Pacific Northwest coded

I can admire the constant and gradual change of languages and still dislike the phrase “face card.” I contain multitudes.

Re-arranging my office and came across this two-sided classic bookmark from @aaronburch.bsky.social and @mdbell79.bsky.social

This week’s newest Heraclitus whiteboard fragment. Translated by me.

Very excited to welcome Marie Howe and Rick Barot to Poetry@Tech this Thursday! Please join us at the Walter G. Ehmer Theater at 6pm.

This week’s Heraclitus whiteboard fragment is too on the nose for this time of the semester 😂 Translation by yours truly

I’ve got a review of Mark Danielewski’s new novel up in today’s Sunday Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Link: www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/202...

DIDN’T WAKE THE BABY

Our 2019 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence @mattminicucci.bsky.social popped in earlier this week, and was just featured on @slowdownshow.org Read his poem “Nostalgia" here: bit.ly/3WiinTo

“Today’s poem beautifully captures the pain of distance, of longing, of wanting to be somewhere, or with someone, when you can’t be," shares host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s episode. Read “Nostalgia" by @mattminicucci.bsky.social: bit.ly/3WiinTo 📸: Ryan Maurer

What better way to wind down the week than with an episode of THE SLOW DOWN, featuring Acre poet @mattminicucci.bsky.social whose work host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social says "captures the pain of longing...to be somewhere, or with someone, when you can’t be"? 🎉🖊️ www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

Most recent Heraclitus whiteboard fragment of the week Translation by me

Oh no, not the AI industry, an eleventybillion-dollar sector that employs fives of people

AI stole basically everything I ever published along with pretty much every other writer so, no, I don’t think it’s cool or interesting or useful & now I don’t trust you because you think it’s “neat.” It’s just theft.

Bartles and Jaymes have been doing it WAY longer than I thought 😂

May Poetry! Latest column live @literaryhub.bsky.social! (I am still trying to rebuild over in this new space so shares are much appreciated!)

This note was too long for BlueSky but anyone up for a panel or need an extra hand for your panel at #awp26 let me know

Flashback Friday! @mattminicucci.bsky.social "has created, in extraordinary #poems of counterpoint, elegy, and autobiography, a dualism (a mirroring, a conjunction, a metronomic pairing) not binary so much as inclusively generative and devastating." (Kathy Fagan) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Check out @mayacpopa.bsky.social wonderful post on Easter Sunday and one of my poems (from SMALL GODS) included: The Irrepressible Theme of Resurrection open.substack.com/pub/mayacpop...

Attention #AWP25 attendees! Signed copies of @mattminicucci.bsky.social DUAL are going quickly! We only have a handful left. Stop by Booth 307 to get yours! 📚🖊️🎉

#AWP25: Let's do this! 🎉🎉🎉

there’s a guy here at my airport gate with a Tr*mp hat and a tattoo of the capital building which is a concerning combination

#AWP Off-Site Thu 3/27 Walk over from the Convention Center for a full night of storytelling & poetry! 6-8 PM: Fractured Lit, BULL & Ghost Parachute 8-10 PM: Stalking Horse Press, Rinky Dink & The Wax Paper Live music interludes, cash bar, street tacos & dancing til 12

Starting our #AWP25 countdown! We're at booth 307 (with @cincinnatireview.bsky.social) and will be joined on March 27 by #poets @josehernandezdz.bsky.social (BAD MEXICAN, BAD AMERICAN) and @mattminicucci.bsky.social (DUAL)! 🖊️📚🎉 #booksky

All these power-hungry assholes obsessed with the Roman Empire love to gloss over the fact that it, y’know, famously ended

Everything is bad. (Just had to say it out loud)

44.

Maslow’s hierarchy of British needs:

Today’s Featured Poet: James Longenbach (1959-2022) was the author of six books of poems—including Earthling, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award—and eight books of prose. He is survived by his wife, Joanna Scott, and their two daughters.

The lingering question of what to do with a journal that once took your work that’s now rejected you a dozen times in a row. Is it over? Was it me and not you? You and not me? Are you different? Am I different? Are those stars I see?

A quick positive note: I’ll be heading to Washington State for all of June to be in residency at the Willapa Bay AiR AND received a grant to work on a new book project at the Beinecke Library at Yale later in the summer. Hope to see many of you during my travels!

Excited to have a review of Paolo Giordano’s new novel in today’s Sunday Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Online link here: www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/202...

We have exciting things planned for 2025! Check out cover reveals for our forthcoming #books of #poetry and #fiction! Learn more about these upcoming titles at www.acre-books.com. 🎉🎉🎉

It’s Bluesky! I’m free from the husk of Twitter! All my followers are in the wind! Where are my poets at?

Great contributor book releases this week! Congratulations to Kelle Groom for HOW TO LIVE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS from Tupelo Press, and @mattminicucci.bsky.social for DUAL from Acre Books.