I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

But tell me, have women ruined the workplace?

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the play of light and shadow (Thank you both for taking care of Sir Gregory! 🥰)

I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office

Join me on Monday night for a discussion & reading with @mitchnobis.bsky.social on his new book "The Size of the Horizon, Or, I Explained Everything to The Trees" Monday, 10/20 at 6 pm ET Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🌲🌲🏀⚾🌊🦌📚🌲🌲

still hard for me to not be awkward when people say nice things here is my bff saying nice things about the nice things Irene Cooper wrote about H/A for in the Los Angeles Review 🥰

this shiny sequin of a poem is now stitched on my heart

so much to love in this photo: best friends, art, sunshine, green spaces, my little book next to @writesloud.bsky.social's

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

You cannot understand US politics without understanding racism. It's impossible.

We have been shadowbanned on this event and yet we are nearly sold out…come help us sell out and show your love and support for Palestine and Gaza. www.ticketmaster.com/voices-for-g...

There are 4 spots left in this workshop. Profits go to Make the Road CT, an org working to guarantee equal rights, access, & improved healthcare for low-income, Latine, & immigrant Connecticut residents. Can't make it? Donate to the cause & I'll send the readings/prompts

The only way forward is to inflict as much financial AND publicity damage on Disney as possible as swiftly as possible. Cancel streaming subscriptions, boycott products, picket, encourage politicians and entertainment figures to shout about this from the housetops. Demonstrate the cost of cowardice.

So if you're a government leader who believes that antifascists are your enemy, that would make you a... what, now?

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know.”

Charles Simic

I've seen several people refer to AI-resisters as having their heads in the sand over the last few days. But resisting doesn't mean the same thing as ignoring something. On the contrary, resisting means engaging with research, parsing information, offering critique, and making informed choices.

Let's write together (or apart/together!)

guaranteed to be brilliant!

Please, the U.S. Open asked us not to share any video of the president being booed heavily by an entire stadium, please respect their wishes, please

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

so excited to run this workshop @ Black Rock Books 9/25. All ticket sales benefit @maketheroadct.bsky.social Local CT friends, I hope you can come! Non-local friends, if you make a donation & DM me the receipt & email address, I'll send you the readings and prompts! www.maketheroadct.org/donate

On a basic sentence level, the first sentence voids every sentence after it.

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

even as the world is completely falling to pieces im still able to worry everyone’s mad at me which really shows the resilience of the neurotic human spirit

“I wish / there were more libraries and less / violence, but I have always been so / painfully hopeful.” — Kayleb Rae Candrilli

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With the news of the Kennedy Center Honors, EVERYONE needs to make art. Make bad art. Make good art. Make art because fascism destroys it and tries to bend it to its will. Make art they can’t contain. Make it public. Make it loud. Make it rebellious. Write, paint, draw, dance, sing, sculpt MAKE ART

Opining about the male loneliness crisis while women are losing access to reproductive rights, the maternal mortality rate is rising, and women are being forced out of the workforce is a real choice. It is a choice to ignore the deaths of women to promote the perceived victimhood of men.

I have 9 copies of Human/Animal (@wlupress.bsky.social) & a bunch of the original animal sketches. DM receipt of donation to one of the gazafunds.com/all campaigns+your mailing address & I'll ship (within the US). $25=signed copy $50=signed copy +1 drawing $100=signed copy +2 drawings

I find the dildo thing pretty appalling so I wrote a bit about why

I can’t with this 80 millionenth discourse day on white men getting laid while we are operating concentration camps and supporting a holocaust.

It's the first of the month, and you know what that means: free subs are back open at OKD until we hit our monthly cap! Familiarize yourself with your vibe, then submit your best flash fiction or poetry: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/

We don't actually NEED the Epstein files. Most of his victims are still alive today. The truth is not dead. All we need to do is LISTEN to them.

ANMLY is open for new work for 6 more days! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap40

ALOCASIA (@alocasiamag.bsky.social) is now open for applications for the ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! The recipient will receive $500 to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2025.

i really truly wish any of the epstein furore was caused by a genuine concern for cruelty for teenage girls, for exploited kids. it would be a different country if it was, of course, but the discourse is sometimes jarring

"to be human is to be farsighted"

Move your NYT subscription money to supporting outlets like Wired, Rolling Stones and countless excellent local ones.

Once again, @hubcitypress.bsky.social is looking for experienced readers for paid manuscript reading this fall—both fiction & nonfiction. You'd be the first eyes on submissions and help us decide what requires a closer look. Email relevant experience to [email protected]. DM with questions.

Our most beloved comrades at Open Books have been running an urgent fundraiser for Sameer. They are getting close to their $10k goal thanks to a few new matching campaigns. Please contritibe and share, offer a match (named or anon- dm us) open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

"For Gilpin, the liminal isn’t a literary device but the inevitable outcome of paying attention: we each stand with one foot on either side of a threshold."

"Towards" as in "at" as in "on purpose"

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

Funding cuts to PBS and NPR, attempts to stop the Wall Street Journal from publishing, Colbert canceled. Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.

We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

"But what is lost when you skip over the meaningful experience, straight to the documentation? Everything! Everything is lost. The photograph becomes a hollow artifact of a missed opportunity, rendering the entire exercise meaningless and empty." @lillydancyger.bsky.social is brilliant, always