I have a poem shortlisted for pick of the month here…. Check the link to read it and the other finalists. Voting open to 6pm Wednesday, if you like one of the poems.

A couple of months ago, my poem "Death in Ukraine Has Become More Accessible than Salt"--a poem I penned in 2022, was published in Black Horse Review. Seems appropriate to share this today. www.blackhorsereview.com/poetry/death...

🏁 #FiverFriday – Standing with #Ukraine! 🏁 Help them cross the finish line—every FIVE counts! ✅Quote-repost this post with a 📷screenshot of your $5/€5/£5 donation ✅Add a quick description+🔗to their🦋handle ✅Drop it in the thread too! ✅Can't fiver, be their biggest cheerleader and spread the word 1/2

A short and not very sweet indictment of the world's feckless cowards.

My review of Emilia Hart's breathtaking novel THE SIRENS, published by @stmartinspress.bsky.social, has published at The Los Angeles Review: losangelesreview.org/the-sirens-b.... I cannot recommend this novel enough.

So proud to see two of my poems forthcoming in the upcoming issue of @thebelfastreview.bsky.social!

Hello friends of NAFO! Do you have a Ukraine related patch collection? Share a picture of your patch collection down below! Everyone loves to see it!

Thanks a lot for all your support to the Star Battalion of the 22 Mechanized Brigade to get what they need @sudetsoleil.bsky.social 💫💙💛

"Rossi’s practiced, expository style unearths the roots of eugenics in the United States." Max Gray's review of “Capturing Kahanamoku” by Michael Rossi (@harperonebooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/29/a...

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

My poem "It is Apple-Picking Season & You Cannot Help" appears in the Halloween issue of @newversereview.bsky.social! I am so honored the editors chose this poem: www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H... Please read this haunting (in the best way) issue!

Schedule for September 29-October 5 Monday-Friday Constitution Ave NE and Delaware Ave NE by Russell Senate Office Building 4-7pm Saturday and Sunday Lafayette Park 5-7pm 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Call your members of Congress and demand the USA resumes military aid to Ukraine. #CrimeaIsUkraine

My poem "No One Has Calculated the Half-Life of Grief" has published at @apricotpress.bsky.social : apricotpress.co.uk/2025/09/24/n.... If you're so inclined, there's a tip jar. :) A huge thank-you to Apricot for selecting this poem!

If you're in the Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, Charlottesville (Virginia) area, I hope you'll come see my reading at Bridgewater College on 16 September 2025 @ 7 PM in Bowman Hall! I'll be reading from THE PALE GOTH & I'll read about 🇺🇦!

If you're in the Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, Charlottesville (Virginia) area, I hope you'll come see my reading at Bridgewater College on 16 September 2025 @ 7 PM in Bowman Hall! I'll be reading from THE PALE GOTH & I'll read about 🇺🇦!

❗️explosions in Sumy and Poltava regains reported earlier ❗️drone attack

Next site, artworks by Ukrainian artist Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky (Василь Григорович Кричевський). He was born in what would become Kharkiv Oblast in 1873. He was a designer of the 1918 Ukrainian coat of arms, state seals, and banknotes. #StandWithUkraine #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻

Just $2 (or more!) can help the 72nd Brigade in #Ukraine save lives with excavators and crane trucks. Please help if you can. Every dollar counts. 💛🇺🇦💛

Доброй рано! Such exciting news this morning. My review of Andrey Kurkov's OUR DAILY WAR has published at @neweasterneurope.eu! I hope you'll read it and Andrei's book! Once again, I am grateful to the editors of NEE for selecting my review for publication. neweasterneurope.eu/2025/09/02/l...

#OtD 1 Sep 1939 the first fighting of WWII in Europe took place. 56 post office workers in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) took up arms to repel the Nazi takeover. After 15 hours, the surviving workers surrendered. They were tried as bandits and executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8158...

My review of Andrew Lipstein's novel SOMETHING ROTTEN, which I consider to be 2025's best novel, has published at The Los Angeles Review: losangelesreview.org/something-ro...

Live your life in such a way that you don’t give a shit about the Cracker Barrel logo.

"A story of self-reflection and self-reclamation, as well as an exploration of the human connections and fulfillments one can find in places one never thought imaginable." @nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews A DOG IN GEORGIA by Lauren Grodstein. @algonquinbooks.bsky.social

Villagers struggle to make sense of their darkening world. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/s... @groveatlantic.bsky.social @nyurtsaba.bsky.social #booksky

Thank you, @nyurtsaba.bsky.social, for this very thoughtful & politically attuned review of Wolf Bells. (I love the Dark Shadows comparison, too!) #socialistgothic @algonquinbooks.bsky.social

My review of @lenizumas.bsky.social's stunning novel WOLF BELLS, published by @algonquinbooks.bsky.social, has published at University of Leicester's EVERYBODY'S REVIEWING! everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/08/revi... Be sure to add this novel to your TBR stacks. It is a must-read!

