two chicken cutlets on a roll with spicy mayo and pickled peppers (hot and sweet) with provolone

once again am deeply thankful I can holler LOOK AT THE MOON and everyone in my family will stop what they’re doing and join me in looking at the moon

Cool photo I took a few seconds after waking up when Joe Camel hit me with his car

when you forget to put up a piece of paper in the Oval Office that says BE HUMAN in gold

Ted Kooser’s “Starlight”

28 pieces of writing spanning the first 5 years of Stanchion and including 5 new pieces from the likes of @toddedillard.bsky.social @jmgatford.bsky.social & @fbereaud.bsky.social. Cover art & photograph by me. Help celebrate reputable indie lit & keep this good thing going for 5 more years. 🖤🤍❤️

toddler brought lice home in the last week so the past 24 hours has been pretty horrible for our family--I was saved by my buzz cut, but my hair privileged wife and kids not so much

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

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HEY! I wrote a review for Luisa Muradyan's "I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated" for Zona Motel!! "Muradyan's is the craft of the hoodwink, the comic’s timing, the magician’s perfected prestidigitation, each poem its own fully realized and complicated world." zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-i-m...

my cat has a real “ARE YOU DEAD??” energy when she stands on me in bed every morning that I really appreciate

So excited for Todd's first review on Zona!

HEY! I wrote a review for Luisa Muradyan's "I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated" for Zona Motel!! "Muradyan's is the craft of the hoodwink, the comic’s timing, the magician’s perfected prestidigitation, each poem its own fully realized and complicated world." zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-i-m...

lolllllllllllll

DICK CHENEY IS DEAD!

my cat has a real “ARE YOU DEAD??” energy when she stands on me in bed every morning that I really appreciate

Yes! I've found this works more than it doesn't.

found the notes I started for this poem and it's just the line "buncha stomaches" [sic]

going to ren faire and asking everyone where I can find a chaotic evil open-faced sandwich until someone gets that I mean a bread bowl

Short thread, no notes

I am going to be very didactic on here over the next few months bc I am writing a sort-of craft book in the only way I know how: tweets

a neat editing trick is cutting all the bad parts out and not replacing them; let the absences in your work speak for themselves too

got my ninth skull!! or my fourteenth if every individual piece counts as a skull :)

This poem.🖤 H/T @toddedillard.bsky.social

best thing about proofs is when you see your friends' names in the TOC too :)

the use of line breaks here to harken back to the opening line and lack of atmosphere, leaving us sort of hitched-breath as we read the poem, is freaking brilliant???????!?!?!? killer last line too

Here’s a poem from @toddedillard.bsky.social I think about at least once a week:

at the gym with my daughter and she just said “dad nice plank I could put a tea table on that” like 😂💪

tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild & precious extra hour

obviously having a drug addict for a mom was BAD but the one time it was funny was when she made me take her to this movie and fell asleep and started to snore and you could tell all the furious Christians around her were simply NOT going to forgive her

what I love about HAD calls is they really swivel the microscope onto your aesthetics--do I send the pyromania poem, the puke poem, the Darth Vader grief poem, the plane crash love poem, the drunk man calls an Uber for an injured bird poem, the confessional poem about being hit by a van--what to do?

"Can we talk about how Hamilton is good now"

my PC started acting funny--slower, flickering screen--which I managed to fix by dropping my refresh rate, AND WHAT DO I SEE AFTERWARDS BUT MICROSOFT HAS INSTALLED COPILOT ON MY PC

so, an artist

everyone look at this t-rex cloud we I saw last night

found this lil' fragment in the elephant graveyard of my abandon drafts and I kind of love it?

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

He's at it again!!!

found this lil' fragment in the elephant graveyard of my abandon drafts and I kind of love it?

Happy Halloween, everyone. And, uh, some spooky personal news: 👀👻🏚️😱

refreshing submittable to see that "no submissions found" message before my queue loads to briefly feel something

A reminder that you don't need to understand everything you see

when I say I feel the darkness pressing close I specifically mean ten pounds of darkness

lit mags: wrench the sky from the atmosphere and pour it into our lungs; build us a menagerie with autumnal light; give us airplanes made with the birth certificates of our ancestors poems lit mags publish: "self portrait as my poem asking me if I would still love it if it was a worm"

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

lit mags: wrench the sky from the atmosphere and pour it into our lungs; build us a menagerie with autumnal light; give us airplanes made with the birth certificates of our ancestors poems lit mags publish: "self portrait as my poem asking me if I would still love it if it was a worm"

Change one letter, ruin a candy. Milk Dads

Change one letter, ruin a candy. Soul Patch Kids

when I say I feel the darkness pressing close I specifically mean ten pounds of darkness