“My honey is blood and my meat is bone. The wilderness is in me. I wander through its hedges, over the sloping hills through the meandering rivers . . . .” Up now: “THE BOOK OF CAIN” and two more poems by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi. Art by Rosanna Bruno. evergreenreview.com/read/the-boo...

“The sun was up, and it was hot, especially in this black suit I had on. A soft, hesitant breeze blew from the direction of the other clusters of funerals, it being a Saturday in KwaMashu.” —“Solo,” a novel-in-progress excerpt by Mandla Langa. Art by Betty Blayton. evergreenreview.com/read/solo/

“Whole, each wedge snug in the thick, gleaming skin, every segment buttressed and bounded by kin. Held close, cheek to cheek, then peeled and torn? Touch-grown, together-fed— of course they mourn.” —“Orange” and more poems by Angie Hexum. Art by Ashley James. evergreenreview.com/read/orange-...

“Big George and George look for birds to tell them where the fishing is good and then the other fisherman look to Big George and George.” Up now: “I’m with the Fish” by Daniel Goulden. Art by @peteredlund.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/im-with...

“The construction work came to an end. From the outside, it was clear that two distinct times had come together. The smooth plastered walls of the old house blending with the clean lines of the new structure.” —“Embers” by Cynthia Abdallah. Art by Cindy Rehm. evergreenreview.com/read/embers/

“In Dambudzo Marechera’s short story ‘Burning in the Rain,’ an unnamed young man looks in the mirror only to see his reflection given back as an ‘ape.’ ” Up now: “From the Stutter to the Gutter” by Jeffery Renard Allen. Art by Ken Weathersby. evergreenreview.com/read/from-th...

“i At close range, the sugar cubes are freckled. ii When they move, they take very short steps. iii They wear small white shoes.” New at Evergreen: “Sugar cubes” and two more poems by Per Olvmyr. Art by Carolyn Case. evergreenreview.com/read/sugar-c...

“On the day your city burns, you do not wake up with soot in your chest, neither do you wake up to the sick smell of burning flesh. You wake up to the sound of your best friend singing.” —“We are still here” by Olákìtán T. Aládéṣuyì. Art by William S. Schwartz. evergreenreview.com/read/we-are-...

The AI hype train is on the fast track towards technofeudalism. This is why I keep asking people to look out the window and show me something different. Unfortunately enough people are along for the ride and don't care where we end up.

“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? I don't want it to breathe or fuck for me; I want it to solve cancer. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?” - Gore Verbinski The dude knows what's up.

The thing that really sucks here is that it doesn't just waste our time (especially if we see a pitch that looks intriguing and it turns out to be trash). It makes organizations stop doing open calls, which cuts actual writers, especially early career ones, out of opportunities.

Every organization I work with, including The Flytrap, has noticed this every time we put out an open call for pitches and it gets picked up in an opportunities newsletter, just a deluge of AI slop we have to wade through.

“* to wait for peace in times of force to cut oneself a treaty * unreliable your tales are tall the mental lift a pilot . . .” New at Evergreen: a selection from “more than anything” by Africa Wayne. Art by Maya Deren. evergreenreview.com/more-than-an...

“ ‘Fielding’s Hollow’ is an intense, paranoiac live-action role-playing experience for sixteen players, set in a fictional mining town in 1890s New England. You can only play it once in your life.” Up in DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “Beautiful Suffering” by Alice Maynwaring. evergreenreview.com/read/das-vid...

Why are we here, you ask? This. This is why we are here.

They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...

Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."

Imagine seeing this and thinking, after Renee Good and Alex Pretti, that what ICE needs is more funding for surveillance equipment like body cams. ABOLISH IS THE FLOOR.

Until 9/11, you could cross into Canada from Detroit with a driver's license. You're supposed to show your birth certificate or passport, but 9 times out of 10, they'd wave you through. 9/11 and the Bush admin's "War on Terror" changed everything. Can't remember the last time I've been to Windsor.

oh my god

The opening of “Melania” seems to be going well.

