It's a summertime poem by BlueSky poet @rika99.bsky.social swwimmiami.substack.com/p/are-you-ma...

Still me @swwim.bsky.social with a summer poem!

Hey! It’s me!

A few years ago I flew to Traverse City (MI) on the 4th of July, which was extraordinary (seeing fireworks from above) which reminded me of July 4th as a new mom on Capitol Hill in DC on Independence Ave, so I wrote a poem, & you can read it here! 🎆 www.shenandoahliterary.org/volume-75-nu...

Everything else is a dumpster fire, but then there’s this. 🌖 🧑‍🚀

#nokings Madison, WI

We're in Baltimore! Join us TOMORROW NIGHT at 7pm for our AWP off-site reading, Boathouse Extravaganza: Writers (and Editors) on the Waterfront! Lia Purpura, @rika99.bsky.social, @samuelkolawole.bsky.social, and Athena Nassar will be reading for AGNI. See you there! #awp2026

🔥ONE WEEK FROM TODAY🔥 Join us for our AWP off-site reading, Boathouse Extravaganza: Writers (and Editors) on the Waterfront! Lia Purpura, @rika99.bsky.social, @samuelkolawole.bsky.social, and Athena Nassar will be reading for AGNI. See you there! #awp2026

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

#awp26 where I’ll be, mostly—come see me!

Y’all, I have a book cover + a pre-order page for my 7th book of poems, Assembled Audience, due out from @milkweededitions.bsky.social on Sept 29th! milkweed.org/book/assembl... #poetry #poetrycommunity

Yesterday - Madison, WI

Madison Wisconsin State Capitol where a huge crowd of people came to make their voices heard! Abolish ICE!

granular, practical, well organized info here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Stumbled across this podcast episode today. I love Levine and this poem. Meitner’s close reading really adds to my appreciation of it. Also, shout out to the power of a great poetry anthology. The Poulin anthology she mentions, I found at a used bookstore in my hometown, struggling, post undergrad.

"This isn’t the time to say nothing." Indie journalist @marisakabas.bsky.social beautifully and heart-breakingly reminds us how important it is right now to find solidarity in our neighbors, wherever they're from, and fight the power being rained down upon us. www.thehandbasket.co/p/crackdown-...

Normal thing for a major urban American newspaper to have to post.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Superb reportage on Minneapolis from one of the all time greats.

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

…it should break your heart to kill.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

It is possible that this Hanukkah, especially, you might need a little poetry to bring some light through the darkness. If so, we’ve got you covered. #hanukkah #poetry Register (for free) here and join us on Zoom: www.eventbrite.com/e/from-darkn...

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

I got to talk 100 Notable Small Press Books on the Lit Hub podcast this week! We're trying hard to make 2026 happen, but we need a handful more reviewers. If you want to celebrate small presses & their authors, sign up here: tinyurl.com/100smallpress lithub.com/its-best-of-... #100smallpress

You guys: this is an actual Buche De Noel complete with fondant mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 that my amazing colleague @bethnguyen.bsky.social made for our Secret Wisconsin Interdenominational Solstice (gift) Swap (SWISS) + party!

Hanukkah is just a week and a few days away. Sign up for @notatawp.bsky.social's third annual Hanukkah reading! www.eventbrite.com/e/1976404024...

Calling all fiction writers: our MFA application deadline here at UW-Madison is fast approaching! Apply! We fully fund everyone we admit! We’ve got everything: lakes, stellar faculty, snow, cheese, and summer funding!

I love a residency that offers shorter options especially for parents & caregivers alongside standard residencies! Go Saltonstall! Calling all New York artists! #artist #ny #poetrycommunity #artistresidency

than gin-&-limes you are cooler, darling, o come back to me (john berryman)

today was over 20 so i went out skiing. i am trying to winter. this is a color photo. 🥶 #wisconsin

Hey NY poet + CNF friends! $8k artist awards! Apply! www.nyfa.org/awards-grant... This year: Craft/Sculpture Digital/Electronic Arts Nonfiction Literature Poetry Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts

Tomorrow is December. Only two weeks until Hanukkah! NAWP is hosting our 3rd annual Hanukkah reading with 22 Jewish poets (we know, it isn't chai, but we have some great readers!) Please join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/from-darkn...

Please join us in congratulating the 2026-27 SWWIM Residency at The Betsy Hotel awardees! Writers in Residence 2026-27 Erika Meitner Bleah Patterson Dorsía Smith Silva Patricia Smith @rika99.bsky.social @littlemissbleah.bsky.social @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

'"There is no good way to say this" but to say this: AI is the antithesis of education. It is the antithesis of the future. As such, it is a kind of epistemological death, and I recognize... we have long been surrounded by such efforts; we are grieving already. And yet, we go on.'

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

This is rad!

Y’all it’s wild out here tonight in WI! These are from my front yard, with ambient light. The northern lights were visible sans phone/camera they were so bright!

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

Advantage to running all-analog classes this semester: me + my students aren’t impacted by the Canvas outage plaguing the rest of campus. 10/10 recommend! Bezos can suck it. Notebooks 4eva. ✏️ 📕

No Kings in Madison, Wisconsin:

BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.

“Everything ends up being an ode to death.” —Martha Silano in TERMINAL SURREAL (@acrebooks.bsky.social)

“This is not haiku. This
is more like fog and we’re
socked in and your body is invisible and right
across from me
simultaneously. How much ammo you got?
says one guy to another
in the cola-chip aisle
of the Food Lion.” —Erika Meitner (@rika99.bsky.social) poets.org/poem/non-lieux

It’s me!