“We create — poems and paintings, stories and songs — to find a language for the bewilderment of being alive, the failure of it, the fullness of it, and to have lived fully is not to have spared yourself.” Astonishing loveliness in @mariapopova.bsky.social essay on AI. h/t @jenbenka.bsky.social

Sarah Schulman in The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity on two of the qualities that made ACT UP effective: it “was not a consensus-based movement” and “went action first, not theory first”

If you’re the kind of person who easily forgets what you’ve accomplished, you need a practice for reminding yourself. Count the years, the finished projects, the progress, the praise, count it all up and use it as evidence against the ever present criticism in your head that you’re not doing enough.

"At a time where the government's uncaring boot is pressing down on all of our necks, the best way to fight back is to care. Care loudly. Tell others. Get going.” This piece by @dansinker.com on our present "Who Cares" era is astonishing. dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

search drinks in your camera roll. Random 4. I recall #1 as a tasty cortado from Oak Cliff Coffee and #2 being a concoction we named “Scalia’s Tears“ after a good SCOTUS ruling (those were the days).

A nice crepe shop called HOI PLOYES.

$10 billion. Every hurricane season. The **entirety** of NOAA requested $6.6 billion in FY25. Or 66% of those estimated costs of hurricanes (thus excluding their efforts to also monitor/warn/research flash floods or droughts or wildfires or severe weather or fisheries or tsunamis or solar flares).

Your poem makes me think of my father who escaped the Communist revolution in China as a child to come to this country. From a Maoist dictatorship to freedom. Your poem brings me to the 1600s when my mother’s ancestors arrived on a ship fleeing an English tyrant. Thank you for sharing your poem! 🪷

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie #piesofbluesky #PIE

Jewels of Strawberry High Season in Pennsylvania. Bought these 2 quarts from a kid *literally* just walking out of the 🍓 patch. #strawberry

Delighted to see my poem "Lingering Fraction" about the Stonewall Riots in Tribes Magazine's A GATHERING OF OUR PRIDE Issue. My thanks to @tribesorg.bsky.social @regie.bsky.social www.tribes.org/a-gathering-... #poetry #pride Check out poems by my 🏳️‍🌈 AIR confreres at Link in 1st comment below⬇️⬇️

the thing about “bread and circuses” is that you’re not supposed to double the price of bread and then become the circus

Great new Latino poetry anthology celebrated at MLK Library in DC with poets: @danvera.com @elizabethacevedo.bsky.social and others! #libraries #poetry

Great panel of writers, all included in the Library of America Latino Anthology, last night at MLK Library in DC. Thoughtful and inspiring. @danvera.com @alexlregalado.bsky.social @fjaragon2025.bsky.social

Came back from #AWP25 with a number of new books including Didi Jackson's "My Infinity." It was a real pleasure signing with her at the @redhenpress.bsky.social table, but today I've been enjoying her numinous poems. Even read a few aloud to the husband (always the mark of a good book IMO).

Put your thumb down for 120 seconds & pause the doom scroll for a #poetry reading with humor & just the right amount of lace and savagery. Yeah, she may have dashes, metaphors, and a funeral in her brain. But this time, it’s *not* Emily Dickinson speaking—it’s a wickedly sharp poem by @danvera.com

“I think it requires a very firm commitment to principle and a willingness to do hard things...We have to be willing to stand up for that. In principle, we have to be willing to speak up, and we have to be willing to say no to funding if it's going to constrain our ability to pursue the truth.”

Happy National Poetry Month! Don't miss this great reading April 22nd celebrating the landmark Library of America “Latino Poetry” anthology. Honored to read with three other poets from the anthology incl. @alexlregalado.bsky.social @moralesjuanj.bsky.social @acevedowrite.bsky.social! #poetry

Must watch. Volume up!

