With 80% of my Fine Arts Work Center students yesterday! 💙

Saw a Watch for Manatees sign. Walked fifty feet, looked down. My birthday present!

I’m going to fix my face in this position for the next several days (though I will not be holding office hours).

I’m coming back to Cape Cod. Again.

On Friday night, I read from SONG SO WILD & BLUE with brilliant @kendra_mckinley, who sang a range of Joni songs through Hejira. This was the fourth event where I’ve been paired with a musician, and I love how these collaborations lift and stir the air, two forms talking to each other in real time.

Last night from the Lincoln Tunnel Helix. That’s sunlight doing that.

Mount Greylock, which I first started thinking about years ago through a window in Melville’s house.

Western MA friends—this is tonight! Doors 6PM. WANDER in the Berkshires. Can’t wait to read alongside Kendra McKinley, who will be singing Joni.

I am back home after giving a reading at The Sea Ranch in CA, and I’m still thinking about these sheep nearby.

Maybe it’s time to come back to Bluesky. (My blue visitor just now.)

I got to talk with John Kelly about Joni, a joy! on.SoundCloud.com/PU5qUNuxhgqZ...

Look up look up 349 million birds in migration last night

I wrote about my old friend Joshua Clover: elizabethmccracken.substack.com/p/so-blue-co...

This!

SONG SO WILD AND BLUE in the @theglobeandmail.com today! 🌎

I loved having this conversation with @garthgreenwell.bsky.social at @prairielights.com this week, and love that it has another life here: open.substack.com/pub/garthgre...

Three days, Iowa City! Can’t wait to talk with Garth and see you! 💙💙

A new piece in The Writer’s Chronicle, a spinoff of SONG SO WILD AND BLUE. (On Joni, Jude, love, alligators, writing, Louisiana 🐊) writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/TWC/2025...

Thank you, Barbara’s Bookstore O’Hare! 🛫

Thanks so much, Vipassana! 💙

Today marks a month since SONG SO WILD AND BLUE has been out in the world. Thanks to everyone who’s read the book, bought copies for friends and family, talked about it to friends and family, and posted reviews online. Sending clear, calm, and light. 💙💙💙

Tonight, DC! @politicsprose.bsky.social Conn Ave, 7PM. We’d love to see you 💙💙

There’s a moon behind it.

A total joy to read at Pete's Reading Series last night with Jinwoo Chong, Olivia Wolgang-Smith, and Edgar Gomez! Thanks so much to Brian Gresko and Temim Fruchter for being such welcoming co-hosts, to Greenlight Books, and to everyone who came out, knowing they'd be going home in heavy rain. 💙💙💙

Day 60 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @paullisicky.bsky.social’s Art Begins with a No mailchi.mp/12a668378b7c... @writingco-lab.bsky.social

Can’t wait to sit down with Martha soon! Monday, March 24.

My @largeheartedboy playlist for SSWAB: “Here are fifteen songs that feel like a conversation happening across boundaries: under-seen Joni, songwriters influenced by Joni, maybe even some who wish they could secretly take a vacation from Joni from time to time.” largeheartedboy.com/2025/02/27/p...

Our joint SONG SO WILD AND BLUE event! 💙 Thank you to Tina Panik and everyone who came out to the Avon Free Public Library to talk about Joni’s songs this afternoon. Libraries, always! 📚💳📘👨‍🏫

So grateful to participate in the @queerloveproject.bsky.social Questionaire. 😊 💙 open.substack.com/pub/queerlov...

Connecticut! Today! 2PM! 💙 www.avonctlibrary.info/event/songso...

Thanks so much to Ricky Ian Gordon for being a sublime conversation partner and thanks to the Center for Fiction for making an inviting space for us. All the people who came out on a night on which the sky unleashed itself (see my xtratufs?) -- I'm so grateful to you. 💙☔️ 💨🪟 #joni #songsowikdandblue

A passage about “Amelia” from Joni Mitchell’s HEJIRA. 🌌 ✈️ 🏜️

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Tomorrow night, Providence! Can’t wait to talk with Matthew about Joni, my book of Joni, more. 🚀

Thanks so much for this, Richard!!

Thanks to @gpgottlieb.bsky.social for the great conversation about SONG SO WILD AND BLUE for New Books Network. newbooksnetwork.com/song-so-wild...

It was a deep pleasure to think about Joni Mitchell, writing, and SONG SO WILD AND BLUE with @davonloeb.bsky.social for @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2025/02/28/a...

Petey weighs in. 💙 #jonimitchell #songsowildandblue

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SONG SO WILD AND BLUE is out now. More than ever, first week sales are crucial to the life of a book, so if you could spread the word, I’d appreciate it so much. It doesn’t matter whether you buy the book from your local bookstore or at an online outlet, but I hope you’ll consider the former. #joni

SONG SO WILD AND BLUE in the NYT today, alongside Henry Alford. “The singer’s fluid singularity, her refusal to apologize or conform, made [Lisicky] feel electric and understood. An intimate, impressionistic Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man mode, interwoven with Mitchell myths and parallels.”

SONG SO WILD AND BLUE in WRITER'S DIGEST today: "In many ways the book is as much a love letter to Joni’s work as it is all the mentors across my life, from my elementary school music teacher, Mrs. Hill, to friends and family and ex’s and animals and more— “ Link in replies.

Photos from last night’s SONG SO WILD AND BLUE launch at P&T Knitwear. With @elizmccrack.bsky.social! My editor @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social!

This was one of the best conversations, ever. Thank you Jason for letting me talk about Joni and alligators and everything in between 🐊🎸

Happy to see SONG SO WILD AND BLUE walk with these 25 other books out today! lithub.com/omar-el-akka...

PUB DAY!!!!!

In which I learn that two million alligators live in Louisiana. @paullisicky.bsky.social knows everything. Hear him talk with @gaysreading.bsky.social. (Also, I need Karissa Chen's new book). youtu.be/zSpZlPRIT8g?...

So nice to see you here @paullisicky.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/omar-el-akka...

These books explore how a life can be created out of bent notes, new chords, silences, and broken strings (@paullisicky.bsky.social)

@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social talks to @paullisicky.bsky.social about Joni Mitchell and the relationship between songwriting and nonfiction.