if the @merriam-webster.com dictionary folks are accepting petitions of words to remove for 2026, i'd like to submit 'buzzy'

love the rare & specific derangement of getting so sucked into a piece of art or media that everything reminds me of it & i find ways to wedge it into every single convo, whether it’s actually relevant or not. it’s like the limerence phase of having a new lover

Here’s to 2026

UK authorities have refused to meet with the activists, some of whom have been on hunger strike for over 50 days.

my carrie bradshaw-esque column would be a guide to cohabitating for feral individuals who have, thru a turn of fate involving love/or & financial circumstance, found themselves sharing a home with a lover/partner/etc but remain Free of Spirit. "tip" no. 1 is never have a shared calendar

please BEHOLD this very special surprise that arrived today from @niina.bsky.social !!

🌘 antidote for midwinter gloom: put the first Track Changes of 2026 on your calendar, ft. Devin Kelly (NYC) & Grady Chambers (Philly). join us for a reading, listening, & convo series where writers chat about their favorite records! 🎟️ advance tickets & info: jan-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com

good morning from the italian market in beautiful south philadelphia, usa

one of my fav bookstores had this rare edition on IG a while ago & i tried to buy it, but it was quickly marked sold. of course, i thought. but then! was gifted it today by my sweetheart—who, i should add, was in cahoots with the bookstore owner (thanks Ben!) to disguise the label as a fake business

Claire Dougherty, from SONNETS FROM LENT

This corner of my cork board keeps evolving. I've had Mariame Kaba's words there for a few years now; Susan Stewart and Lorde I added this year.

Some of the 8 imprisoned Palestine Action hunger strikers in London are near death. The British Gov doesn't seem to care. In the US, call the British Embassy, 202-588-6500, to demand that they receive immediate medical care, humane treatment, and the right to a fair legal process.

“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

indulge my curiosity: what's hanging near your desk for inspiration, motivation, vibe-set, etc? mine: NYer cartoon of wolves howling, captioned “It's totally pointless—that's what makes it art” & post-it with an Allen Grossman line: "A poem is about something the way that a cat is about the house"

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

ok we’re really all doing politics this morning and we need jokes. here I’ve got one: what did the Epstein files say to the person who, to please the admin, spiked a story about state-sponsored torture of prisoners charged with no crime? “I can buy you some time I guess — maybe sixty minutes”

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

😍😍😍

in for the rest of 2025: radish with hot honey & a crusty baguette & good french butter & a glass bottle of mineral water; turning all notifications off out: literally anything else

midwinter day dispatch: made a bunch of cranberry-orange jam, read Bernadette Mayer as usual, headed to a Georgian byob tonight with friends 🌗 happy solstice "the day like the dream has everything in it"

This review of Toska by Sylvia Jones, a poet I deeply admire, is a dream 🐺 “The collection conducts itself with a cool voltage: unhurried, unsentimental, and attentive to the tiny intervals where interior life becomes weather rather than confession.” open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

every day, in real time, we witness the emotional & spiritual interiorities of the wealthiest & most powerful among us—ppl who are truly miserable, loveless, angry, paranoid, UNSEXY. & i’d feel so peaceful about this if not for the fact that they’re hellbent on making life worse for everyone else

it's not analyzing shit! it's impersonating what an analysis of a language might sound like! and if it's right it's by dumb luck! fuck off!

give it up for the maple tree outside my desk window

an all-time fave convo in a series that's full of all-time great ones. (if you haven't listened yet ⬇️⬇️⬇️)

this is not artful, but first thing that came to mind was going to see Fast Five with some friends deep in my la di da recreational psychedelics era, taking a bathroom break, then re-entering the wrong theater & feeling so overwhelmed that i stayed & watched the latter half of Bridesmaids by myself

Did I already share this, from @ginabird.bsky.social 's book WORKS AND DAYS? A book full of anticapitalist bangers

hear, hear!!! & some ideas for small press, etc. subscriptions & bundles here ✨📘: vibedigest.substack.com/p/unasked-fo...

it’s once again the time of year in which i soothe my cortisol levels into a cozy nostalgic stupor with USSR children’s book art (these are all by Yuri Vasnetsov)

Randall James Tyrone

115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.

It's just two parallel realities: one for an executive class so enraptured by the promise of labor savings that creative departments are pushed into creating AI slop, and one for everyone else, who view the slop with their own eyes and are repulsed by the rank aesthetics of automation

love to be living in the Shit No One Asked For era

Trying this again without a typo! So delighted to have this podcast out in the world. The Fall for the Book podcast team is a delight, and the entire fall series is worth your time!

my version of angel numbers is seeing David Berman lyrics in the wild

paywall

If you enjoyed my "Good Riddance to The Best American Poetry" article, you'll dig the podcast "Bad Art"--about the politics of art in the 21st century--where I discuss more about BAP's genre management & canonization practices. Thanks to @jt24.bsky.social! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

will 2026 be the year i unsubscribe from the poets dot org poem - a - day emails so that i can stop having frequently averse reactions to their contents

voice memos give my agéd millennial brain the same feeling as passing notes to a friend in class except it's beleaguered adults babbling to each other mid-work day while running to the bodega

This poem, and the entire book is a triumph.

Finally, some good news.

extremely [once a literal] babygirl-coded

a little recap (of the last Track Changes event, but also of seeing Patti Smith omg) & preview of the next readers! 🎵 track-changes-series.beehiiv.com

the debut album by Shirtless is out on Downwards Records! vinyl sold out quick, but you can now stream or d/l on bandcamp this is first music project i’ve ever been part of (contributed some vox), & it rips. leaden industrial soundscape for the times ☁️ shirtlesssound.bandcamp.com/album/empty-...

omg Looney Tunes taught me gay

the debut album by Shirtless is out on Downwards Records! vinyl sold out quick, but you can now stream or d/l on bandcamp this is first music project i’ve ever been part of (contributed some vox), & it rips. leaden industrial soundscape for the times ☁️ shirtlesssound.bandcamp.com/album/empty-...

a little recap (of the last Track Changes event, but also of seeing Patti Smith omg) & preview of the next readers! 🎵 track-changes-series.beehiiv.com

This is amazing news - proof positive that the voice of the people has power! When we fight, we win.

A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed. It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it. ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.