every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

I'm still seeing people talk on this app like it's only the children of immigrants who are born here who benefit from birthright citizenship. Everyone born here benefits from it. It's how you are a citizen.

This sentence! "In a hearing on Tuesday, as O’Connor handed down sentences of decades in prison, the judge said he was ordering the maximum allowed in each case because 'the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology,' according to a support committee for the defendants."

⭕️The Circle is always open. Send your best poem. I'm looking for work that reminds the reader not everything can be measured or explained. No fee. Four-week turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

Louise Glück ♥️ “You see again how far away / each thing is from every other thing.” from AVERNO

so much is against reading for pleasure, writing for play, looking without agenda, wondering, just wondering. too much keeps us from beauty that is freedom, from mystery that is freedom, from the freeing questions, from the free inner life that is (or should be!) always ours

but our allies need to love trans people more as well, not just tolerate us or use us as a meat shield for their own rights. until u truly fall in love with us, u all have work to do too, besties

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

can’t tell yall enough what a breakthrough it was for me to learn from this interview that most people just want to feel like they’re being obeyed they rarely follow up on whether you actually obey them

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

This narrative during Pride month was absolutely intentional. The corporate media is fully in for fascism and desperate for you to agree.

A entire region of National Parks just unionized. About 650 workers in eight states and over 10 parks have won their union. The parks represented include: - Glacier National Park - Grand Canyon National Park - Grand Teton National Park - Rocky Mountain National Park And more.

Sandro Chia (b. 1946), Faces (detail) (tapestry)

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

A very real, very scary thing

$35 dollar reading fee for an open sub call with a tiny cap at a press that's always on the verge of collapsing and doing heavy fundraising! I used to want it, so bad. The THOUSANDS of bucks my young poet self spent, whew.

there's something remarkable how on a scientific level we're performing what would essentially be miracles and on a cultural/political level, we're going in reverse

The silly little ritual of Supreme Court opinion days is a perfect illustration of the justices’ self-absorption. “We’re gonna decide cases but it’s a SURPRISE which ones, so just keep refreshing this browser tab to find out who still has civil rights!” Profoundly stupid institution. I loathe it.

This isn’t actually funny but I keep cackling to myself when people say we should pursue AI because it will tell us how to solve climate change. Like, we *know* how, we’re just not. ::burns so much fossil fuel to ask:: hey AI, what do? AI: “stop burning fossil fuel”

Those last 4 lines are some of the best I've read in a while.

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry. -- John Ashbery

The profound part of Juneteenth for me is that before this was made a holiday, there was no official celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. When the 13th Amendment passed in December 1865, the legislators who witnessed its enshrinement imagined that the day would be remembered.

Wanna see my first king size quilt?

Taken me a long time to start to even remotely feel that this is the point of life (art)

'The jump' quilt by Spanish quilter and textile artist Cristina Arcenegui Bono, inspired by an illustration by Ukrainian artist Svetlana Dorosheva #WomensArt

The songbirds returned! How can I tell? They found my lunch and shat on it. --matsuo bashô

that photo of them all with George W makes me want to scream

Here's my actual true opinion. The only way to fix all of this nonsense is rent affordability and health care . If people can afford the rent and get healthcare, then they can start and go to work for normal businesses, and write and make art and music. And there can be third places, etc etc.

Pretending that education is just job training and that it should be stripped of all non-utilitarian elements is one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas. Acting like it's some kind of axiom we should be using to orient ourselves at the moment is disastrously wrong-headed.

Lorna Simpson, 3 Main Characters (ink and screenprint on gessoed fibreglass, 2022)

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/4veRIqA

you want to write poems? you should study biology, history, horticulture, handiwork, art history, sociology, politics theoretical and practical, home economics and housekeeping, music, physics and/or astronomy, etc.

small presses do the work and poets' relationships with them are invaluable. more poets should make books, at all scales, with their own hands.

"accessible" just means "your mom wouldn't feel she was being left out". accessible poetry = poems written in our ordinary language. there is nothing wrong with that. being esoteric or lofty is not a necessary good. harder to work with plain materials well—they show the faults by our familiarity

poem is a tool for finding out, not a vessel to fill with the known

"poem" is process not product

There's a far better case for banning social media for people 65+ than for people 16-18

Anyone who writes is a seeker. You look at a blank page and you’re seeking. The role is assigned to us and never removed. I think this is an unbelievable blessing. —Louise Glück, from an interview

Here’s a contribution for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.

It's incredible that the entire panic over "ultra-processed foods" is based on the results of just *five* RCTs, four of which were less than three weeks long. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“What’s your process?”

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. ~ Louise Glück

have you listened to k.d lang sing Save Me lately?

Shae Warnick, Green Heron And Buckeye (acrylic on panel, c. 2022)

God nothing makes me happier than a new @maintenancephase.bsky.social episode

Writing is long periods of nothing followed by long periods of longing followed by periods.

When I moved into this house, this tree was small and bare. It was a surprise when it bloomed then, but 5 years later, oh my. I've worked hard on this yard and don't look forward to July's heat. Virginia's given some morning reprieve so far and I've just been reading poems here in the cool mornings