Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

collage from may

pretty sad, not even listening to D'Angelo - I've got Frightened Rabbit on instead, which is also sad

"America I used to be a communist when I was a kid I’m not sorry. / I smoke marijuana every chance I get. / I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet. / My mind is made up there’s going to be trouble." - AG -

"I'm not paying your fee. Give the grant, the residency, that place in a journal, that job to someone else. I'll be here under the Bodhi tree with Tu Fu. He's sold a sheaf of poems." shopoetryjournal.com/sean-thomas-...

so I haven't submitted work to journals in a few years, not with the publication of the book & the prose manuscript I've been writing, but holy wow everyone charges sub fees now--what a bummer

I've been sick and kind of depressed that I had to cancel a bunch of readings in the US this fall. I couldn't make the dates work with some family commitments. BUT, I'm excited to teach this workshop in Geneva in a few weeks! genevawriters.org/event-6341404

Saw Mark Ruffalo eating a messy hoagie on Task and now I want a messy hoagie. Now that's prestige TV

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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...

if i was the talented mr ripley i wouldn’t kill anyone. i’d just hang out with jude law and have a good time

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