I encourage people to listen. Sonic protection. Acoustic healing.

Darkly hilarious. My insurance benefits end on Friday, but I'm getting an email to enroll for 2026. That place is a mess. (This country is a mess. Give us universal healthcare.)

To be jobless with 200 bucks in the bank, I should be freaking out, but I'm so happy. Being let go from a toxic place, which I let go on for 13 years, is making all the difference for my mental health. For once, I feel as if I have a say in my life.

I've just lost my job. There is time to pay attention to this app now. ❤️

Dear Lord, I have an addendum to a previous prayer. My love must still know his way around a grill, but make him a CPA, please?

Those little sugar sprites, the Girl Scouts, tried to get me in the Kroger foyer, but I held strong. (Until the next time we battle our wills again, little wee ones.)

Here is where I will be next week. If you are near Washington University St. Louis, come say hello. literaryarts.wustl.edu/events/visit...

"Doge," the Italian magistrates of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, comes from the Latin for "dux," where "duke" comes from. Doge was the highest official of the republic of Venice for more than 1,000 years (from the 8th to the 18th century).

Fire everyone! Shame on AP! These children need an education.

Short term emergency grant for writers. pen.org/us-writers-a...

All episodes of MICHIGAN IN VERSE, curated by Michigan Poet Laureate @nandicomer, are available to stream. It's free! www.pbs.org/video/previe...

More poetry in horror trailers, please. youtu.be/mcvLKldPM08?...

Fascinating. youtube.com/watch?v=IAsj...

My whole gay life has prepared me for this moment.

So people in The Burroughs are just unphased by celebrities? Each time I come here, I always have at least one sighting. 1. My brain never moves fast enough to register the name to speak. 2. I'm always too stunned to speak.

National Book Awards Finalist Reading is up on YouTube. Boy, I wished we could have done the 2020 ceremonies in-person, yet I'm grateful. The whole living thing and all. www.youtube.com/live/ng6aRAS...

I sure hope the NEA will still exist so that I can apply again next time.

And just like that, SANKOFA isn't streaming anywhere anymore. I may need to go back to physical media again.

I love Danez Smith's rich interview on BETWEEN THE COVERS. And David Naimon, as usual, is fucking smart. tinhouse.com/podcast/dane...

So, I know outing closeted men, for the most part, is ethically wrong. And yet, and yet, I'm tempted to expose all those secret, and married, Republican knobslobbers I hooked up with in my more zesty days. No? Okay, I will keep putting them in my poems.

I've fled the musky app. Let me see if I can figure this thing out.