If I can finish grading 3 assignments, I'm going to gift myself an ice cream sandwich.

I’m excited to share that I have three poems in the recent issue of Five Points. Here’s one of them. I’m so honored to be here alongside some brilliant poets, including Naomi Shihab Nye, Jessica Abughattas, Ethan Chua, and others. 💗 Thanks to Megan Sexton and all the folx who work at Five Points.

Happy National Poetry Month. Here's a prompt by Haki R. Madhubuti.

There's no poet like her. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Zq...

If yr teaching meter, here are some lines from "Pink Pony Club" that are in iambs: "I'm having wicked dreams of leaving Tennessee." "I can't ignore the crazy visions of me in LA." My students scanned their sonnet lines by singing them to the tune of these @chappellroanbr.bsky.social lines. Dope.

Bundle two of @mariannelchan.bsky.social’s books with a reader’s choice for 20% off at @sarabandebooks.bsky.social! #AWP25

Look who our current Fiction Editor @annablabs.bsky.social ran into at #AWP25! Our former Fiction Editor Katie Flynn! ANNNDDDD our Former Poetry Editor @mariannelchan.bsky.social 💜

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

It’s the 5th anniversary of ALL HEATHENS! To mark the occasion, I donated to Doctors Without Borders and PCRF. Want to join me? I’ll send a signed copy of ALL HEATHENS or LEAVING BIDDLE CITY for a $20+ donation. Limited # of copies—DM me if you're interested!

Hello, friends! I’ll be at #AWP2025 for a day. I’ll be signing books for the @sarabandebooks.bsky.social, and I’m also moderating a panel ft. some brilliant poets (see below). Will you be there? If so, let’s hang, or at least exchange enthusiastic nods across a crowded convention center!

Been reflecting on my own pedagogy lately, and I'm reading more teaching texts. I appreciated this one by Michele Herman. lithub.com/toward-a-mor...

I feel like all I ever talk about nowadays is exhaustion. It’s my whole personality, being tired.

Help the authors you love: - Buy their books - Review their books - Order their books at your local library -Attack people on public transport with a copy of their book so the cover gets featured on the news - Follow their social media - Share their posts

I still can't believe immigration lawyers are strongly recommending that anyone who doesn't have US citizenship avoid international travel and the multiple cases this year that prompted that advice

i have been watching clips of the classicist Emily Wilson perform excerpts from her translations of the Odyssey and the Illiad and she is one of the most captivating speakers i have ever seen?

I wrote about the Trump administration's assault on higher education & what's really going on: "If, during the Cold War, the government funded universities as a way of strengthening America, Mr. Trump’s second administration treats them as a threat to be dismantled." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

Why is coffee not a deductible?

About last night. Just....joy. With @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social and @mariannelchan.bsky.social at @downboundbooks.bsky.social

What are your favorite poem endings?

One month from today! Join @mariannelchan.bsky.social, me, and @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social at Downbound Books as we read from new books and broadcast some poetry into these dark times. Saturday March 8 at 5pm!

My bad posture is hurting me, but slouching is almost essential to my writing practice. WHAT DO I DO?!

the empire’s always done evil, maybe just easier to tell now

I understand that Trump “can’t” revoke birthright citizenship (a constitutional right) with an executive order, but I just read this essay in the NYT about revoking citizenship from born-in-the-USA Japanese Americans during WWII. Did people forget this? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

Thank you for the strangeness, sir.

For artists and arts workers in all disciplines who have lost residences, studios, or livelihoods or been impacted by the devastating LA fires, a new emergency fund led by J. Paul Getty Trust, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and other generous institutions. www.getty.edu/news/foundat...

"Most nights we have / a beer outside on our porch swing that belongs to our landlord and / talk. There's still so much more to learn." Former Poetry Editor @mariannelchan.bsky.social just published the loveliest of love poems at @sixthfinch.bsky.social ! Check it out here: https://buff.ly/4gOsIPN

Never been much of a love poet, but here’s my attempt at writing a love poem for my love, published in the Winter 2025 issue of @sixthfinch. Thanks to Rob MacDonald for giving this piece a beautiful home. Read the whole issue here: sixthfinch.com

Our winter issue is live: sixthfinch.com Featuring @emilyapoetry.bsky.social @mariannelchan.bsky.social @patrycjasara.bsky.social @kerrin-mccadden.bsky.social @poetrybyallison.bsky.social @nickbono.bsky.social and many more

I always worry that I'm accidentally reading my poems aloud with a British accent. If I ever become an American poet who is reading her poems with a British accent, I'd appreciate you letting me know.

New Year by Zaina Hashem Beck (click through for thr rest): www.instagram.com/p/DEQfvmHSUF...

New Year’s Resolution: Lie around more.

Gosh, thank you to @hollyamos22.bsky.social and the @poetryfoundation.bsky.social for including Leaving Biddle City in your 2024 Staff Picks!

we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors

People have been putting money in his commissary account and trying to donate money to a legal defense fund. He probably doesn't need it. But if you're moved, you can donate to OTHER prisoners' commissaries www.thecommissaryfund.org You can also request TCF funds for your incarcerated loved ones

I did find these Trump nestling dolls at a Williamsburg holiday store.

My poem “The Room is a Rectangle” from Leaving Biddle City was featured on The Slowdown! Thank you to Major Jackson and to all who work on The Slowdown. Listen to the episode here: www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2024...

What are you poets thinking about today?

"My approach to reading your poems and helping you maximize their creative tensions is discovering what your poem most values by determining how the poem works." - Marcela Sulak, December Poetry & Hybrid Consultant and author of The Fault. blacklawrencepress.com/consultation...

It is unacceptable, all the stunned and anxious missing a person is asked to endure in life. It is not to be endured, not really. —Lorrie Moore

Anyone’s Spotify Wrapped look like this?

I feel like I've only been posting about Victoria Chang and Diane Seuss lately. I don't care. Also, I see the irony in posting this poem, but I had to: Watchers by Victoria Chang A poem is published. It is posted everywhere. A tree drops leaves in secret.

"I wish I was less, a recipe composed of a single ingredient." —Diane Seuss

Love Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's Wikipedia picture.

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇

Writers who used to find writing fun and then professionalized and now enjoy writing rarely (but always enjoy having written) and/or enjoy editing a lot more than the writing........ ....how do you find the spark of fun again

"By a poem’s held beauty, our held terrors become bearable." —Jane Hirshfield