Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?

"I was filling out the application to be a tycoon and I was being careful with my handwriting but then I got to the section on references and I wondered exactly who could speak best to my latent tycoon potential. A minute later I found myself on the phone with my mom."

"The little god has grown, a little god no longer." From "Parenting Triolet" by Gabriel Fried

"I OEDIPUS, Darth Vader, and Jesus Christ walk into a bar. We make a clever premise in the ooze." oceanstatereview.org/2025/04/05/a...

simultaneously one of the funniest and the most cutting poems I've read in ages, from Rebecca Hawkes in @phoebejournal.bsky.social

Like a prepubescent tee-ball player, our piece for this week is short and hard-hitting. Get the breath knocked out of you by "Tests to Determine Whether Moonboy Has a Soul" from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-27-25/moon...

From Julia Ross in The 2River View www.2river.org/2RView/29_3/...

"I have buried myself in the hole of America, its plastic freedoms, elastic unfreeness—America, you have rendered me a corpse of delightful emptiness. You have plundered me of heft, ground the God in me to tin and clatter. God, the grind." lilypoetryreview.blog/poetry/immig...

"I google it after they’re gone, alone in my classroom. But my phone isn’t working. My phone isn’t working because moments ago another country hacked our country’s grid and shut the whole thing down forever." From @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social

Feeling grateful (also floored) to turn to a page in Poetry Magazine & find this poem I wrote, with all admiration, after Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes." Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.

"A week or so after passing a bill to make it easier to fire librarians, the Alabama House of Representatives passed another naming Little Bluestem the state grass." From @pamelamanasco.bsky.social in @identitytheory.bsky.social

*crab-walked

"I’m not going to do a thing today. Shoo-off the squirrels raising hell in the vegetables? Let ‘em at it. Re-read the last letter my father sent me? No can do. I died it in a fire." From Michael Martin in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social

"they call us invasive opportunistic say we have wandered too far looking for water taken more than our share" a poem about feral hogs from Danielle Fleming in Pidgeonholes

"Ay, Count Sucks-Ass-ula, try hitting the pins next time.” Happy Friday, here's a flash about vampires who are very bad at bowling. @xraylitmag.bsky.social

"Love did this: the riot of it. Love for the smashing, the making, the breaking. Love for our country and the streets"

Every thing you do, no matter how small, to remind people that the wannabe dictators are actually sad, scared, fallible little boys is helpful. The more we laugh at them, the less fearsome they are and the easier it is to wrest power back from them. Also? These messages are effing hilarious.

"Some years come at a price. Some marked down, on sale, tagged 'as is'. Some days line up like siblings against a wall, each waiting their turn to be smacked with a ruler." From Dorianne Laux's "The Weight of Days" in Post Road www.postroadmag.com/2024/01/09/4...

“I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint… Carver gave me the face he makes on the back of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: an eyebrow-raised smirk that said, ‘give me your best shot.’” @martinezfjulian.bsky.social is back on hex with a wild tale about the student surpassing the teachers! ✍️😤

Issue 3 is here! 10 postcards with 10 poems by 10 amazing poets (Emma Bolden, Adam Clay, Jessica Cuello, Erin Dorney, Susan Leary, Erin Malone, Nora Nadjarian, Michael Robins, Diane Wald, and Jane Zwart). Order your copy at www.postcardlit.com/store today! Preorders and orders ship soon!

"Dear Thomas of Aquinas, spare me. Where to put the jack is on the jack, words plus pictogram for the verbally challenged." From James Wyshynski in @lascauxreview.bsky.social

Really stoked to have a new poem in the spring issue of @theshorepoetry.bsky.social! I have long admired this journal, & I’m grateful to the editors for including me—& alongside so many poets I love! Happy World Poetry Day, too, friends! 💙 Read the issue here: www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-25

"Time is the only thing that passes. Gather up what small magics you can."

