I am currently reading this book. After learning about Secretary Hegseth's speech, I would suggest he read it as well. #booksky

For the first time in a couple of years, I’m not in New Orleans for the Faulkner Conference. So I’m consoling myself with red beans and rice. #booksky #NOLA

I created this Shepherd list awhile ago ... just linking to it again today because I was just at the Western American Literature conference. #booksky 📚💙📚🖋️📚

Happy birthday, Mr. Faulkner. #booksky

I'm going to try to be more hard boiled in my responses to rejections. #writingcommunity

Gordon Gee disgraces the profession.

I’m on a panel at the annual conference of @awpwriter.bsky.social in Baltimore next spring. #booksky 📚❤️📚🖋️📚

Applications for the #AWP26 HBCU Fellowship Program close in ONE WEEK! Creative writers from HBCUs are encouraged to apply to this mentorship opportunity and expand their networks at our annual conference. Apply now on our submission portal!

There’s only ONE WEEK LEFT to apply to the #AWP26 TCU Fellowship Program! Faculty and students from tribal schools who are interested in creative writing must apply by September 30. Those who are interested can apply on our submission portal. awpwriter.secure-platform.com/applications...

Re-upping this: Especially if you're in the first category, pregnant and struggling to get a Covid shot or confused by federal guidance, I would love to hear from you. [email protected]

A grad student told me she was surprised at how much she loved "Moll Flanders." I'm doing something right. #booksky #DeFoe #MollFlanders. 📚💙📚🖋️📚

Good dudes.

Okay, there was a final straw. I have canceled my Post subscription.

Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate! #booksky #poetry 📚💙📚🖋️📚

#booksky Any faves?

“This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, Patience.” Herman Melville

A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

This op ed by poet Paisley Rekdal is important. #poetry #booksky How I Ran Afoul of the Air Force Academy

My pollinator garden on my birthday. Many species of #bees, some #butterflies, and #birds… hummingbirds.

I am sixty-nine today. Still working on the next novel. #writinglife #booksky

I haven't been on X for over a year, but I had to read this flash by @margaretatwood.bsky.social lampooning a book ban in Alberta. Enjoy! #booksky #bookban 📚💙📚🖋️📚 #writingcommunity

Congratulations to @roxanegay.bsky.social. #booksky

The Great Black Swamp is where I live. #booksky

I received my contract from Fairy Tale Review! Forthcoming Spring 26. The photo is of their Rainbow 🌈 issue.

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."

Site for high and tight haircuts? You mean Shornhub?

One of the pleasures of teaching the Techniques of Fiction class at BGSU is that I get to reread Aristotle's Poetics. #booksky #MFACreativeWriting 📚💙📚

Enjoying this, the last novel Le Guin wrote. Based on the princess Aeneas marries to found Rome. I’m moved by thinking of the elderly author writing scenes of the young Lavinia talking with the shade of the dying poet Virgil. #booksky @ursulakleguin.com

Midwestern skies.

I know good journalists work at @washingtonpost.com , but they are making it hard for me to continue subscribing. An op ed about “lawfare” turned into a screed about how unfairly Mr. “Classified Documents in the Bathroom” has been treated.

The NEA has canceled Creative Writing Fellowships "to focus funding on projects that reflect the nation's rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the Administration" #booksky

Revising the manuscript in a cafe today. #booksky

Looks like I’ll be going to Baltimore next spring! #booksky #AWP26

Revising the novel once more, and finding embarrassing errors. On one page, my MC has two sisters. A page later, he has one. What happened to his other sibling? Poof! #booksky 📚❤️📚❤️🖋️❤️🖋️📚🖋️

Story Magazine prize is open! #writingcommunity #booksky ❤️📚❤️🖋️📚🖋️❤️

Finding Beauty in a Bowl of Soup #poetry #booksky

My front yard pollinator garden. #birds #bees

The bitter ankles of our nature.

I’m glad I went on a walking tour of the #Cotswolds last year, before Republican politicos began arriving.

The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society conference is coming up in NOLA from Thursday, Sept. 25 through Sunday, Sept. 28. You can sign up for consultations with agents and editors. Highly recommended! #booksky #agents 💙📚💙📚❤️📚🖋️❤️

Backyard hummingbird garden. #birds

The Somewhat Recognizant Dead.