the year🎶 www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n... (The photo accompanying this news story shows an Alaska brown bear wading in a river)

Pathetic. Pathetic, spineless, gutless, feckless, worthless - all the lesses. Primary all of these people.

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God grant me the wisdom to write this email I've been putting off for 4 days

A woman I know who LOVES her cruises is looking to unload her Disney Vacation Membership as of today....

I needed this this morning. www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Outstanding news!

Hi @yallaalia.bsky.social you and @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social should know each other! Writers unite!

After a few delays, my flight home from #EWSBrussels2025 was finally canceled. I’ve been rebooked for tomorrow and am now enjoying the liminal space of an airport hotel with 2 other Switzerland-based writers in the same boat.

lol the @nytimes.com closed comments on the Ezra Klein piece. I was going to simply leave "Your body, my choice" as my comment but 🤷🏻‍♀️

Found poetry

Love you, Chicago!

For my Illinois peeps 👇

Just in time for us! @saloneurope.bsky.social