@lizdegregorio.bsky.social has written another stunning lyric essay/review for @anmlymag.bsky.social! "...a collection that traverses the rocky terrain of growing up trans and nonbinary, as well as the messy, beautiful flowers that can grow out of that ground." medium.com/anomalyblog/...

Lynley Shimat Lys has written a dazzling lyric essay/review of Monique Wittig's The Lesbian Body for @anmlymag.bsky.social - "How is it possible to write at all when your access to other worlds comes fragmented in remnants of Sappho?" medium.com/anomalyblog/...

Today is pub day for my third book and debut monograph! This baby has had quite the journey, and I'm so thrilled to see where it lands in the world. Link below for the info - please buy it if you have the means, ask your libraries to stock it if you don't, and ask me to things! a.co/d/5FmYwYw

Check out our interview with Stage & Screen alum Mckensi Scy Pascall on the power of creativity, finding inspiration, and how the stipend she received from CCW gave her the confidence she needed to believe in her story and keep writing: cambridgecommonwriters.org/being-gentle...

Today, Trump is dismantling much of the Department of Education. He has ordered wrestling executive-turned-Education Secretary Linda McMahon to shut most of her department. But there’s a much larger story here. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.

the idea that poor people or people with cognitive disabilities or physical limitations should get a high quality education. that’s it. for these people the answer is no. and i will tell you why, it is because they are eugenicists.

for the one millionth time, the dept of education just monitors access to education. civil rights, title ix, disabilities, making sure everybody gets a fair opportunity. this is not about curriculum. states design those standards. this is an attack on the idea of fairness in education.

From @nancyland.bsky.social's book, Inconsolable Objects. #poem #poetry #books #writing

From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke. Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/lauxsmoke

It’s my book! On international women’s day! Because I’m an international woman!

“For those of us who live at the shoreline / standing upon the constant edges of decision / crucial and alone / for those of us who cannot indulge / the passing dreams of choice / who love in doorways coming and going / in the hours between dawns…” — Audre Lorde

All this business I am reading about social security is nonsense. My mom died on 2/18. My dad got a letter yesterday informing him her benefits were ending and he had to repay the February payment because they don’t give a payment in the month someone dies. They know where every dollar is.

Death and The Poetess's 6th #RPMChallenge album is out! A dirge wave, sleep talk-down EP for an anxious epoch of history. Our single is "Dancing Shoes" (playing below) & peep "The Duck And The Kangaroo" via Edward Lear's poem. Trippy/restful journeys! deathandthepoetess.bandcamp.com/album/lucid-...

Day 46 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @rydmatthews.bsky.social in Favor of Not Doing Enough mailchi.mp/6067b06631a3... @writingco-lab.bsky.social

@vikamujumdar.bsky.social has contributed a wonderful lyric essay on Jennifer Chang's latest #poetry collection, "An Authentic Life." (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social 2024) Now live on @anmlymag.bsky.social Poetic Conversations column: medium.com/anomalyblog/...

New at PB, @VikaMujumdar.bsky.social explores poet Don Mee Choi’s KOR-US trilogy of poetry books, which examine selfhood, coming-of-age, and, later, her compulsion to catalogue.

If you need an alternative for fabric, here's some local places: Worcester: www.sweejesfabricsandsewing.com Auburn: www.appletreefabricsonline.com www.facebook.com/profile.php/... Wales: www.meetinghousefabric.com For beadng/jewelry stuff: Uxbridge: www.shopchevere.net

consequence.net/2023/02/twin... #TwinPeaks

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work. "We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed." w/ @deldeib.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Born 2-22-25, #EdwardGorey would’ve been 100 today. “Working quite perversely to please himself,” he created “a whole little world” (Edmund Wilson). Happy centennial, Edward; you were born to be posthumous. May you always “make everyone as uneasy as possible.” (www.markdery.com/books/born-t...)

Thousands protest Elon Musk’s DOGE in NYC on Presidents’ Day

It’s the stories from park rangers that are really hurting me today. You are the librarians of the natural world; human gateways to new worlds and new modes of being. Down with the oligarchy!! @altnps.bsky.social #altNps

You know the drill! Go follow Black folk! 😍

CDC said that it now classified the #flu season as high severity for all age-groups for the first time since the 2017-18 season. Over the past 2 weeks, flu deaths have outpaced fatalities from #COVID and now make up 2.6% of all deaths for the most recent week, compared to 1.5% for COVID.

I especially encourage folks to focus on fortifying and protecting those who are most vulnerable + resistance leaders - as well as drawing more folks to summon their own power and stand up for the good of the community.

Witches, looking for a full moon working? It's a good time to pull out the Medusa Sigil and modify this working as needed. www.patheos.com/blogs/tempes...

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Currently listening to audiobooks of Murakami's "Blind Willow, Woman Sleeping," Gillian Flynn's "Dark Places," and Dan Jones's "The Wars Of The Roses." Also reading Donna Tartt's "The Little Friend," and R.F. Kuang's "Babel." Yeah, I'm a buffet style reader. #books

What is with Gilmore Girls' relentless fat-phobia? Luke is giving Rory a family heirloom at her 21st bday and just has to make a few cracks, while doing it at his own sister's expense?! And is that why they kept making Melissa M's character pregnant, to overcompensate/explain? (Nostalgia tv fail.)

spoti.fi/4gqHLOs Jackson and I blather to Riley and Chan. VentureTastic FUN!

Chatting with friends for a podcast, can you imagine??? 😻 Me and @yercabbage.bsky.social chat with my sweet friend @doc-hammer.bsky.social and darling @jacksonpublick.bsky.social all things #VentureBros! find the podcast on most platforms ✌🏻✌🏻 *Apple’s transcript out of the gate gets my name wrong

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!

Holy shit, I love this so much! Incidentally these shirts are freshly restocked at www.willburrows.art/shop

Okay, confess, who has left the time machine unguarded this time?

TONIGHT! FREE! ON YOUR COMPUTER IN YOUR HOUSE! WHILE YOU SIT THERE IN YOUR JAMMIES!

"Let’s be pothos, planted together with deep roots in night-dark soil, cozy in our terracotta..." —Kit Steitz :: “For Our Six Year Anniversary”

🎼I wanna guess the color of your underwear🎼

You show 'em, Georgie! #GetBack25

Resharing because Pam's words feel lost in the digital age, but they are so worthy of a digital legacy. She was worthy of a digital legacy. She touched so many writers, so many poets, so many humans. Fuck cancer forever and always.

Beautiful essay by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social

I will talk to you from the body. I will talk to you from the lyric heart. Can’t forget those, though the shocks and worries will come fast and furious. If you are afraid today, one way to activate the vagus nerve and bring calm into the body is to sing or chant. No prescription required.

“Let me be her afternoon jay” A poem by Jenny Johnson.