Beginning of my book on Kate Braverman sharing space with an amazing group of writers coming this summer!

“I abhor capital punishment, but capital must be punished.” From “Geramee Hensley is Deceased, and I am Filing This Tax Return on Their Behalf,” a Wit Tea humor piece by Geramee Hensley. theoffingmag.com/wit-tea/gera...

16 hours left to read/share/top the winning bid on @meganc.bsky.social's Significant Object & Story, White Paper before it's sold (all profits go to the Hermitage Cat Shelter in Tucson, which is where we adopted Guy Diamond (charming, at right): www.ebay.com/itm/26762190...

On this, the last day of @marchxness.bsky.social, I was delighted to encounter this absurd thread, which made me think back to the beginning and @leahmensch.bsky.social's essay

This is the proudest moment in my Pitt alumni career; goo goo dolls are gonna win it all @marchxness.bsky.social

"...when she hangs up, I think to myself that I do not care how beautiful this song is, or that I am writing about it. I never ever want to hear Bob Dylan’s voice again." marchxness.com/1stround-mye...

Fell in love with a @marchxness.bsky.social essay on only the second day! Bravo @leahmensch.bsky.social on Dylan/Braverman ❤️‍🔥

I didn’t have strong feelings for either song going into this game. I loved @allisonwrites.bsky.social exploration of yearning (near & dear to my dark heart), but @leahmensch.bsky.social made me feel the loss of Kate B more acutely. Late(r) Dylan surprisingly gets my vote this time.

Oh man, I really want a copy of Kate Braverman’s list of "25 Antisocial Things Your Character Can Do" that @leahmensch.bsky.social uses to open her excellent @marchxness.bsky.social essay repping Bob Dylan's " Tryin' to Get to Heaven"! marchxness.com#/1stround-my...

"Like acts of preservation, acts of erasure are not accidental." We love this essay by Leah Mensch, who tends to punctures in family history and the archive as both political and community labor with wisdom and care. Read "Histories of the Undead" at the link." kenyonreview.org/piece/histor...

(2/2) with poetry by Su Cho and Arro Mandell, fiction by Lydi Conklin and Sam Simas, and nonfiction from Bryce Emley and Leah Mensch; and a collection of art, including the cover art, by Kaela Mei-Chee Chambers. Find it on our website. kenyonreview.org/journal/fall...

Start off your new year writing! Last chance to register for the online seminar I'll be leading on Monday: "Poetry for every writer" www.margosteines.com/classes/p/po...

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

"The first time I watched Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, I was twenty years old, and I felt the pin on the hand grenade in my head coming loose." Let's go @leahmensch.bsky.social, Dec 11th in the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

"Memory is an image rendered by electricity and seen by the heart alone. The cosmology of FFVII states the planet itself has memory. All living things die, and their spirits return..." @geramee.bsky.social in a moving Final Fantasy VII advent essay today: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

Hoo boy today's @essaydaily.bsky.social advent essay by Isabelle Robinson about rewatching Scream after a school shooting hits pretty hard: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

And here we go: Dec 1 in the 2025 @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent calendar features Jodie Noel Vinson on The Golden Girls: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

"at the time, it felt like each expression of private violence was an intimacy. A secret garden where most people wouldn’t tread" Day 2 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar is Lily Herman on T2 Trainspotting: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

"Tagged T-shirts have evolved into their own Linnaean taxonomy. The messages break down into specific genera or at least accents of fragmentary grammar and syntax." The most excellent Michael Martone in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar today: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

Today I'm at the Pizza Hut. I'm at the Taco Bell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8V...

In undergrad I wrote a play for a theatre class about soil pollution in pittsburgh set in 2040 and in my play there was a one liner about how rite aids don’t exist anymore….so. I’m just saying.

My mom took too much Tylenol when she was pregnant with me and accidentally created the worlds foremost Kate Braverman scholar

Next Tuesday I'm giving a Work Talk for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social at 7pm at Wave Archive with @leahmensch.bsky.social and Katie Jean Shinkle. I'm talking about a Michigan 1995 Simulator, Leah's doing Braverman impersonations, and KJS is dishing on Bad Men. Deets: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

We are The Beef Review, a journal of literary feuds. We want your anger, grievances, pet peeves, your drama. Part mid-life crisis, part bit-taken-too-far—the truth is we have Beef w/ the literary landscape, Beef w/ the world, & maybe Beef w/ you too. We have big beefy plans. Stay tuned 🥩

One of the many reasons AI sucks. Literally none of these things are true.

