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Sunday morning is a great time to read a poem you’ve never read.

I cannot believe it has been almost 10 years since The Relationship Theater company, brilliantly directed by Fiona Templeton, put on Non-Sequitur, a play that I was told could not be performed. What a whirlwind life has been since then! Sometimes looking back can make you excited to look forward.

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Frog knocked at Toad’s door. “Toad, wake up,” he cried. “Come out and see how wonderful the winter is!” “I will not,” said Toad. “I am in my warm bed.”

New Substack 💗

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

How do y’all be posting on here and there AND getting work done? Because I… cannot lol 🫠

“I hear that song, that unending crescendo, feels like I’m the one who’s unbreakable.“ We are deeply saddened by the loss of Jubi Arriola-Headley. Our condolences to the Miami poetry community and to the many who knew and cared about him.

art and literature, theory and philosophy, history and sociology and languages are not "content" and universities do their students a disservice when we pretend they are

Sometimes I say "the poem speaks for itself" and what I really mean is like one of those possessed puppets in a horror film.

“Let’s make room for many modes of survival.” @khadijahqueen.com’s RADICAL POETICS asks: what would our literary spaces look like if we actually meant this? Her book challenges us to expand what we consider possible – in our teaching, our writing, our communities. press.umich.edu/Books/R/Radi...

🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thrilled to have a kind of performance essay in this anthology—thank you Chloe!

You’re invited to my master class on how to finish your book, based on my 25 years of writing experience. For all of that time, I have been working and caregiving and writing at the same time. I love sharing what I’ve learned. Two scholarships are available: www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/mast...

From the archive, 1990: Svetlana Alexievich on the USSR and Afghanistan. ‘I was trying to present a history of feelings, not the history of the war itself.’ granta.com/boys-in-zinc/

"Imagine thinking you can truly defeat a people so internally and generationally fortified. Never."

New Substack: I wrote about a surprise Corvette, a Jesmyn Ward novel, and the spirit of my dad-- authorkqueen.substack.com/p/on-the-ver...

Upcoming opportunity to work with our INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS anthology co-editor @khadijahqueen.com ! ( Do you have your copy of INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS? fc2.org/anthologies/... )

Autism formally recognised: 1943 Tylenol invented: 1955

n+1 comes out swinging www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

We are horrified and saddened by the death of our colleague Hussein Alnajjar who died yesterday in #Gaza. His death was due to shrapnel injuries caused by an Israeli airstrike near his tent five days earlier.

Overall, this rapid media consolidation during this political and economic moment scares me easily as much as the administrations political theater other the military.

He must be fired or impeached. Plain and simple.

Let’s buy some books!

Ngl, it's a bit disconcerting going about one's day when sitting legislators are calling for your entire community to be incarcerated and forcibly destroyed www.erininthemorning.com/p/two-republ...

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Imagine in 2025, after all the times Black women warned literally everyone about everything that’s happening right now, announcing that Black women commentators are just very paranoid When we have been right???????? This whole time????? About pretty much everything????????????!

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In the Tumbleweed, I discuss a mascot's retirement, what it teaches us about how to love, and book news starring @rlmaizes.bsky.social, @ninamcconigley.bsky.social, @khadijahqueen.com, @scottsemegran.com, @unmpress.bsky.social, @caralopezlee.bsky.social & @karenpalmer.bsky.social! bit.ly/42gAIDZ

I taught a version of this class over the summer, and it went so well I decided to offer it again. If you’re stuck with a book project, or just want fresh strategies and support, this is the class for you!

Joy Reid. Karen Attiah. Gene Robinson. Jonathan Capehart. There are lots of others. Circumstances differ. But really sad to see new organizations not keeping super-talented Black staffers. The news industry spent decades talking about diversity, improved some from 2014-2020 and is now going back.

The type of speech most punished in this society is that which consists of telling the truth about how the powerful have harmed you

the shooter was just a cis dude but even if he was the most trans person to ever trans it wouldnt justify rounding up all the trans people for crimes they didnt commit, really wish people in positions of power would be saying this

This man has been kidnapped by ICE on the pretext that his theft of two speakers in *1989* requires deportation

"The U.S. Department of Education has pulled funding for programs in eight states aimed at supporting students who have both hearing and vision loss ... 'How low can you go?' said Maurice Belote, co-chair of the National DeafBlind Coalition. 'How can you do this to children?'"

Aging can be lonely. Public libraries understand these needs and offer live and virtual activities to engage seniors and help make connections with others.

Muriel Rukeyser

I know Rothko's art is marketed transcendent and spiritual, but I've always felt his colour fields are rage (barely) assuaged by methodical touch. That he painted these to trap rich 'bastards' as they stuffed their faces makes me love the paintings even more.

I know Rothko NEVER 'marketed' his works as transcendent and spiritual, btw. It is how museums have gotten people to engage with his work because 1. he did not explain his work (rightfully) 2. his choice of abstraction was deeply embedded in antifascism, which doesn't read well on a museum label.

The Virginia Department of Health has issued a standing order so that people can get the COVID vaccine without a prescription. You can print out the order here: www.vdh.virginia.gov/content/uplo...

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A lot of the time you can just do stuff

THE DREAM KEEPER Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamers. Bring me all of your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too rough fingers Of the world. --Langston Hughes, from The Weary Blues

This is the headline of a horrific eternity—inurement is immoral

have been also learning lately that data centers primarily draw water from public drinking water systems with huge implications for access, infrastructure quality, cost of buildout, and water rates for residential customers who already usually subsidize industrial use, in addition to capex