Poets, the deadline for submissions is September 15th! We’d love to read your poems. www.smallharborpublishing.com/the-big-brut...

Poets! The deadline is coming up. We’d love to read your work! www.smallharborpublishing.com/the-big-brut...

Poets! Subs open til 9/15! Jose Hernandez Diaz, Jennifer Franklin, and I are editing an anthology (Small Harbor Publishing) in response to the Bill that was passed in the House and Senate, THE BIG BRUTAL ACT. Guidelines to sub (by 9/15) here: www.smallharborpublishing.com/the-big-brut...

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Jose Hernandez Diaz, Jennifer Franklin, and I are editing an urgent anthology to be published by Small Harbor Publishing in response to the Bill that was passed in the House and Senate. Subs open 8/15-9/25. www.smallharborpublishing.com/the-big-brut...

Jose Hernandez Diaz, Jennifer Franklin, and I are editing an urgent anthology to be published by Small Harbor Publishing in response to the Bill that was passed in the House and Senate. Subs open 8/15-9/25. www.smallharborpublishing.com/the-big-brut...

I’ll say this and then I’m gonna step back b/c 2026 IS THE ONLY NATIONAL ELECTION THAT’S IMPORTANT NOW. No Dem presidential candidate wins w/o high Black turnout & vote. So stop making it like Black voters are expendable or that you can serve up any candidate chosen by Pelosi, Clooney or MSM & win.

Start every day with this reality: EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined. #LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable ballotpedia.org/United_State...

Finally saw SINNERS. Brilliant film. There’s one scene that is one of the best scenes I’ve ever seen on-screen.

Israel is bombing southern Lebanon.

April 12 at Noon NYC we're going to explore the unspoken in flash with Hillary Leftwich, and you can come. www.smokelong.com/product/summ...

Good news. Had no coverage in UK?

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Registration for my poetry class at Big Red Books in Nyack is open! Join me to write poems about SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS — in-person at Big Red Books in Nyack. April 9, 16, & 23. 6-7:30pm. For details & to register, call: 845-875-7707 or go to bigredbooks.net/events.

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

This didn’t get much news— just another gut punch. www.npr.org/2025/03/14/g...

This is disgraceful and un-American. The Trump administration defended its removal of articles highlighting the achievements of minority service members, including Navajo code talkers, Marines at Iwo Jima, and famed Black baseball player Jackie Robinson.

It seems clear to me that shutting down the government for 6mo to a year and cutting off funding from lower level courts who are currently fighting Trump is only going to give them the keys to the coup. The courts are the only thing that have stalled DOGE. If we cut off their funding… we’re fucked.

BREAKING: @indivisible.org calls on Senator Schumer to step down as minority leader after voting in favor of GOP funding bill. “Our democracy is in danger. The path ahead will be hard. Indivisibles are ready to do the work - it’s time for a Senate Democratic Leader who is too.” Full statement:

NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

I’m incredibly disappointed in the Senate’s vote to pass Republicans’ partisan spending bill. Democrats should not be complicit in giving a blank check to Trump and Elon Musk. Fighting back for the American people is the only way forward.

Here is a list of town halls taking place next week that you should show up at. I am sorry, I mean Chuck Schumer’s book parties. If there are any missing, please add in the replies. The only thing he should be doing today is cleaning out his office.

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

I’d like to hear from voters of any race who were evacuated from polling places due to bomb threats and never voted.

"You, selling roses out of a silver grocery cart You, in the park, feeding the pigeons You cheering for the bees You with cats in your voice in the morning, feeding cats" poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...

Al Green understood the assignment

Worth a listen to what Al Green says after he was removed from the chamber.

I’m teaching a 3-session class at Big Red Books in Nyack, NY April 9, 16 & 23: The Poetry of Significant Objects: a generative workshop that invites poets to use significant objects to write and revise poems. Register @ 845-875-7707; [email protected]; www.bigredbooks.net/events.

@themarbledsigh.bsky.social online Political Anthology is live! Thrilled to have 4 poems included. themarbledsigh.com

The Marbled Sigh: Political Poems Online Anthology is LIVE!!!!! #themarbledsigh #politicalpoems #poetry #poet #emergingwriters #emergingpoets #poem #poems #poets #emergingwriters #litmag #literaryjournal #poetryjournal

Trump said Ze needs to negotiate because Ukraine is losing but that just another lie. “Ukraine’s army is finding some rare success along the eastern front, reclaiming key positions and inflicting “unsustainable losses” on Russian forces…” apple.news/AN802JNQbTbu...

The idea that a political party must do more dramatic things in response to defeat is not new to the social media age. New bio of John Lewis describes his approach to Newt Gingrich et al taking the House in 1994. Lewis applied Civil Rights era lessons and a willingness to burst norms to hurt Newt.

Such a lovely, affirming thread of responses to this...

Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy. Let that sink in.

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

Massive protests need to erupt across America against Trump after this disgraceful PR stunt against Zelensky.

Trump and Vance just made Zelensky one of the most popular leaders in the world.

Trump wants to come after teachers using DEI as a catch-all McCarthy-ite form of citizen surveillance and propaganda: "End DEI and focus on learning" abcnews.go.com/Politics/dei...

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.