All the President's fluffers. They can't quit him. #Feloninchief #PedoPres #Epsteinbestie

Something wicked this way comes. OpenAI/ChatGPT is some bonafide evil shit. A TechHydra that must be destroyed. It’s no surprise that this monster came of age during Trump times. #AI #evil

Important & harrowing thread about the inhumane & criminal conditions in US deportation facilities, which are, let’s face it, concentration camps. 🧵

My two wishes for Tuesday, November 4 are that *California’s Prop 50 passes and *Mamdani wins the mayoral race. Let’s roll! #election #Mamdani #Prop50

With the world in upheaval & new horrors winging in every day, we can take solace in poetry & in knowing that these two fine souls, Joyce Jenkins & Richard Silberg, have ensured that poetry remains alive & flourishing in Northern California. Join us as we honor Poetry Flash this Saturday. Details👇.

For over 50 years Poetry Flash has been the warp & woof of all things poetry in Northern California. Let's give Joyce, Richard, & the Flash a righteous HIGH-FIVE & HALLELUJAH! Come join us as we honor them this Saturday, Nov. 1st. Details below. #poetry #poetrysky #poetnews #writingcommunity

WOOF! This beautiful three-thousand mile dog rescue story wins the internet this month.

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is [email protected] and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

Call them mavericks, revolutionaries, visionaries, idealists, or poets with big hearts & big ideas: Joyce Jenkins & Richard Silberg have been changemakers in the world of Northern California poetry! We invite you to celebrate Joyce Richard, & Poetry Flash on Nov. 1! Details below. #poetry #poetrysky

Heads up, Northern California poets! Do you have a manuscript waiting in the green room, raring to go? Sixteen Rivers Press is here for it! Details below, or go to: sixteenrivers.org/news-announc... #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #callformanuscripts #writingcommunity #writing

In the spirit of Billy Collin's poem, "The Lanyard," let's show our gratitude to Poetry Flash for being the "breathing body and . . . beating heart" of California's poetry community for 50 + years. Come celebrate Joyce & Richard on Nov. 1st! Details below. #poetrycommunity #poetnews #poetrysky

North Bay friends—on October 28, Timothy Williams' Poetry Salon will celebrate Dia de los Muertos with poems to honor the ancestors, & Sixteen Rivers poet Terry Ehret is a featured reader! Come listen & place a marigold & a memento on the ofrenda! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #SantaRosa

I’ve made up my mind to call it the “Shithole Ballroom.”

once again: believe these people when they tell you what they want to do www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...

The lives of West Coast poets have been made infinitely richer by Poetry Flash. Pass it on! #poetrysky #poetnews #writing #poetrycommunity

I’ve always wondered how loyal, old-school Republicans handled the cognitive dissonance generated by the party’s full-scale embrace of MAGA. Turns out not very well. Former Republican operative Miles Bruner explains the heavy-duty compartmentalization & mental hoop-jumping he did in order to stay. 🤥

For your reading pleasure: Kim Addonizio's poem, "My Opera," from EXIT OPERA, her latest kick-ass collection of poetry. Addonizio is reading along with D.A. Powell at Sixteen Rivers' 26th Anniversary Fundraiser this Sunday! Details and registration info below. #poetry #poetrysky #poetnews #writing

Poems and poets are the cure for what ails us! Looking forward to listening to Kim Addonizio and D.A. Powell poem this Sunday! 🤩 #poetry #poetnews #writingcommunity

We wager this beautiful, (and sometimes painful) essay in the Oakland Review of Books will capture the hearts of all those who love books and who love Oakland, in equal measure. It certainly captured ours. #books #bookreviews #writingcommunity #writing

Thunder and lightning happening at Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley, this Sunday, October 19, 2 to 5 pm. Kim Addonizio and D.A. Powell sing the body electric! You're invited. And it's free! #poetry #poetrysky #writingcommunity #poetnews @dapowell.bsky.social

Fighting words. Mad respect for Letitia James.

