Poets! (Re) An Ideas Journal is open for submissions. Deadline: August 16, 2026. No theme. Please visit our 5th Anniversary issue for complete guidelines. We’re looking forward to reading your work! reideasjournal.com/2025/08/25/r...

More from our #NationalPoetryMonth line up inside! Day 16 feature @hefisher.bsky.social youtu.be/6IOpARXqYjI

Join me for a free, online panel I’m moderately: ARTIST RESIDENCIES: MAKING TIME & SPACE TO FOCUS & FUEL: Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 7:30-9pm ET. This panel features award-winning author Kim Coleman Foote and MacDowell Admissions Director Courtney Bethel. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Wednesday, 1/21, 7pm ET: join and panelists discussing “The Art of Rejection” — for artists in all fields. www.artscouncilofrockland.org/professional...

"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them." (Published Oct. 2025)

This poem is by the woman ICE murdered. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

For artists in all fields, I’m moderating a free online panel on the Art of Rejection—which many—most?—people working in the arts face rejection at one time or another. Join us for a discussion with professionals who say “no” and those who’ve had “no” said to them. Link in comments.

For artists in all fields, I’m moderating a free online panel on the Art of Rejection—which many—most?—people working in the arts face rejection at one time or another. Join us for a discussion with professionals who say “no” and those who’ve had “no” said to them. Link in comments.

🗓️Monthly reminder - the Circle is always open. Submit a poem today. There's no fee and we promise a quick turnaround. Submission guidelines: stonecirclereview.com/submissions-... #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

Tomorrow is December. Only two weeks until Hanukkah! NAWP is hosting our 3rd annual Hanukkah reading with 22 Jewish poets (we know, it isn't chai, but we have some great readers!) Please join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/from-darkn...

I just got out of D&D and am finally watching The Speech and I got as far as "these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power" before I burst into tears www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MfB...

If you’re in the area, this Saturday, 10am, is a presentation on AI AND THE ARTS through the Arts Council of Rockland. New City Library, New City, NY www.artscouncilofrockland.org/professional...

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