“I don’t claim to have many answers. I have pain, I have grief, and I have questions.” Newly relocated to Columbus, @dannycaine.com will celebrate the release of his most recent chapbook with a reading at @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social tonight (Tuesday, Aug. 12). matternews.org/culture/word...

🎉 Happy Publication Day to our 2024 Chapbook Prize Winner JEWISH AMERICAN DREAM by Danny Caine (@dannycaine.com) 🥳

My chapbook JEWISH AMERICAN DREAM is out in August from @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. Here's the cover, featuring a beautiful pastrami in acrylic by Maggie Cowles. I'd love for you to preorder it: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

taking over @literarycleveland.bsky.social this week!

Something to keep us motivated today. @dannycaine.com

Is today's news tempting you to cancel your Washington Post subscription? I fear an exodus of liberal readers will only hasten its shift rightward. May I suggest the better move is to break up with Amazon? We have a guide for you:

ANNOUNCING the winners of the 2024 Sarabande Chapbook Prize! We chose two winning chapbooks to celebrate the launch of our new prize. Join us in cheering for them!✨✨ S_MMER CR_SH, by Stine An @stine.bsky.social JEWISH AMERICAN DREAM, by Danny Caine @dannycaine.com

Some news: my chapbook JEWISH AMERICAN DREAM is a winner of the 2024 @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Chapbook Prize, and it'll be published this August. So grateful to @kristenmiller.bsky.social and the whole Sarabande team for having faith in these poems.

you have got to be kidding me

A dream to have the next entry in my irregular, long-running Waffle House poem series published in the next print issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social

inspired by @dannycaine.com’s 50 Ways to Protect Bookstores, we’ve highlighted our top two tactics for keeping your favorite indie bookshop OPEN and THRIVING! 🩷💙💜🖤 for additional reading, check out danny’s book How To Resist Amazon and Why, which you can find on our bookshop.org storefront!

spam email or bad postmodern poetry?

heck yes

1. Big news! The FTC took action today to end Walmart’s stranglehold on the grocery market. The agency filed suit against Pepsi for giving illegal and unfair price advantages to Walmart while charging competing grocery retailers higher prices.

1. The FTC today sued Pepsi, the food and drink giant, for conspiring with one big box retailer to rig the price of its sodas and chips while ripping off small stores and grocers. Yes, this is about fairness, about bullying that creates food deserts. It's also about the end of the age of Walmart.

just a great printer error today

I really love Kevin Killian's Amazon reviews, and the new @semiotexte.bsky.social anthology collecting them is a remarkable book. Thanks to @clereviewbooks.bsky.social for running this thoughtful review today.

Event next week! States are passing new antitrust laws and going after monopolies like Amazon & Real Page. Join us on Jan. 15 to learn more. Featuring attorneys general @azagmayes.bsky.social, @keithellison.bsky.social & state advocates. Hosted by @ilsr.bsky.social + @stateinnovation.bsky.social

accepted these for @havehashad.com, they are great, read them

Been a huge fan of @clereviewbooks.bsky.social from day one so it’s a huge honor to have six poems from my “The Beatles Were More Jewish Than You Think” sequence in issue 2.2. Thanks to everyone on the team for finding a space for me in a beautiful issue.

BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time. The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout. Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...

Terrific news: The judge has sided with the FTC in its case seeking to block the Kroger-Albertsons merger. This is the first time in decades that the gov't has even tried to block a grocery merger. The ruling shows that the antitrust tide is truly shifting — even in the courts!

I looked up "Food Desert" on iStock Photo for work and

a dream to have a set of poems in the new @clereviewbooks.bsky.social print edition, another dream to read at the release party

is this some kind of madlib

Wrote a poem about a corned beef sandwich in space and now it’s a Pushcart nominee, heck yes www.minyanmag.com/dannycaine.h...

1. For decades, local grocery stores thrived. Then in the 1980s, the government stopped enforcing a key antitrust law. Rapid consolidation followed, which gave rise to food deserts and a spike in grocery prices. Our new graph shows the dramatic impact of this policy shift. ilsr.org/articles/pol...

Throwing a reading party at 8th Street Taproom on December 22 to say "so long for now" to Lawrence, Kansas. I'll read some stuff, and so will folks like @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social, @danhoyt.bsky.social, @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social, @chancedibben.bsky.social and more. I'd love to see you there.

Morning coffee ☕️. The more we understand that Amazon is an existential threat not just to businesses but is a threat to the things that connect us, the social fabric of our communities will continue to fray. Time we start learning @dannycaine.bsky.social’s book is a starting place.

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An Open Letter to our Publishers has been sent to over 90 Publishing CEOs this morning in response to the concerns of our members. 1/4

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

My wife told me that some of her students went to see The National because Taylor Swift is on one of their songs. The students were very disappointed to discover that "it was just middle aged man mental health music."

In the not-too-distant past, the University of Akron Press was almost shut down. Last night, the amazing book they published by @lenakt.bsky.social won the National Book Award for poetry. You love to see it. Huge congrats to @marybid.bsky.social and the other local heroes of the U Akron press team.

The latest episode of Building Local Power is the first in a series exploring the intersection of monopoly power and systemic racism. Join us for a galvanizing conversation with two Amazon CAUSE organizers working to unionize their warehouse ⬇️

I recently took over hosting the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Building Local Power podcast. I’m really proud of this week’s episode, an inspiring and galvanizing conversation with Amazon workers trying to unionize their NC warehouse. ilsr.org/articles/blp...

this coffee shop just started playing Joni Mitchell’s Blue top to bottom without any kind of warning How can a person do spreadsheets at a time like this

thanks so much to @maris.bsky.social for saying what needs to be said lithub.com/there-are-bi...

really, really excited to do a “How to Protect Bookstores and Why” event with @tricialockwood.bsky.social tomorrow at E Shaver’s in Savannah

the bookstore sold all of our otessa moshfegh books this weekend, are y’all okay?

Get your butt to @thebrickkcmo for the 11th annual #RockAndRollReading. 6 p.m. with killer readers such as @mdbell79.bsky.social @toddkaneko.bsky.social Monica Prince and @hollypelesky.bsky.social as MC. #AWP #AWP24 #AWP2024

Going on a bit of a tour this winter / AWP + Atlantic South + Paris / hope to see you out there!

Going on a bit of a tour this winter / AWP + Atlantic South + Paris / hope to see you out there!

Got a chance to chat with @dannycaine.bsky.social again for the Writers, Ink podcast. Give a listen writersinkpodcast.com/episode-222-...

Every time the bookstore point of sale crashes a window pops up saying “attempting recovery” and I’m like buddy, me too

The bill is set, and the #RockAndRollReading at #AWP/#AWP24 in KC (6 p.m. February 7 at the Brick, walking distance from the convention) is going to be so good. We'll have two sets of 12 readers, but each is limited to 3 minutes or less (for real), and we'll have an intermission.

Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for publishing this Chanukah poem at @havehashad.com! Three sections, eighteen lines each, each featuring a joke, a punchline, a menorah, a metaphor, an outdoor Chanukah commemoration, and some kids.

My favorite deli closed today, without any warning. It was a space, rare these days, where I could feel both Jewish and at peace. Im adding the loss of this community space to the long list of losses I’m grieving for

Imagine you’re in a world where the Christmas tree as we know it had never been invented. Then, in that world, imagine walking into someone’s house only to discover what we now call a Christmas tree. It would be such a wild surprise.