Spitballing ideas: hire a trans man to be your Books Editor.

Reach for the stars, babe. ✨

"Totally not a fan of the national paper, 'The Anti-Trans Fascist Review' but they do have a really fun daily word game that I just can't bring myself to put down!" 🤡

OMG STOP READING THE TIMES FFS

guest taught creative writing at a high school today and DID NOT expect an epic battle between the students about the difference between rugs and carpets. they had FEELINGS about this.

What a beautiful way to wake up this morning. I’m a curmudgeon about politicians, but this is what leading with love looks like.

Mayor Mamdani! Al hamdulillah.

Holy shit, I cannot stop beaming about Mamdani and I’m not even in NYC. So much hope for humanity tonight.

guys the MOON tonight!!

dreaming of a sense8 cluster out there ✨

If you're on the fence about buying my hybrid collection from @diodeeditions.bsky.social, check out @erinvachon.bsky.social 's fabulous review in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social . Note you can purchase on my site or thru Diode! moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/02/25/a...

I put myself through college working at a pizza place. At some point a cook threw an open-faced sandwich at another, exploded in his face. That was the same job where we would dare each other to drink little vats of hot sauce for a dollar. I do not know how to process...whatever this is.

I can't describe how beautiful tonight's murder of crows against a red sky was. I'm kindof emotional about it. 50% speed. Narrative video in next post 🪶

the unfortunate and fortunate part of AI's rising is that messy writing has become more beautiful than ever before

your heart is a bird each ventricle a feather a cardinal blood rushing you sing & the bird of my heart flutters sings back #poetry

As soon as I wrote this one, I knew where to send it. Ghost Parachute Rules! Happy reading, everyone... Also, a big thank you goes to @erinvachon.bsky.social who jiggled loose the seed of this triptych in their prose poem webinar. Seriously, what would I do without @smokelong.bsky.social ??

Today is my books one-year birthday and I nearly missed it. If you haven't read it, it's a darkly funny hybrid book about grief, loss, suicide, friendship, and the shit that happens to us. Get a signed copy on my site or buy one directly from @diodeeditions. www.diodeeditions.com/product-page...

I love when you’re watching a romantic scene in a movie, and before the kiss even happens onscreen, the actors’ lips are bruised enough to show that there were previous takes.

shitposting my way through Halloween 👻

I just watched a person in a crow onesie and Brandon Lee’s The Crow shake hands like two cousins at a family reunion.

okay also Mario, Luigi, and Link just found each other in the backyard of this bar and are in deep conversation and they DID NOT come here together

I just saw the Devil and Jesus with cigarettes hanging out of their mouths, both on scooters, swerving down the sidewalk. Halloween brings us all together, guys.

Okay I might rally with the most last minute of costumes and be a pirate, and while I do not have a parrot, I DO have a stuffed crow which means I can be a GOTH PIRATE.

I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.

New LittlePuss ARCs for Spring! Booksellers u know what 2 do

omg the new florence album is so fucking good

inviting the cenobites over to watch christmas romcoms tonight

As an editor who's also a writer, it's especially painful to read a beautifully crafted submission from a writer with obvious talent and have to reject it—for any number of reasons. Writers, we want every one of you to be our next yes!!

Sitting in my car listening to Purple Rain at top volume while it drizzles outside I’M TOTALLY FINE.

Here I am laughing in joy during the beautiful book launch for TERRY DACTYL at the Seattle Art Museum, thank you all!!!! And, get ready for my upcoming events in New York, DC, Baltimore, and Portland, please spread the word, and let's continue this magic 💕💕💕

I say this with excitement: our short story/flash fiction editor, @egreenberg.bsky.social, will be looking for a few new readers to join the 2026 SS/FF reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED! SS/FF reader apps open on Sun Nov 2 and will close by Sat Nov 8, or after we've received 100 applications.

I published a story 15 years ago about a real-life attempt by American spiritualists to build a mechanical messiah in New England in the 1850s or so. History repeats. So do techbros.

There was a brutal eviction on my block. Neighbors' stuff thrown all over sidewalk, gathering and deeply upset. Guy saying "we used to have morals, we grew up with morals." Then he looks at me, transsexual in running gear, face hardens. "Now we just got these mor-ons." I keep thinking about this

She should be alive. An athlete and activist. Every trans suicide is a murder.

The true joys of being a writer: I've spent the past week making final edits to an interview I conducted with an author friend and reading and making notes on a novel draft from another author friend. I feel incredibly lucky to be engaging so meaningfully with writers I admire!

Thrilled beyond words with this review of Cold Toast at @smokelong.bsky.social! Massive thanks to Amanda Krupman and the SLQ team! 🤩🙏🥂

Read Amanda Krupman's review of Kathryn Aldridge-Morris's collection Cold Toast at SmokeLong now. Available from Dahlia Books. @kazbarwrites.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/book-review-...

Attn @blipstress.bsky.social

One of my favorite small poems from ANMLY (@anmlymag.bsky.social) by the illustrious @ritamookerjee.bsky.social for #smallpoemsunday

On a totally unrelated note, I taught a writing workshop on recognizing propaganda last weekend, and I think it is a skill everyone should have.

Basic rock paper scissors is soooo amateur. Let's play ultra rock paper scissors

Good fucking God! This was in fucking Rhode Island!!!!! What is HAPPENING to everyone?!?!?!?!? archive.is/W8J3z

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

Yeah, AI and those political ads run on the same engine. Easy to destroy. Hard to create.

Mayor Johnson is cooking

Good grief why is Stellan Skarsgård cooking so hard?

My students were so brave today. Ugh, I love teaching.

White people watching the White House get demolished: How could he do this?! Black people watching the White House get demolished, while knowing it was built with slave labor: I mean... ok.

So…so WHY is Poetry Foundation throwing their mighty large hat into the Best of the Net ring?? Can nothing be left for small online journals?