Editor Aiden Hunt announces Philly Chapbook Review's 2026 Pushcart Prize anthology nominations in this editor's note and provides links to, and a carousel of, the nominated poems. phillychapbookreview.org/december-25-...

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Obsessed with this melon sorbet that came in a cute container I got to keep

Committed two crimes today by eating this poor octopus bao and these goldfish dumplings

My mom and I, looking at a menu outside: My mom: “You need to order something” Me, pointing out that there are no English translations: “I cannot” My mom: “Oh no”

Last night’s dinner view over Peking Duck

Weeping because you can order $1-3 plates of sushi in Hong Kong that come to you on a little conveyor belt

Baked madeleines for the first time

After an unexpected hiccup, the newest crochet tapestry has finally been added to the office

Crochet is the only time I will willingly do math

Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

Anyone who says Humpback Rocks is an easy hike is a liar

Beyond excited about this adorable ceramic yarn bowl I that I thrifted for $3

Now available as an eBook!

Charlottesville sunrise

My students wrote some 🔥 final reflections, I am so relieved and excited that they took away what I was hoping they would from my class

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

Please note the CWs You stuck your slurs into my skin when you tried to silence me, afraid of my aberration. Read more of "Your Remains are My Religion" by @sarendipitous.bsky.social in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...

Check out my novelette! Fun fact: I started writing it because someone once told me that writing can't work as "a piece of art or entertainment as well as an awareness platform."

I had my students do trivia on nuclear testing in the Pacific, and one group chose the team name Mushroom Clouds 🤣

Honored to have been nominated for Best of the Net. Read my poem here: phillychapbookreview.org/four-poems-b...

Here is the Virginia Department of Health standing order that can used to get a pharmacy based covid vaccine for those 65+ or 18-64 with at least one underlying condition. Your pharmacy should have a copy as well. www.vdh.virginia.gov/content/uplo...

The pharmacist said my name was pretty and wrote it in calligraphy

Before every class, I play a song by a Francophone singer from the country/region we're studying. Yesterday, I chose Naïka's "Belle, Belle!" and a student said the song was fire and added it to his playlist

This morning, I found out there's a chestnut tree across the road from me and this is the tastiest accidental discovery

Last fall, @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social published my poem "A Doctoral Education." This fall, they featured me in .Writers.on.Writing., where I discuss my piece and my writing: www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/writersonwri...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

I had my students rewrite a Mbembe quote as a tweet, and I'm still laughing at what they wrote. Some examples:

My favorite part of handwritten reflection journals is seeing all the students' cute misspellings, AI could never

I was blessed with the best bus ride ever. Her owner said it’s highly unusual for her to take to strangers, but she just lay down under my seat and stayed there the whole time

Thrilled to have one of my favorite poems republished in All My Relations! Check out the issue and my poem "Your Remains are My Religion"

Like I needed another reason to avoid Home Depot and Lowes.

The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized. www.advocate.com/news/transge...

I finally wrote an essay on my experience in my PhD program: panoramajournal.org/issues/issue...

Had the cutest interaction with a student who was so excited to discover that I’m also Chinese American

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

Have discovered my favorite line from a book, The Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation by Binh Tu Tran

Crocheted a scene from Howl’s Moving Castle! Pattern: wellsaidane.wixsite.com/crochet/patt...

“He’s easily bruising. He has bone pain. He looks pale .… He has also lost his appetite …. His mom is terrified that these are symptoms that his leukemia situation might be deteriorating.” A 6-year-old with cancer is languishing in a U.S. detention camp. Who will answer for this cruelty?

More than 100 UVA faculty (and counting) have signed an open letter condemning political interference in the university. The forced installation of a new president under these circumstances will cast a shadow on teaching and research. Read here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If DEI is such a problem, tell me why, when I met with one of my Asian advisees, they wanted to know what kind of Asian I am before we bonded over wanting to learn how to speak our mother tongues fluently.

if ken cuccinelli is appointed president of UVA all hell will break loose here

a crowd has gathered at the UVA rotunda in response to the forced resignation of president jim ryan

Inclusivity and languages matter: I had a student tell me that she appreciated me including my pronouns in French and Mandarin in my Zoom name

CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

just a reminder that only water goes in your eyes, don’t wear contacts to a protest if you can help it, hot showers will hurt like hell if you have mace or gas residue on your skin. turn off face ID on your phone. pick a buddy & never leave their side. if detained, ask for a lawyer & then shut up.

Thrilled to share that @thehellebore.bsky.social has published an alternate version of one of my poems in Issue 12: Marrow! thehellebore.com/sarena-tien/

A Harvard international student was just detained for hours and had her devices confiscated by CBP at Logan airport. She was released but this comes hours after DHS ended the ability for international students to enroll at Harvard. Absolutely terrifying time for colleagues and classmates.

The UN's humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, says 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in the next 48 hours if more aid doesn't reach them www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...