I had a beautiful book launch event. Here are some lights! ¡Fue una noche tremenda!

I need you to come join me as I start my multi city tour for PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT! Next Wednesday, at #FincaTresRobles September 24 @ 7pm! RSVP to get some free books and a signed copy of my book!! luma.com/pcyjkghm

I wrote this article a few years ago- I didn’t know then how important it would become, now, in an age where all the book banning and defunding of ethnic communities is on the rise. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/149...

My mother taught me to not speak ill of the dead. She also taught me not to mourn white supremicists. “Quien siembra vientos, recoje tempestades.”

"Fuck Ted Cruz" -Green Day and pretty much everyone else

From our magazine: Rural Texas wears a friendly facade. You know everyone, and everyone treats each other so kindly, but, if you’re Black, you just ignore the stares when you walk into the local steakhouse for fish fry night.

For all the #LatinosForTrump pendejos- I hope you are happy that this brilliantly thoughtful exhibit is now closed- our kids can’t see themselves in museums outside of the image of conquered people. hyperallergic.com/1037811/smit...

The Methodist Church steps up.

DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH The media who do this are heartless bastards

Tapping the sign: Horror movies can be elegantly constructed metaphors for the human condition AND fun times at the cinema with monsters. At the same time. Saying "It's good because it's not really a horror movie" because you think it's deep and complex is not the compliment you think it is.

To the Bluesky community and everyone who follows and fights.

Love this poem from @earthtokb.bsky.social selected by @thepoetmendez.bsky.social: www.texasobserver.org/texas-no-exo...

The edgar is now a resistance haircut. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

May James Dobson burn and rot below for all eternity. A cruel, venal man who caused grave harm with every breath he took.

Just got the good news! The #AWPBaltimore panel I am in was just accepted! See you in March!

With the way the world is moving to crush and make invisible, I won’t be hiding. I will celebrate you and me and us. Make art. Tell me about your books- and I will tell you about mine.

Did anybody else get this today?

If you are in Houston, join me as I launch my book tour for my second collection- PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT: NEW & SELECTED WORKS! RSVP with this link —-> lu.ma/pcyjkghm

My second book “Prayer Holding Night: New & Selected Works” is out now from @TCUPress! You can get your exclusive SIGNED COPY of the book if you order with nuestrapalabra.org! #TexasPoetry #TXPL

Once I asked my mom about what it was like to grow up as a teen in the 1950’s in the #RGV where Mexicanos had been lynched, deported just for being Brown, expelled for speaking Spanish - “we kept singing, we spoke Spanish mijo, we prayed, we cooked, because sometimes, una oración was all we had.”

These CA tomato pickers make 86¢ per bucket. The worker runs back to try and make as many buckets as they can. Because of the hot weather they often only work 4 to 5 hours a day, so every bucket counts towards paying their bills. #WeFeedYou

We’re reading 31 books of poetry this month! Read along with Haymarket Poetry director Maya Marshall’s #SealeyChallenge! 📚

I started the new year and have a new notebook for the job! Yes, I have a tab for “Hot Mess.” Comment below for what you think counts!

In books: It’s typical of José Skinner’s approach that his main protagonist is not some self-assured reflection of his own qualifications, but rather Quigley, a dopey gringo vacillating between colonial-gaze fascination and fear of a world he doesn’t understand.

New from @Francescadnunz.bsky.social: Thanks to so-called 287(g) Task Force agreements, nearly 1.5 million Texans now live in jurisdictions where sheriffs or police chiefs have agreed to train some of their officers to act as immigration agents in the streets of their communities.

PSA for writers & other artist: Demand respect. Even if its someone you hold in high regard, Even if an agitator gaslights you, Even when they hide behind their title. Do not stay silent. This is how you move forward in goodness.

Dozens of Houston residents signed up to speak before the city council Tuesday against what they described as HPD’s collaboration with ICE. According to ICE, the agency arrested about 1,300 people in the Houston area in June.

Featured story: We forget what we don’t want to remember. While I understand that impulse, there are dangers embedded in our forgetfulness. This is especially true for anyone living in Flash Flood Alley, or what we like to call the Hill Country. www.texasobserver.org/san-antonio-...

Support this poet laureate of Corpus Christi! www.kristv.com/news/local-n...

I am watching “In the Heat of the Night.” And that movie is still relevant. EVERYDAY.

More Republicans elected officials should be sitting in prison with George Santos.

A school superintendent from Vermont is speaking out about his experience being detained for several hours at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport.

a story for anyone who is wondering if ken paxton can actually have democrats arrested if they decide to leave the state to stop redistricting www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Paramount can merge with deez nuts.

The TribFest lineup continues to grow! New additions include @mulaney.bsky.social‬, Dallas mayor Eric Johnson, @klobuchar.senate.gov‬‬, @karaswisher.bsky.social‬, @repescobar.bsky.social‬. Nov. 13–15 in downtown Austin. Get tickets: trib.it/tribfest2025...

Hello! I’m WIRED’s senior politics editor, and it’s hard to put into words what it’s been like in our newsroom this year. I am so in awe of my colleagues here, and so grateful to wake up every day to get you, our lovely readers, the news. If you’ve haven’t already, subscribe!! Help us keep it going.

I think it is a blessing when former students decide they want to go and be teachers and cite you as a reason. Especially in this time of political unrest. Especially in a state like Texas. It means you did something right. #KeepGoing #TexasTeachers

People of Portland, I hope to see you a week from today when I’ll be discussing my books with Emilly Prado at Powell’s.

I’ve now been @wired.com for exactly four months!!!! It’s very weird being a legitimate fanboy of your workplace LMAO but i am actually so in awe of my colleagues it’s a little stupid. here are some stories i’ve loved/am so jealous of since I got here, and don’t forget to subscribe:

I a currently watching the very first season of #LaeAndOrder and today’s right-wingers would consider this very woke. It started in the early 90’s. Solid stories

This is most grounding statement I needed to hear.

@libraryjournal.bsky.social published a starred review of @rhonierika.bsky.social’s new collection, Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet! Read it here: www.libraryjournal.com/review/rooms...

People did not die solely because of forgetfulness but because this amnesia allowed succeeding generations to erase the past and their responsibilities to the future. When they could have enacted post-flood, life-saving interventions, they chose not to act on their progeny’s behalf.

In less than two weeks, Acre Books will be open to #submissions of #fiction and #nonfiction! Stay tuned for details. And, in the meantime, visit www.acre-books.com to learn more about our editors, authors, and titles. #prose #booksky

nobody told me about the deep space 9 movie

My schoolteacher parents would take us out of school for like a month to go to Mexico so that we could visit family that could NOT come here to visit us. We also went when I was a toddler. That was how I got to spend time with my abuelito Ricardo.

I’ve been looking for a replacement for Spotify for months. I want to stop giving all tech companies any more money, and decided to just check CDs out from the library, rip them, and take them back. As it turns out, the library has its own streaming app: Freegal Music. www.lapl.org/freegal/

#PayAttention- under this US administration, ICE has more money and resources while the Department of Education is being torn apart.