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Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”

my response to most things

Great piece by Hofmann on Crush in the new @yalereview.bsky.social - I somehow have never spent much time with Siken. I aim to remedy that very soon! yalereview.org/article/rich...

YES someone else noticed the hysterical phrasing of those Penguin books (yes I did a whole thread at the time because I just couldn't get over it) bsky.app/profile/youn...

I did an extensive interview with CutBank about the book. Lisa Kouroupis really nailed it in our conversation. Which you can check out here: www.cutbankonline.org/interview-de...

I've been summering, which means I haven't been online as much. But summering involves much writing. May summer last forever.

The material of poems is energy itself, not even language. Words come later. Eileen Myles, Inferno

in France, by the beach, smelling the lilacs, refreshing Reddit to see if the Yankees are going to get some pitching help--I'm a real sicko #baseball

Manifesto, 2023 Typed on my trusty Lettera 22

the mango so ripe it's sprung a leak

Chicago Over Everything

dress for the job you want

just keep trying

tiny poem from Humberto Ak'abal for #smallpoemsunday thanks for the nudge from @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

that's summer

the mango so ripe it's sprung a leak

This feels like a ✨prime✨ week to close the book on Amazon.

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Keep the faith.

Donald Justice:

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as a lamb. - Melville to Hawthorne, after finishing Moby Dick 🫶

finally waking up to some good news from America--Mamdani wins!

new books! new books! new books!

I loved being my mother's son

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

I too am in a glass box of emotion Ron, I too.

this weekend - & check out @magpiedays.bsky.social's book Tumor Moon!

RELEASE THE BATS! youtu.be/yaWn0qcRYFA?...

oh man, Alcaraz stole that title from Sinner, brutal #rolandgarros

Today's poem is "Pavlov's Dog" by Derek JG Williams from Reading Water All Subscribers got to hear this poet from their inbox! www.versedaily.org/2025/pavlovs...

I’m so hype for my next 6 books to come out.

work from Reading Water reprinted now @versedaily.bsky.social

I'd rather read about the Happy Mondays than listen to them (with the exception of a couple songs)

No thoughts just the overwhelming urge to vanish into a bookstore and never explain myself again

man, spending so much good time with Patrick Rosal's words: "...Shame / is like you're made of / of 10,000 / beautiful doors / and every day / you try to keep them / all / from flying open / at once..." www.youtube.com/live/JVLoHoU...

Rosal, always. poets.org/poem/if-all-...

I love a cab home at the end of the night. So much wind. So little thought.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

keep side eyeing my unwieldy current reads/to be read pile like what MORON keeps assigning all these BOOKS..... it's me , chat, it was all me

Tonight at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn!

My thanks to a generous review of the book by Rebecca Valley @ Bear Review. www.bearreview.com/bear-reviews...

congratulations to Marie Howe on the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry!! i’m thinking again of this moment from an interview— Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart.

Drinking coffees, working on my jet lag.

Honored to say a few poems from Reading Water at this month's DMQ Review Virtual Salon. Watch at the link below & tell me what you think. www.dmqreview.com/salon

Guys, 100 Foot Wave is back. Rejoice. If you haven't watched this show, welcome to your new obsession.

. lost in the zeitgeist .

Ashley & Nora did such wonderful work. Check out the trailer for my book which drops tomorrow!