Made a bouquet & found (what I believe to be) a Goldenrod Crab Spider 🥹 I didn’t realize until I was in the car, well on my way from Greensboro to Durham, & so I did my best to give her an access point back into nature

Your word combinations are unparalleled. The spreads you lay before us are abundant. And you know what else? You are BELOVED by so many people, including me 💕🦪

Thrilled I got to be there tonight to celebrate one of my dearest friends in the world as she launched her first book into the world! Congratulations, Jameela Dallis on ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social)!

Winter is coming.

People contain multitudes (positive) People contain multitudes (derogatory)

At what point are we telling students that not all sources with a .gov url have accurate & unbiased information? In the past, we’ve always suggested that it was a fair bet these websites were credible sources for students’ writing. What now? #teaching #informationliteracy #research

Join us this Thursday, September 18th, at 6PM for a poetry reading by Taneum Bambrick. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing. buff.ly/czoP69Z @mfagreensboro.bsky.social

what a fall lamp oil fragrance & web browsing/cd burning/aim chatting sesh on the family pc would do for me right now i swear :-)

“Is syntax erotic? / If so, please. Please read. Here.” —Lisa Russ Spaar, “St. Brontë”

Vaccines don't cause autism. What does? Mostly genes. The number of people diagnosed with autism as screening has improved and the definition of autism has been expanded. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Join us one week from today at Scuppernong Books for a poetry reading by Stuart Dischell. The reading will celebrate the release of Dischell's latest chapbook, LOVE'S DOMINION. It is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing. buff.ly/YY5mYH1 @mfagreensboro.bsky.social

In my ongoing quest to do things I would have done if I hadn’t been closeted & married in my early 20s, I got my eyebrow pierced

My weekend read: LEAN ON ME: A POLITICS OF RADICAL CARE (Verso, 2023) by Lynne Segal #nowreading #nonfiction #books #care #community #affectivenetworks

Congratulations to Emilia Phillips (@emdashphillips.bsky.social), finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Poetry for "Nonbinary Bird of Paradise!" For more of Emilia's work, check out Foglifter 4.2 (buff.ly/QopYbfT) (free ebook)

I’m a finalist for a 2025 Lammy Award in LGBTQ+ Poetry! The Lammys have been celebrating LGBTQ+ books since 1989 and I am so excited to be a part of this legacy. Check out the rest of this year’s finalists at lambdaliterary.org/awards/curre... #Lammys2025 #Lammys

I forgot to post yesterday’s book I read for the #SealeyChallenge: THROWN IN THE THROAT by Benjamin Garcia (Milkweed, 2020). How lush, how varied this book is! I’m a fan!

“Some say my pronouns / should be used for the plural only, // but my dreams / are singular” —Cass Donish (@cassdonish.bsky.social), “Dignity” from YOUR DAZZLING DEATH (Knopf, 2024), which I’m reading as I catch up on the #sealeychallenge today!

If you read Peculiar Heritage for the Sealy Challenge, lmk, review it, share it with a friend, and when you're done, shelf it, or put in a little free library, or give it to your boyfriend's grandmother. If you'd like a signed copy, get in touch with me via my website. @masonjarpress.bsky.social

Stunned and absolutely thrilled that Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (@uakronpress.bsky.social, 2024) is a finalist for the LGBTQ+ Poetry Lammy (@lambdaliterary.bsky.social)! Congrats to all the finalists in all categories 🏳️‍🌈

📣 We are thrilled to share that Nonbinary Bird of Paradise by @emdashphillips.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the 2025 Lammy Awards! 🥳 #poetry #poetrycommunity #lgbtqia #nonbinary #poets

We told you they were going to do project 2025 and it’s 2025 and they’re doing project 2025

Just did my full gear fit check for the Arctic 🐻‍❄️ Leaving Wednesday for Oslo!

