Most of my days are spent asking, “What if words, but different?” And people mostly like when I do that. Or they don’t, and I get to add “more different” until they do or we both give up.

I love humans so god damn much.

Special interview with W.B. Yeats via automatic writing channelled through spirit guides.

The entire city of Chicago: [trying to have a nice Memorial Day at the lake] The cops: HELLO. WE ARE HERE TOO. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR HELICOPTER. DO YOU LIKE OUR H

Memorial Day UV Index: the goths have their umbrellas out.

disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice

Do you want have this much fun and look this cool? You can tomorrow at RHINO's 50th Anniversary Launch Party! bit.ly/rhino50th

THIS WEEK! We’re turning 50 and you’re all invited to our birthday party, Chicago! 🎉🎉🎉 bit.ly/rhino50th

I can say this for Alito his ability to be pissy little bitch is unrivaled peerless in the little bitch field

We received the beautiful photos from our 50th anniversary event in St. Louis last month, and we just can't get over them. Thank you to our readers, partners, guests, and to Erin Lewis for her work behind the camera! 🥳

May 23 is the party of the half-century! Celebrate 50 years of RHINO with us and get your copy of RHINO 2026. 🥳 Featured readers: 🦏 Temperance Aghamohammadi 🦏 Matthew Buxton 🦏 Curtis L. Crisler 🦏 Timothy David Rey 🦏 Kathleen Rooney 🦏 Robin Seiler 🦏 Maja Teref 🦏 Steven Teref bit.ly/rhino50th

You ever been in a midnight drag race in a minivan taxi? I have. 2/10. Do not recommend.

Lo! The ancient truths remain. The goth-adjacent teens will seek me at the family function, find refuge.

Chicago! Join us at Haymarket House on Sunday, April 26th for our MELT ICE Community Bake Sale!

I may as well reshare it myself 😇

The latest issue of RHINO Reviews is live! Featuring: 🦏 Emily Pérez reviewing Natalie Shapero 🦏 @robeshoe.bsky.social reviewing @troycabida.bsky.social 🦏 @alauchter.bsky.social reviewing @kathryncowles.bsky.social 🦏 loads more! Find your next National Poetry Month read here: bit.ly/4sko9SJ

Jack White @officialjackwhite.bsky.social talks to POETRY editor-in-chief Adrian Matejka. Read the interview: https://bit.ly/41LIF39 Special Thanks to @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social and @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social

With the whole “Geese-is-a-psyop” thing, I’m starting a new lit mag called “Affront.” Invest with your finest unmarked bills today.

I’m taking a genealogy class at the same time that my little cousin has a family history project for school. I asked if she wanted me to forward her the class materials, and she is STOKED. 🥹 Hell yeah libraries. Hell yeah humans.

As part of our anniversary year, we have an exhibit at the Evanston Public Library! 🥳 Check out “RHINO: The First 50 Years” through the end of the month. bit.ly/4tOMsss

A special issue of POETRY magazine will honor one of our great literary cities: Chicago! We're calling on poets and writers who have lived in Chicago for around seven years at some point in their lives to submit their poems by May 15: https://bit.ly/42cfEO9

we haven’t updated everything but Crips for eSims for Gaza is almost at $3,333,333 raised. YES THAT IS TWO COMMAS. #ConnectingGaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs

To all who celebrate

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

WOW. Seven of the honorees in the Guild Literary Complex’s “35 Writers to Watch” in 2026 are current or former Rhinos. We could not be more proud and thrilled, especially during National Poetry Month! Congratulations to all of the honorees! 👏👏👏 bit.ly/3OontNy

One way we're celebrating Poetry Month is by revisiting poems by 2025 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize recipient, Rigoberto González! Explore more of González's poems: https://bit.ly/4uQYmDs Video produced by 5:00 Films & Media 📹

Listen. The money I spend during Poetry Month is nobody’s business. Not even mine.

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.” —Audre Lorde April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we put together a list of poetry books that tell stories of resistance, sorrow, solidarity and hope in our struggles to change the world.

I take inventory in the holy hours & find: we are a transgression everywhere, beautiful & alive. —heidi andrea restrepo rhodes with the #PoemOfTheDay on International Transgender Day of Visibility. CW: transphobia https://bit.ly/4fSA4Rv

I do love the way that Irish libraries have continued to integrate into society. This v impressive stand is in one of Dublin’s main hospitals, Tallaght, in the West of the capital.

thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win

19 years old Royer Perez-Jimenez is one of the youngest people to die in an ICE camp. His arrest was unnecessarily violent and forceful. He’s shoved to the ground while officers kneel on his back as he struggles to communicate. A few weeks later, he was dead. Abolish ICE

April is National Poetry Month, so make sure RHINO is part of your plans! Otherwise, we'll have to crash your party. 💥🦏 Upcoming events: bit.ly/4sFB0z2

Killing people. Not just Renee Good & Alex Pretti.

A beautiful spring day. Shall I burst into tears or flames first?

And if you think this is just some BS meme image, you can listen to the man himself: www.npr.org/transcripts/...

I’m at ICE HQ

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see them.

I’m not just a professional lady with at least two (2) blazers. I was also once a cute kid.

After months of bargaining and a long strike in 2022-2023, the HarperCollins Union’s membership voted “overwhelmingly” to ratify a new contract.

Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.

the intense Buffy nostalgia is not really nostalgia, I think, just longing for the best show to ever explain that you have to keep on fighting the Big Bads even when you don’t want to do it anymore

The 2026 Translation Issue of RHINO Reviews is live! This this annual issue includes Belarusian, Chinese, Japanese, Norwegian, and Spanish poetry in translation—and it doesnt stop there. 📚 bit.ly/4sko9SJ

DEADLINE EXTENDED to March 31! Apply to the 2026 Summer Poetry Teachers Institute to: 📓 Learn creative ways to bring poetry into your classroom. 📓 Earn FREE professional development credit. 📓 Meet other passionate educators. https://bit.ly/4ebMJhL

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

Got a parking ticket at my polling station. I’ve half a mind to go to the Irish Consulate to seek immunity.

Her vote aside, among white people across the political spectrum, it IS taboo to talk openly about their politics. This is a grift designed to maintain white supremacy across political divide. To keep them communing along whiteness with their enemies & ideological opponents.

Central Jersey. Up the road to the deli to buy lunch so we could learn how to calculate tax and count change. 🪙 I am ten thousand years old.

ONE WEEK left to apply to the 2026 Summer Poetry Teachers Institute! 📒 FREE professional development 📒 Open to K–12 teachers and community college educators 📒 Runs July 13–17, 2026 in Chicago, IL Deadline: March 20

Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends https://theonion.com/crab-just-happy-to-be-in-bucket-with-all-his-friends/