An interview with Chapter House about my book Punishment Bag forthcoming from @unmpress.bsky.social :

New book alert! PUNISHMENT BAG by Jake Fournier (@realmartinbuber.bsky.social) 💙📚 In conversation with collections like John Ashbery's Some Trees and Wallace Stevens's Harmonium, Punishment Bag is a daring #poetry debut that carves its own unsettling territory. www.unmpress.com/978082636922...

thanks @danielpoppick.bsky.social, @chrus.bsky.social, and @dapowell.bsky.social for your help with the book this poem gave it's name to

everything you need to know about Osiris:

Used booksellers of the world! When? When will you begin to use stickers with less stick? For your inventory and internal records, you could use stickers like the stickers they use on apples...

Instagram Tantalus, clicking through 1000 ethically-sourced exquisite chore coats, none sold in his size...

smiling hugely at a security person when you walk past with everything you stole #improvingsituation

a superhero whose powers derive from the exactright brain mixture of PFAs and nanoplastics

reading a long poem with Bojan Louis at the Institute of American Indian Arts

they don't have to disappear dissenters or throw them in jail. the "invisible hand" of the market will take care of them all on its own.

laughing when your waiter at the tapas bar says you ordered "a lot of food" #worseningsituation

I've told you all about my café/book, record, and porn store, We've Moved to 6213 Menaul, right?

Oh shit.... 😍 @realmartinbuber.bsky.social www.simonandschuster.com/books/Punish...

next time you're feeling down just remember that, when he ran into the monkey-god Hanuman on the path to heaven, the mountain of the Pandavas, embued with mantric weapons that placed him in war above the rakshasas and celestials--the mighty Bhima--couldn't budge even Rama's servant's relaxed tail

all our systems, from the market to the traffic grid, are designed to incentivize risk, so why is it that the systems' petty functionaries, the bank tellers and traffic cops, so excessively fear it?

Pride doesn't end when Pride Month is over…but this giveaway does! Repost or quote post by June 30th and we'll choose one winner to receive SIGNED COPIES of Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly + A Real Man Would Have a Gun! 💙📚 #booksky US shipping only. Winner will be randomly selected on 7/1/25.

just realized that, back in February, I signed up for an intake appointment with a pcp named "O'Sickey" - almost makes up for Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa not becoming pope

one of my great regrets in life is not having become a hyper-proficient funk bassist

not even short kings?

Mayor, City Council spar over paramedic staffing A strife over paramedic staffing is testing the balance of power at the Albuquerque City Hall, which could reshape how the city responds to emergencies. At the center of the dispute is a City Council rule requiring two paramedics on every rescue…

@joncaramanica.bsky.social is the absolute type specimen of Gen X, nerding out over Caramicrons of difference in drill beats. Check out Wirecutter's pick for song of the summer:

a nice dinner of creatine, bcaas, magnesium l-threonate, sodium bicarbonate, beet root powder, circuminoids, fish oil, ibuprofen, epsom salt, and spinach

Vitamin E - my new dating app exclusively for people with class E driver's licenses. There's nothing quite like hooking up on a non-commercial vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of 26,000 pounds or less.

beautiful essay by the fabulous @lisawellswriter.bsky.social on her @dseuss.bsky.social approved second collection, The Fire Passage

as your head hits the pillow, you remember there's ripe avocados #improvingsituation

eating a peach filled with worms at Bible camp #worseningsituation

setting down a breadstick on a balcony in Lecce because your host hands you a cigar #improvingsituation

watching the sunrise with your parents while they shout at each other, fat-thumbing the wrong buttons on their Androids

From the opening scene of a Spanish captain wretching from the Colhua priests' human skin capes to Moctezuma's "cooked to the gills" mushroom vision in the temple of Huitzilopochtli, Álvaro Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires reads like an awesome spell. Only wish that I had cast it!

can't wait to hear what Epictetus has to say about his new book

day-by-day reconstituting every fiber of my bone and ligament from Bob's Red Mill's steel cut oatmeal's "golden spurtle"

sometimes firefighting and poetry really are at odds, like when you inadvertently crumple your copy of Deben Bhattacharya's *Songs of the Bards of Bengal* between the ruck plates you use to prepare for the U.S. DOI's "arduous pack test." #DOI #rucking #BāulTradition #Gopāl

@heatherchristle.bsky.social's The Difficult Farm was the second book I reviewed on my blog I WILL ALWAYS BE DRUNK (rip). Her memoir In the Rhododendrons is available today. Is there a way to write a memoir that unmortifies the future self that still goes on remembering?

*inner monologue after return to social media* Oh no - am I a troll? No. No! I'm the real Martin Buber.

Thanks to @theatlantic.com for featuring Stanley Crawford's Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine in its Great American Novels list. It comes closer than any sustained narrative I know to being all vehicle (no tenor). Get the rerelease from @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/mryrbhpu

Shoutout to the ABQ-BernCo Seed Library, where anyone with an Albuquerque Public Library card can get 30 packs of free seeds per calendar year. Counting down the days until my first Mexican Sour Gherkin. abqlibrary.org/seeds/How

I loved these poems by Chen Chen in the Washington Square Review, and I like to think that I too spent the day "just Chenning": www.washingtonsquarereview.com/chen-chen

The PornHub spinoff of Hot Ones where the actors answer incredibly well-researched questions about their careers while sampling increasingly—and ultimately dangerously—slick lubes.