Hey Tucson!! We need your help tomorrow at the Planning Comission Meeting! The Missing Middle goes up for a vote, we have a chance to recommend to Mayor and Council to rezone *the entire city* for more homes and less parking!

In Arizona, voters chose community organizer Miranda Schubert to represent Ward 6 on the Tucson City Council, according to unofficial results.

It’s getting real! I’ve read every edition of this catalogue for the last 15 years — stunning to open this one! 2/15/2026 #ReckonBook Launch & Reading at 191 Toole in #Tucson — on the road after that! #BookSky #PoetrySky #poet #Arizona

#Poetry in place. Writing with the youth of Barrio Kroeger Lane #Tucson and Living River of Words. Santa Cruz River, full moon.

One Way to Fight is to Amplify What You Love earthfirstjournal.news/2025/11/01/o... 😍

An interview with Russ Mcspadden. In his debut poetry collection, Borderlings, McSpadden uses his poetry to express witnessing militarization at the border wall and the effects it has on the Sonoran desert's ecology. 🌵🐌 Read the full interview below 🦂

A snap from a pro dev writing session I facilitated with Tucson arts teachers last week — staying connected with our creativity and purpose so as to help our students find theirs. I love this work.

Short article on BORDERLINGS out today in Earth First! Journal #poetry #arizona #border earthfirstjournal.news/2025/11/01/o...

Definitely one of the most ridiculously dangerous crosswalks in town. I was heartbroken to hear that one of my former students was one of the victims.

After the tragic car violence this weekend, time to make this commonsense pedestrian upgrade ASAP #Tucson c.org/vJVMSz2CTb

Heard author Tina Landis speak tonight in #Tucson “Climate Solitions Beyond Capitalism” — definitely a welcome, wider view of how we got here and how we build a future for our children. 1804books.com/products/cli...

I just want to know how much longer this money laundering ponzi scheme that will ruin the water supply is going to run. Can we wrap it up yet?

#OtD 1 Nov 1981 Antigua and Barbuda became independent from the United Kingdom after over 300 years of British rule stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8139...

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Happy pub day to 13 Questions for the Next Economy by @utopiaminus.bsky.social! This visionary collection, from the author of the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus prize winning Defacing the Monument, weaves together selections from her four previous books with arresting new poems and visuals.

My profile on beloved poet Richard Siken is up at Poetry Foundation. Hope you'll check it out! www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/173...

Got back home in #Tucson yesterday — spending Sunday w teachers at @uapoetrycenter.bsky.social for a regional institute w @poetryfoundation.bsky.social - I’ll be offering a workshop & seminar, hot off a week of writing poems w middle schoolers in Aspen @aspeninstitute.bsky.social love this work !

In 1882, A crowd gathers at the border south of Tucson to celebrate the connection and joining of the Sonora Railway with the Arizona and New Mexico Railroad.

Come through tonight #Tucson! A powerful #poetry reading grand finale for your #NoKings day. 6:30pm doors

This Saturday evening – celebrating the release of environmental activist Russ McSpadden's new book of poems "BORDERLINGS" at Che's Lounge on 4th Ave, #Tucson. Russ has been doing important work in the borderlands for many years, and I'm honored to publish his debut collection for Artspeak Press

Saturday - DJing a full night at La Esquina (9th St just off 4th Ave) #Tucson - #cumbia #dub rare bangers & surprises. A fun night in a great venue while the rain falls outside (🤞) 8pm - midnight, free

If you're a data nerd and Indigenous, don't wait! Submit a presentation abstract for USIDSN's April Summit in Tucson, AZ. It was blockbuster in 2024, it portends to be mind-blowing in 2026! Deadline is Oct 30th, 2025. s2.goeshow.com/usidsn/summi...

TCE was widely used to clean jet engines at military sites — including those in Tucson’s southside. The area was designated as a Superfund site by the EPA when the chemical seeped into groundwater used by surrounding neighborhoods.