"I’ve only ever been here, in an eternity of Januarys. People have told me about other places, just never the roads leading in or out of those states, or about the bridges one might enter by." From Emily Light in @terrainorg.bsky.social

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Just over a week left to apply to be a volunteer Fiction Reader for Okay Donkey! In this role, you'll read and vote "yes," "no," or "maybe" on up to 10 submissions per week. • Read what we publish: okaydonkeymag.com/flash/ • Apply by Friday, March 21: forms.gle/JPzvJMpKXf27GKXB8

Read this right now. Those fuckers can’t have your hope. By @mike3stars.bsky.social in Gastropoda. gastropodalitmag.wixsite.com/main/post/a-...

from "My New Year’s Resolution Is to Turn into a Refrigerator" by Harriet Prebble in takahē magazine www.takahe.org.nz/my-new-years...

The thing that everyone thinks is nuts, but I absolutely think would work: a presentation that looked like an Apple keynote product launch, but for all the cool shit that the government makes for people. Cancer treatments, national parks, space discoveries, free tax filing, cool new airports.

god I love a righteous angry poem and how this one's in the second person so you can speak it in your head (or maybe out loud, who knows!) to whichever person you most wish would get swallowed by a whale

If you can't stomach all of the love poems circulating today, here's an excellent poem about rats on fire. "The rats ran faster for his / attentions, still smoking. It’s not always simple / to tell what’s mercy and what’s not."

This flash is just so perfectly effing weird (and I mean that in the best way possible). From Ben Watson in @tinymolecules.bsky.social

Brother, we did not graduate middle school just to kill ourselves as adults Sorry, I won't follow through on our suicide pact. Something came up. An unforeseen conflict: I don't want to die anymore. Or: I should've gotten it over with at twelve. That's life, I guess, just missed opportunities.…

"I came up / in a craggy mountain town the name / of Fractured Jaw. Most folks there had spines / smelted rebar" A funny, jangly, wonderful poem from Ian Hall about a home you never quite fit into but never stop longing for.

From Two Hawks Quarterly at twohawksquarterly.com/poetry/2024/...

What a gorgeous poem full of space and sea sounds and the kind of deep breaths you can only take on the beach. @propelmagazine.bsky.social

A poem about death & glitter. Many thanks to @riverheronreview.bsky.social for giving this one a home. www.riverheronreview.com/issue-81#/am...

Looking back eight years for no reason. "Mirror Ball" Dec 6 2016

An all-too-relatable flash about a woman whose husband finds her suddenly, inexplicably frozen solid. From @sharonboyle.bsky.social e @freeflashfiction.bsky.social

I probably don't even need to say this, BUT. Me not posting about every nightmarish thing is not because I am not internally (or externally!) screaming multiple times per day, i just figure you heard about it from 100 other people posting about each new nightmare. I assure you, my soul is cracking.

"My neighbors pushed a lotus back down into the mud when we were so close to the surface, when we were at the cusp of breakthrough, when we could almost see her iridescent petals" A poem for these times, from @kaicoggin.bsky.social in @oneart.bsky.social

This is not your average list of resources for authors! Guides on colour, sensory experience, and hyperspecific list of example stories This guide is like a museum exhibit 🖼️

Terrific list by Wendy J. Fox over at @electriclit.bsky.social ! Delighted to see @amystuber.com , @taracampbell.bsky.social and Tara Isabel Zambrano's books mentioned! electricliterature.com/15-small-pre...

Now THAT'S an opener. From @mcarphil.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social

You should have a website (by @nora.zone) nora.zone/manifesto.html

I get to see this little guy every time I take a walk. Tragically, I do not get to scratch his little ears.

good morning

"i imagine that she’s proud to tell people 'oh you know my autistic kid? they’re the life on the moon now' knowing that the silent response is always 'oh but weren’t they always from somewhere different than the rest of us?')"

Bless this bookshop. "Noncooperation is both the ethical and strategic position for those who want to build a new world, but must contend with the old one."