If you haven't been reading Fox News, take a peek at how they are spinning the death of Alex Pretti and the general turn-out of Minnesotans. It's all a Marxist-Leninist, socialist network. www.foxnews.com/politics/far...

Reminder that the Trump administration is purposely employing these brutal tactics to inflame tensions in Minneapolis to test out how far the Courts will let them go in usurping state power before the next Midterm election. I wrote about it here: shero.substack.com/p/what-is-tr...

Originally published on 6/2/2020 (after the killing of George Floyd), this cartoon seems all too relevant again today.

[stares directly into the camera]

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

For those who don't know who Raphael Lemkin was: blogs.loc.gov/law/2019/05/...

The Lemkin Institute, not mincing words: "ICE and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are loyal agents of Nazis and white supremacists within the Republican Party."

This #RebelBirds thing has really <ahem> taken off. :) Are you ready #Illinois, #Indiana, #Kentucky, #NorthCarolina, #Ohio, #Virginia, #WestVirginia ? Bold, watchful, and defiant, your state bird, the Northern Cardinal, has joined the #Resistance RISE! RESIST! REBEL!

you // must have been sleeping so deeply to dream a river this wide

“I met the famous spinster Hepzibah Pyncheon, described by Nathaniel Hawthorne as so ancient and hopelessly decrepit when really she was only 60-something . . . I became obsessed with her . . . .” —“HEXALOGY OF HAGSPLOITATION: Hepzibah 11.21.25” by Sibyl Kempson. evergreenreview.com/read/hexalog...

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

“In 2001, I found three large books of photographic proof sheets in a dumpster in Washington D.C. The pictures contained in these volumes document the inaugurations of presidents Nixon, Carter and Reagan.” —A selection from Marc Ganzglass’s “D.C. Repro” series. evergreenreview.com/read/dc-repro/

A few new poems from my upcoming collection!!!

“As a natural man himself, a son of the blues, he undoubtedly needed a natural woman in his life in addition to my mother.” New at Evergreen: “Son of a Natural Man” by Reggie Scott Young. Art by Hugh Mangum. evergreenreview.com/read/son-of-...

“There was a winter she slept here. There was a snow that silenced even her loud dreams with its quiet gathering.” Up now: “Origins According to Stone Swimmer” and two more poems by @mgarrigan.bsky.social. Art by Mary Mattingly. evergreenreview.com/read/origins...

“On June 8th, 2025, I went to my first baseball game at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees were playing against the Red Sox. It was one of the most interesting things I have ever witnessed. I was stunned and shocked.” —“Baseball” by Kathy Joyce. Art by Danny Ische. evergreenreview.com/read/baseball/

“Beyond these things—bricklayer, WORK—I knew absolutely nothing about what my dad did. And that was fine with me. But it wasn’t fine with him.” —“Heaven Knows” by Ed Pavlić, one of the “Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction” in “The Best American Essays 2025”! evergreenreview.com/read/heaven-...

“Send me a pic of your hot arms. How would you describe a person’s arms. Seems dumb, everyone has them. Why would you blow up your life for a pair of arms.” Up now: “Ghazal w your arms” and two more poems by Marisa Crawford. Art by @gabriellegarland.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/robbie-...

"Dori (Who Walked Barefoot Over the Mountain" (@evergreenreview.bsky.social), one of my best published stories, is set on New Year's Eve day and features my dad-in-law Gregg Campbell's beautiful color film photography of Mount St. Helens after the '80 explosion evergreenreview.com/read/dori-wh...

Is it dead yettttt?

Is it dead yettttt?

“The Darién Gap has played host to all manner of other adventures beyond the established conquest, plunder, and canal pursuits of centuries past.” —Up now: an excerpt from “The Darién Gap” (Rutgers University Press) by Belén Fernández. Art by Susan Hamburger. evergreenreview.com/read/silent-...

“The sun rises with blood streaks on its eye rims as mornings are dense with wings of dust emanating from early morning chores of young women . . .” Up now: “Rail-track Radio Station” by Mbizio Chirasha. Art by @jessicadunne.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/rail-tr...

Hoda, Giza, 1946