Sometimes I can’t believe how fortunate we are that dogs let us take care of them.

let love be / at the end Lucille Clifton

“To families of transgender youth in Virginia: you are not alone. You deserve respect, privacy, and the freedom to make informed health care decisions with providers you trust. Our Commonwealth stands with you.” bit.ly/GACJointLetter

Today’s Feature: What Sparks Poetry: Debra Nystrom on Charles Wright’s “Ghost Days” from Scar Tissue published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Read here:

Machines in the lab. Retro arcade videogames, a typewriter that types you prompts to type back memories & prints the outcome as a zine; a even wooden generative poetry machine (last 2=by Critical Makerspace Fellows Holly Zhou, Alexa Luborsky; both w/Ammon Shepherd) +

This is the force of faith. Nobody gets / what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing / is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. —@joriegraham.bsky.social poets.org/poem/prayer

This is the force of faith. Nobody gets / what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing / is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. —@joriegraham.bsky.social poets.org/poem/prayer

good morning to everyone but leafblowers, perhaps my most despised way we try to control nature

Before I got to UVA & took Greg's workshop my first year, I honestly believed no one was actually still writing poems/books anymore—all poets were long dead. This was the poem that first made me realize you could do anything in a poem. This poem was a golden ticket for me, doing so much so simply.

I have never been more grateful for a paywall in my life.

the Sartre play of our times, just writing itself in the all-chat

truly nothing brings people together like the Microsoft Authenticator app going down at the beginning of a workday

CLUE (1985)

forget "read widely" or "kill your darlings"—*this* is perhaps the best piece of writing advice I could ever give someone

Rest In Power, Alice Wong.

See also: line cooks & bartenders, & tbf, the best waiters as well.

The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

It's a big night for Poetry Professors / IYKYK cc: @senatorhashmi.bsky.social

People who know me know that I am Baseball Superstitious so I don't say anything until ink is dry.

this might be the first meme I've ever made, is how tonight is going for me so far

Added benefit: connect a campaign like this w/shifting narrative around "public safety" & redefining what it means away from fear & punishment systems. "Safety" *is* later library hours, skate parks, infrastructure, green spaces, community centers, skillshares, &c (but also: 💜Build a skate park 💜)

Added benefit: connect a campaign like this w/shifting narrative around "public safety" & redefining what it means away from fear & punishment systems. "Safety" *is* later library hours, skate parks, infrastructure, green spaces, community centers, skillshares, &c (but also: 💜Build a skate park 💜)

it may be the end of Daylight Savings Time but it's the beginning of My Car Clock Is Finally Correct Again time

This is the one. And for more than just the only piece worth reading on the nazi tattoo—it's the one worth reading on the Dem problem writ large.

This is figuring it out, scaled to an individual's reach & capacity. Add up all the contributions like this & it makes a real difference.

Things judges have to say out loud in 2025 & we're still not assured it will be followed.

"Poppies in October" HBD, Sylvia Plath, botd 1932. She wins GOAT poet just for the word "flamily" here.

Found a baby rhino in my house this morning. (Not vicious, just yawning)

Selma the Whippet just got a new fall sweater.

Selma timeline cleanse / at least one of us is ready for winter

Every AI-generated “king” meme of Trump has him wearing literally the plastic crown from Walmart.

no matter how you feel about No Kings as an organizing tactic, being in the streets tomorrow is a good time to be very visually supportive of Trans and immigrant communities. people need to know ALL of us are against their vilification.

Pixies muzak playing at the grocery store is my latest seasonal affective disorder

From us at ACLU-VA: "Virginia’s next attorney general will have a crucial choice that will affect all of us: either protect Virginians from many of the attacks we’re seeing every day on our neighbors and our rights—or collude with a federal administration intent on ripping us apart."

From us at ACLU-VA: "Virginia’s next attorney general will have a crucial choice that will affect all of us: either protect Virginians from many of the attacks we’re seeing every day on our neighbors and our rights—or collude with a federal administration intent on ripping us apart."

Jesus, D'Angelo. BLACK MESSIAH is one of the defining artworks of this century.

Heartbroken. This is such an immeasurable loss / D'Angelo was actually a genius. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

"Bluesky is just an echo chamber of wokeness that doesn't make any room for dissenting views" Me:

maybe the worst "this could've been an email" of all time

"Jimmy Kimmel organizing response" but this time do democracy

the one thing I do like abt cooler/colder weather coming on is that I get to just dress like an actual catburglar every day of my life until at least March

VIRGINIA: Today is the first day of early voting. I cannot overstate how important this year's state election is—for Governor, Lieutenant Gov, & maybe even especially Attorney General, as well as all 100 seats of the House of Delegates. Find your polling site info at acluva.org/voters-rights

The written dismissal is perhaps the most brutal "it's in the syllabus" meme I've ever seen.

VIRGINIA: Today is the first day of early voting. I cannot overstate how important this year's state election is—for Governor, Lieutenant Gov, & maybe even especially Attorney General, as well as all 100 seats of the House of Delegates. Find your polling site info at acluva.org/voters-rights

DC statehood now.

Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid and The Sting have been my two favorite movies since I was 9 years old.

Is anyone else always living a couple of parallel lives in their head that they check in on from time to time or is that just me being a writer

tfw yr emotional & spiritual growth as a person can be measured out at any given point in your life by the amount & way you appreciate & understand Mary Oliver poems

CHANTILLY, VA: ICE is overcrowding arrested/abducted ppl into a glorified office building w/little-to-no basic food, hygiene, medical or access to attorneys, up to 80ppl in a single glass box for days, a govt-enacted humanitarian crisis literally in our own backyards. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...

when a dog has a big stretch you always have to say “Big Stretch!” or it didn’t happen