The countdown begins for our annual Sixteen Rivers fundraiser featuring rock star poets D.A. Powell & Kim Addonizio. We're excited! You're excited! We're all excited! Sunday, Oct. 19, 2-5 pm, Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley. Poem on! #poetry #poetrysky #writingcommunity @dapowell.bsky.social

Kristi Noem recently recorded a video blaming Democrats for the shut down. Spokane Airport says it will not play the most recently delivered message from the secretary. www.khq.com/news/spokane...

GADZOOKS! Poetry Flash has been the north star 🌠 for all things poetry for over half a century! We invite you to celebrate Joyce & Richard's enduring commitment to poets & poems this Nov. 1 at Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley. Come feel the love! #poetry #writingcommunity #poetnews #poetrysky

Pam Keith’s excellent thread 🧵 on how racism/systemic racism operates and endures. #systemic-racism #privilege #white-supremacy

Kim Addonizio's poems startle, shock, careen off the page, plummeting deep into your consciousness. Come hear Addonizio read from her work at our annual fundraiser as we celebrate 26 years of independent publishing. Oct. 19, 2-5pm @ Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley. #poetrysky #poetnews #writing

To say we're pleased to have poets Kim Addonizio & D.A. Powell read at our fall fundraiser is an understatement. Jazzed, thrilled, gobsmacked is more like it. So come, listen, & be dazzled! FREE! Sunday, Oct. 19, 2-5 pm. Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley. #poetrysky #poetry #writingcommunity

Consider.

More of this please. America needs to hear more of these voices.

" Don't lose hope" - Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

A tale of a tawny owl and the kind soul who nursed him from the brink. At its heart, a love story.

Telling the truth like it is (and was). America is in deep need of a reckoning. Have a listen.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

Cindy Nichols sums it up for me.

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

Dig this! Ukuleles rule!

One of the wisest, most kind-hearted of souls has left us. I mourn alongside all Earth’s wild creatures.

Everything that Molly said and then some. We had us a good time! #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetnews

Top of the ninth. Bases loaded. Monday evening. Be there!

Trump's out there yellin’ about immigrants and felons like he didn’t marry one and become the other.

it genuinely sucks so much in this country how often you only learn about a super fucking cool person because something horrifying has happened to them

Every day a new *racism.* This white supremacy shit is turtles all the way down.

If you love fine literature & small, independent presses, or if you're just small-press-curious, #Litquake's Small Press Book Fair @ SF's Yerba Buena Gardens is the place to be this Sunday, September 28, 11 - 4 pm. Sixteen Rivers will have a table there. Drop on by & say hello! #poetry #poetrysky

And last, a shout out and BIG bow of gratitude to #PetalumaPoetryWalk impresario and poet wrangler extraordinaire, Kary Hess, who put on a magnificent, moving, all-day affair. We're singing her praises until the cows come home! 😍🐄 #poetry #poetnews #writingcommunity #poetrysky

Sixteen Rivers poets Patrick Cahill reading from his gorgeous *realismo mágico* collection: If we are the forest the animals dream, and Moira Magneson reading from In the Eye of the Elephant, with poems featuring creatures, heartache, and impermanence. #PetalumaPoetryWalk #poetry #poetnews #writing

Sunday's #PetalumaPoetryWalk was the jam! So many poems, so little time. We're posting photos from the morning's Sixteen Rivers Press Poets event that jump-started the day. First up: Sixteen Rivers co-founder, poet, & translator Terry Ehret introducing the marvelous Judy Halebsky. #poetry #poetnews

Kicking off the Petaluma Poetry Walk are three Sixteen Rivers poets: Judy Halebsky—Spring and a Thousand Years, Patrick Cahill—If we are the forest the animals dream, & Moira Magneson—In the Eye of the Elephant. Come listen! 11:00, Sept. 21 @ the Hotel Petaluma. #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetry

Poetry lovers & friends—feel a little blue? Welp, the cure for what ails you just might be the 28th annual Petaluma Poetry Walk happening this Sunday, Sept. 21, 11am to 8pm: 26 poets, 8 venues, + a walking guide to assist your amble. Free! The Big Easy is hosting the Black Lawrence poets! #poetrysky