it was prescient as hell when smashmouth said “the years keep comin and they don’t stop comin”

Check it out: the pre-order link for Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest! This book collects dozens of #LiteraryLandscapes essays, and pre-orders will ship in November—perfect for Christmas! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Happening now: in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, students at Sullivan High School are walking out this afternoon in protest of ICE and Trump's deportation regime.

Trying to do anything in the house without alarming my cat

New poem up today with @pinehillsreview.bsky.social!

Reflecting on a silly essay about parenting in the NYT buttondown.com/possumnotes/...

Sometimes it’s okay for a park to be a park. A park-flavored park. Yes I’m 32 why do you ask buttondown.com/possumnotes/...

A newsletter is a blog you get in your email. You could get blogs in your email but newsletters are different, somehow, in a way that makes people read them. And I think that’s great

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

congrats to Outlook on making email (the sending and receiving of digital messages) a bewildering and upsetting experience

I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...

NEW POEM #138: "Other Lives" by Conor Gearin (@conorgearin.bsky.social) "If I was a lavender seed, on gravel or on good soil. If I was a gull on kitchen scraps or a pile of confiscated weed." stonecirclereview.com/other-lives/ #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

are indoor soccer shoes back in style? 6th grade me is vindicated at last

Redcedar - Conor Gearin

A gray whale near Nantucket! The archeological evidence has gray whales here up to about 450 years ago, and then scattered sightings into the 18th century, so it’s been a long long time! www.neaq.org/about-us/pre...

Rejection can be brutal! 🙃 First drafted this while trying to find work before I found Our Climate. Full poem here: www.sierranevadareview.com/eben-bein-2024 What would you call this form? Considering "a disintegration" or "a mutation". #rejection #poetry #funny

One of the strangest and shortest poems I’ve published

I drafted this poem roughly 10 years ago. It’s been getting tweaks and revisions ever since. I’m glad it finally found a home with @eunoiareview.bsky.social eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/t...

New poem out today

[nixon voice] slack it…to me??

I'm incredibly proud to share my latest for @mongabay.bsky.social: the story of the Hawaiian activists, scientists, and technology wizards working to restore an sacred island from military destruction, erosion, invasive plants and... cats. news.mongabay.com/2024/02/on-k...

Childhood hero: David Attenborough. Kinship with the living world he instilled in me has only grown. Thx Radar Poetry for celebrating this at www.radarpoetry.com/common-descent & to my #chickadeecollective, especially @conorgearin.bsky.social who helped identify the heart of this poem early on.

Some of the most thoughtful science writing I've read have been in non-sciencey pubs (e.g. airline magazines); on topics that don't scream "science" (e.g. local communities, cultural history); by reporters who might not identify as science writers. Tell someone you know to enter NASW SciWriAwards!

Here’s the story for those wondering. What brought it to light was a missing persons case. Turns out the police ran over a guy, then just buried him out back of the jail without bothering to notify next of kin even though there was ample ID on the victim’s body.

New poem out today, my first one in years. This one's a deep cut for you Gerard Manley Hopkins heads out there. More to come in February! Stay tuned! oneartpoetry.com/2024/01/19/f...

among my top 10 proudest moments: today when the dental hygienist said I don't need to bother getting an electric toothbrush because of what a good boy I've been flossing every night

Watching the big snow storm. So far, we’re underwhelmed, but happy to see some snow.

The "repost with comment" resurrects the medieval gloss, the monastic tradition of presenting original text along with interpretive commentary. In this essay I will

Pattern in frost melt from the tree’s shadow

welcome to Supermonday, which is actually a Tuesday

Milestone: old enough to notice birds

Year in review time for what people have published comes at a kind of funny time for me because I just got a few poems accepted, but they won't be out until Jan and Feb. So my year in review is: stay tuned, we'll be right back after this.

i'm here but I will not be saying skeet

Scones for the solstice