When the community was fighting project blue in Tucson, I was thinking a lot about what it means to be from a post industrial city, whose population continues to suffer the devastating environmental, health, and safety effects of decades of industrialization and corporate greed. It breaks my heart.

Tucson friends! There's a public meeting tomorrow on the Project Blue proposal aka Amazon's attempt to drain our aquifer for a data center. It's 5-7pm at the Tucson Convention Center & everyone is welcome, please make a sign & bring everyone you know!

I started a free newsletter about KATE BRAVERMAN and my book project. Subscribe if you dare. ❤️

It will be about Kate Braverman like everything else gear up

An interview with Tucson essayist and poet Katherine Larson and an excerpt from her new book The Wedding of the Foxes: substack.com/profile/3663...

Damn straight

Fine, @leahmensch.bsky.social: tucsonessayclub.org/product/i-to...

The latest issue of The Kenyon Review is here! It is brimming with beauty and brilliance and includes “The Milk Incident” by Easton Smith, the winning entry of the 2024 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest judged by Idra Novey. kenyonreview.org/journal/spri...

Before this I was mostly kidding about recreating the great schism but now I am 100% serious. Who is in, I have ideas

I feel like most people don’t realize how much small art museums rely on funding like NEA grants for archival preservation resources (I definitely didn’t until a few years ago) — but the Trump admin does realize, and that’s the point. To attack anything that records and humanizes (and might oppose)

Editing my (to me) epic Sisters of Mercy essay for the forthcoming @marchxness anthology and I'm reminded that I wrote this kind of for James Butler-Gruett, and I went pretty hard, I think! Give it a read: marchxness.com/copy-of-swee...

A hearty hell yeah congrats to Maya Bernstein-Schalet of @uamfa.bsky.social for winning an AWP Intro Journals award: www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Contests...

"I’m supposed to be working on my thesis, but I made this tiny cabinet instead." On Absurdity and For Love of the Bit: a new Tiny Cabinet from @leahmensch.bsky.social: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/leah...

Artificial intelligence? Baby I no longer believe humans have intelligence.

Admiration for this reader of Charles Baxter's FIRST LIGHT, likely a physicist (like the protagonist) or an engineer, given their zeal for perfectly straight lines, who marked the hell out of this book, but then sold it? Maybe they died is more likely. Tx to @leahmensch.bsky.social for the find.

"Everything Requires an Explanation," a new Tiny Cabinet by @leahmensch.bsky.social up on, you guessed it, the queen Kate Braverman, on the occasion of her 75th birthday

Also up in the new @hungermtn.bsky.social it's a long story, "Storm Call", actually one of my favorites in a while: hungermtn.netlify.app/issues/hunge...

Big congrats to MFA faculty Bojan Louis, who just received a USA Fellowship: www.unitedstatesartists.org/artists/boja...

I had a psych hospitalization in 2021! This is not my favorite about me fact to share for obvious reasons. It was voluntary, and my only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner. The people inside—not the system—saved my silly life. I wrote this for them—and you. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

I spoke with NPR/Las Cruces (KRWG-fm) reporter @scottbrocato.bsky.social ahead of my reading tomorrow at NMSU. A tinely chat, check it out: www.krwg.org/krwg-news/20...

Items Found Outside the Fence at the School Yard, a Tiny Cabinet by @beatroxel.bsky.social : the.tinycabi.net/2025/01/item...

"The only response you hear is a distant groaning, a giant media machine rising slowly to full height…The pile purports to know the right answers about damn near every human question." Lydia Paar, Dec 23 @essaydaily.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...

So far my favorite one from my RateMyProfs

"Kittens are little, kind of clumsy, and generally trusting. Due to those traits, kittens cuddles are reliable and easy to get." Pinch hitting today in the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar is Athena C. Monson on the Cat Cuddle Spectrum: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...