“Not halves of a whole. Not mirrors. Not puzzled together in the missionary position. Not a gunpowder keg and a gun going off. You scoff, but I wasn’t the fruit to his pit, a tangle for his nit. No, Adam and I, we were more like brothers from our quickchange infancy forward” -Emilia Phillips

I’m in awe. & beginning yesterday morning with the “Queerness of Eve” section colored the rest of my day in this open, lovely light. GORGEOUS craft and insightful, com/passionate poetry in this book “Nonbinary Bird of Paradise” by @emdashphillips.bsky.social I’m so glad I got this at #AWP25!

I don't recall where I picked up @emdashphillips.bsky.social fabulous book of poems, but I hope they have a reading somewhere I can go to in the near future! #poetry #amreading

“I laid awake / in my underwear, upside / down in bed, to stare // at the black lines / of the heifer, the curly-haired / god.” —Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social, “My Bed Was below a Painting of the Rape of Io” @uakronpress.bsky.social

Why is the dentist the most heterosexual of doctor’s offices????

8. Pacific Paradise Herbal Tea & Nonbinary Bird of Paradise by Emilia Phillips (@emdashphillips.bsky.social) from @uakronpress.bsky.social

"I . . . write down the names of motels I pass, partly because they’ve devolved from Technicolor postcard destinations with mod geometric signs, to roadside slumps of peeling paint and mediocre marquee promises." @emdashphillips.bsky.social blackbird-archive.vcu.edu/v14n1/nonfic...

"'DEED' and 'Nonbinary Bird of Paradise' wrest power back from religious rituals, ancient texts, and the normative terminology of medicine and disability, remake mythological figures in the image(s) of queer bodies and sexualities..." Chiara Di Lello's review: psalteryandlyre.org/2025/04/11/s...

fight the hellscape: read poems about unbridled queer desire & survival & joy. I reviewed two queer af collections in @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social: psalteryandlyre.org/2025/04/11/s...

The pilot of this plane sounds like Casey Kasem

This dog got a little impatient waiting for his pup cup. Decided to make sure everything was going alright in there. 14/10

I have a dual review out today, of @emdashphillips.bsky.social and @tagreathouse.bsky.social's beautiful books. Link below!

Tomorrow, I’m reading alongside Andy Bodinger, Dewey Fox, Morgan Henderson, and Amy Strieter as a part of Quarter After Eight’s reading series at Ohio University! Come on out and join us! Thanks for organizing, Dalanie Beach! 🥰

In some alternate universe Musk & Trump are just the subjects of two episodes of Scam Goddess. Nothing more than that.

We really need a banging-head-on-wall emoji.

The best boy

"The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent." In his first letter since being detained by ICE, activist Mahmoud Khalil details the harrowing ordeal he and his family have experienced in retaliation for protesting in support of Palestine.

“We will not take lectures on antisemitism from segregationists and neo-nazis.” Joseph Howley speaks out against the kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil.

and named it History. —Clifton

you woman tree woman one swaying to unheard of winds uninvented air streams you woman sky with palms broad enough to hold eqypt who taught me to walk slow and deliberate like i had somewhere to go from "praise song" by Jaki Shelton Green buff.ly/xgrrz38 #WomensHistoryMonth

Columbia has capitulated in what one scholar calls “an ideological battle to shut down any dissent” against Trump.

I’m not going to #AWP25 this year, friends. I need rest. I need to take care of my health. I need time with my people. Have fun!

If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental, that is only half of it. Your poems probably need to be even more sentimental. Don’t be less of a flower, but could you be more of a stone at the same time? —Mary Ruefle, from "On Sentimentality"

Dobby Gibson

My child just asked if the x in SpaceX stands for explode. 😭

We will not allow this to become normal. The Trump regime is trying to crush dissent beginning with those who speak out for Palestinian freedom. This is a threat to all who believe in justice. Tell Congress to protect students & demand Mahmoud’s release: bit.ly/freemahmoudnow