Claude made this to help people find places to remember Renee Nicole Good: vigilsforgood.com.

Old Maid, we whispered, like the card game where the loser gets stuck with the singleton queen. —Julie Kane

One of the greats. RIP.

Scientists decode secret language of non-human intelligence beneath Earth's oceans Full story: buff.ly/c8c5e2j

A leading contemporary poetry critic’s book on Taylor Swift!

Right now, there's no way to post a book from Europe to the U.S. with any guarantee that it will arrive safely and without extra charges. A big blow for the likes of me, but also for small publishers who were already struggling enough before this extra stumbling block.

Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.

So, roving packs of rabid dogs to look forward to, courtesy of RFK…

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

In French, it simply means a summary, which limits what it can and can’t convey despite my padding and hyperbole. —Rob Ingraham

Remembering Linda Pastan “in the pure blue of insight” @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday #poetry

“Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you’ve got to burn away all the peripherals.” -Silvia Plath #PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

And she got pregnant with twins by #3 while still married to #1.

A second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroad workers has been uncovered in Pennsylvania – victims of cholera, violence, and anti-immigrant hate in 1832. Their story is finally being unearthed. buff.ly/w07gTAD By William E. Watson, Immaculata University

Men often wanted Joni Mitchell to be a wife, a muse, a siren, or a star. Instead they got a genius.

We are paying dearly for the absence of civics education.

Best of all, this arborist has rescued 100 cats from trees.

My Fulbright was one of the greatest experiences of my life. This breaks my heart.

They better not forget to include the Kennedy Center in the in memoriam. #TonyAwards #Tonys2025

I wrote “Smothering Villanelle” with poetry queens Beth Gylys & Denise Duhamel. It’s a contoured villanelle using Julie Kane & Erica Reid’s “The Double Image Redux.” Thank you, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social & @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social. #poetrysky #poetrynews #poems

The birth of the blurb!

Sometimes rude people will ask if I’m pregnant because I’m not drinking at parties and I’m like ew god no, I’m an alcoholic.

There’s no such thing as having too many books! Until you move. When it’s time to move, then it’s too many books.

“It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve... I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.” ― Georgia O'Keefe

Ack!!

"I knew I shouldn't have taken the goddam road less traveled!" -- Frost in England, 1957

Four stellar new poems, with audio by Julie Kane: "Prayer to Chaos," "Ode to the Big Muddy," "The Maple Leaf Bar," and "The Bottle Factory." https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/julie-kane/ #poems #poet #poetry #chaos #memory #work #rivers #youth

Naked Ladies by @juliekanepoet.bsky.social, February 2025, @lsupress.bsky.social “The physical in Kane’s poetry is so intensely, humanly physical that it shines, a shining that attracts the feelings and lights the mind.” —A. R. Ammons lsupress.org/978080718374...

(I am A Ghost in the Throat’s biggest fan.)

Don’t shame people for not immediately reading all the books they buy. Some books aren’t made to be ready right away, okay? Some books need time to mature. Some books need to cure for a while. Some books are prosciutto, and don’t you forget it.

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” — Orson Welles

“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~The Great Gatsby

"Everything we write will be used against us or against those we love. These are the terms, take them or leave them. Poetry never stood a chance of standing outside history." Adrienne Rich, from "North American Time"

New book out means a conversation with every author’s ideal reader, Susan Larson, on New Orleans National Public Radio WWNO-FM: www.wwno.org/podcast/the-...

There has been an accident involving a fatality between an #Amtrak train and a motor vehicle between #Oxnard and Camarillo, CA. Our southbound train has been stopped in Oxnard for 3 hours now. At times like this (only at times like this) I miss leaving Twitter/X, which is no doubt posting updates.

Wisest words of the day, on the beach at UCLA Santa Barbara.

So this happened today! library.la.gov/about-us/new...

Shattered by this.

Spring has come back again. The Earth is like a child who knows poems by heart. —Rilke

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

Once again loving this interpretation of Caesar’s last words #IdesofMarch 🗡️

I was a Fulbright Scholar to Lithuania in 2002. This program is invaluable for building international goodwill and furthering the cause of peace. It was signed into law after WWII under Harry Truman. What a disgrace.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) today shared its significant progress to quickly implement the Social Security Fairness Act. Through March 4, 2025, SSA has already paid 1,127,723 people more than $7.5 billion in retroactive payments. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

Rogue Strands on relearning the collection... "Once a book's been published and the poet starts giving readings from it, a whole new process begins, in which they have to relearn the collection from the perspective of different audiences..." roguestrands.blogspot.com/2025/03/rele...

Maybe instead of purging the Social Security workers who make sure seniors get their checks on time, we should be expanding benefits to make life a little easier for your parents and grandparents.

Y’all come! Chocolate cake from Sweet D’s, jazz guitar by Luke Brouillette, and poetry from me.

Freckled Redheads of the world, unite!

I want to set up something like the National Poetry Series for chapbooks. One submission, several presses, several judges, big deal. So if anyone wants to fund that, I'd love to do it without a submissions fee.

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.