listening to this now ( @bnothing.bsky.social puts a lot of work into the music so it’s a treat for me) and man we make some really good album recommendations here

We know what to do with wishlists, don’t we!

(Minneapolis) All are welcome to this free event - any levels of Spanish speakers are welcome - from beginner to native speaker :) Todos son bienvenidos a este evento gratis - cualquier nivel de hispanohablantes pueden asistir :)

"There’s a brand of birding that fosters a gentle approach of simply noticing and observing birds for nothing other than the joy of doing so — no deeper knowledge or superzoom cameras required." This is too much fun: searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com

Man, ICE is still driving around schools during school drop off times taking pictures of children. Fucking maddening.

“draw closer. The flowers speak to us…” I am grateful to the Academy of American Poets and to this month’s guest editor, Danusha Lameris for including my sonnet, “Lupines in a Yard in San Antonio, Texas”. I feel lucky and happy and blessed. poets.org/poem/lupines...

For those going to @netrootsnation.bsky.social this year, Na Eng invited me to share some of the resources and examples we've been gathering as part of this @peoplefor.bsky.social training submission. #NN26 The voting deadline is 3/13. Here's the link: bit.ly/MinnesotaArtResistance

One of the tracks on the new fundraiser EP is a poem of mine, recorded at a Monarca benefit show back in January at the @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social in MPLS. Here's the full footage. A few thoughts in the thread too:

You're going to need a bigger boat

🥧 Tropes and Trifles, our local romance bookstore, is having a mutual aid Pi Day pop-up with Front Porch Pies on Saturday from 12-4pm 🥧 www.instagram.com/front_porch_...

Hey Twin Cities! Register for this free event featuring Anthony Ceballos reading from his newly released debut collection Glassful of Prayer, and in conversation with poet Kathryn Kysar! Tuesday, March 17 at 7 pm at Magers & Quinn. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/anthony-ce...

I just finished a full runthrough of my upcoming play which highlights sorrow, joy, and complexity in transness (ThisBodyThisFruit.com), and this is the news I see. My play feels more urgent than ever, and I fucking HATE THAT SO MUCH. Living as my actual self might be illegal by July? Why???

inspired by @dumbmike.bsky.social, here's a headline one word at a time for you to observe your own responses to

Win these! Help my neighbors pay rent! Just one thumb left to knit. 1) donate to any rent fund at standWithMinnesota.com 2) email me a picture of your receipt at [email protected] Every $5 donated is an entry! I’ll draw a winner on 3/22 and then I’ll mail them to the winner at my cost.

With the new fundraiser EP out, here's a little more info about Secret Rivers. I want to underline the note about booking, especially in this ongoing season of benefit shows. Whether instrumental live production by @seemore.bsky.social, or a full fire-and-brimstone set from us both, get in touch:

Only a few more days left to enter the Goodreads Giveaway for Girl Gone Wild by @courtneykocak.bsky.social!! Click here to enter: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

this is so obviously the end goal that you sound childish if you say it out loud, but I feel like we should be saying this all the time

🧵 - AWP photos 1/

Someone on Nicollet Avenue that Day Said They Overheard One of the So-Called Officers Say to Another, “This is just like ‘Call of Duty.’”  by Paula Cisewski Editor's Note: Sometimes a short poem is all that's needed to say the most necessary thing.

We are so excited that The Becoming Game by Paula Cisewski is a finalist for the Minnesota book award! (Link to buy in comments) thefriends.org/minnesota-bo...

gender-bending is cool and people should do it more often

"If there is a vision to build around, perhaps it is this: resist the urge to flatten Iranian political imagination into frameworks that feel legible to those of us in the West, and invest in the social foundations that make any sustainable change possible." - Yalda Keshavarzi

It’s day 98 of the ICE occupation of MN. For almost 100 days, we’ve been doing everything we can to protect our immigrant neighbors. This is the next step to keeping our neighbors safe. Call on Mayor Frey to sign the 60 day pre-eviction notice.