Hernan Castro's a big deal in Tucson's mushroom scene. He has a green card, has lived here since age 12. But now, he's in prison for allegedly lying on a citizenship application. Friends feel ICE is targeting him for deportation. By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:

Over on IG I’m going to be doing a live on Monday 2pm Pacific with the awesome #writing coach Margo Steines discussing the upcoming #workshop I’ll be leading via Zoom in January. Tune in! #poet #poetry

Buen día from the Sonoran Spider Lily

I recommend this FREE live #writing workshop from @fifthbrain.bsky.social Monday 9/29 6-7:30pm MT The topic is PLACE — personally one of my favorite topics to write about. www.fifthbraincollective.com/dabblin

Revealed the cover of my next book this morning in my newsletter — been waiting months for this! Sign up to get first looks: www.dirtyverbs.com/contact

Column: A Beale Infrastructure executive apparently lied when he told Pima County supervisors in June that if the city of Tucson didn't approve annexation, the Project Blue deal was off. Now that the data-center project is back on, the question is, what to do about it. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Always looking to connect with more artists and writers in #Tucson & Southern #Arizona. Community over competition!

A little sneak peek of our substack post going up tomorrow featuring photos by Tucsonan Steve Renzi of Downtown Tucson in the 1980s

Me too! That was the first one to sell, actually.

In convo w the gallery, we've agreed to make the remaining prints from Radiant Ruin, my just-closed show, available online. My newsletter subscribers got first dibs, but there are several one-of-one metal prints still available I appreciate the support! Price sheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

It takes me days & days to recover from an event like last Saturday’s Also bc there aren’t ’recovery days’ in my schedule: equipment breakdown, rental return, accounting, signing prints. You’ll never catch me complaining though. This is the work & I’m honored to do it. #Tucson #ArtistLife

Tonight’s the night! Going to be a special one #Tucson - I have some surprises in store

BREAKING: The first segments of border wall have gone up in the San Rafael Valley, south of Tucson, Ariz. Construction crews have drilled at least two wells and have turned the area, a corridor for jaguars, pronghorn, bears, mountain lions, ocelots, porcupines, into an devastating industrial site.

Puro baile - epic danceparty to close out the run of my gallery show Radiant Ruins! Sat. 7-10pm #Tucson #cumbia Large-scale video projection, good sound & community on a street where some of the most important moments of my life have gone down. Join us! Last chance to score a print from the show ~

Friday night 9/12 7pm I'll be offering an artist talk as part of my gallery show RADIANT RUIN. Process, theory, tips, Q&A – we'll get into it all. Free & open to everyone. 382 S. Convent Ave #Tucson #arts #culturework (Plus mark your calendar for a cumbia dance party Sat 9/20 to close the show!)

As a writing instructor recently laid off by UA — not even part of the move described here! — I can attest that just about everything at that institution is moving in the wrong direction.

Wrote a blog post for Pima County Public #Library on that searching that all of us #writers do — which doesn’t have to be as lonely as we expect #BookSky #poetrySky #writing #author www.library.pima.gov/blogs/post/t...

When shrinkflation at the Cali brunch spot turned ‘huevos rancheros’ into, somehow, one egg. #enshitification

Manoel de Barros of Brazil, 2000’s, from “Birds for a Demolition,” Idra Novey, trans. #poetry #poem

We're glad we received one of the final copies!

Trump smearing us as ‘anti-American’. If Oak Flat is mined, the winners won't be Americans, and definitely not Native Americans, whose sacred site will be destroyed but two foreign mining giants, BHP (Australia) and Rio Tinto (UK) whose largest shareholder is a Chinese state-owned company.

It’s a special one tonight, #Tucson.

We'll be sure to drop by!

RADIANT RUIN opens Saturday night 7-10pm at Communion on Convent, #Tucson. 21 solid metal prints, each one-of-one, from my NoVoGRAFíAS series. I’ll offer a sound / video / spoken word performance piece at 8pm. DJ’s, food truck & more. Free, with books (& these prints) for sale.

Good news is rare these days, so take time to see what we did in #Tucson! We saved our water. For now, at least.