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 😳

It's #Worldcon Saturday! ** Please promote this. ** I can only do so many things at once, apparently. 🧐 Wouldn't it be amazing to tell Pauline Chirata-Mukondiwa that @seattlein2025.org wanted her Zimbabwean story translated and got it done? (No need to repost me! Grab the link; ask for shares.)

Spotted on the walk to #worldcon day 3: DIAMOND TENTACLES OF DOOM!

Worldcon has poetry? Worldcon has poetry!!

If you’re at #worldcon, there is poetry on the fourth floor!

Worldcon Day 2. It’s me, the one behind the camera (and in front, this time). Not a laureate, still a poet. Time for more con!

It’s Day 2 of @seattlein2025.org—here’s just some of the cool poetry things happening: • Poetry Track lead & SFPA president @bugthewriter.bsky.social reads RIGHT NOW at SCC Room 428; • a 1:30 reading at Room 445 including Best Poem Hugo Finalists @mariness.bsky.social & @angelaliu.bsky.social!

Worldcon Morning of Day 1: Here be poets! I found Poet Laureate Brandon O’Brien a.k.a. @therisingtithes.bsky.social

Starting Wednesday! Who will I see at Worldcon (and who will see me?) There is so much good programming! Here are the times when I get to be at the front of the room.

Ok, since this IS apparently a thing now, allow me to list/thread just a few places where people can read speculative poetry - for free!

Step 1 of adding Poetry to the Hugo Awards long-term is a success!! The amendment has been approved and goes to next year for ratification!

You can buy my microprints on Etsy! It has been a years-long dream to smush words and art together. Watch for new designs as I get them to the printer. For now, I have these tiny prints with incredible sketches from Gowri Savoor: THANK YOU! Etsy link in bio, or look for bugthewriter.