I'm slated to have another poem published by the end of the year, which will bring my count to 12. You know what else there are twelve of? Days of Christmas! So, starting tomorrow, I will be posting one poem a day until Twelfth Night! I invite other poets to join me . . . #sharepoetry

I nominate ChatGPT for employee of the year.

A long time ago, my older brother brought home a silly poster he got from his teacher. It was a price list in the spirit of Lucy's "Psychiatric Help" booth. Options included Answers: $1 Correct Answers: $4

My 2026 resolution will be to remember to click SEND after I finish typing an email.

Like what’s even the point of listening to music in December if it’s never going to show up on spotify wrapped?

The #PoetryHugo website has been updated with a list of news related to the award, as well as a Google Sheet where you can add your own award-eligible poems for any speculative poetry award: www.poetryhugo.com

The White House is looking for biased news articles. I wonder how they would react if they were flooded with a bunch of links from the right wing propaganda machines: mailchi.mp/mail.whiteho...

As promised.

me on the outside: "This is well deserved recognition for the ongoing contributions poets make to literary canon" on the inside: yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyayayayayayayayayayayyyyyyyyyyyyyyayayayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

This is my first issue as poetry editor and it features poetry by Michael Butterworth, @andydibble.bsky.social, Robert Frazier, @bugthewriter.bsky.social, @cybergodwrites.bsky.social, @jennahanchey.bsky.social, Howard V. Hendrix, @aijiang.bsky.social, Lauren McBride, & John Reinhart + lots more

I love this.

People are On Here begging for food. People are on the street begging for food. People are starving to death in the United States, in Sudan, in Palestine. And we're letting Elon Musk have A TRILLION FUCKING DOLLARS.

See you on Nov 12! So excited to read with this all star lineup!

For a group of folks who claim that it’s their sacred duty to uphold the law, ICE agents sure break it a lot.

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

The fatal flaw in 2nd amendment exceptionalism is that most laws broken by tyrannical governments do not call for a murderous response.

Wondering what’s going on with National Guard in Oregon? Here’s a quick timeline of the legal developments over the past week. NOTE: This information is current as of Monday morning, October 6. We’ll continue to share updates as the situation evolves.

As a retired US Navy vet, if you are ordered to invade US homes, break their doors, zip-tie kids? - and you do that? YOu should read up on Neuremberg because those are NOT lawful orders, and you should be fucking ashamed of yourselves. Your families shoulid be ashamed of you. Stand the fuck up.

stay out!

The IRS does not recognize Portland as a combat zone. DO NOT SEND TROOPS. www.irs.gov/individuals/...

Chapbook Category First Place: The Inca Weaver's Tales • Katherine Quevedo • (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024) Second Place: Water-Kin • @mahailasmith.ca • (Metatron Press, 2024) Third Place: Micropoetry for Microplanets • @bugthewriter.bsky.social • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)

Congratulations! I just love this book.

We don't have a government, but I've got an award! My chapbook scored 3rd for the 2025 Elgin Award. I'm excited to be on the list with so many excellent writers.

Views from Portland on Saturday. Skateboarding. Solar Panels. Electric-powered lawn care. No military intervention needed. ICE GO HOME.

L.A. stood strong and Portland will too! Terrible decisions continue by the so-called U.S. Department of War, pointing the cannons at its own citizens. Enjoy this lovely poem by @gwynnega.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

It's @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social weekend! On Sunday at 3pm Eastern, come listen to @akualezlihope.bsky.social, @dianadima.com, @yarntheory.bsky.social and yours truly, led by moderator @bugthewriter.bsky.social, as we chat about speculative poetry! FoF is online & free! Register here:

I'll be at Flights of Foundry this weekend, the free online conference. Go register!

where is due process?

Some thoughts I plan to share with my Senators. Feel free to reuse and send to anyone who may need to hear.

"The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it, and that is the real trick of the imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind forty atrocities than a single incident."

He went over the edge a long time ago. The failure of US leadership becomes more absurd every day.

Small Wonders loved the chemistry in my poem so much they wanted to publish it! Read it at their site.

Listening to Space River, among other songs by Priya Darshini. Discovered from my continuing obsession with Max ZT on hammer dulcimer. youtu.be/_z1u1Bz221o

Glad the vice president of the United States, whose salary my taxes fund, is using his position to *checks notes* attack me on the Charlie Kirk show.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Hear me read my Rhysling-nominated poem "Our Combusted Planet." youtu.be/8IcMtDc6rWk?... #scifi #sciencefiction #poetry #climate #fireflies

Pop culture tropes infesting my poetry

Voting closes soon. Several Space Cowboy publications are up for the Elgin this year including Mexicans on the Moon by @pedroiniguez.bsky.social and Micropoetry for Microplanets by @bugthewriter.bsky.social as well as my book of scifaiku The Future is Brief

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

If guns don't kill people, then I suppose meth and needles don't kill people, but somehow the politicians are willing to commit war crimes in the name of policing drugs.

Preparing for Flights of Foundry, a free, online conference for creatives. Perhaps I'll see you there in a couple weeks!

Hopefully some of these dwarf planets fly away to a new home. Stop by my booth during the Clinton Street Fair this Saturday to see them in person! (if gravity hasn’t pulled them away).

New designs on etsy. I have been busy framing as I prepare for the Clinton Street Fair on Saturday Sept 6. Portland locals, come see the prints in person! #poetry #art #portland #pdx #pdxart #writer

September 1st is coming up fast! Get your speculative poems ready to submit to SpecPoVerse for Volume 1, Issue 3. specpoverse.org/submission

Last few days to get your poems in! Do it this weekend!

I had a phenomenal time at the Hugo awards in all ways except for the water bottle whose contents seeped into my backpack over the course of the ceremony. So, giveaway! Quote with your favorite poem for a chance to win a slightly waterlogged but still readable book that has had adventures.

Artwork in the convention center. Saturn’s Boquet by Carlos Martinez. #worldcon

It’s Hugo tiiiiiiiiiiiiiime 😳