My publisher put up a preview of BAD HOUSES for free online, so if you want to read an excerpt (the first story in the book!) you can check that out here: arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Bad-...

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

where my day job poets at

*answers phone* "Another truck has hit the walking bridge"

No screeners for this issue, folks. I’ll be reading and responding to every poetry submission. If you identify as disabled, please submit!

Also @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social and I wrote this: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/07/t...

canadian media would never have this courage

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

Teach your friends how to punch NYAMちゃんに腰の入ったパンチを教えてあげましたっ☆

yeah I workout (cut & gut squash)

I am so tired of people calling things divisive when what they mean is that they were more comfortable when other people were just being silently oppressed and they didn’t have to hear about it or change anything

Italian journalist abducted from the flotilla describes how Israeli prison guards unleashed dogs into cells, poured bleach on mattresses, and overcrowded cells such that it was impossible to lie down. x.com/paolomossett...

This is a fucking tragedy www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I am going to actually apply for a Canada Council Grant this year after years of not having the energy or confidence to do so

Have you ever witnessed sexual harassment on the bus & not known what to do? Ever heard a transphobic slur being hurled at someone and worried that stepping in would just make it worse? Let me teach you effective bystander intervention - for free! I've got 4 webinars left! Registration links :

phones are being thrown overboard on the Adara, contact lost with Kieran Andrieu

All but one flotilla ships live stream have been cut

video feeds for various Global Sumud Flotilla ships are going in and out, particularly for the Alma www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM05...

Camera is on again. Crew still sitting in a circle on deck. BBC reported a few minutes ago that, according to the Global Sumud Flotilla, Alma, was "aggressively circled" by an Israeli warship for several minutes, and on board communications were cut off during the incident.

s/o to whoever is curating the flotilla's playlist

laid down for a nap and instead of waking me up at supper time Nova just let me sleep all afternoon/night woke up to it being dark outside like whaaaaa

idk how to explain it but every trans dude gives money for nothing by dire straits vibes

discovered one of the (now former) city councillors I regularly butted heads with when I was Poet Laureate is MAGA

This is Just To Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

do I send these unpublished poems out or prep a chapbook, an evergreen poet dilemma

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health what until you see what guns do.

Fredericton Police Force has shared today that there has been a significant spike in drug overdoses The following thread will feature excerpts from their public alert 🧵

every once and awhile you have to feed a truck to the bridge to appease the gods

YES

I love that Fredericton has a bridge that eats trucks and everybody just refuses to do anything about it.

The Canadian publishing industry calls for the repeal of @youralberta.bsky.social's discriminatory book ban. The revised directive continues to restrict access to literature, stigmatize marginalized communities, and undermine the expertise of educators & librarians. publishers.ca/repeal-alber...

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.

Something I've noticed lately is how, in the shadow of America's increasing loud anti-trans rhetoric, every time there's a "here's what it means to be Canadian and fight back in the face of These Hard Times" there are also no trans people involved. Like our elbows don't go up the same way.

new poem up thanks to Plenitude Magazine if you like Utena, GWitch, magical girls and gay love poems this one's for you 🌹⚔️

happy to report the Space Jam soundtrack slaps just as hard as it did when I was a kid

fat bear week for those who celebrate #RIPOtis

Three people are in critical condition after a shooting at a high school in Evergreen, Colorado, according to St. Anthony's Hospital. Evergreen is 28 miles southwest from Denver. Read more: https://cnn.it/3VvN47r

Every single elected official decrying Kirk’s shooting. Not one of them addressing the school kids shot today in Colorado. That says more than i ever could.

just saw a house that sold in April 2025 for $225,000 up for sale now at $375,000 flippers are a blight, we're in a damned housing crisis

accepting poetry gigs, your boy is saving up for the portion of top surgery that isn't covered by provincial medicare (boo New Brunswick)

A glance at an extraordinary new release from Luke Hathaway. A NYT Best Book of Poems when @biblioasis.bsky.social first published it. Rereleased with a new afterword to his afterword and poems—and man has he travelled, body and spirit. One of our best writers today.

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last night I cut up the remainder of a watermelon that wasn't needed for the salad I was making to make it easier for us to snack on, which Nova complained about fast forward to tonight, Nova is happily eating the convenient watermelon chunks out of a container with chopsticks

love when it’s going to thunderstorm, do not love the headaches that plague me leading up to them 🙃

I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town

Nova: "Ambrose, why are you telling the internet you're a little bitch boy" me: "Nova, sorry to break it to you babe but everybody already knows"