Wisdom on the power of hospitality and the dismantling of the prejudiced world. #wisdom #sunbeam

While researching for a Maine residency. TIL it's just "KATAHDIN," and NOT "Mount Katahdin," because the name is Abenaki for "great mountain." "Mount Great Mountain" is dumb. The US Board on Geographic Names messed it up in 1893 for generations. Will add that to the idiocy of the "Schuykill River."

Richard Osman @richardosman1.bsky.social has a great point about Adrian Brody's bloated Oscar speech and the undervalued power of screenwriting in Hollywood.

We find remarkable things on the fruit we gather from the trees in the yard.

Leslie Moore reading her poem, Three Hearts" from her last book of poems and prints, Grackledom. Stumbled across her this morning doing advance research for a residency in Maine this Spring. Delight. #poets youtu.be/_WemmgMIXfM?...

Trollope writing in 1883 on the "certain class of dishonesty" fits perfectly with our current period, its normalizing of dishonesty and corruption and the willingness of people to go along with it, to celebrate it, to empower it. Trump and Musk enact it, Bezos and Zuckerberg cosign and cover for it.

Just used BlueMigrate to pull some of my old tweets into this skyspace. Nice to be reminded of this Ammons.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Reading Charles Godfrey Leland's memoir (1898) when I come across his retelling of Horace Greeley's warning about wealth and the country. I can only imagine they'd be staggered and horrified by Musk and the other techno Robberbarons.

“Take a deep breath in. It's so good to be alive./ It's so damned good to be alive.” —that 💕💕moment @crochetkingpin.bsky.social, the leader of tonight's Arts Club workshop on “Writing Queer Joy” shares @lsparks.bsky.social’s “Ponderosa Pine” 🔥🔥🔥 #poetry #glbtqpoetry #queerlove

For #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Light. Sunbeams trying to break through the clouds after a storm. #Stormclouds, #EmeraldIsleNC

I have a little plea and it's this: please keep posting about things that aren't The Horrors. I am not saying to not look at or be informed about The Horrors. What I am saying—what I am genuinely kind of begging you to do—is keep posting about books and movies and sunsets and pets and joy. Please.

If the Supreme Court ever outlaws onanism, the New Yorker's anniversary issue might land them in hot water.

"The best a poet can hope for..." Stanley Kunitz has it right here. And it's this kind of humility that made him so beloved a poet. #poetrysky #writingadvice #writingcommunity

Words to write by.

Hey, New Yorkers!

latinostudies.nd.edu/news-events/... South Bend, IN friends, join us on March 5!

Wrote this poem about our first dog Roofus (Wagsright natch). @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social published it in Beltway Poetry (which she founded & edited). Was reminded of it tonight when neighbor/friend @susanscheid.bsky.social sent me this picture of her dog in the snow! #dogsofbluesky #poetry

Our 20th Anniversary look back series continues with Blas Falconer as he reflects on what it's meant to be part of Letras Latinas events. Read Blas' full testimonio and check out the photo gallery here: www.letraslatinasblog2.com/post/looking...

This spectacular floral arrangement by @keithstanley.bsky.social looks as if it has come to life and is walking out of its container!!

Exploring new ways of creating hand tied bouquets with Gregor Lersch at Boerma Institute in Aalsmeer, Netherlands.

Used Bookstores are a kind of magic. For example, I was telling a friend about finding poetry books once owned by @cphillipspoet.bsky.social --one in @leftbankbooks.bsky.social in STL, the other in @halfpricebooks.bsky.social in Texas! A kind of strange used bookstore curation I really love! (1/3)

Snow's REALLY coming down now! Makes me really miss having a dog. This was 2016 and Blossom really loved it!

World's a little darker w/o Yvonne Zipter, amazing poet soul I came to treasure and correspond with during COVID. #QDEP Let this "perfect poem" (as @greggsha.bsky.social called it) be your entry point. #poetry #poetrysky www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

"Somebody else's definition isn't going to measure my soul's condition." More Malvina Reynolds, because I think we need more music like hers, and she was a steadfast LEGEND. Not one shimmer or sequin for her, no bullshit from her either. #music #discovery www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Wq...