Washington Park Arboretum today.

Seattle Mayor Apologizes to Starbucks, Thought It Knew Everyone Here Hated Them Already: tinyurl.com/yt2k2d3t

Andrea Wilbur-Sigo's beautiful welcome figure was recently installed at Fortson Square! This art is a major component of the transformation of this space into one that honors Seattle's indigenous history.

Did you ever have to stop reading a poem midway because you were so stunned by the beauty of it you didn't feel you could go on? #poetry Maybe that is place— not the street names, not the walls, but the sudden gravity of a thing you didn’t know you carried. westtradereview.com/onlineexclus...

The golden chain tree on my street five days ago and today.

The work of Vivian Maier (1920-2009), prolific US street photographer whose work was unknown in her lifetime #WomensArt

The relentless morning rain has stopped at Saint Mary lake in Glacier National Park, and the sun will soon come out to warm up the land. Montana, August 2025. #Scape #SaintMaryLake #Glacier #NationalParks #photography #travel #hiking #weather #summer #lake

Preston Singletary, Tlingit (1963- ), Raven Steals the Sun, blown, cast, and sandblasted glass, 19 x6x6 in, wood mold for the Sun by David Franklin, American (1972- ), private collection

Streaky sky at sunset with sun setting behind two hawthorn trees. Jacob’s Island, Cork, 🇮🇪 #photography #nature #landscape #springtime #sunset #wildflower #PhotoHour #spéirghorm #EastCoastKin #ECK 🐕 🚶📱 📸 📷 ☀️ ☁️ 🌅 🌺

Seattle won't have an queer or trans film festival this year, and the Seattle Art Museum is erasing queer artists from one of its exhibitions. It's really hard to deny the fact that Seattle seems to be regressing as a queer-friendly place right now. www.sgn.org/story/164495...

A mid-May visit with my old friend Streissguth Gardens.

Sarah Yeoman, American, Totem, 2014, watercolor, 32 x 22 in

Finally finished this mind boggling journey through the life of David Bowie.

"[W]e're really morally and spiritually in the same endless decline that we always have been... I don't think evolution has much place in our vocabulary at all - I don't think we evolve at all. I think we're quite as awful as we were 20,000 years ago?" - David Bowie

Kent State University, May 4, 1970

Into the woods!

The bluebells in Seattle's Volunteer Park.

And yet another poem released today from Cathexis Northwest Press. "Christ, That Smile" is a favorite of mine and I am so grateful it found a home in a Portland, OR publication. Thanks to C. M. Tollefson for including me. #poetry #poem #Portland #PDX www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/may-june-2026

Happy May Day!

I have three poems out today in the second issue of The Dolomite Review, a beautiful magazine "steeped in the spirit of the Midwest." Thanks to Maryann Lawrence for including my work. www.thedolomitereview.com/may-2026-poe...

I'm pretty sure the Seattle Gay News is still the only outlet that's covered this. www.sgn.org/story/164495

I think the Seattle Art Museum should face an actual backlash for erasing the queer identities of artists while trying to maintain its flagship status in an incredibly queer city.

Thank you to @nclitreview.bsky.social for choosing this bonkers story as an honorable mention for the 2025 Doris Betts Fiction Prize and for including it in their most recent online issue! issuu.com/eastcarolina...

I cannot wait to read this!

Jake Skeets, Horses / @milkweededitions.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/04/jake...

I'm tickled pink to say that my new chap is available from Seven Kitchens. Many thanks to Ron Mohring and Steve Bellin-Oka. "What sumptuous landscapes of attraction and hurt lowercase gods makes visceral and real." —Richie Hofmann sevenkitchenspress.com/robin-becker...

I 💚 Summer weekend car bans!

This always makes me happy.

"Language, like algebra, operates usefully only within certain limits. It's a tool for making representations of the world, which, unfortunately, we then go on to mistake for the world itself." — George Saunders

And also...

Got there a little late this year, but finally saw the cherry blossoms at the University of Washington.

Ilya Kaminsky, “We Lived Happily during the War”

My poem "Dahlias" appears today in the beautiful 10th anniversary issue of Ink In Thirds. Thanks to Grace Black and @inkinthirds.bsky.social for including me. You can sample the issue with the link below or digitally download the entire issue at a reasonable price. inkinthirds.org/vol-7-i-1/

Cannon Beach, Oregon

For the poets out there, what's a more stressful April 15th deadline: getting your income taxes filed, or getting your yearly submission in to The Threepenny Review? #poets #poetry #writingcommunity #submissions

No Kings only trains

For today's centenary of poet Frank O'Hara. (Frank O'Hara beside a portrait by Larry Rivers at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York City, 1954)

The journey this poem by @colinpope.bsky.social takes you on before bringing you back.

My first time back to Portland Art Museum since the renovation. Blew my mind!

Happy Vernal Equinox!

Agreed.

Seattle Aquarium

Seattle woke to this today!

Senate Bill 6346, "establishing a tax on millionaires", just passed the Washington House on a 51-46 vote after more than 24 hours of floor debate.

Please read, act, and share widely! morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...