Hope you’re all surviving DST nonsense Thank you for getting this to $2565/12k!💚💚💚 $25 gets you a thank you gift ‘horse’ sketch of a horse willing to do what it takes, especially if that involves suplexing a train. V/PP/Kofi: bbwolfe

All the emails I snoozed till today have come to roost 😅😬😭

Had a fabulous time at AWP, saw friends, attended excellent panels, managed to make a few offsite events, took many photographs (excited to look at this week), talked with some people about the upcoming podcast @intoadarkerwilderness.com, hung out at @triohousepress.org for a bit, and I'm...tired 😅

i know the "AI deserves respect because it might be alive" argument is just concern trolling because it's popular mainly around guys who would not be able to respect a real breathing human being if their lives depended on it

Happy International Women's Day! Remember, when in doubt, do as Stagecoach Mary Fields did, and either headbutt, shoot it, set it on fire, or let your horses trample it. "She broke more noses than any other person in central Montana."

I'm baaaaack in Minneapolis and ready... to go for a walk, wow, this weather!!! 🥰

“I need you on the outside to join us in this fight. Not to reform our cages. Not to make our suffering slightly more comfortable. But to tear this whole damn system down and build something actually life-giving in its place.” kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/we-cant-wa...

Heads up!

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

Time for a little airplane reading: Woman House: Essays and assemblages, by @lwwesterfield.bsky.social on @umasspress.bsky.social

You better wake the fuck up now. If we don't make their lives ABSOLUTELY FUCKING MISERABLE, we're going be the ones who get shafted. And HARD. You best believe that everything about the Internet we know is going to die and everything we know and love with it. I've made my calls today. You need to.

Today!

Staff at this hotel has misgendered me more than every other person in Baltimore put together 🙄 To be fair, I have interacted more with them than any other non-writers. Still sucks, though. (And the person who kept doing it after I corrected her was extra annoying.)

Guy across the hall from me has a dog who gets real barky about 7am. Not sure him yelling, "I don't want to hear any fuckin' barking" was helping anyone.

I met the astonishing @thecorlew.bsky.social at AWP! We didn't take a selfie 🥲 but it's true (not remembering photography is possible unless I'm in Taking Pictures mode 🙃). He was not wearing the white shirt in his pfp but I managed to deduce his identity anyway (at @riverriverbooks.bsky.social)

Where did the time go?

Thanks to everyone who checked out our virtual performance tonight + who purchased “spring is coming” on bandcamp - raised about $1k in just one day for the NHN Twin Cities ICE relief fund. Hope to keep it going. Links here to the EP, the fundraiser, and some other creative resistance resources:

Punk rock show tonight at Moon Palace Books - a fundraiser for rent funds. Sensor Ghost (from D.C.), plus locals Time Room and Makin Out. 7:30 doors $10 - $20 suggested donation

“To believe in laws over belief in people is to be colonized.”

"Poetry is not meant to be locked up in inaccessible spaces. Poetry is about paying attention, not just to the stories all around us, but also and especially to how these stories are being told." (Barbara Jane Reyes) poets.org/text/some-th...

Me today (only 17 minutes late!)

The fact I've gotten to bed by 1am every night is miraculous... getting myself to the convention center by 9am is apparently a miracle too far

More signings today at Booth 1248, including @martheaus.bsky.social @rhonierika.bsky.social @davidgroff.bsky.social Dorinda Wegener & Gauri Awasthi! Times in the graphics below — hope to see you!💜💛💜💛

major update, Marvina Haynes, founder of MN Wrongfully Convicted Judical Reform & former ward 4 council candidate, is running with Tara Widner, for Vice Chair of SD59 DFL tomorrow @ convention. this is the LEADERSHIP the Northside needs & deserves. plz spread the word to ur North Minneapolis folks.

I know it's a lot of promo today, but: 1) it's bandcamp friday, when artists get max $ from the platform 2) that money isn't going to me; the album is a rent relief fundraiser 3) the EP opens with a clip from an Octavia Butler interview that flows into one of the best 24 bar verses I've written:

Getting ready to head over to @redemmas.org for the @haymarketbooks.org reading 🔥🔥🔥