Got my copy of @apoetlibrarian.bsky.social's new book in the mail this morning. Going to re-read it over some ginger tea.

Some good news today: Juliana Spahr (Ars Poeticas, poetry) and Yiyun Li (Things in Nature Merely Grow, Nonfiction) both won the Pulitzer! 🤘🩷🤘

Check out these three cool erasure #poems by Melissa Eleftherion in @villaineralit.bsky.social, drawn from the text of Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews! Here's a sample: Why I sound a morning soft The wind scraped crevices We sin g a death villaineralit.com/2026/03/17/t...

I’m grateful to Lisa Marie Basile for publishing 2 of my dark persona poems in Luna Luna. Hope you eat the four seeds & break free too.. www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-...

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "the waves" by Melissa Eleftherion (@apoetlibrarian.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/the-waves/

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

Being on a self-imposed DIY writing retreat during both AWP and WW III is very distracting. Any tips?

I think it’s time for a revolution of gorgons

My college-age son’s parting words to me last night “Good night & FUCK ICE”

diane di prima REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #14

Chicago has opened its first food pantry inside a public library. blockclubchi.co/49TjbEH

some above/ground press author activity: Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Melissa Eleftherion, Orchid Tierney, Juliet Cook, Isabel Sobral Campos, Benjamin Niespodziany + Stan Rogal, / @orchidtierney.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/09/some...

Prop 50 for dummies: It’s the X to block the 2 OOs your opponent threw down in Tic-Tac-Toe

5 minutes. That's all it takes to start fighting book bans. It's #LetFreedomReadDay. We're asking you to do at least one thing today to fight censorship. Then keep doing it! bit.ly/LetFreedomReadDay We're stronger TOGETHER. #CensorshipIsSo1984 #BannedBooksWeek

That part of Mouth for War where he talks about “hairspray to hold raw energy”

A library patron grabbed me by the tiny hole in my cardigan - “You have a hole!” #librarianlife

It’s 10pm. Do you know where the Epstein files are?

My heart, my hermit crab essay. So much late 80s metal in my queer desire

Re: Covid vax ban, they have backed down before in the face of pushback on medical issues. This requires outcry from the public and electeds. Use @5calls.org and @resist.bot to contact your reps. Here is a script. I'm focusing on "most vulnerable" as those move the narrative the easiest.

Got another flat tire & am reminded of how much easier my life was when I rode a bike to work everyday!

Mini midlife crisis number 6 is buying yourself stickers and an LL Cool J cd for your birthday

martial law is trending, y’all

Writing linear sentences is such a struggle for me. All these characters moving through rooms. How do novelists do this?

I love Kamala Harris & would vote for her again

The best library staff meetings include Storytime 📚📚

“In the fields, the bodies burning As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to mankind Poisoning their brainwashed minds” I wish this weren’t still so fucking relevant. Rip Ozzy

My teenage son called me at work instead of texting so I worried something was wrong. He just wanted to talk about Ozzy dying 😭 Rip 💖 Bark at the Moon got me through middle school

Even some of Trump's biggest media supporters are turning on him over the Epstein cover-up. app.sosha.ai/s/iRD7fmJG

Erasing & remixing texts of canonized dead, white men to excavate and make visible the voices of women. Or, if I had a poetics. Silence is a girl shaped is a visual poem that erases the text of A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter. #iykyk #vispo

“We don’t believe you Cause we the people”

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

If you ever wanna talk shit about someone without them knowing, put it in a poem.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

A library patron came in to my work yesterday to tell me she read my first book (field guide to autobiography) and it was like “sitting in a tide pool high on mushrooms” 🍄

Do you too prioritize your dog’s comfort?

some above/ground press author activity: Orchid Tierney, Ryan Skrabalak, Julie Carr, Elizabeth Robinson, Michael Martin Shea + Melissa Eleftherion, / @apoetlibrarian.bsky.social @orchidtierney.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/some...

Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”. This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.

NEW POEM #234: "the waves" by Melissa Eleftherion (@apoetlibrarian.bsky.social) "it’s the rocks, all the while that get me the hard & the fissure the fragment & tender iridescent wonder in a sea of countless living things" stonecirclereview.com/the-waves/ #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

some above/ground press author activity: Ellen Chang-Richardson, Terri Witek, rob mclennan, Genevieve Kaplan, Melissa Eleftherion, Jessi MacEachern @jessisays.bsky.social , Erín Moure + Brook Houglum, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/05/some...

Community acupuncture for all. What a gift to have meridians in communication. And to rest! Sweet rest in the middle of the day. Oh to live and love freely in this world and to allow ourselves to rest

Thanks to my teenager, my knee jerk reaction is often “what is bro doing?”

working final edits for the book of sentences (@ucalgarypress.bsky.social, october), my follow-up to the book of smaller (u calgary press, 2022); did you know you can already pre-order? press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...

Let us be the sunlight that destroys the mold upon our nation.

Today’s poetry prompt is The White House wants me to have a white baby

Are we still in the before times?

In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.

Today was a day of cat puke, taxes & the fascist terribles. Gratitude to De La Soul & Tribe for keeping me sane the past few days ❤️

even when you feel you can write no new poems, still then, the poems do come

If y’all would have just believed women the first time, we wouldn’t be on the cusp of a totalitarian regime.