This podcast with Carl Phillips and @davidnaimon.bsky.social is incredible! So many ideas to boost the poet's craft and creative energy. So much heart. Plus—Phillips answers a great question from @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and mentions my guiding light, Teresa of Ávila. ❤️

I will never allow Spotified Wrapped to tell me how many times I listened to the same five songs.

This literally means that if a trans person requires GnRH blockers for cancer treatment (i.e breast or prostate), they CANNOT get cancer treatment. Insane. Absolutely insane - and deadly.

Several of my writing workshop friends have been featured in Collaborature recently. I especially like this pantoum by my teacher Richard Garcia and @gjoy.bsky.social collaborature.blogspot.com/2025/11/tabl...

that new poem feeling.

#FolktaleWeek Day 3: Rain This young blue frog did everything the opposite way his mom said. If she told him to go right, he would go left. If she said stay in, he would go out. (1/?) #KidLitArt #KoreanFolktale

<ECHO> A woman hiking in the mountains listening to the echos in the valley. Hosted by: @debrastyer.bsky.social @matejalukezic.bsky.social @louve.draws.bsky.social @folktaleweek.bsky.social #folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #folktaleweekecho #folktaleweek2025echo

#FolktaleWeek2025 Day 1: Night There used to be no sun or moon in the sky, and the nights were darker and scarier. One of those nights, a tiger caught a woman who was walking home from the market by a lonely mountain path. She begged for her life, offering a rice cake from her basket. (1/?)

hey guys nobody else submit to the Sarabande Chapbook Contest so that I win, ok?

I never learned how to make reels and today I had to make one for work and jesus christ people do this everyday for fun? This must be how my grandma felt when she asked me to teach her how to use a mouse.

I'm 36 and I have been writing poetry for 18 years and now someone wants me to give them a poetry lesson but that seems a little bit soon right?

Ok im watching Next Gen NYC and i get that Charlie is a villain but why are these 24 year olds so hung up on him being 29 (almost 30!) Boy are they going to be surprised when they find out that they are also almost 30.

ICE just abducted a leading contender for the New York City mayorship for asking to see a warrant. I need everyone to understand that they are not a law enforcement agency — they are Donald Trump’s secret police.

Dear Diary, today I tried to be *earth friendly* and buy a used mattress off fb marketplace but when it arrived it was moldy but I paid for it anyway because I wanted them to like me. In fact I also bought a boxspring I didn't ask for because they had already pulled it out.

If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

Authoritarianism is weaponized abuse. It's meant to exhaust you, activate you, force you into a conservative position in which you don't fight and you ignore the day-to-day brutality and sacrifice people. Where we're going, you have to ground, see it all as important and everyone as essential.

This is still one of the best ways to limit deportations. Stop collaborations between ICE, local police departments, sheriffs, and county jails.

Where should I send my poetry chapbook?

What are your tips for asking your mother to not come to your poetry readings?

We are moving and Henry found this little bell I can use when I am ready for him to bring me my coffee. 💕

If you're a Google Workspace customer and you have already opted out of gemini for your workspace during the beta, you will need to do so again for GA. Coming by end of this month (April 2025).

Happy to have a poem in the new issue of @themassreview.bsky.social

Tesla stock price tanking gives us all a warm fizzy feeling, but until now it was still higher than it was on election day. Not any more. 🥰🥳

It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

you can watch the stock market tank in the bottom corner of Fox's broadcast as Trump talks about tariffs

At the very least can I be in the middle of writing a poem without starting a poem?

THE FANTASY: a team of diligent auditors rooting out corruption, fraud and waste THE REALITY: a team of vindictive psychos CTRL-F'ing until the keys wear out

I knew, but didn't know, how many poets my age loved Harriet the Spy.

Mark Strand

Trump admin stopping legal representation of unaccompanied immigrant children means kids may face deportation proceedings alone Affects 26,000 kids & is predicted to "leave children vulnerable to exploitation and to further abuse” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans

Elon Musk is developing a new payment platform called “X Money.” Guess which agency would be making sure that Elon’s new project couldn’t scam you or steal your sensitive personal data? The CFPB.

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

This has to be the most spot-on take I've seen yet.

Every Musk news story since the big debate about whether Musk knowingly threw a Nazi salute has been like "Musk staffer quits after Nazi posts surface," "Musk appears at German neo-Nazi party event," "Musk keeps RTing Nazis," etc. etc. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!

Happy #kidlitartpostcard Day! I'm Ana and I love illustrating fun bright scenes. I love working both digitally and traditionally. 🎨 lobomaravilhaart.wixsite.com/lobomaravilha #kidlitart

Y'all, you can check the Gift Link News feed for unlocked articles from places like the NYT and WaPo as well as other sources. And don't forget to support local and independent journalism!

Seems about right. Again, for those in the back: until the category of billionaire & multi-millionaire is no longer allowed to exist, nothing will change.

Ah yes, what could Black History have to do at all with transportation in America?

Langston Hughes

I think countries around the world should levy tariffs specifically on Tesla in response to US tariffs, as well as banning Twitter as a national security threat driving a wedge between our co-dictators may be the most effective thing they can do

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

I work for a municipality coordinating arts enrichment programs for our schools. A lot of the schools choose to use our resources to add to their BHM celebrations, in fact I have already booked 19 performers and presenters for the month of Feb.

Pace. Yourselves. They want to make it feel like a sprint. But it's a marathon. And they get tired, too.

I thought we were going to get cute snow but we got loud snow. :/