"The things you say, you don’t mean them sometimes." Niall McArdle (@ragingfluff): bit.ly/2tlO4ha

Well done, Alaska.

#ToonieTuesday UPDATE👇 Heading to $ 5,000! Please, don't stop supporting the Arkan drone unit ot the 108th Separate Mountain Assault Battalion, they need birds💥 to defend the Siversk front! Donate: 🅿️🅿️ [email protected] 🏦 send.monobank.ua/jar/43BtsB1uLB #NAFO #Ukraine #FNDRUA #donatetoUrkaine

Friends, I'm sorry for being AWOL. I returned from Ireland, fell ill, am still recovering & trying to prep for the upcoming semester. I'll return to coordinating advocacy posts as able. In the meantime, please stand with Ukraine & have a day as beautiful as you are.

"CHILCO is a spellbinding fever-dream, swirling with socio-political conversations, mysteries, and self-reclamations." @nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews CHILCO by Daniela Catrileo, translated by Jacob Edelstein. @fsgbooks.bsky.social

Kharkiv last night after russian drone attack

"With careful attention and respect, Jubber also examines how traditions, people, and communities are bound together by creatures meant to frighten outsiders and teach valuable lessons." @nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews MONSTERLAND by Nicholas Jubber. @scribepub.bsky.social

Friends, be sure to grab a copy of the latest volume of Vogue Ukraine. It's filled with some wonderful translations of poetry and prose by Ukraine's foremost writers. It also has Ukrainian-language versions of these pieces!

OTD in 2023 you were informed Ukrainian forces were "on the verge of collapse" and that it was "all over". I remain a master strategist.

Oleg's Book Group #1, check! ✅ Thanks to Marina, fair book mother Kelly, @mylureveron.bsky.social, @reneemissel.bsky.social, Jessie O'Leary, artist Dasha Kochneva, @nyurtsaba.bsky.social, and of course, author @veretskiy.bsky.social, for nearly 2 hours of meet & greet & a deep dive into the Tales!

My review of Artur Dron's WE WERE HERE, published by the amazing Jantar Publishing, appears in the latest issue of @worldlittoday.bsky.social! worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/july/we...

Preach it, Bernie!!

⚒️Fortifying ChasivYar⚒️ This week #ToonieTuesday is assisting @richardulfund.bsky.social to raise funds for the 1st Mech. Battalion / 93rd Mechanized Brigade ➡️needs supplies to fortify Chasiv Yar. Donate €£$2 📬screenshot in replies & repost 🅿️🅿️: paypal.me/RichardGaleGB 🔳: square.link/u/uAYmF9LJ ⤵️1/2

Read @nyurtsaba.bsky.social's review of @utilityofboredom.bsky.social's The Diapause (pub. @invisibooks.bsky.social)! Andrew Forbes’s novel The Diapause is one of those books one begins reading and does not stop reading until way past their bedtime... www.thetemzreview.com/yurcaba-31.h...

"These poems are inescapable, taunting, and intimate. They lay bare the undeniable personal and national multiplicities inherent in American society." @nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews MY HERESIES by Alina Stefanescu. @sarabandebooks.bsky.social

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

A viral post is spreading fear on all platforms, supposedly from Liz and Me, about a nonexistent bill—just like the far right used to do. We cannot become what we’re fighting. The truth still matters. We win by being better, not louder. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/dont-fight...

My review of Yuliia Iliukha’s My Women published at @neweasterneurope.eu: neweasterneurope.eu/2025/05/28/t.... Please be sure to read this important book! Keep reading #Ukrainian #literature!

Keep reading #Ukrainian #literature! Ibidem Press has delivered yet another important book in its Ukrainian Voices series, Blair A. Ruble's third installment of THE ARTS OF WAR. Stand with Ukraine. Keep uplifting the Ukrainian story!

Доброй рано, dear friends. Recently, my review of The Tears & Smiles of Things by Andriy Sodomora, trans. by Roman Ivashkiv & Sabrina Jaszi, published by @ASP_Boston, appeared in The Los Angeles Review: losangelesreview.org/the-tears-sm.... Be sure to read #Ukrainian #literature.