happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

I have talked to a lot of college students this semester, & last night I lived the drafting process I have described: reading through a few years of free writes & collaging 10 poems out of them.

Feed: "Baltimore Fishbowl" By: Tracy Dimond on Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Why yes, I was searching the term “bat poop” today to verify I was spelling guano right for a poem about Carlsbad Cavern.

The vet oncology center that did a bunch of testing for my sweet slug, Bella Swan, told me she was the third kitty with that name they had seen in a week. Which tells me I am one of a sea of millennial gals that is either obsessed with Kristen Stewart and/or vampires with an aging cat.

today's first song of the day is "l.i.v.e. n.o.w." by eze jackson youtu.be/144y2WRNhw0?...

When visiting a group of MICA students, I was asked what I would do differently with EMOTION INDUSTRY now. I explained that I would write outside of the male gaze, which I am doing more of now, by framing my writing in geology.

2 poem warning, 2 song warning - it crosses genre.

Ok so the only positive thing that comes with a chronic illness that impacts my energy levels is the time change doesn’t really bother me. Another day, same fatigue!!

Road my bike down in the rain to the convention center yet someone said YOUR HAIR LOOKS GREAT while walking in to AWP so anyway I am feeling good!!!

If you are looking for local music to get hype for #awp26, make it Dapper Dan Midas’s BEAUTIFUL GOWNS album. It’s Baltimore club, alternative, dance, rap - SO GOOD.

The morning birds are finally out again.

Readings by Joe Sacksteder Rachel Zavecz David Leo Rice / @raviddice.bsky.social Suzanne Gold Tracy Dimond Robert Kloss / @robertkloss.bsky.social Whitney Koo Erica Stern / @ericarstern.bsky.social MC Hyland Kate Wyer Jen Dary Performance by Luna Honey

Baltimore / Saturday, March 7th / 5-7pm Metro Gallery / 1700 N Charles St. Always Crashing / @meeklingpress.bsky.social / @barrelhouse.bsky.social

“Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.”

As Endometriosis Awareness Month approaches, this essay of mine published by @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social is the best way I can describe the experience being unheard as a patient. www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/vignette/bla...

Since most platforms have implemented LLMs over the past year, the search function within them has been drunk. I am searching for a phrase in email & none of the words I typed are highlighted. Is there specific research on this? I’ve read about “enshittification” - this feels like part of that.

Endometriosis should be a nationally recognized disability under the ADA. www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

UPDATE: I immediately put I LOVE YOU, BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS on hold at the library.

Why use AI when you can make a lamb stew for the first time.

Writer Camp is open for applications! This year we'll be camping June 25-28 and Aug 5-Aug 9. Affordable, fun, supportive gathering for people who want to write and hang with other writers, and maybe watch some movies at night &maybe play laser tag if it's raining www.barrelhousemag.com/writer-camp

STOP THE SAVE ACT. Call your Senators. 202-224-3121

if you're looking to learn about what are some of the lowest-hanging fruits in terms of local elections in places that directly help ICE, this is for you:

I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101

Finished a crossword last night & one of the words was “arid”, which I can’t stop thinking about now. It reminds me of Claire Vaye Watkins writing.

"Dimond’s poetry is emotional, but it’s also playful in a way that we all need as the world weighs heavier each day it seems." I'm celebrating a pain-free 30 minute run this week by revisiting this very fun conversation I had with Malissa Rodenburg - thank you for reading <3 tinyurl.com/4k4t952d

When I was writing ALIENS ATTACK! I didn't think it was book about real life but here we are, under attack, so I guess even though there are zeppelin shaped UFOs shooting lasers at Troy and Lelaina from Reality Bites, this is a book about right now. Also on sale! masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

If cookies can track my browsing, can they also at least know when I made a purchase so I don’t get 15 emails about something I bought already?!?!

So, I’m thinking about writers who run running routes for @awpwriter.org with literary landmarks. When we run by University of Baltimore I’ll say, “your favorite poet’s favorite poets went here: Steven Leyva, Tonee Mae Moll, Tafisha Edwards…etc etc etc.”

Writers! Give yourself a head start on 2026 and sign up for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social DC conference on 4/18! Just $95, which includes a book, workshop w an editor, the full conference, more lit stuff. A friendly, positive, productive day. Hope to see you there! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

"Bring back the Oxford comma, stop using ordinals!!!!" ⏫Me, at work.

You know you’re from Baltimore when you’re bonding with someone about walking or biking to work, then one of you says “but I give a lot of space to cars with VA tags” & the other person is like “mmhmm not messing with that.”

Today was the first day in almost 4 decades of life that I used "find and replace." My middle school had a class where we learned how to use Word and Excel. I have no idea how today was my first day doing this.

"It’s enough to make a person kneel down in the street, this light. How any small piece, no matter where it comes from, fits exactly right." orionmagazine.org/article/lett...

Getting ready for 2026 like

Y'all. I am still getting random bills for bloodwork my primary care physician ordered in September. September! This is how our insurance works now: random bills for months so you cannot keep track of what was covered and what wasn't covered.

I am no longer in academia; I am an internal communications professional. But in my field, AI has brought about how important our expertise is for authenticity & critical thinking. Professors are the people shaping these skills in younger generations.

I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by [the madness of university layoffs of creative writing professors].

great Book Festival day 1, our panel was so much fun and I also got to see Lawrence Burney and Jeff Chang, Marcus J. Moore and Gayle Wald, and Tracy Dimond

Another awesome backyard reading today in the “Seemingly Mature” series run by Tim Carter and Liz Bowen! This evening’s awesomeness came from poets and fictioneers John Colasacco, Kofi Antwi, Gina Nutt, Misha Tentser, Tracy Dimond, and Jesse Nissim!

Every time I watch a video from The Last Dinner Party, I am transported back to Bread & Puppet (this is positive).

I love getting older. Kids will be like “have you heard of XYZ” and they look at me with wonder when I say “I was alive for that.”

All my ankle sprain / foot stress fracture rehab looks a lot like hypermobility pre-hab.

I'm so proud of girls.

Here’s to the editors! Can we include copy editors too? Both save us from ourselves.

I want my healthcare to cover my costs when I unexpectedly end up in the hospital or at the doctor. I do not want personalized wellness tips from them.

The surprise factor should have died a while back.

“The world is dumber, and we all know it,” Lane Brown writes. For our Cover Story, Brown writes about our recent cognitive diminishment — and proposes a counter-intuitive theory of what’s causing it. tinyurl.com/4648c9pj

I think I just watched my first AI doctor video. I would say I’m throwing all my technology into the water this holiday season, but I do not want to pollute the Jones Falls 😭