LOL. Guys. We don’t register to protest. We just show up.

This era and its malevolent higher ed consultancies… #backtoschool

Flashback Friday! Why not finish the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social with @jessejohnson.bsky.social's METABOLICS, a 2024 Oregon Book Award Finalist and California Review of Books Outstanding #Poetry Book? For more on this innovative debut, visit press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 🎉🎉🎉

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

The best author photos are when the author is holding or sitting beside an animal they love.

"Just as I long for poems that carry the wisdom and surprise of my friends’ verbal play, I hope for novels that are absorbing, like a long conversation with a friend. . ." In our Family Secrets Folio, @jessejohnson.bsky.social reviews Morgan Talty's FIRE EXIT.

Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California? truthout.org/articles/ice...

I have few regrets, but one is that I didn’t read Alice Notley sooner. I think my life would have been different, and better.

"...the depth and extent of the exclusion of women poets from previous literature was an unfathomable void that no man was ever going to be capable of understanding. The suppression of women from poetry was an incomparable loss, a tragedy for me and everyone else." Alice Notley

I’m reading tomorrow night for Pendleton’s First Draft series (virtual). 5/15 7:00 Pacific Zoom link at the link. pendletonarts.org/first-draft/

Shout out to all of the faculty and students who made it through this semester in particular. What a time to be teaching and learning in spaces that are directly under attack from people who benefited from having access to the same resources themselves.

I was happy to review a great novel in this folio. Thanks @lisaampleman.bsky.social for the opportunity. I am loving @jscheng.bsky.social ‘s craft essay here and looking forward to reading the others.

Grateful to be usually one good nap away from feeling pretty good

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

Overhead of the May Day march in Chicago. Thousands and thousands. I've heard (but can't confirm) anywhere between 10-50k. In any case it's huge.

Hear me out. No more interviews of the weird pronatalist couple. Interview the neighborhood dads. The guy who mows the lawn of an elderly neighbor. The people who live self-sacrificial lives that make other people’s lives better. Normalize that. A crisis in masculinity? Highlight this man.

It's Chapbook Day! Our Open Prose Chapbook Period is open for submissions now through 6/1! We're looking for your fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and other surprising prose chapbooks (btwn 60-100pg, with a little flex in both directions) from April 1 through June 1. splitlippress.submittable.com

This Friday! Celebrate National #Poetry Month in #Portland with a terrific lineup of readers, including Acre author @jessejohnson.bsky.social (METABOLICS). Details below! 📚🎉

I’m looking forward to supporting Sarah’s launch and reading some new work!!!

Portland, come hear poetry at Bishop & Wilde this Friday, 4/4 @7pm. Celebrate Sarah's @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social debut COSMIC TANTRUM with me, Ellee Achten, @jessejohnson.bsky.social and @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social #pdxpoetry, #livepoetry #NationalPoetryMonth

If I post my AWP haul you’re going to know the severity of my book buying ways and it’s embarrassing AF

Poets' Debut Nonfiction: Poetics, Process & Things We Wish We'd Known panel 📚💙 #AWP25

Acre authors in action! @jessejohnson.bsky.social (METABOLICS, METTLEWORK) talking all things cnf! Order her #memoir at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo..., or stop by Booth 307! 🎉🎉🎉

Reality Winner wept

“Your sister does not have a thesis”

Thurs. 6:30 to 8 pm! #AWP25 off-site hosted by Village Well Books (Culver City), featuring a showcase of titles by seven Acre #authors: @cdeskilson.bsky.social, @josehernandezdz.bsky.social, Malia Márquez, @bydanobrien.bsky.social, @thejs3.bsky.social, @jessejohnson.bsky.social, and Jenn Scott. 🎉📚

Olivia Cronk @meeklingpress.bsky.social

(Tagging pals) 4/2 @preetivangani.bsky.social, @joewadlington.bsky.social, @maggietokudahall.bsky.social, Sage Curtis, & Sally Ashton 4/4 Ellee Achten, @gendeguzman.bsky.social, @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social, & @jessejohnson.bsky.social 4/10 @mbsycamore.bsky.social & @gabriellebates.bsky.social

"Write in the way, and with the practices, that make you feel powerful. The world is a better place, and you are likely better, after you have spent time alone in your mind, trying to figure out what haunts you." —Rita Bullwinkel

one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line

I forwarded an email message (like from a grandparent) to a salty little gen alpha child. I did not hear the end of how email is NOT THE WAY TO COMMUNICATE MOM

We know a lot of you are gearing up for #AWP25, so check out the delightful range of panel offering by our authors and stay tuned for announcements about #book signings and offsites! #booksky 🎉🎉🎉 @jessejohnson.bsky.social @ctsalazar.bsky.social @kevinprufer.bsky.social

Bring this undead girl to life! One day to go! @kateristau.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat...

Shoutout to all the college students who aren’t bots and all the colleges that invest in minimal measures to make sure their students aren’t bots. I wish I worked at one!

... But by this point it is really clear that behaviour I consider to be petulant, irrational, whiny, self-pitying, and contemptible are by them viewed to be expressions of peak masculinity. I genuinely can't tell what is happening here, I am really not sure where the disconnect has arisen or why.

It’s infuriating that Penn, Stanford, etc are the subject of most higher ed reporting. Begging a reporter to discover a community college.

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

Higher Ed Labor United, AAUP, CWA, AFT, and the UAW—that’s who’s fighting; join or die www.labor4highered.org

The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This will be played as an attack on universities and research and rightly so—it is—but someone on this list might save your life or that of someone you know if they could keep working. Many will die who didn’t need to if the cuts stand.

For my latest, I talked with @ctulocal1.bsky.social president Stacy Davis Gates and artist and educator Silvia Gonzalez about how Chicago teachers are creating Sanctuary Teams to protect undocumented students and other marginalized youth from Trump's aggression. (Includes organizing resources.)

Conferenced with first year comp students today, many of whom are building on lived experience and making substantial contributions to the community right now in their careers and applying what they learn in school as they go. This is one of the fun things about community college.

Tomorrow! I'll be reading with Elizabeth Costello at 7pm on Thursday 2/6 a Bishop & Wilde in Portland, OR to celebrate our debut fiction books. Hope to see you there! www.bishopandwilde.com/events/britt...

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.

Folks who can’t be out and about, volunteer opportunity:

Overheard: “You know what would be cool. We should dress up the cat as Sauron.” “How would you do that?” “Wh… I guess put a little… [silence] I really don’t know.”

an extremely long tweet from the President of Colombia roasting the United States and the Trump administration. "the US sucks except for Black people, Walt Whitman, Paul Simon, and Noam Chomsky" is just the beginning of what we in the business call a rich text

If you are in Portland, and you have next Thursday off, I'm giving a reading at 1 PM at Clark College. Free and open to all! Details here: www.clark.edu/campus-life/...